Happy & Prosperous CNY To All My Readers!!!

Wishing a very Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year 2009 to all my dear readers! Yes all the best especially the prosperity part as 2009 will be a very challenging year financially. Read the newspaper on financial section it is all gloomy news especially on retrenchment which affect us directly.
And so I wish to those who still have a job, may u still be employed, to those who lose their job, may u find an even better job ( remember it don't rain forever ) & finally to those who are unhappy for whatever reason mya u find happiness this year!
Lastly best wishes to all my dear readers even if u don't celebrate CNY at least enjoy the holiday!

Fuel Price Drop!!! But I Am Not Happy!!! :(

Fuel price has being dropping like flies this few days so by right I should be very happy! It is because of these large increases of price which is causing hardship to all of us, well almost all of us anyway. The few which are not affected are those rich fellows.

I discover that I am facing the problem of ‘Money Not Enough’ thus I have cut down on almost all my ‘unnecessary’ spending. Spending like eating out, driving my 4x4 ( it is now rusting away in my garage ), weekend traveling & so on & so froth. All this spending cut has to implements as the cost of living is going up like no tomorrow all because of fuel price going up!

So with the decrease of fuel price I should be happy! But I am NOT HAPPY!!! Why, because the cost of living is not coming down, in fact it is getting worse! Damn! What else should I do? I have cut my traveling cost by using motor bike, stop all my weekend traveling & even grow my own veggie. Oh btw I have try having extra jobs but this is very hard, it seem that everybody suddenly don’t have enough money! So to all my dear readers what else should I do to have a decent life???

OMG!!!! Am I Really That Expensive!!!

On my previous entry I mention that I purposely 'lay low' with not much 'activities' on Entre card so that my entre card credit will drop to 'affordable' level ( This site is not that 'popular' anyway as compared to my other site ).

I want it to drop down to 'affordable' level so that people are free to place ads on my site. So almost everyday I do check on my entre card dashboard to approve any ads request & also to check put all my dear readers.

I am most surprise to see that '512 to advertise on your blog'!!!!!

Whoa! Am I really that expensive??? Computer problem???

Have A Very Prosperous Chinese New Year!!!

Chinese New Year fall on 07-02-08! Yes! The day after tomorrow! According to Chinese this the year of Earth Rat & it is widely predicted to be a break year.

I am not really surprise that this will be a difficult year as the hardship is being felt all over the world! For example severe weather changes is affecting & giving hardship on all the people in the region where severe weather occurred! Financially with a very unstable market & with share falling more then rising it is not surprise that we don't feel secure financially!

Nevertheless I am sure for those who is prepared will weather the uncertainty well. After all it is always better to expected the unexpected rather then to be caught unprepared! It might be a bad year but with preparation being made financially it might not be so bad after all.

Lastly I wish all my Chinese readers a very happy, prosperous & healthy Chinese New Year! And to others a very happy holiday!

Change Ur Life Style!!!

The cost of living is going to go up. Don't ever hope for it to go down! The only things going down is ur salary in term of its purchasing power! In worse case scenario ur might even get a salary cut! Money not enough! So what r u going to do???

Look for extra money! Do extra job! Oh yeah! That is what u plan to do! But do remember u r not the only one. Every Tom, Dic k & Harry are think of doing the same things so what are ur chances of finding & doing extra jobs? Beside doing all this extra jobs took up ur time. Time which u can spend with ur family. Time which u can used to relax. So think about it! Do u think it is still worthwhile to do extra jobs?

Money earned is limited or in some case decrease but in all case its purchasing power is decreased due to the increased in price for every stuff & service. Since income is fixed we can only made adjustment to our expenses. This meant changes to our spending habit which is our life style.

All unnecessary expenses is to be cut! To me the first expenses I cut is entertainment expenses! It has being a long time since I watch movie in cinema. Nowadays I watch movie at home on DVD. I save a lot on traveling, parking fee & even on pop corn & tip bits! DVDs is either bought or borrow from friends.

Next on the cutting board is eating out! It has also being a long time since I eat out at fancy restaurant & fast food corner. It is amazing how much u can save just by eating out else where! The best is u cook u own food r eat at home. Well the environment might not be there but money saved is more important!

