Recent Posts Tagged With 'business'

• Introducing Raja Rahawani and Precious Times

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 19:27 in business, entrepreneur, coventry

  A few Malaysians have settled down here in Coventry and now call it their home. One of them is Raja Rahawani. She has been here in Coventry for nearly 14 years now.Affectionately known by the younger Malaysians here as Kak Raja, she is a really reall...

• Travelodge tells me to bring a tent

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 08:46 in travel, business, humour, coventry

  My sister is coming over from Australia to visit us in May along with her husband and my sweet niece. She wanted to rent an apartment but I convinced her to save money and stay in the Travelodge Hotel here in Coventry. As students we are always on a...

• Cheaper flights to London with Air Asia

  Posted on Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 20:04 in news, business, blogosphere

  A few weeks back I wrote about the Ryanair and bloggers episode and mentioned that "they can learn a thing or two from Air Asia". Well, Maxton Walker of the Guardian seems to think so as well. In his article 'This is budget travel. We demand to suffe...

• Online T-shirt store with a difference

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 20:00 in review, business, e-commerce

  Look what came through the door yesterday - a brand new T-shirt.It is an original Iffyton T Shirt from Iffyton High Street - a new online T-shirt store. It is totally different from other online t-shirt stores I am familiar with. It features a virt...

• Ryanair and bloggers

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 07:32 in business, Marketing, blogosphere, pr

  As we all know, if you are a big company, picking a quarrel with a blogger is not really a good idea. However, Ryanair recently did that.Web developer and blogger Jason Roe was called an "idiot blogger" when he pointed out a flaw on the airline's web...

• India - a paradox

  Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 12:06 in india, business

  The paradox that is India:1. Reebok is #1 in India while Nike is #2. Totally opposite to sales in other countries.2. Similarly Pepsi is #1 in India while Coca Cola comes at #2. I guess it is due to the first mover advantage - Pepsi was first to enter...

• Shopping at Stoke-on-Trent

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 18:58 in travel, business, shopping

  I started out writing this post with "today morning..." but realised that it's already 1am - so a short post before I go to sleep.Yesterday morning, we set off for Stoke-on-Trent to do a bit of shopping. My sister-in-law who came up from London yeste...

• Buying 3 pay as you go SIM card

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 19:48 in technology, business, Marketing, Rant, London

  My sister-in-law who's just moved to London wanted to buy a pay as you go SIM card only, as she already has a phone. It was meant to be a temporary thing before she signed up for a monthly payment plan. Of course I suggested 3. So off we went to thei...

• Thrice to Ikea in 2 weeks

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 in Personal, business, ikea, coventry

  I am sure we are the customers that retailers dream about - I mean we went to the Ikea store in Coventry three times in 2 weeks. Not that we have a lot of money to spend but the kids were restless at home and it's freezing cold to go roaming anywhere...

• Woolworths' sale now on

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 19:15 in business

  Dropped by the Woolworths outlet near our house as I heard that they are having a closing down sale. I heard correctly but I was mistaken about the date. The closure sale starts in all its 815 outlets from Thursday (today). Read the BBR report: 'Wool...