I was quite frustrated with the low interest rate the banks offered and the high inflation rate we are subjected to. So I thought maybe it is a good idea to buy and keep gold and so I started to ask around. I started with the Jewellery Shops for obvious reasons. When I am young, I was notice my parents generation buying Gold jewellery to keep. I can now understand the rational for doing that now. I approached SK Jewellery and asked if I were to buy the gold pendant from them (those of investment grade), how much would it cost. I was told that it will be at Market…

I was trying to book a hotel where I am going to drop off for the airport transfer by Air Asia. The location was 1Utama, not knowing that this is a new shopping area. I forgot that the city area is called Bukit Bintang. There was only one hotel in that area and it is called One World Hotel. My usual portal for hotel booking is Asia Travel dot com. The hotel was full. Out of desperation, I tried to book another hotel nearby and it was not available in Asia Travel. I trusted them because the hotels in their portal are usually of certain standard. I decided to google…

I was planning a trip to KL and was toying with the different options available, by car, coach, train and airplane. By car was the cheapest because I just need to pay for petrol but being a “slow driver who travel max of 100km/h”, it is going to take more than 5 hours to reach KL. I was considering the better quality coach (executive coach) which comes with the entertainment system. When I asked what type of entertainment were in there, I was just told that it was movies on demand with no specific title mentioned and the games were not mentioned as well. The coach cost $90 each and…

I bought a door viewer recorder recently so that I can record who loiter outside my house. Before I bought it, I checked for the viewing angle. A Singapore company charged me $250 over dollar for the camera with a viewing angle of 70 degrees and not recording function. I found one in eBay with a viewing angle of 165 degrees and with recording function, at USD 92 only. After I installed the camera, I realised that I missed out these points The sensitivity of the auto-detection. It turns out that my can detect movement up to 1m away. How sensitive is the auto-detection. Not so good, there is a delay…

I just bought a new bluetooth keyboard for the iPad because I found it quite tough to write on my blog and other apps that require extensive typing. The trade off is a thicker and heavy iPad. I wonder if this is worth the investment. It is definitely heavier, like a mini laptop.

Building a website is easy but building a good website is tough. A good website must be able to attract traffic and generate interest in your product. To built a good website requires planning and a good research tool to find out what people are searching for. Then you have to make sure that your page is Search engine friendly so that it can be found. Without it, you are sure to be ranked far away from the main page and the chances that your potential customers would find you is almost nil. If you wish to find out how to do it right, attend this seminar which I will be conducting…

There are a few things you might want to look out for when you choose a flat or apartment in Singapore. The obvious one is the distance to the MRT station. It is worthwhile paying a premium for the house if it is located near an MRT station. I learnt this from my boss when I was working in public transport company. If you buy a flat away from the MRT station, you pay less upfront for the flat but when you will have to pay more for transport. But if you pay for an apartmen near the MRT station, you save on  transport cost, if not for yourself, for…

I was trying to add a PayPal button for online payment for my seminars but it didnt work on WordPress. I wonder it is caused by my lack of knowledge or limitation in WordPress.

Have you ever thought of publishing your own book but do not know where to start? Or are you told that you need to first find a publisher and be prepared to write a super convincing proposal so that they will publish your book? Or you are told that you need to spend thousands of dollars to publish your book and run the risk of not being able to recover your publication cost if it doesn’t sell? What if I told you that you don’t have to spend more than $200 to have your book published and sold in Amazon, just like these books of ours? If you are keen…

Assuming that you don’t know who is everydayExcel and are looking for an Excel course, without any recommendation, you would probably go to Google and do a search for Excel course. The results listed everydayExcel right on top, beating 102 million websites in the process.  excel course listing   Or suppose, you would like to find out the benefits of honey and you entered the search in Google. The website www.benefits-of-honey.com beats 71.2 millions others to appear on top. And the listing is free. Is that something you wish would happen to your company website? If that is how you want your website to perform, we have good news for…