Setting up a business, getting the permits and filing the necessary paperwork with the proper authorities, can be daunting. Doing a company incorporation in a place like Singapore felt challenging even though it’s easier than in most places. I wanted to expand my mail order business into Asia and decided to set up shop in Singapore due to their friendly pro-business environment. They’re known as a mecca for business and I thought I could save more money operating here than in other places. The corruption, for example, is quite low compared to other countries in the region and English is widely spoken.

But that still left me to navigate the corridors of government agencies in a quest to make sure I was dotting and crossing all the letters. I decided to look for someone who could help with the process as I had several other things going on at once and felt I couldn’t waste my time doing something that could very well turn into a weeks long process. I went online and found a company that takes all the pain out of the process by filing the paperwork for you. Even better the cost seemed low compared to the time I would lose trying to do it myself.

I hired them and picked a reasonable package that took care of the paperwork and also provided me with an address in Singapore plus a slew of extras that I needed to get going. For example they provided me with company secretary services for six months, a position required by law in Singapore where they advise me about corporate issues. I got so many extras out of the deal that it not only saved me money but also time in that I didn’t have to line up additional employees or services. I can’t wait to get started!

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2017-01-02

Running a fish market in Singapore is an exhausting job. Still, I wanted to find a way to better promote ourselves to our customers and potential customers. I ended up going to http://doorgiftsingapore.com to find out if there was some way to use promotional business gifts to rack up bigger sales. I learned about the site from a friend who works at a bank that handed out bottles to customers with their bank’s name and logo on the items and he said it really worked out well for them. People actually started asking for them when they came in.

So I looked on the site to see if I could find something that would be perfect for the fish market. Handing out pens or umbrellas or hats just didn’t have the right feel. I wanted something that would match the product perfectly. I actually didn’t think I’d find anything and would have to settle for something food related such as plastic bottles like my friend’s company used. Then my eyes stumbled over coolers. Now that is a perfect item for a fish market. The problem with fish is you’ve got to get it home right away or it’s going to spoil pretty quickly. No one wants to carry around fish in a bag for long.

With the coolers you could put the fish in them and then take your time getting home. You might even be able to run some other errands without worrying about ruining your purchase. Once I saw the coolers it was a snap to get them customized with our name and address put on the side. We ordered a fair number of them and they were gone in days! People loved them, and I’ve noticed many of the customers bring them back to carry subsequent purchases. I think it was a winning idea.

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2017-01-02

I spent all of last weekend looking for the best apartments for rent in Alamo Heights because I wanted to make sure I chose well. I spent a lot of years living with my parents past college, and I really needed some privacy and a place of my own. And I really wanted it to be a place that would make me feel that I did not need to go home. I wanted a place that made me proud and made me feel that it was worth coming home to every night. I made up a long list of the things that I was looking for, and I also understood that I may not find a place that had all or even most of what was on my list. But that was okay because I just needed to get something that was somewhat close.

My parents are great. I love them to death. That is not a problem. However, my mom hovers a lot and she does not seem to understand the concept of privacy very much. My dad says that she does, but that mom just worries too much. She would come to my room repeatedly throughout the day to see if I wanted something to drink or eat. She would do this every 2 hours or so, and often, it would interrupt homework time or even when I was sleeping. This really was a problem for me. And I cannot be rude to my mom, so I put up with it a lot.

Telling my mother that I was going to rent an apartment somewhere else upset her at first, but I think she finally undestood that I’m 24 years old and it is time for me to start gaining more independence. I told her that I would be come on Sundays for church and dinner with her. She seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when I told her that.

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2016-10-17

So I have been thinking about career options lately and also thinking that I would like to be able to learn something relatively quickly where I would end up with the sort of skills that I could take just about any place and earn money. For example I am thinking that being able to design web pages is something where you should be able to apply to lots of jobs and you could do that on the side at home. I guess you need to take graphic design courses if you want to be able to do it well. No one is going to pay you to build a lame web page, in fact a lot of people could do that for themselves. It is not really that hard if you only want to do a half way decent job. There are lots of tools which can help the lay person design a somewhat passable web page, but that is not what they are going to pay a pro to do. You will have to be able to make an impressive web page.

In fact the big thing that you need is to make it so that the web page is safe from all of the miscreants lurking on the vast dark corners of the world wide web. You have a business and you want to be focused on the stuff that you need to do. You do not want to worry about some punk in Kiev breaking into your web page and getting hold of the personal information of your clients. That is something that you need to be able to trust the people who maintain and create the web page to be able to handle. You obviously are going to be unhappy if they are not able to do that.

