I am going talk about some finance in this post, not because I’m the expert in this area…

But because it affect a lot of thing in my life. And I guess it would be the same for you too.

There are some mistake that took years to be rectified.
And the most costly one are from the financial mis-step.

At some point we believe whatever we are buying at that particular moment is the best for money item.

But it turned out to be not the best one..

One example is how we are saving some pennies from buying an apps,

which may cost just about RM 4 – RM 10 or  something priced at is USD 1.00 – USD 1.99

We thought when didn’t buy and opted for the FREE one with ads.. it would save us some money.

But, you can try calculate how much ads have been appeared on the device from we we started using the app.

the non-stop advertising every few minutes .. 🙂 total it up , you just wasted much more time and data cost for that piece of saving.

Another one is about doing small and trivial task but repetitive task again and again.

We could just opted to use an outsource services and pay them some money to perform it for us.

Yet, we decided to do it by ourselves…

then you can try to calculate how much is your hourly rate and

compare it against the reasonable asking price if we are hiring the right person just to complete it.

In long run it would be cheaper to pay the right resource to do it.

and FREE your own time to do something else that have much more significant impact for yourself and your future.

For example is picking up and reading the management books ! hahaha 🙂

I love the example of hiring a DJ to select and choose the song for your playlist.

Rather than going through thousand of songs and pick one. Just let the DJ do their job.

So, at the end of the day, whatever hit your ears it already being filtered or at least it was picked up earlier.

Oh, by the way, regarding online stream music, for this one Spotify is charging RM 14 ~ USD 3-4 each month to do it automatically for me.

Mind you, even if you opted for “Apple Music” store, it would also charging the same amount .. 😉

On the side note, the government of the day for Malaysia will be starting charging tax for this three foreign online services somewhere next year.

Netflix .. Spotify.. and also Steam ! hahaha ~ I’m using 2 out of 3 from this list. 🙂

I am not sure if I could switch back to normal broadcast TV show.

Don’t get me wrong, I just can’t bear the advertisement and also the stereo-typed of

“popular” drama story line that it may be entertaining for the majority of  other people in here..

-> read “Isteri untuk disewa ~” (this one blow up my mind ! how could the producer and everyone else agreed on such title in the first place?)

Anyway, back to the topic, I feel it just seem like a backward strategy

if I decided to give up these services just based on tax being charged by the government of the day.

What if something else being taxed, should I switch them too ??

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P/s : Maybe I just need to work my ass to get extra money and pay for “premium service”,

so that I can have the privilege to watch and consume a bit better quality content.

Ah, I will just do that for the coming years! 2019 !

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how about you ?

Would you just stop using the premium service just that to avoid that “tax” .. ?
the percentage doesn’t matter, it just being there to induce some pain.

it exist as a mean to cause hurt to your pocket when you making that decision. 🙂

it is definitely a mind game nonetheless.

Well, we all have been there where we are supposed has learnt something useful every single day.

I intend to keep going and learn something new from day to day.

When I was attending my graduation ceremony for my master , the speech there was encouraging me to pursue my learning journey.

And didn’t stopped just at my current stage.

Well, I didn’t stopped since then.

And I just read quite a couple of books and made commitment to myself to set aside some budget to buy some new book every single month. And recently I changed to use Amazon Kindle to read my online book.
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Here I will explain how to setup webserver with SSL using just cpanel and Let’s Encrypt.

Let’s say you want to setup a new domain https://books.namran.com

Firstly , ensure the domain is pointing to the cpanel server.
For example is as below. An A host for books.namran.com and also CNAME for www.books.namran.com

Once you have done that, let get into your cpanel and click the Let’s encrypt icon (under the Security module)

If the button is not there, you should ask from your cpanel provider.
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“No man is an island”.

It just struck me quite few times that no matter how good you are, at one point you will still have to rely upon someone else.

Be it a society or community around you or it just another human being needed to be there for you.

I learned the hard way during my study period for my master.

At one point, I feel hopeless and not seeing the end of the tunnel at all.

Then one of my classmates sent a message to me, just to ask me about the assignment.

It just made me realized, despite all the setback, it just not the end yet.

Yes, sometimes I did failed to achieve the target that I set for myself.

But instead of letting it drowning me further, I just let it pass and call it a bad day.

Nothing going to be perfect all the time, but one didn’t have to abandon a journey just because one flat tyre while getting there.

So, seek help whenever you need it.

Or even better, build the network that know you gonna need them one day, way before the day you need it.

Remember,

“No man is an island.”

Work this thing out together and have fun along the way.

Grow up, compete no one else but the best version of yourself.

Be better, starting today.

Today mark the first day of the new hijri year  ~ 1 Muharram 1440H.

I have been thinking about the new year resolution for quite some moment.

So, I decided to give up using facebook.

The news feed from there  seem inevitably to include a numerous numbers of “fake news” of “hatred content”.

Most of things got into my social media feeds are not being useful or informative at all.
i.e irrelevant
Or maybe I just used it wrongly .. hahaha!

So, I started looking for alternatives digital inputs.

I ended up trying to use “Amazon Kindle Unlimited” 1-month trial subscription.
I spent some of my free time to read a few free book from its digital contents services.

Here is how it look like today:

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Sleep is one of the important element in our life.

And blue light exposure after the sunset is not going to help much with that.
Let’s make a decision to block out blue-light after the sunset.

In windows machine you can install f.lux to let it automatically adjust the display .

On Mac, there is a built in part that you can set in “Display Setting”

Display -> Night Shift. and turn it on.

Easy .. 🙂

I went to Pantai Teluk Kemang near Port Dickson on last Sunday.
The weather is a breeze.

And there is a tent that we can rent to stay for the whole evening too.

Or if you prefer to just sit and play with the sand.
Also very relaxing.

It was less crowded compared to any other place.

I can roll into the sand. haha 🙂

Because the RTM broadcast the live for this game over the myklik.

So, I managed to watch some part of it. 🙂

After a full time result is 1-1.

Then added extra time.. still tied 2-2.

End up with Penalty shootout.

which resulting 3-4 .. Croatia win!!
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On the first day Raya this year.
One makcik came and visit us ..

after salam.. she begin with…

“Oh.. pakcik Loh at cabang tiga has passed away on the eve of raya”

he passed away after maghrib prayer..

at his home..

while being surrounded by all his kids , grandchildren..

and many great grandchildren..

who has got back for hari raya holiday..

and this year Raya is on Friday.. *penghulu segala hari*

Arwah selamat disemadikan  jam 11mlm yang sama.

which is barely about 2-3 hours. everything settled. no waiting .. no delay.

his age was 97years old. the oldest in the village. and the news spead very fast.
it is the last day of ramadhan.. the eve of syawal.. and it’s friday night..
.. passed away peacefully with all his loved ones by his side.
al-fatihah. ~

And this is the parting question from the makcik …

“bahagian dia sudah selesai… bahagian kita nanti pula bagaimana ?”

To temporarily redirect the whole website under a folder to a new domain.

Using .htaccess, it can be done with just the following code.

Redirect 302 / https://www.namran.com/

If you want a permanent redirect, change 302 to 301.
It may have some SEO impact, but I am not sure how significant it is.

Goodluck.