8th wonder of the world - Power of Compounding

A few weeks ago I came across this article which it state "Einstein calls the "8th wonder of the world." Well upon reading that line my interest went deeper as I was aware about compounding until I read an example demonstrating the true beauty of compounding.

Article link : Power of compounding

Interesting tools - with ROI, compounding calculation : Compounding calculator

Know the rules, play the rules ERP

How many do you have to visit CBD and orchard area and going on expressway in short going to crowded places at peak hours and you have to pay for using the road. ERP(electronic road pricing)

Here's the operation hours and rates for ERP Gantries in Singapore

ERP operation & rates

source : http://www.onemotoring.com.sg

Happy Day-BM Z4 on my hand

Finally i can have my "dream car" -BMWZ4. I really feel happy to have it beside me. I m trying to drive it but it is too "small" for me...Haiz...I think i need to "keep fit" already.She is wearing a red shirt with the shinning hair make me like her so much!!!Someone who love it sure will agree with me cause too "expensive" but i still can bring her back after paying $200,000 / 5263. BMWZ4 is mine !!!

keep Burping - find the remedies

Bibi was burping just awhile ago and she kept drinking water which is suppose to work for some people. But the effect on her seem useless.

Thus some result from google search on curing burping
1) 1 cap of vingear
2) Hold your breath for as long as possible and repeat until burping is gone (work for bibi)
3) Drink lots of water

Highest Interest Rates of Singapore Saving Account

I used to enjoy the 2% interest rate from E-saver but they kept revising it lately. Sadly it drop to 0.78% for below $20000. I get like $10-$12 per month, YEAH ! per month just on interest. Like having a free movie ticket monthly. And now it's like haiz.... Thus I went around scouting again. Check this out instead to get 1%, theFairprice plus saving

Some of you must be wondering why the hassle, I m fine with POSB account why change. Well here's a reason why if you want to make your money work harder.



You can still keep the POSB/DBS account as your primary expenses account. But make the main bulk of your saving work better for you.

Hard question ?

I was with Gerald today at Com Center 3 and had a little chat, he told me he's gonna quit smoking! whose the lady ? haha. He posted a question, how you would answer if your love one asked, "What's love? Why you love me?" I answered, a feeling that cant be describe by words. Well that common answer to him. Thus he gave a new creation, "(1)Just like a mute person who eat something very delicious and his unable to express it (2)You can live without the person".

My definition used to be the following - you are willing to do ANYTHING for the other party - even death!

Next I returned him a favor, what if your love ones asked, "How much you love me" ? He's answer : "It's unmeasurable" my turn to say common =D. My answer : "More than you love me!"

If you have interesting answer on the above questions, drop a note in the comment.

crude oil or cruel oil

OMG heard this from radio this morning oil per barrel scorching high - NEW RECORD (does not give us any positive note.) 100.10 dollars a barrel

Next thing in mind, will the pump stations adjust the oil price ? Whenever since i got my car in Sept 2007, petrol price had been adjusted twice. Now for RON 95 - it's $2.006/litres at ExxonMobil.

Happy Valentine Day

To my Bibi,

Reflex Good ?

Pretty interesting game to test your reflex. Get a friend to join in the 2 player mode after you familiarise the game.

T3

Nah it not terminator 3, it's the all new Singapore own Changi Airport Terminal 3. Look pretty interesting from the website Terminal 3 Green wall feature, Crown plaza hotel etc

Improve your window performance

Did you wonder why your computer getting slower as the days pass by ?

Most probably you downloaded more resource intensive applications with or without you running at background which slow down the whole system.

Normally i would go start->run->type "msconfig"->startup tabs

and remove unnecessary applications especially those from c:/program files/

if you do a alt+ctrl+del and click task manager, you can check on the number of application running on background. Many are not really essential every time the system boot up. Thus you can actually limit the applications running on background.

As for those system applications, if you are not sure of their function or impact visit this website : process library

Usage : Just copy paste the process name from task manager and input into the search field. Base on the return you will be able to judge if you really need that application running on background.

What in 2008 ?

..L..A..N..C..E..R..


Drool more !
~E~V~O~L~U~T~I~O~N~ PROTO-TYPE X

Simple answer

You! yes you ! you are with another 100 people inside a hall. Organiser pop and says : " Whoever that can touch the 12metre high celling, get ONE MILLIONAIRE DOLLARS !" No tools allow eg : tables and chairs.

