Way to Find It

A trip to the bank as the saying goes connotes satisfaction as it means cashing in. I recently went to a bank but to rather settle an obligation. Still glad though as I still have the finances to clear dues.
Affiliation aside, I thought I’d try to go through the standard process if only to prove how their customer service corresponds with their catchphrase. Their slogan seems to be suggestive of getting things done with whatever means just when things are seemingly inaccessible, so they say.
Implying that they find ways, I wonder if it holds true in rendering service in an appropriate manner. Does dealing with customers a part of finding ways on how every transaction would be as contentedly attainable?

As if rooted on the ground having to stand for quite a while wasn’t wearing enough, the long queue likewise made it all the more uneasy. For a big company, there were no queue numbers for should’ve-been (or preferably) seated clients. The number of clientele might have outnumbered their manpower; that’s alright as much as understandable. But they should have been more unwearied even if only to put on a smile. If they were tired, I supposed, so were the lined-up customers waiting to be called by the seated bank personnel. And it was the customers who were made to wait while they excused themselves to get each a nibble of a probably mouth-watering treat. While we get to wonder what that probable indulgence you were chewing on was that seemed tempting indeed to make us wait further, I thought how it would be fair if we could also leave our line for just a moment without further getting deferred even if just to munch on something to ease such draining process…
Pleasantly achieving the goal is reliant on the manner by which it was accomplished. Results however aren’t entirely dependent on how it’s aimed at. I say, they were more of just getting it done. With due deference, they were true to their saying. The munching and all could have been a way of forgoing their snack breaks just so to accommodate us. Or most likely confirm how they find a way… All the same, it would be better though if rather they show the way.

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Of Fashionable Taste and Tasteful Fashion

Fashion is dictated by taste. Or about taste… Is it?
During big celebrity gatherings, defining moments for Stars usually get defined with if not by a fashion faux pas. Considering that a Star could have self-expressed gratification over her choice of dress (or gown to even wear it in the first place) only to be criticized with that of poor fashion sense, who then is more credible, the Star or the critic? Isn’t the dress designed by someone tasteful enough to be in the business? The more pushy questions could be, “Are fashion designs (even tastes) based on standards or expression of the artist behind it?” Are fashion designers (or critics) to dictate what is acceptable or not? Aren’t they being cynical about their objective as designers when similarly being disapproving of their co-fashion designers’ work?
Having witnessed a fashion show of some sort yesterday, I personally thought that the outfits were outlandish unless if it were for costume purposes. The use of indigenous materials while integrating a fitting design was expressed as an art rather than designed for its basic purpose. Who, anyone in their right minds, would even wear those? Nevertheless, the designer received a warm reception. A courteous audience; either that or they were really overwhelmed for some reasons.
It could just as well be the critical person in me. Aren’t we all? I’ve recently read about some top fashion no-nos. The poll was based from perception of regular people. As far as how I would most likely gauge it, their analyses made sense. That would apparently validate our (or the general public’s) ordinary taste to an exquisite one.
The absurdity though is when a celebrated fashion designer launches a dubious creation; his name rather carries it into some point of respectability. Regardless of the probable outrageous design, its branded status seems to bolster it still.
Dressing up or to simply clothe was initially actuated to rather serve as cover for all its worth. Designs weren’t given consideration. Could you imagine the first people to have been fussy over the kind of leaf to use in concealing their ‘privates’… Needless to say, “outfits” then were purposeful; not that using a sheep’s wool over goat’s hide would confirm who’s in vogue or outdated. If it was, that would explain the extinction of some animals… the mammoths’ fur could have been the Versaces, the Chanels or the Ralph Laurens back then (LOL!) Though give it to man’s ingenuity, clothing has leveled up (or leveled down, whichever suits you).

