My HR Manager pass me the pay slip of this month salary together with the EA Form. First thing that came to my mind – oh not. It’s that time again. The same thing that I always say year after year, this is the time that you will see your hard-earned money has to be given back to government.

Well, decided to be a good citizen this time, I’m going to file my Income Tax return early this year, just to beat the traffic. Believe me, the LHDN’s e-Filing website can be really congested when the deadline for the form return is nearer.

But before I can do so, let’s dig all the expenses that entitled for tax relief from last year. Ahh. That’s my 2009 Bills file.

I do have a section for Tax in my file, just to keep all the receipts of transaction that I can use to for deduction claim later on. Believe me. If you don’t file it this way, it’s very hard to find all the receipts that you spend for 1 whole year if you tried to consolidate it during the last minute.

I have all the receipts for my magazines and books purchase,

and do you know that puchase of personal computer for individual can be exempted from income tax every 3 years? I happened to buy one last year, and kept the invoice for this too.

I’m ready now to start filing my income tax form. The website to visit is https://e.hasil.gov.my/. Since I use this in the past, I have my account here already. If you are using this for the first time, you will need to obtain PIN number for the digital certificate registration. I believe the PIN number will be printed on the hardcopy of BE Form that is mailed to you.

Now you need to choose which form that you want to use. Since I don’t have business income, and I’m resident. I will need to use e-BE form.

And then I login using my NRIC number and password that I have set up.

Once you logged in, the very first thing that you need to do is to provide your individual particulars. Some of the fields should already be auto-filled for you. Noticed the Bank Account No field?

When this field was first added to the income form tax, there was a representative from LHDN that came to my office to give briefing on the new form. Someone did ask why that Bank Account No field is there. Well, the answer is, if you have tax paid in excess, it will be reimbursed into your saving account. Well, not quite. It’s been so many years already, and they still send cheque for tax pain in excess that takes several months before you receive it.

Anyhow, once you finished with your individual particular, the next part is where you will declare all of your income. Well, my only income is from the from the salary that I got from my job. Sad isn’t it. The amount to be filled in at Penggajian field is to be taken from the amount showed in the EA form that I received.

When I list out all of my income, the total my income will be displayed at JUMLAH PENDAPATAN (SENDIRI) field. Then, I need to fill in the tax deduction for my salary that I have paid. This is again is shown in the EA form.

In the next part, I need to declare any past income that haven’t been declared before. Turned out that the special management bonus that I received in 2008 hasn’t been declared before. So I have to put here. And the tax deduction has been paid for this, but there’s such field here to put that information. I kinda wondering how they will treat this. Hhhmm..

The next part is the most important. Here is where you need to list out all the deduction claim that you want to make, and you have to understand each single item, so that you can do the necessary tax exemption if you are eligible. In other words, if you spend your salary for things that is entitled for tax relief, you don’t have to pay tax for those money that you spend.

This part is always the same to me each and every year. Remember the receipt digging that I did at the earlier of this blog? I just put the amount that I spend on books and magazines, and this time, I also bought a new computer for myself.

There’s something new here too – Faedah pinjaman perumahan. Well, I just bought house recently. But there’s something fishy about (mesti memenuhi syarat-syarat kelayakan) clause. I wonder what the conditions will be.

And this is something that I found from Buku Panduan BE 2009.

Darn. I guess I’m not eligible for this as I signed the SPA sometimes in November 2008.

Child Deductions are something that is never applicable for me (LOL). And the last item for my deduction claim will be Insurans nyawa dan KWSP. “Caruman KWSP” is something that can be found from EA form also, and mine one always exceed RM6000 every year, therefore I can only claim to the max of RM6000.

The next part is the last part that you can further do claim/deduction/relief. The only item that is applicable for me is Zakat atau fitrah. This is already some form of deduction that is done to your income, therefore, it should be exluded from the calculation of your income tax.

Once you’ve done with declaring your income, and listing out the deduction that can be made, the next page will show you the summary of all of these. Taking out total relief from the total income, you will get the amount of income that is chargeable for the tax. There’s this table of the chargeable income range of the rate of the tax that will be charged.

