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Don’t Call SPH on Friday If You’re Placing Your Ad For Weekends!

SPH CATS, our good friend that makes the most out of Realtors placing ads everyday has revamped the section numberings and ad placings to keep in line with readers.

ALSO, at the same time, they’ve made it a point that if you call on a Friday to place ads on Saturday and Sunday, you’d be incurring an additional of $1 per line. WOOT! I suppose that’s a good way to tackle the endless and countless calls that’s coming on a Friday for Saturday and Sunday ads, but its darn expensive.

September 7, 2008   No Comments

Myoochi Virtual Tour - Sanctuary Green

Let me fill up this space tomorrow, in the meantime, check out my virtual tour of a Sanctuary Green penthouse, courtesy of Myoochi.

It looks absolutely great.

June 29, 2008   No Comments

Is it A Good Time to Get Your Properties Again?

Uber Construction Costs

First off we’re facing with high construction costs which is being forecasted to grow imminently because of high inflation rates and the shortage in raw materials, we should expect our property prices in Singapore to tag along with the cost since developers will definitely pass this to the consumers.

Hi-End Residences Performing at an Uber Cool Pace

June 25, 2008   No Comments

Ah! Can You Do Gatsby?

We should spread the love. Really.

Download the ringtone for your phone here.

I use Gatsby before I go for any viewing my fellow Realtor friends. It’s a must. hahaha.

June 19, 2008   No Comments

Bad News for Singapore Realtors - ERP Rates Up Again

Just when you think inflation is the one doing the bad work. LTA has just announced an increase in ERP gantries along key areas and increased gantry rates.

Singapore ERP Rates Up by 7th July 2008
Photo credit: Khalid Saad

Key date: July 7th 2008
Key rate increase: $0.50 to $2.00

There’re a total of 65 gantries and almost half of the numbers’ prices will be adjusted. 5 new gantries will be built and there will be 5 new gantries along the Singapore River.

June 18, 2008   No Comments

When One of Your Raptors Die - The Raid0 Problem

I was so proud of my desktop at home a year ago. 4 SATA hard disks running at raid0, with two undisputed speed demons, namely my new pair of Western Digital’s Raptor (74GB). It’s my habit to leave the computer on since I’m almost on it 24/7.

Until the best thing that had ever happen to me when I least expected it. One of the Raptor crashed. Almost most of my Real Estate files, photos and details went pfft in a matter of a day’s time. Though I could try to do a data recovery with WD’s approved data recovery company, it’s too expensive to do so.

June 16, 2008   3 Comments

An Unethical Agent on the Prowl

Daniel’s Yahoo D-Agent group is definitely a good place for Realtor’s to share their listings for quick matches. With over 1,000 fellow Realtors, a daily digest of listings would be good for you as an agent to match your listing for your clients.

Something caught my eye, and I suppose things like this happens from time to time when you deal with rotten agent colleagues.

Dear Friends,

just encountered one unethical agent.

June 12, 2008   1 Comment

Worcell - The Best Way to Get Batteries In Singapore

If you’re looking for extra spare batteries for your PDA phones/ phones/ SLR cameras on websites and is thinking to save up courier fees from overseas, look no further.

Worcell - Singapore Premier Battery Bank

Singapore’s very own Worcell is your solution to spare or dying batteries, at least it saved me almost close to 100 bucks for my high capacity 3,000 mAh battery (which is made in Korea apparently as stated on Worcell’s website). They even offered me a free desktop USB charger.

June 12, 2008   No Comments

Su.sg has Added Customise URL Function

Well well, short and sweet. Su.sg has added a customise URL function.

How it works

Aliph Jawbone 2 works GREAT

Say you love this Aliph Jawbone 2 Bluetooth (i’ve got mine and it works GREAT) listing from Ebay and wanna share with your friend through newsgroup,

http://cgi.ebay.com/JAWBONE-2-NOISE-ASSASSIN-BLUETOOTH-
EARWEAR-JAW-BONE-NEW_W0QQitemZ170225943740QQihZ007Q
QcategoryZ80077QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Woohoo. Pretty long. After snipping it with Su.sg, you’ll get http://su.sg/0e0e

Short and sweet isn’t it? Except people doesn’t know what’s 0e0e. They can also turn on the preview function to avoid being brought to somewhere that they don’t like.

June 11, 2008   No Comments

Su.sg the URL Shortener Adds In Preview Function

I’ve just added the URL Preview function to su.sg, the cool way to shorten your URL.

Why Preview Function?

You’ve seen a su.sg/something domain loitering around. It directs you to somewhere instantly. You don’t like it. Some reasons are:

  • Another crappy affiliate ad link hidden behind su.sg.
  • A virus/ trojan link which makes you vulnerable
  • Some indecent site that you wouldn’t or maybe someone behind you whom you don’t want them to look at.

June 5, 2008   No Comments