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2016-09-08

Last year I bought my wife a magic wand and she can’t get enough of it. It has a powerful vibration that can stimulate the nerves and cause arousing sensations. She thought it would be nice of you could put different things on the magic wand to create different sensations. She tried to attach a whisk to the wand with some duct tape, but it didn’t stay on for long because of all the vibrations. She tried again with a spoon handle, but it didn’t work. I looked online to see if there were any official magic wand attachments.

There were a lot of attachments that fit right onto the wand without the need for any tape. I let my wife pick the ones she wanted and I ordered them for her. She chose one that had a special double head. One head would sit on the female opening, while the other head would sit right above it. When the magic wand vibrates, both heads vibrate along with it, causing a sensation at the opening and the sensitive area next to it. Another one of the attachments that she chose has a third head that reaches back to the opening on the buttocks. This causes a trifecta of sensations when the magic wand starts vibrating.

My wife especially loves it when I use the wand with her. I don’t use it on myself, but I use it to stimulate her in multiple places. She doesn’t just like having the wand used on her lower area. I’ve used it on her neck, chest and back, and it really makes her relax. When she comes home from a long day at work, and her muscles are feeling tense, she reaches for the magic wand and rubs it all over for half an hour.

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2015-11-14

Trees are nice that line our street. I remember when the city first planted them. Everyone thought there was enough space between the road edge and the sidewalks that the roots from the trees would never cause a problem. Well, the road has had bumps and has been resurfaced a couple of times since the trees grew huge, and most of the sidewalks are in poor shape. I had to call sidewalk contractors in Bronx NY to have our sidewalks replaced. The city took care of the roads. The property owners take care of the sidewalks.

We had to get rid of the trees and pretty much have some major excavation done to clean out the roots that have been buckling and cracking the sidewalks. Some of the buckling is a foot high! It is an extreme trip hazard. If someone falls, then the liability insurance of the homeowner pays. It does not matter who planted the trees initially. The repair and maintenance of the sidewalks is the responsibility of the property owners.

We have a lot more people walking and riding bikes and jogging now than we have had for as long back as I can remember. I can remember as a child having more kids playing outdoors, but now we have families walking together and riding bicycles. Lots of people are walking their dogs too. Not all of them leave messes to clean up. I want to have nice level sidewalks for people to enjoy in front of my house. There is that weird half ownership thing with public sidewalks. Homeowners have to keep them up, but you have to let anyone walk on them. Sure, I would really like it if people would always clean up after their dogs, but I can’t stop them from walking by the house on the sidewalk. I will just make it nice again, plant some trees that do not grow really tall and hope that the new concrete sidewalks last for many decades.

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2015-09-15

I have been looking at the possibility of relocating to the San Angelo area of Texas. The company has a job down there and it is a fair opportunity, but I have to pick up and move. The thing looks a lot like a gamble in reality, because there would be a wager involved on my part. I would be hoping that I could go down there and get my self one rung up the ladder and then work my way higher up. I have been looking for an explanation of something I found out when I was checking in to the details of moving to this area. That is the fact that you can apparently pick and choose your electric company down there. From what I can tell there is about three or four different choices in any particular place that you might pick. So you can find a web page and plug in your zip code, it will let you figure out what your rates are and who you get to pick between.

At any rate I have no clue what you look for in a power company or even if there is any difference between the one and the other. In High Point NC you want to get your power hooked up, then you call Duke Power. It is all that there is to it. They have the monopoly and so there is not anything for you to think about. If you want power you have to get it from them and that is all that there is to it. I am wondering if you can count on any of them to show up sooner when you have a problem. Obviously there are going to be storms and the power will go out, the big deal is getting it back on.

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2015-09-09

I found a helpful website that assisted me in changing to a new energy provider. I usually don’t switch from a service unless they are truly terrible and don’t offer any attempts to redeem themselves. My old energy provider was one of the worst providers out there, and their service wasn’t that cheap either. I would often call to complain about either the service itself or about the price of the service. Their customer service didn’t do anything to help, and essentially sent me through a series of never ending forwards from one to the next. I eventually was able to speak to the person in charge, and he told me that if I wasn’t pleased with their service, I could always find an alternative, and that’s what I did.

