Better Features for the New IBC Japan Website

IBC Japan launched its improved website last June 16, designed to make searching and navigation easier for used car importers. With its simple layout and functional features, the new site allows you to search and import used cars with less difficulty.

Here’s a brief overview on what the new website has got to offer.

Easier Access and Vehicle Search

The new IBC Japan site has less overloading with banners and flash content, thus faster user verification and vehicle search. After a quick log-in, you can go straight to business and search for used cars from auctions in Japan, online auctions and our inventory through the site’s Vehicles menu or quick links.

You can now also enjoy a search field powered by Google, an added feature for faster content searches.

Improved Chat Function

With the permanent chat window, you can now chat with any available CSC representative even without logging in. You also have the option to manage your preferred contacts as favorites upon log in. With IBC Japan’s Favorite Contacts, you can chat with your favored CSC representatives whenever you need Live Help.

IBC Japan serves customers worldwide. Visit the new and improved IBC Japan website at http://www.ibcjapan.co.jp

Self-esteem assessment

I read an article about self-esteem and couldn't help to reevaluate mine. Self-esteem, as defined by Wiki, is the person's overall self-appraisal of his/her own worth. It can be shaped up by various factors such as your experiences, the people around you, illnesses, injuries, your culture, religion and your own insights and beliefs. Of all these, your own beliefs and thoughts play the leading role in building your self-esteem. Self-esteem can be extremely high, negative and the best of all, healthy self-esteem.

People with very high self-esteem believe they are more worthy than others. They can be overconfident, proud and egoistic with impractical views of who and what they are. They think of themselves as superior, who can do better and think better than the rest of the human species.

Negative self-esteem on the other hand could be upsetting too. People with low self-esteem think of themselves as failure (or shall I say a perfectionist who’s anxious to fail), that whatever they do is not good enough. They dwell much on negative feedbacks and even deny positive comments and refuse to acknowledge the compliments they get. They easily feel down, doubt their capabilities, achievement and appearance. They even make pitiless remarks for themselves than to anybody else. There’s also one thing I couldn’t believe it’s a sign of having low self-esteem because, I for sure is guilty of doing such, its apologizing frequently. I didn’t realize that ‘til now.

Now you can absolutely get the idea of what healthy self-esteem is. By having one, you are less prone to suffer depression, guilt and shame or save yourself from mental health disorders for that matter. You can have a strong and honest relationship with people around you rather than being despised. You won’t be walking around hesitantly minding what people think about your hair or your outfit. Or worst, go to a meeting looking completely dumb because you’re too unsure of the things you’re saying even if you had read your speech a hundred times (or even memorize it). Coyness is a product of low self-esteem, you know. On a contrary, a ballooning ego of one’s self is enough to annihilate a tribe of allies. You don’t want to live your life with people thinking you’re a self-centered jerk from planet bitch or a lame altruistic being who ascended from the dead, do you?

4 Ques When Buying a Used Car

When shopping for a used car, “Indispensables” should be looked at first to ensure that you’re really buying your money’s worth and not riding a regret in the long run.

1. Watch out for that lemon- Probably the danger in buying used cars is when you don’t know much about the history of repairs and cranks of the vehicle you got, without proper vehicle inspection, probably you’ll end up stuck on the road and spending hundreds or perhaps thousands of dollars on repairs. If you bought a lemon, your car’s better off at a local junkyard.

2. Odometer Readings – Be on the lookout for Odometer tampering. You might get a thought that you'll chose your used car based on it's odometer readings- as you thought that the lower its reading, the better the chances that you’re getting a good car! tsk tsk... well, a bummer for you then, for tampering abounds.

3. Vehicle Ownership history- This one has got to be the worst. Suppose you got a cool car, figured its the best in its class and you thought maybe you'd take it for a drive around town, meet with friends for a show; Suddenly you get pulled over and worst case- cuffed by the cops! Too late you found out that the cool car you’re driving is a “hot” one!

It’s much better that before you buy the car of your choice, you should be acquainted with its qualities in or out, accompanied with necessary documents such as ownership history, that way you’re assured of worry- free driving!

4. Purchase only from reliable dealers with Inspection services- The best part of them all, is buying your car from a reliable dealer. You see, a good dealer will always see to it that the best service is given as much as possible according to the satisfaction of his customer in order to protect his name and reputation plus, you're assured that your car has passed stringent inspection requirements before it has been set on display !

With a thousand dealers to choose from nowadays, seeing this part through may come as quite a burden. But with used car dealers like IBCJapan together with distribution partner AutoTerminal.Com, you can worry no more as their vehicles has passed the most stringent of inspection services plus more, to make sure that you’re getting your money’s worth and to your satisfaction.

