Eh boss, I really tried quite hard liao lei. There were a few times I did come close but like what Jose Mourinho, the new manager of Inter Milan proclaimed, almost is not good enough.
I almost got a $150 sales, I almost got a $840 sales but almost is nothing. Maybe in the philosophy of a loser almost is great but of course we all know that siukai retired from the greatest loser club ever a couple of years back. Ha. Therefore, it was actually quite a disappointing 7 days for me. :(
I can blame the crowd, blame the organizer of the fair who did not try hard enough to promote the event, blame the customers who did not give me a chance. Maybe these factors do play a part in my disastrous result but remember that winners make sacrifices and not excuses?
Maybe I'm just not cut out to be a salesman. Ha. I was still afraid that my zero streak will continue since I was back at my other promoter job at Tampines mall. 1 hour before I knock off, I was still at zero.
"Die die!" I thought to myself. "Don't tell me I'm going into my 8th day without any sales?" Now I know how a striker feels when he is on a goal drought. Sometimes you just need that one goal to get the momentum back again.
So did siukai get that one goal?
Drum rolls...
Of course lah! Ha. It's uncle siu you are talking about here lei. The never say die, always positive uncle who never backs down despite the colossal amount of rejections. Ha.
I was almost using my level 3 mind control powers I learnt from Prof Xavier and "phys-co-ing" this uncle to buy with my unbelievable sales talk. Ha. And when he said, "Okie, how do I sign up?" I think I was almost in heaven. Ha.
I had to control myself from hugging him and giving him a kiss. Ha. Thank you Mr Rashid! I'm sure you won't regret signing up for this wonderful card!!! :)
Minus the lack of sales, the 7 days at the book fair was quite enjoyable actually. Met a lot of interesting and nice people. :) One of them is Alfred. Ha. He is like the NICEST and the most FUNNY guy there. Ha.
Yup, Alfred called me the other time and he asked me why I did not mention his name in my blog. Well, there it is. Alfred is the BEST guy ever. Ha.
Seriously, Alfred is one of the top salesman among the part-timers. I attribute it to his tactical use of words. Like when I told him I was 26 this year, he replied, "Oh, then you must be the biggest among us."
Notice he used "biggest" rather than the now taboo "O" word at siukai's world. Ha. His sweet talking must have won him a lot of customers.
Well, just in case you do meet other people who are much older than you, siukai has some wonderful words which you may use. Like you can say, "Oh, you are 26, how I wish I was as mature as you!" Or "26 huh, you must be very wise..." Or simply, "I like the number 26." Ha.
Now you see how powerful words are? And why it is always so important to use positive words? Let's try this experiment. Read the following short paragraph:
It's such a horrible day! The weather was so freaking hot and I waited like 20 minutes for the stupid train to arrive and worst of all it was so god-damn packed that I could hardly breathe. Stupid!
How did you feel when you read that? You felt crappy right? Now take a look at the other paragraph:
Bon jour! That's good day in French for you. :) Ha. It was a perfect weather today, alright I admit it was a bit hot but I could do with a tan seeing how my patapon dar dar has been commenting that I look like a bai zhan ji (White chicken). Ha.
The train today was a bit slow but thankfully I had my best friend, the MP3 player with me. :) Mr Digo is his name. Yup, I name all my stuffs like my mouse is called Miss Mousie while my handphone is Le Nokia. Ha. I just made all that up. Ha.
Well, you see the great difference? One is so full of negative energy while the other makes you feel happy when reading it right? That's why you must always be positive and use positive words. Remember that energy and mood is infectious.
Instead of being affected by the moods of others, why not be the one who sets the mood and pass on the good energy! Smile! Be Happy! Life is too short to be sad!!!
Ha. You suddenly feel very energetic now don't you? Ha.
Kok once commented that my writing was so powerful that if I wrote that I saw a Panda on Orchard road, you would have believed me.
Ha. Actually, he did not say that. I just made that up. But for a moment, you thought it was real right? Ha.
Talking about Panda, I went to watch Kungfu Panda with patapon dar dar last Friday. It's very NICE!!! Very funny! Must watch!
**SPOILER ALERT**
The moral of the story, "The secret ingredient is nothing." All it takes is for you to believe in yourself, then you will be able to achieve what you want."
Everyone in the world can don't believe in you, but as long as you constantly believe in yourself, you are good to go. :) Remember, the moment your dreams die, you are as good as dead.
Here's another great quote I picked up from a book, "Some people die at twenty-five, and aren't buried until they're seventy-five." Cheem ah? Ha.
** End of SPOILER ALERT**
The panda died in the movie. Oops!
Ha. Just kiddn lah.
After watching Kungfu Panda, I suddenly wanted to learn Kungfu, just like how I got this sudden impulse to learn Muay Thai after I watched Chocolate (See previous previous posts). Ha.
After watching movies, I always want to learn/do something new. Like Ratatouille, I was inspired to learn cooking. Speed. I wanted to be a bus driver. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: I wanted to eat lots of chocolate. Ha.
Oh yah, I just remembered, pre-orders of my latest book "Men are from Queenstown. Women are from Bukit Panjang" has just started. Get yours before it is too late! Ha. Order now and you will get this chance for an instant lucky dip! Ha.
I also realized that newly converted fans of siukai might find some of the stories here hard to following seeing how siukai has almost blogged for 7 years now, in fact even before the word blog was even invented. Ha.
Thus, there's a lot of back-story involved. Not to worry though, look out for the limited hardcopy edition book which will fill you in on the past 7 years of siukai crap. The book, "The Chronicles of siukai. The fatman, the wardrobe and his oversize pants." will be available at all major bookstores at the end of the year. Ha.
I also met this maths whiz kid at the bookfair. Okay, he was not exactly a whiz kid, but his maths standard was still good enough to impress me. I think he's in primary 2. I asked him, "How's your maths?" and he replied calmly, "Good."
So I popped in this Tough Maths CD-Rom for him to try. He tried a few questions and got all of them correctly (some of the questions were so cheem that I din even noe how to solve!) Then, I asked him to explain how he managed to come up with the solutions.
He pointed to some diagrams he drew on this rough paper I gave him and muttered, "This one is 15 then you add this one and that one..." I think he lost me at "this one is 15". Ha.
Nowadays kids are really getting smarter and smarter. Maybe it's because of the cartoon they watched?
Have you heard of Clifford the Big Red Dog? If you have not, welcome to my world uncle/auntie! Ha.
Apparently, Clifford is this red in color dog that is quite popular with kids nowadays. Well, I have no idea until I saw him at the world book fair! Ha. And when I was told that the dog was actually quite famous, I was dumbfounded.
I've heard of Barney, Pikachu, Mickey Mouse. But Clifford? The only dog I know is Pluto from the Mickey Mouse gang. Ha. A case of generation gap already? Ha.
Anyway, I think that Clifford is god-darn scary. Why is it even red in the first place? Ha. Just take a look at the picture I found on the web, below.
Clifford the scary red dog
Look at those scary big eyes and the gigantic paws. Ha. One K2 boy even cried when he saw Clifford. I think he will have nightmares of red dogs for a few consecutive nights!
I swore I had goose bumps when the giant Clifford Mascot brushed past me. Ha. Scary!
Well, this should be my last post until the weekend since I'm going for my reservist on Wed. Do look out for the return of siukai's weekend feast; dar dar is cooking lime chilli chicken and rice this Saturday! Yummy yummy! :)
Remember, you must always believe in yourself. The secret ingredient is... nothing!
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