Archive for December, 2007

I’m In!

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

So I’m finally in. Hubby’s approval received. Obviously, I’m starting now, doing my assignment: research how to make money from my blog.I am excited and overwhelmed at the same time coz there are millions of information from the internet about making money from your blog.

Now, I’m starting with blogvertise. It’s very easy to sign up. You just need to have paypal so they can send you the payment. Once you’re approved, you will be given assigment to write or review about products or companies. Then you will get paid. Isn’t that cool? I just can’t wait to earn money from what I love to do: blogging.

Christmas Shopping

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Holiday is here. It is a time of giving and receiving! With the Christmas coming fast, everybody will be thinking to buy gifts for family and friends. For those who are relying on their jobs to get salary, they have to wait for payday to be able to buy things. Most paydays are at the end of the month. So what do we do?

We borrow money from friends or family. But that would be embarrassing coz I feel it’s not right to borrow money to buy gifts. Hehehe. Also, people would be using money to spend for holidays so borrowing of money is not advisable.

Maybe get a cash advance online. With payday loans, you’re sure you’ll get your money securely. With online payday loans, you don’t have to wait for paydays to get your money. And it’s fast and safe. We can do our Christmas shopping right on time.

My Sunday

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
It’s a long day today. Continued with our Christmas shopping. Went to Subang Parade. But before we went there, hubby surprised me by taking the family to ikea! I love ikea… lots of nice stuff for kitchen and stuff for kids, too. Well… almost all the household stuff you can see there. I love their showrooms, but photo-taking wasn’t allowed. So I can’t show you here. We had Swedish meal for lunch. Yum!

Spent the whole afternoon there. I tell you, when you go to ikea, you will never come out empty-handed! LOL! Well, for me, at least. Bought gifts for my nephews Joshua and Joel there, and for my Schenker too. Went to Ikano also to find something for Samantha… found a nice dress there for her.
Hubby then took me to starbucks. Love their frapuccino, esp Java Chips. It has been my favorite since Phuket days.

On the way back home, we dropped by Subang Parade to finish off our Christmas shopping. Now everything’s complete. I also got some stuff for Christmas giveaways for our team’s party. Yeah, I’m gonna host the party again. I love hosting parties and dinners. Loved hosting fine dining until Samantha came. Fine dining requires very detailed preparation so when another baby came, I couldn’t do it anymore… physically and time-wise not able… Maybe when Samantha grows bigger, i can go back to it. I just love fine dining. That’s all. :P Okay, back to Subang Parade. It was a good timing when we were there coz there was a carolling show and Santa Claus went around greeting everybody, and giving candies to kids. Schenker shook hands with him; Samantha was scared. Hehehe.

We had dinner there. And yeah, we had Chicken rice if you ask me what we had. :D Went home feeling tired but accomplished.

I told you we had a long day. But a good long day at that. Hope everybody had a lovely weekend too!!!

Christmas Shopping

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Finally, we started our Christmas shopping… as hubby promised to do it on Saturday, so we did. Went to Sunway Pyramid last night. But having kids in tow made our shopping a challenge. Nevertheless it was fun. Our girl enjoyed it the most, touching things here and there. She’s just very curious, always wanna have her hands on something.


Sunway Pyramid’s architectural design is Egyptian Pyramid inspired. So you can see a lot of intricate carvings, can see the huge phoenix outside the mall, too… and the roof has big domes! But… Sunway Pyramid is too huge for me to shop nowadays. Good thing we knew where to buy what. Otherwise, it will be impossible to even buy one thing. Went to Marks and Spencer’s. They have reasonable buys and bought gifts there for the 3 men (FIL and two BILs). Bought one for hubby too. Of course he knew what I bought for him already. I asked him first what he wanted for Christmas. Hehehe. Saved the headache of thinking what to give.


Will do the rest of Christmas shopping in Subang Parade. It’s easy to shop there. It’s not a big mall. So it’s not tiring to shop. And I know where to get things by heart!

Hubby asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told him I wanna have a book written by Tolkien. LOL! The title is “Children of Hurin.” Hehehe. I like all these non-fiction books, esp by J.R.R. Tolkien. I have 4 of his books already (Silmarillion, LOTR Trilogy and The Hobbit). I’m actually saving these for the kids when they grow up. It’s a nice read. And i can talk endless about these books… but back to my Christmas wish…

I so wanted this book. But I told him, it’s not worth to buy it. It’s hardbound book and it costs like $$ to buy now. So I told him of my other wish. Which is not hard to buy. (I mean not hard in the pocket). LOL!

Will go again today. We were planning to do it again after church. But we missed church today. :( too bad. We missed the Christmas program. Everytime they have programs and shows in the church, it’s like they have an international show. They actually practise for months and they can really spend for costumes and backdrops and some effects!

Okay enough rambling. Time to go shopping again…

Happy Sunday everyone!!!

My Debut

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Remember the last time I told you I was thinking about making money from my blog and hubby disapproved? Guess what… He finally did, without me asking him twice. He just thought why not give it a try. Also, with a holiday season going on, we need extra cash to enjoy our holidays and merry-making. So I thought why not get paid thru one thing I’m passionate about.

The first thing I did after I got the go signal: search in the internet for some online companies that offer to pay for bloggers who wanna earn thru blogging. I found so many. But one thing that caught my eyes was this: Smorty.

While I discovered that I can sign up with Smorty to write a blog to earn, I also discovered that you can advertise product here! Smorty is a service connecting advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers can pay bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertisers site. So advertisers can get customers thru bloggers and bloggers are getting paid. This is two-way round!

I am very excited as this is my first ever entry to make money. I signed up with Smorty and I found it was very easy to do so… very convenient. The opportunities to write are fast selling! I’m sure there are many bloggers who are using Smorty that are writing for advertisers.

If you’re an advertiser… sign up quickly! Advertise on blogs. Use Smorty. A lot of bloggers are just waiting for the opportunities to write!