Renewing Car Road Tax in Malaysia

You might be busy with your work or life and missed the time to check some of your minor or less important things written in your to-do list a while ago. Let's not forget to check if your car road tax is expired. We have summarised the simple steps as follows for you to renew your road tax to simplify your life.

How to Renew Road Tax in Malaysia?

1. Locate the nearest Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan Malaysia (JPJ) office close to your place.
2. Remember to bring your car registration card (pink colour as shown) and also your insurance cover note.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Go to the counter and request for road tax renewal. The road tax price might be different depending on your engine capacity (cc), the states you live, and also whether you using petrol or diesel for your cars.
4. Done and just stick the new Road Tax on your car.

[Tip 1]: The working hours for JPJ offices are from Monday to Friday, 7.45am till 5pm. To locate the nearest JPJ offices available close to your place, kindly click here. 

[Tip 2]: The JPJ counter knows exactly the process of renewing road tax, i.e. you just have to tell them "road tax renewal" and they will get it all done for you.

[Tip 3]: The whole process will take only around 5 minutes.

[Tip 4]: You can pay the road tax by cash or credit card. However, make sure you let the staff knows what type of payment you wish before he/she proceeds as once the payment method is selected in the computer system, it is irreversible.

[Tip 5]: The price list for road tax is shown as follows:

The Incorrect Ways to Have Your Phones Charged

Owning a smart phone is good but sometimes it is really irritating where it needs to be charged at least once or twice per day. Before blaming the imperfectness of the phone, we should be aware of that could be caused by the ways we charge our phones. You might have charged your phone incorrectly that brings your phone to have a relatively shorter life span. Let's look at what should be done when doing the phone charging.

1. Use the correct phone charger provided
   As you might know, in order to have your phone to be fully charged in a shorter period, you can use iPad charger which provides higher power. However, this is not recommended as it may harm your phone in the long run. The best way to do would be to always use the original phone charger to charge your phone.
   
   [Tip 1]: Same concepts applies to the charging cable where it is recommended not to use the cables bought from unknown brand as it can harm your phone and for safety purpose too.
   
   
2. Do not use phone when charging phone
   Many people like to use the phone to continue texting, playing games or scrolling facebook when the phone is charging. Phone should not be used to ensure the phone is charging under optimum condition. Having the screen on when charging phone is harming your battery as well as affecting your body health in long run.
   
   
3. First time charging for 8 hours is not necessary
   Many phone users are always told to have their phone charged for approximately 8 hours first right after they purchase the phone to activate the phone. This might not be necessary now. This is because most of the smart phones are using lithium battery which can have the phone functions without the need to charge it to full for its very first time. It is recommended to just charge for normal time even it is first time charging the new phone.
   
4. Room temperature when charging phone
   It is recommended to have your phone charged at the normal room temperature, not too high or too low. Having your phone charged at lower temperature deters the chemical reaction to be taken place in the battery and thus lengthen the time needed to charge the phone fully, Likewise, charging your phone at high temperature might cause the lithium battery to be unstable and therefore explosion is possible to happen!
   
   [Tip 2]: You should also power off your phone once a while regularly to restart the phone. It is to avoid your phone being lagging when using and to lengthen the life span of phone.
   
   
   

Besides fixing the way you charge your phone, you should also take care of your phone properly, eg. have a phone cover and avoid dropping your phone frequently so that you can your phone for at least a few years for sure. Why not start practicing the right habits in charging from today? Cheers.

What You Might Not Know About Touch 'n Go Cards

Touch 'n Go is a smart card mostly used in Malaysia to pay for the toll expressway and highway fees. However, did you know there are way so many other uses/ interesting facts about Touch 'n Go cards besides paying for the tolls? Here we would like to summarize them for you as follows:

1. Purchase and pay using Touch 'n Go Card
   You can treat your Touch 'n Go Card as Debit Card to pay the stuffs you buy at most of the outlets now. It is in fact more convenient that using credit/debit cards as you can also pay using Touch 'n Go Card even it costs only RM 1. How cool right?
   
   
2. Photocard Service
   You can have photocard service with your Touch 'n Go card, which is basically the same as the original card except that you can personalise your card with your very own photos to make your card to be the only and unique one! How? Bring your photo either in a thumb drive or directly from your digital camera. Then, fill up an application form at the Customer Service Centre. The card costs RM 21.20 each with a one year of warranty period.
   
   
3. My Kad - Touch 'n Go
   If you don't prefer to carry many cards on your wallet, you might consider to use your My Kad as Touch 'n Go Card. Yes, you can do that. You can actually reload your My Kad and then just use it exactly the same as Touch 'n Go Card.
   
   
4. Expiry Date of Card
   There is an expiry date for your Touch 'n Go card, though it is quite long, i.e. usually is 10 years period. 
   
   
   [Tip 1]: To avoid card deactivation and imposition of dormant fees, you should ensure a minimum usage of once a year.
   
   
5. Online Card Registration
   You can register your card online at here to enjoy your rebate benefits and even check your transaction online. The registration is simple and should take less than 5 minutes to complete it.

