Well…I am not that impressed. Probably I don’t know what I am doing.

This is what I get when I went to hongkongphooey blog.

Next, when I was updating my blog via Chrome. Suddenly, it tells me my userid and database password mis-match. I close the Chrome immediately and went back to Firexfox 3.

Popularity: 6% [?]

I took this picture of e-cosway stockist somewhere near Lok Fu mtr station.

Can ecosway, a malaysian mlm company find its place in Hong Kong? I have been passing this place for the last 6 months. It does not look that good…don’t seem to find anyone inside buying stuff….

I am thinking aloud…..

Update:

Aug 9,08

I was passing ecosway stockist again today.

Check it out….The store finally shutdown. My projection was right. They could not survive. Retailing in Hong Kong is very harsh. The rental is you majority cost. The moment you don’t have foot traffic. You are almost dead. Plus, the golden rule…location, location and location.

Reason (my opinions)

Ecosway brought in too many malaysian products.

Paste

The curry paste, rendang paste and other malaysian paste just does not suite hong kongers. Hong Kong people can’t take south east asian curry. They liked are japanese type of curry.


Toiletries

Other ecosway like detergent, shampoo and others toiletries products just could not cut it. Pricing are not competitive. I can buy a brand name for less than ecosway products. Why do I want to buy ecosway. As a Hong Konger, who is ecosway???

Now, I understand what HSBC said: ‘The world’s local bank’. To compete, you need to localize your product.

Again…I am thinking aloud.

Update: May 12, 2010

Hong Kong Ecosway Stockist

Below are a list of all the Ecosway stockist in Hong Kong, why I list this here even though I am not a fan. Well, Everytime when someone searches Ecosway Hong Kong, this page is at top 20. So, as a service and also my thanks to Henry Law for providing this list to me.

It’s in Chinese. You have to translate your self.

科士威西環西寶城營業所
香港西環西寶城219號舖

科士威西營盤營業所
西營盤皇后大道西455-485號地下25號舖

科士威中環皇后大道中營業所
中環皇后大道中328號中源中心地下58號舖

科士威北角城市花園營業所
香港北角電器道233號城市中心地下 50號舖 (炮台山地鐵站B出口)

科士威北角健威坊營業所
北角英皇道560號健威坊高層地下U22號舖

科士威鰂魚涌東匯中心營業所
香港鰂魚涌英皇道1010-1056號東匯中心地庫S57 & S58號舖

科士威西灣河太安樓營業所
香港西灣河筲箕灣道 57-87 號太安樓商場 A34 A 鋪

科士威筲箕灣南安街營業所
筲箕灣南安街15號地下舖位

科士威杏花村杏花新城營業所
香港杏花新城東翼1樓116-117號舖

科士威柴灣興華商場營業所
柴灣興華邨興華商場1樓132號舖

科士威小西灣藍灣營業所
小西灣藍灣廣場高層地下15B號舖

科士威小西灣廣場營業所
香港小西灣小西灣商場1樓116號舖

科士威香港仔中心營業所
香港香港仔南寧街9號香港仔中心第二期地下7號舖

科士威香港仔海怡商場營業所
香港香港仔鴨脷洲海怡廣場西翼1樓113號舖

科士威薄扶林置富花園營業所
香港薄扶林置富道1-20號置富南區廣場420及421號舖

科士威紅磡家維邨營業所
香港九龍紅磡馬頭圍道 48 號家維邨家興樓地下 7 號鋪

科士威紅磡國際都會營業所
香港九龍紅磡都會道國際都會727B號舖

科士威紅磡黃埔花園營業所
紅磡黃埔花園第12期B 100 7 & 8 號舖

科士威土瓜灣金都豪苑營業所
九龍土瓜灣馬頭角道28號金都豪苑地下5號鋪

科士威何文田廣場營業所
九龍何文田何文田廣場2樓215號鋪

科士威旺角奧海城營業所
奧海城一期 Shop UG29

科士威深水埗荔枝角道營業所
深水埗荔枝角道70號 (太子地鐵站C2出口)

科士威深水埗元州商場營業所
港九龍深水埗元州邨元州商場 1 樓 114 號鋪 (長沙灣地鐵C2出口)

