Author: Charles Tan

in Uncle Charles kopi and recipes

This restaurant is really called Ko Pi Tim. Haha. The restaurant is nearby my house. Thus, if I am in Ipoh having breakfast with my family, most probably this will be the shop I go to. There are a few highlights here. The Wan Tan Mee is quite good. The pork noodle too. Not forgetting the…

Penang property – Another RM1.5billion GDV project

Dec 21, 2013

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I do not normally write on individual projects but RM1.5 Billion GDV is not a small one. The reason being this is Penang. Land is limited and thus GDVs do not normally become too huge for people to notice. Sunway Bhd has plans to buy four parcels of land in Penang for RM267.42 million. From…

The Best Latte

Dec 21, 2013

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in Uncle Charles kopi and recipes

Do you know what’s the best latte in the world? The best latte in the world is the one brewed by your good friend and he lets you see but you have no chance to taste it yet. To add salt to the wound, it looks so professionally made that made you feel that you…

Medini – Another huge theme park?

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in Iskandar / JB Property

Everyone knows Sunway Lagoon here in Malaysia. I read somewhere that when Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah launched his first project there, he sold it for so little just to cover it’s cost. It was really unattractive then. Something like Damansara and Mont Kiara long time ago. Actually come to think of it, not that long…

Medini @ Iskandar – exemption and distance

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in Iskandar / JB Property

This is a hot word recently. Medini has been exempted from the 30% property gains tax in Malaysia. This is an extremely important news because this meant that foreign buyers, especially from Singapore may continue to invest without having the dark cloud of 30% RPGT over their head. Medini is being developed by Medini Iskandar…

Penang property – Balik Pulau – Is it ‘far’?

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I remember many years ago when my wife and I visited the Botanica CT showhouse in Balik Pulau. Construction was going on feverishly. The road leading to the project was winding and there were not too many developments on either side of the road. We went up from the bukit jambul hill road and it…

Buying a property over RM550K, relaxed and easy

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When I bought my first property just before I got married, my wife and I calculated and recalculated and one final calculation before we decided to go ahead and buy our first apartment, jointly. When I bought my second property which is a condo, my wife and I calculated and decided not to buy and…

Mc. Donald’s unhealthy? Mc. Cafe then?

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in Uncle Charles kopi and recipes

I have friends who cannot stand Mc. Donald’s. I have no issues. Haha. I think majority of us are familiar with Mc. Donalds. Few years back, Mc.Donalds wants a slide of the premium coffee market as well, thus, they started Mc. Cafe. There are not that many around, especially in Penang. However, let me tell…

Are you going to be a millionaire?

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in Personal Finance

If you google for ‘millionaire traits’, or ‘habits of millionaires’, you will come across a lot of similar reasons why some people can become millionaires while some may just be one out of millions of struggling middle class. They love what they do. Always passionate in whatever they do. If they start on a new…

Predictions on property bubble burst date

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It may happen within the next few months or it may happen in a few years. If it does not happen within 2 years, it will happen within five years. If it does not happen within five years it will happen someday. Familiar? Property investment experts / analysts, property related NGOs, your cash rich friends…

Instead of property, why not property stocks? – Part 1

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