Lovely balcony with table and chairs

I started to fill my house with some furniture and my house feel more like home. I got 2 chairs and table from some furniture shop to fill the empty space at my balcony and let me enjoy my free time at my lovely balcony.

These house appliance I got it from small furniture shop at Sea Park. It looks like chairs that using at coffee bean. I chosen aluminum’s type is because raining will never spoiled them.

Chairs and Table I bought

When I am free, I will lay at these chair at my balcony and read some books and enjoy the scenery of SS2 with a cup of coffee.2 Chairs cost me RM100 and table cost me RM100 as well. this is consider good price, but I don't know how long can it stand. hehehe....

Still thinking of more things can be bring into my house at this moment and will post about it when I got something new.

Addictive

What activities can be very addictive? When you get your hand on it, you will never think of out from it. Some people can answer my question as they will easily get addicted with PC games. And stay for all long night to finish the whole game as soon as possible.

I told my friends that every thing in your life is actually addictive and you doing it every day, every week or every month without notified. Like football game, I watch it every weekend and when come to weekend I will stay at home at night and get myself watch every game if can.

Every day I have to drink a cup of Nescafe to make myself awake. This is also one thing that I addicted as well. and maybe a cup of coffee will do. Sometimes I feel that I had too much of coffee.

Gambling is also something can make you addicted with it like when you get your hand with betting in 4D, you will think of it when come to Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.

Shopping for woman can be one of the addictive thing that they will never forget about, you will know it when come to MEGA SALES.

I think this is true that everyone got their own addicted things. So, what is yours?

ASW 2020 - One billion new units

Today Post office rocked by the subcription of ASW 2020. There are additional one billion units opened for subcription. Please see news below for details:

KUALA LUMPUR: Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd (ASNB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), yesterday opened for subscription one billion new units of Amanah Saham Wawasan 2020 (ASW 2020).
To ensure fair distribution to the investing public, a maximum limit of 10,000 units has been set per account holder during the offer period ending Dec 3.
The maximum investment limit would be void after the offer period, it said in a statement.
With the additional units, the fund size of ASW 2020 would increase to 10.42 billion units.
ASW 2020 was launched on Aug 28, 1996, with an initial fund size of three billion units.
ASW 2020 is a fixed priced unit trust open to all Malaysians aged six months and above, subject to a quota of 51% for bumiputras and 49% for non-bumiputras.

-The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), has announced one billion additional new units of Amanah Saham Wawasan 2020, to be opened for subscription beginning tomorrow.
To ensure a fair distribution, the public can only invest up to 10,000 units per account holder between tomorrow and next Wednesday. The maximum investment limit will be void after the offer period.
Transactions will begin at 8am at all 10 ASNB full operation offices nationwide. Unit holders can also subscribe to the new units at the 1,627 ASNB agents’ branches nationwide, subject to their operating hours.
ASW 2020 is a fixed-priced equity fund open to all Malaysians aged six months and above. It is also subject to a quota of 51 per cent for Bumiputera and 49 per cent for non-Bumiputeras.
Investors can also invest in the ASW 2020 using the Employees Provident Fund member’s scheme.
Launched 12 years ago, the fund will grow from initial three billion units to 10.42 billion units after tomorrow.
ASW 2020 created a record when the non-Bumiputera subscription quota was fully subscribed in 27 minutes when one billion new additional units were launched on Sept 1, 2006.

