Generate Passive Income By Changing The Brand of Daily Necessities

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Are you a member of Tesco, Aeon, Isetan, Walmart, Taobao, Amazon, Debenhams, ASOS or any Online Shop?


Any shopping 🛍️ member card gives you CashBack & Passive Income directly bank into your account if you are loyal customers?


Any shopping 🛍️ member card gives you CashBack & Passive Income also if you share their online mall 🛒& unique products to friends & family?


Some of them even charge annual fees💰. Sob.


Or maybe give you some Cash voucher 💵 that will expire if forget to use before expiry? 🤦


Do you want to know if there's a FREE member card that reward loyal customers by 
directly bank in Cash into your bank account + Points without expiry until redeem your money 💰?

Everyone need to spend on daily necessities, e.g. toothbrush, toothpaste, shower gel, detergent, shampoo and etc, regardless of rich or poor.

All the while, we spent to get the stuff needed, and the money spent transferred to the pocket of sellers.

How To Be A Smarter Consumer?

Smart Consumer will buy their Daily Necessities if:-

1. The products are High Quality 

2. The products are Natural, Organic without harmful ingredients

3. Price Reasonable

4. There's Money Back Guaranteed

5. Can accumulate Points for Cash

A Smarter Consumer will spend when there's choice to convert Expenses for Daily Necessities into Income! 

Is that possible? Yes, it is!

Passive Income For Shoppers by Atomy

What if I tell you that it's possible by just changing your brand of Daily Necessities - household supplies, health supplement, skin care, cosmetics to Atomy?

All the products in Atomy Online Shopping Mall are natural, superior quality with concentrate formulation.

For instance, a bottle of detergent are few times more long lasting than normal brand, thus more economical in terms of Cost per Dollar.

Yet, the price are same or even cheaper than other brands with comparable quality.

There's 30 days unsatisfactory money back guaranteed by the company. And, most important is..... the Points accumulated could be turned into Income!

How To Qualify?

Whenever making purchase online, you get to accumulate Personal Point Value (Personal PV), which valid for lifetime and will not expire.

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You will continue to replenish your daily needs from Atomy online shop, be it household supplies, skin care, health supplements, cosmetics and etc after finished the stock.

The more Personal PV accumulated, the more your Potential Income.

Yes, your money spent on daily necessities now enable you to earn Passive Income instead of "disappear" after used the products.

How Do You Earn Passive Income?

Everyone get used to share the good deals with friends and family, be it good movie, delicious bubble tea and etc, am I right?

Same here, you will start telling your friends and family about the products you are using if it's excellent. They change their regular brand to Atomy like you, getting their PV, and then they share with their friends, who shop online in Atomy also to get PV.

Indirectly, your business is growing with two groups of friends and family becoming smarter consumers like you, and you get to accumulate PV, same as they are getting when they purchase.

When you accumulate 10,000 Personal PV, and you have two groups of friends/family accumulate 300,000 Group PV respectively on a particular day, your income is RM80 or USD21.

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Your potential income will keep increasing together with your groups of friends and family.

When you yourself accumulated 300,000 Personal PV, your daily income is RM250 or USD70 on the day when cumulative spending of your two groups of friends are 300,000 group PV respectively.

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Is it possible to accumulate so many PV?

Yes, because everyone will keep replenishing their stock of daily needs, toothbrush, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, skin care, supplements..... So, your daily income will keep increasing until it caps at RM5,000/Day or RM150,000/Month!

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The income is viable because everyone need to brush teeth, bath, eat and wash clothes even being locked-down at home during Covid-19 pandemic period!!

Daily necessities = Huge business Opportunities

Not only that, the company gives out many types of Bonuses to leaders who are business minded and hard working in sharing their products.

Why use PV but not Currency?

Atomy is a Global Online Platform in ~ 20 countries. Means, your friends in Australia or Indonesia or any countries who are brushing teeth using Atomy Antibacteria toothbrush also enable you to earn residual income, because every item count by similar PV although in difference currency!!

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Is Atomy A Legit Stable Company?

Atomy - Korea based company had been operating for more than 10 years worlwide, being Sole Distributor for Kolmar BNH products.

There are strong background from 2 shareholders in Kolmar BNH (KAERI JV Kolmar).

1. KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)

R&D world rank No. 2 after America NASA, with more than 1300 scientists and 4000+ researchers.

It is fully funded and supported by Korea Government, just like SAMSUNG and HYUNDAI.

2. KOLMAR 

Are these familiar brands?

Kolmar, world Top branded manufacturer are the one doing OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) & ODM (Original Design Manufacturing) for them.

And not only that, Atomy products are more effective because we have KAERI's patented technology that couldn't be owned by these brands.

To-date, Atomy had distributed absolute quality products worldwide, e.g. USA, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Philipine, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, India, Vietnam, Russia, Hong Kong, UK and many more new countries soon.

Check if your country in the world map of Atomy?

 

Atomy soon-to-open Countries
Atomy soon-to-open Countries

On top of that, Atomy becomes Global Distribution Hub with Global Sourcing Global Sales strategy, i.e. distribute products from top manufacturers worldwide.