When I tried to cancel my service with the company, they were every apologetic and wanted to do anything to keep me from leaving, but at that point, I had made up my mind. If only the company had been willing to be so flexible when I was actually a paying customer, then maybe I wouldn’t have needed to cancel their service in the first place. There’s not point trying to win over a customer after they’ve decided to leave.

Things are better with the provider I have now. There is a significant difference in the amount I pay for energy on my bill now than when I was with my old provider. I haven’t experienced any problems with the service either. I’ve told everyone I know that if they aren’t already a customer of this company, they should be. I’ve gotten a few people to switch over to this provider, and because of it, the company has actually offered a credit on my bill, which makes my payment even lower than before.

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2015-09-09

We have found us a little place about twenty minutes North of the center of San Antonio. It is a nice area and we have been looking at the things we need to do next. Right now I am looking at the cost of a home security system and how much it costs to monitor it after you buy it. I found this site, http://home-security.co/adt-home-security/texas/s/san-antonio/ and I am wondering how much more there is to it than meets the eyes. Obviously the number in the big letters is nice. I like the idea of paying 9 dollars a month for it, but it is not clear if there is a lot more to it or not. You have to wonder if that is one of those offers that is only good for a limited time. You see that from cable and Internet companies all of the time. They make you this deal that looks really awesome when you sign up for it, but you are getting yourself in to a long term deal and the initial monthly cost only lasts a few months or for one year out of a 2 year agreement.

In this case it talks about the initial cost of the system and says something about 99 dollars, but I am trying to figure out if that is the bottom line or if that is addition to what the system costs you. I sort of think that the 99 dollars is like a minimum fee, even if you already had your own home security system you would have to pay that much more to get the monthly offer. Of course it is not that great of an offer if that is the way that it is, but I have to look closely and see what they mean.

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2015-09-07

We all want to be able to save on our Internet service, right? These days it seems like finding cheap and reliable Internet is hard to come by. Here in Louisville we only have three options available; AT&T DSL, Time Warner Cable and DirecTV. All three of these charge absolutely insane amounts for access to the ‘Net. The prices that are ‘reasonable’ are so slow in speed that it’s laughable at best. It infuriates me that America has fallen so far behind in terms of quality digital Internet when we should be leading the pack and yet, here we are wasting away.

It makes you wonder where that $300 billion went. You know, the money that was given to ISPs nearly 20 years ago to lay down a cable and FiOS infrastructure. Money that came out of our pockets! What happened to that infrastructure? It was never built. They took the money and ran after they bought each other out. Somehow they had worked the legislature through their lobbying groups so that they didn’t ‘have’ to lay down the lines despite being given the money. Are our politicians sleeping at the wheel in Congress and the Senate? It certainly is beginning to feel that way.

The FCC has shaken them up but it’s only a start. Losing that fight to us cost them millions of dollars in advertising attacks and lobbying. Revel in that, America. Revel in the fact that you forced them to lose that money. It might not be much to them but it’s a huge amount to the share holders who, sooner or later, might decide that this fight is simply a foolish one and not worth pursuing. The more we make them bleed the green the better our chances are at preserving a true Open Internet.

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2015-05-03

I am new to this part of Texas and I am wondering if the best choice here is Green Mountain Energy. I had never heard of them before I started to do the research on which company I wanted to get the power connected with. I went to http://www.energyproviderstexas.com/green-mountain-energy-texas/ and did a little bit of research about the electricity rates. There are a couple of other options, but the rates are just slightly better in this address if you pick Green Mountain. I never heard of any of these companies though. In my experience the big thing has to do with whether or not they are going to be good about getting the power back on when you have a problem. This is pretty close to Corpus Cristi Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Obviously the tropical storms and hurricanes are going to eventually come blowing in from. You are going to lose power and the big question is how long it is going to take to get the lights back on after the wind stops blowing.

The house is pretty nice and it is only about a half an hour to the beach. Of course it is not as nice as we would like, but we have a plan to expan it. That is not going to be that hard really. The house has a built in garage. It is going to be relatively easy to put a loft in above the garage. We figure we shall put my office in the garage itself. Then we are going to get a contractor to put us in a stand alone garage, a rather large one. I want to be able to have the room to put in a work shop along the back wall of the building and room for the tractor.

