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hiya folks ! through out ur troubles behind , maybe ur in poverty , maybe flat broke, fell depressed ? Nothing ! , Christ will bring it off and easy the pain. New year will bring prosperities and sth exciting to u soon...Now let''s sing : mery christmas and happy new year as the song above. There r some mistakes but never mind !
ps: I am really Sorry for my deleting Nhung''s thread . That''s just an accident, but I often get it...Sorry alot !

Hi,
I''m living in NTU campus near Jurong Pt. It takes me up to 1 hr to reach Ochard Road.
Well,2 recent days,there was a lot a lot of people walking around Ochard Road.My frens n I also joined in that atmosphere,Its quite great,esp. when we started the CountDown.Xmas is over now.However a new year is coming.
Merry Xmas n Happy new Year...Go out n hang around w ur family n frens.......
All the best to all of u............My countrymate...Hihi............

Oh!
I don''t know you. Therefore I want to receive some information about yourself.
Recently, I have not enough free time to post and looking for this topic. I hope: Everybody continuous post information in this topic by some short conversations, anywhere, anything..........
How to say?????:
You can improve your English skill by any ways.
Best wish for everybody.
Thanks so much!

Dear Hanh:
The following story is a very good one. I would like to share it to you.
The orphan who built an empire from scratch
By John Burton in Singapore
Published: November 22 2005 18:32 | Last updated: November 22 2005 18:32
Olivia Lum remembers the shocked reaction of her supervisor when she told him in the late 1980s that she wanted to quit her job as a chemist at Glaxo, as the company was then known, to start her own business. Giving up a cosy well-paid post at a big multinational was just not done in Singapore.
She sold her car and small flat and invested the money in a water treatment start-up, Hyflux. Fifteen years later, Hyflux is the biggest company of its kind in south-east Asia and Ms Lum, 45, was recently named as the region?Ts richest businesswoman by Forbes magazine.
Ms Lum has become a model of entrepreneurial spirit in the small city-state, whose economy is dominated by foreign multinationals and state-owned companies. She represents a throwback to Singaporê?Ts laisser faire economy under British colonial rule, when the port city was known for ?orags-to-riches? stories among its Chinese immigrant population.
Critics say Singapore has lost its entrepreneurial drive because its authoritarian government has created a highly conformist society that discourages risk-taking. But Ms Lum believes the problem is an unintended consequence of the decision to attract multinational companies since the late 1960s.
?oThe MNCs crowded out entrepreneurs. Everybody wanted to join the MNCs because the pay was good and they offered lots of perks. Singaporeans became very spoiled. If you are not hungry enough, why resign from a company that ­provides a comfortable lifestyle??
The presence of MNCs had a knock-on effect on state companies that also provide many jobs. ?oThe government-linked companies have had to compete with the MNCs in terms of salary if they want to attract talent in a tight labour market.?
Singaporê?Ts population of 4.4m also means a small domestic market that is unlikely to provide riches for entrepreneurs unless they expand abroad, which few appear willing to do.
What sets Ms Lum apart is a background of hardship. Abandoned at birth, she was raised along with several other orphans in a tin-roofed hut by a poor elderly widow in Malaysiâ?Ts Perak state.
Her teachers encouraged her to go to Singapore for a high school education in the hope that she could attend university there. After graduating with a chemistry degree from the National University of Singapore, she joined Glaxo and became interested in water treatment through her involvement in helping to develop a system for the company?Ts plant in Singapore.
?oI saw this as a sunrise industry because many companies would need such systems? as governments sought stricter pollution controls, Ms Lum says. Leaving Glaxo at age 29, she set up Hyflux in 1989 to distribute water-treatment equipment to local companies. She used her chemistry background to develop new technologies by using membranes to clean waste water and still heads Hyflux?Ts research and development department.
?oI had nothing, no money and no connections. It?Ts tough to get credibility as a small company. But I wanted to make a successful business and that?Ts what motivates people,? she says. Having sold her car, she rode a scooter to go cold-calling on potential customers and won orders for small industrial projects.
She was also not afraid to expand overseas. In the early 1990s she went to China and worked on developing guanxi (connections) with local officials that led to contracts. China now accounts for more than half of Hyflux?Ts sales and earnings. She believes early entry into China gave them first-mover advantage over international rivals such as General Electric and Suez.
?oWe are a company that focuses on filtration technology, while water treatment is just one part of bigger conglomerates like GE. We are small enough to be nimble and flexible and since we are in Asia, we understand Asian culture,? she says.
Hyflux has also been able to exploit its work on big projects in Singapore to gain similar projects in China. The founding of Hyflux coincided with growing concerns in Singapore about dependence on water supplies from Malaysia, relations with which are strained at times.
The government launched a programme to achieve water self-sufficiency, which has helped to establish Hyflux?Ts reputation as a global competitor. Hyflux was involved in a water-recycling project, known as Newater, and recently finished building Asiâ?Ts biggest desalination plant on Singaporê?Ts west coast. ?oThese are track-record projects and we can call ourselves a leader in this field,? says Ms Lum.
Hyflux has formed a partnership in managing the Singapore desalination plant with Temasek Holdings, the state investment company that is a big investor in Asian businesses. ?oTemasek has added credibility to our business. With the Temasek name, when you go out of Singapore, people regard you as a serious company.?
Hyflux is now building two desalination plants in north-east China and was recently awarded a waste-water treatment contract for the Chinese city of Harbin. The projects represent a broadening of Hyflux?Ts activities in China from small industrial ones to big municipal projects.
The company has established a foothold in the Middle East with two desalination plant contracts in Dubai. But Ms Lum believes that India will become as important as China for Hyflux?Ts expansion, al-though she says India is more bureaucratic than China. ?oIt?Ts a long process to get approvals from every level.? Hyflux will focus on industrial projects in India rather than municipal ones.
The biggest challenge for Hyflux, which employs 600 workers in Singapore and China, is that its size, with pre-tax profits of S$29.5m (US$17m) on sales of S$88.7m last year, means limited resources for R&D and capital-intensive build-own-operate/transfer projects.
Ms Lum says Hyflux is studying alternative financing methods, such as creating ?obusiness trusts?, similar to real-estate investment trusts, for its water projects involving the securitisation of assets. It also wants to sell stakes in projects to strategic partners, including construction companies to share building costs, as part of an ?oasset-light? strategy.
Ms Lum?Ts most successful financial move was the ­listing of Hyflux in 2001. With the shares ?" of which she still owns one-third ?" trading at close to 40 times earnings, she is a wealthy woman. The buoyant share price reflects expectations that the water sector is becoming a high-growth industry since supplies are scarce in developing ­countries.
?oI want Hyflux to be a brand like Singapore Airlines,? says Ms Lum, who acknowledges that the compelling story of her rise from being a penniless orphan has contributed to the regional media and investor attention that Hyflux has received.
?oI suppose Hyflux?Ts growth from being a small company inevitably causes people to link the company with the founder. If you read the life story of the person then you will want to read more about the company. People get captured by personality. I don?Tt think personality helps the share price, but it does make the company bigger on the radar screen,? she says.
She believes Hyflux?Ts biggest contribution will be to break down cultural barriers towards entrepreneurship in Singapore.
?oWhen I started the business, people would say that I did it because perhaps I didn?Tt do well in school or nobody wanted to hire me. The whole culture discouraged entrepreneurship. But attitudes are changing. The cultural barriers are disappearing and the government knows they must promote entrepreneurs because Singapore can no longer rely on MNCs and government-linked companies.?
SINGAPORE TREATED TO A DOSE OF ENTERPRISE
- Entrepreneurship: Olivia Lum?Ts rags-to-riches story has made her a model of entrepreneurial spirit in the city-state of Singapore, which is not normally known for fostering entrepreneurs.
- Spotting an opportunity: Ms Lum founded Hyflux in the late 1980s when she realised that water treatment had potential for huge expansion.
- Product development: Hyflux started by distributing equipment, but Ms Lum, a chemistry graduate, developed new technologies to clean waste water.
- Overseas growth: Hyflux sought overseas expansion at an early stage, initially by developing connections with local officials in China, which gained it valuable first-mover advantage. Hyflux also has footholds in the Middle East and India.
- Funding: Ms Lum says Hyflux is studying alternative financing methods such as creating ?obusiness trusts? or selling stakes in projects to strategic partners, as part of an ?oasset-light? strategy. Her most successful financial move has been the listing of Hyflux in 2001.

