L'auteur de Hong Kong / Ken哥哥 之狂想曲

No, seriously. I mean, seriously!

So what exactly is an IFA?

IFA stands for independent financial adviser, feel free to read up on it here. Financial planning, asset management, investment, all that Jazz.

I've been approached numerous times by the insurance industry urging me to join their ranks. While I'm flattered by their confidence in my ability to peddle policies, I know better. I've never been too keen on being a salesman and I know I'm bound for greater things.

No, I'm not a stock broker, nor do I work for a bank. Clearly I do not sell insurance.

So what's the difference with the IFA field? Isn't it basically glorified sales anyways?

Well, no.

As an IFA, I'm whoever you want me to be. I can do your laundry, clean your house, watch your kids, coach their little league team, cook a mean turkey for Christmas, and most of all, take extremely good care of your mula. The key is choice and neutrality. I don't have to sell you products from a single provider, but rather, I'm able to pick from just about 80-90% of all available financial products the ones that best suit your needs and you can decide to buy or not to buy.

Yes, if your money is your kids, then I'm sort of a super nanny. They maybe naughty and bashful at times, but in my good hands, we can together watch them grow to be quite obese. That's what asset management is all about, raising fat kids.

Best of all, I don't take a cent of your money. My dough comes directly from the nice people from those product providers. What I do for you folks I do for free, out of the goodness of my heart, of course.

Sure, I can do pretty well.

You might be thinking to yourself, "Gee, that sounds like a load of hot air, Lehman Brothers!"

Objectively speaking, your logic is sound, but soon, I'll explain to you why I'm your best bet when it comes to investment and how the entire finance industry can benefit from my presence.

In the mean time, be afraid, be very afraid.

I'm here to help!

Yeah, every motherfucking last one of ya!

Just kidding. April fools!

Wait... did I get the dates mixed up again?

No... just putting off the inevitable once again.

Sorry boss, I know you told me not to tell people I'm new at this but I just can't help myself.

Some people find me hilarious, or maybe I just think they do. Regardless of which, I think I'm capable of bringing joy and laughter to the masses if given the right viechle, the right opportunity, the right stage.

(Something tells me this isn't it, blogging that is.)

I may not be a comedian, but I can say rather funny things to entertain those around me. Those who know me well may have experienced this. Those who haven't yet can expect it tomorrow. Those who read this blog may find yourselves giggling at times for no apparent reason.

Entertainment is my life's purpose, the movies especially. To entertain is to give people something to think about, laugh about, cry about.

If my words here don't touch you in one way or another, then I'm not doing it right.

If you don't care, no one can make you.

Life is full of drama, full of surprises. Sometimes they may scare you, sometimes they can upset you, but if you look carefully enough, they may often time be darn funny. The key is to notice the joy in those experiences and laugh out load (LOL).

I hope that you're satisfied with this performance. I hereby bid you adieu and many pleasant dreams. Please come again, or better yet, subscribe to my RSS feed so you can stay constantly updated with my many a wise cracks.

First of all, my boss was terrible. I was overworked, underpaid, and most importantly, I wasn't satisfied that all my hard work resulted in one ginormous goose-egg in the bank.

For those who don't already know, you guessed right. For the past year or so, I've been working for myself in my own company. (yeah, the pictures don't show up.) I've managed to squander a good sum of my dad's hard earned money, not to mention some of my own. I've made a mess of both my personal and professional life and learned a great deal about humility.

This is, however not a letter of surrender.

I haven't given up on my dream. I haven't even given up on my company. I'm just looking for a better way to get to where I want to be while avoiding certain things from impeding my progress.

In hindsight, I think I rushed into entrepreneurship without fully understanding how a business should be ran. Ultimately it was my lack of experience and not my lack of ability that was my undoing. I will not be caught so unprepared again.

As I set aside this chapter of my career, I can say that I do not regret the decision to go out on my own. If you don't try, you never know. Now that I know, I'll be sure to do better with any opportunities that come along.

As we speak, my company is in a rebounding path and from the looks of it, I'll be able to generate some on-going business for the short to medium term. There are also some longer term prospects and goals that are in the works but I'll be taking a wait-and-see attitude towards those far fetched leads. Well, patient but proactive anyways.

In the mean time, since I no longer have staff at my company, I'll be looking to enlist my friends and colleague's help with these projects. So you iPhone developer buddies of mine out there, take notice. I'll be calling you soon. (I hope that one day our beautiful website will be reborn as well.)

At the same time, I'm going full steam ahead with my new adventure into what was previously an unknown territory for me. (Yes, I'm still putting off writing about this.)

With great passion, hard work and belief in myself, I'm confident that fortune will smile upon me in glorious fashion someday very soon.

Stay tuned if you care.

Or I'll make you pay attention, one way or another.