Sheesh...

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Who knew finding internship opportunities could be quite a-big-damn-hassle to do! Especially when it comes with some bad luck and a few series of unfortunate events. My field (marketing) I would believe is slightly more of a challenge compared to other fields.

I’m just saying… it’s hard when the people looking for marketing interns/fresh grads are mostly made of Multi Level Marketing (MLM) companies, a somewhat ‘legal’ pyramid scheme some may call it.

Do I have a problem with them?
I think so, however this is a personal view.

For one, they are ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ so to speak, a hoax that is hidden beneath misleading slogans. In short, they tell tales of lavish prospective, promotions and exaggerated income claims preying mostly on the ‘high energetic money worshippers’ of any age, the inexperience, greenest of graduates and them who want to take shortcuts. Many are led to believe that success will come to anyone who believes in the system and adheres to its methods.

They claim that these positions are for leader only, looking for people with the fire to earn big bucks, professional, goal orientated with good interpersonal skills, hard workers and other combinations of inspiring words that the English dictionary can throw at you. Pure brainwash.

The unspoken truth here is, their job scope is DIRECT SELLING… a fact that they try to evade time and time again or at least try decorating with fancy glorified words. The other half truth of this is, you’ll just be the slave, exploited to sells the cakes for them while the people upstairs get full benefit of this.

So, are they a scam? Have they done something illegal? No per se… however they take advantage of the law by running along the grey border lines of unethical business principles and legality. Therefore, no law can find them guilty.

With all that has been said, some people will still find it suitable for jobs. I shall not be bias towards the people who choose these paths. You dictate the life you want to live... people can only learn from companies like these, one way or another.

Siding on them, the training that they give may actually be valuable, throwing yourself into the pool of rejection will no doubt build your character up, make you persevere harder, and make you a stronger person all round. Knowing that you can take rejection but never be discourage by it... is kinda cool.



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Chiang Mai

tut-tut

the night market


the white temple

Thai massages FTW, always always get the older elderly ladies... they are the best, with most experience and also have hands as soft as baby bottoms. I speak from personal experience :)

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Hiatus

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It’s that period of the semester again, when exams and late assignments are due all too soon (on my watch). Where you finally realize that the results of your laziness and procrastinations has finally caught up to you… a lesson everyone never really learns from.

This is supposed to be my second last semester before 4 months of internship kicks in. This being my last quarter of my degree, it’s been hectic…the usual.

This I hope in time will not be a partially-neglected blog, but I am truthfully more on hiatus for the time being till early August.



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Olympus: The PEN Story

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This video/commercial is just "wow".

The PEN Story in stop motion. Shots of 60000 pictures, developed 9600 prints and shot over 1800 pictures again with no post production!



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Misunderstood?

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My mom was so annoyed when she saw me wearing this:


A photo of Kate Moss of which to her was, well… just a naked woman.

She went “What would people think of you!?” and in the back of my mind I was “…nothing?”. I went “It’s just a T-shirt, mom”, but obviously she didn’t take that too lightly. I tried explaining to her that she was a famous model and that it was a fairly unrevealing picture but to no avail.

Instead, she adds wood to her own fire by now nagging to me about totally irrelevant issues, about life, my life and ‘what will happen to me in the future’. And I’m thinking “Where did all of this come from? Whatever happened to Kate Moss?”. Did she have that many nags kept inside of her that she decides to regurgitate to me at any instance of opportunity she gets? It’s amazing how she takes advantage of the situation to shoot her only son, when he’s already on the ground.
The torture.

How did one T-shirt get so much unwanted attention and apparently will forever ruin the life ahead of me? Explaining myself to a parent who didn’t understand, and didn’t want to understand… I knew I was fighting a losing battle. So to avoid further fueling her rage, I (as what any other misunderstood teenager would do) just kept quiet.

At that moment of my quietness, she probably thought that she caught me red-hand and that I knew I was in the wrong, she now probably thinks I’m a pornography activist that doesn’t care about the future and wants to ruin my already ruined life… I’m further misunderstood, great.

Is it really that bad? :S



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