科士威深水埗汝州街營業所
九龍深水埗汝州街286地下B鋪

科士威荔枝角宇晴匯營業所
香港九龍荔枝角深盛路9號宇晴匯商場二樓40號舖

科士威黃大仙中心營業所
九龍黃大仙中心地下G8號舖

科士威新蒲崗仁愛街營業所
新蒲崗仁愛街2-22號仁愛大樓1樓16號

科士威觀塘裕民商場營業所
香港九龍觀塘牛頭角道 300-302 號裕民商場地下 9 號鋪

科士威將軍澳寶達商場營業所
九龍觀塘寶琳路2號寶達商場2樓202號舖

科士威秀茂坪曉麗商場營業所
香港九龍秀茂萍曉光街21號曉麗商場2樓225號舖

科士威藍田啟田商場營業所
九龍啟田商場118號舖

科士威藍田滙景營業所
藍田匯景廣場5樓822B及822C號舖

科士威鯉魚門廣場營業所
香港九龍油塘鯉魚門廣場138號舖

科士威美孚新邨營業所
九龍荔枝角美孚新邨二期吉利徑7D平台54號舖

科士威將軍澳南豐廣場營業所
香港新界將軍澳培成路8號南豐廣場地下 A45-A46 號鋪

科士威將軍澳惠安園營業所
香港新界將軍澳惠安園地下 A2 鋪

科士威將軍澳廣場營業所
新界將軍澳將軍澳廣場L2樓2075號鋪

科士威將軍澳翠林商場營業所
將軍澳翠林商場109號

科士威將軍澳尚德商場營業所
將軍澳尚德商場234號

科士威沙田銀城廣場營業所
沙田第一城銀城廣場5號舖

科士威馬鞍山馬鞍山廣場營業所新界
馬鞍山馬鞍山廣場2116號舖

科士威馬鞍山頌安廣場營業所
新界馬鞍山頌安邨頌安商場地下5號鋪

科士威大埔廣場營業所
大埔安泰路1號大埔廣場地舖38號

科士威粉嶺粉嶺中心營業所
新界粉嶺新運路33號粉嶺中心272號舖

科士威粉嶺帝庭軒營業所
新界粉嶺和滿街8號帝庭軒1樓4A & 4B 鋪

科士威粉嶺花都購物廣場營業所
新界粉嶺百和路88號花都購物廣場地下97號舖

科士威上水海禧華庭廣場營業所
上水新成路88號海禧華庭廣場地下7號舖

科士威葵涌家居城營業所
九龍美孚景荔徑 8 號盈暉家居城二樓 208 號鋪 (美孚地鐵站C1出口)

科士威石籬商場營業所
葵涌石籬村石籬商場(2期)2/F – 237號舖

科士威葵涌廣場營業所
香港新界葵涌7-11葵富路葵涌廣場2樓C56鋪

科士威葵涌新葵興廣場營業所
葵涌新葵興廣場1樓6-8號舖

科士威石蔭商場營業所
葵青石蔭商場G1號舖

科士威青衣長發商場營業所
九龍青衣長發邨長發商場地下124號鋪

科士威青衣青怡花園商場營業所
青衣青怡花園商場地下40號舖

科士威青衣翠怡花園商場營業所
青衣翠怡花園商場二期地舖11號

科士威荃灣富麗商場營業所
荃灣富麗花園商場41號舖

科士威荃灣荃新天地營業所
新界荃灣楊屋道1號荃新天地G20a舖

科士威荃灣富榮大廈營業所
荃灣荃興徑10-18號富榮大廈16號舖

科士威荃灣愉景新城商場營業所
香港新界荃灣愉景新城商場L3 31號舖

科士威麗城花園營業所
荃灣麗城花園三期G/F 11號舖

科士威屯門啟豐商場營業所
香港新界屯門啟豐商場 1 樓 5 號鋪

科士威屯門富泰商場營業所
新界屯門富泰商場208號鋪

科士威屯門海麗花園營業所
屯門良德街12號海麗花園G/F G2號舖

科士威屯門時代營業所
香港新界屯門屯隆街2號屯門時代廣場北翼2樓42號舖

科士威天水圍嘉湖銀座廣場營業所
新界天水圍嘉天恩路12-18號嘉湖銀座商場第一期2樓230 號舖

科士威天水圍天澤商場營業所
新界天水圍天澤商場303號舖

科士威天水圍天耀商場營業所
新界天水圍天耀邨天耀商場地下L008-009號舖

科士威元朗合益廣場營業所
新界元朗大棠路19-27合益廣場1樓A110B鋪

科士威元朗同發大廈營業所
元朗屏會街9號同發大廈D舖

科士威元朗同樂街營業所
元朗同樂街17號地下前座A舖

Popularity: 12% [?]