Why Atomy So Generous Giving Cash Reward?

Have you seen any Atomy products over the shopping counter or advertisement?

Since the products quality speak itself, word of mouth is more effective way of advertisement.

By doing so, there are plenty of cost saved that are able to reinvest in the product quality enhancement and reward the loyal consumers/partners.  

What are the saving? Just mention a few....

> Physical Storefront - Rental of counter/kiosk, Staff salary, Utility

> Advertisement Fee - Media, Superstar artists' endorsement fee, brochure/catalogue, roadshow

> Middleman profit - Atomy's product direct ship from factory to consumers without wholesaler, agent, retailers

> R&D cost - KAERI by Korea government. Atomy doesn't need to share R&D cost or pay royalties

> Packaging Cost - Don't you see Atomy products' white colour elegant packaging, simple but user friendly. 

Zero Cost Zero Risk

Do you see any cost or risk involve? NO!!!

Just 4 steps to generate your passive income.

1. Get your membership for FREE

2. Change your regular brand to Atomy and start accumulate PV

3. Share with your friends to do the same

4. Passive Income in your bank account

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No guilt to share this awesome platform with your friends because you are not earning profit from the products.

Anyone in Atomy world map could be your consumers/partners. They order whatever needed whenever they like themselves online via website or mobile app.

NO selling, NO stock keeping, NO logistic delivery to be involved by you.

Just buy an item of few dollars in a year to maintain your membership.

Share the awesome product experience with your friends, and earn Points when your friends & friends of your friends use and do the same as you. Earn the Points for Unlimited levels.

Worst results :
Enjoy natural, healthy, non-toxic products at regular supermarket prices.
Just like any other online shop 🛍️🛒. Buy what you like whenever you like.

Normal results :
Use it, love it, share it and earns hundreds of pocket money

Best results👍
If you work hard on sharing user experience, you may earn a few times you current salary as passive income💰💰

 

I Wish To Use & Generate Residual Income. But Are The Products Safe?

Atomy complied with each individual country's rules and regulation before official opening. All the products will be registered with respective country's Health Authority and Halal verification.

In Malaysia, registration of products can be searched in National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency under Ministry of Health website. Key in 'Holder Name' - Atomy, all the registration number will pop up.

Halal Certification Recognised by JAKIM

Other than plant based products that do not need halal registration, all the products in Malaysia will be registered with Badan Pensijilan Luar Negara, JAKIM.

Still not convince? Think about it. Will the Korea Government risk their reputation allow their supported research institute produce something that will harm their workers and the users?

Sounds Interesting. How Do I Register?

Registration of membership must be through an existing member's Sponsor ID.

Anyone in the country of Atomy worldmap could register for FREE or pre-register (for soon-to-open countries) with just a few information. Connect with me, I will give you the Sponsor ID and guideline to register. 

In Malaysia, registration is easy with :

1. Full Name as per Identification Document

2. IC No. (*For verification of name tally with IC for direct bank in)

3. Gender

4. Address

5. Email

6. Telephone No.

Why Join Through Us?

We have complete tools and system to help you better understand the products and teach you how to earn your rewards.

We will use all our tools including online tools to help you build up your group of consumers and business partners

Regardless where you are in the world, get in touch with me to access the system and also more detail information about the products, and business opportunity.

Let's start your healthy life with Natural Products, Earn your Health while Earning your Reward :)

Residual Income – Criteria To Be Considered Before Starting Business Post Covid-19 Lockdown

Residual Income – Criteria To Be Considered Before Starting Business Post Covid-19 Lockdown

Knowing the importance of Residual Income, many people, especially Post Covid-19 lock-down, started looking for their Plan B, i.e. second source of income or ideally, Residual Income.

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Last two days, I encountered a Facebook image about 4 Ways to build your wealth. The editor mentioned each of the path required hard work. Indeed, which path are you on?

Post Covid-19 Lock down, many people had chosen to monetize their product/service, Online or Offline. 

Before dipping your feet into the water, what criteria to be considered so that you have easier life for years to come?

Put the first two in the above image, i.e. saver+investor and climb the corporate ladder aside, I have heard a few friends sharing their dilemma in the other two path:-

> Forced selling at rock bottom price to compete in the competitive online platform with extremely thin margin, or worse, without profit.

> Spent money buying stock, end up have to keep the left over stock at home.

If lucky, and the products/service is high demand, you need to stay up late at night, packing to post the next day. Worse is, you might running out of stock, and need to bid farewell to the customers who couldn’t wait. 

If unlucky, you have to give away the left over stock to friends and relatives, for free, or idling at home. 

> There are also stars in their field, possess excellent skill /service with many repeat customers, but couldn’t cope with the demand with limited or inefficient man power. Somehow, that’s minority. Most of business owners still struggling to get customers. 

> A friend who started his nasi lemak delivery service has very good sale, but busy cooking, delivering since early morning, until no time to enjoy life. 

> Some said selling ebook is a good residual income. Well, prior to that, how much time needed to spend writing a good ebook?  criteria to be considered for passive income

Criteria To Be Considered

Taking above mentioned into consideration, shouldn’t you consider business with most of the following?

