Diet & Love Letter

May 8, 2008

I thought I will be getting my love letter from IATA to increase our BG in few weeks time. But it seems that IATA really missed me and can’t wait to make my life more miserable. I received their fax yesterday evening. Must top-up BG RM260k by 9th June. Oh dear me! Must work extra hard and extra smart for this 260k. Aiyoyoyo. And not forgeting my super gaban powers to collect the money. Hehehehe. Chairman sudah sound : Aida, start collect from now, don’t wait till last minute. I reminded him to start impose limit to that particular favourite associate of his, or forever he will make my life & his life miserable.

I don’t blame IATA for imposing the BG as the number of travel agents defaulting is very large. However, they should also reimplement the calculation of BG as not to burden us the travel agents. And airlines are becoming more strict now that they need us to pay first once our weekly tickets stock are utilised should current week sales exceeds our current BG with IATA. How to survive like this? If anyone of you thought that owing a travel agent is such a great thing, getting all the monies from clients for tickets sold, think again. You don’t make that much like retail industry, or other service based company. Nowadays, the most you can mark-up is about 2% of the airfare(excluding airport tax ye… airport tax bagi kat airport, bukan kita punya). You can make more, 10% - 20 % from your corporate clients, but if they pay late, or very late like some of mine, forget it. Nak tekan2 lebih kat clients, they will buy from other travel agents. Don’t be surprised that there are travel agents that sell below market value, at net or below cost to undercut each other. There are? Yes! I wonder how they survive? But if I sell per ticket RM100 margin, how much I have to sell per month to cover salary, overheads and other miscellaneous? Kengkawan asyik mintak discount aje??? :p, and hutang pulak?? Ish-ish-ish.

I have set some plans and work schedule to get that extra RM260k, besides the weekly BSP payment on Monday and daily/monthly cashflow. Wish me luck!

I didn’t eat much today. Strictly on a diet! (Ye lah tu…. hehehehe) I had too, felt stomach bloated this morning. (Memang bloated pun macam pregnant 5 bulan, hehehehe) Yesterday, Loga, one of my despatch treat me & AB nasi lemak for breakfast. He got reward from boss the day before for his continuously good work, which I am very happy, susah nak dapat despatch tak banyak songeh macam Loga ni. Then at noon, I had fish & chip for lunch. I thought I just skip dinner, but Paroe brought back my favourite fried rice from Kuching pulak. Last night, reached home after midnight from LCCT, reheat the rice and I ate at 1am. Couldn’t resist, it has been a long time I tasted the fried rice.

So today diet! Oat for breakfast, papaya and starfruit for lunch, and oat again for dinner (I hope, kalau tak kena racun makan bigMac later tonight)

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