hey people, i'm not exactly new in SgForum. I'm using another
account now because of what i did in the past and therefore my
account got suspended. Well, why it got suspended was because i
tried to advertise an online survey that could help make money
here. i didn't know it was wrong at that time. but well learnt my
lesson. =)
that's just a little bit about my that naughty past, anyway i've
been observing this forum for a year now, as a guest. anyone can
view forum right? 
why i ended up here? that's because one of my "friend" tried to get
me to join NTI. I went down at 8 plus and it took me 3 hours to get
out. I was supposed to attend some talk and she emphasized to me
why i needed to come down because it's by some very influential
speaker and stuff. my goodness, i was even being targeted at during
the talk, because i was sitting right at the front so i became one
of the speaker's 'specimen'.
It was such a turn off, the way he spoke. It didn't take me long to
conclude that that guy standing on the stage was an idiot and that
him being an 'influential' speaker? i felt i could do an even
better job. but anyway after the talk, i met one of my primary
schoolmate, when i look at him, he still looked the same. and he
claims he's doing very well now. but i knew him, from primary
school, he wasn't a very smart student, he wasn't very
well-behaved, i asked myself, "does this company really have the
ability to give chances to people and let them change for the
better?" i looked around the 1st floor office, it was in a complete
mess.
there's so many people sitting around, i didn't have my lunch and
dinner before that, i couldn't stand it. i asked my friend if i
could leave so i can eat my dinner, she asked me to wait because
they wanted someone else to speak to me. i kept on pressing that i
wanted to leave and finally she gave in, asked me to talk to this
manager for awhile and he tried to get me to join, explaining to me
all the stuff, placing the form in front of me. i filled it up but
stopped short at signing, i asked "do i have to sign?".
they told me it's just for reference, so i was like, damn it i want
to leave, i'm not going to sign this and you can have my
particulars. i told them that i was going to sign up for some
silver membership thing but i need to consider first and that i'll
drop by again. finally i managed to leave the place.
i was doing a project at that time and was in partnership with a
boss of a shop in bugis. i was supposed to meet him to get
promotional materials from him and when i did, i talked to him for
awhile and he told me that all this MLM stuff are not worth
joining. he said he is someone who jumps at any money making
opportunity but he'll never take up MLM.
I came home, switched on my com, did a little search on NTI and
found their website, the moment i got in, i laughed, it was techno
music playing. i was thinking, wtf? corporate website and
background music is techno? that was one hell of an experience,
then i moved on to my next search, a forum, this forum. i through
most of the thread and i realised how it's actually like in
NTI.
i'm not going to jump into conclusion on how bad NTI is because
i've never beeen in it like some forum members here, but i can at
least think logically, in MLM is like a pyramid, the top is made up
of few people, but they get the most, the bottom, they cannibalise.
i asked myself, do i really want to be part of this cannibalism? do
i want to be like my 'friend'? drag other of my friends into this
cannibalism? No. I want to keep my friends, and save the money.
Even if i'm going to miss out on money making opportunity, it's
better than losing my friends. and therefore i chose not to
join.
today, i still have my money, my time, my friends. and i'm proud of
that. 
