Tactic

The story goes like this:

A girl's wandering around the booths wanna look around. Then she saw a booth with lots of magazines. Seems interesting, she wanted to stop by the booth. A second she was there, a man approached her asking what she's looking for. The girl said nothing, just wanna have a look. Then the man explained that they have promotion where the girl can subscribe a magazine worth RM700 +/- for one year with only RM500 plus other two monthly magazines for free. The girl's understood and just nodding while listening to the man.

Sounds good but it's not my priority, so the girl thought.

When the man finished explaining, he suddenly took out the receipt book asking the girl to write her name, address and contact number. Confused, the girl told him that she hasn't even decided to buy. The man said "that's okay, just write your particular and pay the deposit, RM50 or RM100 either one is okay and come again tomorrow". The girl didn't know what to do. She didn't want to buy and wanted to refuse politely, but it seems the man didn't want to understand.

The girl gave excuses that she doesn't have cash, the man said the ATM is around, she wants to think first and come again later, the man said you must come, I have already remembered you. The girl became annoyed, then she said, "I have to discuss with my mum first, I'm not a rich girl you know. Moreover, if I give deposit, what if I suddenly don't want to buy?" The man was silenced. Then finally he said to the girl, "okay, just write in your particular, but it will be good if you have made up your mind to buy and come back tomorrow".

Satisfied, the girl filled in the particular, took the business card handed to her and left the booth swearing not to come again!!

Jeez... what the heck! no one has right to force someone to do or to buy whatever he doesn't want to. This thing will only makes one afraid to come to your shop again. I know la you will only open your booth for 3 days and want to sell as much as possible and doesn't have to worry whether you customers will run or not. But it will be better if you respect other's right to choose and show your professionalism in business.

Haiya, I'm familiar la with this tactic, have encountered one when I went to optician to survey on contact lenses which ended up having forced to buy one. lucky I really really don't have cash at that time. Sorry to disappoint you, businessman.

Addiction

my friend asks: why long time not update your blog? i need something to read
me: i have one thing to write about, but need to study about that first
my friend: no need to write about heavy heavy stuff la.. light light okay what..

Hmm.. simple issue,
well lets talk about addiction..
addiction simply said, craving for something. sometimes we crave for good stuff, but sometimes we also crave for bad stuff. when we are addicted to something, it's very hard to stop and hard to control. i, too, get addicted. my addiction goes to:

1. sunflower seeds
whenever i go shopping, i will never forget to buy sunflower seeds or Malay word: kuaci. even when my mum goes to work, i never miss asking her to buy me one or two packets of sunflower seeds. just recently, my mum bought me a big plastic consisting of 10 packets of kuaci and i finished them in just 3 days. OMG, I'm severely addicted to this one. the bad thing about kuaci is they create too many waste, always need plastic bag around.

2. internet
i think I'm gonna die without internet. i started getting addicted to internet when i was about 15. i cried and begged my mum to install dial-up telekom internet in my house. i even promised my mum to pay RM1/hour of use, just like cyber cafe. i can't help laughing whenever i remember there is one tabung on the computer desk. however, after months i was just like forgotten the promise i made with my mum and the tabung was kept empty.
now, with modem and sim card, i can browse internet whenever and wherever i want. with internet i will always keep updated about what's happening in the world and i always keep terlajak until hours just browsing news, you tube, blogs etc etc. so, my time to study is always getting interrupted. hope it's not affecting my result but I'm sure it did already.

3. manga and anime

first manga i read was Doraemon, then my friend introduced me to Yuyu Hakusho, Pakar Judo, Penyiasat remaja then i found Kreko. after that i keep on buying and collecting manga. . i allocated about RM 30 every month just for manga. after years, i found that i have one full cabinet of manga. my dad failed to stop my addiction and my mum even said it's okay if my result is not affected. just recently when i came to Kuantan i felt it's hard to buy them, so i switched to online manga. the bad thing is i cannot collect them. i want material manga, not the virtual one.
i'm not so into anime. but i once spend all my 3 months salary of my after-SPM-job to buy anime. Hoho, what an expensive way to spend your money

4. shopping
Hmm.. it is an addiction?? well, when I'm going out, i can't help but buy whatever things i think i want. even though i already planned what i wanna buy, in the end, i end up buying just anything. until now, it seems i will never spend less than RM100 whenever I'm going out. so to avoid overspending, i just spend my day inside IIUM.

5._ _ _ _
haha. i think i will keep this one a secret. very-very hard to stop. remember when i sad bad stuff, this one is a bad stuff. Oops, tikah, maybe you know what i mean, just keep quiet. anyway, just pray i can stop this one.

There goes my addiction list. maybe there are few other things that i forget to mention. just hoping the addiction won't affected my normal life.

then, what're you addicted to?

“You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.” - David Ryan