A creative idea, do you have one ?

Many people write about how to make $ on the internet through blogging. Many people think of making lots of $ through honest mean and dishonest mean. Many people boast of their success, many people keep quiet about their success.

I never forget what my late paternal grandma who was 1/2 Melanau used to tell me about a Chinese proverb : the same kind of rice produce many kind of people :). I think the English equivalent is every individual is unique.

I used to work for a very successful Entrepreneur who used to tell me something which I will remember for life. He said something along this line, when you want to get rich, don't think of how to make $, but think of how to be successful. $ will eventually follow success. They are twins. He always told me to think of creating something or some systems that will duplicate itself even after I die :).

So far, I have not created anything that is a real success or a hit except producing a son that is a duplicate of me :):).

Do you have a creative idea to share ? Whoever created this man made water fountain, sure do ! Isn't that intricate , you ask ? How could the faucet stand on its own ? Do you want to guess how the faucet stand on its own with running water. It is not done by the magician David Copperfield :)-.

In fact, the answer is very simple. It is a very innovative idea. The cost to make this water fountain is very minimum but it sure is a hot items on tourist spots on smoky mountain...

How many blogs you read daily ?

I know I am a blog addict.
I wish I am more tech savyy where I own a handhold computer where I can blog. But, I don't :)-.
I go to a mortal school to get a real degree but I also spend a lot of times on virtual school getting blogging e-degree.
I talk a lot on the blog but in real life I can be quiet if I want to. In fact, I am quite a loner in life. I travel round the world for 12months all by myself :)-. I traveled to/fro H.K/K.L alone for a number of years. I love companies but I also love solitaire.
This blogging thing has gotten me hooked !
I don't know about you, I read at least 3-5 new blogs every day.
How about you ? Do you read a number of new blogs every day or you stick with your friends blogs ?

An expensive restaurant for an expensive taste bud !

A grand piano awaiting my grand entrance !















An European high ceiling (excuse my lousy photography skill :):), just pretend it is romantic lah)















An exquisite Oriental Sesame Chicken Salad !













Tall Italian Column !















Aiya, what lah, a McDonald lah, kena tipu, ha ha ha ha ha !

Greetings @ Asheville North Carolina :)-

I am using the public internet @ the library at E.Asheville before going to downtown for our dinner :)
Cheers !

Will be away for 5days !

My dear readers, my family and I will be taking our summer holidays the next week. I won't be blogging for the next 5days.

See you when I come back.














Signing off from sunshine Florida.

My personal review on paid post

This blog is served as an encouragement to new bloggers who want to make some part time income for writing paid post on their blogs.

I have received some $ from bloggerwave for the posts that I wrote for them. The money has long been transfered to my checking account from my paypal account. Since then I have not written new posts for bloggerwave because they have not posted any new post for me.

Today, Smorty emailed me that they are sending $ to my paypal account for the posts that I wrote for them. I was pleasantly surprised because it took a while for Smorty to approve my blog. But since they approved my blog, they have given me posts to write and I can say their payment system is very efficient. It did not take them very long to pay me.

The other company that I have signed up with was Blogitive. So far, Blogitive has not approved my blog yet. I am not too worry about it, when they felt that my blog is good enough for them, I am sure they will notify me.

The other one is CREAMaid. For CREAMaid, you don't have to register, all you do is you pick any conversations that you are interested in, you write and submit your post. They will email you if your post is approved. So far, I have only written one post for them and I have not heard from them yet.

The other company that I have registered longer than the others is payperpost. It takes me a while to get used to payperpost system. I got rejected quite a number of times in the beginning because I forget to link these and that or my post was shorter than the requirement. So far, I have written 7posts for them and they have approved 3 of them. I have not received any money from them yet for the posts they approved. Might be they have a payment system that I should look into it. I have not gotten the time to go about doing it yet.

And the last one that I nearly forget to mention is blogvertise. They did approve my blog long ago but I have never received any assignment from them until recently. I hope they will give me more as my blogging day progress :)-

In terms of money wise, time/$, I don't think writing for pay post is the most profitable kind of money for blogging. To me it is an active job and an active income, it is not a passive income. A passive income is an income that can be generated even when you are sleeping. Might be for Malaysian bloggers, it is a good revenue because of the exchange rate. Every US$100 would translate to RM$300+. But for us American, it is not so. Plus the fact that we have a lot more opportunities here that pay more or less kind of money. To me writing for paid post is a bit like doing medical coding or medical transcript, but in a smaller scale. Home business medical transcript is a US$1.7 billion business. Of course with medical coding and transcript, you need to attend some classes to acquired the skill for coding and transcript. With coding and transcript, there is no limit on the amount of work you want to put in, there are more jobs than people who are available to do it.

So you ask, why are you still doing paid post when you could be doing other things.Well, I enjoy writing, especially writing for travel post, the other thing is writing paid post helped me a lot in writing :). I am more conscious of my tenses and grammar. I am doing a course that required me to write a lot. In fact, blogging and writing paid posts have helped me in my writing for my class. One stone kills two bird. A bargain for me.

I think the very main reason I blog is the ability to connect with Malaysian or ex-Malaysians all over the world. I made a number of good cyber friends over the years of my cyber journey. I can name them here but I do not think it is appropriate for me to do it because I knew with my forgetful mind I tend to miss one or two names and that is not very kind of me to do that.

So I like to encourage everyone who wanted to take up this part time money making hobby, be patience, be persevere , never give up; and I am very sure that one of these days, one of these companies will ask you to write for them. I am no guru in telling you what to do with your content etc. I do not want to sound like some old mamak who think they knew it all by giving you all kind of advices. My only advice is don't worry , be happy even if your blogs have been rejected, rewrite and submit again, no big deal. Life is mean for us to enjoy :).

Don't worry , be happy !!!!!!!!!!!!

With that I am signing off from Sunshine Florida.

Summer holiday and cheap hotels !

Whenever summer is near, my leg starts to get itchy, they want to go somewhere (figurative speaking :)). All that on my mind are holidays, vacations and funs. My husband and I went to a lot of holidays the last 7 summers we have been together. We have been to Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Philadelphia, Delaware and of course many places in Florida , the Panhandle, the South West Coast and the Central East Coast.

For those of us who love to travel, we are pretty seasoned when it comes to finding travel web sites that offer bargain deals. Recently, I came across a site called Cheaper than hotel dot com.

I take a greater interest on Cheap Hotels in Manchester because we have always wanted to visit the United Kingdom during one of our summer vacation.

I find the site very useful because it provide all classes of hotels from budget to luxury. And they also provide a list of bed and breakfast Inns. I love bed and breakfast Inns because they provide a warm homely atmosphere that you do not think you in some strange place. We stayed in a very nice bed and bedfast in St.Augustine during our honey moon. It is called the Victoria House. Oh, I love it especially in the morning when the owner bred their own brand coffee and provide us with fresh scones from their oven. It was a wonderful feeling.

There is this great site that can help you to do some research before you venture into the Great Manchester. It is the official website of the tourist board for Greater Manchester where you can discover the best of the Manchester city region in one place. Read on for your essential Manchester city guide. http://www.visitmanchester.com/

Do not forget to check out this site where you can find cheap hotels at Manchester Airport :
http://www.cheaperthanhotels.co.uk/United-Kingdom/Manchester/Airport/

I hope you enjoy your summer this year and have many sweet summer vacation experiences.

** This is a paid post.