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What’s up with me now
Posted by Irwan in Daily Blog on February 9, 2010
Ok, so I left a lot of my passion in my life now. Not totally banished them, but put them to a kind of sleep until I found them interesting again, or at least until I have some time to spend with those passions.
Right now I totally not interested in ASB/Mutual Fund or any kind of slow investment now. The reasons? It’s slow and I’m better off using the money for something else.
Keyboard: I rarely played them lately. Erm.. last time I touched the keyboard is like 3 months ago. I’m still enjoying songs from Rob Costlow though.
Audiophile: I’ve stopped purchasing new audiophile stuff. Currently, my top of the line is Sennheiser HD650 and Zero Dac. It’s gonna cost a lot more to upgrade and I haven’t a solid reason to upgrade.
Blu-ray: Not spending much on buying/selling bluray because it’s time consuming. My friend is taking care of it. Visit rentori.com.my for more info.
So what’s new?
Car: I’m picking up Honda City in Mid March, so I’ve spent sometime with HC3msia.com as a member and met others in a Teh Tarik session. Fun fellas. I might be focusing my business to Automotive stuff in near future but nothing in plan at the moment.
Nexus One: Not really a passion but it’s my main business now.
IKEA: lol.. I’m moving into new rental apartment and I spent some time thinking of what to buy for the new place.
Work: I’m an internet marketer/social manager/business development in a local company now. Kinda love this job actually. The workplace is near(Midvalley!). Colleagues can’t be better, boss is generous and pay is quite okay. I’m learning a lot. Not just learning, I actually discovering a lot of cool stuff in marketing online products. This is a world class company and I’m proud to be part of it.
Health: I’m joining Celebrity Fitness and have workout 2-3 times per week. The result is quite satisfying now and it’s inside Midvalley.I play Futsal every Saturday, and sometimes alternate it with Badminton. (btw, I saw Datuk Lee Chong Wei in Midvalley today)
That’s all I guess. Getting the new job is one of the best decision I’ve ever made. Well not quite a tough decision, but I can’t imagine doing other thing that what I’m doing right now.
Alright.. till the next post
WordPress 2 Iphone Apps
Posted by Irwan in Daily Blog, Iphone on January 28, 2010
I just found our about this nifty iPhone app. Now I can write draft post, publish it and approve comment on the go.
We are now Iphone and Ipod Touch Friendly
Posted by Irwan in Daily Blog on December 29, 2009
Yeap, you hear it right. Grab your iphone or ipod touch and give http://irwan.biz a visit. If you have wordpress blog, you can have the same features by installing WP-Touch Plugin.
Be an Expert in your area
Posted by Irwan in Calculators, Daily Blog on December 19, 2009
People do love the word expert, especially in business. Being an expert means that you do the things that you do in the best way. If you are an expert in fishing, people will follow you to your fishing spots, use the same kind of baits that you use and they see you are their benchmark. If you are expert in marketing, people are looking for you for marketing advices, plans and actions.
In business environment, one company can’t do everything by itself. It needs help. That’s the reason Business-to-Business(B2B) exists. So businesses are looking for expert companies that excel in a certain area of their needs.
If you are a software provider, people are expected twice as much from you. First, you are an expert programmer. Second, you are an expert of what your software do. Let’s say your software is providing Human Resource Management System(HRMS), you can’t just rely on your strength as programmers alone. You have to be an expert in HRMS too. The reason is simple, if your customers are paying for HRMS, they are looking to depend on you for their HRMS needs. This is even more important if you are providing software as a service (SaaS) as you need a single solution for every customer. That means, your solution has to be best, a trend setter, industry standard, to manage human resource.
That’s not only it. Since your platform is web based, your websites must be user friendly, secured, fast-loading, easy to use(high usability) and comply with WC3 standards. Those are area of expertise and you need to be among the best of each one.
That being said, building a software is not about putting all the functions together. It is about meeting your customers expectations. If you don’t know what your customers expected, ask them. Make some surveys, let them fill in all the blanks in your mind. If you don’t talk to your customers, you will be a blind in a desert. Instead, be the expert in every field that you are in.
Google Wave Invitation Giveaway
Posted by Irwan in Daily Blog on December 17, 2009
I have a bunch of invitation for Google Wave. I haven’t use it that much to tell you how compelling is the service. But if you would like to join in the hype and see Google Wave yourself, just fill in your email to the form link. All email will be discarded once I put them to send you the invites