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Goods and Services Tax

Are you aware of the GST, "Goods and Services Tax" change in either next year or 2 years down the road?

Here's some interesting calculation from an email,

Example 1
In 2006, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $60,000, the income tax you need to pay is $2,700 (8.75%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 5% will be $480

Total=$3,180 in Tax paid.

In 2007, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $60,000, the income tax you need to pay is $2,600 (8.50%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 7% will be $672

Total=$3,272 in Tax paid.

From $3,180 to $3,272, the effective increase is 2.89%.


Example 2
In 2006, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $400,000, the income tax you need to pay is $61,650 (21%). If you spend $4,000 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 5% will be $2,400

Total=$64,050 in Tax paid.

In 2007, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $400,000, the income tax you need to pay is $58,700 (20%). If you spend $4,000 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 7% will be $3,360

Total=$62,060 in Tax paid.

From $64,050 to $62,060, the effective decrease is -3.11%.


Example 3
In 2006, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $25,000, the income tax you need to pay is $187.50 (3.75%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 5% will be $480

Total=$667.50 in Tax paid.

In 2007, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $25,000, the income tax you need to pay is $175 (3.5%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 7% will be $672

Total=$847 in Tax paid.

From $667.50 to $847, the effective increase is 26.89%.

The conclusion of the email : "The poorer you are the more the GST is going to make you
poorer "

Hmmm there's the blink spot I discovered. If you take use the same avg spent per month for all the 3 examples, the example two will have a 4.7% increase. BUT I wonder if that someone would just spend $800 per month when he/she like earning $400,000 per annual which break down to about $33k per month.

how bad is bad ?

Ever wonder if a person will wake up daily and the first thing that comes into their mind before they went out of the house - Astrological or Horoscope reading?

Just curious if anyone does that daily as there are many websites that provide free daily analysis of your horoscope without or with a simple sign up.

Well how did that question pops ? There was a job yesterday which I need to picked some stuffs from point 'A' to point 'B'. Awaited about near to 1hr 30 minutes just to get the floor manager to open up the data center door. Get him to wait 5 minutes while I grabbed the stuffs and out. I m supposed to get 4 packs of RAM. I checked on the first two packs on the top to verify it's the correct item and went out. When I reached the ground level, I took a quick look and taDDDaaaaa "Both Dimms faulty" on the 3 pack !!! And the guy who can help me open the door is GONE!!!!!!
ARghhh went back and call the command center follow by another 30 minutes wait.

Next, took a cab from site 'A' to site 'B', it was a long drive man and the fare cost $15.90. Upon reaching the destination, I asked the uncle for receipt so I could make the claims from the company but somehow the machine didn't work. Alternative, he tried to find the manual paper receipt booklet BUT it's all USED UP!!! Arghhh drop off without the receipt.

Took a quick break before we start, went to the vending machine to get some drink...... IT's HUNG with "$0.10", we tried to insert the 10 cents coin but it didn't work (times when money is useless).

Next lunch time, wanted to eat "Qiu Lian ban mian" and went purposely to one of the coffee shop outside Temasek poly. But !!!!!!! It's gone!!!! Thus I ended up with the one dollar chicken rice ( slide track: there was this lady in front of me. When the staff asked for her order, she replied, "2 packages of duck rice" I was gosh..... what have you been doing while waiting, didn't you saw the sign board - "$1 Chicken rice" and they didn't hang up any duckie)

Lastly, a hair cut at Storm(Century Square). I was composing an sms and suddenly one of the staff came beside me and Pooooo, she just laid the robe cover over me while I was composing my sms, I mean can't she see it. She came back with the hair dye and started spreading, somehow the pressure and the way how she do it, doesn't make me feel professional at all. During the hair wash she did a abruptly job too. Though they serve drinks there, she didn't even ask. Bad bad service or rather it's just that woman. Felt like asking her, hey are you on PMS, if so please vent your frustration on something else.

Adding up all the incidents, what's the rating of a bad day? 1- 10 Or do you have worst to share ?

