One thing that puts me off international travel, apart from the long hours on the plane, is the expensive plan ticket! To me, the two things that jack up our holiday expenditure are flight tickets and accommodation. If I could keep these two at the lowest, I would be most happy indeed.

If you remember, my friend Lawrence who is working in Spain told me that I have not clubbed before if you have not clubbed in Ibiza. He said that I should go and visit him and then we could take cheap flights to Ibiza together.

That is such an awesome idea that I went to Holiday Hypermart to see if there are any cheap flights out. From the website, it looks like October is a better time to travel to Ibiza because the rates are cheaper. And I like cheap!

I was also surprised to learn that Ibiza has more to offer than a vibrant club scene. There’s the beach, of course, the cuisine, Hippy Market, an old museum and many more attractions! With so much to do and see in Ibiza, I definitely would welcome the cheapest flight there so that I would have more spending money!

A few days ago, I read this article from Reuters with the headlines “Want close friends? Best log off the Internet“. According to a British researcher, virtual friends do not equal real friends. Hahaha I found it so funny because why would we need a researcher to let us know?

This is the reason I do not understand why people keep adding other members to their social networking profile even if they do not know them. Perhaps these people need to boost their ego that they have so many friends, hence they are very popular. When I get these requests, I turn them down unless I know the person beforehand. Otherwise, I turn them down because I see no reason why I need to beef up my list of “friends”.

For people who have a huge group of friends in their profile, I bet that they don’t even remember why a person was added in the first place, let alone keep in touch with 99% of them.

This is also why I do not have a Facebook profile.

I was thinking of printing postcards for promotional purposes. I have a very good printer myself and thought that since I don’t use that so often this is a chance to use it because I was told that the printer head will clog if I do not use it for a long time and it would be very costly to replace.

However, my friend says that I must be crazy. You see, my printer uses DuraBrite ink and that is the most costly printer ink at the moment. He said that I should leave postcard printing to the professionals and leave my printer for home use.

According to him, it is only $150 to print a thousand pieces 4.25 X 5.5 cards and a thousand pieces of the largest cards at 6 X 9 would only cost me $250. Can I get this price printing them myself? Definitely no. Besides, since I never printed postcards before, I would only be wasting ink AND paper when I could just pass this task to the pros and receive my full color front and back postcards with high gloss UV lamination, which comes free, if I would just request for it.

I thought I would make a comparison with other online printers but my friend says that this is already a good deal so why waste time?

I found this website just now when I was surfing, called Tiny Surfer. This is a like a classifieds site where vacation rental owners could list their property for offer to holiday makers. What makes Tiny Surfer special is that they are offering Free vacation rental listings where other similar sites are charging at least $200. Moreover, members on Tiny Surfer are also able to post photos as they like and describe their property in as long a description as they wish. In short, this is just like Craigslist but with an overall much improved user interface!

For example, checking out the page of Telluride vacation rental, you can see large thumbnails, name or the property and a short description.

My friends have plans to go to Hawaii for a honeymoon next month and I know that they would appreciate knowing about Tiny Surfer. The have been telling me that they are going to take a vacation rental because they have heard that it is a very popular now as opposed to putting up at a hotel. Luckily trom Tiny Surfer, they could also book their vacation rental directly and without hassle!