How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery

I believe it is everyone’s dream to win the “big lottery”. Of course winning a lottery is purely depending on luck, but there are some ways that you can do to increase your chance of winning the lottery.

Technical analysis
Gather the past 10 year lottery results, analyse and find out which number has higher hit rate. Then keep playing the same numbers each week.

Lottery pool
Basically, a small group of people get together and purchase a bulk of tickets each week. With this method will minimize your investment but you have multiple tickets in a lottery pool to increase your chances of winning.

Please take above method might increase your chance in theoretical, but there is no guaranty you will win the lottery. As I did mention early, winning a lottery is purely depending on luck only. Good luck to you.

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Any idea?? Weird!

Casio G-Shock G-7700 series

If you ask for any watches come with nice looking, tough & reliable, complete timekeeping features, water resistance (for swimming or scuba diving), match sizes, reasonable price (even consider cheap price) and etc….. I would recommend for Casio G-Shock G-7700.

Let’s see what Casio G-Shock G-7700 built-in features

Nice looking
This model build with structural sense, it features a mineral crystal (hard to scratch) The watch looks sophisticated, with a lot of display information and a very nice three-line screen layout.

Tough & reliable
Well, no doubt the name “G-Shock” is already give you high confidence level on it’s Gravity Shock Resistance. My first G-Shock watch (model DW-6900) bought since 14 years ago, until now still function properly. Really unbelievable….

Complete timekeeping features
Timekeeping mode has a lot of information available at a glance
Week day (eg. “Mon”) inside the little frame
Workweek (eg. “wk45″) inside the little frame
Year (top row)
Month and date (second row)
Current Time (third row)
World time display (by pressing the button)

Water resistance
Up to 200m or 20bar Water resistance

Other features
Backlight with (EL) with tilt auto-on option
LED flash light
Advanced Stopwatch and data recall mode
Visible alarm

Summary
Overall the watch feels light and comfortable. The construction, fit, finish, and materials are well crafted giving a quality feeling to the watch. The design seems balanced, not too wild but not too boring. The most excited thing is this watch is not so expensive. RSP is RM339 (approximately USD94). In Malaysia market, easily you can get with price RM239 (approximately USD66), because most of the reseller here like to give discount. Good news…huh. My opinion this is one of the nicer, more elegant and nice looking G-shock G-7700. What do you think?

Ron97 Story

Recently I am visiting my best friend blog, and he was share a very good topic “Zer0’s RON97 Story” in his blog. As we all know (for Malaysian), our fuel price will be changed after 1-Sept-2009. Therefore, my friend’s blog is really brought a good idea reflecting fuel price changes in our country. Please click on below link to my friend’s blog (Highly recommended)

http://z2z.blogspot.com/2009/08/zer0s-ron97-story.html

I love this blog   Malaysia Boleh

Different between Ron95 and Ron97
RON means “Research Octane Number” and it refers to the ability of gasoline to auto burn inside the engine. Simply say, RON97 is harder to burn compared to RON95.

Higher octane number oil is basically designed for high performance vehicles such as sport vehicle and racing vehicle. Why is that so? This is to avoid premature ignition of oil inside the engine because of auto ignition, which happens before the spark plug ignite the fuel. This phenomenon is known as knocking. Knocking is unwanted, because it will reduce engine performance.

Not all vehicles require high octane number petrol. You may check your vehicle fuel requirement (usually at vehicle guide book) or you may get information at the back of the fuel lid cover.

Backup is Your Second Life

To my loyal visitors, I know you should encounter error when visiting AnyGreatIdea.com within these few days. This is due to the web server files are corrupted with unknown reason. I was communicate with relevant party (hosting company), they feedback the server is in well condition, they suspecting my website had been hacked by someone. The worst case I might lost all database in my website, my entire efforts to build up this “Ideas Database” might be gone…..

Oh….no, I am stunned when receive this news. My mind is keep asking myself whether am I do “BACKUP” of database before? I trying hard to recall back my memory, searching everywhere in my PC, hoping can get back my previous backup. Eventually I was so lucky to found my backup copy…..thanks god

After this incident, something I learn is “Backup is really important for life”. Backup is not only applied to computing, but it can be applied to everything in your life. For example, why people buy insurance? Insurance actually like a backup to cover a part of loses in case any disaster happen.

In Business, “Backup plan” devised for a specific situation when things could go wrong. Some people call “Contingency plan”, or “Plan-B”. So…do you have your Plan-B? Well, you MUST have a Plan-B ok?

Penang Food is Nice

It was few days didn’t update post due to I am travel outstation to Penang Island. Well, Pinang Island is a state in Malaysia, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia. I was travel with group of colleagues to support PC fair @ Penang. This may be off track from my daily Any Great Idea updates. However, there is something I would like share is Penang is earned the nickname of the food capital of Malaysia.