1. No need to invest, open shop and keep stock to avoid lost of capital. 

2. No physical handling of the products or service, so that you can concentrate on marketing, instead of busy packing, post, preparing your ingredient, or spend time service your client. 

3. No regular maintenance cost needed to run the business, consider virtual business if possible.

4. Products with high repeat order, and cater all categories of consumers. For instance, good quality effective consumable products that will attract repeat client. Best is something that you yourself used and love it. 

5. Low entry selling price. High end products can bring higher profit, but how many you are able to sell in a month compare with products affordable by everyone now? Volume always win.

5. A team or stable company with strong background to partner with, instead of working alone.

6. Opportunity to expand globally, if possible. 

7. Business that can work on the side, without affecting your main stream of income until you are financially independent. 

8. Residual income. Some said dropship might fulfill the above criteria, but still the company pay you only when you get sales. What happen if few years later you stop promoting for them?

Did I leave out any other good criteria? Feel free to share in the comment below. :)

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Still no idea what to start, how to do? I have solutionConnect with me to work with me. 

Online Business = Passive Income ? Something to Ponder

Online Business = Passive Income ? Something to Ponder

Many people started Online Business for Passive Income. Is it true it’s easy to generate passive income right after starting online business?

What is passive income and active income?

Passive Income

“Passive income is an income received on regular basis with little effort required to maintain it.”

Meaning that the money will still come in even if you are sleeping at night because your business or investment runs 24 hours, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.

Active Income

“Active income is the income when you have performed a service or sold a product. That includes your salary, commission and even income generated from the business.

Basically it means if you are working, you earn money. If you open a shop to sell something, regardless products or service, there’s income generated from the sale. If the shop is closing at night, there’s no sale and no income generated.

During the old days, our parents and grandparents work hard to earn the money for a living.

After outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, when many countries locked down, countless self-employed, business owners, investor, workers lost source of income. Many people started deep thought on Passive Income.

Online business became hot cake, and everyone wanted to start their new venture as Plan B.

What to sell, where to sell, how to sell became the Question Marks ???

Many friends of mine running online business since long ago or recently, bought plenty of stock, keeping at home, packing, post. If lucky, they will be busy buying, reply message, packing late night to post, sometimes even running out of stock; if unlucky, the left over stock will be kept at home forever.

Hence, before investing time, money and effort, shouldn’t you examine the best platform, products/service so that your life will get easier for years to go?

 

How To Generate Leads And Increase Sales Effortlessly Without Pushy Sales Message

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Generate leads and increasing sales in any business and marketing, without obvious selling sounds weird and impossible to many people

In fact, no one enjoy being pressured and pushed into making a purchase.

If that’s the case, so how do you generate leads, and persuade your customer into buying your products or services, or even join your company if  you are doing network marketing?

In this article, I’ll show you how to generate quality leads opt in by willing prospects and increase sales purchased by willing customers. It can be used in any online or offline business, regardless of what industry you are in.

1. Generate Leads and Increase Sales With Compelling Sales Message 

Sales message is a persuasive message that persuade your customers to close sales or generate leads by convincing your prospects to opt into the business you are doing.

how to generate leads

a) Selling a product or service for your offline or online business

Let’s make some comparison. Of the following, which sales message would you prefer?

“New Year Sales!!! Promotion!!! Grab the high quality cheap handmade soap now!”

vs

“Learn how to improve your skin to become soft like a baby with natural handmade soap at affordable price.”

If you are like most people, you will choose ad number 2 because it attracts you instead of pushing you into making purchase.

In a short sentence, the second ads includes:

  • Feature of the product – natural handmade soap
  • Benefit – improve skin
  • End result – soft like a baby
  • Indicative Price – affordable

Contrary to the second ad, the first ad push you into buying their ‘high quality’ product NOW. By the way, beware of using punctuation mark (!) as well, as most people feel pushy with many exclamation marks.

High quality is very subjective, you as a seller definitely feel your products or services are high quality, but this might not be the case from the perspective of the buyer.

In actual fact, quality is a must-have criteria in any product or service, thus it’s no longer a selling point.

Can you see the difference of both ads in terms of pulling customers to take action themselves willingly, by educating them the benefit of your product versus pushing the customers into making purchase now as instructed because cheap?

b) Generate leads for your network marketing business

How about this, if you are doing network marketing, and looking for business partner to join your company?

“Join our company today! Guarantee make 10k per month!”

vs

“Start your home business with step by step guide even you have no experience today.”

You see…. “Join our company” is a redundant word, because they know you want them to join you the moment you advertise or talk to them.

And hello… every company has an opportunity to make you become a millionaire, so what make you guarantee them to earn big bucks? Without any effort?

Would the second ad sounds more practical and attractive? Why, because you assure them that they can start a home business even without experience, because there’s step by step guide.

2. Giving Before Receiving

Giving before receiving? Probably you might start worrying, hey, crazy? We are doing business, won’t we lose if giving so much things to the customers, and yet they are not buying from us?!

