IRB/LHDN New Building at Cyberjaya!

If you having difficulty generating your PIN number, looking for more detailed information about e-filing or you want to submit manually the income tax form, you may go to the new IRB building at Cyberjaya which is only a few kilometers from Nusaputra. This is a new place, and lots of people are not aware of it. Very convenient and I reckon this is the advantage that we should have because we're staying within a Cyber basin radius. http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?sec=central&file=/2012/3/5/central/10845499 Cyberjaya welcomed its newest modern building when Menara Hasil, the Inland Revenue Board’s (IRB) new headquarters, was officially opened on Thursday.

The RM275mil 20-story building was declared opened by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Menara Hasil sits on a 7.17ha-land in Persiaran Rimba Permai in Cyber 8. Work on the building started in April 2009 and it was completed late last year.

The building was built on the “passive low energy building” (PLEB) concept especially its lighting, air-conditioning, and mechanical ventilation system to reduce energy consumption.

Sunshading hoods and louvers are used to achieve a lower overall thermal transmittance value (OTTV), which is among the keys to reducing energy consumption as the components function as heat filters.

The building was also built according to the bioclimatic low-energy design (BLED) concept that took into consideration development in the surrounding areas, the weather and the sun’s orientation.

The sun shading devices are placed at areas that are exposed to sunshine.

Among the facilities in the building are a theatre-style conference hall with a seating capacity of 1,500 people and six meeting rooms with the main one capable of accommodating 150 people. This meeting room also comes with a dining hall.

For the public, a total of 1,682 parking bays have been prepared.

IRB chief executive officer Datuk Dr Shukor Mahfar said some 1,400 personnel from 19 divisions would be engaged at the new building.

He said they were those from the board’s previous headquarters at Blok 9 of the Government Complex in Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur.

“They started moving into Menara Hasil in stages since last November. Now we are operating fully from here,” he said.

Precinct 3 - Reflexion Pool Villas Ready for Sale!

Update status 19 March 2012: only 2 units left! http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2239567/all to read more feedback from the buyers! I still don't have much information about Precinct 3.

Nevertheless, this is quick info about the project:

• Selling price : Min RM1,298,000 Max RM2,904,000
• 28 premier 2 1/2 sty superlink villas
• 28 pools
• Double volume living hall with full height glass wall
• Modern linear park at your doorstep<-- this is impressive!
• Pool deck and lounge
• Gated and guarded
• 4,250 sq ft built up
• 4 parking bays
• Super connectivity with brand new interchange to MEX and ELITE
• Estimated starting price at RM1.25m (to confirm later)
• Expected date completion: February 2014

And my conclusion is as follows:

1. Modern design & very fresh looking
2. Private pool for each house- extremely unique features that you couldn't find elsewhere
3. The architectural elements i.e. glass, aluminum louvers & facade blend beautifully and give a good shape to the house
4. Most importantly, it doesn't look like a shop lot
5. Looks elegance, no other word can describe it better than this
6. ... and come with double volume height! It's very rare to find a link house with this feature. Sense of welcome?? Definitely yes!

Despite all the features, I'm still in my opinion the location of Nusaputra is very excellent! This still remains as the strongest selling point for Nusaputra.

No More Shout Box... Sorry Guys

Free service has to stop

Thanks for using ShoutMix for all these years. I have been providing free shoutboxes on the World Wide Web for over 7 years now. It wasn't long before I realized being 100% free is not sustainable. Just before ShoutMix's first birthday, it almost had to be closed.

ShoutMix has tried to work with the freemium business model ever since. Conversion rates were low with the first version. With the second version, things improved and I have had more paying customers. Fortunately, people liked the service and started paying for more features.

With that in mind, the new third version was developed to make things better for free and paid users alike. It was developed with lots of feedback from users over the course of several years. Meanwhile, my biggest goal remained: to improve the conversion rate to keep things sustainable and profitable, all while making ShoutMix a really high-quality product for everyone.

One of the most mentioned feedback was that the old free version was too restrictive. Others are less trivial, just make it better, more premium features, more powerful stuff, avatar support, real time push update, really good spam protection, support for really high traffic situations, etc.

