oh money money money

where art thou?

ok. fariza and i have been going through many MANY travel websites to look for the cheapest deals for UK - BERLIN.

why berlin, u may ask.

have u ever watched BOURNE IDENTITY and BOURNE SUPREMACY?

most of the scenes are shot in BERLIN.

and i am on a mission to collect a picture with all the GRANDE ARCHE in the world.

and they have 1 there.

lets hope, one day, i will make it to New York of the 'great' US of A, because i know there's one there.

well, ive been to the one in Paris - they have 2. Arc de Triomphe...

.. and Grande Arch.

and one in Barcelona.

not too sure of the name. should be something that sounds like Grande Arch.

and not forgetting the Arc of Putrajaya (of the Perbadanan Putrajaya government complex),

our country's pride and joy.

*but somehow i do not have a copy of my photo here. interesting.

but. no money. so probably not going to berlin.

because its going to cost us minimum: 150quid - only for the AIR FARE.

though now, im not really sure whether or not the arc IS in berlin.

i really need to rewatch the movie again.

*wink*

taxpayers' money

*this was taken from the star online

Thursday January 7, 2010

What a waste of our money, IRB

I HAVE been a taxpayer for the last 25 years. About three years ago, I started using the e-Filing system to pay tax. All went well and I knew from then that the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) would not be sending tax forms to us.

This year, the IRB sent out forms to the three million taxpayers informing them that no forms will be sent to them. If each letter costs 30 sen, the IRB would have spent an estimated RM900,000 just on postage. Take in the costs of paper, envelope and manpower, it would easily be about RM1mil.

This is a waste of taxpayers’ money. It would have been cheaper to advertise or inform taxpayers through the employers or national television. This could have saved quite a bit of the cost incurred in this process. Only Pos Malaysia, a government-linked company, would have benefited from this exercise. Can the powers-that-be in IRB explain this decision?

WASTE NOT,
Kuala Lumpur.



*seriously.. even this is an issue? why??

a blast from the past (part III)

i found rm19.19 in my birthday cards stash!

thanks to the family tradition of giving money in the amount of you age (eg: 20=rm20.20, etc.), i now have rm19 extra. weeho! i might go through some other later, just in case the ones from my 18th birthday is still there. lol! whos to say going through old stuff is just dusty and dirty ;)

at the times where i dont really earn any allowance or income, and im not really into asking money from my parents, rm19 seems like a huge amount ok! :P

money

a wise friend of mine said his father told him this:

" no matter how much money you have, think that you can only spend half of it "

i think i'm going to stick to that piece of advice.