I was looking through the newspapers and came across a terrace house on auction near my home. For the price offered and the locality, I am not attracted to buy it up since people are still staying in. There might be problems to evict the previous owner and it might become messy. So, no, I will put my money in the bank and earn interests. But if you intend to sell your house, then you might like to check out the link above – simply enter your zip code and it is easy peasy.
I have bought and stayed in a 3 room HDB flat in Singapore and it was so small like a pigeon hole. Whatever you say, can be heard next door and there was no privacy. At that time, I stayed alone though I shared the costs with my sister. The flat has long been sold for some profit and I was very relieved when everything was settled. There are many people who sell their house in order to upgrade to a bigger home. It is fine as long as you can afford it and plan well in terms of finances such as whether you can afford to pay in the long term or not in case you lose your employment.
Hence, selling your house need not be a chore anymore with all the technology being set up to make life so much easier. You can then have a peace of mind doing the things you love and continue to do so.
Watch this talented male or female singer from our neighbour, Indonesia. The costumes and makeup are so professionally done, notwithstanding the voices that go with them. Hudson and Jessica, we salute you. See that he also made the sign of the cross at the end of the performance and I guess he is a Catholic. Watch this for yourself to believe it!
Some months back, I bought a discounted book on Video making for Dummies. Yes, it was the Dummies range of books that teach you to do lots of other things written by various authors. After reading the book, I managed to create my first video using Microsoft Vista and used DVD ripper to extract some songs from my collection of CDs just for the movie. The DVD ripper was easy to use and comes with my computer. Even the movie maker was part of the package of Windows Vista that I have never explored before. It is part of my hobby to learn new stuffs and this is one of them using the computer.
By using the DVD ripper, I am able to extract out my favorite songs from my CD collection and add them here for visitors to view. It is in one of my old posts and if you have been following my blog, you would have come across it some months ago. I managed to add credits and scrolling text that moves from top to bottom with slide transition.
I am happy with my own achievement as this is self taught – all from reading the Dummies book bought from MPH. At least, after reading, I managed to do the basic necessity to create my very own first movie and uploaded to Youtube for public viewing. I certainly love to explore new tricks and tips on the computer and enhace my IT skills.
Last night, I reached Penang after driving from Tapah to Bukit Merah and help my colleague who was tired from too much driving in KL. We met up with a potential client at 12:00midnight until 2:00am to discuss about his sports courts. There were 7 of us who met up at A&W, a 24 hour outlet near our place. I guess they are night owls and nocturnal. While we are rather sleepy and had to get dressed up at this God forsaken time just to meet up and discuss matters with them. And they could only meet up with us after they have ‘sembahyang’ during the Puasa month. And today, I have to type of revised quotations and fax to my supervisor to check before emailing it out and hopefully, they will confirm soon. This is our third time meeting up.
I have decided to eat less now since last week and lost about 2 kg. My doctor has advised me to lose weight since I am now overweight as I love food too much. But I have to have better self control and eat less since I don’t exercise even though I have a tread mill at home. I might even go for a healthy weight loss diet to cut down on those calories. Losing weight is not easy but putting on weight takes no effort. I need to lose much weight to an ideal weight about 65kg or even less if possible. Now I am eating about half of what I used to eat and my weight will surely go down but ever so slowly.
I have a food blog and watching those tempting photos remind me of the good food I used to enjoy. But I need to refrain from eating too much for a better health. When you have healthy Body Mass Index (BMI), you won’t get sickness or contract diseases so easily. Most of the sickness come because of unhealthy diet and lack of exercise or sedentary lifestyle. Hence, I need to have more discipline to eat less from now onwards. Life is not about eating but to have healthy heart and body to do the necessary tasks each day and to enjoy life to the fullest – being free from sickness and disease.
When you start managing your hard disk space on computer, the most important thing is to find out the culprit folders. If you are having lot many folders in a drive, then that may take too long to clean them and get some free space, but if that drive’s folders are sorted on basis of their size, then it will not take much time to cleanup your disk. As there is no “Sort folders on basis of size” is available by default in any version of Windows, that’s why you will have to use third party software to do the same. Sort by Size options in there in Windows for files but not for folders. So, here are some awesome tools to sort folders in Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 computers.
