President's Greeting

VBNF wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Year 2011 has gone by so quickly and it is Christmas Eve today. We wish you a great New Year to come and hope you had a good year in 2011.

VBNF was quite busy making lots of connections and working hard to promote Low Income Housing for Canada and the rest of the world. Low Income housing is needed to rebuild the world's economy and provide jobs to the people. The building industry affects many industries. If the housing industry is doing well with low cost, we would be able to afford a place to live and grow. Vancouver is doing its job to find good solutions to low income housing. How can it be better f we can provide housing at half of the costs and 1/3 of the time to build, yet earthquake and high wind proof. New technologies may take time to be accepted by the standards bodies and the cities. However, if something is good, easy to build with better building standards than the regulars, we should look deeply into it to speed up the process. For the year 2012, VBNF hopes that the government would get to work to provide the solution to people. We would be there to assist if necessary.

VBNF Special Guests

Delegates from Jiangsu China

A group of government officials were visiting Murchtech to see their new housing. They were impressed by the simplicity of the system and how easy to build a housing or building for many applications. VBNF will work with them to find the way to materialize the work.

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Thai King's Birthday Party

VBNF was invited to attend the Thai King's Birthday party on Dec 1, 2011. As usual, the party is full of special guests, good food and great entertainment. We meet many new friends at the party. The Thai people are very friendly and approachable. They served excellent Thai coffee and many snacks and rice. Thai Rice is one of the best rice in the world with great aroma. It goes exceptionally well with Thai curry. I love Thai good. How about the Thai coconuts drinks and milk that is so good for dessert or gourmet cooking.

Let’s not forget the flooding in Thailand. They handle it well. But they would need help too. Donate to Thai Red Cross now. http://www.oakmonster.com/2011/10/26/thailand-flood-relief-donate-to-thai-red-cross-society/

Indonesia Investment seminar and Tradeshow Dec 08, 2011

VBNF attended both functions on the day I received my second eye cataract surgery. What a busy day but survived. VBNF learned about many investment opportunities in Indonesia and its political environment for investment. They indeed have many resources that you can invest for good profits. For details, please contact us.

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Job Opportunities

VBNF works with our member companies to hire skilled workers to help them expand their companies in Canada and other countries. Anyone interested can email their resume to info@vbnf.com Only qualified people will be contacted. We are also happy to work with Immigration consultants who may have qualified skill worker from other countries who can also speak good English. Again, please contact us for details.

Hiring Skilled Workers from China to enhance your Business

VBNF works with Canadian manufacturers who would like to expand their market and business in China. Everybody knows that the Chinese market is huge. Some want to export products there and some want to find a business partner there to work together.

We believe the second choice would be a better one. The reason is that it is far more complicated to set up your own business in China without the proper resources and local knowledge of the market. Many Canadian CEOs would like to do the way they are used to without understanding the real needs in the China Market. This makes it very hard to find a partner to work with if the Canadians only want to do the way they know.

My Chinese partner who helped set up business for the Canadian companies always had to remind the Canadian CEOs to listen to the people they would like to work with. After all, when we talk big here in Canada, it could only mean a drop in the bucket in China as the China market is many times bigger than here. Many large corporations here do not even match a medium size company there in terms to production and market value. Without the proper respect and understanding, the Canadians will not be able to make the connection. This is why we are here to help.

One of the best ways to start is to hire experts from China who has the skill set you need in the China market. All a sudden, you are now able to recruit the best person in the industry you want and have them work for you to give you the know how in China. At the same time, you are also giving the employee the chance to live in our free country that they can use their contacts to make money for you and themselves. What a win-win situation. You now lower your cost of setting up the company there, have an expert who knows the market to work for you.

Making the right contact is hard enough since nobody knows you or your company. Even they know of your company, it is at their discretion to deal with you and not the other way.

VBNF is just doing that to help you take your business to China. We can help you locate the professionals you need. Contact us for more details.

Volunteer Opportunity

VBNF is looking for a part-time volunteer (3-4 days per week) for Summer. Applicants must have a formal PR education, strong writing skills and be fleunt in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint). Please send resume and writing samples to alex@vbnf.com. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for inteview. A writing/computer skills assesesment may be requested.

Volunteer Benefits - Gain Canadian working experience and create the opportunities to network with potential employers and learn about many business opportunities. Open your mind to take what you can get.

MERX Canadian Public Tenders

http://www.merx.com/English/nonmember.asp?WCE=Show&TAB=1&PORTAL=MERX&State=1&hcode=0oAbh0Y4HyEmQfk9GqXlQw%3d%3d

Service Canada provides much information for small and Medium business owners to learn about their services. They also post many of their jobs for bidding. VBNF will work with them to bring their news and events to you. Stay tune for their events.

Eye Cataract Surgery

I would like to share my experience with my Eye Cataract Surgery so in case you may need one, you would know what to expect. Sometimes the doctor may not have explained to you before the surgery. When you are getting old, you may experience Cataract.

Cataract eye surgery is a simple procedure that has minimum risk on the eyes. However, to do it safe, the doctor would advise you to do the eyes one by one just case something bad happens. This is OK. But it also has some implication to be aware of.

1. If you have both eyes done, you may request your doctor to make the separation period shorter. This is because the two eyes are not having the same eye sight and make both eyes get tired easily and give you double images with both eyes not the same corrected.

2. If you have cataract surgery. You will lose near sight correction you may have before. In my case, I was able to see near things clearly without my glasses. After the surgery, I was not able to see anything small or close, totally out of focus.

3. People who need cataract may experience not seeing things clearly because the built up cataract around the lens in the eye. With the surgery, you will see brighter and whiter images. However, if the surgery is not perfect, there may be little tissue that may stay in the eye to give you cloudiness. But you still can see clear for Far Sight.

4. Once Cataract surgery is done, it will take a few weeks (4-6) to heal. During the healing period, you need to add eye drops to prevent infection and your eye would need adjustment to focus. This will take up much energy for your eyes so you will get tired easily with your eyes that may also give you headache if both eyes are not seeing the same thing clearly. (This happens when you do your cataract at different time.) One way to fix this is to have a contact lens on the second eye once the first eye has got the surgery.

5. Again, after both eyes gets done, you will need to wait a month or more to get your reading glasses prescription and you will need to carry the reading glass anywhere you go. This is different from when you wear far sight glass all day and no need to wear reading glass like I do.

6. So, understand what you are up to and decide what to do correctly.

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