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• Saturday, November 08th, 2008

Blog Pictures | acobox.com

Acobox.com helps bloggers make their blog posts sexy with nice images. The site is unique because it allows bloggers to insert image with just a click and Ctr-V, without downloading, resizing, and uploading images using Photoshop or other image editing software. You can even select the size of your images from 100px, 200px, 300px, 400px to 500px which is the biggest size for most blogs either using WordPress or Blogger. The image above here is from Acobox.com. You can sign up as a blogger or photographer in this nifty web site. This will certainly save me time from uploading images from my digital camera to computer and then processing them for upload to Flickr and then copying the links to my blog posts.

I will now use Acobox more often as they have many beautiful images that can be used for Free. All good things come in free packages. Some of the photos are touched up and look professionally done like the picture of a large red rose with shadows added according to the angle of the light – not your usual default shadow that is added for every image in Photoshop. You no longer have to buy expensive image editing software to touch up your digital photos anymore. I hope Acobox will be a successful company offering more free images with contributions from people the world over for a larger variety of selections.

They have many image categories like Abstract, Animals, Architecture, Arts Culture & Entertainment, Drawings & Maps, Earth & Space, Engineering & Technology, Landscapes, Monochrome, Panaroma, People, Plants, Urban and Other. This is a comprehensive repertoire of categories for any blogger to choose from. As they say, “A Picture is worth a thousand words.” Hence by adding such beautiful pictures to your blogs, it makes them stand out from ordinary, dull posts.

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• Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

selamat menyambut Hari Raya Adil Fitri
This is to wish all my Muslim readers a Happy Hari Raya Adil Fitri tomorrow and thereafter. For my non-muslim readers, Happy Holidays to you too. I am in a holiday mood already looking at the photos and in a mood for some satay or ketupat. Incidentally, I have been invited by one of the company staff for a Hari Raya celebration in his house and he has given out Hari Raya cookies baked by his enterprising wife to most of the office workers in the office and one for me too. Of all the staff around, he has the best personal relations, remembering us during this festive season. I hope the balik kampung rush will not see too many accidents and fatal deaths like last year.

Happy Hari Raya

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• Sunday, June 15th, 2008

This is to wish all fathers a Happy Father’s day. Being a father is the most important decision in your life. You are the perpectual banker and head of the family. This is a very important role that any child needs to complement the family. Fathers need to work hard and provide financially for the family while mothers stay at home to mind the house and brood. Being a father is a priviledge and God sent gift. So do your responsibilities as a father conscientiously and don’t take advantage of your position.

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• Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

In my school days I was a numismatist or coin collector since the day my dad bought souvenir coins from around the world when he visited Europe back in the 1970s. I was so thrilled to see so many types of designs from the various countries. There were 1 cent coins, 5 cents, 10 cents and so on. My dad also bought me coin albums so that I can select and put them into the album for easier viewing. Then during Chinese New Year sometime in 1996, my aunt in Singapore gave me commemorative gold coins instead of ‘ang pows’ or red packets of money. The gold coins depict the year of the animal showing a ten dollar face value. And it weighed about 10 gm in pure 99.9% gold. That was the most expensive gift I have ever received and I still cherish the gold coin until today.

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• Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I have gone back to doing paid posts for Gadgetell.com since 2006 and after a one year break in 2007 because of other commitments. I did try my hands at writing students’ term papers ALA style and undergraduate assignments but to no avail. The requirements were too scholarstic and I prefer to write without sticking too closely to the project title, though it pays about USD4-10 per page, double spacing. There may be many revisions before you see your money. Too time consuming. Someone from GAF did email me for on the spot writing essays and I did communicate with her via Google Talk which was a very basic chat messenger. And the pay? USD2 for 500 words. She’s from India which explains why the amount is below market rate.

At the moment, I am eager for any job assignments because to me some money coming in is better than nothing at all. And I get to leverage my plenty of free time online for better purposes instead of chatting through MIRC or Yahoo Messenger. And I am still reeling from the fact that I lost RM4k within 6 months due to unwise investments in public mutual unit trusts, all thanks to dad’s instigation. He thinks Fixed Deposits are too slow but I feel safer in FD and the capital is protected unlike mutual funds where there is an immediate 5% deduction upon joining.

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• Sunday, March 30th, 2008

This blog plus my 2 other wordpress blogs have been upgraded to WordPress 2.5, the latest version which came out yesterday. To make it easy, I did not disable the many plugins and ftp the new files over to my blog. Then I encountered an error message linking one of the plugins. After dinner, I had an idea and decided to delete the plugin using WS-FTP directly and voila, the blog appeared and in operating condition again. Thank goodness, I don’t have to spend money asking my hosting programmers to troubleshoot the problem.

The admin page has a new layout with the WordPress 2.5 version in sky blue theme, and I like it. It makes the admin page look fresh and enticing. Just make sure you don’t overwrite the wp_config.php file but precaution has been taken over this when you upload your files during FTP.