Well, if you are using e-Filing, you don’t have to worry about the calculation as this is done automatically. From this, you will get the total of income tax that you need to pay, based on your income. Further tax rebate that you declare will be deducted from your total income tax, and the CUKAI KENA DIBAYAR is the amount that you have to pay.

If the tax is already deducted from your salary via PCB (Potongan Cukai Berjadual), the amount will be deducted from the tax payable. And the outcome of this is whether you have BAKI CUKAI KENA DIBAYAR (balance of tax payable) or CUKAI TERLEBIH BAYAR (tax paid in excess).

Hello there. I have tax pain in excess for this year

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Been using this Aztech wireless router for sometimes now. As I blog in the past, having to transfer big files via network to and from NAS, it is quite time consuming on the 100Mbps network that I’m in at the moment.

After much thought, I just decided to get this D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Gigabit Router. Come to think of it, I don’t really need it that much, but since I’m running of my media serving on NAS, and downloading torrent on NAS, which faster connection will favor the speed of the transfer, I close one eye and get this.

And here are the content of the box.

And here are the ports….. well, lets remove the sticker first.

That’s better. And here are the ports that this router has.

Next step, is deciding the orientation that I want to put my new router. Should I use it horizontally,

or should I use it vertically?

Finally, I decided to use it vertically. I save a bit of space on my cramp desk. This new router really perfectly compliment my D-Link NAS.

Starting to notice that my latest gadgets start to go to white/greyish color, starting from Xbox 360 to D-Link DNS-323 to Seagate FreeAgent Go 320GB external harddisk to Canon Selphy CP780 compact photo printer to Canon PIXMA MP198 printer. This is really unplanned, and a very interesting coincidence.

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There one thing about me is that I can’t stand knowing something that I own doesn’t work properly. I really want to get it fixed, and if can’t, I really want to get replaced.

I kinda lost track of when I bought my current all-in-on Brother DCP-150C printer. Well, it works like charm, with memory card reader, tray paper input and scanner. But just recently, something wrong with the yellow. I guess the nozzle got blocked. I tried so many ways of cleaning it, but to no success. Black, cyan and magenta works ok. So, I will give this to my brother. He’s quite a computer technician himself. Hope that he can fix the problem with the yellow on this printer. And whatever it is whether yellow will work again or not, this printer will be his.

Printer is so cheap nowadays, but not the consumables (i.e. the ink cartridge). I’m quite shock to see when I first bought this printer and using the supplied ink catridge, it only last for a very short of time, then the ink needs replacement.

But thank god there is CISS (Continuous Ink Supply System). This is one of the best thing ever created. This is the CISS that I got for this printer. Using this, you can you a RM15 per bottle ink, and it last really long. I’m a quite have printer user too, printing photos myself, and suprisingly, the ink refill that I bought long time ago still untouched.

So, it looks like that I need to get a new printer then. Touring around at Low Yat plaza today, I found this RM188 Canon PIXMA MP198 printer at All IT Hypermart. Can you imagine, all-in-one printer, with scanner and a good built costs only RM198?

Well, CISS is a must then. I bought the CISS for this printer too, and the shop will assemble it to your printer as well. Sorry, no unboxing process this time as the box has already been ripped at the store for them to take out the printer and install the CISS.

Here is the tank for the CISS, where ink to be refilled when its depleted.

3 new toys in the first month of 2010. Yay!

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My sleep tonight is disturbed with my Penang friends arriving at my home at around 1:30am, but their arrival is something that I’m waiting since earlier. My friend got this from the company dinner. Not using it, he decided to sell this cheap for RM200. Well behold, my new Canon Selphy CP780 Compact Photo Printer. This will be a really good complement to my Canon EOS 40D camera.

The usual unboxing again. Here are the contents of the box.

And this is the printer unit itself. I still can’t do anything tonight. Got to get the specialized photo paper for this printer tomorrow.

It’s still the first month of 2010, and I got 2 new toys already (first one being Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Drive) I likeee….

