AFAIK, UK custom will randomly pull some (not all) incoming passenger for medical check up. If you aren't being pull, then obviously you do not need the X Ray film. But if you are being pulled, you want to join the long queue to have it done? You got the time & patience? If no, then get your X Ray done in Malaysia.

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Added on August 25, 2010, 6:02 pmI suggest getting a Multi-adapter here in Malaysia. You can always use it when you go to Europe or other places for travel sooner or later and find it useful. Don't cost much.


This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Aug 25 2010, 06:02 PM

I have posted this link several times before but it is really useful if you are going into self catering. So re-post again and again....

http://www.all-unied.com/

Make very sure the bank also wrote down the DATE it was certified. If they do not write down the date, that FD could be many years ago and VFS may reject them.

I was told laptop is not considered part of luggage weight allowance. If they complained your backpack is too heavy, just take out the laptop + accessories like charger.

If it is installed into the computer, they don't check.

But if you want to bring a pirated software in CD disc, then you better don't.

Why should you be worried? If your father have a HSBC Premier account, you can even open a UK account before leaving Malaysia.

It is strongly advised to do meningitis vaccination BEFORE you travel to UK. Meningitis seems to strike UK university students and if you got it, you may die or have permanent brain damage. Do a google on "UK university meningitis" and you will get plenty of hits. In fact, almost all UK university will ask you to get vaccinated for meningitis. It's that serious so don't play-play.

AFAIK, the meningitis vaccine available in Malaysia are children dose but it is better than nothing because it still give you some protection. So when you landed, the university will arrange for you to get the higher adult dose there.

http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Publicatio...sGuidelines.pdf

This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Sep 8 2010, 11:30 PM

LOL. You are spending tons of money to study in UK and you worry about cost of a single vaccination?

Anyway, it is not cheap and I not sure how much. RM50? RM100? RM150? The thing is, not many clinic will have it. If you have trouble finding a clinic having it, go try some specialist pediatrician because in Malaysia, it is mostly given to babies. Ha, babies jab for university student. That's ironic.

Or may be that shows how fallible are the ranking because Loughborough is a good university.

I think u need to have RM200K in HSBC to qualify for Malaysian Premier customer.

Alternatively, if your parent already have Malaysia HSBC Premier account, then there are ways to get free UK HSBC Premier account open BEFORE you left Malaysia and have it for free also.

No, I am pretty sure you don't need that large a figure to qualify nor constant flow. I was told Malaysian HSBC has one of the lowest requirement so I am pretty sure it is around RM200K or RM250K.

Oh dear.....next you will be thinking of cooking pots and pans. There are some really useful companies that caters specifically to new university students. Here's just one of them:

http://www.all-unied.com/acatalog/index.html

You can order it now and it will arrive at your residence in university BEFORE you arrive. Don't fancy even 1 night without blanket etc.


This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Sep 13 2010, 06:20 AM

But you still need plates, bowl, cups, knife & fork, kitchen towel, blanket, pillow, cooking pot, cooking spoon, can opener and so many little things. And when you 1st arrive, where got time to buy all those little little things or the energy? The convenience of products from those companies are not to be under-estimated if you are into self catering.

Does anybody know any good website whereby you can send free SMS to any UK mobile phone number via the Internet?

Something like our http://www.mostsms.com/ that allows us to send free SMS via Internet to any Malaysian mobile phone free of charge.

University of Sunderland is a lot cheaper at around GBP9K the last time I checked. Living cost cheap also.

Nobody knows for sure. Looking at old historical data, it may even go down to RM4 vs today's 4.80



This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Sep 25 2010, 06:03 PM


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Based on Technical Analysis, you don't really have to know why it happened. All you need to know is that it HAD happened. And since it HAD happened before, it may happen AGAIN. That is the one of the fundamental rules of TA in that history tends to repeat itself.

Again based on my limited knowledge of TA, RM5 is a crossroad and if the GPB can not break above it, then the downside is more likely to be RM4

Like I said, nobody really know for sure what will happen in the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis

Based purely on Technical Analysis, it says GBP is not likely to surpass +/- RM7. And if you care to look at that TA chart, it has be exceedingly accurate because once it reaches that RM7 region in 1998, 2004 and 2007, it falls back. You could not get more accurate than that.

Now bearing in mind that chart is a highly compressed chart so you can't see the detail. But if you search for details elsewhere, it says there is a strong support at 5.00 +/- in 2002. So it is of no surprise GBP has dropped from RM7 and hover around RM5 for quite sometime in 2009/2010. TA theory says that once it reaches the RM5 support line, there is likely to be a rebound and that is exactly what happened when it bounds from RM5 to RM5.80 earlier this year.

But now that RM5 trendline has been broken, that same RM5 trendline is now the new resistance. That is why you have been seeing it hovering just below RM5 for the past week or months and having a hard time to break above it. So yet again, TA is pretty accurate, wouldn't you say?

But then again, my TA skill are pretty limited but even then, I can see some of the major prediction of TA coming true.


This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Sep 25 2010, 11:34 PM

My prediction is the chances of GPB going lower than present 4.80 is higher than it going up (because TA chart seem to tell us the 5 is a strong resistance). Therefore, only buy what you need now and not too stockpile, the reverse of your prediction. That was my main point.

TA is an interesting subject that combine the study of human behavior, economic, policy etc. It's a rojak of everything that can and will affect a product, currency or shares.

It fundamental principle are:
1. Price is everything and reflects every factors known and unknown that have an effect on price.
2. History repeats itself.
3. Price move in trends.

And yes, only time will tell because TA is not a crystal ball.

This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Sep 26 2010, 02:28 PM