Malaysia hosting comparison

Finally, my blog on the new hosting is up. I’m grateful to WordPress, the migration was rather easy. It took me about 4 hours to get everything back to the way it was. If you had faced problems accessing the blog, again, I’m sorry. The hard thing was, for the past couple of days, was to [...]

Excuse me, while I move to a new home

If you’ve been experiencing problems while accessing this blog, I’m sorry. This blog is going to move to a new home soon, and hopefully, you will not face anymore hiccups. I’ll post soon on how and why I’m moving, but mostly because I’m moving from a free hosting to a paid hosting for obvious reasons, [...]

Micro manage your money with OD/ASB

I’ve blogged about this before, but not in full details. To those who’s unfamiliar with OverDraft(OD) facility , you can read up here. Basically, you can open an OD account using ASB certificate as your collateral. Since OD has a much lower interest rate than credit card, it can help you to consolidate your credit [...]

When will my Online Store go Online?

It has been almost 2 weeks now. My body is aching, my eyes are tired and it’s like my fingers are tapping away on the keyboard as if they have a mind of their own. Sleep is something I hardly have these days. After 7 years of what I always call a boring working life, [...]

How to host your own blog on your own domain?

It took me about 1 week to setup the hosting, domain and finally move my blog until it’s finally up and running. How did I do it? It’s not simple, but it’s easy: 1. Register your domain. A domain is like an address in the web. Sometimes, the address you want is already taken up, so [...]

Income Tax Checklist for 2008

How much did you pay for tax last year? If you are ’salaried’ like me, I bet you paid a lot more than you wish, right? So this year, let’s try to minimize our tax expenses, shall we? Here are the things you can do: 1. Get at least 5 empty envelopes ready.  Mark the envelopes as: [...]

ASB Dividend and Bonus for the last 15 years

For most Bumiputeras, their ASB investment might be the largest or the only investment vehicle they have. Therefore, each year, all of us wait impatiently for the ASB to finish calculating the dividends and bonus and announce their payout in the news. Payouts are usually on the first week of January, unless otherwise announced by PNB. [...]

Turning a business idea into a reality

Last weekend was a tiring one. I kept myself awake until about 4 in the morning, my mind racing thinking about a new business proposal that had came out of nowhere, plus, my daughter had been restless in her cot that night. I wanted to wake DH up, to tell him about my ‘out of [...]

I have moved to my own domain http://fiQblog.com

I have moved to my own domain at http://fiQblog.com. Come and check it out! More at http://www.fiQblog.com

Stocks volume interpretation

Welcome back to our investment series, Stocks 101… (hehe)… Kidding. One of the things I learned was how to interpret volume. When looking at the volume and price together, you can pretty much understand the signals sent out to the market, especially heavy volumes. For example: 1. Heavy volume with price going up: This looks [...]