During these few months, I’m a very much on fire for high growth. Trying out many new things and launching many projects all at once. Not that it’s a good thing but I think I should be able to manage them quite well now.

So what am I up to recently?

• My current team is now around 5-10 now (writers and VAs). And I’ve been hiring crazily on and off.
• Creating a software platform to cut down the costs of my article submission process – One of the highest costs projects I’ve ever tried so far.
• And I’ve purchased a high cost software as well.
• What makes it worst is that, during the entire thing, I’m also creating a product in a niche – working on the copywriting myself but getting my superb writer/friend to write the book itself.

I’m disobeying the law of focusing on one project at a time by doing all of these at one go. Let’s see how would this go in the end…

Had quite a day when my netbook is infected with this nasty worm… Win32.netsky. It was a fake worm by some pathetic anti-virus software company trying to cheat victims to buy their anti-virus.

So here’s the what I did to solve most of the problem (not 100%) solve but at least I can log into my computer.

1) Download Malwarebytes

2) Had a bootup thumbdrive with a win vista iso when I was stuck in the logon loop.

3) Run Malwarebytes several times..

There were more steps then this as there was many mistakes and wrong steps. The internet was so full of wrong information and the key was to find out what’s the right and wrong steps.

I may need a factory restore after this… Quite a big disrupt from my daily work but luckily it’s my netbook and I still got a main laptop and a mac book so they can’t kill me easily.

SMU is such a university that reflects some reality of the Singapore society. I wonder what is the fundamentals of making such a university where students participate for the sake of getting the grades. “What’s the point?”

Isn’t this like how the drama serials where the employees all sucked up to the board of directors? Maybe some even use underhand methods to get their way up there.

When the level of participation are tied to the grades, and when students are desperate for the grades, they would just participate for the sake of participating. Isn’t the main aim for studying in university is to enrich and broaden the student’s mind? To make us a great thinker? Does tying the grades to the participation level brings us closer to that?

Some says that participation is what the employers are looking after/sought for. So employers are looking for people who can suck up or who can put up a show? I don’t think so. Maybe at the start this will help them to get the job, but sooner or later, it’ll be the performance?

But I’m very puzzled by the fact that why do employers have the impression that SMU students are better than the other Universities. Better marketing?

If you really want to survive in the real world, these are the few things that you can do for yourself.
1. If you know your grades can’t beat others, don’t beat. Know what you are good at. Decide whether if there’s a market for your strengths. Either develop on this strengths or find out what other strengths you like and can develop.
2. Develop your unique selling point.
3. Do what you are passionate about rather than thinking about the money.
4. Think of other more ways to earn more money so that when you are working, your employers don’t have any bargaining chips on you. (you can quit any time you want, you want to eventually work what you are passionate about so you can really excel in it)