The Peter Belisi story

Some of my friends who are also regular visitors to my blog, joked that my blog was turning into a fashion blog. The reason - two posts on Belisi fashions. Belisi is a relatively new name in the world of fashion but it is fast emerging as a fashion brand, and I think bloggers played a little part in that.

In case you are curious about this brand, read Belisi - How it Started in Peter Belisi's blog. He blogs about fashion, celebrities and other stuff.

It is amazing and really motivating to read how a bartender in Palm Beach, struggling to support a wife and newborn baby, started a business to become the global brand that it is today.

Peter started out by investing some extra money in a tie collection. And that was just the start. You can see that he has not forgotten his roots and on the Belisi website, they have an amazing collection of great looking ties. For your information , the website is having a promotion on ties now. About accessories, he has this to say :

I believe accessories are the start, not the finish of the design-inspired look—with the right accessories, even average garments are transformed into winning style

That's something I always believed in.

It was also quite heartening to read that they give a portion of every purchase to a charity of the customer's choice.

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Layout trouble

Learnt that my blog layout runs on Microsoft Internet Explorer. Somehow, my side bars are pushed way down below the main column. This is serious as according to my statistics, 60% of my visitors use that browser.

Found out that a lot of people have this problem, referred to as "Float Drop"

Now trying to fix this problem asap.

For fans of soaps

I am not talking about the stuff that foams when you rub them under a tap, but instead to those ongoing dramas that unfold on the small screen, I mean the TV. They can get so addictive.

I remember my wife rushing home from work during her lunch breaks just to catch a popular Filipino soap drama. My mum is a big fan of the Bold and the Beautiful, one of the longest soaps ever (I may be wrong). It was so confusing. I give you an example, the ex girlfriend of one character (or ex-wife) may become his step mother. to understand the stories, you have to be a loyal follower. Once you get hooked, that's it.

Now for some trivia, did you know how this particular form of entertainment came to be known simply as 'Soaps'? Well, it seems that the name originate from the various sponsors of these dramas who were soap manufacturers. As the target audience were almost exclusively female audience (as they are till today), they came to be known as soaps.

Soaps.com is a relatively young site (only 5-6 months old) but is becoming very popular. They carry the latest news, daily updates and list of shows, Readers can register and discuss their favourite shows in the message boards.

So far they list only the soaps from the three major TV channels in the US, namely, ABC, CBS and NBC. I am not sure about other people but I would definitely like to see more pictures.

So if you missed an episode or wanted to get some spoliers, log on to the site.

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Cheap flights to UK

We were really excited when it was announced that Malaysia'sAirAsia would be starting low cost flights to the UK and that we would be able to fly back to Malaysia for as low as £60 return. Of course, this would be a "no-frills flight" without inflight entertainment and you would have to book food and drink at an extra cost.

Tony the Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia was expected to make an announcement soon and Britian's EasyJet and Virgin Group were rumoured to be potential partners.

Sadly this announcement never came and later both UK airlines denied reports that they were going to join forces with AirAsia.

Well it sounded too good to be true.

Crazy about the Nissan Skyline GTR

Do you have a Nissan Skyline GTR or dream of one day driving this awesome, iconic Japanese sports car? Well if you do, go and sign up at the Nissan Skyline Forums.

In case you didn't know, the Nissan Skyline GTR was called the "Godzilla" by reputed Australian car magazine "Wheels" when it was released down under in 1989.

This car ceased production in 2002 but is still sought after. One of the reason is because the Skyline GT-R's robust engine makes it very popular for modifications. If you are a Manga or anime fan, see if you can recognise the car in "Initial D", "Wangan Midnight" and "Over Rev!". If you know all of this and want to share your own knowledge about this car, head on down to the forum. It is still new but I can see that they have a lot of stuff including photo galleries coming up.

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Overqualified

I have been trying my level best to secure a job here but without any success. Thought that I would have better luck after getting my NI but that didn't happen... yet.

Was really excited yesterday because I received a job offer by e-mail yesterday. It was not great but anything is welcome. However, after sending them my CV, the guy told me that I was not suitable for the job. The reason - I am over qualified.

Have been given that same reason by a few other organisations I applied to. Hello! Well I can remove the qualifications from my CV if that's what you want. It's nice to know that I am overqualified but Hell! I need any job.... Now!

I am seriously considering removing my education and job experience details or at least tone them down a bit.

Something turned up today and keeping my fingers crossed. Will write about it if everything goes alright.

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Amazing marketing speaker

Found it hard to believe it when I first read about this marketing speaker, who convinced Halfway, Oregon to rename itself to Half.com, Oregon and resulted in the number of registered users jumping from zero to 8 million in less than three years.

But it's true. The guy responsible for this was Mark Hughes's, then VP of Marketing for eBay's Half.com.

Mr. Hughes holds an MBA from the Columbia Business School in Marketing & International Business. He is a contributing columnist for the magazine of international advertising, Admap. His is also author of the acclaimed business book, "Buzzmarketing", which has been named as one of "The Ten Best Business Reads of 2005" and one of "the Best Business Books of the Year".

So if you or your company is looking for a marketing speaker, Hughes is the guy.

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