1)Do you want the money ? Yes, proceed to question 2. Else bye
2)How would you touch the 12 metre celling?
3)How many times you tried ?
4)Giving up ?


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Sam IN Taipei

Holiday Time!! Cheers! YaHOOOOooooooo

Planning a short trip to Taiwan, Taipei.

Apart from the Travel agency which provide the 'free and easy' package ( basically helps you book the air tickets and hotel accommodation) I found 2 website which are pretty useful if you have plans on oversea trips.

Yahoo Travel

• Places of interest or things NOT to miss (you get to view the ranking for the activities too)
  
• Search for people who did the similar trip
  
• how they plan
• what the feedback on the area they went
• Get feedback and rating
• Plan your travel trips ahead
• Get a information on admission fee, travel time (not all of them have that info)

Check out my Trip planner Schedule >Sam IN Taipei


Hotel Travel

• provides you the hotel's information:
• rates
• features
• maps
  
• booking
  
• Guides on your holiday destination
• Transportation Information
  

Would you let it escape from your hands

61mm Wide 115mm long 11.6 thick

Guess an item



Here' s the spec

Technical Specifications

Screen size	3.5 inches
Screen resolution	320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method	Multi-touch
Operating system	OS X
Storage	4GB or 8GB
GSM	Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data	Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera	2.0 megapixels
Battery	Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions	4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight	4.8 ounces / 135 grams

***And check the sensor it has!
Sensor 1.
The interface will change from portrait to landscape automatically once you rotate it

Sensor 2.
When the phone is held near to your ears, on screen keys will be locked.

Sensor 3.
The phone will adjust it's display brightness to the appropriate level of the current ambient light.


No idea on the price yet.

Anyone yourself an import eye candy ?

Xin Nian Kuai Le

HaPPy Chinese New year! busy collecting Ang Bao so i will cut it short, been a game addict for the past weeks again. Thanks to blizzard's WoW expansion, got my lvl 70 Character and my Flying mount plus Jewelcrafting skill blah blah....

As for my work, in pretty bad shape, especially last week. It's the longest and worst of my life man, WHY ? I caused my customer's database filesystem to be corrupted somehow. The database are use by 14 EMEA countries ( EURO countries). Unfortunately, we are unable to retrieve the Customer data. No idea what's gonna happen to me after chinese new year.

4 Lessons learnt:
1) Be prepared before you start doing any task, write out Action plans for ya task.
2) Always ensure backup of critical data before making any changes.
3) Move forward and list out next action rather than drilling on the past.
4) Never forget the first 3 lessons


Wish me luck

10 Bucks

**This a draft copied written in Jan might be out of date.

What can you do with $10 ?
1) Buy 5 items at 1.99 shop : Jazztures 199
2) 2 X chicken rice + 1 X duck rice + slice fish soup
3) Newman magazine + snicker bar + 500ml coke
4) Get parallel import CDs
5) Pump 6Litres of petrol
6) Cab fare for about 12KM distance
7) 10 Games of bowling frame @ plaza star bowl
8) Catch a movie @ Golden Village (HSBC + Safra discount) with a cup of butter corns
9) 5hrs of non stop gaming @ H.I.G.H
10) A day at sentosa siloso beach

blah blah blah many more.

Picked no. 8 for last weekend(well about 1month ago) , been watching movie almost every weekend nowadays. It get bored when the you keep repeating the activities and it cant keep your interest/focus on it. Most of the movie screened are just average, not much to talk about after watching.

Have you watch "Brave heart" , Passion of Christ" ?

Highly recommended "Apocalypto" !! Think the Cinema isnt screening this anymore, go get the DVDs man.

Do you use AXS

pay your monthly bills through S.A.M or AXS machine ? I have been using it for mobile bills and digital voice and misc bills. Pretty fast and easy.


Here's a story I gotten from a friend,

I was queuing behind a guy who is using the S.A.M machine an he is taking his own sweet time. But i did take a look at why is he taking such a long time, coz he keep pressing the "previous menu" button.

Then he decided to let me use first. So when i used it, the screen already show the main menu page. I proceed with my transaction and pay the bill using my ATM card. Luckily i have this habit of taking a look at my reciept, found that how come the total amount is so much. I go through the list of bills i pay and found that i have paid one that is not mine. So i turn around and look, the guy who was using before me, use the machine again, keying in the same amount. I approach him and told him, i have paid his bill. So i say wait while i call the hotline number on the machine for help. While i was on the phone, the guy juz quietly walk away, went to the AXS machine not far away.

