TIME has damn aggressive marketing

How many of you subscribe to TIME magazine? Well, i think they spend like millions on keeping their subscribers subscribed and maybe on advertising also.

in J1, i foolishly signed up for TIME magazine because it claimed to help with GP. Well i guess it does help, but it was so boring i bearly read a single issue for the whole 1 year subscription. So i decided not to continue with it when the renewal form came about.. 2 months before the subscription expired.

And yknow, if i renew the subscription i'll get this free gift that free gift.

I ignored that letter.

Within one month, i got another letter from TIME, again adverstising their magazine and asking me to subscribe and get free gift. I ignored it again.

Within 2 weeks, i got ANOTHER letter from TIME, this time saying ' you have 2 weeks left to renew your subscription!' and offering other freebies and goodies if i re-subscribed.

Within one week i got ANOTHER letter from TIME and this time it had the word 'URGENT" or something in the window of the envelope. once again it was asking me to renew my subscription and offered like one year additional free of some other magazine or something like that.

Within the next week i got ANOTHER letter from TIME and this time it also said URGENT and said 'your subscription is going to expire!' in CAPS and they made it sound like they were saying 'you are going to die' in the next few paragraphs. And once again they offer all their goodies free gifts bla.

Today, i got ANOTHER FREAKING LETTER from TIME. This time the envelope was yellow (the warning kind of colour) (normally white envelope) and it said 'FINAL NOTICE FOR PREFERRED STATUS'. This was their opening sentence:

"Mr Teo, I didn't want to send this letter -- because anybody who receives it has already lost active subscriber status and has missed issues of TIME.

But all is not lost. Renew today and you'll guarantee yourself : blablablablabalblablafreebies goodies discountsblablablablabla"

OMG LA!! Can't they leave me alone!! TIME is crazy man.

Don't believe me? Go ahead, subscribe for your one year of TIME. Then get ready to receive their onslaught of letters =)

p.s. i'm gonna change my blog banner soon, didn't realise the impression i was giving and i dont like it too. 'alan's blog? oh the one got alot of pictures with girls one right?'

:O zomg.

(the one i have now is only temporary will work on a new one)

TEAM SAJC

Ok here are the venues and times for the Basketball boys matches.

25th April (tomorrow!) (wed) - 320PM at Clementi Sports Hall vs TJC
27th April (fri) - 320 PM at Singapore Basketball Centre (near Aljunied MRT) vs NJC
2nd May (wednesday) - 430 PM at Singapore Basketball Centre vs MI
4th May (fri) - 1PM at SBC vs MJC

If you wanna come down and watch but dont know how to get there contact me before that day! Thanks and come support!! GOGOGO SA


(btw pewi just told me SA quite hard to qualify this stage :/ the other teams all strong we have one of the toughest groups) (the top 2 teams of each group qualify.)

horror fest

yawn. so sleepy now.

ever heard of 'when you're on top, the only way you can go is down?'

I wonder what is better, doing well consistently and always feeling the pressure of maintaining that standard, or not doing well regularly and always feeling the pressure of improving to hit a certain desired standard?

I've been thinking for some time and couldn't reach a definite conclusion. both ways, the pressure is still there, though different in the sense. Though personally i would prefer the 2nd one.
That is also the reason why i wasn't THAT depressed or anything when i got E for Maths in my JC1 Common Test. I told myself that it was just a learning process - there is only room for improvement from here on.
And sure enough i did improve a whole lot in the promos.

The pressure of maintaining a standard is pretty high. Unique in a way as i've never really felt it so strongly before until now. I mean.. top 10 in school wth!? Since thursday when i passed some friends they'll like 'wa alan not bad ah. top student' then i'll respond in the usual and expected way like 'ha no la. ok only'. Yknow, cannot be arrogant and all. Sucha WEIRD feeling. I don't mind doing just ok, not bad for these tests now. And strive towards a better result as i near 'A's. Maintaining a high standard is tough. :/

Anyway, just borrowed like 10 horror movies from twins, found out only about 3 works. -_- watching one called 'headspace', it's boring and draggy as hell but im gonna finish it later otherwise like very wasted watch all the draggy borign part and never finish the climax.


JC is bad. My teacher just reminded us we have only 2 months to our BT2 which covers ALL topics from J1 so it's kinda like a mock A levels. Chemistry is going to finish syllabus by next week i think. Physics is far from it, math far from it too i think. Econs.. no idea at all.
DIE LA.
I don't really like the idea of studying everyday again. I enjoy my relaxed slack life now. slack ftw.

Ok i'm like throwing in random thoughts. Ok last random thought of the day:
To the person who is flaming me on my tagboard, you can just save your time to go get some personal etiquette lessons or find a new blog to flame, because i'll just clear your messages with a click. =) pwnzor.

I'll put up the SAJC basketball schedule tmr , go support if you have the time ciaoz =)