CHAPTER 49: An Advice from Mr Saw & Football Training

"Intensity, Integrity, and Intelligence." - Kurt Angle

During FCM class, as he was teaching about some sort of sh-t that had to with trees (discrete mathematics), Mr. Saw was talking about matters related to direct selling (stuff like CNI, Luxor, *include link for these companies*….and other of these types of companies). Before that, he asked the class whether any of the students were involved with any kind of direct selling. Nobody replied, indicating no one was involved (…well, don’t know whether that is real, ‘cause some might not want to say directly, I don’t know)
Saw was using one of the trees formulas/methods to determine the profit of one of these direct selling companies based on the information gained on the profit of one of the workers in those types of companies’ hierarchy (…hard to explain, it was something like that….). Basically, a seller in the chains of these companies belong to another seller who is in charge of these sellers (forgot what’s the term for these people, …..me, I call em’ foot soldiers and lieutenants instead, haha….). And the lieutenants themselves belong to a seller who has a higher position than him/herself. And the hierarchy goes on…..until up to the top, where the hierarchy is completed with the ‘top dog’, the ‘king’ of the sellers……..argh what the hell do you call these guy ah…….(well, hope you get tha point of all this crap). According to Saw, in Luxor (if I’m not mistaken), this guy who sits on top is known as the “crown”.
So Mr. Saw kept on talking about this stuff.

And it seemed that for some time, FCM was forgotten.
Saw was talking about direct selling stuff to the class, but it seemed also that the other students were attentively listening to the lecturer. And it’s during the conversation about all these direct selling stuff that Saw came up with advices for any of us who are interested to be involved in direct selling activity.

1) Whoever is the crown, or the one who sits on top of the hierarchy is the real party that makes the big bucks. According to Saw, whoever is at the topmost in the hierarchy of a direct selling company makes the most money as not only does this person sell the stuffs, but also collects a small percentage of profits gained from all those direct sellers below him (all the majors, the lieutenants, the foot soldiers), but the truth is that small percentage gained from all the people below him/her in the company is big, big, big money in total.

2) The success stories……..don’t buy into them. There’s no doubt that there’s been some success stories from those who are involved with direct selling. But Saw says, these success stories are those direct sellers who have made their way to the top of the hierarchies, thus making a lot of money from being in a higher position in the direct selling chain of the particular organization. Furthermore, these companies tend to advertise their sellers who are successful, in order to attract (or should I say ‘braintrap’) other people in joining their causes. Saw says, they don’t show information regarding those who had failed in direct selling, and there are many of them, many ‘unsuccessful’ stories (of course due to various factors). So, direct selling is not always a rosy and bright opportunity to be in.

3) When you buy the stuff from the company……..sell ‘em, don’t keep ‘em. Another important advice. Actually, I don’t really get this point, got blurred a bit by Saw’s explanations. But basically, Saw said that when you buy the stuff from these direct selling companies, it’s way better to sell them to customers rather than keeping and using them for yourselves. What he said was that these companies’ products are more expensive than the ones being sold to the public in the supermarkets, shops, etc….
So you’re somewhat better off selling them than keeping them, ‘cause it will make a bigger loss for you in terms of financial matters and financial operations.

Well,……..a final advice form Mr. Saw before ending the class was that, if you wanna be involved with direct selling, make sure you can reach the highest order in the direct selling chain of the organization that you would represents. Or better yet, forget about it, ‘cause it’ll take up time, energy, and other vital factors to be involved in this sort of thing.

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Went to the Seri Petaling community centre to participate in the APIIT football club training session.
Not much to say, except that Anand (the admin guy, not Kalai Anand) came down. Got everybody worked out.
The training session began with jogging around the (crappy) field, then jogging inter-mixed with sprinting, some stretching activities done both individually and with a workout partner (and I did it with Anand himself ‘cause everybody else had their own workout partners)……….then lastly followed by some match practice (only played on one half of the field, defence versus attack).