Point to note, remember to check your summary page and the amount on the receipt.

shivering

It was 0150hrs on Monday morning, as usual one of my late nights (was doing world of warcraft raids Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj aka AQ 20 GKP, it been a long time since my last raid). Went for a bio break and saw granny's room lighted.

As I stepped into the room, granny was shivering, speaking very softly to dad, her expression look pale and restless. Touched her forehead and felt feverish, she had been having on and off fever a few days ago. Next thing in my mind was to send her to hospital. But she refused. She told us that she took the medication just now and mumbling softly, "I can endure it till morning, it's troublesome to go hospital now"

Granny is a very independent lady, despite her age of 82, she still move on her own using walking frame, bath, eat etc Be it whatever matters, as long as she still has the capability to do it, she will do it on her own. She doesn't like to voice out for help (think she does not want to trouble us but no matter how many times we told her, call for us if you need anything, she still goes back to the same way). She has been bearing the pain agony on both her legs for the past decades and taking 10 over types of tablets every single day without complaining. She kept all the pain and sorrow to herself. Sometime back, when I got my graduation regalia and purpose a family photo shot. After countless attempts, manage to convince granny to go for the shot with us at a nearby photo shop. It was a happy event but ....... granny requested the photographer to take a solo picture of herself. I felt curious initially and got SHOCKED !!! guess what's the intention of that photo ? It's sad and heart hardening, its a funeral photo =\ arghhhh

Reality of life is cruel, sometimes in my thoughts, I will wonder, does that mean she does not have anything to look forward to anymore ? No more meaning in life ?

Continuing the from granny's room, I insisted on sending her to hospital, she was shivering so badly and somehow I felt that she's in pain from her expression and tone though she did not say it. True enough, during trip to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, I discovered more ...... she's been having on and off fever for past 5 days, having headaches, abdominal pain, very poor appetite, constipation for almost a week, stain of stale blood.

Did a quick registration and she was pushed into the A&E room. Oh for those who have not go through the whole process, do wait outside the A&E room and not the waiting corner outside the registration counter. (I waited at the waiting corner outside the registration counter and miss the page from the doctor, end up he rang my uncle house in the middle of the night - 0300hrs ++ well I did provide my mobile no. at the during the registration. Wonder why it was not reflected. )

The doctor collected some blood sample and urine for testing and sent granny for X-ray. Not sure what's the diagnosis outcome, got to check with the doctor tomorrow.

Dinner and Dance

Have you attended Dinner and Dance ? What were you expecting ? Food, beverages, mingling, stage play, lucky draw, entertainment shows etc which compose of the Dinner part. But where's the Dance part ?

Attended the Dinner and Dance of citigroup last month, it was held at Orchard Hotel. I was pretty impressed, first the door gift,

Simple and nice organizer with a pen.

During the guest arrival time slot, there are various corner setup to keep the guest occupied. Stalls like instant photography, agent smith shooting (using toy air gun to shoot down agent smith, haha I managed to hit all the targets Good Marksmanship huh =D), Mini casino (each guest upon entering are given 10 chips, the top 3 who walk out of the room will be given some prize. But lady luck wasn't with me that night. )

The Theme was 'Secret agent' but only a couple of them dress up for the theme, I would say less than 5%. One of the best was Austin Power thought of taking a picture with him but the instant photography stall already closed as the dinner was starting. Got to know that the guy in Austin Power suit is actually the big boss.

I was chatting with my sis a few days ago and Guess her company dinner theme .....


'back to school'

I was like OMG imagine those middle age high 30s and 40s in school uniform. Well you gonna give them a thumb up for the guts to wear it. Cant wait to see those photos.

The hosts for our Dinner and Dance are Glenn Ong and Jamie Yeo. She's awesome man ! Sunny look, sweet smile, silky hair, sparkling eyes

Dinner ended as the 1st prize winner was drawn(She got a samsung LCD TV 40 inch), guests started to leave the hall. I saw the mobile disco setting up and thought of a quick break before coming back for the Dance part. Went back in 15 minutes time and arghhhhhh 98% of the crowd have left and nobody dancing. Why should they call it Dinner and Dance where there's no Dance happening.

The mobile disco company earned a free and easy assignment man.