Transport expenses! Dam! The increase in fuel price started all this increased! It is necessary to drive to work??? Well as for me I have started using bike to go to work! Unless it rain in the morning. I don't mind going home on rainy day as I will go for a bath once I reach home. I will of cause keep my office shoes dry. I wear slipper on rainy day! By using motor bike to work I save a whopping 80% of my traveling expenses!

Beside this I do cut down on other expenses like having morning drink at home, have home made breakfast & I have stopped my weekly outing trips with my family. Nowadays I spend the weekend at home & I also do some gardening growing vegetable!!! Home growth vegetable taste better & very safe as no pesticide is used!

All in all a saving here & there is just about enought for me & my family to made it through this dificult time. I & my family have to forgo a few 'luxury' in life & change our life style but at least we still have a 'comfortable' time with food on the table & clothing on our back! As in this post ' Money Save Is Money Gained ' it is very true fo me!

I have changed my life style! So to my dear readers, have u changed yours?

Money Saved Is Money Gained!!!

Just this morning while I am having coffee in my usual cafe I overheard from the next table a few very loud & vocal complain! They were complaining very loudly about the increase in prices of daily stuff! Stuff like bread, drink, egg, milk & so on & so froth!

Couldn't really blamed them as I myself experience the increased as well. Just a simple example, a glass of ice milk tea cost Rm1.00 one year ago, now it is Rm1.50! A 50% increase! Other food stuff is the same an increase of at lease 20% or more! All in all base on my rough estimate the cost of living of my life have increase by about 30% or more depended on how I computed my living expenses!

Do I get a 30% increase in salary or rather do I get a 30% increase in earning?!!! Dream on!!! I can say increase in living expenses cost will always be more then your increase in earning if u have an increase at all! U will be in fact lucky if u still have a job! Most employer are now on a cost cutting mission, so asking for a radical increase in salary will not be a good idea!

What to do??? At this rate of increase in cost of living if we don't made changes to our life style we will soon be in debts. If fact u might already be in debts ( I might post up a topic about debts in my future post ). Changes we have to made!

First changes is the 'activities' in the weekend! With 'thinner' wallet I am sure the first things we give up will the eating out! We might still eat out but it will no longer be in any 'expensive' restaurant or we reduce the number of visits. Do u still spend as much as before on entertainment??? Do u still went outing as much as before? And do u change even the type of dinks & foods u eat?!!!

If u have done all the above then u have made changes to ur life style! I am sure the first changes we made or stopped doing this 'activities' are 'activities' which are not necessary in our daily life. Going to cinema & spending money on entertainment will be a good example! We might not like it at first & even miss this activities but soon we get use to it! After all there are alternative which give us as much enjoyment if not more which cost we less or not at all!

All this changes in out life style have a immediate effect! Done it right we still have a comfortable life style plus we no only reduce out living expenses but we can now even save some money. Done it wrong we end up with a miserable life but once we adapt out life style we should be doing fine!

I am sure everyone hated changes. I am no different but in this tiring time with limited earning I have no choice but to change my life style. Since my earning is limited I can only save on whatever meant I got, that is changing my life style!

So to me money saved is money gained! So to my dear readers do u agree with me on this & have u changed ur life style???

R U Happy???

R u happy with ur life??? Happy? Yes? Why? U r happy as u r content with ur life! Got food to eat, place to live & ur demand in life are simple then of cause ur have a happy life! But once u got connected to the Internet, r u happy with ur life now? Now that u know so much more to life then that u know of?

U get to know so many nice product.....so many nice blogger.....& their live a totally different life style then urs. Don't u want to buy the nice product u saw in the Internet? Don't u want to change ur living life style too? In other word don't u want to up-grade ur life?

I am sure the answer is a big YES! But to up-grade u need MONEY! If u have tons of money then no problem! But I am sure most of us are ordinary people with a 9-5 job earning just enough to have a simple life! 'Money Not Enough' as the Chinese say will be the main problem once we want to up-grade our life!

Thus we need to look of or earn more money. We can look for higher paying job ( unlikely now with the economy going down ) or do extra job! With the extra money earned we can use it to buy the things we want so as to 'up-grade' our life. But this extra money cost extra effort & time in our life.