Disk Space Fan – Analyze Hard Disk Space
A wonderful tool to show used and free disk space thru a pictorial diagram. It shows the folders in a drive or sub-folders of a folder sorted by their sizes. By using this tool, you can have a picture of distribution of disk space in different folders. Once that is done, you can pick up the culprit folder and start cleaning that by sorting the files inside that folder by using “Windows default” sort button.
Folder Size – Freeware (Sort Folders on Size)
This is another disk analysis tool thru which you can have a detailed page for each folder showing lot many information including folder size. Based on the data provided by this tool, you can analyze folders in your drive or any network shared folders as well. Once you are done with that, you can start cleaning up the files and sub-folders after that.
Folder Size for Windows XP
It is an older version of Folder Size only applicable for Windows XP. As the explorer of Windows Vista and Windows 7 is very different from Windows XP, it doesn’t work on Vista or 7 but it works smoothly on Windows XP. Again, you can scan your hard disk drives or network folder to get the list of folders with huge size and start cleaning up them.
Through my best cable tv deals connection, I would have to say that the program I enjoy most in high-definition is the Discovery Channel series Planet Earth. Since its original broadcast in 2006 I catch reruns whenever possible. As an amateur photographer I am easily jealous of the cinematography each episode displays. High-definition is simply the only format in which to view the stunning footage displayed, whether it be macro close-ups of colorful carnivorous plants, ice crystals, and insects, or underwater footage of a piranha feeding frenzy. It is impressive how their equipment even survived some of the shooting assignments, including emperor penguins over-wintering in Antarctica, or the claustrophobic tightness of underground caves and water pools.
Following “Planet Earth” was the series “Life”, and my reaction was the same. The crispness and color of a sea anemone’s tentacles, a tropical fish, or a flock of monarch butterflies is better appreciated with high-definition clarity. Most impressive were the macro shots of Venus flytraps in the wild closing their traps on unsuspecting flies, and the sticky drops of a sundew holding on to a mosquito.
I can only hope for many more high-definition programs such as these on Discovery and other channels like it.
The Adsense unit format is changing again and 3 new text and url placements will come to play in a few weeks on the most popular 300×250, 336×280 and 728×90 px units.
The url has been placed aside the ad title in all these units and the Adsense team promises that CTR will improve with the new format. Here is what they will look like.
The leaderboard (728x90px) with four ads is much more readable and will provide an excellent CTR as I see it. As for the rectangles, optimization testing would again be needed to see what suits these ads as the url has come on the side and will interfere with title visibility.
I would really like the Adsense team to introduce the popular 500px and 550px wide ad units which is the popular content width of many blog and the ads will fit perfectly. We have spotted several strange Adsense ads over the years like ads with 2×2 ads, favicons, no titles, titles in italics and no Ads by Google and interactive keywords. Lets see how this will work out.
If you don’t see the new ads right now, they will eventually roll over to your site in a week. Do you like the new ad formats?
I have been very busy recently due to my work and next week, I will be going down to Kuala Lumpur again for business. This is on top of my moonlighting job writing articles and blogging. I guess I am lucky to be educated in English that I can think on my feet and write reasonably good posts and articles that people want. Though it is not good enough to be a stringer for The Star, nevertheless, I can still make a living online through the internet and get some allowances here and there. My site advertisements are also doing quite well and I can cash in every few months. Though some bloggers are cashing in every month, I am quite happy with my progress so far. It is not easy to make money online and those who have tried it trying to copy others will know the truth.
I have been a collector of coins and stamps since I was young. But my stamps collection is much bigger than my coins since I could get free stamps when people send letters to my parents. My hobby has kept me busy and usefully occupied. In my later years, my wealthy uncle in Singapore who is a doctor gave me gold coins during Chinese New Year instead of ‘ang-pows’ or red packets of money. The gold coin is about 10gm and round in shape. These are my small collection of treasures since childhood and I will cherish them in my possession. The other day, someone was interested to buy my stamps but I am not willing to let them go since they remind me of my childhood.