Consumers now are smart, they can get quality information online with regardless to anything under the sky.

Doing business in this technology era now is all about giving high perceived value to the prospects before they are committing to come out with the money.

I give you two examples that I’d came across in effectively generating leads and increasing sales by giving value to the customers.

a) Ikea 

Ikea, is a Swedish multinational furniture retailer company that design and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, appliances and home accessories.

Every year, they will have a new catalog showcasing their inventories and teach the public how to mix and match the furniture.

how to increase sales like ikea

Every few months, I will receive their Free magazine with plenty of ideas ranging from :

  • Space planning
  • Children play time ideas
  • Kitchen and garden ideas
  • Color Match
  • Type of eco friendly materials
  • Recipe
  • And many more

It’s all free, so what do they earn? Well, if you like the ideas provided and want to have the same effective space planning, same efficient kitchen appliances, same color, same garden, same delicious food, you can buy everything from their store. 

You got the idea ?

Still not convince? Here’s another example of local entrepreneur that impressed me.

2. Sewing World

sewing workshopLast month, I brought my daughter to a sewing workshop to redeem a voucher distributed in her school by the shop, where they will teach you, for free, on how to sew a tuition bag with the materials you bought.

Then I got to know that there are other short courses for adult too. Out of passion, I signed up a few days course learn to sew a few ‘upcycle’ bag with my unfit jeans.

Along the days while I am learning, the teacher there will teach my boring daughter few simple sewing techniques, without extra charge.

After mastered the simple techniques, she became interested in sewing, so how? I subscribed her as junior sewing club member to learn more.

You see… without receiving the value to appreciate handmade, we will not sign up anything.

What Should You Do Now?

If you have a business with great product and service, deliver the value to your customers before persuading them into making the purchase.

If you want to generate leads for your network marketing business or subscription platform, teach them, educate them that you are a valuable partner before making them commit to the subscription.

Did the tips help you? If so, I would greatly appreciate if you leave your comment and share on Facebook. 

How To Start Freelance Work With No Client Base

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Freelance work is one of the most popular form of flexible work and alternative in the wave of economic hardship and recession, for anyone to :

> Work on the side for additional income while working full-time

> Make it as a career option. You get the freedom to be your own boss with flexible working hours in a job you are passionate about.

The trend of freelancing has experience significant growth. In Kuala Lumpur alone, freelancer has increased by 31.2% since last two years, and the number is expected to go up across the country.

Getting a freelance work to your job list is hard, especially when you are just starting.

In this post, I’ll share with you few strategies to secure freelance work even you have no client base right now.

How do you start to earn your first paycheck through freelance work?

Firstly, identify what you are good at, examine what you are doing daily now and what’s your job. That could be your best skill of service to offer to your client.

In this 21st century, virtually any service that people outsource or require ad hoc labour could be your freelance work. Thus, freelancing is not necessary limited to skill personnel, accountant, web designer, programmer, architect only.

I have a friend who work as a clerk offers her service as virtual assistant to her expatriate client. She managed to supplement her full time income by helping her client to book ticket plus some administration work.

Now, here are the 3 Tips that will help you to get noticed for freelance work and build your client list.

1. Your Personal Network

Without realize, you have certainly accumulated your personal network over time, both socially and professionally. It is now the most invaluable resources and straightforward way of finding your first freelance work.

Market yourself and spread the word among your network. We have shifted to trust in community, as people tend to use the product and service recommended by friends and family.

Personal recommendation is much more effective than a polished resume, and most clients are willing to fork out more to hire someone recommended. 

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There are 5 channels of personal network that you can pay attention to market yourself :

  • Keep in touch with your ex colleagues, clients and team in your industry

They know your skills, experience and what you are good at, so they can recommend you in the event any of them or their contact need to hire freelancer.

  • Connect with anyone including your competitor, not just your potential clients or those in your industry.

They know people who know people. Yes, they might not know what exactly you are doing or not use your service, but they have their own personal connection whom is likely use your service one fine day.

And you never know your competitor will want to collaborate with you down the road.

  • Professional networking.

One of the largest professional network to get your gig is Linkedin. If you do not have Linkedin account yet, check it out and create a free one. Many clients and human resource people are looking at Linkedin for talent now.

  • Online Social Network.

Facebook, twitter, instagram, wechat and etc, in fact you network everyday. Don’t forget to post your work in between your delicious food, pet or your adorable children’s posts.

  • Offline Network.

If there’s any association, social event within your industry or even just a coffee chat, make your time to connect with the people that you know or not know.

A small tip from me, keep your contacts and send the new year or festive greeting to them regularly and that will remind them who you are, and tell them what you are doing now if they ask.

A personalize message is more effective and warming than forwarding the photo or standard greeting.

2. Update Your CV

freelance work resumeJob search portal is still very useful even though you are not applying full-time job. Remember to update your resume frequently and keep your resume open for search.

You never know when you will receive call from headhunter or potential client for your service.

Maximize your Linkedin profile, and include endorsement and recommendation from your client base.

There are local freelancing websites with available job bank now for you to post your profile.

