Be Better Guys: October 2010

John Lennon £5 coin

A commemorative £5 John Lennon coin had been released by Royal Mint. The limited edition coin shows Lennon with long hair and sideburns and his trademark round glasses. It will have a face value of £5 and the coin is priced at £44.99. Only 5,000 will be offered for sale. Struck in sterling silver to Proof quality, the coin comes in a splendid display case complete with a Certificate of Authenticity guaranteeing the specifications of the coin and paying tribute to the genius of John Lennon.

Lennon won the Royal Mint's public vote for the next "Great Briton" to be immortalised on a limited edition coin. Other names on the shortlist were Jane Austen and John Logie Baird. The Beatles singer, assassinated in 1980, now joins William Shakespeare, Sir Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale in the series.

Dave Knight, director of commemorative coin at the Royal Mint, said: "It's entirely fitting that John Lennon has been chosen by the public in what would have been his 70th year.

"The massive proportion of the vote he received shows clearly just how much his untimely death still resonates with the nation.

"He ranks alongside, and even ahead of, some of the greatest names in history and the Royal Mint is proud to commemorate a genuine British legend."

Lennon fans launched Facebook and Twitter campaigns to ensure the Liverpudlian legend came out on top. A total of 27,874 people, 92% of those who voted, nominated Lennon for the £5 coin. Only 5,000 of the coins, issued as Alderney tender, have been minted. A one off 24carat gold version of the coin will be given to the John Lennon Estate.

Specification:
Denomination: £5
Alloy: .925 sterling silver
Weight: 28.28g
Diameter: 38.61mm
Designer (Reverse): Danuta Solowiej-Wedderburn
Designer (Obverse): Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS

Source: BBC, Yahoo News.

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Short Evening Dresses 2010

If you think long dresses are more elegant for a party, this is no longer the case. Emphasize short evening dresses 2010 in the legs and are a great option for girls who want to show them off. Cocktail dresses above the knee, with necklines decorated with sequins and dress online to make you look splendid. In order for you to look your best you need to find a dress that will fit your body type and your style. Try on different styles of dresses until you find a style that looks great on you. At that point you can look for that particular style in different colors.

For the short evening dresses 2010, it gives off the feeling that you are out for fun rather than wanting to be formal. The short skirt allows you move around better so you can dance away while wearing the knee-length dress. It also allows you to show off the great legs that you have. There are also some women that consider the short knee-length evening dresses as cute. Unfortunately the short length of the skirt is not suitable to be worn in a formal occasion and should be reserve to be used in a casual night out.

Eventually whether or not you buy which kind of dress is still up to you. Just to help you choose the best short evening dresses 2010 to buy and wear. If your heart screams out for a particular dress then go ahead and buy it. What matters the most is that you are comfortable and feel pretty wearing it.

Mr Chai were robbed recently

I am at Amcorp Mall Petaling Jaya just now. Someone informed me that Mr Chai,a coins and notes elderly dealer in Seremban (used to owned a bourse table in MNS auction) was robbed by three robber in his home recently.The robbers impersonate as potential buyers snatched and robbed three albums of Mr Chai's notes collection. There are replacement notes,Rm50,RM500,Rm1000 big bills as well.Worth many thousands. If any of you have any information about this, feel free to comment or email me at lunaticg@gmail.com. If any of you come across someone selling a nice condition notes at a cheaper price, do beware, that items most probably a stolen item.

I think most of regular MNS auction visitor and maybe some of you Singaporean reader, knew him. He sell good item at a very considerable price. I don't remember if I had his photo in my collection. Mr. Chai, if you read this and don't want me to publish this news, please do email or called me at 017-2749427. If you can help send me the details of the items that had been stolen, I will sure help you put it in here. So everyone can read and alert if those items on sale online or offline. This is the only way that I can think to help you.

Please share this information among our friends, so this culprits can get caught. Who know if this items will be going out in website, forums, mudah.my or lelong.my. This guys maybe will be selling their items cheaper then market value. Will update if there is any new news later.

