Getting Excited + Nervous – USA Trip Next Week

Posted on : 08-09-2010 | By : mike | In : travel, usa

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Getting Excited + Nervous - USA Trip Next Week

Man, its almost here……1 more week (next Wednesday) and I’ll be back inside US borders. Wonder what the US customs official is gonna see when he sees my last date of entry was June 2008!
A little nervous, its been so long. to see friends, family, customers, potential customers, online friends I have [...]

The New Internet – Being A HUMAN BEING

Posted on : 07-09-2010 | By : mike | In : business

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The New Internet - Being A HUMAN BEING

Kinda been on a rampage tonight…..I want my beating heart out there online! I think more of us have to open up and be HUMAN BEINGS on the internet, not robots (like this Terminator in the post)
I’m kinda tired about hearing / seeing:
On twitter people with 10,000 followers and they are only following [...]

Teaching American Culture, Makes Me Think

Posted on : 01-09-2010 | By : mike | In : philippines business, usa

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Teaching American Culture, Makes Me Think

Just landed in Manila today, unpacked, and am now working USA schedule, from 10am to 7pm. Have 3 new workers to train, and have prepared more powerpoint training seminars (feel like a powerpoint machine lately…training, ebooks, etc).  We went over ecommerce in USA, Shadstone company introduction, and my favorite one so far
Understanding American Culture: [...]

I Haven’t Changed Much Since University

Posted on : 30-08-2010 | By : mike | In : family friends

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I Haven't Changed Much Since University

Wrapped things up with my old friend hasan, he is heading up to beijing tomorrow from hong kong, and i returned back to shenzhen. Its been at least 4 or 5 years since i had seen him, we had gone to Stevens Tech together, were in the same fraternity (Delta Tau Delta) and then [...]

Buy, Sell, Wheel, Deal, Hustle. Becoming a new-age social media salesman

Posted on : 26-08-2010 | By : mike | In : business, motivation

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Buy, Sell, Wheel, Deal, Hustle.  Becoming a new-age social media salesman

I have always loved the hustle.  That’s what attracted me to Wall Street, to New York.  To China. to wholesale markets.  Life is going faster then ever….I’m running between 4 or 5 countries in a couple months.  Have alliances, offices throughout China (shanghai, fujian, shenzhen), Philippines, USA.  I’m getting phone calls from India, speaking bad [...]

Maybe Do Social Media From Phuket, Thailand?

Posted on : 25-08-2010 | By : mike | In : motivation, travel

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Maybe Do Social Media From Phuket, Thailand?

Paul Chong from a wufantuan startup met up with me tonight and mentioned this social media posting in Phuket, Thailand!
People have been noticing when I stop twittering! Awesome, social media is all about being a LIVE PERSON. A living, breathing human being. Not some RSS feed machine. And even if a [...]

How I Keep Up With Blogging

Posted on : 15-08-2010 | By : mike | In : travel

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How I Keep Up With Blogging

I have always enjoyed reflecting and recording what I do.  As I have said before, since high school I have kept a journal, and putting things down on “paper” (physical, or virtual – but I actually do prefer writing something down on a piece of paper, as it feels like I have physically created something) [...]

Does Our Name, our Email, our password make us who we are?

Posted on : 01-08-2010 | By : mike | In : motivation

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Does Our Name, our Email, our password make us who we are?

What shapes us as individuals?  Sure, I’ve read books that we are products of our environment but its what we do each and every day OURSELVES that creates who we are  too. 
In today’s digital world, one thing most of us do each day is LOGIN online, to our computers, our emails, etc.
These are things [...]

Time to Add A Bit “Commercial” to my blog

Posted on : 31-07-2010 | By : mike | In : business

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Time to Add A Bit

I’ve always hesitated to do too much self promotion on my personal blog….but recently after so many people seem to be confused on what I do for a living, and the recent EXPLOSION of “personal branding” and the convergence of personal lives and professional lives, I decided to add some small banner ads on the [...]

When Online Friends Die or Dissappear

Posted on : 13-07-2010 | By : mike | In : family friends

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When Online Friends Die or Dissappear

I was spending some time yesterday with Raine Liu, who is starting up her own trading company of electronics accessories and as she was helping me move some things in from 1 office to another office (awesome, she has a car!) + changing my internet and shipping some products to USA -  she mentioned [...]

Take This Quiz on Life….

Posted on : 30-06-2010 | By : mike | In : motivation

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Take This Quiz on Life....

Back in university, Richard Widdicombe my fraternity advisor gave me this poem and I have kept it near me a lot to keep remembering, its about the PEOPLE around us, in our real life, not on TV or the movies. Read below

A Quiz on Life
Take this quiz:
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the [...]

There Is No Happiness Without Action

Posted on : 29-06-2010 | By : mike | In : motivation

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There Is No Happiness Without Action

Caught this tweet (message over twitter for those who don’t know) while on the bus from Shantou to Shenzhen
@rochorbeancurd – Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action

This is why i love twitter…throughout my day im getting pumped with tons of ideas, visions, motivations. Meeting new people, sharing ideas, supporting [...]

Do You REALLY Want to Know Your Future?

Posted on : 28-06-2010 | By : mike | In : travel

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Do You REALLY Want to Know Your Future?

If we could know our future, our DESTINY, would we want to know? I had an interesting talk with Christal Chai at Star Prototype China last week, and meant to follow up with a post to my blog. We thought that, hey, if we could find out our destiny, what we would end [...]

Getting Through Tough Times – Think Long Term

Posted on : 26-06-2010 | By : mike | In : motivation

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Getting Through Tough Times - Think Long Term

I recently had a QQ chat with a shenzhen friend of mine, I won’t disclose who she was as I am sure she would be upset if I did.  But she was really depressed, her boyfriend and her had broken up and she also got declined for a job she had just interviewed with.  She [...]

If a Tree Fell + No One Was There to Hear It Fall….

Posted on : 26-06-2010 | By : mike | In : family friends

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If a Tree Fell + No One Was There to Hear It Fall....

….did it make a noise?
That is a common saying I’ve heard throughout my life.  And we think about it.
I have been away from my blog a few days, actually its not because of my stomach issue earlier this week, but I’ve been on-site at a factory in Zhongshan city for 3 days now, at a [...]