iPoD acrostic = ILMU Power of Delala

ILMU =

I NQUISITIVE, INISIATIVE
L EARNING CONTINUOUSLY
M AD (Make A Difference) Mentality
U ndeterred Determination, Unstoppable

Power of Delala ( A Javanese word meaning serendipity).....

ser·en·dip·i·ty (srn-dp-t)
n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties
1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.

[From the characters in the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, who made such discoveries, from Persian Sarandp, Sri Lanka, from Arabic sarandb.]
seren·dipi·tous adj.

seren·dipi·tous·ly adv.

Word History: We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word serendipity, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word." Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of "a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of...."

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After so many years languishing and not making a profit, suddenly we received an order from Malaysia for a container of our lapis legit product. WOW!

HOW?

Delala....

What do you mean?

Well, we didn't exactly go high and low in search of a buyer from any whatsoever country, but it just came .... an answer or an evidence of Psalm 109:27 - the "golden verse of 2012" for me.

So here's the "delala" story:

A friend called out of the blue (we seldom had any contact) and asked would you like to meet a Malaysian guy who's interested in your lapis legit...

OK, sure... where & when?
Right now... at Indische?

Oke...will see U then.

THat was how it started.

What transpired was ...we gave the Malaysian some samples of our products...and that was that..

Then he called and said he'd like to come again and discussed about the possibility of 1 container of 1500 cartons of 24 pieces each... WOW!

that would be 1500 x 24 = 36000...NO kidding! 36k - An order that was beyond our imagination

He came on the appointed day...after the day earlier Martha wrongly thought he was coming on a Friday, which after she went to the airport, and couldn't find him among the passengers of Air Asia, that she realized her mistake.

We discussed on the 6 different kinds of taste that he'd like to order, each for 250 cartons.. and arranged that he'd come again to bring the stickers and also tasted the samples.

He came with his friend from Batam, and after tasting the samples, gave the OK to go ahead.

Then problems started to surface...