-NST

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 (Bernama) — Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), is offering one billion additional new units of Amanah Saham Wawasan 2020 (ASW 2020) to be opened for subscription beginning Thursday.
PNB president and chief executive Tan Sri Hamad Kama Piah Che Othman said to ensure a fair distribution to the investing public, a maximum investment limit of 10,000 units has been set per account holder during the offer period from Nov 27 to Dec 3.
“The maximum investment will be void after the offer period,” he said in a press conference at PNB headquarters recently.
Hamad said transactions of the new ASW 2020 units will begin at 8.00 am at all ten ASNB full operation offices nationwide. He said unit holders could also subscribe to the new ASW 2020 units at the 1,627 ASNB agents’ branches nationwide subject to their operating hours.
With these additional units, the fund size of ASW 2020 will increase to 10.42 billion units compared to 9.42 billion units currently.
ASW 2020 was launched on Aug 28, 1996, with an initial fund size of three billion units. ASW 2020 is a fixed priced unit trust fund open to all Malaysians aged six months and above subject to a quota of 51 percent for Bumiputera and 49 percent for non-Bumiputera.
“Investors can also invest in the ASW 2020 using the Employees Provident Fund Member’s Scheme,” Hamad said.
Since its launch, the average income distribution for the ASW 2020 fund has been 7.74 sen per unit, he added.
– BERNAMA

ASW can be said a very stable investment option and return rate is much better than FD which 7% This year. for more information about this product, please click on link below:
http://www.asnb.com.my/english/asw.htm.

Skytrex Adventure @Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya Sri Alam

Skytrekking was fun! It was so fun till I can’t wait for the extreme challenge to be ready.

I’ve made the booking 2 weeks before, and the only time slot left is 2.30pm (gosh, must be hot hot hot, I was thinking). But still I took it. We have 8 of us, 4 guys and 4 gals, all departing from PJ.

Skytrex Adventure is located at the Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya Sri Alam. We took a free shuttle bus from the entrance to where the Skytrex Adventure actually takes place. It was just a mere 5 minutes ride. Along the ride, we were showered with fresh air…

shuttle bus to skytrex

Once we got there, we went straight to the counter and to register. We were not asked to pay upfront. You’ll only have to pay after finishing the challenge. Each of us got the equipments, a locker and a pair of gloves (RM1 per rent). The instructors were there to equip us.

Equipment for rent

helping hand

One of the instructors gave us a briefing and demo on using the equipments (the hooks), safety and some “flying” tips. We started right after the briefing. And because we were the smaller group (there was a 15 person group with us), we got the start first (lucky us…)

I am ready !!

All together there were 25 challenges (according to their website, cos I’d actually lost count half way thru the challenge), and we started with climbing a 17 meter long tree stairs (it was tiring). Then we crossed a zigzag trek (it was so high up, that I couldn’t see the ground.. and I did chicken abit there. I just kept telling myself, don’t look down and don’t think about it…).

The challenge start from here

The challenge that I hated to most must be the hanging tubes. The distance was short, but it seemed so hard. The instructor kept telling us to step a feet at 1 tube at a time. But the tubes kept swinging, forth and back, left and right, which we couldn’t really step on them. After struggling for a few moments, all of us managed to walk thru (yoo hoo!)

Spiderman

Then it came this tarzan swing. This I must say was the hardest for me. We were supposed to swing with a rope, step on a plank, and catch the next rope with the other hand. But, I just couldn’t reach the plank. I couldn’t recall how much time I spent there, but it was definitely long… but well, I din chicken out thou :P

There were several chicken exits throughout the challenges, but none of us did chicken out. Hooray!

After about 2 hours of the fun time, finally we got to the end exit. All of us got wet cos it just started raining right before we got the exit. But still we enjoyed it pretty much.

I must say Skytrekking is really awesome and we really had a great time there! And there’ll be an extreme challenge ready sometime in March next year. We are so looking forward to that!!

Maxis limited edition BPL figurines

For a month I have been looking for a place to grab the limited edition BPL star figurines. I am thinking of getting all the figurines for collection. Finally I got it yesterday from One Utama shopping complex. As you walk out from parkson towards old wing at 1st floor. you can see BPL star is lining up a wall and waiting for your free kick.

BPL star lining up for free kick wall

Maxis are doing some promotion and this time they giving out free figurine when you purchase top up card, upgrade your maxis plan or pay your bill.

