This is a new connection that has been opened up in the recent years and normal working class folks like us ought to find ways not just to find ways to save money but to try to find way to avoid the increasingly choking traffic jam at the Sunway toll plaza.

This is a way for you to skip the jam at the toll plaza. It does not really makes much economy sense if you are just looking to save yourself from paying the RM1.60 toll rate due to the extra distance needed on this alternative route.

From Puchong to Subang (Google Map Link)

Skip LDP Sunway Toll – Puchong to Subang

Skip LDP Sunway Toll – Puchong to Subang

From Subang to Puchong (Google Map Link)

Skip LDP Sunway Toll – Subang to Puchong

Just hit on the Google Map link for both directions to study the turn-by-turn information. Have fun commuting!

There’s also a way for poor folks like us to skip the LDP Puchong Barat toll heading to or returning from Subang, USJ, Shah Alam, Hicom.

Skip Puchong LDP Barat Tol

Skip Puchong LDP Barat Tol

Google Map Link

Step-by-step from Puchong to Subang

1. From LDP, exit to Puchong Perdana, go straight all the way until you hit a round-about.
2. Turn right at the round-about, follow the road as it curves to the left. Just go all the way and you will find yourself joining back into the highway right after the toll.

Step-by-step from Subang to Puchong

1.  Heads toward the toll and make a U-turn right before it.
2. Turn left at the first junction.
3. Follow the road until you hit the round-about.
4. Turn left at the round-about.
5. Go all the way and you will reach the LDP intersection.
6. Turn left to go to IOI, turn right to go to Cyberjaya.

Calculation and information gathered are to my best knowledge so far, please comment if you would like me to add in or to correct any wrong information.

Enrich Voucher redemption

Citibank Premier Miles to Enrich Voucher

Citibank Premier Miles to AirAsia e-Gift Vouchers

Travel-related purchases (e.g. hotel stays, airline tickets, cruises, bus and train tickets)

Conclusion: Spending and redeeming AirAsia e-Gift Voucher seems to be the best yet according to the calculations above. For every Ringgit spent, we will get back 0.009259MYR (0.9 cents).

A typical credit card would give you 1 point per Ringgit spent. 1 point is equivalents to 0.5 cents.

Spending and redeeming Enrich Voucher on this card gives you even lesser than what a typical credit card would give you.

Reference: http://www.citibank.com.my/premiermiles/faq.html

It’s very easily available in 7-11.

What’s the packages available?

There are 2 types. Recurring and ala-carte.

For foreign visitor like us, it’s always wise to subscribe to the ala-carte / one-time-off subscription. And in case you finishes the quota allocated before the time expires, you can subscribe to monthly packages (it’s ok to overlap monthly with ala-carte but you can’t overlap ala-carte with another ala-carte).

Just remember to call to cancel off the monthly subscription when you are leaving the country!

Ala-carte (one time off)

Source: http://www.truemove-h.com/en//prepay/prepay-topping.aspx

Automatic Renewal (every 30 days)

Source: True Move

Useful Numbers

Turn internet on:  *902*1#
Turn internet off:  *902*2#
Top up to friend:  *123 * [14 digit top up card #] * [10 digit truemove #]
Change base rate promotion:  9305
Change language:  9304  (many SMS will still be in Thai anyway, but some of the voice menus may default to english)
iService *877#  The service menu is in thai.  Maybe there is some features that can be changed here.
Call center 1331 (3bt/call from any true sim).  This is great as I spent about 40 min when I called before (although we disconnected, the rep called back thankfully)
Self service *9399 (1bt/call).  I’m not sure how this differs from *9000 which is free.

Credit: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/538942-true-3g-finally-in-chumphon-area/#entry5136496

Taken using Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L

Quan An Ngon is very popular among the tourists and that’s how I get to know this restaurant as well. You can see people streaming in and out of the restaurant at peak hours. It’s a good place for you to sample some of Vietnamese local dishes. The pricing is slightly above average and the food tastes just fine only.

More reading:-

http://newhanoian.xemzi.com/venue/show/69

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g293924-d1124698-Reviews-Quan_An_Ngon-Hanoi.html

Chances are, you have added personal touches and tweaked your current WordPress blog’s theme and only to realise that there’s no author page included in your theme design. Ouch~!

With few easy steps, you should be able to create the author page on your current WordPress theme.

Step 1: Preparing the author.php file.

1. A quick way to build up your author.php file is to duplicate it from other themes, most notably, the Twenty Eleven default theme. You are halfway there already!
2. Navigate to your author page to see whether it works or not. In most cases, your author page is default at www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/author/ADMIN. You can change your nickname from ADMIN to something else. See Step 2.
3. Up to this point, you should be able to see all the details pumped out already except that the look and feel may be distorted, as the author.php file that you have is from other theme. Open up single.php of your own theme, replicate the html structure in there into your author.php. Replace everything in author.php except for the content between “<div id=”content” role=”main”>” and “</div><!– #content –>”.

Step 2: Picking your name (Optional)

Simply go to your WordPress database, and update the user_nicename field of your account. It should not affect any other functionality of the system.

Step 3 : To add visual editor/TinyMCE to your biography (Optional)

If you requires more than what the dull biography textarea has to offer, download this plugin – Visual Biography Editor and you will get the editor as good as what you get in the post editor.

Panoramic view of Redang Kalong Resort, Redang Island, Terengganu, Malaysia - Canon EOS 400D

(Click here for full resolution)

23 June 2008, 10:20 in the morning. It was like 3 years ago when I took this photo. I was at Redang Kalong Resort having my vacation with a bunch of friends I met from an online platform called ShoutOut.

It was indeed a very pleasant experience while taking a break out of the hustle bustle of the city and the daily-wake-up-go-work-come-back-eat-sleep-almost-like-robot routine of life.

I’m working like mad every single day in the search of… I do not know. Better quality of life at the expense of poor quality of life at the moment? Hahah!

Redang Kalong Resort: www.redangkalong.com/