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Plus Size Red Evening Dresses

Plus size red evening dresses is appropriate for day wear, evening wear and wearing just because. The most distinguishing differentiation between formal gowns and little red dresses are the length of the dresses, and the sumptuousness of the materials and additional accompaniments in the creating of them. Fashion evening dresses are not as long, made with less pricey fabrics, and characteristically have fewer adornments added to them, than what goes into the design of a conventional floor length gown. Plus size red evening dresses is the perfect dress for Valentine's Day, spring parties and evenings out.

You can find a wide variety in plus size red evening dresses which are available in different shades of red color. These shades include blood red, dull red, bright red and maroon. An extended range of variety is available in scintillating fabrics such as silk and satin. These dresses are available in different sizes, styles, designs and lengths. Long length dresses range from two inches above your ankles to ankle length. Some of the dresses have been given a touch of black color such as black lace on the front or the sides, to offer uniqueness and novelty. There are also some with silver and golden thread embroideries on them. Back and side cutout designs are also available in this category.

Plus size red evening dresses is always a perfect choice to wear for functions such as wedding parties, cocktail gatherings, anniversaries and even corporate functions and business meetings. It will help enhance your stylish looks and make you look like the prettiest woman present on the occasion.

I am on the way to Penang

I am on my way to Penang today. This is maybe the last hunting trip for this year or maybe not. For the start of my journey, a car rental service canceled my booking yesterday at around 5pm. They give a reason lack of stuff to send the car to Penang international Airport. Maybe that is true since Deepavali will be coming just around the corner. Its hard to find a budget car rental after office hour. Maybe will try my luck and find one when I arrived in Penang. I fly early morning around 6.50 am and should be arrived around 7.45 am. Well of course I am flying with Airasia, another budget transportation in Malaysia.

What do I expect in Penang? One thing, I need to find many items that had been asked by my customers and friends to find and hunt. Some item already found, I just need to confirm the grading and pay for them. Some item include Straits Settlements coins and banknotes, Malaysia coins and some tokens that already found by my runner. I also received a last minutes help request by a friends looking for Parliament coin series for denomination of 20 sen and 50 sen year 1969; 50 sen for year 1992,1993,1994,1995 for Bunga Raya series in at least Uncirculated condition. I know its hard to find but will always try my best.

Will be busy for the whole day today. As usual, I will be hunting around Jalan Chulia, Jalan Masjid Kapitan Kling, Komtar and if I am lucky enough to get a budget car rental, most probably will be hunting on the mainland as well. To anyone new in this blog, you need to read my old post for hunting trip label. Wish everyone a happy weekend.

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Evening Dress Online

One of the toughest parts of shopping on the web is that you can't always tell how the garment will look from a 360-degree angle. So you have to get creative. Here's how to buy an evening dress online that doesn't show panty lines. Most Internet shops show only a front view of their products. If the back has some special details, you may be lucky enough to have an alternate view available. If not, you will have to use your imagination to envision what the back looks like.They can make a luxurious dress look cheap and they can make an elegant woman look not-so-classy. They are especially tacky when you can see them through a beautiful evening dress.

Today you can find evening dresses very diverse style, from beautiful fabrics, the most popular of which over the last several decades are silk, satin and chiffon. In each season evening dress inconspicuously altered or overgrown with new details. The most common length is changing that rises almost to the hips, to fall down to the ankles. Evening dresses of velvet, crepe, brocade, silk, stretch satin, or even the rich decorative fabrics are ideal for both formal and for informal activities. So the choice of length, color, style and fabric cocktail dresses is yours.

We are confident you will find something fabulous and irresistible from our extensive collection of evening dresses online. if you have any questions or need help finding exactly what evening dresses you wish to purchase. We stock the ultimate collection of dresses online. We also have shoes, accessories and jewelry so that you can find all your fashion accessories in one place.

