• I postponed my flight to Kota Kinabalu from today to this Saturday (5 July)
• Presentation 2 weeks ago sucked
• Went to Laundry Bar, Curve again last Saturday - upcoming post if I’m rajin lazy
• Still haven’t watched that new movie Wanted. Friends cancelled plans THREE times (!!!)
• Need to finish my final project documentation today to get it all nicely binded to pass up on Friday
• Met up with a fren that I’ve known for 2 yrs but never met. Lepaked at mamak till 6am - I miss those long conversations at mamak stalls
• Went to my tailor yesterday to see the dress I made for Mag’s wedding (I’m the bridesmaid) and its GORGEOUS!! Needs more alterations so will get it tomorrow. - pics here
  
• I bought new shoes yesterday at Vincci Ikano
• Got my fren’s invitation to her wedding
• Note to self: finish some of the half written drafts to post while I’m in KK
• OMG! Can’t wait to get to KK!

Yey! I FINALLY got my cheque from Adverlets. “But you have no ads on your site?” I hear you say. Well, last year, I had ads in my blog. First Advertlets and, some time after that, Nuffnang (this was before they introduced Glitterati & Titan). After seeing the rather slow trickle of money coming into my account, I decided to withdraw or cash out all RM113.52 of it and delete all the ads. The result was this ad-free blog.

So yea, anyways, finally received the money that I cashed out waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy back at the end of FEBRUARY. Yes! It took them 4 months to pay me (due to some error or another). Oh well, at least I got my cheque already. Now I can add this to my Travel Fund. Yay!

The question now is : Would I put advertlets ads in this blog? Well, most probably not. I do have it on my other blogs tho and its kinda slow. I still think that Malaysian Blog Advertisting companies isn’t a good way to get fast money. What can I say? I can make a minimum of USD5 on a 100 word post elsewhere

Lately there has been a lot of new bloggers. These are people who jumped on to the bandwagon and decided that they want to be bloggers because (i)They want to keep a journal online (ii)Their friends are doing it (iii)They think its cool (iv) Even Malaysia’s ex-prime minister is doing it and (v) they want to make money.

The thing about them is, they like open topics in forums asking this and that, hoping to be spoon fed. What they don’t realize is that with the power of google there are so many websites that give really good information. From simple web hosting articles to online HTML/PHP lessons, everything is just at the end of your fingertips nowadays.

Ah, the convenience.

There are so many ways to make money for your blog nowadays. So much so that some greedy people actually just open a blog with posts that they copy pasted from articles just so that it looks like they have a blog which they can put in all sorts of advertisements and paid posts.

However, I would like to introduce you to another great way to make money via your blog. Its perhaps the first website for bloggers that not only makes money but also create a social network.

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The best part is, for every opportunity, you can see all the previous posts that other bloggers have written. Its really good for getting some ideas on how to write the post. Not only that you can also see comments that other people have made regarding the opportunity. Isn’t that a good way to get to know more blogger friends?

And did i mention about their code of ethics. Not only does it have 100% audit-able in-post disclosure, there is also 100% transparency. They also ensure that all posts are 100% real opinions and 100% search engine friendly.

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As you can see from my SMS updates, I had problems with my PC the other day. Some hardware was a bit loose. I had to open it up and press everything back in to ensure it was working properly. Then my internet decided to act up on me and it was down for a few hours.

I had some freelancing work to do. Its actually something like manual spamming where I had to leave comments on do-follow blogs using a name, email and URL that is given. RM80 for two days work of 250 comments. Sounds easy rite?

Not when you have a sukky internet connection that tends to die on you and suddenly get disconnected. And 2 days is not enough time to do all the comments.

So due to the aforementioned problem with my PC and internet, I overshot the deadline by an hour or so. I just sent it anyway. But the bugger in charged of it couldn’t even BOTHER to reply back and say that he didn’t accept it. Instead he’s just leaving it hanging so I emailed him again today saying:

Look, I know it overshot the deadline (coz I only sent it around 1am) but its was circumstances that were out of my control. It would be nice (and more professional) if you could just reply my email saying you won’t accept it.

I wonder if I’ll get a reply. I doubt tho.

As I was blog hopping, I came across ways to promote your blog offline. One suggestion was to make a business card to promote your name, id and blog. The idea was, in our daily life, we meet so many people and have so much opportunities to promote our blog to them. If you just mention it, they might forget or misspell your blog name. But with a business card, its easier to remember the business card and thus, your URL.

I remember some time ago when I went to Blogger Booze - a bloggers meet in a pub in Hartamas, there was this guy passing out business cards. I thought he was promoting his company or job but it only had his name, nickname and blog URL on it. Well then, come to think of it,why stop at business cards?why not just make address stickers or fliers? Then again, perhaps that is too over the top.

Anyway, i think the blog card is good especially if you are a blogger who often goes to blog meets and gatherings. Then you can pass out your card to the other bloggers there.

Would you ever make a business card for your blog?