Mini Vaccum

Do you get dusty keyboard easily ? Usually I will just wipe it with tissue paper. Wonder if someone would actually buy this product. How can a person be that LAZY!!!!!

Ice Longan

Bought this Ice longan from Sim lim Square basement food center. Despite the soggy longan, I discovered some tadpoles look alike creatures.

Dbl O

WoW got this info from lala's blog, The CLOTHES STORE in Dbl O !!

Haven been there in a long long long long time.......

Anyone been there recently ? or planning to go there ?

According to lala's blog - The store carries sexy women clubbing attire. Here's the EYE CANDY for guys, "the walls are made of transparent glass..so they can see girls trying out clothes from outside (if they are lucky).

A thought from her, "On the contrary, if you tried to pick up a girl, you might end up having to buy her something from the store too. Wahaha..." well if you are going for attractive ladies, think deeper, they will have a hell long queue of wuss trying to please them with gift.

Another thought "Seriously, maybe they should consider selling men stuff too..or sex toys?? Ya'know..for the after party...oOOoo...." NOD nod how could they miss this ?

"they should definitely sell condoms!! Sure a lot of people buy...have a promotion on it...like buy 5 now but we'll keep it for you..for the next time you need it...yeh...so they have a "locker" service to help men keep their condoms when they need it the next time they return to Dbl O...keeps them coming back too...for more...." old but GOOD. recycled marketing strategy from the alcoholic beverages.

Plaza Star Bowl

"leh long leh long" 1 for $1 | "leh long leh long" 1 for $1

Hey what is the dollar deal about ? What's the lowest rates you have come across for a 10 frame bowling game ?

Thought Marina South was the lowest, having $1.5 on weekdays (if i remember correctly) BUT this offer gonna knock you down! Yeah A dollar a game, player play all the way. And it's on a Saturday.

Got to know about this place from a colleague, Plaza Star Bowl at Textile Center lvl 8.

Went there with Zk last week. Reached there around 10+ in the morning and play it to our hearts man!!

After first game (warm up), we decided to play punch - loser pays. Though I kept losing till ZK had to make an offer of giving 30 pts lead per game =\. Somehow I just can't get the momentum correct. I will do well for a few frames and something unusual will happen.

In the end, I paid for 15 games and he paid for only 3 games - each of us played 9 games. My master hand is worn out man with cuts and skin tear. If we gonna play it somewhere else, we gonna keep thinking about the money and I swear after 2 rounds of punch I will give up. Imagine paying 15 games somewhere else with a average rate of 3 bucks, it would be a whopping $45


PS: $1 per game from 10am - 2pm | 2pm -6 pm is $2 (well still Cheap la). The staff doesn't ask you for any IDs or cards for opening the lanes. They really trust those bowlers?

Sentosa Integrated Resort

Still remember the previous about Harry's Island - Eighth Wonder idea for developing the Integrated Resort at Sentosa.

Lets check out what the current bidder have under their sleeves....

For Kerzner-CapitaLand

Theme - Atlantis Sentosa




For Eighth Wonder

Theme - Harry's Island







My Previous post on Harry's Island contain some wonderful picture.

Well if only we can have both together right ?

I will vote for Harry's Island project,
1) The developer name : Eighth Wonder cool right =D
2) Fantasy attraction is so much stronger with Harry's Island compared to Atlantis - not as the name but the ideas the developer are gonna create.
3) Harry's Island will have a few Unique or rather never seen before structures by the world.
4) Very attractive designs and styles.
5) Developer foresight to make it one of the kind in Asia, promote uniqueness.
6) Developer committed the highest offer so far, 5.5 Billion

CNA article :
Harry's Island
Atlantis Sentosa

Hoooo!

Guess who used that the most often.... maybe staffs in yahoo but I think he's the champion, Hard Gay.

Well comment on his video, if you are looking for a good laugh for whatever reason, he's video will be one of the best solution.

Kurohgie Kiki Ippatsu - Hard Gay version

Someone got it from Japan for Roger. If you stabbed the knife into the special hole, the Hard Gay figure on top will Hooooo! and SPRING OUT!!!