Monkey Story

Reading newspaper every morning is like stabbing knife straight to my heart. It is very painful to read Auditor's General Report. Every sentence you read your mind will think out aloud. Ah! thats all the money goes. Ah! this ah! that..... but can't write it in this blog or they will arrest me or something. I don't know. I am just an ordinary lady who mean no harm and just want to lead a normal life peacefully. Let God judge and punish what they are doing or did.

Why the title is monkey story?

Why is it that some managers are typically running out of time while their staffs are typically running out of work?
It seemed that everyone in the company needed something from you yesterday, things that might have been important to them but had little time to do with getting your job done.and when you are trying to focus on one matter here we goes you would be inevitably be interrupted to attend to another. By the time you took care of all the paperwork, meetings and interruptions there was no time left to implement some of ideas you had for improving you own operation.
Here you goes have to work extra hours everyday and almost every weekend too!
You dont have time to see your friends or family or even spend time for yourself.
Eat Sleep walk talk work work work work and work.

Isn't life is short?

If you are Manager , you may experience this.

When you talk to friend or others they may said this... its all about time management....

For me its all about monkeys.....

Why monkey?

You imagine this you are walking towards the pantry to get some nescafe to wake your brain up, then half way to your room one of your staff stop you and said,

Staff A : Miss , please help me to talk to Mr Tan our supplier they dont want to process our order if we dont make 50% payment upon confirmation. My problem is our accounts dept will be able to give us the cheque by end of next week but our marketing dept need the items urgently by this week for our event.

(While both your staff A and you were standing talking there are one monkey standing in between with one leg on your shoulder and the other one on your staff A shoulder.)

You : OK! I will try to talk to him and get to you soon.

(The moment you said OK, both of monkey leg were on your shoulder.and the monkey follow you back to your room)

Then when you are in your room one intercom came in , one of other head dept were saying he need help to do some of his urgent matter and your reply to him , ok I will see what I can do for you. Here goes another monkey on your shoulder.

By lunch time , more monkeys on your shoulder and you dont even have time to go out for lunch.

You can see most of your staff or other subbordinates happily out for lunch and here you are dont even have time to eat or even leave your station to pack your lunch.

when lunch time is over, you still stuck there in your room trying to finish deal with all the monkeys. suddenly , Staff A pop up in your room and ask

Staff A : Boss you talk to Mr Tan?

You : Ah! not yet dear. I will get back to you later.

Staff A : Hurry ar Boss! urgent la

Hello! are you working for them or they are working for you?
When you hire all these people they are suppose to lighten up your burden. Not give you more burden.

Remember this... All monkeys must be handled at the lowest organisational level consistent with their welfare!

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them more responsibility...

To educate the monkeys.... recommend, then act... act, then advise

Assigning involves a single monkey; delegation involves a family of monkeys... hahahaha can you imagine these monkeys???

and for your other lazy ass subbordinates....

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well!

Do you think you learn something from this monkey story?

Do a little of thinking and you will get what I am trying to say...it happens everyday in our life.

Try to relate to this monkey story and I believe you could be good and effective manager. Not just efficient but effective!!!!

I meet Malaysia experts yesterday

I meet Malaysia experts in Numismatic yesterday night. I feel how my knowledge in numismatic is so small if I need to compare what he tell me last night. He want to keep anonymous for some reason but I will accept it. For me, he is a Malaysia Numismatic experts in Malaysia error coins and Malaysia counterfeits coins. When I said Malaysia in this post, its also means Straits Settlements, Malaya and Malaya & British Borneo. This is because he collect all of the coins and refer them as Malaysia.

Photo: Malaysia coins stamped with chinese character.

His explanation of the Malaysia error coins are very detail. He will explain to you what happen in the factory when the minting process of the error coins with as much detail he can. I am not collecting any error coin but I learn many thing about it from him yesterday. I can only wish, one day, he willing to sacrifice his time and money to write a book about Malaysia error coins for future generations readings. In Malaysia, numismatic books that had been written by Malaysian for Malaysia coins are something that hard to find. Many people don't have good knowledge about Malaysia Numismatic. If he cannot write a book, I wish at least he will write his knowledge in a blog. He asked me to write it and publish it in this blog but with so much details he is giving, people might mistaken me for an expert. One thing for certain, we have a same opinion about the price; If no Malaysia sifu put it in his book, your error coins will have no value.

