Stayed in Jen Hotel April 20, 2016 bizadmin Last Sunday, there was no electricity at my condo due to upgrade of hardware and we decided to stay in Jen Hotel nearby. It cost us $272 after taxes and service charge without breakfast. There is a club lounge for the club members room clients where there is free food for the taking. We walked across the road to Prangin Mall and 1st Avenue to watch Jungle Book movie and I had a quick dinner of 1 California Temaki just on the 5th floor of First Avenue shopping mall. My partner ordered 2 Green Latte from StarBucks on the ground floor with a smaller cup for me as part of our meal. We decided to stay in Jen Hotel as we always sleep with the air-con turned on every night. In this hot sweltering weather, it is difficult to sleep without electricity.
Plane Take Off from Penang International Airport April 7, 2016 bizadmin Above is my video capture using my iPhone 6 of Firefly taking off from Penang International Airport. When the engines started to fire, it zoomed past very fast for some time before lift off. I have more videos to show but apparently the upload to computer from my iPhone is very slow due to limited storage on both my iPhone and the computer. On Friday, I will travel by car to Ipoh to meet up with a potential business client taking 2 hours on the road or less. Just the other day, I received a Singapore cheque for only a mere S$1.54 for royalty on my book and the charge for the transaction for the cheque to clear is RM 30 without including the postage. So, I might as well, don’t bank in and keep it.
Happy Easter Sunday March 26, 2016 bizadmin Yesterday was Good Friday and my youngest sister specially took half day leave to attend her church service from 2:30pm to 5pm together with my father to a Catholic church and then my mother went to her Methodist church at 7pm as she was the scripture reader. I did not attend my baptist church as I don’t know what time the service was or whether they have any service at all on Good Friday! It was the day Jesus was crucified on the cross and three days later, He rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. The resurrection power of the cross destroyed the power of the Satan over mankind once and for all. It was the ultimate love shown on the cross for the Son of God to come down born as a babe on Christmas to die on the cross so that man can be re-united with our Almighty God.
Flying Down South March 17, 2016 bizadmin Tomorrow, my colleague and myself will be flying down via Firefly to KL, departing at 9:30am and arriving Subang Terminal Airport an hour later. There after, we shall rent Hertz which had been booked already to visit a potential client and then have lunch before going for a second interview at 4:30pm. Thereafter, we will have dinner and return the rented car and wait at Subang Airport for our flight home, departing at 8pm should there be no further delay. The return air flights from Penang to KL cost us $1,055 while the Hertz car rental was $288 for an auto proton saga. Last week, we also flew down just for a day for the first interview with the same company. Hope we get the project if it is God’s will.
Booked Disney on Ice next week at SPICE Penang March 12, 2016 bizadmin I just booked Disney on Ice 2016 in SPICE Arena, Penang on a Sunday, 27th March which is just next week. There are 3 shows per day. The 2 tickets with GST cost me RM 296.36 which is quite near to the front view and the third most expensive ones. Did not intend to pay too much for direct front view and prefer to watch from the top of the spectators’ seats for a top view. This is not the first time we are watching an ice skating performance. We have watched previous ones like Beauty and the Beast and now the theme is mostly on Frozen. Tomorrow is my youngest sis’s birthday and we will celebrate in Fong Wei restaurant. Thereafter, there is a talk on M-Points at Penang Times Square for its members and those who are interested at 7pm. I joined as a member, having paid RM 4,500 or equivalent to USD 1k in this money game which is a bit like shares which can split its points, redeem for gifts at M Mall in Penang Times Square, and also go for overseas tours plus other features.
Going Down South Tomorrow Morning March 1, 2016 bizadmin This year is a leap year with Feb 29 yesterday which occur every 4 years. So for leap year babies, celebrating their 16th Birthday would mean they are 64 on that day. Tomorrow, I shall be heading to KL in the morning for business. I am just a silent partner in this business, and do all the computer work in the background. I hardly attend meetings and even if I do, my business partner does most of the presentation and talking as he is the one who created the product and knows it inside out. He is a civil engineer by training while I am in computer technology. At a ripe old age of 65, he drives down to KL from Penang while taking short breaks to the restroom in Tapah rest and relax pit stops and in Bukit Merah. I guess I am still lucky to be employed for the last 13 years by the same company to work in a home office with EPF and SOCSO.
Public Bank launches e-fixed deposit account February 22, 2016 bizadmin Public Bank Bhd recently launched the PB e-fixed deposit account (PB eFD) which is for customers opting for e-banking. PB eFD is a “Go Green” paperless fixed deposit account which allows the customers to create the accounts, make placements and also withdraw online via PBe Online Banking (PBe). With PB eFD, customers will benefit from the fixed deposit (FD) interest rate just by applying for a PB eFD account and make FD transactions anywhere via PBe throughout the whole week. The PB eFD placements are carried out in real time with minimum placement from as low as RM1,000. PB eFD is open to individual customers aged 18 years and above as well as sole proprietors, who have existing conventional personal current accounts or savings acounts and who have registered for PBe. The bank said the facility would enable customers enjoy their interest earned before the maturity as PB eFD offers the option of monthly automatic crediting of interest into customers’ current account or savings account. PB eFD also offers automatic renewal for the same tenure at the prevailing board rates for the convenience of customers. In conjunction with the launch of PB eFD, Public Bank is running a “PB eFD Campaign” from Jan 12 to March 31 offering higher promotional interest rates of up to 3.60% per annum for three months and above. With “PB eFD Campaign”, customers can watch their money grow and earn competitive interest rates. Customers just have to open a PB eFD account via PBe and make a minimum PB eFD placement of RM1,000 during the campaign period in order to enjoy the higher promotional interest rates.
Came back from Kota Bahru Yesterday February 19, 2016 bizadmin 2 days ago, I booked Firefly by MAS to Kota Bahru for 2 guests for $665 including seat allocation and taxes. After that I booked Hotel Perdana for 1 night for $280 which is right smack in town and very central and convenient. It is very near to KB mall where we went to have our dinner at Pizza Hut. I also booked the new Proton Saga from Hawk Rental for $180 for more than 1 day or 24 hours. We visited a client at a local school and was successful in getting a project which is slated to be completed by end of the month! It was a last minute thingy and that is why the need was urgent. The lady client is related to Kelantan royalty and they stay in a double storey bungalow with 4 cars, one of them a new Mercedes. There are 6 rooms in the bungalow and I enjoyed the trip; no doubt it was short as we had to come back and mobilise our workers after payment was done.