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I faced a lot of pressure to excel while studying in Singapore for my A levels. The pressure came mainly from my foolish single unmarried aunt who gave me unnecessary stress. Being a successful lawyer, she thinks that people ought to ‘kowtow’ to her and listen to her foolish advise. As I was under some government scholarship at that time, she was overly proud of me. But at the same time, I was the second batch of students and was 6 months behind school syllabus. The normal students had started in January while I had to catch up 6 months of school work in a foreign country. Naturally I was stressed up and when I told this to my aunt, that woman ‘told’ me to study 1 inch thick of Physics lecture notes in 1 hour.

Perhaps I should have studied in Hawaii with no stress at all. I would love to stay in Kailua ocean front condo rental and study for my A levels. Hawaii is a well known tourist area and I am sure there is no pressure to excel like crazy to be the top scorer unlike in Singapore. I love to go for a Hawaii Travel and enjoy the idyllic lifestyle there.

This morning, I faxed and emailed 3 different quotations for sports courts. They really keep me busy doing calculations and drawing the different sizes using the computer. These are enquiries over the weekend and last week which I was not able to submit as I was in KL. There are many repetitive calculations for different options for the client to choose from. Thank goodness, I was able to deliver and work fast to submit them on time. One of the client requested for a quotation for a different size the second time and I still need to oblige. I just hope he will eventually order from my company.

As I blog here, in three hours time, I will take a domestic flight to Kelantan to see a futsal rubberized floor project that the company has there. All my expenses are paid for including the air flight and hotel accommodation. I still haven’t packed my bag yet. Still wondering what to bring and what pants to wear for the trip. And I pray for a safe journey there as the flight is 7:50pm in the evening departing from Penang’s Bayan Lepas Airport. My colleague will park his car in the air port for a day after fetching me and return the following day. It is a short trip requiring only an over night stay. There is nothing much to see in Kota Bahru as it is more of a retirement town and there are not much activities that you can do over there.

The recent Saturday and Sunday, I stayed in a town hotel for the weekend. Initially, I wanted to stay in a hotel in Bayan Lepas but both hotels were fully booked due to the Penang Bridge Marathon on Sunday, 24th June 2007. There were 21,000 participants locally and from Thailand, Singapore, USA and Kenya. This is my second time staying in this town hotel and I was lucky to get a room despite the marathon bookings. The pictures were snapped in my camera, but at the moment, I am too busy to load them to the web site. Some other time, perhaps.

Just a couple of days ago, PayPal emailed me with the following:

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I am relieved that my account access has been restored and I quickly transferred the accummulated monies of USD774 to my debit card to withdraw about RM2,650 later on. It was the second time in a row that my PayPal account access was limited due to further withdrawals on my side. To confirm that it is me taking out my own money and not some fraudsters, Paypal immediately limited my account access. It was kind of a nuisance at first, but considering the precautions that they take when it comes to withdrawal, I guess I just have to be a little patient in this matter.

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Last night, at around 9:00pm, I came back to Penang and reached home after a long journey from Kuala Lumpur. My colleague was still visiting places, collecting a check, and site inspection even in the evening at 5:00pm. It took around 4 hours driving at 120km per hour with a brief dinner at Kentucky Fried Chicken. I had combo chicken chop which was newly introduced while my colleague had the normal 2 piece chicken savers meal.

After lunch yesterday, we drove to 2 places, waited some time to collect the check for initial deposit payment of a tennis court project in KL and a site inspection in Sungai Buloh before departing for Penang at around 5:00pm. Imagine, hours sitting in the car with my colleague driving his car for this recent trip to KL. Upon reaching home last night, after changing, I headed straight for the bed. Too tired to check emails or do further blogging.

This is my second day in Kuala Lumpur for business and preparing to go back after lunch today. Not sure if I can make it for Friday’s church cell group in Midland Heights. It is a bungalow house belonging to the church deacon who has some interests in a factory in Bayan Lepas. Yesterday alone, there was so much travelling, visiting 4 different places. First, it was to a local golf club to collect a check for completed work. Then there was a meeting with another golf club for tennis courts repair. Then in the afternoon after lunch at 3:00pm it was key handover to a condominium for the completion of projects, a tennis court and a multi-purpose court. At night, though it rained very heavily with loud thunder and lightning, we drove up to Ampang to meet with a potential client for futsal courts.

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Is it accurate? No, because we do not know the exact CPM of a site and the Alexa traffic ranking is not accurate. Anyway, it is fun and give you a “very” rough idea about how much a site can earn from Google AdSense. If you have many sites with Google Adsense, then you can check each one to predict your total income. Since this tool is free to use, why not check it out and click on the link above.

Anyway, my Google adsense income is still crawling like a turtle but as long as I don’t get banned, that is fine. Slow and steady. I have read somewhere that a blogger had his Adsense terminated because someone clicked on it many times and even signing up again defeats the purpose as they can detect the same userid based on previous data of banned users.