Book Fair and IMM trip!
Hmm... On Tuesday, i went to the Worlds' Book Fair in Suntec with Tracey, before she met up with Joseph #2 in the evening for a movie. Nothing much de! Intially i thought there are going to be tons and tons of books luring me to devour them!! Alas to my disappointment, none appeal me. Perhaps i don't like to read books ba. Perhaps they just don't have the books that i want, such as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Enders' Game... Oh! Enders' Game is really a very very nice book. I've read it 5 times when i borrowed from the library. Now i still feel like reading it, but i think my brother lost the book i bought. Humph...
After we visited the Book Fair, we went to the toilet on level 1. Errm... i know this is nothing interesting... Go toilet only also need to blog ar? Joseph... are u nuts? LOL!! No la... just that outside the toilet, i saw these beautiful orchards!!
For today, i went out with my sister to IMM! Met in Jurong East MRT, we proceed to a Jurong Entertainment Centre for lunch first. Had Herbal chicken! Visited the ice-skating ring, Arcarde before heading for IMM.
Hmm... my sister treat me eat ice-cream leh... ( chocolate chip one ) Felt so blessed actually... (^.^) Actually today is the first time i've been to IMM! I'm so noob hor? Not a bad place actually! Big and spacious... suddenly we are "caught" by 2 people from prudential. They some sort of like let us hold a rubber ball and become extremely friendly to us. The real reason behind it is to create awareness about an insurance plan. This insurance plan talks about saving $100+ monthly in them, which they then use this money to invest before returning us with a 3% interest rate + additional $15000 after certain years. He stated that 80% of the money will be invested in bonds while 20% of the money will be invested in stocks. ( Just wondering... why can't i buy the bonds myself? *shrugs* )
As usual, this guy passed me a pen and want us to write down our particulars. As i was writing, he just keep on blabbering and asking me tons of unrelated question ( e.g. what church u attended? Is she your gf? etc. ), as if i'm concentrating on him. U know... guys can only do one thing at a time. In the end, i "shoot" back at him and "interrogated" him instead. So so so... he was from Temasek Poly and joined Prudential 3 years ago. Currently salary ranges from 2K to 3K, but next year going to be 6K. Why? He performed well last year. Because for every case he close, he gets 50% of the premium for the first year, followed by 25% second year, then 10% third year etc. This means that he got 100% of the premium for 6 years. Don't understand this statement? Ask prudential.. Anyway my sister got the Prudential girl talking to her, which is from Singapore poly and recently quitted being a Nike manager. Certainly not a good speaker. Untrained perhaps.
Talking about Nike, u know what does Nike means? Nike is actually the name of the Goddess of Victory. Once there is this guy called Jeff Johnson who dreamt of this Goddess. This Goddess said that if he puts her name down, this will be the best selling shoes. Then he suggested this name to Knights, whose company needed a new name and logo. As for the SWOOSH logo design created by Carolyn Davidson, it represented the wing of the Greek Goddess Nike and embodies the spirit of that Goddess. Impressively Nike sold $3.2million worth of shoes in 1972, and its profit doubled each of the next 10 years. Nike passed Adidas to become the industry leader in the US in 1980, the year it went public. The company made a quantum leap in 1984 when it sugned the 21-year old Jordan to endorse a basketball sneaker. Indeed now, Nike is the largest sportswear supplier in the world.
http://www.brandchannel.com/boty_results/global_list.asp
Not bad... though the ranking of NIKE brand did drop a little in 2006... lol...
Enough of that. After walking around in IMM for 45 minutes, we proceeded back to Jurong Entertainment Centre for Shrek 3 movie! Ok la... story plot very very much suitable for children i guess. Some funny elements, but i still like the donkey-dragon hybrid baby! They are so adorable... hehe...
Before we left the centre, we got these 2 cute pooh bear! One dressed in Penguin suit and the other in Crocodile suit. Extremely cute after u strip the suit away! Think i gave to YT and ting before...
