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Faster Maternity Leave Claims

Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Singapore, has announced that the Government has modified its maternity leave subsidy scheme to allow companies to receive their payments earlier.

As of next month, Singapore employers will no longer have to wait until a worker uses up all their maternity leave before being reimbursed.

They will get part of the subsidy as long as half of the 16 weeks of leave mothers are entitled to, has been taken. The existing subsidy scheme requires the Government to reimburse businesses for half of the 16 weeks of leave but only after the mother has taken all the leave. Thus under the current system, companies may only recieve reimbursement as late as 12 months after delivery.

According to Dr Balakrishnan, the new arrangement would make the system fairer to employers, especially with the bleak economic climate. This will hopefully help to improve cashflow for companies and encourage them to support women who want to have children and to remember that in both good and tough times Singapore must continue to be a family-friendly society.

The Government has set up a new website for interested members to find out more on the 

• reimbursement of Government-Paid Maternity Leave
• reimbursement of Government-Paid Childcare Leave  

Click here to the Pro-Family Leave Schemes>>>

Playing Songs on Nintendo DS

Playing Songs on the DS is possible with the use of flash card and the correct software. You need to use MoonShell to play your MP3 songs. Most users will have the Moonshell if you are using DSTT, R4 or others flash card.
If you do not have it, you can download Moonshell by clicking here>>>

Just unzip and paste the moonshl folder and _moonshl.nds to the root of your memory card.

Go to your flash card menu and click on moonshell.nds. Upon entering the software scroll to your folder where you kept the songs and Press button A to enter. Just Press A to play the songs and B to stop playing the songs.

DSTT Price Update Apr 09

DSTT Card for NDS and NDS lite to play download games.

Current price is S$40.

Please email us at jangwl@gmail.com for your orders. Bulk orders will enjoy discounts.

Technical support for setting up the card will be provided for all novice gamers.

Singapore Imperfect Couples Search

Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) has launch a campaign to find the Imperfect Couple on FaceBook. This is a run up to the recent launch of the Funeral TV Commerical shown recently on television.

Every couples is not perfect in real life. Although our personalities and characters are different, we can still stay happily together. Please be patient with your partner and you will discover the inner beauty of each other. Family Bond is precious and long lasting.

Let's endure with each other imperfection and let our family bond strengthen. 

Hello Kitty Big City Dreams

The story finds our heroine, Kitty White leaving her home in Sanrio Town to try to make her mark in The Big City. Kitty moves into a simple apartment downtown adjacent to The Big City. Although she lives on the bottom floor now, she dreams of the day she can move up to the luxurious penthouse. Help Hello Kitty explore her new home and finds all sorts of people to make friends with! Perhaps by helping others and working hard, Hello Kitty will finally say Hello to her dream suite in the sky!

Download at NDS-Roms>>> | Buy the Game at Play-Asia.com

How to get the Game to work on Flash Card like DSTT, R4 and Others?

1. Download Hello.rar
2. Unzip the Hello.sav to your memory card
3. Rename the game file you have to Hello.nds

Pizza Hut Singapore Online Order

Pizza Hut Customers can now order Pizzas online and you do not need to call 6235 3535. Just register and you can start to order Pizza online. It take less than 5 minutes to complete ordering a Pizza online. In addition, it will inform you the estimated delivery time which is mostly around 30 to 90 minutes.

There will be no more mistakes in your Pizza selection or the deliveryman forgetting about your cheese flakes and chilli powder. You do not have to wait on the phone for a customer service agent to take down your orders. The online disadvantage is you are not able to made special request as there is no remarks for you to fill in. If u need special request, you still need to call 6235 3535. Most importantly, It is convenient and fast. 

My Pizza Delivery arrived in 30 minutes using the online service.

Order Pizza Online at PizzaHut Online>>>

PSP Games Downloads Update April 09

New PSP Games are launched and available for download at PSPISO. Certain new PSP Games may require Custom Firmware 4.0 and above to work.

Recently Launched PSP Games

Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3 JPN
Nanatama Chronicle of Dungeon Maker JPN
Air Conflicts USA
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus USA
Hammerin' Hero USA
DT Carnage USA
Sengoku Basara Battle Heros JPN
Dragonball Evolution USA
Military History Commander Europe at War EUR
Tenchu Shadow Assasins USA
Major League Baseball 2K9 USA
Buzz Brain Of The UK EUR

Visit Hako's Thread at PSPISO>>>

Get more sales ad blog subscribers

If you're a blogger like me, you'll know that one of the biggest challenges we face is getting repeat traffic. A great way to do that of course is by building a mailing list of opt-in subscribers. The problem is how to capture your visitor's details without alienating them with annoying pop-up screens. Well now I think I've found a solution... I've recently come across a cool little script called Ultimate Footer Ad that slides a small strip up from the bottom of your browser. 

You can use it to capture email subscribers, as well as convert visitors to RSS subscribers or twitter followers. It does it all... What it doesn't do is annoy your visitors by stopping them from reading your valuable content. The feedback on this software has been amazing: John Chow describes it as... - One of the best promotional tools I have ever used. And Legendary marketer Terry Dean had this to say... - I've added 126 extra new subscribers to my list just in the past week. 

Not only that, it's dead simple to use. You can literally have this thing installed and running on your website in 10 minutes. So if you're looking for a way to increase traffic and revenues with your blog, hit the link below now to grab your copy before this really catches on...

Ace Insurance Singapore ignore my email request

Last month I have send a request to cancel my term policies with Ace Insurance as I have a better deal with American Home Assurance. Most insurance company will accept email request for cancellation of term policy and I send it in on 26 March 2009. I got acknowledge receipt of my email from Ace Insurace on the same day also.

But nobody responsd to my email and therefore I decided to call on 20 April 2009. I found out from customer service that my request was not process. Furthermore, I was asked to send in a request again and the staff, Winston promised he will monitor my email request closely.

I called in today to check with the customer service and confirmed that my request was recieved. My advice to all insurance customers who cancel their policy is to check out the cancellation status of their policy. 

American Home Assurance will process my request on receieving my email within one working day. A email will be sent out by their staff that they have process the request. This is what I call a great service standard by an insurance company.

How to install games on F480?

Samsung F480 can install games just like Nokia and Sony Ericsson. You just need to follow the steps below to get the Java Games onto your Samsung F480.

Install Game on F480

• Get the correct resolution(240X320) java game
• Click to this link: http://www.davidpye.com/index.php?page=freewap 
• Upload the .jar file, and a DL link will be prompt to u 
• Use your F480 to access the DL link
• The game will now start to install into your F480  

***Please beware of 3G/GPRS charges for downloads.***