My first time attending the [tag]Malaysian[/tag] [tag]Association[/tag] [tag]AGM[/tag] in [tag]Hong Kong[/tag] and I got my Shock & AWE. So many malaysian turning up for the events. I thought this kind of stuff never interest anyone.

Check out the crowd. I was wondering why would anyone want to get elected for a chairman or deputy or whatever the post that were available because all these position is an NON-PAID position. Is there something that I don’t know, that these people knows?

The Supporters

Wow…Spend own money to campaign. It’s a NON-PAID position…lah….

The Rule Of The Game – Based on the constitution of the association, at anytime you did not renew your membership and you let it lapse for more than a year, u need to re-apply as a new member. Then the application will be review by the exco members during their regular monthly held meeting.

The Argument- the challenger brought in a lot of her supporters BUT most of the supporters did not renew their membership for the last year or two.

So that night, the challenger supporters submitted their new application and insist the exco committee to approve them right there and then. They were raising their voices, yelling and do other shit…

It’s like renouncing your citizenship but on the day of election, you re-apply your citizenship and ask for the right to vote. What logic is this?

There was one asshole keep shouting he is a malaysian and holding his passport way up high to show his shit. This is like going back to Malaysia during election time and bring my passport at the polling station and start shouting…”I am Malaysian…How come my fucking name is not on the voting roll”. Motherfucking dickhead….

My Opinion

When u want to fight a war, BE PREPARED. Next, I own a Introducing Forex Brokerage. I told potential clients to know and abide by the house rules. Don’t pull shit stunts because the house will penalize you.

Same shit at this AGM, the current governing body holds all the cards and you must know how to work around and within these boundaries. A good example is the current malaysia election. The Barisan team holds all the cards but the opposition gain more seats than ever. WHY? KNOWS HOW TO WORK AROUND AND WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES.

The Cry Babies

These are the cry babies. Because they were not issued ballot ticket, they came into the room disrupting the process. So many personal insults, so many character assassination. They came for blood.

These people is like…’last year when we fight…it was a fair fight..but this year u raise the great wall and we are at a disadvantage.’ Grow up motherfuckers !!!

Throwing tantrum when you are in a disadvantage position….fucking malaysian.

You know what…these cry babies are senior management people and bosses. If you can cry to the top…shit…I need to start doing this kind of shit…No wonder I am still at the bottom of the food chain.

Then there was one chick trying to table a motion to have the exco immediately review, process and approved their application. I wonder in Malaysia or anywhere else, if an ordinary citizen like me goes to the parliament and table a motion to the speaker to dissolve parliament and have another new election.

If this can be done, Jeff Ooi and Tony Pua don’t need to work their ass off to get into parliament. You want to change the rules of the game or have a voice. Become one of the administrator…Get your fucking ass elected…bitch.

Recently in HK, there was an intensive drive to ask citizen to register as a voter for the next election and the cut-off date was May 16. When is the election? Couples months down the road. Every country has a deadline for voter registration. No country would allow anyone to register on the last hour of the election.

A lesson learned for me…when u comes into the battlefield unprepared, the consequences can be devastating.

To rely on rustics and not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of Virtues. Sun Tzu

The incumbent

I cast my vote to her. Why? As a shareholder, I only want to see one thing. Positive cash flow on the events MSA organized and positive cash flow on the balance sheet.

The rest…I don’t give a shit…

The challenger

Well, let me borrowed a quote from Sun Tzu.

” A general who calculates the most before the war will always win. A general who calculates carelessly before the war will always lost.”

She gave a 10 minutes typical malaysian political speech…I hv the longest, biggest and thickest dick bullshit. I hv a small dick. I don’t want to hear last minute campaign speeches. This kind of bullshit should be done 3 months ago.

My Summation

What pisses me off was the pure act of hooliganism that was bring forth by the Challenger supporters. These motherfuckers are like some posse rode into town with their gun blazing and proclaimed they are the new sheriff of the town.

There were a lot noises about the current chairwoman. If she was to be elected, a lot of people will be unhappy, the association will be disunited and all kind of negative bullshit. All I can say…whatever we do…we do it by our own choosing. We draw our Line- In-The-Sand (some people called it their principles and some called is choices) based on the current perceived information available. Its all about choices.

You made the choice of not going to the Friday get-together, you made a choice of not re-newing your membership. You made a choice to have certain friends. NO ONE force you. It’s your choice. So…where is the unhappiness, the disunity or negative shit. It’s after all our own perception. We perceives in our mind.

