VAT is the short form of Value Added Tax. The government of Singapore has recently announced that increase the VAT from 5% to 7%. So, it would not be a good idea to shopping in Singapore, unless you get the tax refund for it.

In UK, the VAT is even more expensive, it was 17.5%. Most of the goods are sold with the VAT included, so to get the accurate how much the VAT is actually, here is the formula.

The price of the good x 14.89% = the VAT

For example,

The price of the good, £235, the VAT which be £235 x 14.89%= £35

If you are a visitor to UK and stay less than 6 months, you can get the VAT refund. But I have no idea where to get the refund, maybe in airport?

Oh, a friend is going to help me to buy a LV wallet. That’s why I m searching what is the VAT in UK.

• flight or bus to singapore?
• AirAsia Free Ticket to Singapore
• BEDDING

If you are planning to buy the FANCL product from Japan, it is advice that you join their membership before you pay for your stuffs.

You just have to tell the cashier that you want to join as their member, then they will pass you a form to fill up and you can choose either the skin care or the supplement as your welcome gifts. Of course that is the small sample set. I got myself the mild cleansing oil.

You will be giving a member card after you make your very first payment, your membership ID, and the point you collected from your purchase just now will be printed there as well. The point will deducted as cash against your next purchase, just remember to bring the card. After you have use the point, a new card will be issued to you with the updated points you have accumulated. The point is based on 5% of your purchase.

So, when you buy something from there, pay for the most expensive item to collect more points, and left one which is cheaper pay using the points collected. You will still entitles the 5% based on the price of the item your purchased, not the $$ money you pay after the point deduction.

• spend and collect point
• greeting card
• fitness center

I just remember of this service, which we can order the food and drinks from the restaurant and they have someone, which similar to the middleman company to pick up the food and get it delivered to our doorstep.

It was called Room Service Deliveries, you just have to enter the postcode of your area then a list of the available restaurant will be displayed and you can start to make your order. The minimum order is RM20 and the delivery charge is from RM10 or RM15 depends. It will be reasonable if you order many and share the cost between.

But, why there is no Coffee Bean for my area? I prefer Coffee Bean than Starbucks!!! You can order the sandwich from O’briens as your breakfast, spaghetti from Piccolo Mondo as your lunch or steak from Chili’s as your dinner.

• Ristorante Pizza
• Bento via Take Away
• order pizza online

The technology is getting advance and change quickly from day to day; online conference has created to connect the businesses with vendor, employer and employee from one to another end of the earth. Therefore, a reliable and smooth conferencing is very important to ensure the message delivered is correct.

Tell me, who doesn’t know what is Google? And who doesn’t use Google as their search engine? But, what I dislike about Google is their first page is too plain. They didn’t even bother to decorate it like what their competitive do. What to do, as they are the most powerful search engine in the world!

Ok, what I want to share here is I found a great site which you can now have your very special and unique Google homepage. Oh, you can have Angelina Jolie or Tom Cruise to be on your Google homepage, or you can put your own sexy photo on it. You have the option to put anything on it; it is all up to you. There are lots of nice, beautiful and interesting image available in the GRoovle library with the categories, celebrities, sports, space, animals, natural or athletes.

Have fun with your Personalize Google!

• 8888
• Adsense
• Exploring San Diego

I am quite a stingy and fussy people, especially when you ask me to buy something that is expensive. I always want to read a lot of review, search for the related topic in the forums, compare the price between few places… and it always at last took up about at least a month for me to finish all the research.

Comparing the price always is the last part as the price for the gadget may change anytime. I come across the Save Bucket which is a new site that providing the service of price comparison. It is easy to use, what have to do is just key in what you want to search, for example, mp3 players,after you click on teh search, a list of the MP3 player will listed with picture accordingly to the best price. To narrow your search, you can also just type the name of the gadget, like iPod, then all the iPod will be listed.

Yes, i can throw away the pen and paper which i usually used to jot down the price and compare it manually.

• Travel Search Engine
• Sony HD video camera
• ……

What you usually do when you are free? Surfing net? Chatting? Listening to the music? Or watch movie? There are lot of things can do actually, and I know some people they do play a bit at the online casino. That’s not a big problem if you are just play it once a while when you are free, as long as you are not addicted to it will do.

http://www.topusaonlinecasinos.com/ was a place where you shouldn’t miss if you did participle in the online casino, especially if you are residing in the nation of US. It was a free guide to assist the US player to find the safe and fun online gambling destination.

The top ten list of casinos are ranked by the pro poker and blackjack players, according to the bonus size, payout rate, customer support, number of games available, deposit option, graphics and if it is user friendly.

• Gambling
• something…
• I want to be a millionaire

If you been to Starbuck or the Coffee Bean before, for sure you hear the name of espresso, latte, cappuccino or mocha. So, do you know that what is that actually? A cup of coffee? Or a cup of drink?

OK, let’s share about it, this is what I get from the magazine, Expatriate Lifestyle.

Espresso : The foundation for all espresso drinks. This power-punch of flavor comes as a single or double shot. When pulled correctly, a caramel coloured frothy layer should be on top.

Cappuccino : Equal parts steamed milk, foam and espresso with optional cute and little foam moustache.

Latte : Espresso mixed with plenty of steamed milk, topped with foam. It was milk lovers unite.

Mocha : Sweet mix of espresso and hot chocolate milk.

Macchiato : Espresso topped with a dollop of foam.

Americano : Latte made with espresso and hot water, instead of milk.

• Espresso
• DHC COENZYME Q10 Milk and Toner
• ????

Let me share with you, what is the best gift you may buy for your friends when you are on a holiday in Japan.