Normally you need to top up more than RM30, upgrade your maxis plan or pay your bill for buying the figurine for RM7.50 each, but yesterday they giving out free when you top up for RM30. I just pay for RM90 and I can get 3 figurines for free Instead of buying them for RM7.50?? Ok deal

So, immediately I purchased 3 x RM30 top up card and get 3 of them.

3 x RM30 hotlink reload cards

free 3 x BPL's star figurines

For this month there 3 available to purchase, they are Ronaldo, Torres and Lampard. Following by next month is Rooney, Ballack and Fabregas. For Jan 2009 will be Gerard, Cech and Ferdinand. So I manage to get Ronaldo, Torres and Lampard for this month. See photo below for my lovely BPL stars.

Ronaldo

Torres

Lampard

Don't Know if they will have a promotion again by next month and January 2009. so, I can keep them all for free mah.. hehehee...

Office in de dark

Previously I wrote a post stated Recession impact to my company. My company is so called public listed company in Malaysia. Today is the day that confirms my company is hitting badly by global financial crisis. Why I say so? This is because my company’s management comes out with the stupid idea and wants to save some money from electrical usage. Let me show you some photo of my office.

Super power savings method

this method can be better

Photo shown that our light inside our office and it only on half and because they want to have power saving plan, so they can save some money from electrical. Look at the time I taken, and this is morning. die or not??!!!

this look creative enough

And this applies for the whole office. what the heck !!!

better turn off some lei.. save more

Some part of office even off totally because there is no one sits around that area. This is super power savings plan that have to implement immediately to survive when recession.

ten ten ten.. Office in de dark~~~Get me out of here !!

Do you think with this kind of situation, people can work comfortably? And people might fall a sleep because of the light condition in de office.

By the way, I am looking for a new job. any recommendations? I scared if next month they cut salary lei.. kakakaka.... I think the next thing they will go for is cut headcount which they are actually doing now.

Gmail with colorful themes

I am a hard core supporter to for Gmail. Even though I use Outlook for work; Gmail is my choice for personal because the conversational grouping is easy and it comes with the chat bar that allows me to communicate with my friend instantly.

Today I came in to office and I realize that Gmail live their themes selection features. Now, user can enjoy some colorful layout with Gmail allow users to select some provided theme so that user won’t get bored with the default layout. The Themes selection menu can be found at the email setting tabs.

For more information, please refer to the official Gmail blog. Spice up your inbox with colors and themes.

Long holiday in December

Starting from 6th December to 14th December, there will be a long holiday for me because of lesser order from our customers. My company needs to shut down for a week. This is also a good time for me to take leaves and enjoy trips with my family.

This is actually the first trip for my parents after my mom recovering from her long illness and the last trip was last year for my sister's convocation. That was around June 2007.

We plan for lots of activities for this week; 6th December we are going to Cameron for a whole family trip. Since my mom has never been there and my brother managed to get an apartment in Cameron even at the super peak period. We will enjoy a full 3 days 2 nights retreat there. Next, my parents will be coming to KL and stay with me until 14th December.

For that week, I will be bz bringing them visit our relatives and meet up with their old friends to have a long nice chat. That’s what they dream of. And we are heading Genting on the 11th December as my father likes to try his luck, alot. :D And he seldom go uphill actually. For them, Genting is a must if want to stay in KL. Hahahaha..

They will be going back on Sunday, and my mom keeps telling me that this is their first time taking flight. I think I shouldn’t tell them early as my mom will keep excited and cannot sleep until the day. Hahahaha..

During that period, I will bring them to Batu Caves one day or maybe Kuala Selangor. This is all things to be decided by them.

I am quite excited with this holiday, hope we can really enjoy it.

Stupid 10% toll discount for highways

10% toll discount for using highways from midnight to 7am starting from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2010. We Malaysian been struggling from paying a high fee of toll and now they decide to give discount on only midnight to 7AM?

For my opinion, this is not a good idea. Just imagine people who travel and reach Ipoh toll by 11:55PM. They will wait at beside of the road for the time to reach 12AM. Means that the road will congest with cars and accident might happen because of this.

