Vacation >>> Record Down My Foot Path

I love travel. I like to travel to overseas country for visiting and experience the local culture. Beside this, i like to take picture as well. Wherever i go, i like to take picture of the location place and keep for my sweet memories. With the advance technology of digital camera and memory card, i am able to capture as many photo as i want wherever i go.

With all the photos i taken from my vacation, i can either produce it into hardcopy photograph or i can store it inside my computer since all photos taken is stored as softcopy. I can futher burn all my photos into DVD for storage purpose or share with my family members or friends. This is the beauty of keeping your photos in softcopy which gives you more flexibility.

Recently, I found a new way to present my photos to my family members and friends. I no longer show them my hardcopy photograph or throwing them my DVD that fully of coftcopy photos. I show it to them by DVD movie. I found out that there is a company which helping their customer to compile all the photos and videos into DVD video montage together with music background. With animation and transition in between photos, it make the whole movie more lively and interactive. My family members and friends are really enjoy the video that playback on the TV since the movie is converted into DVD video format, I can playback from my DVD player. The best of all is that the price is cheap and affordable. This is the best and new method to preserve my photos by converting it into DVD video montage.

I will engage them again for my future vacation and I love the way preserving my precious memories. I just love it. You can visit this website for more information. www.MemoriesCollection.com

My Vacation Made Easy, Relax and Personal

I like tavel, I like to travel to overseas country annually to rewards myself. Since I started working, I try my very best to save money for my vacation trip. I try to make my vacation trip once a year, and I am happy for that. So far I have been to a few countries since I started working, those country are as follows,

1.) Philippines
2.) Singapore
3.) South Korea
4.) Australia
5.) Thailand
6.) Sri Langka
7.) Maldives

Through all these countries that I visited, I like to go on my own rather than joining a travel agency which they will organized in group travel. The reason why I like to travel on my own is that I like to spend more time on the place or travel spot that I like, unlike group travel, they are always in a rush from one travel spot to another, this will end up like chasing over time rather than relax and enjoy.

Due to this reason, I always plan for my own vacation, I get a return air ticket to the country I want and I book my own hotel accommodation. On top of that, I do my own research on the place of interest and plan my own itinerary. This will gives me full control of my own time and pace. I will enable me to enjoy fully on my vacation. This is truely MY VACATION.

The booking and research required for,

1.) Air Ticket
Yes, first of all, you need to take a flight to your destination country. If you travel in domestic city, you can take land transport. I always check from my national airlines or destination country national airlines. Depends on the season, for certain period of time, they do offer lower airfare. As for Asian country, there is a low cost carrier in my country that allows me to buy even more cheaper air ticket. This will same my money for other spending on my vacation or cut down my vacation budget. You must book a air ticket with the confirmed date and time in order for your to do the following items.

2.) Accommondation
This is the second thing that you should spend time on research and make sure you get the suitable one for yourself. Suitable means that good location to stay with lower cost. This is because when travel on your own, you have to stay at a place where you can easily get a transport and of course at a cheaper price. Since you are on travel, most of the time you will be out of the room and walking on the street. You just need a room to sleep and rest at night. Luxury hotel is not my target, but safety is always my first concern. Do your homework and find the best place to stay at any city that you plan to visit.

3.) Place of Interest
That's right, this is the most import part of your vacation. First of all, you need to know what are the place of attraction in the country that you targetted on. Next, you need to do indepth research on the place of attraction in terms of distance, time required, entrance fees and transport fees. And lastly, you have to group all your place of attraction and arrange it by day for your flow of visiting, so that you will not waste your time in travelling between places or going through and flo. Cut down the travelling time will rewards you with more time to spend at your place of attraction.

4.) Vacation Itinerary
Finally, once you have all the things in place, it is good to create an itinerary for yourself. This will put down all the information required through out your whole journey. Information including flight schedule and booking information, accommodation arrangement and booking information, your travel route in terms of day and location and background information of the place of attraction will be good to add in as well.

Bingo!!! You get all your things in place, what next? Waiting for your departure day and enjoy your relaxing vacation.

雨后依然会有晴天!

今天一大早出门工作,就遇上了棉棉细雨.棉棉细雨会让我的心情有一种底落的感觉.所以我并不太喜欢下雨的感觉.虽然不喜欢下雨的感觉,可是工作还是要做.

在带着一些底落的感觉在公路上驾驶着,突然在街口的转角处,竟然出现了一道漂亮的彩虹划过半个天空.这一道彩虹把我底落的感觉完完全全的消灭了.在彩虹的陪伴下继续我的行程.在没多久后,雨竟然停了,换来的竟是红红的太阳.我的心情又好起来了,爽朗又开心.

所以在人生不如意的时候,我们不需要气馁,因为更美好的明天就在转角处,只要我们继续抱着往前走,往前冲的态度和心情,人生就会更美好.只要我们再坚持多一下,希望就在转角处!

因为,希望就在转角!
因为,雨后依然会有晴天!
因为,只要有心,希望在人间!
因为,世上无难事,只怕无心人!

Life is not just working !!!

That's right, life is not just working. There are a lot of things waiting for us in our life. Don't spend most of your life time in working, its not worth living this world, its not worth your life.

Your family is waiting for your to accompany
Your lover is waiting for you to love
Your children are waiting for you to care
Your friends are waiting for you to share
The world is waiting for us to explore
The society is waiting for you to contribute
etc, etc, etc........

There are so much things waiting for you to do. Do you able to cope this all these things? Do you have enough time for you to participate?

