Anyway, there are many things going on right now. Things are not right at home. I don't feel right at home. To be honest, emotionally I don't feel like going home for tonight. I don't want to write more about that here.
Logue called me last night and requested a meeting with three of us. We need to discuss on our business venture in terms of capital expenses, equity shares and investor's position in the company. He manages to find a few investors who are interested on this idea. Now I'm a bit shocked knowing that I have not done anything substantial yet. My business plan has not reached its first page yet. I don't have anyone to blame except for myself because I was shocked and awed by the tender documents - The tender requirements require so much and I'm afraid if this new company can compete with the current competitor.
Frankly I have no experience in writing the business plan. I called up a friend in UiTM to see if he has some Finance students who know how to write this damn thing. Maybe the three of us can share the money and pay this student to write a solid business plan for us with us pouring the input to the document.
Do I feel excited about this? Of course I am and at the same time I feel scared like shit because I am truly unprepared.
Anyway, push this aside. I am writing a investment proposal for one society. I intend to use my connection to get in touch with its president and see if I can get audience with the president of this NGO. I know from a reliable source that this society has RM 12 million deposited into its account by the government. Therefore I'd like to propose an investment worth Rm 10 million to this society and hopefully I can manage to close a sweet deal out of this. The way I see it, it's really a win-win situation. They get above than average return as compare to their savings in FD and I get my commission.
My plan with the commission is to dump it into my new company. Hurmm...let's put the dateline for the company. The way I see, I can only have this company up and running by early January 2009. Whatever it is, I like to have closed the investment proposal by my birthday this year. On another note, my investment proposal of RM 2 million with one 'koperasi' is still pending. They have not brought it into the directors' meeting. I hope they are still interested with that proposal.
I can only be 28 once in my life. I may as well make full use of my young age and see where the destiny steers me.
I met GM from PETRONAS MITCO today. He is a nice gentleman, I must say. I discussed with him on the prospect of investing with Public Mutual and he is very much interested about that idea. From the way he was talking to me, it seemed to me that he would probably invest his EPF and his personal cash as well. Literally we didn't talk so much on the funds or the market but we talked more about golf. Yes, golf! Since he is a veteran player of golf and I'm still new at this game, there is so much things to learn and so much things to share. I sincerely feel that I enjoy the conversation we have and I hope both of us can be friends even he decides not to invest via me.
Before I left his office, he asked me a question. "Why PETRONAS didn't want to hire you?"
My answer is simple.
"To be honest with you sir, I'm not a bright student back in college. I don't blame PETRONAS because I know I screwed up in the interview. But I do enjoy doing what I'm doing right now".
His reply?
"It's alright. I graduated in Chemical Engineering before from U of Tennessee in 1979. I know it was tough to graduate from Ch Eng. Many of my American friends flunked in their exams. The fact that you graduated, means you pretty much can do anything because Chemical Engineering is the toughest engineering of all."
I left his office with a smile on my face. Thank you, sir!
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