Of course we won’t miss this opportunity to try all those local Penang foods. Anyway, I not expert to write blog about food, but just share the funny moment with group of colleagues having dinner at one of the famous hawker center at Penang. Basically my message is to tell everybody here “Penang food is nice” & “Friendship forever”. Let’s us introduce one by one in this video clip (Cantonese speaking only). Have fun….:)

How Malaysian Do Business

Just want to share an article that probably give you idea for how Malaysian do business.
It’s look funny but it can be true in real life……

Korean said, I need $300k to build a bridge
$100K for material,
$100K for handwork,
$100K for profit.

American said, I need $600k to build a bridge
$200K for material (American’s material is higher quality),
$200K for handwork (American’s handwork is the best),
$200K for profit (American’s living standard is higher).

Malaysian said, I need $900k to build a bridge…….
You may ask, ‘Why yours so expensive?’
Malaysian replied, ‘I take $300K, you take $300K, and the balance $300K give Korean to build the bridge…’

Lessen I learn: Thing in Malaysia is not cheap…….what do you think?

The Healthy Way to Lose Weight Fast

White flour is your enemy no. 1
Don’t eat products that contain white flour and you must replace all white flour products with vegetables (preferably green leafy vegetables). I suggest Broccoli has protein and many health benefits.

Sugar is your enemy no. 2
Stop or reduce eating any sugar products. Product like chocolate, candies, cookies and etc are completely sabotage any healthy diet and make you fat quick.

Be sure to eat five small meals a day
When you replace white flour products with vegetables and stop eating simple sugars, you will want that small healthy meal every 3-4 hours. If you need to lose weight fast, be sure to eat a source of protein at every meal. If you think of your plate in thirds, one third will be protein, one third vegetables and one third complex carbohydrates (sweet potato, whole grain wild rice and etc…)

Drink lots of water
Drink only plain water. Please eliminate sugar drinks, coffees, sodas and even diet coke. I don’t trust diet coke can help to lost weight. If you want to drink not just plain water, drink fruit juice…No sugar fruit juice.

Do exercise
Remember, you can lose weight either by decreasing your calorie intake or increasing the number of calories you burn. Any health strategy should include both, but if you want to lose weight fast, exercise is essential. If you prefer to go to gym and do aerobics GREAT! Just keep going. Typically you should “move your body” for 30-60 minutes, 3-5 times a week for best weight loss results.

Get enough rest
You body is not a machine. You must get enough sleep at night, since sleep deficiency impairs your ability to lose fat.

Be consistent and disciplined, and have self motivation
To lose weight effectively, you need to stick to your weight loss plan religiously. When you have the thought of giving up, visualize how good you will look when you manage to slim down successfully.

Warning:
Losing weight too quickly is dangerous and can have adverse effects on your health. If you find yourself losing more than 500g each week, you are probably doing something wrong. Please consult doctor….

Singapore vs Malaysia

Currency rate (up to date)
$1 Singapore dollar = $2.4 Ringgit Malaysia

Basic monthly salary range (for fresh graduate)
Professional (Engineering, Accountant, Architect….)
Singapore: $2400 – $ 2800 Singapore Dollar
Malaysia: $2200 – $2600 Ringgit Malaysia

Non-professional (Sales, Admin, HR….)
Singapore: $2000 – $ 2400 Singapore Dollar
Malaysia: $1700 – $2200 Ringgit Malaysia

Housing price – about 800 square ft apartment
This is subject to different location, I just assume average price for reference.
Singapore: Around $400k – $500k Singapore Dollar
Malaysia: Around $130k – $220k Ringgit Malaysia

Car price (Toyota Vios)
Singapore: $50k Singapore Dollar
Malaysia: $80k Ringgit Malaysia

Iphone 3Gs 16GB
Singapore: S$288 with 2 years plan contract (monthly commitment S$56)
Malaysia: RM1790 with 2 year plan contract (monthly commitment RM155)

Food
Hawker Center (Curry noodle + hot Coffee)
Singapore: S$2.80 + S$0.60
Malaysia: RM3.80 + RM1.80

Fast Food (KFC – Snack Plate meal)
Singapore: S$5.90
Malaysia: RM9.95

Summary:
If compare base on currency rate, Singapore price is higher. Please think wisely, for Singaporean who earn Sing Dollar and spend Sing Dollar, then everything for them is cheap except housing.

Difference Between Effectiveness and Efficiency

In my previous article “Earn more, Work less and Enjoy life”, I did mention about the different between effectiveness & efficiency. These two terms feel similar but confusing many people. Therefore, you must be clear with the basic concept of this 2 terms, if not it could be pretty disastrous for success and growth.

What is difference between effectiveness and efficiency?

To make is simple and short, here is the definition. Effectiveness: It means getting work done or achieving the desired result. Efficiency: It means achieving result in the most economical manner using minimum resources.

For example, Effectiveness simply relates to reaching goals, so a company that has captured a 75% market share is very effective. Efficiency relates to how much they needed to spend or invest in relation to their effectiveness. If two companies each had only a 0.1% rejection rate off the assembly line, they would be equally effective. But if the first company invested half as much as the second company in quality control, the first company is twice as efficient as the second company.

A true success is achieving goal with both effectiveness & efficiency way