He also keep almost a complete years for Malaysia counterfeit coins. Most of his collection of counterfeit, he get them for free from friends and family because people don't collect them. From his teaching last night, I sense that my experiment on Malaysia fake coins might be wrong. I maybe need to redo it or maybe will asked his guide on finding the counterfeit coins from all the 50 sen coins from the experiment.

Currently, he is looking for some information about bullet money. Some people called this Javanese etched iron ball-shaped charms. It maybe made in Surabaya from 1950s-80s. this bullet money of his come with Malay-Arabic inscription design. He told me that this coins are magical and good-luck charms. Searching a little bit information about it today, I found out that this money also had been used in Malaya before. Maybe will try to find some information about it later.

He also show me the trial coins sample for Malaysia. I think it is more beautiful then our Parliament coins. The design look like Singapore design and the 20 & 50 sen design have motif of deer on the reverse. Beautiful design but we are not lucky enough to get such beautiful design. He also show me his collection of silvers coins that had been stamped with Chinese character "Collection". Meant for coins that will not bee used, just for collection. In 1942 during the world war II, Japanese will destroy all the British coins if they can find them. To avoid that, they will stamped the coins with word "Collection".

We talk for almost 4 hours non stop. I almost forget to drink my tea, listening to his detail explanation about his collection. To this expert, thank you for your information. Wish one day, you will write and compile your information in one book. Please share your information with everyone in this world. Will be meeting him again next time.

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Red Evening Shoes

Women have many options these days when it comes to footwear and it does not seem likely that will change any time soon. In fact, many women often feel like there are so many choices, it is difficult to match the right shoes with her outfit, and so easy to make a mistake and go out wearing shoes that do not match. During formal events especially, when you have spent so much time on your wardrobe and making sure everything comes together. Luckily there is a tried and true solution to the age-old question about which shoes to wear and the answer is red evening shoes.

These red evening shoes are available in high, low and medium heels. Styles such as toe-peep, T-strap and many others are available to meet your needs and choices. These shoes are offered at low and high prices depending on the brands and companies that offer them. The shoes are suitable for all professional parties, formal functions such as weddings and anniversaries and other evening parties. They look elegant and beautiful especially in the light of the night.

Shoes for evening parties are available in materials such as patent leather, fabric and dull leather. Ballet shoes for ballet evening performance can also be found in silver color. These ballet shoes are quite popular as they look great in red color. Next time you are going to an evening gathering; do not be bothered as you have an open choice for these shoes.

Coin Collecting vs Bullion gold

Which one is better Coin collecting or gold investment? You maybe had heard someone telling you that but is it true? One thing for sure, Numismatic collecting is a better investment than gold because of the historical value. The precious metal is a safe investment today but coins collecting will surpass the value of the gold investment, if you know what to collect and keep. I know many of you out there, already knew this but most of my reader keep asking about this. Many people who are still new in numismatic investment not really sure if the saying (coin collecting better investment than gold) is true. One of my collector friend selling almost all his collection (at a cheap price), just to join the race of gold investment. For me, that is a wrong decision that will makes him regret it later.

I am using Tunku Abdul Rahman Commemorative 100 ringgit gold coin price as a comparison to gold investment. The Tunku gold coin weight at 18.66 gram and.917 fine. I am comparing that gold coin with Malaysia own Kijang emas bullion one troy ounce price. Kijang emas bullion weight at 31.10 gram and at.999 fine. I am using the price from Steven Tan Standard Catalogue of Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei Coin & Paper money for Tunku coin (17th until 19th edition). For the history price of Kijang Emas bullion, I am using BNM Kijang Emas statistic price as a guide.Kijang Emas minted by Royal Mint of Malaysia and retailed by Maybank.

Price per grams for Tunku Coin.

2005-RM50.91
2007-RM88.42
2010-RM150.05

Price per grams for Kijang Emas.

