PayPal Withdrawal

April 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Finance · Comment 

My credit card statement came in this morning. I was happy to see the withdrawal from my PayPal account had been successful and reflected in the statement. Withdrawal to credit cards is a new service provided by PayPal to allow account holders in countries like Malaysia to be able to withdraw their funds. I recently decided to try this service.

This withdrawal paid off some of my credit card balance for this month. I am motivated to write more posts and also looking for new opportunities to setup online business.

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An easy way to withdraw from PayPal

April 13th, 2008 at 12:57 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Finance · Comment 

Payment agent such as PayPal has become very popular over the few years. It has been an easy and convenient way to perform online monetary transactions. Whether you are buying or selling on the Internet, PayPal has been your pal to help you disbursing or accepting funds.

I have received funds from writing marketing posts but the withdrawal process has been daunting. PayPal does not payout via wire transfer to banks in Malaysia. The only way was to open a bank account in countries like Hong Kong or Singapore being the nearest.

Now, PayPal offers to pay to your credit cards with a minimum fee of US$5 per transaction. That provides an easy and convenient way for bloggers like me in Malaysia to receive funds.

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Boring at home?

February 7th, 2008 at 10:09 · Filed Under At Play, Blogging, Business, Marketing · Comment 

If you are boring at home and have nothing to do or you are looking for some exciting entertainment, you may want to try some exciting online games. There are countless of online games available. Recently, I get to know some Online Bingo Games! Do you play Bingo? You can play online bingo here provides two sites that offers online bingo games reviews. The sites also provide some other entertainment and preview of games. Try Bloons Tower Defense 2. These sites provide ratings of bingo sites and listed them according to their rankings. They provide free bingo sign up bonuses, no-deposit bonuses and more. You can find lots of entertainment information and other games as well. Visit these two sites now and get entertained.

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GPS data uploaded

January 31st, 2008 at 23:44 · Filed Under At Work, Blogging, Business, GPS, Technology · Comment 

Finally, I have had the time to upload the GPS data I collected from yesterday’s delivery. The data is now all in the Windows box. It is too late to remove some unwanted data (data from other trips e.g. Zakimi on Okinawa and etc.). So I just make another copy of all the data and probably will edit them during this CNY.

I am kind of thirsty for more GPS data from delivery or trips to alien places. Anymore delivery? It is kinda fun. It is like treasure hunting, or tracking down a location. It is really exciting and fun!

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GPS Guided Delivery

January 30th, 2008 at 23:23 · Filed Under Business, Call Me a Geek, GPS, Technology · 3 Comments 

Delivery all done! A dozen hampers at 4 locations in Selangor/Kuala Lumpur. 3 out of 4 locations were alien places to me because I had never been there. Drop #1 in Sungai Long, Drop #2 was in Sungai Besi, Drop #3 in PJ and Drop #4 in Selayang. 1, 2 and 4 were places I was not familiar with and had never been there.

I arrived at Kajang toll at 1130 hours and started to use my GPS device to guide me. Found the place easily by following the GPS guidance. It took some times to navigate through some messy traffics and finding the block and the unit. But I managed to drop off and proceed to Drop #2 at 1215 hours.

Drop #2 and #4 needed some communication with the clients as their address were without street name. They used lot number as they were in industrial park. That complicated the process a little. By 1507 hours, all goods delivered.

On the night before, I researched on the GPS map and found Drop #1 and marked it. Easy job. I had to defer Drop #2 and #4 until morning so that I could call up the clients for some direction. I called them this morning and could roughly know the locations and marked them.

What made this mission interesting was an ironic demarcation which a traditional delivery versus technology-assisted delivery. While heading to Sungai Long after exiting Kajang toll, I saw a cab driver with a full load of hampers in his cab. He was on a hamper delivery mission too. The difference was that he was looking at his hand drawn map on the steering wheel. In great contrast, I was guided by GPS.

The mission had helped me to build a Clientele GIS.

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Orders All Done!

January 29th, 2008 at 13:45 · Filed Under At Home, At Work, Business · Comment 

We received an order of 11 hampers from KL last Saturday. After 3 days of sleepless night, finally we had all the orders done up and ready for delivery tomorrow. LA, especially, has 3 sleepless nights. She did not sleep at all last night. I just done helping her to get the last two hampers up so that she can wrap them up in the afternoon and go to bed early tonight. I will go to bed early tonight. It will be a busy and hard day tomorrow to delivery to various locations around KL. I will be traveling alone tomorrow as the car will be a load full of hampers.

