iphone Developer University Program in Singapore Department head of technology schools, listen up! Time to add this subject into the syllabus. Call Apple now at iphone to work out the details. Let Singapore students be the first to learn this! Do I need to buy a car in Singapore? Here are some reasons why I might need to buy a car: I like cars I want to fetch my family around I want to find a girlfriend(Do you agree?) When I want to bring my date to a romantic place not reachable by bus or MRT I hate to squeeze in the buses and MRT especially during peak hours. Very dam crowded! I can’t find a taxi during peak hours When I am stuck outside on a rainy day Here are some reasons why i don’t need to buy a car: If I buy a car now, I won’t be able to buy my own house without getting married Car is a 101% losing investment. Buy it means lose money. Rising fuel cost Parking in SG is getting more expensive if you can find a parking lot in the major shopping centers Public transport in Singapore is not bad. At least you can get from point A to B in 1 piece Taxi charges are much cheaper even if you take it everyday So do you want to buy a car today? I encourage you to use your credit cards Why use your credit cards? To chalk up enough points to redeem your favorite freebies!!! What of freebies can we redeem? Well that will depends on what type of credit cards you have. I have a couple of cards but I usually only use the following in order of American Express Krisflyer OCBC Mastercard DBS Visa I am close to earning enough Kris miles to redeem a free 2-way trip to Bangkok! Yahooo! Recently, I exchange my bonus points from my OCBC Mastercard for $300 worth of NTUC vouchers and movie tickets. Not to forget the types of discount you will get when you pay for the certain stuffs ‘I encourage you to use your credit cards’ statement applies only to those who has self-discipline, do not over spend and pays on time every month! One look at the hotel room in Banthai Beach Resort & Spa in Phuket Banthai Beach Resort & Spa is located somewhere in the middle of Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand. Don’t ask me why I choose this hotel for the stay. My friends found it so I just follow. However, it was a good choice made. Room rates are on the higher end side of the hotels in Patong though. What I like about the hotel is the pool and the location. Oops i forgot to take a picture of the pool! Anyway the location is well situated in Patong Beach. Mcdonald is just outside with all the various local restaurant. I just let the pictures do the talking: Nice Beds Washing basin is outside the toilet beside the bed!! Usual free mineral water, hot water, refrigerator small cosy toilet and shower Digital computerizes TV services…wow Looking forward to my next holiday which likely will be Taiwan!!! A Wedding Invitation Today I receive an envelop known to some people as the ‘red bomb. From For Blog My Army friend sent me an sms telling me his exact wedding date. I said I can attend. So here comes his invitation to my home address. Feeling happy for him that he found someone who he feels is able to spend life with. As most of us including me knows, finding the suitable 1 is no easy task. Hope I find 1 sooooon. Partner with Apple iTunes Affiliate Program Partner with Apple iTunes and make 2% or 5 % commission on all qualifying revenue generated by links on your web sites or emails to iTunes. However the affiliate program is only available to apply in US, Europe, Japan  and Australia. I am in the midst of applying for one through LinkShare, who is managing this affiliate for Apple Visit iTunes Affiliates to finds out more. Rent a car and drive in Phuket Do you know that a one-way taxi ride in Phuket typically cost about 500-700baht? and Do you know that road signs in Phuket are rather well place? and Do you know it only takes 30-45minutes drive from the Phuket airport to the beaches such as Patong? plus (more…) I just came back from Phuket Even with all the political turmoil in Thailand, the country known as the ‘land of smiles’ is still a heaven for holiday goers. I was in Phuket just last Friday. I landed in Phuket about 9.25am and off I went to my hotel. By evening, I heard that Phuket airport was closed due to the ‘demonstrators’ in the airport. However life in Phuket proceed as normal for me. I had good fun. More of my holiday in another blog post. By Monday, the Phuket airport was back in business. Tuesday morning, on the way to airport, Bangkok just been declared state of emergency. I wonder if I get to extend my holiday if the Phuket airport is close. Well I didn’t and managed to reach Singapore as per schedule. So no worries, go ahead and visit Phuket/Thailand How to recover from fever I was sick over the weekend from saturday night. I had fever! However I managed to recover and by Monday night, I was bouncing up and down like a bunny. Here are my tips on how to recover fast! 1) Don’t take medince just yet 2) Drink enough water to make sure your body is properly cool down 3) Eat more fruits 4) Eat vitamin C tablets 5) Sleep and get more rest The above methods are tried and test by me. If after 1.5 day, u feel worse? Then - would advise u to see a doctor and eat medicine :p A cozy place to study at Jurong East National Library I am the type of person who usually can’t study at home. Every once in a while, I will go toilet or lay down on my bed or take water from kitchen…so much disruption created by myself. How to study at home?? So I always like to study at the library. Today I went to Jurong East National Library. I studied with SIM friends. Studying with people who also wants to study really drives me to reach my goals! Wanna join me? Experience 2008 Olympics games online Too busy schedule to catch the live telecast of Olympics games?  