Many Malaysians had even acquired jobs from global outsourcing marketplace and gained good reputation and positive feedback. 

3.  Make Proposal To Your Potential Client

Try to target those small business or start-up company. Lots of chance they don’t have enough resources and need to outsource the work.

Approach them personally if you know any of your personal connection might be benefited from your service.

If you are shy, just casually mentioned why they should employ people like you. Generally they will save fixed monthly pay, office utilities and work space.

It make wonder for me as I got one of my job by educating my client during a coffee chat why he should employ a Quantity Surveyor like me to help him do effective project cost monitoring.

It’s possible to get more freelance work even if economy is not good, as the business will tend to streamline their monthly overhead by employing freelancer.

If you want, you can attend full-time job interview at selected company that you preferred. Leave your profile with them, and get them to contact you in case they need you in future.

Writing a job proposal is an art. However, there are many great sample online that you can use.

Focus on solution to your potential client’s problem and sell your strength.

freelance workThe main point of making proposal are

  • Identify their problem
  • Give them solution
  • Sell your strength as solution.

 

In the end, it’s all about relationship building and networking.

If you simply want to increase your take-home pay, try to consider branching out a little freelance work.

If you do it right with sufficient client base, you can even quit your day job, and make it as your career and home business.

What’s your best tips to secure your freelance work ? 

 

Lexis Hibiscus vs Avani Sepang Gold Coast

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Lexis Hibiscus or Avani Sepang Gold Coast, which one is better? Many parents were asking about it while deciding their family trip.

I had been to both resorts for family trip as well, here are some comparisons based on my experience.

Lexis Hibiscus

Since the resort was opened in year 2015, it has became one of the hot spot for vacation, perhaps popular due to the private swimming pool and glass panel on floor to view the marine life.

We went to Lexis Hibiscus resort last year and stayed in Premium Pool Villa, located in the hibiscus petal area. The resort was new and clean.

Same as other guests, we were excited with the in-room swimming pool, steam sauna room and the viewing glass on floor right after checked in the room.

Too bad the water underneath wasn’t crystal clear, so there were no marine life as described, a bit disappointed. Huhuu…

Nevertheless, we love the private swimming pool and steam sauna in the balcony.

We don’t need to carry swimming float, toys and etc and walk to public pool like other resorts. Just placed everything besides our own private pool, change in room then could jump into the water!

The best was you are able to enjoy private water fun with family members only without outsider in the same pool…! However, don’t try to swim naked in the pool because other resort room was quite close to each other. Ha…

We spent most of our time in room only since the kids love their own private pool.

There were two big King bed in room, just nice for four of us. The facilities in the room were modern and clean as well. The resort even invested LED TV built-into full bronze mirror wall.

Other than the nice in-room facilities, you have to pay for the rest of the indoor and outdoor activities provided by the resort, too bad.. The kidz world, karaoke facility, bicycle, and some other water sports were all chargeable.

Avani Sepang Gold Coast

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avani sepang gold coast review

We had a short getaway at Avani Sepang Gold Coast just recently. Instead of hibiscus petal, Avani uses the similar concept with the resorts spread along to form the palm tree.

Same as Lexis Hibiscus, the buggies service are available round the clock in resort. My two little monsters were excited with it every time.

avani sepang gold coast review

Overall, the resort looked a bit tire and old as compare to Lexis Hibiscus. Our room was considered clean, the only shortcoming was four of us had to share a King bed.

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Sunset view from the resort balcony

The kids were having fun in resort although without in-room private pool because they were entertained with many activities.

There’s a public infinity pool located at clubhouse area. Other than that, kid’s play area was providing free movie, coloring and board game. Batik painting, sand art and few other activities were chargeable, but the free activities were enough to make the kids occupied for an hour.

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Private beach of Avani

Morning and evening time were good for beach activities, e.g. building sand castle and walk along the beach. My girls were shouting to see a lot of baby crabs !

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Can you see the baby crab!

Another good thing I like here is there were plenty of bicycles nearby the lobby area. You can just grab it and cycling in the resort.

avani sepang gold coast bicycle

Which is good?

It depends on your expectation. If you like modern resort with private pool, Lexis Hibiscus is a good choice.

If you have lesser budget and don’t mind a moderate resort with similar concept, Avani Sepang Gold Coast could be your cup of tea. They have more variety of activities and a private beach for you to have family fun as well.

No matter whichever resort you are going, family bonding is most important right?! ;)

Homemakers Making It Work From Home!

Work from home mums in the newspaper this Mother’s Day !!

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New Straits Time today featuring 3 work from home mums with inspiring stories..! 😍 That’s including me . Hehe…

Thanks Audrey for the nice write up this Mother’s Day:

“WHILE juggling the roles of chef, transport provider, tutor, nurse and caregiver may seem daunting enough for the average Jane, many modern stay-at-home mums are going the extra mile by working from home to supplement their household incomes and provide the best for their families.

Mother of two, May Tan, gave up her job as a commercial manager twice to spend more quality time with her two daughters.

“I’d been a stay-at-home-mum for a year after my first child was born, but I rejoined the workforce. Eventually, after the birth of my second daughter, I quit my full-time job for good.

