Category Archives: Business
My certificate of Copyright registration
On a rainy evening of January 2008, (according to my best guess, the 29th), during my stay in Singapore, I filled the application form to claim the authorship of my website’s content at the US Copyright Office of Washington, sent a payment of about 45$ and went through some acceptable bureaucracy to finally get a confirmation e-mail that my application was received and that it would have been reviewed and processed soon. Well, that soon has been almost 4 years, because today, they’ve finally mailed me the certificate print…
The reasons behind my registration are personal, however Im celebrating by posting this for my own pride and hanging the certificate on my bedroom’s wall at least for the long await. I had actually almost lost hope until the unexpected happened.
For your information by the way, at present times there are many other ways to protect a certain work, especially if it’s digital.
Ikea
Today I’ve been tortured by one of the brightest business ideas of the millennium, the half do-it-yourself system of selling furnitures directly from the stockroom, have people collect the orders themselves and putting together crappy boards at home having fun as if they were children again in front of a Lego box. The capability of maintaining overall fair quality over excellent prices drives people love the store. I personally find the furniture design flat and boring and the made of wood very flimsy, but it’s still the only option you have if you need brand-new stuff , have time to waste to assemble em and a low budget (and here comes the foxy trick while they send you home with a smile someone behind the desk knows that at least 20% of the customers will never be able to install the goods or better, will end up damaging some piece and going back to the Ikea buying new screws or spare parts…no wonder why they have a huge line in the customer service desk and a copious number of counter desks). Another backstab is making you wonder around a store which is slyly organized in a way that you are going zig-zag all around the warehouse thinking that is incredibly huge, meantime you can observe their perfect expos which you’ll never be able to replicate by the way , but the best part is making you believe that there is always something missing at your place. Icing on the cake comes when they never show you the finished price but they tag every single component of a piece, so that you see a cheap price on the door, then you open the closet and realize that there is another price tag for the inner part, then another for the bottom part, then for the handle and so forth…well, no comment.
Anyway, after spending almost 7 hours in the store today (seriously, we even had dinner in there), going crazy to order and make the furniture match, various complaints, wrongly priced items and after my grandma wrote a 2000$ check at the cashier, my vision got blurry and I almost fainted in the shop. I came out alive, but with a terrible headache and blasted by their endless tagged consumerism. Long live to the antiques!
Rich dad poor dad
While in Bali airport, I found a bookstore, surprisingly selling some english books, mostly all time bestsellers, where I also spotted one that many friend adviced me to read. The book is called “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, im sure you’ve heard of it before, and for those who dont know, it’s a book that teaches you the theory of how to get out of the “rat race” and reach to the level in which money work for you, not that you work for money. However, Im just writing an article about this because I found out that the book contains some of the theories that I’ve always (unconsciously) applied in order to succeed in my “travelling career”. I have survived for almost 7 years by traveling around the world for less than 15.000 US dollars. If you are wondering how I did it, let’s just say I’ve simply worked on my character, on my social networking and on my experiences, reinvesting every fragment of what i’ve learnt and earned, back into my business. I had to make some painful choices and some sacrifices too, in order to reach the objectives that I was one by one setting… I had to invest my time and my money for that kind of “education”… It was hard but it was worth it, I ultimately graduated in “university of life”. If I had to listen to my “poor dad” (such as parents, relatives, ignorant and stubborn people, media, cliches and so forth…), well then I would have never made these wonderful experiences, I would have just stayed in the middle class, being a wage slave trapped into the small circle of paying a car in 10 years or paying a house in 30, but most importantly, I would have never became rich inside, (that is what counts to me). Well, I would sincirely reccommend this book to anyone, it’s a lesson of positive attitude for whatever path you’re taking in life.
Trying out the crowded world of the stockmarket
Stockmarket code: 9697
Beginning thrusday last week, i’ve entered in the vortex of the online trading! The dream job for those who are deseperately willing to find a career that occupies just few hours of their day and offers endless earning prospectives from a standard salary up hundred thousand dollars a month, depending of by your investment capital, your willing to risk and of course by your marketing/trading/intuitive skills. Great thing, is that this is the perfect job for travellers too… you just need a laptop and an internet signal. So ive decided to give it a try and here i am (i picked up the videogames market as it’s the only one that i feel familiar with). I now officially own 500 shares of Capcom CO LTD, a videogame company quoted in the Tokyo stock market, listed under symbol 9697. I have never done this before so Im like checking the quote like crazy, hundred times a day to see if it’s going well. It wasnt a random purchase if that is what you are wondering now…I had a pre planned medium term strategy regarding these shares. For those who wish to follow me, buy within this week at 1780 JPY limit and wait until around half March, then watch the stock closely and sell if it reaches over 2500 JPY otherwise sell whenever you see they’re starting to go down again. Will keep you posted on the result of my first little investment.