Here's the video on he's will to launch the product and marketing strategy! Bow! Hail!

Part 1

Part 2

Plans for X'mas 2006

X'mas will be arriving soon, ah hui had suggested that this year we will have a 'matching system' - you will pick a person from the group randomly and get him/her a X'mas gift. Well it was discussed last week but yet to see any action from her =D. Hope she's not shooting the arrow to me.

Apart from the wonderful presents, here something to spice up the event :
Easy to plan, make, execute to achieve MAXIMUM fun and laughter =D

DEVIL UNLEASH!!!

New IPOD shuffle

Oh my it's near to BUTTON SIZEeeeee........



Technology is cool shrinking the size of gadets, what if it get too small? will you misplace it ?

Wonderful Human Mind

Got this from jo,


If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink.

If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green.

Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating.

Blogger-beta usage

If you have the same problem I faced some time back regards to the time/date stamp on comments posted by your dear readers, read on...

The default setting for comments only showed the timestamp but I want display the date too here's how you do it,

1) Go under settings >>>> Comments

2) Choose the timestamp format you desire.

3) Save the setting

Collector's Doremon Mahjong set

Are you a Doremon fanatic ? Here's question for you, what's the favourite colour of Doremon ? .......




RED!! Why ? go watch the Doremon opening theme

Here's a nice collectible Mahjong set imported from Taiwan, seller looking for bid $500 SGD and above.

Choose ya seats

Are you one of those that strongly prefer getting a seat near to the window for flights ? think there's a name for those seat but I can't remember.

Heard the news a few days ago, Singapore Airlines has implemented 14 automated check-in machines @ Terminal 2.

Well initially I do not see the point of having those machines, base on the service rate of the usual check-in I m a pretty satisfy passenger (maybe I don't travel that much) it does take more than 10 minutes.

With these automated machines, does it really save much more time ? You still have to
let officers verify your travel documents and bag contents. But I like the last part about choosing the seats (they mentioned about checking-in from home via Internet too) so if you got a group of friends travelling, don't worry about meeting at the airport early to grab the seats or 'good seat'.

Hidden Function Key chain

Roger bought this present for Beng, it's inside a black handphone size pouch.....


Tadaaaaa

Normal state.

Unveal the hidden function

Explanation : This key chain have 2 rings. A permanent and a removable. The permanent ring will be use for holding your keys - house key, cars, keys related to yourself. For the removable ring, use it for keys like - your partner's house keys, partner's related stuffs.
WHEN the break up HAPPEN!!!! 3 STEP

1===> Unlock !

2=======>Remove the removable ring (containing your partner's keys)

3===========================> THROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A day with Sis

There was this Hokkien food festival going on last weekend, How I got to know about it ? Met up with Sis on Sat and we were looking for place to makan. She got this cash tickets for the hokkien food festival happening at bas bazar. As we were heading there, I said, "the food better be nice!" Why? It was raining heavily and we had to walk from Bugis junction to bas bazar. Both our jeans got drench with the heavy downpour and strong wind even though it was a rather short distance.

I threw a question to her, "What are the list of hokkien food ?" As expected, "Hokkien mee". Well that what I thought so too as the name suggest =D.

When we arrived, there are about easily 20 stores selling various dialect group delicacy. BUT I cant find hokkien mee.

We had to move through the crowd and stepping into the flooded area due to the heavy downpour. Arghhh the feeling of wearing a WET sock!!!

She told me to look for seats while she ques =D wonderful to have a sis.

Got this minced pork "mian xian", pretty tasty, it would be better to have it in soup base.
After dishing out the first dish, her food hunting continues ......

After a few minutes, she would come back with something

There are a few more, some biscuits, "kong ba with kuey" ( there's this "kong ba bao" store but haiz.... we passed. Why ? The queue is AMAZING, we reached there around 1pm plus and till the time when we are about to go which was about 3pm, the length of the queue look similar to me! NO CHANGE!!)

