iBlog: Nishit Shah

Got this in a mail forward…

Investment Ideas!

If you purchased $1,000 of Delta Airlines stock 1 year ago, you would have $49 today.

If you purchased $1,000 of AIG stock 1 year ago, you would have $33 today.

If you purchased $1,000 of Lehman Brothers stock 1 year ago, you would have $0.0 today.

But, if you purchased $1,000 worth of beer 1 year ago, drank all the beer, returned the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you would have $214.

Every once in a while an album comes that I listen to all the time, be it day or night repeating the songs again and again in my playlist. Death Magnetic from Metallica is one of them. I am a big fan of Metallica and have been following it since a long time now. It was released on 10th of last month and since then I have been listening to it everyday and even getting my friends hooked up to it. Its their first album with the new bassist Robert Trujillo and it seems he has done a gr8 job. I was kinda disappointed with their earlier album St. Anger but this one just ROCKS.  All Nightmare Long, Cyanide, The Unforgiven III, The Day That Never Comes, The End of the Line are master pieces. I like the start of All NightMare Long, its just awesome. I wanted to buy the new iPod Nano (4th Gen) since it was released and this album made me even more desperate to get one so, finally a couple of days back I bought a new iPod Nano 16 gigs and a pair of in-ear earphones for the extra effect, more on this later.

I even bought a Death Magnetic Poster from pringoo.com. Its too good, but coz of some unsaid reasons I can’t put it in my room Have to be satisfied with a wallpaper on my desktop. To headbang while watching Metallica Live in Concert after this album has instantly topped my wishlist.

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Ever since I had seen Moo Mini Cards from my friend, I had fallen in love with it and wanted to buy them. I had gone though all the steps to place an order for the cards a couple of times but had never made a final checkout since the total always used to come excess of 1500 bucks ( $19.99 for 100 cards + $4.99 for Moo Card Holder + $7.98 Standard Shipping = $32.96 x 48 = ~Rs.1585 ) for 100 cards, I used to drop the idea at the end moment

Since the dollar rates are at all time high and sky rocketing day by day, I just casually happen to check the rates if I paid in Great Britain Pounds GBP instead of USD as the site offered that option. The cost now came down dramatically to Rs.1350 ( £9.99 for 100 cards + £2.49 for Moo Card Holder + £3.98 Standard Shipping = £16.46 x 82 = ~Rs.1350 ) for the same stuff just by changing the currency !

Next I googled for Moo Promo Code as there was an option to enter the Promo Code while checking out. Tip: If you are buying anything online (a lot in my case Skype,  Flickr, ThinkGeek,com, etc) at the time of checkout there would be a box that says Enter Promo Code / Enter Discount Code, etc. Just Google the same and you would definitely land up on a site that has some codes. In my case,  I googled for “moo promo code” and landed up here. Entered the code that offered maximum discount in my case and there was further discount of £3 which brought the total to £13.46 = ~Rs.1100 which is a decent deal for 100 cards

Do let me know if you find this useful. These cards are smart, cool n sexy!