So r u happy now?

Who To Listen To???

A politician who keep on saying that everything in the country is good! Everyone has the ‘feel good’ feeling! According to him everyone is happy! Employment is Ok everyone has a job! The stock market is going through the roof! There are peace in the country. In short everything’s is rosy! He is saying this as the country general election is just round the corner! Prior to this no mention is ever made on the country economy as he know ‘nuts’ about economy!

An economist say everything is go down except the price of goods & services! The economy is going to get from bad to worse! The value of money is shrinking like no tomorrow! Unemployment is going to increase as companies seek to cut cost & stuffing is an ever increasing operation cost! It is better to seek new & lower salaried stuff & fired off old & highly pay salary stuff by either job relocation so that they were resign on their own or increased they work load & target! Increase in everyday expenses from drink & foodstuff to overall increase in daily expenses!

So who do u listen to??? For me I choose the economist as base on daily experience it is true everything’s is on the increase! Life is going to be tough!

R U Interested??? Se*x???!!!

What grab ur attention?!!! What made u want to continue reading my post instead of just my headline? Or worse still didn't even look at my headline!!!! Just drop your entrecard & click the 'back' button for entrecard members! For first time reader just a quick browse on the headline & exit.

Well who am I to blame? Nobody but me, myself & I! I will totally agree with all my readers if they do comment on my post that the post so far is boring & not worth commenting! Heh! I am also like that! In fact I am guilty of the above also, being an entrecard member as well.

So what grab my attention??? Content! Good content! Interesting content! And may I add, head line with the word 'SE*X'!!!! Yes 'se*x' sell & it also grab attention! See u have being reading this post just because I use the 'se*x' as my headline! Well in this 'introductory' post I will not post up on 'se*x' related topic, maybe in future post as 'se*x' can be linked to money as well.

So in conclusion 'content is king'! It is essential! It is like the 'soul' of a site! Without a good content this site might as well be dead! So after this 'introductory' content post I will be posting up 'interesting' post! Post which I hope will 'grab' my readers attention!

Don't u agree with me, my dear readers that 'content is king'???

New Kia!!!!!!

I learn new meanting to the word kia. Nomally I only know NoKia wan but the pic below give a lot of new meaning to the word 'kia'.

Fun with maths...!!!

Have some 'fun' with maths. ( Actually I never have any 'fun' with math, This is the subject that give me the most headach ).Try out the following equestion.

1. First of all, pick one number between one to nine.
Eg. 8

2. Multiply this number by 2
Ans. 16

3. Add 5
Ans.21

4. Multiply it by 50
Ans.1050

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757...
Ans.2807
If you haven't, add 1756.
Ans.2806

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
Ans.1988

You should have a three digit number.
Ans.819
Ans.818

The first digit of this was your original number.
Ie no.8

The next two numbers are
Your Age! ------ eg 19 after b-day , 18 before b-day

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS

As I know nut about maths perhap my reader who is an expert in maths can explain to me?

Have a goody day to all my reader.

Look What I Got.................

A common brown squarrel! Daddy traped it using a mouse trap with a banana as bite.This fellow has being helping himself/herself ( I have no idea if it is a she or a he as I can't see the 'ball' or the 'hole' also as it is jumping about in the trap ) to all the fruits in our small garden where we grows banana, sugar cane, tangerine etc.

What happen to it? Did I kill it? Eat it ( apparently it is good for those with asmal as it is a 'heaty' animal ) ? Or sold it? I did none of it. I set it free. Am I crazy? He! He! I actually set it free near an unused cremetry near a small town as this unused cremetry is full of big tree.

So what do u think? Am I a good boy or a bad boy?

I am a 'good boy'! An introduction.

Hi to my reader! This is my first post. I am a 'good boy'. 'Good boy' in open & close inverted coma. So in real life I am not a 'good boy' but I am not a bad boy either.

Anyway I will try my best to be a 'good boy' in blogsphere. My interest is vast. In fact I am interested in anythings & everythings!

This is all for now. ( Blogging is much harder then I thought, I have nothing to blog about now! Perhap my reader will be kind enought to help me out? Any idea what to blog or any topic u want me to blog is highly appreciated tq tq ).