Article on compund interest

When I was in school, I had a friend who really hated maths. I can remember him telling us that he was going to burn his maths books once he finished school and never going to touch one again. According to him: "After all, it's not like we are going to use it anywhere." At that time I agree with him and thought that we were wasting our time learning trigonometry, algebra, statistics and other stuff that needed calculations.

We were wrong and even though we don't realize it, we use them everyday in or daily life. A good example is compound interest. I really found this article on compound interest and its implications in investments really interesting.

"The purpose of investing money is to earn interest on capital." Understanding how compound interest works could help us choose the best deals on loans as well as in making the right investment decisions.

What chocolate moment do you have

Going through the blogosphere, I come across unique and creative blogs. Well,
Comfort Fantasies is the blog of a chocoholic (the blogger admits it) and the blogger has an interesting way of categorisings the various posts - as dark, white or milk chocolate day/ moment, depending on the mood.

I can make out that Dark chocolate = sad
White chocolate = happy
Milk chocolate = neither sad nor happy. In the blogger's own words: "Isn't dark, yet it isn't a happy moment in time either."

Interesting way of categorising the post, don't you agree.

Place I really want to go to

Doris tagged me again with another meme - this time about the place you want to go. It got me thinking about the places I have always wanted to visit - Hawaii, Seychelles, Holland, Egypt, Turkey and Easter Island among others in a long list.

However, when I really thought about it, there is one place I really want to go - Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Not really for tourism but more for spiritual reasons. I have heard so many amazing stories from people who have already been there - either performing their hajj or umrah, that I want to feel it for my myself.




Just copy the lines below and post on your own blog.

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**Start Copy**

Proposition : Where do you want to go Next, OUTSIDE OF YOUR COUNTRY, for tourism, work, study, whatever.

Requirements: Find some info about the place, itenary etc, pics if possible so you get MORE Traffic coming in, and maybe some people can find somewhere to go to. Excludes your NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR, i.e., a country that borders yours. You must register for MyBloglog so we can blogwalk ah…..get it?

Quantity : FIVE PEOPLE.

Tag Mode : Chain Link. 15 of them.
You leave 15 people and their DEEP LINK of their Blog Name and TAGGED POST and hit out for five more. So it will look like

Doris who wants to go to the the Carribean Islands, Azrin going Down Under, MaRLinda in Disneyland Paris, Athira Baby and her Balamory Antics and Msau to Japan

**Add in the blog you get the tags from and tagged post.**

I am going to tag the following people:
Ita, Zaza, Dad-of-four, Lucia and Eches

Dating site for chubby people

If you consider yourself chubby or admire larger sized people, then there is this unique site especially for you. Introducing BHM and BBW Dating from Cuddly Dating. This dating site is targeted specially at larger sized people and their admirers.

In case you were not aware BBW and BHM are the abbveviation of "Big Beautiful Woman" and "Big Handsome Men" respectively.

They have two types of membership: SILVER, which is free and Gold where rates vary and depend on the length of time of membership.

Silver members can create full profile, search the database and receive and read messages from other members. However, in order to reply to messages or to send own messages to other members, you would need to upgrade to the GOLD membership.

Easter bonnet project

Had to make an easter bonnet for Rahil's school easter parade.

So here is what we came up with:



It's made from a straw hat covered with cotton balls. Turned out great and Rahil is very proud of it.

Windows utility tool

I download a lot of shareware and freeware programs on my computer all the time. If I don't like it or the trial period runs out, I just remove them. The problem is that in several case, there are always some traces left.

Just reviewed Macecraft Software's Windows optimization suite called jv16 PowerTools. This tool may be just what I need. It contains a registry cleaner, software uninstaller, file cleaner, history/MRU cleaner and lots of other features.


I am sure a lot of you don't want to buy software without trying it out. Well that's true for me too. Macecraft allows users to to download a fully working trial version (valid for 30 days). It was quite effective in removing all traces of removed software from the registry.

In case you are interested, jv16 PowerTools 2006 costs US$29.95. One plus point is that they have a really active support area with online forums.

Click here to get a discount coupon. A cookie will be saved in your computer on clicking the link and this will give you a 20% discount when you purchase any Macecraft Software.

Cat on the roof

We have an extra toilet outside which we have converted partly into our storage shed. Cats have decided to make the roof over it as their sunbathing place. So far we have identified 3 cats but it seems that there is some short of cat hierarchy as there will only be one at any given time.

Caught this cat as it was yawning. Picture taken from our bedroom window.

Anyway, among the three cats, there's one particularly fat cat and apparently it got stuck one day and was trying desperately to get down. trying one side and then the other.

I was reminded of the incident after going through a post on Lattégirl's blog "Inner Dialogues", when her cat got stuck on their back porch. Read her post here.

Coming back to my story, I went out hoping to help the cat get down but it was so scared when I opened the back door that it jumped right down from the roof and ran like it's tail was on fire.