So I recently went to the dentist, that went fine, till near the end when my stomach started to churn. I needed to go poos and quick! (For your information, it was the liquid type - actually it wasn’t, inbetween solid and liquid, I would say.)

Fortunately, my super-toilet-resistance skills prevailed and I was able to keep the untimely wave of waste in. And so, I left the dentist in an epic hunt for a toilet.

Moments later, I find a toilet, awkwardly positioned, but a throne nonetheless (in my eyes at that moment in time). Took a quick inspection, only to find someone left their log in the bowl, previous to my session. Man was it perfect. Perfect shaped, and also had a commendable length. The colour, however, was slightly off, suggesting it had been left to brew in the water for some time.

Didn’t think much about it later that day. There was no toilet paper in the toilet! Which means either the person ate the toilet paper after wiping their butt-hole, or, they didn’t wipe their bum-bum altogether. Gruesome, I know.

Lately I’ve been getting heaps of good deals (selling-wise) on Trade Me – a New Zealand edition of eBay. But the problem is, I feel guilty for selling things as such astronomical prices, when I know that they aren’t even valued anything near that.

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For example, I sold a broken graphics card for $72 a few years ago after seeing a similar broken item selling for $30. It was far beyond my expectations. More recently, I sold this power adapter for $50, again far above $30, what it truly should have been valued at… when new.

Every time I send these packages off, I get this gut feeling that they’re going to figure they got ripped off and give me an after-trade negative feedback. But is it my fault? Probably not, they have the choice. Likewise, petrol stations sell things with a tremendously higher mark-up than super markets do, yet they seem to still thrive with customers.

There’s a price for convenience, or is that just the price you pay for being lazy?

I must under-go rebranding as too many people mis-pronounce my website’s stupid name. It’s ‘be-three-en’ dammit, not ‘Brethren’ - which has been what most my clients have been calling it.

Stay tuned for some fantastically fantastic rebranding sherbet within the next few weeks.

Here’s an update:

Man this is hard - Firstly, I have a stupid as name which takes away credibility from me rather than adding some personal spunk and professionalism. Benjamin/Ben Tan? Pathetic. Moreover, it sounds way too asian which will most definitely work against me.

Therefore I have chosen to create a name for my little ’studio’. This name shall disclude any stupid words such as “studio”, “creative”, “industries”, “designs”, “design” etc. ’cause they’re a bit cliche no-a-days. It has to be perfect - not too long, but also not too short; not too hard to pronounce and not to hard to spell.

A bad example is 31three.com - the owner of the site, Jesse, admits this is not the easiest of web addresses to convey over the phone to a client.

There seems to be a problem.

I have just finished compiling our company’s annual report. We’ve had it checked a few times, and were absolutely sure that there were no visible errors to be seen.

But every time I sent a final copy to the printers, a new blip would appear. Since sending the first initial publication, I have sent a further 6 copies, each with an amendment of some error.

And today our book got printed. While I was preparing the document for a digital audience, I found another error. This time it wasn’t so obscure or hidden, in fact, was extremely blatant and could well pose a threat to our perfectionist image we try to achieve — The problem was that when I resized the page, I forgot to re-centre the objects on the back page. Now they are nudged 10mm to the right too far.

Now that’s over, it’s time to win.