Blog advertising has been the rage since late 2006. Many bloggers and stay-at-home mums are making good part-time income blogging in the comforts of their houses. This blog for pay opportunity is a God-sent for anyone with a computer who wishes to earn some pocket money from home. I have seen ordinary housewives become bloggers extraordinaire earning more than USD10,000 for all their writing efforts in a year. The moolah comes in nicely for Christmas spending and new clothes for kids or a short holiday somewhere. The ordinary housewife with limited savings suddenly become wealthy with thousands kept in the bank, all thanks to paid blogging from companies like Bloggers Review plus others that I don’t care to mention.

I was surfing a web site when I was emailed about an exciting offer from Bloggers Review. I decided to check it out, sign up and submit my 3 blogs. You can send in at the most 3 blogs per account. And they have an online customer support for any enquiries that you may have. It is fast, convenient and easy, at the touch of the keyboard.

I was surfing the web site when I came across a blog that sells t-shirts on Christian theme which is based in Singapore. Check out the link as it has a YouTube video of American Idol 2008 singing “Shout to the Lord”. The blogger reminds me of my years staying in Singapore from 1988 to 2000. He also happens to attend my former very annointed church, New Creation which has more than 15,000 members. So, if you are looking for Christian apparel, you can click on the link. It has been 8 years now, since I left Singapore for Penang; and the only thing I miss is the window shopping in Ngee Ann City and not being able to attend New Creation Church live in person at The Rock, Suntec City. But luckily I still get to listen to his sermons by purchasing CDs and books from www.newcreation.org.sg

Besides collecting stamps, I also look out for rare coin for my private collection. I have an album of coins dating back to my father’s time. And they are getting rarer because they are no longer in production. They are a form of investment besides being a hobby of sorts. Rare coins are hard to come by and only the trained eye can tell its value. I am still learning to tell the difference by reading widely from books and the internet. Sometimes, you can go to ZoomCoin and look out for such items that are worth collecting. And you get the genuine stuffs. They are compact and easy to keep in a coin album.

The whole of last night and until this morning, I lay awake all the time, shutting my eyes but I just could not fall asleep. Perhaps my mind was too active from reading a book in MPH plus the fact that I am enriching my vocabulary by trying to remember difficult words which I come across in the newspapers. Since I could not sleep, I naturally went downstairs to begin blogging at about 6:00am. My dad thinks that I have paid posts to do, but far from it. I have given up hope of doing paid posts anymore and have ventured into writing articles for lower payment. Not as lucrative as paid posts previously but it is still moolah in my Paypal. Now I am feeling groggy and less alert.

I was paid USD36 for a week’s work of writing 10 articles for a client from India. She has overflow work from USA, and sub contract them out to me. She used to be a medical transcriptionist earning USD750 a month until her hearing problems due to repetitive work and now she is into writing articles for USD450 a month. Not bad for someone who works from home with a young daughter. I am now into working with words for my part time job. And I love to write and read widely for a richer vocabulary. I keep a list of the vocabulary that I have learnt from the newspapers and search out the meanings from Google and from my own dictionary. This make reading all the more fun

Last Saturday, I went for an ice-skating performance in PISA. It was Disney on Ice. We sat right in front and got a very good view and we could the skaters’ expressions. I ordered the tickets online at RM135 per person and it was well worth the money. I paid for my ticket while boyfriend paid for his. Disney on Ice comes to Penang once in a year. We saw many award winning figure skaters doing flips, turns and twists in mid air. It was all so exciting with the props and giant blow up cartoon characters with fireworks and other special effects.

There was Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Daisy. I especially like 101 Dalmations with the lead skater Cruella De Vil. There’s also Lilo & Stitch, Peter Pan, Ariel the little mermaid, amongst others. The show lasted about 2-3 hours.

I don’t believe in buying shares and to speculate. I have seen too many people getting burnt due to high investment in shares. My aunt invested S$2.5 million and it was reduced to S$500,000. My mother lost a lot of money in shares and my dad lost the amount of 2 proton wiras. My mum max out the limit and used my name to buy more shares in the past. Similarly, unit trusts are a group of shares managed by other people for you.

As a habit, I normally put my money in Fixed Deposits (FD) at 3.7% per annum. Though it is less profit, but you will never lose your capital and gain the 3.7% extra at the end of the year. This year alone, I lost RM4,000 within 6 months after my dad instigated me to buy unit trusts saying I will definitely earn more money than FD. His greed for more money make me lose more as a result of investing RM$30,000 taken out from my FD. First of all, I had to pay for the manager’s fees at 5.5% totaling about RM1,650. This is a loss in capital already. The next few months my unit trusts drop below what I invested in and cause a further loss of about RM2,500. I have had enough! So, I sold off all of it at a loss of about RM4,000 and put back into FD. That’s the lesson I had to pay for listening to my dad who had sold a semi-detached house to play shares. His RM200k were reduced to RM20k in the end.

English is the lingua franca and international language used worldwide. You stand a better chance of being employed, presenting oneself and communicating better if you are English educated. Besides, for myself, I can write more convincing blogs after studying in Convent Green Lane, and learning English. For today, I just completed an online job writing a scholarstic research paper on System Framework for Psychiatric Nurses in an Acute Setting for USD16, for 4 pages, double spacing. Since the big PPP is running dry for me with no more opps to take up, I have ventured into writing research papers for students. It pays just as well, but with more research needed and I supposed a bit tougher. It also requires hours and hours reading, and hence, more time is needed researching and revising the paper. Just like PPP, there is ranking for writers and if you are caught plagiarising the material, you will be banned from the system. Just hope that I can get off well in this new venture of mine plus getting to earn some pocket money.

I was in KL for 3 days 2 nights with my boss for some business venture. We stayed at the rented condominium in Subang Jaya and also went down to Melaka, and exit via the Ayer Keroh Toll. It was a visit to a factory there for a sports project. My boss measured the sports court to confirm the size for the pending project. The next day, we visited an old friend and potential client in Star Bucks cafe in The Submit, which is just a stone’s throw away from our rented condo. Hopefully the project in Terengganu will materialise giving out workers constant jobs to support their families. It is very relaxing to see all the greenery, the oil palm estates and hills on the way to KL and back. There are a few rest areas such as Tapah where we go often during out outstation trips.