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Re: Financial Consideration for New Parents in Malaysia

Voyager8 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:24:46 -0000

There is another alternative, which is private division of government hospital. It is still cheaper than most private hospitals, and you can choose your doctor.

My son was born in the private division of HUKM (7th floor) during festive holiday time (hari raya aidilfitri). Considered normal delivery, only head suction is applied to pull him out. Total cost was close to RM2000.

Re: Winner of the Maybank2u 2.0 Exclusive Pendrive

Voyager8 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:14:12 -0000

Thanks for the thumbdrive. It's actual size is bigger and longer than in the photo :-)

I have just blogged about the new Maybank2u website which is on public now.

http://voyager8.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-mayban...

Re: Maybank2u 2.0 Exclusive Preview

Voyager8 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:53:18 -0000

I am among the pioneer M2U user who has been using it even before it was officially launched, some 8 years ago.

One thing I would like to see for improvement is their Contact Us function. Other banks' online banking system include a complete messaging function to send out announcement, alert and to communicate with users, with Inbox and Outbox and new message alert after login.

The location of current M2U Contact Us is not even in the menu, take some time to find if you haven't used it before. It is just a very simple feedback form, which send out email to their customer service dept. Sometimes, the feedback form failed to work, and there is no way the user know if the message is successfully sent out or not. There is no Inbox nor Outbox, so you have to wait for their reply in your own email client, sometimes the reply will arrive few weeks after.

I prefer using online communication with banks, rather than calling them. If you have called them before, you might already have been experience wasting a lot of time going through the phone banking system pressing this button and that button, and end up all the officers are busy and have to wait a long time again before your call is answered.

Hope that they have improvement in this, for their customer to be easier to reach them.

Re: The Most Important Payee of Your Entire Life

Voyager8 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:07:29 -0000

As a married person, I found my most important payee is my children...

Re: The Money Book: A CAP Guide to Managing Your Money

Voyager8 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:52:41 -0000

Thanks for the recommendation. This book is available in MPH too.

http://www.mph.com.my/search/nsearch.cfm?do=det...

Re: Who send you a Birthday Card this year?

Voyager8 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:50:49 -0000

Hi,

This could be due to your email doesn't work, as it always come out with this message no matter what I wrote to send to you: "Possible malicious code detected. No HTML, URIs, or anchor tags are allowed in message."

I have posted about 3D birthday card in my blog. Please read the comment in your article about the birthday card.

Thanks.

Re: Get Free Birthday Card and Backlink

Voyager8 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:43:49 -0000

Hi,

Your email doesn't work, as it always come out with this message no matter what I wrote to send to you: "Possible malicious code detected. No HTML, URIs, or anchor tags are allowed in message."

I have posted about 3D birthday card in my blog. Here is the article URL:
http://voyager8.blogspot.com/2008/07/send-cake-...

Please link back to my blog:
URL: http://voyager8.blogspot.com
Anchor text (short): The 8th Voyager
Anchor text (long): The 8th Voyager - Day to day information, knowledge, tips and tricks sharing that might be beneficial or useful to you.

Please inform how to email you beside using the link above, which is not working.

Thanks.

Re: How inflation affects your life?

Voyager8 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:57:29 -0000

I am among the lucky one, thanks a lot to my boss who announced a special living allowance to all staff, and a revise in mileage claim rate, a few days right after the recent petrol hike.

There are 2 ways to remedy the inflation, namely:
1. save cost
2. increase revenue

Sometimes, you can save cost without sacrifying anything. Here is now I did it.

I applied to a petrol rebate credit card, to get the 2% rebate for petrol consumption, and 0.5% rebate on other consumptions with the card. The platinum credit card is free for life, so I don't need to pay anything for annual fee too.

Currently, there is a promotion event ongoing with that credit card. I purchased a book in MPH with it, and immediately got RM10 worth of MPH voucher, at the same time got a KFC voucher from Mid-Valley. By now, I think you should able to figure out that is a CIMB Petronas Platinum Mastercard. I have blogged something about free for life platinum credit card recently, please visit http://voyager8.blogspot.com to read the article.

After buying the book, I took my dinner in Secret Recipe, where there is a RM10 set promotion ongoing now. Normal price is about RM16++ to get the same thing.

Before this, I also applied for an auto-paybill service, which provides a rebate of RM4 per month for my telephone bill and Streamyx bill. I have enjoyed this rebate for about 2 years already.

So you've learnt from me some ways on how to save cost without sacrifying anything. If KC give me the book, then I also save the cost on the book, without sacrifying anything too. Now, talking about increase revenue.

To increase some pocket money, I signed up SociakSpark, a social networking community which brings both the bloggers and advertisers into the same place. Then, I made some US$20++ for posting a sponsored article in my blog.

The book I bought from MPH is for preparation to a professional exam. Once I pass the exam in the near future, I believe I'll be at a better ground for increment and promotion.

To learn more from me, feel free to visit my blog. I have shared my experience to save fuel and save electricity bill legally with some inexpensive gadgets. I have shared about great software which are free to use. I have shared about value-for-money products that I've bought and use. I have shared about latest promotion events in town. And many more... which consist the idea on how you can save cost but without sacrifying anything.

To be honest, your visits there might help me to gain a few cents from Google and Advertlet. That is a win-win condition, as you won't lose anything, and able to learn something from me, at the same time helping me to gain some revenue.

Thank you.