Archive for August, 2010
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
I am currently in KL for business and yesterday, went to a club to attend to the tennis courts that we are installing at the moment. I was in the library and for about 3 hours, managed to read quite a lot of reading materials like The Star newspapers and Small Business in Malaysia magazine. [...]
Posted in Life and Rants, News | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
If I have the money, I will go for an overseas vacation to Myrtle Beach in USA. With long sandy white beaches, the towers at Myrtle Beach are very affordable with their units, 1 to 3-bedroom condominium, each with a private balcony to view the splendour of the beach. You will have plenty of fresh [...]
Posted in Services, Travel, Vacation | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
My international passport expires in November this year. So I need to renew it soon before the expiry date. I have not decided when to renew it yet. Or I might just tag along with me second sister as she too needs to renew her international passport which expires in February. Since she works in [...]
Posted in Diana's Diary, Life and Rants | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
I am going to KL in the evening after dinner. It is better to travel at night which is better for the car tyres and engine. As the weather will not be so hot compared to the afternoon sun, the car can travel uninterrupted unlike the last trip where we encountered a tyre puncture in [...]
Posted in Diana's Diary, Travel | No Comments »
Monday, August 16th, 2010
When I was in between jobs, I did study to become an insurance agent and passed the test. But I did not practise it and shortly after, I found another job. It was interested to note the different insurance terms like endowment, riders, etc. I have bought a policy for accident and illness insurance under [...]
Posted in Check this out, Consumer, Diana's Diary, Miscellaneous, Products | No Comments »
Monday, August 16th, 2010
Yesterday, I was in Kedah to visit 3 old synthetic turf futsal courts that need to be replaced as their customers and players were getting fewer and fewer going to other competitive’s place to play instead. So the partners of this futsal courts called us up to see my boss and I tagged along. After [...]
Posted in Diana's Diary | No Comments »
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
I have designed a 9-hole indoor mini golf course in Bukit Merah a few years ago using Autocad. My company fabricate each module using synthetic turf and wood. We started off well but in the end, did not collect any payment since it was the staff at Bukit Merah who man the mini golf. There [...]
Posted in Check this out, Overseas Trips, Services | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 13th, 2010
By THE STAR KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby Sunrise Development Sdn Bhd (SDSD) has shortlisted architectural companies to send in their designs for its RM1bil mixed development project in Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam. The five are award-winning architectural firms, namely BIG, J&H Boifills, Benoy, DP Architects and Hijjas Kasturi, who are renowned for their forte in [...]
Posted in Check this out, News | No Comments »
Friday, August 13th, 2010
At the moment, I have about 2 life insurance policies from Prudential and from Maybank. There is a third one from Air Asia and they contacted me via my handphone to buy the life insurance policy from them at RM24 per month. This is automatically deducted from my Citibank credit card – so I don’t [...]
Posted in Check this out, Finance | No Comments »
Friday, August 13th, 2010
By REUTERS LONDON: British house prices fell last month and retail sales growth slowed abruptly according to two surveys on Tuesday that will raise concern the recovery is losing momentum. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ house price balance fell to 8 in the three months to July the first negative reading in a year [...]
Posted in News | No Comments »
Friday, August 13th, 2010
By THE STAR AS I was getting ready for some exercise early yesterday morning, I saw a man walking up the street dropping a leaflet into the mailboxes of homes. I took one off him as he approached the front of my house and it was an advertisement for properties. The houses on offer in [...]
Posted in Check this out | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
I guess I am blessed with enough to eat and more than enough to spend and a perpectual rooftop over my head. At the moment I need to go on a diet to slim down for a healthier BMI or Body Mass Index. It is not easy to lose weight but very easy to put [...]
Posted in Diana's Diary | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
The film begins with a fourteen-year-old Waterbender named Katara, and her older fifteen-year-old warrior brother, Sokka from the Southern Water Tribe, unfreezing an Iceberg with a twelve-year-old boy Aang, and a flying bison named Appa, trapped inside. This attracts the attention of Zuko, the Prince of the Fire Nation who was exiled by his father: [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Movies, YouTube | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time as I was busy with my work every day. There will definitely be something different to do each morning as I wake up and after having breakfast. Therefore, I have not been updating it as regularly as before. Blogging is second nature to me now [...]
Posted in Diana's Diary | No Comments »