Finally, in November 2011, the new version 3 was completed. It was launched successfully and very smoothly. It was a great moment.

During the first month since launch, the reception went really well. New sign ups are in the thousands daily. Just within a month, almost 50,000 users have signed up! Hundreds of thousands of messages posted. Over 10,000 users from Facebook. Generally, users loved the new version. The growth are massive.

So, what went bad?

The conversion rate did not go up. In fact it fell lower. Our stats show 99.93% of users either have no intention to upgrade or are just happy with our free service. Worst of all, some customers have actually stopped paying and switched to our free service! It may seems to be good news for everyone right now, but it is really bad news for all of us.

By offering too much with our free plan, we cannibalized our paid plans. Happy users did not make more paying customers. The projections are bad. Only 0.07% users are customers. These are the people who keep ShoutMix sustainable as a business. Business is the part making ShoutMix exists for everyone. If it keeps on going this way, ShoutMix will not be sustainable any more and will need to close down in the near future.

The freemium model is broken for us.

Some argued that ShoutMix can easily monetize its free service with ads. It has been tried, but the rates were terrible. Beautiful, unobstructive ads do not pay well for ShoutMix. We can probably do better with flashy popup ads, but no thank you. Our competitors do it with popup ads. But there is no way ShoutMix is going to commit such ugly sin.

ShoutMix is becoming more of a premium product. In fact it already has. ShoutMix is designed to be the best in the industry. With passion plus personal investments of time, money and labor of over 7 years, ShoutMix has outgrown the freemium model.

So where do we go from here?

I have two choices. One, allow ShoutMix to become unsustainable. This is bad news for everyone. The other choice is to stop our free service. It is becoming obvious that this is where ShoutMix should go. And so, ShoutMix is not going to be free any more.

Existing users will be able to continue using their accounts at no cost right now. The transition will begin within a few weeks. Eventually, users with free accounts will need to switch to a paying plan or stop using the service. The date is set at January 1, 2012. After this date, free accounts will stop working unless upgraded to a paid plan.

The good news is that ShoutMix will be available for only $0.99/month and will be available effective immediately. For our old version (the Classic) it will only be available in Premium package which costs approximately $1.67/month.

Existing customers are unaffected by all these changes. In fact, ShoutMix is going to be really awesome for our current and future customers. Our focus will be to make paying customers extremely happy and they will get 100% of our resources. If you are one of our customers, things are just going to get a lot better for you.

ShoutMix has always been a product with great passion. It is just unfortunate that it did not work out as a free product. We all have to move on. And ShoutMix will continue to be the most affordable, high quality and premium live chat software that everyone can use and love.

Snecx Tan December 2011

Manual HandBuk - How To Use New Interchange

1) DO NOT EXIT to SSP2/Cyberjaya if you heading to Nusaputra, Putra Perdana or Puchong.

2) Slowly, after SSP2.. under the diamond interchange, take the left to Nusaputra (sure you can see the signboard).

3) Go straight until you reach the junction.. be careful as the traffic lights are still in test mode.

4) That's all! Good luck & be safe.

Progress on Nusaputra Interchange Part 4

As of yesterday (21.12.2001), we can see the traffic light is on testing mode. Taraf Unggul really serious to ensure the interchange is ready to open for public use, in tandem with tremendous progress on Precint 3. Let's picture talk... Picture taken from Aman Putra heading to Putra Perdana.. On the left to Nusaputra Precinct 1 & 2 while Precinct 3 is on the right. Heading to Precincts 1&2... And this is great!! 3 lanes for egress hence the junction will become a bottleneck for Nusaputrans.

Progress on Nusaputra Interchange Part 3

Well... work is still in progress as of 12 Dec 2011.

1. Sub-grade complete
2. premix 1st layer complete
3. street lighting & cabling complete.. (i can see hdpe pipe at aman putra)
4. ac/dc lane complete

2005 vs 2011 (after 6 years)....

Interesting to see the atmosphere & serene environment in Nusaputra P1 still well maintain as it inspired about 6 years ago… Hope the quality lifestyle that we enjoyed now will last as long as it can.