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• Friday, February 29th, 2008

When you render favours to a friend, don’t expect anything in return. Don’t even have ulterior motive when you give favours. I hate it when people demand a RM250 chinese new year hamper just for some simple favours done in the past. What the heck! It is not a joke when you tell someone that you have a grudge against that person. And you are not even Chinese. And when you comment in my blog, you had the cheek to point out mistakes like misalignment, etc, etc. When I visited your blog, it is no better. You got your side bar truncated as well. You see the dust in people but is blind to the stumbling block in your eyes. So, I rather you don’t visit my blog and get jealous of the food pictures and hotel stays that I get, because this is my very own blog and I am at liberty to post whatever I like. This joker was also voted Worst Blog in Blogger’s Choice Awards and was banned from PayPerPost for quarrelling with their head honcho, Ted Murphy himself. I also don’t know why he’s been disowned by his own parents too but it speaks volumns of his mischievous defiant character.

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• Wednesday, February 06th, 2008

Here are some photos taken around this season at various places to whet your appetite. I shall be going to Haadyai from tomorrow morning until the third day of Chinese New Year. In the meantime, there won’t be any blogging as I take a break. The van will come and pick us up at around 6:00am tomorrow to Lee Garden Hotel in Haadyai. My parents plan to get lots of cashew nuts which are cheaper there. Happy Chinese New Year to all my readers!

shop
Shop selling all kind of Chinese New Year paraphernalia.

pussy willow
Red pussy willow. Commonly used to decorate homes during Chinese New Year.

antique bowls
Turquoise intricately designed antique bowls.

kumkuat
Pots of kumkuat that resemble mandarin oranges are a hot buy.

fruit
What kind of fruit is this?

fans
Large red fans hanging from the ceiling.

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• Tuesday, November 06th, 2007


The above ‘kolam’ was made from fennel cloth instead of rice beads in Gurney Plaza. That’s because from previous experience, beautiful rice beads kolam tend to be destroyed by some itchy hands and feet by displacing them and mixing the colors.


Here is the real ‘kolam’ made from colored rice beads. Notice the barricade around it in the lobby of Cititel Hotel which I stayed for the weekend. Even with the barricade, already there are 2 finger prints or 2 holes on the bottom red petal of the design.

Anyway, here is to wish all my Indian readers, a Happy Deepavali!

That’s why I am going to Bangkok from tomorrow onwards for the long weekend of holidays where my sister can take longer leave.

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• Monday, November 05th, 2007

The video above was taped during one of my visits to China. Here is a huge wooden gadget that pours out water taken from a lake for you to wash your hand for fortune. You need to turn the handle as seen in this video. A fellow tourist from USA, he’s a History teacher by the way, got excited when he saw this and started turning the huge ferris wheel-like gadget while the rest of us took the opportunity to wash and wet our hands. It is fun, but I wouldn’t like to live in a ‘kampung’ or village with this huge receptacle that you need to turn just to clean your hands. And you need 2 persons!

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• Friday, November 02nd, 2007


PayPerPost now has a new name, Izea which sounds like Easy. Below is the email that all PPP posties received from the head honcho, Ted Murphy.

Going forward our company will be known as IZEA, with PayPerPost as its flagship product and other properties including Blogger’s Choice Awards, RockStartup, Zookoda and BlogInSpace under the IZEA corporate umbrella. These changes are the natural result of our phenomenal growth as a company and the continued success our user community is having with our social marketing tools and strategies.

The image done above is certainly attractive with glassy feel. The name is easy to remember and short. It reminds me of shopping for furnishings in Ikea, many years ago in Singapore.

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• Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I am excited I bought a new condominium that is still in the midst of construction and will be ready in 2009 in Phase 2. The HSBC loan officer came to my house yesterday to get my 6 months pay slip and photocopied statements of my 2 banks. I hope my loan application will be approved by Tuesday and she will phone me about the results. I have applied for 70% of the condominium unit amount from RM281,000. With insurance, the amount will be RM209,000 in total. She printed for me the amount I need to pay off in 10 years to 28 years the longest. At the minimum, I must pay about RM1,200 a month and maximum, any amount like RM2,000.

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• Friday, October 19th, 2007

Marketing and advertisement is the life blood of every business. You need to promote your products and services to the public and to create awareness of your services. Otherwise it is useless to open a business where nobody knows it existed. There are many ways to promote such as using mobile marketing software, sms marketing, email marketing, advertising in yellow pages and much more. From my company’s experience, we promote through various channels including having a web presense and advertising in yellow pages plus other very popular forum to create exposure and publicity. And every day, my email is swamped with enquiries for sports projects including invitation to send in tender. Sometimes the government departments contact us for further details.

Though it is just a small company, but our business has been growing by leaps and bounds due to marketing and extensive promotion. Our workers are blessed with daily work and jobs to perform. They are paid daily wages and there are about 8 of em. For a web site, remember to put aside about 1 third of the money for marketing, one third for maintenance and one third for developing the web site. Check out the links to know how to do sms marketing using their software today.

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• Tuesday, October 09th, 2007

Point of Sale or abbreviated as POS is defined as a location where credit card transactions are performed with the cardholder present, such as a retail store. The card is read magnetically, and the cardholder’s signature is obtained as insurance against the transaction. This is the most secure form of credit card commerce. It is the physical location where a sale is completed. Usually used as “POS terminal” to refer to the credit card terminal (equipment).
For a retail outlet, it can installed used point of sale using ibm pos equipment for the NCR point of sale to take in credit card payments. This is useful in case the customer did not carry too much cash around or did not have enough cash in his wallet, but still able to make a purchase using his credit card. With this facilities installed, shoppers are able to buy expensive items for the household like bedroom sets, washing machines, refridgerators, etc by just using their credit cards.

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