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So, how’s your first day at work for 2010? Well, it’s rather a bad start for me. I’m on EL. LOL. Just not feeling well. I guess the sudden temperature change (it’s quite cold at Cameron Highland, and very hot in KL) and the sudden pressure change (my ears still feels the effect) make my system goes haywire. So, I decided to call for an EL this morning. Don’t feel like going to doctor as I will take existing medicine.

Who said that only girls use “shopping” as a theraphy? It can happen to guys too. Well, for me, it’s only one stop that will make me feel like in heaven – Low Yat Plaza. LOL. Since my portable hard disk crashed last Hari Raya Aidilfitri holiday, I yet to get a replacement. So, I’m getting Seagate FreeAgent GO 320GB together with the FreeAgent Go Dock.

Here are the contents of the hard disk box,

and here at the contents of the dock box. Kinda like the pouch that comes with the dock.

Here is the hard disk connected to the dock. Red and white color combination always work for me.

And here is how the hard disk on the dock looks like from the side.

Like I said previously, I like the carrying pouch that came with the dock.

I guess this is the very first new toy for 2010, with a total damage of RM268 ;)

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Happy New Year folks! So here is the very first entry for the year of 2010. Me and a group of friends decided to spend the new year at somewhere cold – Cameron Highland – away from hustling and bustling of KL, away from traffic jam,

well, not really. Traffics at Cameron Highland can be as pack at certain area, especially at the Equatorial Hotel area.

We stayed at the usual place that we stay everything we are here – Villa Dahlia.

Bought carrom a few days before. So this is one of the main activity for the night.

Activities to do here pretty much the same as my last visiting – visiting rose, strawberry and cactus farm, tea drinking, visiting night market, shopping for fruits and vegetables, etc. So rather I’m blabbing about what I do here, just enjoy a few photos that I managed to snap. Decided to walk around with my 50mm lens this time.

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This blog entry will close my 2009 blogging. At the moment of writing, below are the last count of the blog posts that I’ve made in 2009, with a total of 96 blog posts (excluding this one) even though the count for December will most likely increase due to the post dated entries that I will do on my Bali trip.

Overall, I’m writing more this year compared to 2008 and 2007. But 2006 remains the most active year – the year that I started writing blog seriously.

So where was I and what I was doing at 12 midnight of 1st Jan 2010? Well, I’m at home, watching the fireworks from the window of my house.

Well, most of my friends just stay home, not having any plan. I guess lets save the energy for the Cameron Highland trip tomorrow.

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Had a very good sleep last night, and I’m ready for the activities for the third day here. Click the link below to visit the sub page of each of the activity.

• Souvenir shopping at Krisna (coming soon)
• Visiting Tanah Lot (coming soon)
• Watching Kecak Dance at Uluwatu (coming soon)

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Finding lunch for today was quite an adventurous one. At first, our “pak supir” brought us to a place, where most of us find the food is quite expensive. Then, we decided just to find Nasi Padang. Next stop is Gunung Batur.

As we go higher than the sea level, the temperature here is quite cool, same as what you feel when you are at Cameron Highland. Gunung Batur is still an active volcano. At the mouth of this mountain, there’s not much life and colour, just this dull grey surrounding, marking that the lava once being spit out of this volcano.

It turned out that they have buffet here. Darn. If we know that this place have a buffet, we will be taking lunch here instead. But the scenery is so good, and not to miss the cool feeling oh eating at somewhere at this high altitude.

Read the rest of stories about by Bali Trip

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

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Day 2 at Bali is quite packed with activities. Click the link below to visit the sub page of each of the activity.

• Watching Barong & Kris dance (coming soon)
• Tid-bits shopping at Puteri Bali (coming soon)
• Drinking coffee at Buana Amertha Sari Agrotourism (coming soon)
• Having lunch at Gunung Batur
• Buying handicraft at Tegallalang (coming soon)
• Visiting art market at Pasar Ubud (coming soon)
• Dinner at Jinbaram (coming soon)

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