My Business on Water Festival

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22-25, 2007

This is the second year that I helped Jerry promote and expose his products and brand.

During the Water Festival 23rd to 25th EuroTech Drinking Water company had four booths at different places. I chose the biggest booth which was three booths together. My partner is my nephew had his friends came to help us. There were 5 guys of his friends and 1 guy was Kompeak my new friend, and the other 3 girls.They are all nice friends, they helped us all their ability and not lazy.

We became friends and we had a lot fun, connected, activities, fun to eat and drink......... I like them, they were very good sellers and funny, especially the girls and her little sister and brother, they are just kids but they are brave, fun and are good sellers.

On the first and second day we slept at 12am. On the third day my team-mates slept at 2am, while i was busy until 4:30am. Now i'm so tired and my voice has changed because had been spoken too much to the customers.

There were so many things left in the coolers when we closed. Thus, i gave all of them to my team-mates, and also the guards and poor people ;-)

This is me with the bag for keeping the money and wearing the earphone because had no free hand :-D

Kompheak my new friend. We have hang out for some times and cooked at Daniel's house twice.

Mao my nephew. We are partners for this business since last year. He's a very good and active seller. He has a good communication skill with customers.Not to forget to tell that my voice has change because of this megaphone!

At night.

It was so crowded all day and all night.


Bayon TV concert behind my booth.

My House & Traffic Congestion

Recently, i have to get up early at 5:30am and leave my house at 6:30am to avoid the traffic congestion every morning around the Chbar Ampov market to across the Monivong bridge. Because of the bad traffic, my niece Marie has been late for school for half to an hour twice. I haven't had my breakfast at home for a week too. Mom is a manager in charge for our meals at home, she has two staffs hehe.

This morning we were stuck in front of the market until 8am, though i left home at 6:30am. Then i called Toch a staff of ours come by his motor so that i drove the motor send Marie to school, and Toch drove my car to the office instead. However, Marie was still one hour late.

If it would not be better, i would have to get up more early and perhaps would drive a motor!

My Real Best Friend

I won the bet

I'm addicted to coffee. The difference is that coffee helps people to stay awake, but it makes me sleepy.I made a bet with Jerry that i would still sleep well though i drink Espresso which is the strongest coffee (it kept Jerry awake for two nights).

We were negotiating to exchange my 1-year-old IBM laptop with his 3-month-old ACER laptop by adding him $200. The bet was worth $50.I won the bet! I did sleep well that night! Perhaps, I'm Jerry's best friend or I've been always honest, so he trust me when i told i won :-)

However the negotiation was changed a bit. He asked for $250 and i got the new laptop together with his new camera 7 Meg he he. That meant, exchange my laptop with his, i added $150, and i added another $100 for the camera.

This one cup of Espresso worth $50 in the bet.

Cooking

Saturday evening after going to see the World Grad School Tour, we did two shopping at City Top and Lucky for our cooking. This time we made Grilled Eggplant with Chicken Breast. It was so easy, cheap and delicious.

I am chopping the breast

He is frying the breast

He is grilling the eggplant on a charcoal

Grilled Eggplant with Chicken Breast

Weekend & Wedding Soon

It has been a month already that we are having guests from France who are our relative (my brother in-law's aunt and uncle). Honestly, none of our relatives including me, like them but they are coming every year. Sometimes twice a year. I wish they spent the money on their trip for charity works instead. However, i never hope they would do that because they are mean and stingy. Last Sunday and the Sunday yesterday, we had big dinners at my house, but i didn't stay. I don't like them and i don't like French food very much. On the other hand, they had lamb for the dinner. (I don't eat most of animals, except for fish, beef, pork, chicken and some sea food).

I escaped from home since the morning and I went to see Jerry. Jerry doesn't have many friends, he always hang out with me and his relatives. Oops! I should have included his girlfriend :-)We went to ANANA food court for lunch with his relatives. I like the place because there are many kinds of food we can order, and the price is not expensive.

After lunch we hanged in his house until 2:30pm then he abandoned me for his girlfriend :-(

Not a problem, i had my place where i can kill the time. I went to my gym, worked out for two hours then swam. Too bad, it was pretty cold and windy. I didn't swim much. Well... there is a young annoying boy at the gym. He always keep everyone talking and useless. Yesterday he was weird, nasty and annoying. He had been annoying everyone, especially Daniel and I a whole time we were there. I think he's funny but crazy though.

After the gym, Danny and I were in the car leaving the place, then Jerry called and requested me to get in back to the gym (Cambodiana Hotel) because he wanted to see the place for his wedding.

Oh yeah! I should have mentioned earlier that Jerry is getting married soon. I'm so excited and happy for them. I was giving too much information and suggestions about the wedding party, until Daniel reminded me it is not my wedding ha ha

Well... I have friends but I don't have many good friends. Jerry is only a best friend i have, now i'm going to lose him, I'll be lonely :-( Fortunately, i have Daniel is a good friend but he travels so........ anyway i'll travel soon too he he

Ok now it's time to talk about funny and crazy. After giving Jerry and Vy a tour around the wedding place, I told them Daniel and I were going to have dinner at No Problem restaurant. They hesitated to decide whether to come or not. Then i told them they can go wherever they want, don't have to come with us. I wanted to leave them alone too. So I went to dinner with Daniel alone.I told him the restaurant's service was not as good as it's name. There are problems. Yeah it happened. We asked for Diet Coke, they said they didn't have, we asked for Tea they said they ran out. We asked for Sprite they brought us Spy (wine), we asked for EuroTech water they also said no have. They brought us No Problem drinking water and it was R2000 per bottle that is more expensive then EuroTech which is a better product.

Nevertheless, the food tasted awesome, healthy and cheap. I have brought Daniel to a several places that are good and cheap. He said he would bring me to expensive places. I have no idea whether or not i would thank for that haha By then, i should have withdrawed all my money from ATM before going to his place wa ha ha

First Big Presentation

I have done many presentations at school but this morning I had a big presentation for my company. It was my first big time and also important.

A big manufacturer of automatic electrical products in France, came to Cambodia to look for their distributor. We had to introduce them to our company, abilities, capabilities and marketing strategies toward their products. I was in charge for the presentation.

I’m so happy that I did a nice presentation and they like it. Everyone of them praise me, they said I was young but intelligent. One of them asked which school I went to ha ha. They like my presentation, but i hope better they also like our company and strategies so that we can be their distributor.

Unfortunately, the photo was taken by a phone-camera so that the quality of the photo is not satisfied.

From left to right: Muyly financial manager, Vithy managing director, Me was the presenter that morning, Alex senior vice president of South East Asia, Olivier country manager of Schneider Electric Vietnam & Cambodia, Lam sale manager of Vietnam & Cambodia, Sothy accounting manager of Cambodia, he took this photo so he can't be seen in this photo ha ha