A few weeks ago, one of the guys I thought about was Kelvin Khoo. Hence, I searched on the Internet, found him, and sent him an email just to catch up, after nearly 1-2 decades of not having met each other. And so we arranged to meet up, and that time, he explained that he has been working as an AIA employee for nearly 15 years, and at the end of the meetup, he showed some concern for me, asked to pray for me, and I agreed. He even gave me a Christian booklet, saying how his life has changed.

And a week or two after that, he sent me a PDF on Gen3. Tuesday, he SMSed me to ask for a catchup and we finally met today. After some small chit chat, he proceeded to ask me for my NRIC number, saying its a standard procedure to keep records of people he talk to. I didn't give it to him, as I do not see any relevance. However, he quickly manoeuvred his way into asking for my birth date, and so, I gave it to him. He then gave a talk on Gen3, and stuff like that.

Had he asked if I was interested, I would have said no immediately. As I'm a nice person, I just let him continued and so forth. He tried to persuade me into buying, thinking that after our last meetup, he had a reasonable grasp of my financial situation. Indeed, he had asked what was my portfolio in terms of the cash amount. When I didn't want to reveal, he pressed for a ballpark figure, and so I gave it to him. Had he not been a friend, he would have been turned down easily. His emotions were quite easily shown on his face and he was getting frustrated, irritated and possibly emotionally hostile.

Eventually, I told him I am not interested in such products, and wouldn't even think of buying. His emotions were by now easily shown on his face, and he quickly wrapped up the meeting. He then commented that when he became an AIA agent, he then knew who his friends are, and when I asked why, he said friends meet up with him, but others avoided him.

My gratitude is always there for Kelvin, as he had in my earlier years resolved my prawn phobia, but seeing in first person how he had arranged for a meetup, and it turned out to be a selling talk, I understood why others had avoided him.