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BLOGGING IS FUN

I have always wanted to blog, first because I want to show my friends and family my daily thoughts.

 

Another is because it is something new for me. Surfing yesterday night looking for long lost college friends , i stumbled on this website, www.i.ph.com. It is absolutely free. If I become an expert at this I will teach Nygel my eldest son to do his own website.

Hello World

Today February 18 ,2006 at exactly 3:58 pm ,I am writing my first entry in blog space. I hope I can have the patience tio maintain communication with sane ,intelligent and interesting invidiauls who would have the time to read interesting things about my family.

Be patient. I shall introduce you to my family and give you important tips on parenthood, cheap airfares(which is my forte) , travel ,human resource management(which was my career), love etc.

GOOD DEALS

[I am still trying to download all our photos. So here are some of my first tips:

1) Want to know how to get a S$62 round trip ticket to Bangkok?

2) Want to know where to buy a 20 inch LCD TV at S$888?

3) Want to go to HK Disneyland at less than S$400 including stay at KH Disneyland Hotel?

OK, we did, just all the above, HOW:

1) When buying air tickets, it doesnt hurt if you regularly surf budget airline sites such as airasia.com, jetstarasia.com and tigerairways.com. The cheapest tickets that I had purchased for my family was a S$62 Singapore-BK rnd trip from AirAsia. I bought in January but our trip is six months away.  

2) the Big (Safe) store opened today at Harbourfront Shopping Centre(where u take ferry rides to batam). LCD 20 TVs are selling cheap the lowest is at S$670. We bought a Hitachi 20" TV set at $888.

3) We took a TigerAirways trip to Macau in October 2005 and took a Hydrofoil ride to HK which just cost us less than S$200 each(air and ferry tickets). The unbargainables are the HK Disneyland Hotel daily rate of S$250/day accomodation and HK Disneyland entry tickets costing almost the same S$250 for 4 persons. However if u want adventure, do your own trip planning and save money.

4) These are the websites to check for good airline ticket bargains:

www.airfares.com.sg (search for international plane tickets at promo rates)

www.get2know.com.sg (Zuji.com.sg website)

www.jetstarasia.com (arrely has promos, price is a little higher vs a vs tiger airways)

www.tigerairways.com (cheap travel but beware of flight cancellations- no refund is given)

www.airasia.com (cheap when they have promos but u must make reservations fast)

5) For good hotel deals:

www.farangs.com (The cheapest website to search for hotel rates)

www.asiahotels.com

www.marimari.com (for cheap hotels in Malaysia and elsewhere in Asia)

www.genting.com.my  (for cheap hotels starting at $3 ,Unbelievable ? Its true . In May 2005 we stayed overnight on a weekday for this amount at First World Hotel