Month: September 2008

Month: September 2008
Business

Currency of Bartering

Was watching the news and they had this interesting segment about a restaurant in the UK where people bring items in an attempt to trade it for goods in the restaurant such as a cup of beer or an order of a meal. It looked like people were bringing everything including things like an actual

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Business

Ethnicity Targeted Deals

Wasn’t this interesting. I was glancing at this advertisement for a promotion as some people were questioning how a company could offer a promotion that targeted people of a specific ethnic background. Essentially, the advertisement had some kind of Hindi term which apparently was expressing something exciting. I was reading the fine print for the

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Business

Regular Phone Calls Costing More Than Long Distance

For the current billing I received for my cell phone bill, during the past 30 days I have been extremely busy with calls happening everywhere I go. According to my bill, I used about 1205 minutes which is insane compared to my normal usage. As a result, I went a little over my plan usage

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Making Money

Making Money While Learning And Growing

I was talking to a lady today who moved to Vancouver not too long ago as a result of her husband having to relocate for career purposes. Because of that, she wasn’t too familiar with the area. The interesting thing was instead of just taking free time and exploring the area or say paying someone

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Home Insurance And Security

Today when I got back home after attending a dinner at a restaurant there was this lady who was sitting at the front of my neighbor’s house crying. Apparently she just moved in and was robbed as the assumption is her roommate didn’t lock the door. I must say, it was kind of suspicious though

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Business

Competing Against Free

I was reading about all these comments the other day where I suppose people who did not have the budget to hire contract workers for some kind of creative work was looking for students or people new to the field who would be willing to do the work for free mainly as a way to

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