[Tip 2]: You can't use your Touch 'n Go Card twice consecutively when using for public transport service, i.e. you can't help your friend to pay for his transport fees using the Touch 'n Go Card after you have just used it. It will not work.

[Tip 3]: Many users still have no ideas where to reload their card with any service charges. Here we have summarised out some of the famous outlets that you can do your reloading without other charges:

• CIMB ATM Machine
• Touch 'n Go Spot
• Touch 'n Go Hub
• Tesco
• KK Supermart
• Watsons
• Petronas Station
• Self Service Kiosk (SSK)
• The Alice Smith School
• Mammamia Ice Cream
• Guardian Pharmacies
• Touch 'n Go Pos
• Airport Coach
• Bangsar Village Parking Sdn Bhd
• Bank Negara Malaysia

Hope you are now equipped with better knowledge regarding your Touch 'n Go Card. You should now have better reason to own a Touch 'n Go Card. One card, One convenience.

Things to Do When Commuting to Work for Success

In order to avoid traffic congestion, working people tend to use public transport for work. Depending on the place you live, some people might even use up 1-2 hours to travel to work which is actually quite time consuming. Here we would like to suggest you a few useful things you can do when commuting to work that can slowly polish up your bright future in the long run.

1. Plan the day's goals
   Successful people tend to start their day with setting what small goals they would like to achieve for the day. When commuting to work, you can start thinking what goals are you planning to achieve for the day, it can be as simple as remember to pay bills, have a call to friend/parents, finish up a certain office work by the day, and so forth. Setting the goals give you an idea what needs to be done for the day and the planning makes sure you achieve the goals in an efficient way.
   
   
   
2. Use the time as exercise
   This is suitable for those having their working place nearby to the place they stay. They can choose to walk to the working place. Walking to work place saves the transport cost as well as maintaining your body in good health, thus it is killing two birds with one stone. Cycling can be an alternative option though it depends on the place you work.
   
3. Read a book
   People gain knowledge and get smarter by reading book when commuting to work. It does not matter what types of book are you reading as they all bring you benefits without fail. Reading story books helps relax and clear your mind before you start working. This will then lead to better efficiency when working later. On the other hand, reading non-fiction books tell you a variety of perspectives on how you view things which widens and enriches your mind infinitely. Hence, why not start choosing your favorite book and have it read in a train starting tomorrow?
   
4. Seek for your inspiration
   You might also want to listen to music or observe people around you to help you generate ideas that could help for your works - particularly suitable for those require creativity in their work. By listening to the lyrics or observing what is people doing might just give you the idea to continue your works in a click.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Do bonding with friends or family
   It is kind of boring if you commute to work alone everyday. If you are aware of a friend that works nearby your working place, why not asking him/her to commute to work together with you? You both can have a chat and update each others to foster the relationship. Certainly, you can also do your bonding with your kid if you commute with your kid and then drop him/her at school.
   
   
   

Don't overlook those little time that you use when commuting to work. In fact, you can do quite some meaningful things by utilizing these time. We hope we managed to influence you to start utilizing your time when commuting by doing something useful and meaningful to your future. Cheers.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Word Document

Similar to Microsoft Excel, Word Document also has its own unique keyboard shortcuts that you can certainly use to simplify your life. No more wasting time in typing and formatting in word documents as long as you follow the 6 key shortcuts we introduced to you below. These keyboard shortcuts apply to any version of your Word Document, how nice right?

1. CTRL+ENTER: A faster way to do "Page Break"
   When doing formatting, we tend to use Insert >> Page Break so that the rest of the paragraphs will go to the next new page. Now, you can simply use CTRL + ENTER keys to bring you to next new page, which saves you just a significant few seconds in clicking the mouse to do that.
   
   
   
   
2. CTRL + +: Subscript
   CTRL + SHIFT + +: Superscript
   For instance, when you are typing a2 where you would like to make the "2" to be superscript, you can first highlight the "2" and then use the shortcut keys to make the "2" a superscript. Same thing applies to using subscript shortcut as well.
   
   

   
   
   
3. Double Click Format Painter : Unlimited Use of the desired formatting
   Instead of repeating the step of clicking "Format Painter" each time when you want to format, now you can try this shortcuts by double clicking the Format Painter button so that it will repeat the same formatting until you click it once again to complete the formatting.
   
   
4. ALT + SHIFT + D : Date Now
   ALT + SHIFT + T: Time Now
   Simple here, just do the shortcut to have your date or current time on the word. If you would like to update it later, just right click and click "Update field".
   
   
5. A quicker way to clear off all your formatting
   In the case where you have a document from some other sources where you would like to maintain those writing but NOT the formatting, we have a quicker way for you to do that. Simply copy down all your wording to Notepad to which it will make all your wordings to the most original format (i.e. no format). Then, you can copy them again from Notepad back to the word document.
   
   
6. SHIFT + 5: Go to the place where your cursor is 
   Sometimes when you have so many wordings in the word document and you have just missed the track of where your cursor is. Worry not, we have a shortcut key for you to go back to where your cursor is, i.e. SHIFT + 5. Yes, as simple as that.

Now it's your time. Open up word document and have fun trying them! Learn it to make your life easier and a bit more efficient now!