With so many things waiting for your, how you going to plan itinerary and schedule your time?

Let's see how can we plan our time effectively,
1. Plan your itinerary ahead of time
2. Set a time frame for each task
3. Time yourself
4. Wear a watch, this will make you more aware of time
5. Set alarm for time keeping
6. Be focus and concentrate on every task you do
7. Get enough sleep, so that you will have a fresh and clear mind
8. Not to stress yourself with line up of jobs

Hope this will help you to handle your time more effectively and you will get BONUS time for other purpose.

Why we need to work?

Why we need to work? Do you ever think of this question before?

What is the purpose we go to work? Are you really work to improve your skill? to gain experience? or to earn money?

Nowadays, it is very obvious that people work to earn money rather than other purposes. Yes, we do work for money, we need money to survive, we need money to live, and the conventional way to earn money is to work, work work.

When we first working, of course we are earning for basic salary. Through out the years we do work hard to improve our skills and gain experience. Why we work so hard to improve our skill and gain experience? bottom line, we are look for better prospect to earn more money. With improved skill and greater experience, we are able to demand higher salary when we change our job from one company to another. End of the day, the main purpose to work is to earn money for our living.

So, the harder we work, the more skill and experience we gain, the more skill and experience we have, we are able to demand for higher salary. The higher salary we get, the company will load us with more responsibilities, with increased responsibilities, we get to work even more harder. The more harder we work, the more skill and experience we gain............ when you read till here, do you realize this we are repeating the same process again? Yes, we are going round the same cycle again, this is a never ending cycle when we work.

This is a cycle that we going round and round from the moment we start working, until we retired. In between, how many cycle we go through? this is really depends on your own ability. How fast you can pickup the necessary skill and move on to next cycle.

That's enough for telling you the work life. Let's take ourself one lever up and look back into this work cycle. You will see that we are going round the cycle. From all the cycle that we gone through, do you realized that the more cycle we go through, the more money we will earn, and at the same time, the lesser time we will have for ourself.

That's right. More cycle, more money with less personal time.

From here, you might argue that time is mainly depends on how you organize yourselves. But, in this real world, there is no free lunch, you do have to pay the price to earn more money. In working life, the price that we paid is our time. We trade our time for money.

Let's do a simple calculation and compare........

We assume that we start our career from the age of 22 and retired at the age of 55 (for female could be up to age 50, in this example, we take male for calculation), in total, we have to work for 34 years before we retired.

Take your startup pay as $2,000.00 with yearly flat increment of $300.00 (not taking inflation or compounding into consideration), by the time you work for 2nd year, your salary should become $2,300.00. 3rd year will be $2,600.00 and go on and on till you reach the age of 55. If your salary go by this ratio, by the time you reach 55 years of age, your salary will be $11,900.00. This seems a lot right?

Let's take a halt and look back, the normal working hour in most area in the world is standard to 8 hours per day. Initially when we start our career, we start with 8 hours of work a day, with salary increase, let say we add additional 10 minutes of working time every time company increase your salary for $300.00. So, how many minutes of additional time added to you by the time you reach 55 years old? Let's calculate it, er.......... bingo, its 5.5 hours in additions. Take 5.5 hours add to you normal working hour of 8 hours, you get 13.5 hours. Yes, you got to work 13.5 hours.

Yes, you work for 13.5 hours to earn $11,900.00 every month. Does this worth the money? worth the time you spend? This is quite subjective.

What I am going to tell you is that, with 13.5 hours of work per day, how much time we left for our self? how much time we left for our family? how much time we have for our personal use?

Have you ever thought of this question?

We come back again, take 13.5 working hours, plus 8 hours of sleep (I believed this is the optimum rest hours for human body), we get 21.5 hours in total. Yes, its 21.5 hours.

As all fo us know, we only have 24 hours in a day. From our calculation shown above, working plus rest already taken 21.5 hours, we only left 2.5 hours for our personal use.

Yes, its just 2.5 hours for our personal use, for our family, for ourselves.

Now, do you see what I am trying to tell you? I yet to mention the time you spend on the journey home, shower time, dinner time, etc.

Just take half an hour for traveling home, shower and dinner respectively, the total hours will shoot up to 23 hours. Oh my god, its 23 hours. We only left 1 hour for our family and ourselves.

End of the day, we work so hard to earn money, in turn, we just get to spend 1 hour time with our family or for ourselves. Do you think this is enough? Will your children complain that you not spending enough time with them?

Think again, think again. Is this what we want for our life?

Again, you might argue that you still have Saturday and Sunday to spend with your family, but, after 5 days in intensive work, do you still have enough energy to cope with your family on Saturday and Sunday? How much time you have on this 2 days for you to spend? 48 hours? Not really. Minus the 8 hours of sleeping time for 2 days, you only left 32 hours, 16 hours per day. 32 hours of active time for you and your family. How you going to spend this precious 32 hours with your family or yourself? I think I should stop here, not to memtion your most precious 32 hours that you have every week. You should know how much time you have every week. Some of you even have lesser than 32 hours during weekends. Am I right?

I believed, we should do something for ourselves so that we have more time for ourselves and at the same time we have sufficient money to support our standard of living.

My Saturday at home with YY

How do you spend your Saturday time?

As for me, me and my girlfriend don't have to work on Saturday and Sunday. We spend our Saturday at home by planning our small vacation trip.

Yes, yes, our vacation in year 2008. After round of searching on the internet and low cost carrier website, we decided to go Bali Island in Indonesia.

To be continued........