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Steve Job : One Last Thing

bochupU — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:53:57 +0000

A very humbling effect – watch the video yourself – and learn to be great ! leave a legend – like Steve Job!

Cheap Weekend Vacation

bochupU — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:06:59 +0000

Now that we have Gary who is reliable to help us with the store – we can go for a cheap vacation anytime we want – and we’ve found some really great prices on vacation home we can rent for the long weekend if we plan to go somewhere warmer. I love that we now can look for vacation rentals by owner because they are definitely a great place to stay when you are traveling with kids and older folks like your in-laws.

Sometime soon – we are heading back to Asia for a visit – and guess what we are going to do with our home – we are also going to rent out our home – to vacationers – like ourselves while we are away – for 3 months long. What better way than to make money with our home – while we travel Asia – that certainly will cut our cost down when we are on vacation – that way we don’t have to worry about extra accommodation cost. It’s like breaking even – smart eh!

10 Years Later

bochupU — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:51:04 +0000

Tomorrow is the 10th year anniversary for 9/11 – a tragic day for everyone around the world. I still remember vividly – where I was when that day event happened – it was all over news – I was at the store with the boss – watching with horror as the first plane flew right into the World Trade Center in NY. 10 years later – I don’t think anyone have forgotten – I hope I will never ever see anything like that in my lifetime.

Teenage Customers

bochupU — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:56:20 +0000

We get many teenagers in our store and i wished I had some teenage acne products to sell to them. Why? because some of the kids sure need them and i could even make some money out of it. Which kid have you seen without an acne or two. right? So if can find a good acne product to carry – I could offer those teenagers a product that they can send other kids from school our way too. Best of both worlds – help some teenagers – and make some money – plus we know how acne can affect these teenagers self-esteem – and if there is a product out there that works – I would definitely want to be a wholesaler for it – as we do have a lot of teenagers come thru’ our store everyday.

Haiti Mission Team

bochupU — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:01:38 +0000

As I read the blog about the mission team that went up to Haiti to help build schools but were caught in the middle of the most devastating earthquake – i cannot help but wanna cry. I salute these brave and unselfish volunteers who are in Haiti right now and wonder what we at the store can do to help besides donating money? Getting them a seo software so that they can get better coverage..?? or donating computer equipments..?? How can we help them..?? and how can we make awareness.. to people in this town.

Haiti Earthquake

bochupU — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:00:08 +0000

Beautiful beaches and holiday resorts is what i remember of Haiti – for those who don’t know where Haiti is – it’s pretty close to the Dominican Republic and less than 200 miles away from the Caribbean Islands. Been there – done it was what i usually tell people when you are using cross country moving companies like taking taxis once upon a time.

But this morning on the local news – it wasn’t a pleasant news or anything i wanted to wake up in the morning – more so – i know that there are a group of volunteers from this town who are up there doing good for the ppl of Haiti. Haiti is very slowly but surely trying to help their own economy and an almost God forsaken place - you would think that God would spare them. Poverty is huge there – one can see it as soon as you are out in the local town and local ppl. Sure the beaches are beautiful and so are many places by the sand and the sea – but mostly you can see how poor the ppl are there. I cannot tell you how heavy-hearted i am right now and hoping that the death toll would stop right now as i continue following the news and already 100,000 feared dead. I continue to hope here – hope for a safe return for the people from here and glad that my g/f who went to the Caribbeans to escape the cold is already back home.

They Deserve It.. If They Fall For The Scam ?

bochupU — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:28:29 +0000

I’ve seen many reports of scams in Asia.. about elderly being scammed after receiving calls that their kids are in trouble … and they needed money for hospital bills and so forth. I can fully understand why these elderly are easily scammed because in our culture and society where our kids are so important.. and the parents think nothing about helping out.. and withdrawing money from the bank and giving them to a complete stranger it is hard to believe that ppl would fall for scams like using apatrim and claiming to this elderly folks that they are miracle pills. It is unfortunate that there are skunks who tries to scam these elderly ppl and if they were ever caught i hope would get a stiff sentence but I am guessing in the West, ppl donch fall for frauds like in Asian countries..?

The Yarmouth RCMP are alerting residents about a fraud scam taking place in other parts of Nova Scotia.

The scam involves a male calling an elderly person indicating that he is with internal security with the bank and he is conducting an internal investigation on a bank employee and he needs their help. He asks the person he’s called to withdraw large sums of money from their account and meet him in a parking lot, where the money is given to him.

The man tells the victim to go home and to not discuss this with anyone for the next 72 hours as it would hurt the investigation. After that period, he tells them they should stop into the bank so they can discuss the file.

The RCMP says bank investigators do not solicit assistance from their clients to withdraw money and give it to them. If anyone has been approached in this manner they are asked to call Phone Busters (an RCMP fraud/scam division) at 1-888-495-8501 or call their local police.

10 Yrs In Business

bochupU — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:58:45 +0000

Come August 20th, the store will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. To say that we are not tired of running our own business would be a lie. But then, if you work for someone.. you still pretty much have to take all sorts of nonsense from your co-worker.. or your bosses. Yes.. some are really no so nice.. i wished they would go get some acne treatments for the pain they are causing others. But running your own business.. you also get a different kinda headache. So there is really a no win-win situataion. So the solution is to be happy and don’t sweat the small stuff.

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