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Hampers for Chinese New Year

January 29th, 2008 at 13:02 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Gifts, Holidays, Shopping · Comment 

The year of the golden rat is around the corner. This coming Chinese New Year falls on February 7 and 8. It is once in a year time again to shop for CNY stocks and gifts. LoveAficionado.com has a wide range of hampers to offer. LoveAficionado’s hampers are great gifts to share with your families and friends.

All LoveAficionado’s hampers are bundled with high quality goodies. LoveAficionada ensures all products bundled in the hampers have long expiry date. They offer excellent quality products and good service. So, you can enjoy giving without worrying about the quality.

CNY Hampers

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Family Delivery Team

January 27th, 2008 at 18:18 · Filed Under Autos, Blogging, Business, Days in My Life, Family · 1 Comment 

We all went to Subang Jaya to deliver hampers order yesterday. Our plan was to go to 1U for shopping after the delivery. But the car AC and the front brake were giving problem. When we arrived at Subang Jaya, the AC began to blow hot air instead of nice cool air. After the delivery, the AC wasn’t functioning properly yet and the front brake started making some noises. According to my driving experience, I decided to take the car in for a examination by my brother-in-law’s friend. His workshop was in Damansara Utama.

It was a long way from USJ1 to DU and the roads were quite jam packed. When we finally arrived at the workshop, poor R and N were sweating. They had rosy cheeks and sweat wet shirts! What a mobile sauna.

I changed the brake pad mid last year and it was finished in less than a year. So much of the Honda’s spare parts quality!

And the AC, the magnetic clutch of the compressor became faulty and needed to be replaced. The repair would take about 2 hours so we took 3 dinos to Starbucks to cool down with ice blended drinks while waiting for my sister-in-law’s husband to come to take them to her house.

The car was ready around 6PM and I went to my SIL’s house to meet them. We proceeded to 1U in the evening for a quick shopping. LA did not find any shoes she likes. We went to FCUK and nothing eye catching except the price tags. We had dinner at 1U and hang around until almost 10:30PM.

We arrived home around 1AM. When we arrived, we suddenly realized we forgot to attend our neighbor’s grandchild full moon party. The next morning, our neighbor came to our house to deliver some cakes and red eggs and we apologized to her for not attending. What a day!

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Free Web Polls

January 25th, 2008 at 20:15 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Computing, Marketing, Web · Comment 

Alright. You need to get an idea what your visitors think of an issue. You need a web poll which is easy to setup and most importantly it is free and does not take up additional disk space or database. There is a free web poll which provides myspace polls. It takes less than 2 minutes to sign up and get your poll up and running. Everything is stored and calculated on their server. Everything they offer is completely free and no pop-up advertisement or banners.

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Green Shoes

January 25th, 2008 at 20:00 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Environment, Fashion, Marketing, Shopping · Comment 


Po-Zu has introduced “green shoes“, the environmentally different foot wears with wide collection of shoes, boots and slippers. All Po-Zu foot wears are manufactured from natural ingredients without harmful chemical and components. Leather is organically tanned with plant origin substances from Mimosa and Quebracho trees. Wools are made of 100% natural fleece, unbleached and un-dyed. The manufacturing process avoids the use of toxic glue and solvents. All foot wears are stitched together making them breathable, durable, repairable and recyclable. Po-Zu shoes are organic shoes. And the shoe cream is edible!

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Sun announces agreement to acquire MySQL

January 25th, 2008 at 10:11 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Computing, Technology · Comment 

On January 16, 2008 Sun entered a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL, developer of the world largest Open Source database. The move reaffirms Sun as a leading provider of hardware and software platforms for the web economy.

The news is really exciting and as expected. Sun has been involved in open source development and released great products like Solaris 10, OpenOffice and now MySQL is going to be under Sun’s flagship. With the involvement of Sun in MySQL development and the funding, Sun will be able to leverage MySQL further from its current position.

More exciting news and features from MySQL and Sun will be expected to breakout very soon.

