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Something I heard about during the workshop at Cyberjaya.

1 Litre of bottled mineral water = **RM1.50 - RM2.00**

1 Litre of unleaded petrol = **RM1.92**

Something is not right isn’t it? Either mineral water is too expensive or petrol is just too cheap.

Just spent RM415 on a notebook 1GB DDR333 RAM! Expensive… but it was a needed investment. I will be using my notebook as a development machine for now.

I have been getting free Revenue e-magazine for sometime from Zinio. Zinio will be and is the next best thing to a real magazine or book. Big publishers like Penthouse, Reader’s Digest are all using Zinio as their e-version of their publication. Open an account now and subscribe to their free business magazines. If you are into Internet Marketing and bounty hunting (which is really booming at the moment), you should really subscribe to Revenue.

The reader is really cool and user-friendly, I would say it is better than PDF reader. What I like most from this Zinio reader is the 1 click zoom in and out. For example, I view the magazine page by page, when I want to close in a particular section I just click on that section to zoom in…. then click again to zoom out. erm… what’s so innovative about that? Well, using PDF reader I have to do a couple of clicks to achieve the same thing and if I use the shortcut keys, I need *both hands*. =)

@_@ is that even possible? I was reading BBC News about a Top Microsoft Blogger who was about to resign. So I went to checkout his blog at . Yup he uses WordPress as well. From there, I saw this post about Amanda’s videoblog getting 300,000 visitors a day and getting paid like USD85,000 a week!!! And guess what? She just started it like 1.5 years ago! Btw, you will need QuickTime to view her videoblog. (she is probably getting paid by Apple to use QuickTime. hehehe).

wah…. USD85k wor…. if I could get RM85 a month from my blog I also laugh liao. <-- very Manglish =)

Are you someone who got a great idea? A dreamer… who wants to make your dream a reality? Well, one of the first step in realising your dream is to have a **business plan**. Alot of entrepreneur (including myself) is just too lazy or doesn’t know how to put those ideas into paper. The Technopreneur Development Division of MDEC will be having a FREE workshop on “Business Plan Development” and I will be there. =)

They will be providing the training on writing a sound business plan so you could get funding for your ideas. If you are lucky, maybe you will get a GRANT! The workshop will be held at Cyberjaya. If you stay around SS 2 PJ you can car pool with me.

I was looking around for a budgeting software… well, I found a couple last time but never really use them. But starting from next month, June of 2006, I will start recording every little thing I spend on… yes even on that teh oh ais limau. I found a useful “office template” but you need to have Microsoft Excel installed and open the link with Internet Explorer for problem free usage of the budget template.

Microsoft Office template website is one of the hidden gems for many of us. You can find almost anything there. Some might not be really usable, but it really helps to get you started. And best of all, it is one of the few “free” stuff from Microsoft.