Point is that whatever we’re appropriately wearing, as long as we feel comfortable in it based on our own taste… Let us neither be offensive nor defensive from being a critic or being criticized. Being condemnatory and swollen with pride only proves our being to be even worse than those hunting for fur instead… How we look in our clothes is just skin deep. What matters is the personality behind the one wearing it… This way, fashion would be as tasteful as sincerity…

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Elemental Surprise

The element in “element of surprise” is, as it actually suggests, an elemental factor in hyping up what is to be open to the elements. Too much elements? Exactly the point. Or (quite apt) exactly the element… Stirring some suspense for an anticipated revelation further intensifies excitement. ‘Teasers’ for one is an element. It drives curiosity to keep track until it’s satisfied.
Satisfaction however should have a sustainable touch that would allow for a possible carry-over.
The now former Cavalier LeBron James’ recent “The Decision” created quite a stir that made headlines as much as headaches. The group responsible for such hoopla did well in having it hyped as they have probably expected. However, the manner by which it was decided on how it is to take effect was not of a sound decision. It was noise. After which, it has created louder noise…
Sound and noise differ like that of marketing and business though complementary. The soundness of marketing basics is to be sounded off in tune with the clamoring-for-more that is expected of a business. That is how (business) noise should be as sound.
In LeBron’s case, people (especially those from Cleveland) were in an uproar. As it is, this is not good business as it affects one vital element of marketing – image. Attaining a business goal is not exactly achieving its (set of) objectives and most likely not realizing its vision. Image is the (business’) deemed notion among its benefactors that could either make or break it. Thus, sustainable developments are rather effectuated for continuity. The least we expect from supporters and sponsors alike is for them to lose confidence, consequently, shunning away from that of what the business holds for growth.
Unless you’re one selfish “businessman”, progression could be limited to a certain degree. Your self-absorbed actions could correspondingly absorb your resources that would either validate your selfishness or humble you not to be one as you could end up losing everything and not have a single thing to share. What LeBron needs now is another marketing element that is PR to ameliorate what is left to salvage if he’s even concerned of such. Prior to the entire ruckus, he was the top commodity in the market. He still is but to lose a considerable share of what makes him the top dog inches him closer to a lower level.
With the mixture of marketing elements, the regard for its correlation is (once again) elemental in any business plan. Coming up with a plan, (say) a promotion with all the resonance of ad campaigns to boost market value, it has to have an integration of the right apportionment of elements from the initial stages (not up to the end result but) up to the likely basis of a continuance. From a simple retail store for instance, one may have made substantial sales but to not able to assure the return of customers for some reason forgo of its sustenance.
Under the circumstance where LeBron is currently in, we understand how a ball bounces and roll. He’ll probably bounce back and will be on a roll. From 23, he will be donning number 6. 2 x 3 is 6. This could be an assist for an easy 2 till it’ll be multiplied by threefold towards 6 rings also. Or it could be some sort of integration where he could unify opposing views in relation to his surprising decision – The Decision.
We could only wait; perhaps for Dan Gilbert’s assumption on Cleveland’s championship before LeBron’s…
Until the next surprise. Until we are all witnesses.

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Happy Fathers' Day Today and Tomorrow and the day after that and...

Today we celebrate Fathers’ Day. Now that the celebration is likewise intended for me having two kids of my own, certain still is that I’m also a son. In relation to the occasion, I was a son to my father whom I (still) look up to and to whom I have somehow patterned my fatherhood approach.
Fatherhood actually depends on one’s distinct method. It is from these means that fathers are measured up by their children as to how they are as a father. The partiality behind it though is that in such gauging process, considering we normally have one father, comparison is based between one’s own and that of other children’s father. Thus, the probable claim “My Dad’s the best father” of one child will always be disputable… as much as rather than argue with one’s parenting style, regard the difference instead even if only for realization to set in for both father and child as to the idiosyncrasies and exclusive circumstance of their relationship. Recognizing how these disparities could work for them make their rapport all the more distinctive. Circumstances allow for either adapting or developing what’s there for us to decide on. Decision, after all, is something to be acted on with conviction like that of how a father would do.
My father would have decided to celebrate today’s occasion with so much anticipation as it’s just an annual commemoration. The rest of the year is “Mothers’ Day” (LOL). Or for us fathers, except for today, everyday is our “Wife’s Day” (LOL Harder)… “In our household, I AM THE LAW!!! Though my wife amends the law if not the law breaker” (LOL still).
Kidding aside, Fathers’ Day is actually every day; it could however be more appropriate to identify it as “Children’s Day” or perhaps “Family Day” (with due deference to actual dates)… We are fathers because of our children… because of the family we lead – everyday.
YES! This way, fathers will be reminded daily of the responsibility behind their roles… May we be real Dads or Stepfathers, biological or surrogate, with similar or diverse styles, more than a commitment, it’s a privilege.

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