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2015-05-03

I have very dry hair and it is starting to bother me quite a bit. The biggest problem is that I have a lot of split ends, and they keep developing at a rapid pace. I wish that my hair was not so dry and damaged, and I am not sure what the problem is. I live in a rather humid environment, so I would think that would help. But it has not been helping very much. I am looking at places to find the best hair treatment in singapore to treat my dry hair.

I really wish I knew the reason why my hair is so dry. It is quite a bother to me, and I need to figure out something to do to fix the issue. I am hoping to find a good salon to go to that will have treatments for dry hair. I also have a bit of a dry scalp issue as well, but it does not bother me as much as my hair problem. I am hoping to visit a salon to receive treatments as soon as possible. Right now, I am taking some time off of work, to relax, and try to improve my mental state. So I think it would be a good time to pamper myself a bit, and that is what I intend to do.

It would be best if I could find a salon that is located near to my house. The dry hair treatment is my top priority, as I have already stated. But I am also curious to learn what can be done about dry scalp, because that is an issue that could get worse for me, if I do not do something about it. I have never had severe dry scalp problems before, and I hope to not start soon.

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2015-05-03

Recently, there was a pretty serious incident across the street, where a house was broken into while the owners were at home, and the people breaking into the house, expected it to be empty. It was really quite a terrifying incident, and something that I hope never happens again, anywhere. I need to look into florida adt security systems, and how much they cost to get installed, because after what just happened across the street from me, I never really want to be without a security system in my house again.

I know that my wife is going to be traumatized for quite some time, and I do not want to tell my kids the details. However, when the burglars were startled by the owners of the house being there, they opened fire, and killed 3 of the 4 people in the house, before fleeing the seen. I do not understand this sort of senseless crime, but from talking to the police about the incident, they initially opened fire because they were startled, and then continued shooting as to not leave witnesses. However, they did not make it very far before they were apprehended, and I thank God for that.

I think I need to stop talking about this situation, because it is horribly depressing, and the sort of thing that will probably give me nightmares, if I am not careful. I want my house to be protected, and I know that having a security system is not a fool proof way to keep from having something tragic happen, but it is a lot better than being unprotected. If it were legal, then I would get some sort of sci-fi like security system that involved robots and automated turrets, but I know that is not exactly something that is feasible.

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2015-05-03

With two children and both my husband and I working more on our careers now than ever before, we needed some extra help at home. Cutting back at work would have curtailed our income and retirement plans. It made more sense to have the expense of hiring some help than it did for one of us to cut back at work. We hired a maid service from a frondosa city Employment Agency. They came highly recommended from some friends who were in the same position of need as we are. We have been happy with everything from the very first day of service.

It did not take long at all for the maid that we have to learn our routines. When she needs time off, another lady does the work at our home. Both of them are exceptional workers who really take care of our home. I simply could not do a better job if I had all the time in the world to do it all myself. Every woman out there knows she has quirks and peculiarities in how she wants her house kept. The workers adapt and go the extra mile to provide perfect service to the clients. In other words, once they know how you like something done, they do it that way every time.

At my house I only use organic cleaners for the household and laundry. They respect my wishes and use only the products and materials I desire for cleaning our home. I also am very particular about the bathroom and kitchen. I never have to redo any of the work they do. That is really saying something, especially due to me being very fastidious about cleaning certain things. They do impeccable work. I would say that they actually do it better than I was doing it myself.

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2015-05-03

It is time for me to purchase a new living space for my family, because I am tired of my current condo. I am going to try to sell it, as soon as I can. But right now, I am more concerned with finding a new place to live, and I have a few ideas in mind. What I want to look into first, is the santorini in singapore. I just heard about it recently, and from everything I can tell, it seems to be very nice, and also luxurious. That is what I am looking to buy, because I have worked hard for my money, and I feel that my family deserves to have a nice place to live.

I should have bought a new place sooner, because I know that I have not been satisfied with our condo for years. There are numerous reasons as to why I have not been satisfied with the condo, but I will not get into those reasons right now. Rather, I am just going to focus on learning more about this development, and the residential units that they have available.

I want to get one of the nicer units that they have, depending on the quantity that are available, and the price that they cost. I know that, at the minimum, I am going to need to purchase a new residence that has three bedrooms. However, more would be nice, and I would not mind getting something that has five bedrooms. I know that would be rather expensive, but it could definitely be worth it for the extra space. I want to take a trip to this location soon, so that I can actually see it for myself. That seems like a good idea, and I must visit the location before I decide if I want to buy a residential unit there.

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2015-05-03