Monthly Archives: March 2007

Whenever I think about my student loan, I can’t help but to think how burdensome it is now to pay back.

I wish my parents took some kind of education loan policy when they first had me 28 years ago. If they have enrolled in such education scheme for their children education, I don’t need to borrow RM60,000++ from the government of Malaysia to pay for my undergraduate fees. But I think such scheme was not available in my country 20 years ago. Only recently I read in the news that our government came up with such education scheme.

It is not that I don’t want to pay back the student loans, but at the rate of income I have now, the monthly repayment amount was too high for me. I have sent appeal letter to the governing bodies requesting for lower repayment amount or longer repayment period but up till now, it makes no difference. The repayment bill still arrive in the mail box stating the same amount I should pay back to them, sigh!

When I read online about Washington student loan, I was upbeat about such prospect for student loan consolidation.

If you have more than one loan, you can consolidate them and pay just one amount with one interest rate. I know few friends during their degree years who have to take at least 2 different loans to finance their study. Now after completing their degree, they are bound to pay both type of loans from 2 different lenders, of course with different amount and interest rates.

If you took Arizona student loans, you also have the student loans consolidation options to consider. Why can’t my country has such options too?

For local Malaysians, please be warned that the left side tiger has nothing to do with a local cereal and energy biscuit commercials. In fact, let me introduce you to Jean-Claude, the animated tiger who is the number 1 player for backgammon.

If you feel like playing online game, then try your luck with this backgammon game. The tiger is there to inspire you and he will tell his life story of how he became successful in what he do. Check his online video here.

In the opening clip you will find Jean-Claude, dressed in 70′s clothes (bell-bottoms and cream-colored shoes, a button-up shirt with a dice print and a large dollar sign chain around his neck) sitting in his trailer in the used junk car lot he manages. He will tell the audience about his life in humorous and mafia like style, full of weird French (or is it Italian?) accent. No, he doesn’t feel pathetic or sad amidst the junk in fact he sounds like a street smart tiger.

In these 5 part interactive animation series titled ‘Life According to Jean-Claude’, the company BackgammonMasters has managed to create a new dimension in online backgammon branding. The well-designed and cleverly scripted animation series are able to illustrate to a wide audience the appeal of backgammon as a skill game truly loved and played by all people, from all walks of life from around the world.

Viewers could win prizes for trivia questions after viewing, and are offered rewards for suggestions for any script ideas used. Clips can be easily forwarded to friends who will create the viral marketing buzz. So check out the tiger and try your hand at the online backgammon game.