“It really wasn’t a difficult decision to make because I knew I wanted and needed the flexible hours — so that I have more time for my daughters and ageing parents. My father is a diabetic patient and I need to take him for regular check-ups as well.”

Tan said she was fortunate to have a very supportive husband, and also close friends who made her decision an easy one.

“Sometimes I miss full-time working life, especially the social interaction with colleagues.

“However, if I had to do it all over again, I would make the same decision.”

Tan now does freelance work for a foreign technology company to spearhead their technology in Asia.

“I still get paid and I’m not completely out of the workforce.

“When I need to attend project meetings, I get help from childcare sources.

“I can arrange my own schedule to be available for school activities, pay full attention during their sick days, spend more time guiding them with their homework and also arrange outings for them during less crowded days,” she said.

The grass may definitely seem much greener on the other side, but having been on both sides of the fence, Tan said being a full-time mum was much more challenging due to the lack of personal time.

“Support from spouse and family members is very important before making this decision. Calculate your budget before making the jump, and, if possible, build a plan to earn side incomes before quitting.”

In this current economic climate, she said, it was necessary to have cutbacks to survive on a single income.

“As a family, we have learnt to adopt a simpler lifestyle. Realistically, to live a comfortable family life on a single income is a challenge, especially here in Kuala Lumpur.”

You can read up more about the article here.

As a mum, it’s all about being a mother who juggles our children and works. Being a mum who works at home or office should not only about fulfilling our task as a mother and family finance contributor. It is about finding ways toward work-life balance too, right? ;)

Happy Mother’s Day to all beautiful great mothers!!!

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Feel free to get in touch with me if you need help to succeed in your work from home journey.

Things to do in Perth – Fremantle, Cottesloe beach & Perth Night Market

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In this post, I will share the things to do in Fremantle, our journey to Cottesloe Beach and the Perth City night market.

Captain Cook Cruise

There are several options of transports to go to Fremantle, you can either take train, self-drive or cruise.

I pre-booked Perth-Fremantle scenery cruise online, then back to Perth with train, so that my mum could enjoy different scenery view along the journey.

The cruise terminal located at Barrack Street Jetty, just besides another tourist attraction, The Bell Tower. We didn’t have time to visit The Bell Tower but managed to snap a few photos with the tower, pretending I was there. Ha…

Perth Explorer Hop On Hop Off Tram station located at Barrack Street Jetty too. They have many tours available with tram and cruises for tourists to explore Perth. Ticket can be purchased online or on the spot.

By the way, check out Hello Perth website too, as the websites may have some exclusive discount coupons for the tours and even dining.

All right, back to my cruise topic. After boarding the cruise, don’t forget to go to the cruise front deck for the best view of Perth city. Front deck is the best position for selfie and snap the best scenery view of Perth…!

Photo credit to Captain Cook Cruise

Things to do in Fremantle

Upon arriving Victoria Quay in the Fremantle Harbour, the first thing we saw was E-sheds Market, a weekend market operates on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday only. It’s a good place to hunt your souvenirs with good price, and also fashion and jewellery.

To my surprise, many Malaysians own a shop there, speaking Malays.

After bagged your souvenirs, hop on Fremantle tram just outside the market or catch the free Fremantle CAT bus which will brings you exploring Fremantle.

things to do in fremantle

Our next destination is Fremantle Market, another busy weekend indoor market to hunt for local food, local produces, clothes and handicraft. My mum was eyeing on all the big and fresh fruits and excited to have many free fruits tasting. Lol.

Well, the market wasn’t as big as I thought. We spent an hour there only exploring the local food and handicraft before heading on to Fishing Boat Harbour for the famous fresh seafood lunch.

Oh ya, there’s a Shipwreck Gallery situated opposite the seafood restaurant. We entered the museum with a token of donation at AUD1 only.

Time for the delicious seafood ! There were two famous restaurants there, Kailis Fish Market and Cicerello’s. I opted for Cicerello’s after surveyed online.

This was our most expensive meal in Perth, AUD35.60 per plate of mix grilled and fry seafood…!

After treated our stomach, we departed back to Perth by train. I wanted to explore one of the beautiful beach in Perth on the way back.

If you have time, there are many other things to do in Fremantle in fact, e.g The Round House, WA Maritime Museum, shops in town and etc.

Cottesloe Beach

Departed from Fremantle Train Station, we stopped at Cottesloe Station and walked to the beach.

The hotel concierge told me that the beach just 10 minutes walking distance from the train station. But I was so regret and guilty because I made my mum walked for few kilometers to reach the beach! What an inaccurate information from the concierge!

Well, it was a beautiful beach and you will be enjoying if bring bikini for sun bathing. Hehe…

I was worrying no transport back to Perth so didn’t dare to stay long. Quickly hopped on Transperth bus in front of the beach, and took the train at one of the station as train was much faster than bus.

The 2 zone train ticket was valid for 4 hours but I wasted another 10 bucks for the Transperth fare. Anyway, worth it as long my mum didn’t need to walk few more kilometers.