Thanks Madam!
I will spend the free time to study more!

I want to share this story for everyone!
Real Estate Investing - Just Get in the Game
Have you done your first Real Estate Investing deal yet?
If yes, have you done any creative type deal like I have been discussing throughout the course?
A lot of people are accidental landlords. They had to move or decided to buy a nicer home and could not sell the old home or just decided to keep it as a rental. I have known people that bought another house each year and moved into it and rented out the old house and after 6 years had 5 rentals plus their own home. While this can be a great long term wealth building strategy if you start young(and have no family) and have 15 year mortgages it would mean retirement for most people in a short time. But how many people could stand to keep moving every year? These people also tend to be the people that the best deals can be bought from. They usually get burnt out and sell cheap. If you ask them they will tell you they are real estate investors(which they are), but maybe not in the same sense of where you want to be.
If NO, you have not done a Real Estate Investing deal yet, then WHY NOT?
We have been discussing creative real estate for 6 weeks now, have you taken action on any of the assignments I have laid out? What is holding you back. I am sure you have heard of analysis paralysis where you evaluate and evaluate deals but never take action. I can assure you one thing, you will never make a dime in real estate or any other endeavor if you do not TAKE ACTION. No person makes money in starting a business(online or offline), doing sales, or any other endeavor until they TAKE ACTION. Have you ever heard the expression that just taking the first step gets you half way there? Its true. I urge you, I plead with you, get out and talk to sellers, put together a deal, as good as you can find, ask another investor their opinion of the deal(they are not going to steal it). All successful real estate investors I know realize they are truly blessed and that they owe a debt to all new real estate investors to help them along the way the same way someone helped them. At worst offer other investors the lead in exchange for a bird dog fee when they buy it.
I assure you that once you get in the game you will gain confidence and deals will just start appearing(they were already there, but you could not see them) out of thin air. There are motivated sellers everywhere, you just need to learn where they are hiding, they want you to find them, you have a duty to your family and to the motivated seller to find them and to help them and secure your financial future in the process.
ASSIGNMENT: Work on your action plan. What can you do today or tomorrow to make steps towards your next real estate goal?
To Your Success,
David Neese
Memphis Trading LLC