Before we left the place, we went around the stores, there was this store selling tea leave. Promoting their house brand, "fuo shou shen", when he showed me the product and I saw the price tag!! guess how much it cost ? Well maybe I m not really into tea leaves, it cost $50 for a box (the size is slightly bigger than the Styrofoam cups)

Sis bought these for my family , one word "thoughtful"!
There were two store selling this, Sis bought it from the first store and we walked past the second store which have the sample in small chewing piece. I picked up one and tried, "hmm, it taste GOOD!" to the staff and follow with, "Great! I bought it" haha kinda bad ? =D

This sesame rolls feel chewy and tasty

Do you think it's the work of photoshop

Taken from lala's blog

If not, which the company that train these staffs...... If the work is long, even if the guy didn't fall off, he would have blood clog in the brain(the gravity pull effect is much higher).

If I m the camera man and not the owner of the bicycle, you know .........

100% Photoshop!!!!

Singaporean opinion of e world

Picture tells a thousand words. How true man


Click on the picture to see a larger version, =\ no space to squeeze

1. ebays, milo (hmm see no links),
2. Man U (why not EPL, biased)
3. need help(WTO working on it)
4. oil (highest military conflict zones)
5. programmers (YEAH RAISED BOTH hands and legs)
6. 'branded' goods and nice girls (food, shopping heaven and not forgetting pretty babes too, looking forward to the beach resort trip.)
7. Mafia (avoid going there)
8. Industrial park (why not "made in cXxxa")
9. Chou Tofu ("Cantonese" comes to my mind)
10. Ultraman (High Tech, sushi, Gozilla)
11. DVDs (Cheaper petrol)
12. Domestic helpers (nod)
13. Part of batam (Should be haze and living heaven - Bali resorts, guess how much it cost for 1 week stay at their 4-stars resort ? )
14. Retirement village (is that true ?)
15. lastly, the 'Fine' City.( little red dot huh BUT this dot produce lots of top ranking in the world.)

(Orange!)What comes to your mind ?

In Japan, if you saw someone walking or running with orange spots or large orange patches on them ALERT!!! they aren't entertainer trying to amuse you. They indicate something ......



Yeah the 'Bad people' eg. robbers, thief or maybe rapist

In my opinion, if it's against armed robbers/thief it kinda of dangerous to throw the ball against them. Under the extreme fear and stressful environment, the offender might lose their mind and hurt you after or even before you tried to throw the ball.

But if it's against rapists, I think it's more effective, the victims can aim for the offender face and it create a instance impact on the offender's mind (fear of being recongise after he committed the crime) But 2 considerations,
a) Accuracy require - must land offender's face/prominent body parts
b) The orange stain must be stay for over 3 weeks.

Flea Market

Many Singaporean are going the entrepreneur way nowadays, just visited one of my friend's online blog store. Found something interesting.

FHM poker cards.

kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy it for collection and give support to my friend (well the ratio might be 8:2) haha But, hey! it's the thoughts followed by actions that counts.

This the 'Misc item store' & 'fashion series'.

Fox Birthday

Think I have imbue 'fear' among my poly mates. Approved ying's testimonial on friendster and quote from her "Mastermind if not planning committee of the birthday sabo" ermm really tat bad ? Hmm for fox I remember during his birthday during poly year 2/3, I purple 20+ packs of plastic bags 1/4 filled with flour and 20+ packs of plastic bags filled with iodine mixed water. The combo ruined his favourite "fox" long sleeves T-shirt.

Jo suffered the worst, apart from the conventional eggs, ice cube, flour, whipped cream spray Guess what I brought ????????

Got 1 Bottle of cooking oil from Cheers

Yucks to think of it now, really bad man =\. Think she bath for 3 times and still feel oily.

As for zk, we throw him into the pool during winter season in the middle of the night. Simple and nice.

Maybe due to the above past records, when I send out an SMS to fox on the day of his birthday, asking him out for dinner at Geylang, he replied " Dun do anything funny hor, later I dun turn up." In my mind, even if I really got "something" for you, do you think I will openly tell you ? haha. Well it was a pretty delicious dinner, we had 2 pots frog legs(gong bao + jiang chong) plus 3 other dishes at "G7" quite popular man full house filled with hungry customers. 6 persons sum up to about 70+.

