Anniversary of my bro in law passing

A blink of an eye and its already a year. We doing prayers for him . This brings back sad memories of him struggling in his fight against nose cancer. His passing is especially significant to me because I was with him all the way. From the hoapital treatment , chemo for the cancer and the time he was in ICU . To see a healthy man reduce to skin and bones in a matter months really change my perspective of life. I know he is jn a better place now.  No more pain Kelvin, no more suffering.

Remembering

Been thinking about dad these few days, missing him as always. The thought of him is always followed by a stream of tears I couldn't control. Life is not the same now without you dad. But I know you are in a better place now. .

Daily gratitude

Has been a mixed bags of emotion coming back from melbourne. One hand you want a better life for the family, the other .. couldnt bear to leave them . But its not a hard decision really , sacrificing now for a better future is a no brainer.

At the bank now , UOB civic centre is undergoing a renovation so its a make shift bank outside the building.  A long queue for the GST voucher at the bank too.

Im glad I finally went to melbourne to experience the life there. Hopefully I do the family proud .

Daily Gratitude

Today dad is looking better, with the painkiller dosage increase, pain is felt less.

Im grateful dad is feeling less pain, i hope he gets better everyday.

 

3 cost effective ways to getting a real estate listing.

Getting a property listing is very real estate professional daily aim. Because listing leads to sales and sales lead to commission. But how do you get a listing without throwing money at expensive flyer design and distribution or newspaper advertistment? Here is 3 way to do it, based on my experiences.

1) Cold calling
Cold calling home owner or business owner can sometimes lead to many opportunity.
It also puts you in the driver seat, you can call in the day for business owners and call at night for home owners, cold calling is fast and straight forward. With the right pitch and sales talk, you can arrange for an appointment for a face to face presentation . Cold calling can be in the comfort of your own home or in the office and you only work your fingers !


2) Door to Door visit.
Some home owner prefer to deal with people who they can see. Its often harder to reject an outright face to face conversation when you approach with a big smile and a cheerful attitude. You are more likely to be recognise if you make multiple visit to the same apartment block or the same neighbourhood, there by creating a sense of familiarity. With familiarity, people feel they know you and are more willing to open up to you. This method needs alot of foot work, but will eventually pay big dividend in the long run.


3) Social Service
Volunteering your time to give advice to home owner and help them deal with property related matters is a good cause, also a passive way of building a name for yourself.  With the right research and know how, you can offer your services free of charge to the community . You can learn valuable lesson on property related matter and anchor you as the person they go to for property related matters.
With the right attitude and service, you will be famous in no time !


there are many other ways to get a listing, so go forth and work hard !
 Comments and feedback welcome !

 

Daily Gratitude

Life is like a road trip, it's not the destination, but the journey that counts.
I really hope that Dad's journey has been a good one. I never really get down to talking to him about it, i have to, i want to know his past, which he has never told me at all.

From what mom told me, he has a hard life, after been adopted, he had to work to support he family at a very young age. He will often take his younger brother and sister to work so he can keep an eye on them.  He was very poor back then, working in a logging factory, renting a small little room with mom. And both of them work really hard to survive and then later on, trying to raise all 3 of us.

Despite people looking down on our parents, they made it through with sheer grit and hardwork, sometimes putting in as much as 14 hours of work a day to put all of us through school and paying for the house and our food and almost everything.

Im grateful to have parents who wanted to see us grow into useful people, they were not strict, but always reminded us to be good, to do good and to be grateful and contented.

Thank you mom and dad.

Daily Gratitude

Busy today, had to take Dad to see his favorite GP. The pain in the bone is unbearable for him, only thing i can do for him is take him to the GP for painkiller jab...and get more pain killers. Dr Tong say he doesn't want dad to turn into a medicine dump. But, right now, he needs that relief.

Made some fish soup for the kids today, real happy that i gut the fish , fillet it myself today, not bad for a first timer, hehehe.  Too bad i'm juicing today, so no dinner.  But i did have my boy brought us a nice cake for desert, dark chocolate cake....so guilty !

Oh well, we indulge once in a while...and the family is happy, so i'm happy !

 

Daily Gratitude

Been missing a few blog for the pass few days, too engross in watch the NBA highlight to remember. Been catching Jeremy Lin and the Houston Rocket Highlight and their progress. I wish Jeremy Lin pick up on his scoring , he has the ability to go at least 25 points per game easy. But i understand , as a team player, you have to let others contribute, but you dont become a star by being a assist leader.

Anyway, i'm picking up on capitalism lab again, it's a nice game, the economy model is very good and it offer a good challenge, so glad im able to buy this game online and play it right away. That's one thing good about living in a country that gives me instant internet access and electricity anytime i want it. 

Going to start composting tomorrow, brought a nice bucket, going to get the browns all filled up then fill in the pulp from my juicing, hopefully it'll work !

Also, staying stable at 109.5kg this weekend, freaking happy ! finally breaking 109, 30Kg more to go ! go me !