After we visited the Book Fair, we went to the toilet on level 1. Errm... i know this is nothing interesting... Go toilet only also need to blog ar? Joseph... are u nuts? LOL!! No la... just that outside the toilet, i saw these beautiful orchards!!
Indeed very beautiful that it certainly caught my attention. Since there are nothing much to do, we petrolled around suntec, looking for Song En's gift ( ideas like puzzles, watches, ties came to our mind ) before ending up at Raffles Place Shopping Centre with a pair of lethargic legs. Went home after that.
For today, i went out with my sister to IMM! Met in Jurong East MRT, we proceed to a Jurong Entertainment Centre for lunch first. Had Herbal chicken! Visited the ice-skating ring, Arcarde before heading for IMM.
Hmm... my sister treat me eat ice-cream leh... ( chocolate chip one ) Felt so blessed actually... (^.^) Actually today is the first time i've been to IMM! I'm so noob hor? Not a bad place actually! Big and spacious... suddenly we are "caught" by 2 people from prudential. They some sort of like let us hold a rubber ball and become extremely friendly to us. The real reason behind it is to create awareness about an insurance plan. This insurance plan talks about saving $100+ monthly in them, which they then use this money to invest before returning us with a 3% interest rate + additional $15000 after certain years. He stated that 80% of the money will be invested in bonds while 20% of the money will be invested in stocks. ( Just wondering... why can't i buy the bonds myself? *shrugs* )
As usual, this guy passed me a pen and want us to write down our particulars. As i was writing, he just keep on blabbering and asking me tons of unrelated question ( e.g. what church u attended? Is she your gf? etc. ), as if i'm concentrating on him. U know... guys can only do one thing at a time. In the end, i "shoot" back at him and "interrogated" him instead. So so so... he was from Temasek Poly and joined Prudential 3 years ago. Currently salary ranges from 2K to 3K, but next year going to be 6K. Why? He performed well last year. Because for every case he close, he gets 50% of the premium for the first year, followed by 25% second year, then 10% third year etc. This means that he got 100% of the premium for 6 years. Don't understand this statement? Ask prudential.. Anyway my sister got the Prudential girl talking to her, which is from Singapore poly and recently quitted being a Nike manager. Certainly not a good speaker. Untrained perhaps.
Talking about Nike, u know what does Nike means? Nike is actually the name of the Goddess of Victory. Once there is this guy called Jeff Johnson who dreamt of this Goddess. This Goddess said that if he puts her name down, this will be the best selling shoes. Then he suggested this name to Knights, whose company needed a new name and logo. As for the SWOOSH logo design created by Carolyn Davidson, it represented the wing of the Greek Goddess Nike and embodies the spirit of that Goddess. Impressively Nike sold $3.2million worth of shoes in 1972, and its profit doubled each of the next 10 years. Nike passed Adidas to become the industry leader in the US in 1980, the year it went public. The company made a quantum leap in 1984 when it sugned the 21-year old Jordan to endorse a basketball sneaker. Indeed now, Nike is the largest sportswear supplier in the world.
http://www.brandchannel.com/boty_results/global_list.asp
Not bad... though the ranking of NIKE brand did drop a little in 2006... lol...
Enough of that. After walking around in IMM for 45 minutes, we proceeded back to Jurong Entertainment Centre for Shrek 3 movie! Ok la... story plot very very much suitable for children i guess. Some funny elements, but i still like the donkey-dragon hybrid baby! They are so adorable... hehe...
Before we left the centre, we got these 2 cute pooh bear! One dressed in Penguin suit and the other in Crocodile suit. Extremely cute after u strip the suit away! Think i gave to YT and ting before...
Had a long long long long enjoyable walk! Next i took a bus, reached home, played piano for 5 mintues before going for a run. Now my whole body was "in heat". In case you don't know, you only describe dogs "in heat", which means they have strong desires to mate. My case of "in heat" was that i feel a little heaty after the run k... don't mistaken... ( though i wanna married young ) lol...
That's all~ Hope all of you have a nice day!
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