Here's some of the celebration pictures,

Fox at G7 waited since 1900hrs. Zk and me reached at 1945hrs. The rest hmm another 30-45 minutes later. Who says birthday boy is the biggest lol.

Celebration @ 'HIGH'

Have you seen people cut cake this way, 0.o ? I discovered one that day.

Specs Round 1 Fight

Are you one of those who ill treated ya eyes ? I m one of those and now I m wearing Mr glasses.

Below are my two models, M1 and M2. Both models just got their new specs. Whose spec look better ? Which one is more expensive ?

M1 - Hyde

M2 - Ah beng


Well as for which is better, both specs fit nicely for their individual owners. But the price different. One cost $200+ and the other is near to 1 grand.

SMS with 'tone'

.....Bearly lifting my eyelids to glance at my mobile (checking for miss calls or sms). Woo got an unread SMS. Wonder whose that ? The message read ... "Please send me the update list before 5PM today. If not just send me what you have and I will take over the list back" , BOOM!!! my mind woke up immediately. I senses explosive and bad mood surrounding my manager.

Thought of calling him to sort out the issue but I m rushing for the meeting and I should be able to see him in the meeting. Thus I waited till the meeting ends.

I tried to explained or rather (in another perception from me finding excuses). It was the delay on a few parties to get the information (delayed responses and out of office).
Another me,
1) why didn't you feedback when things isn't moving or in doubts?
2) If you have difficulties this how am I gonna entrust important assignment to you?
3) Well you could have call the parties involve 2-5 times to stress the urgency or feedback to their superior.

What my manager told me, "To put it bluntly, I dun care how you do it, you just get it complete." (I once came across this phase, "Don't tell me how hard you work, It's how much you done".) Dun worry for me, at point of time, he's tone was pretty cool.

To reflect on those words, it's pretty true right ? If you are the boss and you need to involve yourself to a extended level and keep giving details steps to the assignment, what's the need of having the subordinates?

Actually I prefer working with this manager compare with the previous one. So much I can learn from him, not trying to be apple polish,
1) he know he's stuff technically, business flow and networks
2) In the meeting, people will listen to him and his rapport with the Citibank folks are pretty good, eg tickling around Dare to do that to ya customer ?
3) He's working style (he once told us, everyone make mistakes but MAKE SURE when you make the mistake inform me. I will try to cover if not I will try to smoke through LOL. No chance to prove this point but somehow I believe he meant his words.)

Had lunch over at Long John Silvers, got this note in the change.

Wonder what's the value of this note.
While searching, check this interesting 'calculator' GUI website

If your surname is ONG, this banknote is the best representation of your first note. An extremely rare and unique piece. A great conversational piece with your friends and relatives.

Price : $8,000 USD

I remember my dad showing me the orchid series of Singapore notes, but this look older.

Had some interesting convesation with Vic and Colin over lunch, no idea how we landed on the Angbao money topic (CNY coming maybe, haha) Topic : "What's the biggest Ang Bao you have received ? Vic told me a few year big his Ang Bao money total can sum up to around 2k on good year and minimum 800-1k on not so good year. I was like OMG.... throughout my 24 years, think my highest grand total with my parents Big Ang Bao at most near to 500 and biggest from relative was 30+. Colin highest was a rich client of his mum, $50. Vic got $200 from uncle. What's the highest you got ? Calm ya mind and think carefully ............if more than 1k, does you uncle/auntie wants godson ? =D

Been busy writing my performance self-evaluation for the past few days. I was surprized by how I manage to sit there for hours just typing and typing. Amazing concentration level. Will the performance self-evaluation helps ? Guess it depends on how serious the management are treating it.

Just finished a few custom maps of warcraft 3 with Bud and KS, haha it's always interesting playing with friends you know. Those who play warcraft 3 custom maps drop me a note or you could join us at the hamachi network : network ID>>gmy73 | password>>123

Nitez folks