2005-RM56.72
2007-RM76.69
2010-RM137.65

This market value prices are for five years time from January 2005 until January 2010. Both item had an increasing value each year but do mind though that Bullion value depends on International gold market price. While market value of gold coin depends on its rarity, mintage and how many items are in the market. I get the price per gram after dividing the price of gold to the total weight in grams. As you can see in the data, Tunku Abdul Rahman 1971 gold coin value surpassing the value of Kijang Emas bullion in price per grams. This comparison will not be correct 100% but this is just to show which investment got the best value.

People collect coins to keep while they can. People keep bullion as a hedge against inflation. When its time to invest on other investment they will sell their bullion. Numismatic people will not sell their precious coins easily because they know that it will hard to find that coins again in the future. For Kijang Emas, if you cannot get them on the same day, you can always be in Maybank waiting list. In coin collecting, there is no such thing as waiting list. If the price is right, just buy them or other people will buy them first. You can always negotiate with seller about the price of commemorative gold coin that you want to buy. But bullion gold price already fix according to International gold market price. That mean you can always buy coins at a price cheaper than market value for coin collecting.

If you are asking me, my choice will be coin investment rather than bullion investment . Maybe you will say because I know what to collect and where to find it. But have you ever think, what will happened if demand is much more than supply? The price will be bounce up incredulously. Right now many Malaysian who is not a collector already change their investment into coin collecting. Some commemorative coin already a scarce item and very hard to find. In another five years to come, the price of this 1971 Tunku Abdul Rahman gold coin will be four times its value today.

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Silver Evening Shoes

The main concern while choosing an apt wardrobe for the evening parties is the pair of shoes that are to be worn. Your dress is selected, it has a unique color, thus the pair of shoes that will match the dress are either difficult to find or just does not exist in the shoe stores at all. The best remedy at this time could only be choosing such shoes which do not have the same color as your dress but still matches and goes well with it. Silver evening shoes are the best answer to this remedy. Evening parties look beautiful with silver color. Silver is actually the color of evening, because it matches the stars and the moon.

Silver evening shoes are the best remedy for all types of evening party dresses that you may have. Silver is a color of the night, it looks good and matches well with no matter what color of dress you have. Silver color complements all evening dresses. Thus, if you are fashion conscious and at the same time you do not think it is a good idea to change your dress because it has a unique color that would not be found in any pairs of party shoes, then the best solution for you is to buy a pair of trendy and classic silver shoes.

For women who have backache and leg pain problems, and even for women during their maternity, flat shoes in silver color can be a perfect shoes for evening parties. Next time you are attending an evening function; do not worry about looking for shoes to match the color of your dress, simply got for these stylish shoes to satisfy your requirement and to have an easy choice.

The Bank of Sugar £55 notes

Thousands of fake bank notes bearing the face of Lord Alan Sugar have been handed out along with £500 in real cash. The "Bank of Sugar" £55 notes were stuck on a hoarding, as well as 10 actual £50 bills, to promote the launch of The Apprentice star's autobiography. Passers-by were encouraged to pluck the money off the "cash point", which was put up in Golden Square near Regent Street, central London. Scattered among the fake cash were 25 special notes entitling the winner to prizes based on Lord Sugar's favourite pastimes.

The former Amstrad boss is a keen cyclist and offered a Pinarello FP1 British Cycling Replica 499 as one of the top rewards. Others included a flying lesson and an oyster dinner for two. Lord Sugar will be signing copies of What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography at Waterstone's Piccadilly Tuesday. The book charts his rise from growing up on a Clapton council estate to becoming a multi-millionaire businessman. Lord Sugar was made a peer by the last government and appointed Gordon Brown's enterprise tsar.

Its an offence to print fake banknotes under section 12 of the 1928 currency and bank note act: "If any person prints or stamps, or by any means impresses, on any bank note any words, letters or figures, he shall, in respect of each offence, be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding a level 1 fine [£200 in today's money]."

Source: Associated Press, Telegraph.co.uk

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