Browse their website now and avail of their services: IBCJapan and AutoTerminal.Com

Article source: http://jam-jovir.blogspot.com/

1st Marketing Mini Olympics

We just had our first ever Marketing Mini Olympics in the office this morning. With a tag line "Creativity in Advertising", we had given a chance to show how creative we could be as far as advertising is concern. It was a great event. We had lots of fun. We had pizza after the activity. Winners received a plaque. Losers took care of the bill, and uhm.. we're one of them. hehe

Here are some of the studies we've presented.













Layout Artist: Kuya Owie

The funny side of print advertising

These are only few of the modern print ads the world of advertising came up to. Such prints are bounded with humor and style..

Bitches Don't Cry

Alright. This isn't mine. I took this from our school publication, won the first prize for the creative writing contest. I so damn liked this essay (read it a hundred times, actually) that i couldn't help but cut it from the paper and posted in my scrap book. And now here in my blog. Hope the real author won't mind. hehehe.. Wherever you may be today, hat's off to you. You totally rock!


Water drips from my hair. I clutch my towel tight. Life sucks. Curling in my room's corner, i heard this fuckin' song in the radio and i have no idea why i suddenly get upset. It's starting to get into my nerves. Me, the drama queen. I Just discovered this talent underneath my bitchy facade. It embarrasses me whenever I unintentionally exhibit my waterworks in front of my friends. I stand and look myself in the mirror. Tada! Holy shit, I've been looking like a goldfish these days. My eyes are swollen, inflated like it's about to burst. And it feels heavy and sore. I am the perfect picture of a boxer who just had a rough fight in the ring. Only, I have no bruises, just a battered heart.

I have always thought that i was made of tougher stuff than he rest of the female species. Being the black sheep of the family, getting the highest number of beatings and the never-ending troubles i get myself into, not to mention the other outrageous follies, certainly qualifies me for the title 'most stubborn'. I thought I could handle anything and everything without making so much fuss; it never occurred to me that I'm as capable as anyone else to make such splendid mess of myself and of my life.

I'm tough, they say. And true enough, I've remained as bratty as can be. But although I'm innately mean, I can also tremble from certain pains. I have enough courage to admit some things could actually twist me this much.

I went to class that day. I dreaded the moment. I walked past many faces. I am hurt. I flinch through moist eyes. People didn't notice. They never felt anything. I sat and stared at the chair in front. The names stared back at me, the Marks and the Ryans. Like me, perhaps they too wanted to have a place in this world. They write anywhere, hoping someone would care.

I found myself writing Mrs. Von Tyler. This is me. I wonder how many other dummies are doing exactly what I'm doing. I know all this scribbling are simply letters written hopelessly and out of frustrations. And it frustrates me more, for i know it will remain engraved in that slab of wood, forever unread and unheard.

A small unknown drop of liquid blotted the ink of my precious Mrs. Von Tyler. Hell, I was actually crying in the classroom! Am i nuts? My eyes felt heavier each minute. My head longed to rest on my desk but i kept scribbling the silly Mrs. Von Tyler thing to keep me from drowning to nowhere. I waited achingly for the goddamn bell to ring; the waiting seems endless. I'm not really fond of crying, never been a big fan 'til now. I tried hard to be nonchalant at everything but this time, i failed. Since the tragic ending of my so-called fairy tale, I've been a little soft. It took me a lot of willpower to laugh those days. My face felt like cement. It cracks every time i try to smile. But then it hit me after some time. I'm a bitch and feeling sorry for myself won't do my beautiful fangs any good. People miss my evil grins. They miss my snide wisecracks.

You see, we bitches don't cry. We refuse to conform with the norms. But this goddamn thing called love, so much like a rose, sweet and lovely, beckons to me. I cannot resist even its thorns and its pain.

That is why I'm afraid I'm losing my touch. Whenever some asshole decides to tell me the famous "I love you" line, i usually say "I love you, my ass!" And they all stay out of my hair. I guess Mr. Von Tyler was the sole exemption. He was somehow a different story. He knew I was bitchy and came to love the lousy darn life I had. Then, he realized one morning that he is actually in love with somebody else. It doesn't get any crazier than that.

You see, the world is crazy. And so am I. But at least I'm beautiful. I keep telling myself this until I'm brain dead. Bitches don't cry. But that month, I did.

Hey, there are always exemptions. TC

Poem from the heart Part 2

Nothing much. Just feeling a little emo..

Sweet Denial

hiding from the shadow of my sweet denial
and feeling the guilt of my betrayal.
i'm always in the world of make believe,
dreaming of things i could have received.

i've known you for so long,
but still i'm in anxiety to where i belong.
am i destined to be loved?
and receive the bounty from up above?

i couldn't wait any longer
'coz this feelings keep on getting stronger.
i want to reveal what's deep within
and give my best of what's given.

my conscience keeps hunting me;
why do i keep on hiding this feeling?
maybe i'm waiting for a glance,
for faith will prove that it's a sign of my chance.

time will bind us as one,
after the faults have already been done.
foolishness! my rule in me,
but i'll still reveal my sweet denial, you'll see!