Sunday Travel to Gold Coast

A trip to Gold Coast is not complete without a stop to the world famous surfer’s paradise. Swim in the sun, pick up surfing or just pick up a book and read with the sound of crashing waves in the background, stepping on this beautiful beach of Surfer’s Paradise is a must for any tourist visiting. Even if you are the sort that gets bored at the beach pretty quickly, there are still lots to shop/eat in the area of Surfer’s Paradise such as the Wax Museum, Ripley’s believe it or not, Hard Rock Cafe, Hurricane restaurant and many others!

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After you manage to convince the family to actually leave the resort, take them down the coast to a countless number of beaches. With every water sport conceivable on offer, trips to the beach are an idyllic way to keep the children busy and get some much-needed downtime for you.

This would make for a fantastic day out to get some exercise, fresh air, and take in the magnificent coastal views.

After all that natural beauty in the hinterland and sitting on sandy beaches, it’s time to head to the famous theme parks of the Gold Coast. Make sure to book into the parks early to beat the crowds and leave time for late afternoon naps.

The Eagle Has Landed

BNM has conducted two briefing sessions on 16 June (Thursday) and 17 June 2016 (Friday) at Theatrette, Muzium dan Galeri Seni, Sasana Kijang, Bank Negara Malaysia.

Many local designer don't know they must come to the briefing sessions to know what kind of banknotes they will be designing. BNM don't stated in their statement that it is necessary to go to any of the briefing sessions. I am not sure if only people who go to the briefing sessions are allowed to join the competition.

From the information we received, BNM distributed a CD cointaning information, rules and regulation about the competition during briefing sessions on 16 and 17 June.

If any of you local designer who don't go to the briefing session, you might want to try to contact the persons who are in charge of the competition (you can get their contact in my earlier post). Maybe they can give you the CD. If they can't give you any information, you need to find any of your friends who attend the briefing to know the competition guidelines.

The 60 years Merdeka commemorative banknote will be in two denomination and sizes, RM60 and RM600 banknotes. You can also make a design for a vertical or normal banknotes. The RM60 banknote will be a bit bigger then the current RM50 baknnotes and the RM600 banknote will be the biggest Malaysia banknote in history.

We heard the main theme is Yang di-Pertuan Agong, 15 Yang di-Pertuan Agong faces maybe will be on the banknotes.

The submission deadline is on 5 August 2016, the competition winners announcement will be on October 2016. The commemorative banknote will be on sale one month before Merdeka 2017.

However, this is just a rumors since they're no official announcement about the banknote designs by BNM.

Obviously, the design competition is for Malaysia 60 years Merdeka Anniversary next year. I am not sure if BNM planned to make other commemorative banknotes for 2017 but if they do, next year we will have a lot of numismatic items to buy from BNM.

For your information, we already have 4 commemorative coins for 2016.

BNM also reopen the participation of a local professional designers for their design competition after closing it for Students of public / private universities for 2016 commemorative coins.

Hopefully we will see a much better design for the commemorative banknotes.

A Family Day Trip to Bagan Lalang  Gold Coast

The past weekend was a long one. On Saturday we decided to go to Gold Coast to find out what it is about after we have heard so much about it. After checking with some friends, all but one has ever been there. Even then, the feedback was not that encouraging. Since we had never been there, there was nothing to lose. After doing some simple research online, I roughly knew where we wanted to go: what to see, what to do and where to have lunch.

After we were done with our snack, we continued our journey to Sepang Gold Coast. It is another 10 minutes drive south of Tanjung Sepat. Upon reaching our final destination, I only realized that Sepang Gold Coast is the name of a resort in Bagan Lalang. What this means is these two places (Bagan Lalang and SGC) are sharing the same location/beach and the place is called Bagan Lalang.

We went to Sepang Gold Coast. This is Gold Coast of Malaysia not Australia’s Gold Coast. SGC has some water villas (arranged in a gigantic palm tree shape) for sale. It is still under construction and only open to public this May or June.

Why they use the name Gold Coast is beyond my understanding. As if there are no other better names that can reflect local identity.

Sorry I digress… Back to the beach.

To be frank, as I have found out from my friend, the beach is not fantastic to my standard. It is muddy and you won’t find fine, powderish sand there. It is far from that. Nevertheless, it is still better than nothing.

Despite all that, the three kids that I took along enjoyed the beach very much. So much so that we could have our “adult time” for an uninterrupted 30 minutes.

That showed how much the kids enjoyed the beach no matter what I think of it.