Here are 4 websites which I visit regularly to find out the latest happening at Beijing Olympics Beijing Olympics 2008 - Official website to the Beijing Olympics. The 101 guide to the games at Beijing China.org.cn - Special news section on the Olympics in more than 8 different languages!!! WOW! International Olympics Committee - All the rules, regulations and history of Olympics can be found Enjoy the games! Enjoying a swaying week Just a short recap to remember the activities this week. I enjoyed it very much. I wrote this post on Saturday while I was on the MRT with my blackberry Monday: Went home to eat mum’s cooking Tuesday: Went gym to pump muscles after work! Wednesday: Went ktv with colleagues jon and jess! Had a wild and crazy evening singing our hearts, lungs and throat! (more…) Spend less on your next movie tickets Yeah yeah. Great deals for movie lovers who are SAFRA members!At any Golden Village Cinema, pay only: SGD$8 per ticket from Friday - Sunday, eve of PHs and PHs (U.P. $10) SGD$7 per ticket from Monday - Thursday (U.P. $7.50)->from Oct08 SGD$6 for popcorn combo! -> from Oct08 Yeah yeah..more reasons to watch movie and spend less on your next movie date! I finally get my hands dirty and develop web applications 28 June 2008. A important day to mark in the history of my life. I finally started to develop web applications! I been hacking around other web applications in LAMP environment and trying out open source software in the past 3 years. Very fun and interesting to find that there are so many good developers in the world! Programming is not easy task. That explains why top programmers are paid BIG money either for their skills or for the codes. Am I looking forward to the BIG money. You bet however…. (more…) Some say I am a nice guy…so? Few days back, I was mentioned in my friend’s blog that I was part of her nice guy list. Happy as I can be This is not the first time someone said so..Hee But there been this thought lately on my mind. Can a nice guy survive in this current chaos world? Nice guy always get ‘eaten’ up..Do you think so? First talk about work. If you are nice, you get dump with all the work while your ‘head’ gets the credits. Or your get push around by your colleagues. Next, love. Woman says they want nice guys but somehow are still attracted to jerks or bad boys. Too nice to a woman? Chances are they will take you for granted. Maybe I just be unlucky lately….All right, to the defense of woman, if you are too nice to a guy, they will also take you for granted. :p So what is my story here about being nice? (more…) Let the Fishes massage your feet at Kenko Wellness Spa Fish massaging? How? With their fins? Nemo has a big fin in this picture. Maybe Nemo can give a massage. Hee (more…) Press release: RichBudgetMan reindex blog topics Reindex sounds very geeky! So what does it mean? Basically I rename the categories of my blog into a easy to understand topics. Here they are: In no order of preference, may I present: Enjoy life Talks about how I enjoy life which might be on a budget or cost a fortune. Food, drinks, entertainment, events comes under this topic Great deals Everybody love sales and discounts including me! Life is like that We wish that everything in life is within our control and we have the ‘power’ to change it. The fact is, sometimes we have to live with it as life is like that. Here, I will share about life is like that in Singapore Make more money Almost everybody wants to make more money. My aim to make more money now so that I can achieve financial freedom asap. Make use of technology As a tech person, I hope to share with you how we can make use of technology to automate and simplify our everyday to-do life. Travel tips I love holidays and so do you! Talking about it just makes my heart beat faster! So here is a section on the places I been to. Have fun reading and leave your comments as well How do you share clubbing cost? Been clubbing lately. Sort of every friday this 2 months. Been out with different groups of friends/colleagues. To gain entry to most clubs(discos) over the weekends, we need to pay a cover charge. For guys, it would be around SG$20 to $30+. Ladies charges would be few dollars less than for guys. If you have a membership of the club, you can get in free plus sign in some guests NO-BRAINER QUESTION: How do you share clubbing cost? Scenario 1: (more…) Just one step to achieve 2 types of multiple streams of income Everybody including myself been complaining about the rising cost of living. Not to forget for the normal working class, increment of salary is lower than inflation…..BOOOOOO Read about my Why 3 wantons became only 2 wantons Other than Demand/beg that your boss pays you more salary Find another job with more or less same amount of increment (more…) Coolest and nice budget backpacking hotel in bangkok Traveling on a budget to Bangkok? And have limited budget on hotel but yet want to stay comfortably? Or have a big group of friends heading together to Bangkok? Stay at the coolest backpacking hotel in Bangkok now! View the video to find out why: (more…) 3.15am Saturday party at Attica, Clark Quay Singapore Imagine 3.15am where Most kids are sleeping Taxi drivers still working 24×7 call centers with sleepy staff Stall owners waking up to prepare their stall at Day Food centers People who are doing this The scene at the club is just what you seen on this video…dark….packed…and happening! But ladies, beware the ‘hungry’ and ‘thirsty’ man there! I finish my school assignment, have you? Finally finish my java assignment!!!!!!!!!!!On a Saturday. what a thing to spend my Saturday on… How many hours I took to do so..let me …1..2…. total about 9 hours? fast? How i do my assignment is, I don’ really read the lecture notes. I just check out the question and I will go and read up on that section and answer the question…hehe.. Study smart by only studying what I need for my assignment? If i don’t read, how can I prepare for exams? I don’t have super human memory so no point I go through the whole lecture notes now only to have to refer to it near to exams. I read up only what I need for my assignments and i rather just study everything when my exams dates are near. Do you use this tactic as well? More solutions to hair loss Today, i look at the mirror….and notice my hair loss problem is coming back….:( Why why why……why must i lose my hair and be less handsome. Can you tell me why? Man typically has this problem of hair loss when they grow older…notice the matured man on the street with little hair.. What are some of the reasons why this happen? Think too much. Thinking too much cause me to feel stress and it affects your hair moods Eating outside food. Home cooked food has less msg and other chemical stuffs than food bought outside. Irregular sleep. Not having a routine sleep causes hair loss Alcoholic drinks. Too much alcoholic drinks is known to cause hair loss. So drink moderate. So sad…..and worried………as well.. (more…) Busy weeks coming up I am going to very the busy over the next few weeks…why? because Work is increasing. My work projects are starting to execute Need to learn new skills for my work projects Have a prepare a presentation in a major conference next month I need to read up on my school work because my assignment is coming up which means less time to blog, work on my business and party!!! Please, the month of May come quick whereby my exams will be over and I will finally graduate with my degree in computer science and economics!