Perth City Night Market

Back to Perth, at last the night was lively because it was Friday! There was an Autumn night market in Central Business District. The CAT bus will be operated slightly late too during the weekend.

what's in perth night market

Basically the market was international food fiesta. I even spotted Malaysia satay on charcoal stall there!

Guess what was our dinner? Japanese pancake with noodle. Hehe…

My Other Tips

The supplements in Australia are pretty cheap. If you are traveling there, grab some high strength fish oil, honey and etc. I ‘imported’ 7 bottles of fish oil, while saw other travelers luggage full of fish oil, crazy….

My Sweet Bonding Trip With Mum

We gotta packed the luggage the same night to fly back next day. It was such an unforgettable memory traveling with mum, chit chatting in room, browsing the photos together.

You knew, I didn’t subscribed to any mobile roaming and data plan there. The phone was purely for photographing and browsing photos. No distraction checking on messages and facebooking while enjoying the vacation. You want to try…? ;)

Things to do in Perth – Swan Valley food tasting and King’s Park

Things to do in Perth – Swan Valley food tasting and King’s Park

Our Third Day…

Swan Valley Food Tasting Tour

Swan Valley food tasting tour was my mum’s favorite because she wanted to buy tasty Australia local food to treat her friends.

The friendly tour guide from Explore Perth Tour , Peter fetched us at 8.30am in the morning. By the way, you can check out their website for various central Perth pick up point.

We got the VIP treatment again because there were 3 person only in this trip including us. Hehe…

best tour in perth
VVIP depart for the best food tasting …!

Highlight of the tour
  • Chocolate – taste locally made chocolate in one of the Valley’s chocolatiers;
  • Nuts – on your visit to Morish nuts you can try from their wide range of nuts: caramel coated, wasabi macadamia, hot cashews, almonds, abalone flavoured, savoury nibbles to name just a few;
  • Nougat – if you have a sweet tooth you will love the Mondo Nougat factory with their Italian made soft nougat, but I prefer hard crispy nougat more lol…
  • Honey – you will be amazed at how many different varieties of honey there are and how different they taste. Coincidentally I had sore throat that day, so I swallowed a lot of honey and Apple Cider Vinegar there. It works wonder. I bought few big bottles of Jarah Honey with TA20+ and Apple Cider Vinegar because it’s pretty cheap there.
  • Wine – Premium wine tasting at one of the many wonderful vineyards in the Swan Valley, but three of us didn’t drink, so we just took photos in the vineyards.
  • Aboriginal Art – at the Maalinup aboriginal gallery you will get to learn about aboriginal culture and taste traditional bush food.
  • Coffee – even for those that aren’t coffee lovers you will love learning about how coffee is processed and made. The Ice coffee was great! However…. I was sleepless that night because tasted too many variety of coffee there.

On the way back to city, don’t forget to ask the tour guide to drop you at any fruit or vegetable stall along the roadside. The fruits and veggies are very cheap and fresh. We bought a pack of grapes at only AUD1!

Mum wished to buy fresh fruits back to Malaysia but didn’t, we were worried confiscated by custom, end up the custom officers in KLIA2 didn’t check at all. So, you can try your luck if want to bring some back to hometown. Ha…

Northbridge

After Swan Valley food tasting tour, we dropped by Northbridge for lunch because my mum missed Malaysia food so much. Our stomach were full by just sharing a plate of roast duck rice at AUD12.90 only.

Northbridge is another busy district with plenty of Asian restaurants and supermarket, and the best is many shops open at night. Perhaps here’s the only place to enjoy your night life. Hehe…

King’s Park

After lunch, we took blue CAT bus to King’s Park road and walk a few kilometers only realized Transperth bus route 935 travel from the city right into the heart of the park. Sob….

King’s Park is a beautiful park in the city, you just have to visit the park with a relaxing mood instead of expecting exciting activities.

Mum was asking what’s special since it just full of grasses and flowers, but then she started to appreciate the uninterrupted panoramic, birds’ eye views of the Swan River and Perth City after reached there.

The pictures came out to be beautiful and relax although you just simply snap with any posture. Lol… self praising. Ha…

Free guided tours are conducted daily, and the time depends on the seasons. You may check out their schedule and plan your visit in advance.

Things to do in Perth – Caversham Wildlife Park and Watertown Brand Outlet

Things to do in Perth – Caversham Wildlife Park and Watertown Brand Outlet

Our Second Day…

Caversham Wildlife Park

Sun rise and shine.. My vacation with mum kick started..!

Our first itinerary was Caversham wildlife park, because mum specifically requested to see the kangaroo.

There are two places to see the Kaola bear and Kangaroo in Perth, i.e. get on the ferry to go to Perth Zoo, or go to Caversham wildlife park in Swan Valley.

I decided to go Caversham, because the ticket was inclusive of taking photo with the animals, feeding food, and many good review online.

A few options to go to Caversham wildlife park. You can either book a tour which is inclusive of wildlife park itinerary, self-drive, or using public transport.

However, I found a value for money option, i.e. shuttle van from Explorer Perth Tours. It’s AUD39 only inclusive of AUD28 park ticket !

