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Friday, August 15th, 2008
I was telling a friend about how I should start looking for cheaper car insurance for my family car. It's a big capacity car and seriously, it is becoming a burden to maintain. I told my father that we should change to a smaller car, one that is fuel saving ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My friend was telling me that he has found a new hobby in collecting coins. Well, it is actually not a real hobby, but more an investment plan. Yes, coins could be really valuable as well, especially rare coins. My friend is also new in coin collection but he has ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
To reduce the cost of maintaining a car, I have been comparing auto insurance quotes. Well, I do not own a car but this is the family car and I am responsible to maintain it. I feel lucky that we do still have a car which some of my friends ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The other day, my friend freaked out and sent me a message saying that the USD has dropped slightly. Well, it has recovered a little, thankfully, but that shows us that investing in currency is not as safe as it used to be, when the Ringgit was pegged at 3.8 ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
A few of my friends cancelled their car order because they could no longer afford a car which they thought that could. Well, with the escalating fuel prices, there are many things that we no longer could afford.
However, there are some other friends who were "caught". They took delivery of ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
My friend, Terry, wanted to know the most convenient way to apply for a credit card. I told him that he could do it online without having to go to the issuing company, look for a parking lot and queue up for ages to be served.
Also, before applying for a ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
With the new ruling regarding credit cards and the 20-day interest free grace period, I don't think that people would still want to apply for credit cards, but I am wrong. If anything, credit cards are truly convenient.
Many of my friends are young mothers or are expecting their first child ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
My friend consulted me on the best credit card offers currently in the market. You may have read that he cancelled his card a long time ago as he could not control his spending habit. HHmm I do understand the temptation of swiping our card now and pay for our ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
My friends know that I surf the web a lot. They think that I am fooling around online AGAIN but I’m actually working. Well, they wouldn’t understand! Over the weekend, we had a meet up and one of them brought up the subject of investment. They asked me if I ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The other day, I received a message from my friend Gary, who told me that he will be leaving the country. I thought that it was a normal overseas trip that he takes about once a month.
A week later, I was surprised to learn that he has moved to ...
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