My brother-in-law always reminded me that there is no LINE-IN-SANDS. That line-in-the-sands is by our own choosing. The perceived LINE can be push further back when push comes to shove. For example, in war, with so many deaths, there are survivors…why? because they made a choice to live. They find a way to survive…

I am thinking aloud…

Popularity: 7% [?]

These couple days…all the TV channels in Hong Kong is doing their brand of charity drive for the earthquake victims in Sichuan.

I wonder how much money will reached all these victims…

I am thinking aloud….

Popularity: 5% [?]

Are they promoting ONTV or tv.on.cc??? I am confused.

I am thinking aloud….

Popularity: 5% [?]

My heartiest congratulation to Jeff Ooi and Tony Pua Tony Pua for being elected. I never thought they could win because of the BN well oiled election machinery. But…what do I know about elections.

After grabbing these 5 states, what is NEXT for the DAP, PKR and PAS? Can they get along to share the prize? Being focus on getting the prize is one thing, sharing would be another thing?

The big Question – Will Badawi resign? Will the Umno supreme council let him hang around for 4 more years?

I am thinking aloud.

Popularity: 5% [?]

I’ll just read IHOP ceo Julia Stewart get most of her ideas in the bathroom and so does Alan Greenspan. The famous ‘irrational exuberance’ came while he was in the bathroom.

Should I start spend 2 or 3 hours in there? In hong kong, where a 3 bedroom apartment has only 1 bath, would my family members get all piss off if I am in there for 3 hours to get my inspiration?

I am just thinking aloud….

Popularity: 5% [?]

Wow….I just read on theedgedaily.com that [tag]e-games.com.my[/tag] (egamesglobal.com.my) is in trouble. I just can’t believe it. With Rm 60 million funding and promises to develop their own [tag]MMORPG[/tag], they can’t get it up.

I watched with envy when they got that funding because my ex-company who wanted to get the Korean online game into malaysia shutdown due to insufficient capital. My korean bosses try very hard to secure funding to get the games started but things did not work out.

At that time, the licensing fee for a korean online game is about Usd 250,000 (and up) and it’s take another USD 100,000 for the hardware. Not the top of the line games or servers hardware but it’s enough to get the ball rolling.

These guys pick-up about 15,000,000 usd (60 mil x 3.8 exchange rate) and they can’t overwhelm the industry. So sad.

Another question that comes to my mind, how did they get such massive funding from [tag]malaysia debt ventures[/tag] (MDV)?. Why would [tag]MDV[/tag] funds a start-up with no revenue or profit?

Anyway, I am thinking aloud on this one. Those in the VC funding scenes, you know-lah….you only funds the well-connected one…mah.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Just came upon reading a new local company [tag]Worldip.tv[/tag] (read like world-ip) is offering internet Tv platform that consist of local channel (TV 3, NTV 7, TV8 and TV 9) and some Indonesian channel.

I sign-up on their service and try it. It a good effort from these guys. Being malaysian company and able to come up with this software (i hope the back-end is not an oem from some other company), the streaming is quite impressive. The picture and sound quality are very good.

Resize – Only full size or original. You can’t re-size to your liking

Channel – Everytime you need to change a channel, you need to go back to the original page.

Timeout – It will stop after 30 minutes and it’s said ‘due to inactivity, we stop the stop streaming’ (the word might be exact but it’s sound something like that). So, it’s like you have a TV and if you don’t use your remote control in the span of the 30 minutes, the TV will shut down.

Compare to [tag]TVUnetworks[/tag]. TVUnetworks is by far the most stable of all the internet TV. I have tried tried [tag]RongTv[/tag], [tag]Tvants[/tag] and [tag]SatelliteTV PC elite[/tag]. All these internet TV software I mention on the parentheses have not been able to continue streaming for more than 1 minute without going into buffering.

It’s almost function like Tv. Anytime you want to change channel, just click on the left side and you can re-size to any size. Further, they provide broadcast software for anyone to stream their video.

As of now, my vote goes to TVUnetworks. All internet Tv wannabe need to work hard.

Next, It’s would be interesting to see how Worldip.tv will roll out their subscription based plan. They claim to have 15,000 subscribers. The moment you say, collect money. That number will drop to 1%-3%. So, before they choose this road, they need to find other stream of revenue. Otherwise, it will be……something to be forgotten by next year.

Popularity: 8% [?]