Bookfest @ KL Convention Centre

car park beside KLCC

We were there around 3pm+, the weather was very nice. We wanted to park at the car park beside KLCC, there were plenty of empty spaces there but somehow the car park guard directed us to go park at the opposite car park. I wonder why…. We paid RM 7 for the car park.

We were only allowed to enter KLCC after they checked our temperature. They will stick a round pink sticker on your shirt to indicate that your temperature is checked and OK to enter. You can also request for a mask from them too.

a round pink sticker

the ticket counter

FL bought his ticket at popular few weeks ago, so I bought mine here.

booklet & a red tag, RM 2

FL’s pink tag
If you bought your ticket at popular, you will get a pink tag instead of a red one.

I was kind of disappointed with the bookfest as it appears to be much smaller than last year. It’s getting smaller every year!! It was not too crowded, a lot of ppl wearing masks. We spent about 2 hours+ there and left around 6pm. Although the bookfest is small, we still managed to find most of the books we wanted to buy.

Here’s the books we bought.. oh ya, I bought these 2 recycle shopping bags from Fo Guang Shan’s booth (佛光山), it’s nice and quality very good wor…

RM 5 each, according to the person, this bag can carry up to 5kg wor..

tah-dah!! altogether 22 books!!

total RM 437.25 spent!!

Besides books, we also bought 5 CDs which costs us RM 100+..

How about you? Did you go to the bookfest? What books you bought?

Anyway, since I can’t change the fact that I need to pay tax, all I can do is to find ways to reduce tax. The first thing I can think of is donation, I digged out all the receipts i received from donation and found out only 2 of them are entitled for tax reduction. My two sponsored kids, Jirot (Indonesia) and Minh Quan (Vietnam) from World Vision doesn’t help in tax reduction. ~sigh…too bad.. (but don’t worry, although no tax deduction I will still sponsor one. hehe…)

What else I can use to reduce tax? Hmm, books and magazines! I calculated all the books & magazines receipts and realized I only bought about RM 500 books/magazines last year. Wasted lar, should have bought more!! (I will definitely buy more this year!!) What else what else?

Complete medical check up? Blood test consider medical check up or not? Well I think canot lar, since blood test is a sub set of medical check up, if they did not state there ‘complete’, then maybe I can use to deduct lar. And sports equipment? Hmmm, according to the radio (they hired some expert to explain about tax), even sports shoes can be claimed under the sports equipment there. If the income tax ppl questioned you, you can say you always jogged and you can’t jog without a pair of sport shoes! wuahahahaha… funny lar, this guy… Since sports shoes can use to deduct, then bicycle also can deduct gua… right? But wait a sec, did I keep the receipt? Arrggggg!!!!!

As you can see, I am still struggling to find more receipts for tax deduction lar.. What about you? Have you done yours?