Another thing is the discount only start by midnight means that there will be more people driving during midnight to 7AM. This will get people to force themselves driving and might increase chances of getting unnecessary accident like fall a sleep when driving.

And people who force themselves to make it get the discount they will try to speed up the time to make in before 7AM. Means speeding problem will be more along the highways for discount period.

If really want to give out discount, why not just generously give up 10% all day long? And don’t make people choose they time of travel?

But after all, this is really something better than nothing for Malaysian who always using highway like me.

Recession impact

People around the world been worried about the recession and how big the impact my company got as a local company in Malaysia. My company is doing semiconductor and a listed company in Malaysia. This recession is hitting my company badly as my company starting to cut on the production cost in order to survive from this recession.

Last month was still ok as customer still put lots of order from us, but this month and coming December month will be dropping 30% order and management started to panic about the over production cost versus income.

This month management instructed all section managers to control Over Time in all area and they even come out with 0 OT email announcement to all officer in my company. When come to less order, company shut down will be necessary to cut cost and then follow by cut headcount. And worst to worst, jobless people are increasing and impact economy in this country as well.

As people are looking at this situation is as bad as 1997 now and government still very optimize about it, but I am not sure what their reference about the impact of recession is. No more joke as I can see it myself in my company.

Broadband service still suck

In Malaysia, most of the people have been struggling with the low speed of the broadband provided by service provider. And until today we still not up to the global standard as many countries can provide higher speed than Malaysia.

The Internet is a modern trend. This step in technology has enabled countless people to communicate, to trade and to learn more effectively than ever before. But people still counting on some better offer of broadband service provider to give them less headache broadband service.

As per now, I think TM been monopolize the broadband market but still uncertain with the service provided. And the slow of the technology enhancement on the broadband service still a main concern of today’s consumer.

For other service provider, please speed up the development and make our life better. We are hoping for better future of technology in Malaysia.

NO More fuel Surcharge from Airasia

"No Fuel Surcharge" is introduced for all seats on AirAsia and AirAsia X to relieve guests from paying the fuel surcharge fee. And today onwards you can book for 0 fare seat which Airasia is having promotion for next year starting from June until October.

With "No Fuel Surcharge", AirAsia's seat prices will consist of only the air fare, administration fee and airport tax and you will enjoy even lower cost of travel from AirAsia and AirAsia X. The lower fare will also mean that you'll enjoy more savings, please grab some seat during this promotion period.

This is no kidding as I search thru for KL to Alor Setar flight and it just cost me RM60 for return tickets. In fact, it’s cheaper than go back by bus. Better act fast or this free seat will fully book if you still hesitate.

What I have learn here

Let me start with one interesting fact “Money Changes Everything”. Many of you might know that I am working at one of the local manufacturing company. this term money might be the big challenge in my work.

Base on “Money Changes Everything” statement, many of you might think that I am talking nonsense about this, and every one knows that this is a fact. But any of you really can spend more in your company’s system structure to let a better up time happen for your in-house application? Money is the unspoken, ugly secret that controls every project in your company. If budget is no one would have downtime and all system designs and operations would be prefect (at least theoretically).

The budget in company is one of the first thing management concerns about, it attached strongly to your project and it will determine on what you will be able to achieve, just base on the hardware spec and you will get the picture.

Base on my working experience here, top management are not willing to spend when come to invest on a non-valuable asset like server. Many local manufacturing companies are very rare to see they can invest a bounce of money to develop their in-house system and make it perfectly work in order to assist the main operation work.

So, what I learn in this company is really valuable as I need to work in a tight budget and provide the best system base on what I can provide. This company grows me to a better planner and good in the management mind as I need to take care of the IT budget and provide good solution.

Should we cut EPF contribution?

LOWERING the rate of employees’ contribution to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) temporarily is part of the Government’s bag of tricks to rouse the economy. With lower the rate, people will have more money to spend.

