At the time I’m writing this, I’m still thinking about my personal life, which actually is getting better and better. If things go right, I will be having new child in the next 6 months. It’s a very fascinating. My first child, a brilliant and fast-learner 3 years old daughter is now taking most of my time at home. I hope when she has brother/sister, I can have my personal time or even worst, I must spend most of my time together with them, ha ha ha.

Let’s see what will happen next, with the blog, with the family and everything else.

In most situations, we usually face few credit cards offers which sometimes difficult to choose considering which cards will be the best and most suitable for our needs. But this is not the problem anymore; the website could be said as a collection of credit cards offers where we can find various offerings available online, plus various reviews and suggestions from previous customers. This will help me a lot because although I already have my preference for Visa and Master Card credit card providers, however I need more reference regarding other providers such as American Express and Discover (which are still new in my credit cards choice).

What makes this website different is that it gives us three simple steps for choosing the right credit cards; they are is research, compare and apply. In my logical sense, research for customer is very important before deciding which product is the best. Through research, we can find which credit cards provide most perfect features, offerings and easiness. The next two steps will be the complementary process when choosing the right card. So, don’t be hesitate in using credit cards online application, it is easy, fast and secure!

Daily work at the office can be compensated with quality time of leisure activities in the weekend. Quality time with families, watching movies together, doing something at the garden, cleaning the house and perhaps travelling in the rural areas. Economic pressure can be compensated by finding additional income, being a freelancer, writing a column in newspapers, arranging some private lesson either for education or for skills improvement, and so forth. Dealing with child education, it sometimes can be a big problem if we do not prepare it from the beginning. When we have newly born child, it is better for us to put some budget for them, either in form of insurance or savings. This will help a lot when it comes to an emergency needs like their university education. Health care perhaps is the biggest problem that makes us being under pressured. Hospital care cannot be predicted. Nobody knows when he/she will get sick. Although it’s only a minor illness, the cost of health care should also be taken care of. Health insurance and benefits from company or perhaps independent institution will help us in managing this kind of problem. Eventually, nothing will become a problem if we prepare everything beforehand.

Oh yeah, new dashboard layout looks very cool and healthy for my eyes!

Now that I have already made a decision to buy a car, I need some consideration about which car I should buy. I’ve been searching some information necessary for things related of buying a car. Actually, buying a brand new car is not too difficult because we don’t need to think about the car quality and history in the past. We get the car and we will make the history of that car. It is different if we buy used car. Because this time I’m deciding to buy new car, I think it is not necessary for me to consider anything about used car. 

I found some information related to the things to consider before buying a new car, and some of them are as follows:

1. Making the right decision before visiting a showroom.

Before we visit the car showroom, we need to decide what kind of a car we’d like to buy. Is it the feature, the model, the price or the performance that we like of a car? Many dealers want you to buy the car they offer, and not the one that we need to buy. It is better for us to pick two or three dealers in order to compare their offer and adjust them to the budget we have.

This time I don’t need to visit any dealers because I already have one single choice of a car.

2. Have enough information.

Use the internet to search for a car before visiting any showroom. Check the price in the dealers and ask some brochure to consider the features and the any offers included in the sales.

This time, I already have enough information about the car and I call the dealer to visit me at home in order to explain to me about the car I choose, the feature and additional bonuses included in the sales.

3. Salesperson is not your friend.

Always remember, salespersons are hired to generate money, they’re not your friend. Although one of your family is the salesperson, they are paid to do the job: generating cash for the company, and they also receive commission for the ca sales. You shuld be careful to them and considering your budget because salespersons will never think about your budget.

This is not what I really experienced, and I’m sure salesperson that came to my house do the same way. However, because I already have a choice, she just did what I told her to do: filling up the paperwork and receive the down payment.

4. Get preliminary approval

Make sure that you already have approval from the bank or leasing parties for buying a car in credit. By having preliminary approval from the financial institutions, you can adjust the car price with the credit limit, and you can also adjust your monthly payment capacity based on that limit.

I bought the car in cash so I need no preliminary approval from any institution.

6. Consider the maintenance costs

Consider the maintenance costs for a car you buy. You need to consider the yearly cost because some cheap car will add extra cost for their maintenance because of the low quality of components.

Because I bought brand new car, I can say that I’m free of maintenance cost for the next three years because they are included in the after sales guarantee. What I need to consider is just the yearly tax and fuel.

10. Takes more time to consider

Do not let the salesperson gives you an option to let you try the car before you have a deal. Because, in a psychological perspective, you’ll be trapped in a feeling of to be forced to buy the car and your bargaining power will be lower. the best way to make a decision is that you need at least 24 hours after you visit the showroom to reconsider your choice before deciding that is the right car for you.

I don’t need to do a test drive because I already did it with my friend’s car. So this time, I only need to think about when my car will be delivered!

I think Everyone will be happy if getting the right car for him/her. I think I am!

I’ll post the picture of my car when it is delivered.

The problem could be resulted from the malfunction on the hardware, software, and also internet connection.There are some ways to overcome this kind of problems, on of them is calling computer technical support to repair the problem. Although we probably can do it by ourselves, sometimes technical or hardware problems are far beyond our capacity and if we force ourselves to do the repair, it could result in a bigger disaster. I think the best way is to let the expert handle the situation and we’ll do our part: paying them and continue to do our business after the computer is functioning.

After few days of sharing experience with him, I find a good source of information related to book publishing. It is specifically guide us about how to Publish a Book . This website acts like our a self-publishing company, where everything starting from the initial process of finding new ideas of writing a book, editing process, put some illustrations on the writing, establish a promotion campaign and selling the book by ourself. By this way, what we do is just to leave the conventional way of publishing a book, which depends on the publisher in order to get our book published. We just can make hardcopy or even the electronic books and sell them on the internet. I hope my friends will no longer having difficulties in getting the books published and get his rank promoted!

At that time, I chose hostgator as my first choice after considering so many aspect and visiting so many forums for seeking reference. However, I recently found a nice guide in finding a web hosting and hostgator is also cited there. So I think I already make a good choice, considering that the owner of the website is a Wordpress theme maker and I think he also has made a right choice for hosting his product. As we all know, websites or blogs with lots of image content are definitely need large bandwidth and storage, although it is not dedicated server. But, things will change if the website or blogs already have a lot of traffics and demanding greater bandwidth and/or storage. So, let the time be the decision maker I think!

And, yesterday, on 26 March 2008, the world’s first Document Freedom Day was celebrated, and for this celebration, around 200 teams from more than 60 countries worldwide organized local activities to raise awareness for Document Freedom and Open Standards. At that celebration, some package such as DFD starter packs containing a DFD flag, t-shirts and leaflets have been sent to the first 100 registered teams over the past weeks. What is so important about Open Standards? Open standards will ensure that we can choose any operating system or application available but still be able to read and edit all documents, collaborate with others without being worried of the incompatibility issues between software and we can freely use any software for processing the documents.