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How to successfully get a refund from Lenovo
If you’ve read my blog post about my experience of contacting Lenovo to receive the refund money of two products I’d returned in July 2020, you’d already know what a nightmare it was (beyond frustrating and time-consuming). I had contacted … Continue reading
Happy 5th Birthday to my Blog!
It’s not every day that you get to wish your blog a fifth birthday. 😀 I still remember when I had come back from my Asia trip in 2013 and instantly wanted to start a blog to chronicle my travel … Continue reading
Toastmasters, my second session
Yesterday, I had my second session of Toastmasters (Youth Leadership Program version) and I was able to do my first speech! Before the one hour-ish session, I prepped at home by writing out what I was going to say through … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, New Experiences
Tagged first speech, Toastmasters experience, Toronto, Youth Leadership Program
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First Time Attending a Toastmasters Session!
This past Saturday, I attended my first Toastmasters session! Toastmasters is all about public speaking and speaking on the fly! I had heard about Toastmasters a couple of years ago and had already been intrigued but didn’t take the plunge
Posted in Learning, New Experiences
Tagged new experiences, public speaking, Toastmasters, Toastmasters first time, Toronto
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First Time at Paintlounge Markham!
This was my first time painting at Paintlounge and in particular, their Markham studio! We had wanted to take a painting workshop and I bought this Groupon a couple of months ago. The Paintlounge website shows a selection of ‘easy’, … Continue reading
My Network Marketing Journey
Written in July 2016: I’ve been thinking and brainstorming about how to go about writing this. This is a very personal post and reflects my own experience and perspective of what I went through in the last two and a half … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life
Tagged blind sheep mentality, deceptive practices, direct selling, disclaimer, experiences of being a distributor, experiences of being a distributor in a network marketing company, false promises, first hand experience of being in a MLM, GenYTO, genyto team, good and bad parts about network marketing, life after MLM, MLM failure rate, MLM success rate, mu30, network marketing experiences, network marketing failures, opinion piece, people will forget what you said people will never forget how you made them feel, Pro and cons of network marketing, product brokerage, Toronto 6 initiative team, Toronto genyto network marketing team, Toronto MLM schemes, Toronto network marketing, Toronto team, what is shop.com Toronto direct selling team
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What is a Food Blogger?
“FAME is FAKE and it FADEs and if you don’t know that, then you’re F_ _Ked”. Lol, sorry to use abrasive language, but that’s the quote I heard long ago that cemented to me what “fame” really is. It’s stuck with me all … Continue reading
Posted in Learning
Tagged blogging about food, commercialism of food instagraming, food instagramers, food instagramers versus food bloggers, getting free food by posting pictures on instagram, how the food scene is changing, instagram fame is fake, oversaturation of food instagramers, people who instagram food, posting about food because you want to be invited for free food, selling out, Toronto food blogger, Toronto food trends, traditional food bloggers
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Thoughts you have when you wake up from a herd mentality
It’s only after waking up when you realize how stupid these quotes sound when you share it for the sake of being an “entrepreneur”. In my opinion, a real “entrepreneur” doesn’t actually call him or herself an entrepreneur. Someone who … Continue reading
Social Conformity (without realizing it)
Watch this video: Yikes. This was what I conformed to doing in the past 2.5 years and I didn’t even realize it until lately. I’m waking up. I really am.
Posted in Learning, Life
Tagged Asch conformity experiments, brainwashing, cult thinking, following others without thinking, herd mentality, It's human nature to follow others without thinking, network marketing social conformity, not wanting to feel left out, Social conformity, social psychology
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Reducing Food Waste with Everflux Technologies (Start Up Competition)
Not many people know this about me but I am a huge advocate of food saving and eliminating food waste as much as possible. What this means is that when I go out to a restaurant, when there are leftovers, … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Learning
Tagged "airless composter", composter, Everflux Technologies, fully automated, organic fertilizer, reducing food waste, reducing food waste in restaurants, Start Up Competition, taking containers out with you to bring home food, technologies to reduce food waste, turning food waste into renewable energy, user-friendly, wasting food
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