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Discount on office furniture, supplies and computers

January 25th, 2008 at 10:10 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Marketing · Comment 

Are you looking for office furniture? Whether you are startup or already having a business, OfficeDeals is a great place to look for office furniture, office supplies, computers and even printing business cards and stationeries.

OfficeDeals updates the site daily to bring you latest products and discount coupons. Buy your office equipment, furniture, computers, software, computer accessories, stationeries online in the comfort of your office or home. Enjoy great savings with discount coupons. For example, Vistaprint Coupons offers great savings up to 75% on all your business printing needs from business cards, customer stamps to address labels. And enjoy up to 70% discount on OfficeFurniture.com.

If you are setting up your home business, you can learn about the benefits of a home business and tips on working from home at OfficeDeals website. Good articles to read.

Starting a new business venture requires some funding regardless of the size or type of business you are getting into. You may get into some financial problems if you do not already have plentiful of fund. You need to stir away and to circumvent this problem with some financial tools and yet giving you peace of mind. The site also provides you information about small business credit card. This helps you to establish good business credit record and to alleviate your business financial strain and personal finances.

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Goods sold are not returnable

January 25th, 2008 at 4:20 · Filed Under Business, Shopping, Social · Comment 

Do you know your rights as a consumer? Read on. Benji sent me this information yesterday. I think it is good to share this information to exercise consumers’ rights to shape a better community.

Legal Issue on Contract Law in Malaysia – Good for us to know

Do you notice that most of the time, the receipt / invoice you received from the merchant carries this exclusion clause or similarly worded statement: “Goods sold are not returnable” or “No refund once sold”.

Please remember that : “As long as your goods is purchased for home use and not for business ( i.e. to be resold), the above exclusion clause is void.

That means, as long as the good is defective, regardless of what is worded, you can get back all your money spent . You do not have to accept a repair on the good or an exchange. You can ask for a refund. And you are legally right and entitled to!

And most of the time the merchant will refuse to return you your money.

You may threaten the merchant with four words: “See you in court!”

The court here refers to the Small Claims Tribunal Court. Any goods which is worth RM25,000 and below can apply to this Court.

However, you don’t have to tell them what court! All you have to pay is RM10 admin fee and the loser (the merchant) will have to refund you the money plus the admin fee!

I have seen that most educated people are cowed by such unfair wordings (which includes a few of my friends).

Please try not to let the merchant fleece you the next time you have defective goods.

You can file this On the 16th floor of Putra Place (The Mall opposite Putra World Trade Centre) . The form cost RM5.00 . The Tribunal will settle within 2 months period.

Tribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Malaysia,
Tingkat 16, Putra Place,
100, Jalan Putra,
50622 KUALA LUMPUR
Tel: 03 – 40492300 / 40424181 Fax: 03 – 40424259

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Military Clothing

January 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 · Filed Under Business, Fashion, Marketing, Security, Shopping · 1 Comment 

If you are a military or law enforcement personnel, perhaps you would like to look for some military clothing to add to your standard issued wardrobe. BDU.com is the largest supplier of uniforms to the U.S. D.o.D. (Department of Defense). All BDU’s apparels are manufactured according to highest military standards. All jacket, shirts and pants are sewn to highest military standard MIL-C-43455J for durable wear. Many of the BDU’s military uniforms are treated with a special near infrared coating to minimize detection from night vision equipment. The tactical jackets, shirts and pants are coated with DuPont Teflon to repel liquids and stains. BDU also provides great discounts on selected items.

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Is your connection secured?

January 19th, 2008 at 10:33 · Filed Under Business, Call Me a Geek, Computing, Marketing, Security · Comment 

Internet has become a common tool to connect your mobile computer back to the computers in your office while you are on the go. When you are out there negotiating business with your client, you need to extract a file from your computer in your office but you are hundred or maybe thousands miles away, how can you retrieve your file?

The answer is by using FTP or File Transfer Protocol. You can make connection from your mobile computer to your office computer via an Internet connection. It is very convenient to use. But there is a security concern. All communications between your mobile and office computers can be read like an open book by anyone lurking in the Internet. You need a secured way to transfer your sensitive business data.

Pragma Systems SFTP client provides you a secured FTP connection by encrypting all data before they leave your computers. You can be rest assured of the confidentiality of your data during transmission. Don’t leave your office without it. You never know who is watching.

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