Ok, let’s start from this first, everyone know DKNY and CK is branded, right? As well as the Vivienne Westwood, Anna Sui, Burberry, Ralph Lauren… right? So, you agree me that anything which is from these brands should be very expensive? And it should be very generous if we are pressie something which is from these brands.

Back to the topic, when you are in Japan, you can go to their department store, Daimaru, Isetan, Hankyu, Tobu or others… go to the department that selling accessories for ladies or gents, and search for the section of handky. You will find that, the 100% cotton DKNY handky is just selling at 500Yen, RM15! All the handky was priced not more than 1000Yen!!

After you have choose the handky, remember to tell the sales rep that those handky is “Omeyake” or “present”, then they will put the handky into a nice looking package with the brand of the handky on it.

I am sure your friend sure will be very happy as you buy him/her a branded handky.

Ops, these handky is all made from Japan, not China oh!!!

• Japan Outlet shopping
• FCup from Japan
• Shopping in Japan

We have another option to go down to Singapore, which is Air Asia.

Before the department announces the news, giving permission to Air Asia to fly to Singapore, we can only take MAS, Aerobus, long distance bus, train or drive. There are still lots of option despite taking a flight. Yes, the one hour flight from KL to Singapore cost about RM500+, unless you are on business trip and pay the company, or else, I don’t think the normal traveler like us will take flight to Singapore.

The advent of the Aerobus brings us another option which we can go to Singapore in a comfortable coach, just like the airplane. There is toilet, lounge, mini bar inside the bus, the seats can compare with the airplane seat, but I think the seat in the aerobus more spacious.

Of course taking a flight to Singapore is always my first choice as easier and faster, also more feeling like traveling than taking a coach. So, let see, how Air Asia set the airfare and the so called admin and fuel charges.

• AirAsia Free Ticket to Singapore
• Go or not go?
• VAT

When I do my usually blog hop, I noticed that almost every blogger is talking about the PR. I think I was the lucky one as Google give me a PR3 for this blog.

OK, that’s not what I want to blog about. I was so curious and want to know how Google rank Yahoo, the competitor. Guess what, the PR for Yahoo is PR9 while Google is PR10! And, the widely use Yahoo Japan wan ranked at PR8 only!

Funny, right?

• Personalize Google
• Adsense
• blog break?

I like this coat so much; I saw there are lots of lady looks so trendy and fashionable! Hey man, I wanted to wear like that too…. But, I m sure if I m wearing that in the KL city, there will be a lots of weird eyes stare at me!!

If there is four seasons in our country, then I will invest 1kUSD for it, as well as others beautiful autumn and winter wears. Can foresee that a lot of monies to spend.

Since there is only summer and the haze season here, so I can save a lot, and wear the summer dress from beginning of the year till end of the year.

• 4 seasons
• scrub buying?
• dresses for dinner

Breakfast is very important, especially if you are on diet. You can skip the lunch, but no breakfast, if you want to lose weight.

As for me, I noticed that I am able to lose weight if I had breakfast and eat less for the lunch and dinner. When I skip the dinner, no matter how little I ate for lunch and dinner, I still maintain the same weight, as well as the shape.

Do remember don’t skip the breakfast!

• skip lunch
• weight lose
• Chilli Tuna

The long school holiday is around the corner, the airport will be busy very soon. In fact, many people are start to get ready for their winter trip since last months, I saw a lot of people buying winter wear at the winter wear specialist shop.

Regardless you are a frequent traveler or it was your first time travel abroad, you sure will bring your camera along to capture the best moment and the best scene. Of course, for those who have a view cam, they will bring it along too, as well as laptop if you don’t have many CF/SD card to store your photo. I m using at least 2GB per day for my trip!

All these gadgets need electricity to charge the battery pack, or unless you are using the disposable AA or AAA battery. Most of the hotel room provides one or two socket only, while you have few gadgets to charge, so how?

Bring a power extension with 4 slots where you can charge 4 gadgets in one go. Save time and easy to manage as you won’t be kelam kabut on which was charged, which is not!

• crazy over tpe
• i want a new hand phone
• Knitting

Do you love your hand?

I am using the La Source Hand Recovery Cream from Crabtree & Evelyn to pamper my hand. It was a 60 seconds intensive hand recovery treatment to clean, exfoliates and moisturizes at the same time.

My hand is smoother and softer like a new born baby skin immediately after I wash it off. I am sure you will love it too…. It was amazing!!! The hand recovery cream was made from a blend of sea salt, algae, shea butter and lavender oil which believe it may moisturize and condition the skin.

Nope, it was not expensive at all, at about RM60+ only. You can always ask for a trial before you pay for it.

• L’Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream
• Boots Intensive Hand & Nail Cream
• L’occitane Radiant Bloom package

I was trying the Kose Intellige sebum quick remover, as per the name of the product, it was use to clear and clean the troublesome darkening in pores and comedo neatly. The sebum quick remover was come with 2 bottles which is the sebum quick up SP and sebum remover mask SP.

I have first tried it last night, first have to apply a thin layer of the sebum quick up SP on the T zone which is in clear color, and then spread with a rubbing motion on the area with the sebum remover mask SP using fingertip, it was in white color. Just cover it right cannot see the skin color will do, no need to put so thick. After applying it, wait until the mask completely dry, and peel off it in a single, quick and upward direction. You can see the black head, sebum was all stick on the mask clearly.

Remember to apply the toner and moisturizer to the area after removing and the mask and washing the area. It work wonderful for me, and it was not that expensive actually, I pay RM115 for it and have the small bottle of the Sekkisei toner and moisturizer as free sample for me to sooth my skin after using the mask. Their free sample was unlike others which are very very small in size.

• Kose Clear Turn Collagen Mask
• Kose Clear Turn Q10 Mask
• Kose Clearturn Q10 mask