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn''t need.
GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him
little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to
understand her at all.
MEMORY
Any married man should forget his mistakes, there''s no use in two people
remembering the same thing.
APPEARANCE
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn''t.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won''t change, and she does.
DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Hi
I born in Bac Ninh but have been working in Hai Duong for couple years. As I known this is very good place for working and living however I found that very few Hai Duong''s people know and like English. I am sorry to say about that because of my limitation.
Any way, I like the idea of opening this forum for further E study.

It''s common with all provinces count out cityzen of travel .

AS my habbit is technical military and history-culture , thus i want to give you all some special vocabularys that i collected from other sites :
Bao Dam = Secured or Warranted (*********)
Bao Ve = Military Security (Dept. of PAVN General Political Directorate)
Bao Ve Bien Cuong = Frontier Guards
Binh Nhi = Private
Binh Nhat = Private First Class
Bo Doi = Army / Service Men
Bo Doi Bien-Phong = Border Defense Force
Bo Doi Xe Tang = Tank Driver
Bo Quoc Phong = Ministry of National Defence
Bo Thuong Binh va Xa Hoi = Ministry of War Invalids (& Social Welfare)
Bo Tong Tham-Muu = People''''s Army of Viet-Nam (PAVN) General Staff
Bo Tu-Lenh Quan-Khu = Military Region
Can Bo = Cadre / Officer
Can Bo Nam Vung = Undercover Agent
Chien Si = Soldier; Combatant
Chien-Truong Mien Bac = Northern Theater
Chuan Uy = Third Lieutenant, Aspirant
Cuc Lien-Lac Doi-Ngoai Bo Quoc-Phong = Minister Defense External Relations Dept.
Dai Ta = Senior Colonel (Considered to be of General Rank)
Dai Tuong = Senior General (Highest Rank - 4 Stars)
Dai Uy = Captain
Dai Uy Xe Tang = Captain, Armour
Dia Phuong = Local / Region
Dia Phuong Quan = Provincial / Regional Forces
Di Xem = Examined
Doan Thanh-Nien Xung-Phong = Youth "Rush to the Front" Organization
Don Vi Dan Quan Tu-Ve Huyen = District Militia
Ha Si = Corporal
Ho Dong Quoc Phong = National Defense Council
Hom Thu (HT) = Military Mail Box Number (unit)
Hop Thu = Mail Box Number (individual)
Khoi Nghia = General Uprising
Kiem Duyet = Censored or Examined
Kin (K handstamp) = Secret/Confidential Mail
Linh Chien Xa = Tankman
Linh Thuy Danh Bo = Marines
Luc Luong = Force
Luc Luong Nhan Dan Tu Ve = Village Forces
Nam Vung Thoi-Co = "To Sieze the Opportunity"
Quan = Army / Force
Quan Dan Nhat Tri = Unity of Mind - People and Army
Quan Doi Dang Lanh-Dao = Party-led Army
Quan Doi Giai Phong = National Liberation Front (NLF) Army
Quan-Doi Nhan-Dan = People''''s Army of Viet-Nam (PAVN)
Quan Giai Phong = Army of Liberation
Quan Khu = Military Region
Quan Phuc Vien = Demobilized Soldier
Quan-Uy Truong-Uong Dang = Central Military Party Committee
Rung Sat (R) e.g. "HT 9R" = Jungle
San Bat Cuop = Ban*** Hunters (Anti-Draft Dodger Unit)
Tan Binh = Recruit
Tem Binh Si = Postage Free
Tem Noi Bo = Internal Usage
Thieu Ta = Major
Thieu Tuong = Major General (1 Star)
Thieu Uy = Second Lieutenant
Thu Chien = Liberation Fighter
Thu Gui Nao Nam = "Somewhere in the South"
Thuong Ta = Rank Between Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel
Thuong Tuong = Colonel General (Rank Between Lieutenant General and Senior General - 3 Stars)
Thuong Uy = Rank Between First Lieutenant and Captain
Toa An Quan Su = Military Court
Toa An Qua Su Dac Biet = Special Military Tribunal
To-Dang = Party Cell
Tong Cuc Hau Can = Rear Services Directorate
To-Truong = Party Cell Leader
Trai Giao Hoa = Re-Education Center
Trung Si = Sergeant
Trung Ta = Lieutentant Colonel
Trung Tuong = Lieutenant General (2 Stars)
Trung Uy = First Lieutenant
Tu-Lenh = Militry Commander