Took sooo long to update the blog...

Hi girls & boys, Uncle Dan (as I'm fondly called) is back after a year's hiatus from blogging. What happened you may ask? Well.. how should I put it?.... Life happened to me.

The year 2009 wasn't a pretty one financially. It's all because I took it for granted that the business "relationship" I had with a certain low level "no back-bone" executive from a certain company I was "servicing" had my financial interest at heart. Actually how foolish was I ( a matured adult, father of 4 lovely kids) to think that way. Boy, the chap was running all over the place acting more like one of my staff then a client! Little did I know, he had other plans. Heck, he even turned some of my part-time crew behind my back.

But I tell you that GOD is great! He put a challenge in front of me during the economic recession and when the going was kinda bad, I told my wife that all we had to do was to hold on and if we make it through the crisis, we're coming out stronger than ever before... and how right I was!

Something happened by the grace of Allah s.w.t. that completely changed my life. I was blessed with meeting a cameraman from JB while emceeing for Dumex at a local mall there. He was an Polymer Engineer moonlighting as a Cameraman. He made good money from taking up a hobby. He spoke to me on something called the laws of Meta-Physics and the secrets of our Birthdates. He had shown me briefly how it works and I googled it, found some sites, even went to the extend of purchasing a software for it and applied it. And it worked like magic! I applied it in my daily life and in business.

Lo & behold... my fortunes turned. I single handedly (with HIS help of course...) picked up events after events. And we're not talking Karaoke nite type! Crowd capacity was in the thousands... Even I couldn't believe it. I then started to give back a bit by bit. Started with the wife of a friend of my brother in-law. She is an Indonesian, married to a good for nothing chap who hid the fact that he was already married with kids. He used to go missing for days on end saying that he went out looking for work but what he really did was hang around his 1st wife's house. Imagine this, he wasn't even working!! He took "spending" money from his main branch to pass to his 2nd branch... What a bum!

Anyway, the story was she delivered a newborn and the bum could barely afford to take the baby out of the hospital. After that, again he went missing but not before dumping the baby & his wife at my struggling brother in-law's apartment. My wife & I decided to sponsor the lil' baby's Kenduri Selamat at the local surau. Beat this... the minute the prayers were over and I took just one step out of the surau, my handphone rang. Business just like that!

It was calls after calls from then onwards. I pushed aside most of the smaller ones (being a sole proprietor sucks) as I couldn't take on more than I could handle.

Then came the ball cruncher... My best buddy who is also a my business partner in our Marketing business called me & said we needed to talk. It was a really HUGE event. Nothing I ever handled personally... usually it is picked up by a 3rd party events firm with the "connections" but hired people like us to execute. This time we were the main CON-tractors! Woohoo... The profit margin from this has set us up and we're planning our future by investing it and getting other bigger fishes in the corporate events industry.

The moral of the story for today... Believe in God. Believe in yourself. Give 1st, then you shall receive...