The driver picked us up from our hotel at 8.30am, and fetch us back to the hotel at 1.30pm, pretty good timing and convenient.

We had ample time to join all the animal shows, took photos with Kaola bear, wombat and other animals and had fun with the lazy kangaroo before the driver fetched us up.

Mum said she felt like a VIP with driver.

caversham wildlife park

There were a few daily attractions and shows, i.e. meet the wombat and friends, meet the kaolas, farm show, penguin feeding. Make sure you join all and take the photo for free with your cameras.

Kangaroos are always there waiting for you to feed them with the food provided without time limitation.

how to go caversham wildlife park

Watertown Brand Outlet

Our next destination was Watertown Brand Outlet!

Changed the plan from visiting King’s Park because it was drizzling day. So, you better check out the weather forecast prior to the trip.

After bathed and rest a while, it’s time to take the free CAT bus to the outlet, which was just few minutes away from Travelodge Hotel.

watertown brand outlet perth

Some said you could get cheap branded fashions there. For me, it wasn’t special since Malaysia has a few similar brands outlet.

Watertown brand outlet is a two storey shopping mall with many branded fashions, food & beverages, bags, pharmacies, shoes and etc. If you are fans of branded stuff, you will be able to grab some cheap branded deals there.

Be early there if you are shopping fans because the outlet opens until 5.30pm only except Friday, close at 9.00pm.

Night Life in Perth

By the way, you will be disappointed if you like night life because most shops close in the evening. The only entertainment at night is drink with friends in a nice cafe or restaurant.

Hence, try to plan and travel there on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as there are more activities and events at night.

Anyway, my mum and I are not night owl, so we love the relaxing life there, sitting on the bench in front of the hotel, chit chatting in the fresh breeze every night. What a sweet bonding time with mum…!

Things to do in Perth – Travelodge Hotel at Perth CBD

travelodge perth

At last have time to sit down and recall my sweet memories and exciting Perth vacation with mum…!

Perth Vacation – Our First Day…

Upon arriving Perth Airport, we hopped on Transperth bus to go our hotel in town. The bus fare was AUD4.60. I had to buy an expensive mineral water in the airport for small change, because the bus driver refused to take in big note. Sob…

By the way, you can plan the direction and time ahead using Transperth Journey Planner , a very convenient tools to help you plan your journey using bus, train and ferry. Just key in the landmark or address then you are set to go.

Trouble to take public transport? No worries, the bus driver will drop down the ramp for you to pull up your luggage, and there’s dedicated luggage track to put your luggage. The public transports there are very convenient ..!

Luggage track in the bus

The journey from Perth Airport to CBD took about 40 minutes. After hopped off the bus, our hotel was just 5 minutes away from the bus stop at St George Terrace.

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Travelodge Hotel Perth

I booked a room in 4 star hotel, Travelodge Hotel Perth so that mum could enjoy after tired traveling, and the hotel was just few minutes walking distance to the Center Business District with plenty of restaurants and shops.

Perth Free CAT Bus

bus stop travelodge hotel perth

There’s a bus stop, Victoria Avenue for the red CAT bus in front of the Travelodge Hotel.

Everyday we will travel by CAT bus in town. I love it because it’s Free, clean and on time !

CAT bus service finished at 7pm+. By the time settled down after checked in hotel, it was already 6pm. So the only thing we could do was hanging around the shops nearby hotel, hunting for dinner.

Surprisingly, there were many Japanese, Korean and Indian, Malay restaurant in town and open at night. At first I was still worrying starving after all shops closed early.

We took Japanese food in a shop nearby the hotel. The food in Australia serve in very big portion, compare to what was served by the restaurant in Malaysia. If you don’t have big appetite, a set of food in Australia will be enough to be shared by two person.

Okay… time to go bed early after dinner to prepare for next day’s adventure, Caversham Wildlife Park. We slept at 8pm+…! The night still young at KL for sure. Hehe…

Perth Vacation – Feeling guilty and excited….!

Perth Vacation – Feeling guilty and excited….!

Feeling guilty and excited…!

GUILTY…

.. because promised mum to bring her to Australia since 2008, 9 years ago but couldn’t make it due to family matter & dad unwell. It wasn’t easy for us to make the time..

My dad has diabetes problem and undergo dialysis three times a week. We were so worry about his health and we want to make sure he’s healthy only start planning the trip, so the flight ticket was a last minute expensive deal from Air Asia.

Thank to all the family members who made the effort to take care of dad and my little princess in homeland to fulfill mum’s wish.

I had to plan the trip during school holiday so that elder brother can bring the whole family back to hometown to take care of dad, and hubby can go back with my little princess as well for decent home cook meal from mother-in-law.

Our Perth vacation is an effort of four families. Pheeew…!!

EXCITED…

.. at last we make it in March 2017 !!! Our first ever mother-daughter Perth vacation !!! ??

First time see the grape tree. ha…

Sleeping, eating, and going tour together with mum…! I felt like I am a little girl to my mum again, it is an unforgettable memory for me !!

If you are planning to go trip with your family, your mum, your dad, your parents, don’t wait ok…