Final deal was a troublesome one. When i freaking tell u that is the best price, u jolly well either take it or leave it.
India Indians are seriously freaking difficult to do business with. They die die wanna take everything from you, like trying to rob a bank verbally.
Anyway, i toyed around with him as i know he will definitely buy from me (as he came back for bout 3 times.) haha!
A man acting like a bitch, ask discount, ask free thumbdrive, ask free webcam. Dilly dally want buy dont want buy.
He was like "Toshiba give me 250 GB hardisk, but HP only 160GB?"
I got rather impatient, but yet acting i was like joking "Then u go buy Toshiba lor if you think they are good! Hp Business Laptops talks about quality, reliability and durability, this is the best deal you can find, $1069 including GST, take it or leave. He was like "But no webcam? My wife loves webcam you know? Toshiba have webcam!"
I seriosuly got no idea why are they making such a big fuss over webcams, making it sounds like asif the laptop got no keyboard like that. So i told him that it's not the end of the day, he can still get a USB webcam. To my surprise, he was like "Oh really?!". Immediately, i regretted telling him that. You know what, now, he's asking me to free him a USB Webcam, in which i've borrowed from the Microsoft booth. I was like " how to give you?! This one not our one also." "can la can la" he said.
That part right, really shows me how cheap they can be. I doubt Russel Peters when he claims that the Indians and Chinese are the cheapest race in the world( as in India Indians and China Chinese). Yesterday, I've seen with my own eyes how extream they can be.
So back to the webcam. He was pestering me to give the USB webcam to him for free. So i list an example to him. I pointed at the Sony booth and said "Do you think i, HP, can tell Sony to give a laptop bag for free?" Suddenly, he lost his words.
Anyway, he bought the laptop in the end.
Above are all the truth, No intention of racism was intended***
Workaholic
Saturday, November 29, 2008
It's been such a hectic week selling coffees and laptops.
Been working everyday since Monday, and yet, it has not come to an end as there's still a day to go.
Working for HP for the current IT Show. Well, so far, i've only managed to sell 3 laptops. Pretty bad eh? Business laptops are certainly more difficult to sell as the price range is higher compare to what the other companies are offering.
Some people are just so damn cheap i tell you. From $1199, i've already discount twice to $1150, to $1120. kept saying to me "Gentleman, listen.... I tell you.... I am requesting you, to bring down the price, to $1000. I would really like to buy this laptop. But this price right now i cannot agree... Please speck to your manager, and try giving me what i've requested..."
I was like "Oh my god this if gonna take forever...."
In the end, my some-how pissed manager gave him $1100, and thanks fucking god he bought it...
Argh, cheap people.... Just wanna take every single cents from you, like squeezing out every single drip of a sugar cane.
But yep, i didn't get pissed off by him anyway. In fact, i find him pretty entertaining! I've laugh my ass off whenever he ask for another price cut. It's hilarious you see, especially with the strong accent spoke with. And he's like so damn seriously man, you can really see it in his eyes!
Im feeling damn burned out right now, just like a machine being continuously operate while it's overheating. Need some good sleep seriously.
iny
Only One
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Only One
Just got back from work. Will not say it's exhausting cause it's been only 6 hours working. Need to get my Ipod Touch real soon. Aiming this cool gadget cause i will then be able to surf net everywhere! With the touch screen function, man... I cant resist. Iphone's probably a bad idea cause it cost as much as my life (ok, maybe i value slightly more?).
So what if i cant call or take pictures? I'll save a few good hundreds! It's takes forever to earn from Starbucks man. Remembering the days where my bank account was filled with 4 digits figures... Those were the days man, where you just answer questions in front of the computer, while surfing Youtube at the same time.
I'll maybe start picking up my bro's guitar and starts practicing from those videos on Youtube, something which i wanna do for a very long time ago (well i did TRY to play it once, i was learning the chords).
So, to sum up my ambition of this holiday - iTouch 16GB - Hot Toy Bank Robbery Joker - Sell my current joker - Learn/ practice how to play guitar chords
But all these stuffs are just secondary.
When's My Birthday?
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Ok, some updates over here.
1st, gonna have some assessment day photos to be posted, and then, a little on Vivien's birthday ya.
Vivien's Party-
Saw Tay Ping Hui and the gorgeous Paige Chua, filming some new local dram at this block, just beside Vista Park.
Tay Ping Hui (White top & black shorts) with Paige Chua (pink cap with pink top)
Haha, quite a number of people were watching them acting. This is the 1st time i've seen Tay Ping Hui since way back during Primary 5, at the premier of I Not Stupid. I remembered there were super lots of Mediacorp Artistes i swear! Jack Neo and his gang, Zoe Tey, Jeff Wang and whole lots!
The nerdy me way back then took alots of pictures with them! Maybe will upload when being discovered.(yes, i have no idea where the F the photos went, can anot?) Pretty awesome environment to held a BBQ at i say, consider screamings and yellings are unhearable to the public(if you know what i mean). Everyone were super ento when it comes to gambling! Lost one buck playing In-Between, which leaves me the whole evening watching, rather then anticipating cause i swear to god if i lose that one dollar, i'll stop. Smart eh?
Out of nowhere, with no link whatsoever, here's my classphoto! It was taken by my lecturer's request while having this make up class. He said it's for his kid...(huh?)
We were in this Nafa Kindergarten Class for our make up class which pretty much explains the kiddy drawings at the back. Some of us looks pretty shit in this photo, guess we haven't woke up or something i think... HA.
So here you go, We have Singaporeans, Chineses(by that, i mean from China), Indonesians, a Korean(not the one under Kim Jong-Il) and finally a Thai.
All came together into Nafa for different reasons -
failed O level maths(why the fuck would u need to pass your maths to get into design courses anyway?),
hate their previous poly courses(one from NYP, another from RP),
prefered an art institute (one who scored 11 points for L1R4),
and rich (overseas students).
Welcome to mini Asia.
So i shall end my post with a video on how to charge your psp with a banana.
bye!
Start-
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Some pictures which i took sometime ago during soccer...
Ibrahimovic?
He invented gold digging
Speed
Just got back from work, so there's pretty much nothing to blog about i guess.
And i wanna delicate this little space on my blog for Vivien Tey..
Happy 18th birthday Vivien Tey! May you enter to the school of your choice ya?
ps: Can i have marshmallow for tomorrow's bbq? haha
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
I WANT AN iPHONE!
Been very tempted to get myself one of those. But most probably my dad wont be getting me one as usually, he doesn't like to spoil us. That's alright, i'll earn myself one then.
But the damn problem is, it cost a bomb over here. With my pathetic Starbucks pay, i'll will never get my hands on to those!
ISP DONE!
Monday, November 10, 2008
All Done
Today's was a busy day man! Went school at bout 10 plus to completed whatever shits which i've not completed yet for my ISP. So, yep, we pretty much messed up the entire area which we worked on. Bits and pieces of papers (with different combination of patterns and colors) were all over the floor.
I must say , the feeling of completing the ISP project was so awesome. I felt so relived and satisfied at the same time.
After tomorrow's presentation (yes, we still got to present our project) , the 1st semester will officially comes to an end, and thats when the holidays will land(till Jan 7th 09, i think).
Gonna just slack for maybe during the 1st 2 weeks, before putting down more schedules for Starbucks (Some spare cash would be nice isnt it?).
ISP
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Damn busy with ISP. So many things to rush, so many things to do.
Will blog soon after ISP.
Meanwhile, here's a video which i've made during the past weekend. It's for my upcoming project (aka ISP).