Thousand Leaves 2.0 http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves Those moments of leaves drop. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Goma Seiro http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/03/14/goma-seiro-2/ http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/03/14/goma-seiro-2/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:43:35 +0000 Ken Loo http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/03/14/goma-seiro-2/

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]]> http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/03/12/goma-seiro/feed/ 0 賀茂鶴双鶴、白牡丹広島八反吟醸酒 http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/03/06/%e8%b3%80%e8%8c%82%e9%b6%b4%e5%8f%8c%e9%b6%b4%e3%80%81%e7%99%bd%e7%89%a1%e4%b8%b9%e5%ba%83%e5%b3%b6%e5%85%ab%e5%8f%8d%e5%90%9f%e9%86%b8%e9%85%92/ http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/03/06/%e8%b3%80%e8%8c%82%e9%b6%b4%e5%8f%8c%e9%b6%b4%e3%80%81%e7%99%bd%e7%89%a1%e4%b8%b9%e5%ba%83%e5%b3%b6%e5%85%ab%e5%8f%8d%e5%90%9f%e9%86%b8%e9%85%92/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:49:53 +0000 Ken Loo http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/03/06/%e8%b3%80%e8%8c%82%e9%b6%b4%e5%8f%8c%e9%b6%b4%e3%80%81%e7%99%bd%e7%89%a1%e4%b8%b9%e5%ba%83%e5%b3%b6%e5%85%ab%e5%8f%8d%e5%90%9f%e9%86%b8%e9%85%92/
ゆっくり堪能させて頂きます！

賀茂鶴双鶴、白牡丹広島八反吟醸酒

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Photo was taken a couple of weeks back, we were at the Miraikan, http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/ .

Took part at VR Theater, traveled from the space and back to earth, near Miraikan, and Erin drove us all banging all the walls of the buildings around. Kids had fun figuring out the earth.

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]]> http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/02/15/untitled/feed/ 0 How AWeber Talk to Her Customers with Marketing Communications http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/02/09/how-aweber-talk-to-her-customers-with-marketing-communications/ http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/02/09/how-aweber-talk-to-her-customers-with-marketing-communications/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:03:19 +0000 Ken Loo http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/02/09/how-aweber-talk-to-her-customers-with-marketing-communications/
Despite no posts here and yet I find many followers adding to the list. Thank you. If you are interested in following me, twitter might be better, but lots of Japanese and English mix tweets, if you don’t mind.

I have been doing lots of marketing study, marketing review, email marketing, how much people react to autoresponder, and what kind of email marketing communications people are expecting, and apply it to my own strategy approach. All the hard work does bring good results; one company would like to partner with me to expand their business in Tokyo area. You just have to keep on working hard.

I just tried to registered with AWeber, the autoresponding email service provider. Despite they concentrate so much online, I got a welcoming letter. Constant contact reminds people that they are remembered in a much more delegate way. That’s one very good marketing! Communications are what we strive to reach our targeted customers/clients. It does push me to push my marketing plan to move forward. I like this company.

]]> http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/02/09/how-aweber-talk-to-her-customers-with-marketing-communications/feed/ 0 Review: My To-Do List of 2009 http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/01/03/review-my-to-do-list-of-2009/ http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/01/03/review-my-to-do-list-of-2009/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:13:14 +0000 Ken Loo http://kenloo.com/blog/leaves/2010/01/03/review-my-to-do-list-of-2009/
I should have done this end of last year, but anyway. I am not a good planner. But, a look back, it shows how much things you “see” through this little to-do list. I am so looking forward to doing this yearly. OK, will add that onto the list: Do a review end of the year
Travel
  • Make a trip to overseas with my family; either California where my niece lives, or New York/Washington to see When Harry Met Sally, or The Catcher in the Rye, or Woody Allen Made it to California of San Francisco and Sacramento last August!
  • I would love to make more travel back to Malaysia and Singapore. I want to have more time with the local, to find out more business chances that I can do besides my main job. I can’t imagine having business with other regions if I can’t start anything from where I know of. Made it to Malaysia twice, and Hong Kong once. Wow!
  • I don’t think I can make this, it would be great if I can attend FileMaker Developer Conference. I am not a developer, just for your information. I made it to my first FileMaker DevCon!
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Personal Projects

 

  1. Writing (projects): Try to start write my book that I wanted so desperately in Japanese. I have been imagining to write a book but haven’t started it yet. I would like to get it done within 5 years time and get it published in print. I can’t count this as FAIL, as I still am doing it. Might need to achieve some goal in a shorter time frame, may be.
  2. Blog more in English. Read more English books before my English got rotten. Can’t seem to write more as I wanted, but I did. And did read more in English, but not in book form.
  3. Read again all my old books that I bought. I will have to get rid of my books as they have been sitting on my shelf for ages without being read. #FAIL
  4. Pick up some courses; financial business, journalism, or something that keep me motivated. I did. Critical thinking course. Wow, I actually have the mind to get things done, huh?
  5. Organise my personal writing with Tindebox, so I have to upgrade my skills of Tindebox, and make full use of it. Keep track of my stories. #FAIL. Though I just started to get back to Tinderbox again. Uh.
    Restaurant (for the future)
    • Reorganize all the recipe books that I bought. Index them and do a review on each of them. There must be something that makes me buy them. #FAIL
    • Learn about colour of combination, coordination, and psychological point as well, if I have the time #FAIL. No time.
    • Learn about interior design. Collect samples, data of good design, heart-touching one #halfdone
    • Keep my wife’s cooking and photoshoot them, make compliments to remind her she is a good cook. She thinks I am the only one who says nice words to her cooking, which it’s not. #FAIL. She doesn’t cook that much for any photo taking.
    • I can’t run business, so I will do my way from the idea contribution, from food to taste, and interests of targets. #FAIL. But, this is an interesting comment that I did. In fact, I started a restaurant inventory solution with FileMaker for a new client.
Financial
  • Learn about tax, investment #FAIL
  • do my personal accounting wisely #FAIL
  • use my money wisely (do I sound like an idiot?) #FAIL
That’s all, I think it is enough to keep me busy for the whole year, if I can keep it.
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I would build one in FileMaker.

A field each for ingredient name, ingredient unit-of-measure, and ingredient-quantity. A field for conversion unit-of-measure (i.e., “please convert metric units typed in to US units”) and a calculated display-ingredient-quantity field that contains the conversion formula. All that in the Ingredients table. A second table would contain Recipe Name, Description, Cuisine, Source, Date, Category, the Instructions of course, and also a multiplier field (i.e., “please scale up the quantities on this recipe that serves 4 to serve 12 people”) which would also be referenced by the formula of the display-ingredient-quantity field back over in the Ingredients table. Bingo, you’ve got a recipes database. Twenty minutes, plus another 20-30 to make it look pretty and look good when you print it. If you want a third table to keep track of what items you have in inventory and when purchased, and a script to generate a shopping list, another 20 minutes.

Add in a script that will let you paste in a recipe copied from email, word processor, or web page, and parse it out into field data, maybe another 30 minutes.

Built-in easy-to-use FileMaker searching & sorting. (i.e., “Bring me all the French recipes for capon that don’t use fennel and don’t use ingredients I don’t have on hand and show them to me in a list view sorted by entry date”).

via forums.macosxhints.com

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Getting up early or stay till late doesn’t matter, because you know the next day would come for sure. :)

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