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

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.

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My name is IcedNyior and I’m an online shopaholic.

Its weird you know. Ask any of my friends like Pam or Aree and ask them how I am when we go out shopping. I’m usually the one who tags along, gives comments and only once in a while do I buy something - and that is quite seldom.

However, online shopping hit me like a mind blowing orgasm. LOL! Its so hard to stop myself from transferring over money for this or that item. Sprees are the worst!

Sprees are when people all gather their orders and order stuff from international websites like Bath and Body Works, Victoria Secret, Sephora, Amazon, etc then save on shipping costs. Its usually organized by two people - one in US and one over here. So the websites ships the items to person in US who then ships it to someone here who then distributes it to everyone else.

So yea anyway, I got the two packages I was waiting for. Yey! I mentioned it a few posts back coz I have to wait a month for the stuff to get here.

I bought these items

• Bath and Body Works Black Raspberry & Vanilla Body Splash = RM30
• Victoria’s Secret Beauty Rush Grapefruit Blast Double Body Mist = 2 for USD27.90
• Victoria’s Secret Beauty Rush Grapefruit Blast Body Drink Lotion= 2 for USD27.90
• I actually bought another BBW Chocolate Amber Body Splash but I didn’t like the smell so I sold it off to someone else at the same price I bought it.

I also bought these products from elf (EyesLipsFace.com) at Rm50 for 6

• Candy Shop Lip Tins - Berry Pop & Cherry Bomb
• Wet Gloss Lash & Brow Clear Mascara
• Brightening Eye Colour - Drama, Luxe & Ivy
• Brightening Eye Liner - Coffee
• Natural Radiance Blusher - Flushed
• Earth & Water Mascara Duo - Brown
• Bought a few other elf items for my sisters also.

Haven’t had the chance to try it yet tho. Will write reviews soon.

I have 2 hard drives in that PC - one 60gb & another 80gb. The smaller one is where I put my Windows and program files, its quite old, given to me by a friend when I had PC problems. Anyway, it decided to die on me last week. Just gave me a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) then Disk boot error. I was just waiting for it to kaput so I had all my files backup-ed earlier so its no big loss. Its just a question of whether I have the funds to replace it or not. Not only that, im using 512 MB of SDRAM and

So now I have to turn to my laptop. Portable but heavy (2.7kg) and gets hot fast. I simply hated the Vista Home basicit was running on. Programs would just suddenly have the error message "Not Responding" and everything will be laggy. I had problems even opening photoshop so Im sure opening 3dsmax 6 or unreal editor 2004 might be worst. Not to mention I can’t use CS3 on it. Finally, i got Arep to help me downgrade it to WinXP. tengkiu Arep!

So that explains why i haven’t been updating these past few days. Hopefully my dad agrees to change my pc because i really need a better one He did mention something about it but I’m not going to believe it till i get the physical cash in hand. Here’s hoping he does get it for me *crosses fingers*

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I bought my first semi precious stone jewelry today. Some people (mostly Chinese) believe that gems are nature’s storehouse of energy. Gems have the power and energy to increase one’s mental abilities, psychic powers, bring immense good luck, great fortune, eradicate problems, and remove hurdles in all major of life.

Anyway, I was having dinner at the Curve with Aree - whom I haven’t met for ages. We had this really filling meal at Sakae Sushi with the bill reaching about 80 bucks. After that Aree was looking for a toilet and she passed by this stall selling gemstones. She started trying on necklaces and earrings

I caught my eye on this anklet. Looked at the price and it was RM60. RM60 for an anklet?!? I looked at other stuff then went back to look at the anklet. Spent like 15 minutes just touching it and walking away. LOL! People say that if you feel drawn to a certain gem/stone jewelry you should get it. So yea, I decided to get it.

The anklet consists of Lapis Lazuri (blue), Amethyst (purple) and Calcite (white). Apparently Lapis Lazuri is for Love, Protection, Power, Healing, Amethyst for Power, Protection, Healing and Calcite for Cleansing, Healing. But actually what’s more important is that I really like it

I had to add about 8 more beads (which cost extra) to make it longer and I also changed the clasp and chain to a silver one because I’m kinda rough (no! i dont mean in bed) so I don’t want the chain to putus. So all in all, including a discount from the nice owner, it was RM79.

But it was oh so nice…

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Oh, I was so surprised to receive this in the mail. Its a cheque for USD 31++ from Text Link Ads. Ah, i made a mistake of not setting it to payout to my Paypal. Now I need to bank it in a local bank here and pray that they don’t charge too much so that I can still get some of that 30USD. For all I know, I might only have RM30 out of the whole thing. LOL!

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