Embracing each journey with Sincerity, Honesty, Loyalty........thus Passion come within.

    

     I'm looking forward to the "Test". It will be the toughest for this phase.

     I remember how I got 60 points for my driving test in 2004....It was an embarrassing moment as I was the only one in the team who came back without a licence. I wanted to give up the idea of driving as the feeling was bad.  But I knew that to give up on driving, I might as well resign – it’s just as ‘good’ as that   If I’m not able to drive, then my presence in the team in redundant. I'm glad my LEADER made me realised that there was an SOLUTION .

    Well though I did not get my license through a Traffic Police officer (the normal way for many), I got mine through "Conversion". Collecting mileage wasn't easy either. 10000 was a great figure to collect and that equates to 2 years of driving emergency vehicles, lorries and cars. And the "Best" thing was, I did not have a personal coach to guide me. I just had to look out for any forms of opportunities to drive.

This is really what I call my personal version of a self-directed learning.

I had to put my fear of driving behind, for I knew then if I was scared to drive; I am a selfish person for my troop had to deploy others to drive for emergency calls instead. Practically the whole team will get affected because I am scared. I knew then I cannot afford to let my team down.

     My first career taught me the basic skill of sensing for "Responsibility". When you become responsible for your team, subconsciously, your fear becomes secondary. And I was honoured that my team was willing to provide me with all the encouragement I needed. I realised at the end of the day we not only work for ourselves but to strive for the team and the organization.

     Well, the hard work pays off, now I am a licensed driver. Definitely a personal reward for me as not only I have picked up a new skill, I picked it up for free. I won't say I am scared to drive today, but I will not hesitate when I need to.

     Sometimes preparation is vital for any test, however there is none greater to learning then to do it yourself. And doing yourself would mean many trials and ERRORS. And when you learnt, you have got to learnt it the hard way. That would mean many, many days of crying alone and self-reflection yet maintaining your pace with others. You can't afford any self-pity. No one's going to listen for there is no gun being placed on your head. You either move on or you quit.

That's the Test of Life.

    Thus now for the coming test, I strive to do my best through embracing everything with sincerity in my job, honesty to the people around me and loyalty to the school and the leader. I know I can and I will do it. For the school, the staff, the students and for myself.

Just like what I did then, at the end of the day , I'm Happy and so are they (=

The team that taught me how to live through Life

Consumer Education ll- Towards Becoming an Empowered Consumer

So what's in it again to be one POWERFUL CONSUMER?


First you have to capture the ART of  MANAGING YOUR OWN RESOURCES.
       One good way of managing in my opinion  is straighthening out what we have, then what we can have and lastly is how we can use them?


       Firstly even before I want to buy anything it is logical that we see our capability of how much we have that we can buy.


       MONEY MANAGEMENT covers the aspect on how we manage our money. It all starts with having our own monthly Expense List. Over the span, we realise there some of our expense have become our monthly neccesities. These are our NEEDS which in others' view could be their WANTS. My needs could include  my monthly mobile broadband internet bill, a monthly maintenance visit to a tricologist as I am having a bad hairfall experience.


      Secondly what we have to look into is BUDGETING. This is very useful method to adopt when we want to buy something of a high value or planning for an event from birthday patrty, to a wedding or even to a holiday.


     Lastly something that we might overlook as we do not realised its importance is instilling the ENTREPRENEURIALSHIP in us. This does not mean starting a business immediately. It could start from simply turning our hobby into a little business like selling DIY brooches or rings.Maybe even making  and selling festive cookies for friends or providing Henna painting services. We have to see this is the best way to ensure more income coming in and more importanly making us a more sociable person yet a greater thinker.
We will look into entrepreneurialship in the next posting.


         Now following managung our own resources, we have to know and understand our rights that is CONSUMER RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. This is to ensure that we stay abreast to what we can and shoukd not do as a true , genuine customer.


         Last but not list to complete our Consumer Education we have to adopt the ART OF MAKING THE RIGHT PRODUCT CHOICE.

CONSUMER EDUCATION: What's in it for us?

                   We almost shop everyday. Be it from buying groceries,  food , clothes, or birthday presents to buying big items like a new television set, a new computer, an IPAD or even getting a hair cut or signing up for a spa package. Many a times whether conciously or unconciously we will go through a series of decison-making before we finally make the purchase. Nevertheless, as a consumer myself I realise that it is important for us to to go deeper into understanding what is in it for us as consumers. We have to know our rights and more importantly we have to know the different avenues that we can approach  whenever a conflict arise and this is far more than just writing in a feedback letter.

             We should strived to be an informed consumer so that there will never be once we look back and regret our own purchase for afterall it was our decision to pay. We just made a wrong decison. Thus with this series of Consudmer Education, hopefully we need not need to ever regret our choice.

           Firstly before we step out and make another purchase we have to learn the art of managing our own resources. This is largely based on what we have to spend. Secondly, we have to know our rights and responsibilities as consumers. Lastly only then we will decide on our product choice.

           Hopefully through this we will feel EMPOWERED to make the INFORMED CHOICES for ourselves.

"This is how we do it" Were you trapped?

Comparative Shopping

Comparative shopping is an ideal situation in our daily lifestyle.
It requires time and a focused comparison to similar items.
Let's see some example.

Lisa wants to buy a DIGITAL CAMERA.
She first fixed her budget. then she surveyed for the best brands that provide good quality. Then she go for design and lastly freebies. What she just did was she set her CRITERIAS.

Marketing Techniques and Advertising...Are you a victim?

Product Labelling

Are you a Smart Shopper?

Becoming An Entrepreneur

Our main project focus is on the way........

Leading by a great team of different race, age group and culture our team comprises of  Angela Ho, Inderjit Kaur. Justine Tham, Nurazimah and myself.

We have already kicked off our Entrepreneurship project.

Stay on for more information.................