But the main thing that people concern is how much is your EPF will be when you retire?
Can your EPF funds generate enough income for you when you retired? How much else needed if your EPF is not enough?

The EPF interest fluctuates between 4 and 6, if you are lucky this year which government doing well with your money. You can get 6%. Else you will get 4% which not much difference from Fix Deposit.

Assume that you have 50K in your EPF by your age of 30 and you are earning 54K a year. With 23% of contribution of your salary might go to EPF. That means that you will get RM 12420 by end of the year. Plus 6% interest is 13165.

We assume that you are getting 5-10% increment of your salary by end of the year, this is base on normal increment rate. I think you can get about RM 500K by your age of 55 years old. Is this enough for you to retain your living cost after retiring?

With government is implementing the new rate, I think for some people they prefer to take out their money in EPF to invest in other places like stock market by next year.

For those who think that you are not satisfied with EPF savings, you should cut the contribution and start some investment now to gain more fund for your old age living, but bare in mind that investment have their own risk yeah.


With government cut down member contribution to 8%, you can have extra money to invest by next year, but final decision will be on you to cut or not to cut the contribution.

Eyeglasses

“This is a sponsored post”

Nowadays, people wear glasses not just because they have myopia or hyperopia or maybe some other eyesight sickness, it is simply just a trend. Glasses make you look smarter sometimes.

Zennioptical.com is offering wide varieties of eyeglasses. It goes down to as cheap as $8 per glasses online. If you check their website regularly, you’ll find very often there are new arrivals coming in. There are choices for metal, plastic or acetate, stainless steel or memory titanium frames, rimless frames, half rim frames, full rim frames, as well as sunshade models. One of my favourite is the 4933 Stainless Stell Frame with Acetate Temple model. I like the Greek key design at the design. It looks coooool...

You may just shop for your favorite frames from the site and purchase them online. Since the price is so affordable, you can buy more to mix and match with your outfits. The Secret to the Low Prices is that they are selling only their own manufactured frames direct to the customer, with no middlemen and virtually no advertising budget.
The choices for children frames are plenty as well. The design is abit naughty but very fun looking. One of the designs actually look like a frog.

Do visit Zennioptical.com to find out more!

Today in the history

Refer to the CNN’s news, Obama inspires historic victory. I can see America ready to change and Obama told supporters that "change has come to America," as has its first African-American leader in the history. What a big change!!

When I look back to Malaysia, this cannot be seen at here. Because politician in Malaysia are still playing trick with races issue and make us uncomfortable with stay in Malaysia. Do we still need to stick with old thinking and keep stay with undeveloped mindset? And keep playing with races issue to win the crowd? Please be mature and please look at how other country development.

I don’t know if there is any improvement in the future, if Malaysia does, means that Malaysia already developed to be a better country. I hope I can see this day in my life when Malaysian can live like a one nation one race in this country.

Windows 7

Windows 7 is the next version of Microsoft Windows and the successor to Windows Vista. According to Microsoft's statement Windows 7 would not be released until January 2010 because Windows Vista was released to consumers in late January 2007.

For my point of view, I don’t see Vista is successful enough to replace Windows XP and Microsoft will try to come out with a better solution to replace Windows Vista and Windows 7 might be the ultimate solution for that. They will try to release by next year as I predict. I am not sure how true it is, but I am really looking forward to try it when it’s ready to use.

I think everyone is also very optimize about the development and hope that new version of window can be very useful and suitable for every individual and every professional.

Reduce lottery draw?

Today’s star newspaper, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said he felt this was necessary as having 10 lottery draws a week was “too many” and that it would deplete the income of many families, especially in view of the current economic situation.

I think this action is good to take as people are starting to addict with the gamble since the economy is facing down fall. I think people are trying their luck on gamble to gain some “extra Income”.

But the question is how as this will minus some income earning from Lottery Company as they also trying to gain more during the economy crisis.

Will government take some action towards the suggestion? Let’s see in the near future for what will happen.