Food, Food, Food

After washing up in SGC, we were ready to have our late lunch at 3pm in Tanjung Sepat. Why Tanjung Sepat? Because there are not many eateries in Bagan Lalang and I read in one of the blogs that the blogger went to Tanjung Sepat for seafood. So I took her advice to complete our day trip with a seafood lunch at Restoran Hong Seng (on the blogger’s recommendation) – a sea front restaurant on Jalan Tepi Pantai.

We ordered five dishes: steamed fish, fried baby squids, fried prawns with oatmeal, veggie, and hot plate tofu. I like the fish and prawns. The squids were too soggy and not crunchy enough. The bill came to about 85 bucks which I think is reasonable. As you may now know, the town is famous among tourists for its food. I might go to Tanjung Sepat again for Ah Hock’s Bak Kut Teh and others.

Final Thoughts

The trip was awesome. I got to enjoy my drive and explorations of two new towns: Tanjung Sepat (which led me to the discovery of Tanjung Sepat’s pau) and Bagan Lalang. For the kids, they got the chance to enjoy the beach. Simply perfect!

If you are looking for ideas on where to go on weekends with your children, put this as one of your destinations.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail – jika anda gagal untuk merancang, anda merancang untuk gagal – itulah mentera yang sering disebut apabila memulakan sesuatu perkara. Untuk buat duit online, anda perlu ada perancangan. Usaha tanpa perancangan adalah usaha yang sia-sia. Perancangan yang tepat dan berkesan akan membawa hasil yang setimpal dengan usaha anda. Oleh itu, ambil pen/pensil dan kertas, atau buka Microsoft Word, dan mulakan dengan menjawab persoalan-persoalan berikut

1. Apa tujuan anda menulis blog? – Pada masa ini, dinggarkan ada 50 juta blog. Pada asasnya, tujuan anda menuliskan adalah untuk buat duit online. Tapi, anda juga harus jelas kenapa blog anda perlu kerana ia akan menentukan hala tujunya.
2. Apa topik yang anda ingin tulis? – Tentukan apa topik yang anda ingin tulis. Pilih topik yang anda minati agar anda tidak bosan dan terhenti begitu sahaja.
3. Siapa sasaran anda? – Kumpulan sasaran perlu ada. Ini akan menentukan bagaimana cara anda menyampaikan maklumat dan siapa yang akan mengunjungi blog anda.
4. Bila dan berapa kerap anda menulis? – Setiap hari? Setiap minggu? Apa yang penting ialah anda perlu menulis dengan kerap agar pengunjung sentiasa mendapat maklumat terkini dari blog anda.
5. Bagaimana anda mempromosikan blog anda? – Untuk buat duit online dengan blog, promosi amatlah penting. Tanpa promosi hanya sedikit sahaja pengunjung yang bertandang ke blog anda, mungkin hanya rakan facebook anda sahaja.

Semua persoalan ini dapat dijawab dengan carian google sahaja, tetapi setiap blog yang boleh buat duit online mestilah unik dan mempunyai perancangan tersendiri. Anda boleh membuat sumbang saran (brainstorm) dan membuat perancangan dengan teliti sebelum bermula. Sebagai lanjutan siri ini, persoalan-persoalan di atas akan saya kupas dalam artikel pada masa akan datang.

Harus diingat bahawa buat duit online tidak bermakna buat duit segera seperti skim cepat kaya. Duit online anda tidak akan datang dalam masa yang singkat. Usaha anda perlu dirancang dan konsisten. Jika tidak, usaha anda akan terhenti di tengah jalan. Sebuah blog – jika berperancangan, konsisten dan menarik – memerlukan masa sekurang-kurangnya enam bulan untuk mendatangkan pendapatan yang boleh dibanggakan. Alang-alang jika blog anda cuma bertahan satu atau dua bulan sahaja; ia tidak akan mendatangkan hasil malah merugikan masa dan usaha anda. Kuncinya ialah usaha berterusan dan fokus untuk sentiasa memberikan pengunjung anda apa yang mereka mahukan.

Pada siri artikel buat duit online dengan blog yang akan datang, saya akan menunjukkan bagaimana anda membuat perancangan yang lebih baik dan berkesan untuk blog yang akan menghasilkan duit untuk anda. Saya akan cuba untuk menjelaskan bagaimana mencari topik atau niche yang membolehkan anda untuk buat duit online dengan blog. Jika anda mempunyai ruang waktu pada ketika ini, eloklah jika menulis jawapan bagi persoalan-persoalan yang telah diajukan di atas. Selamat berjaya!