My sifu Moo introduced me to text link ads last year about this time. My objective was to get enough advertising revenue to maintain this domain and pay for flickr PRO. On the sideline, I was also interested in tracking how succesful does non-intrusive online adverts it works with a small insignificant blog like mine.

Well.

VERY WELL! Total payment from August 07-August 08 is USD 366.05! Even then, I did not start earning double digits $$$ until the beginning of this year….but the past 4 months have seen my monthly revenue rise to $50+ on a monthly basis.This will definately go to either a purchase of a new laptop that I sorely need now that I broke my old one or purchase of a new bring-everywhere camera that I need to be able to take sharp shots of randomness that catches my fancy.

The system is easy peasy. You sign up for an account with your blog domain, wait for it to be approved, and then voila, they start hawking your site to advertisers. You can even set it to auto-approve advertisers, thus you not having to do any work whatsoever but to sit back and watch the money roll in! Definately worth the 10 minutes it takes to sign up and install the code…especially useful for hobbyist bloggers like me. Once advertisers sign up, they take 50% of the earnings, leaving you with the other half. Now, this may seem outrageous, but bear in mind that they are doing all the donkey work of sourcing for advertisers, billing ect…whilst all you do is sit back, relax, and continue blogging. And watch the money roll in. If my small insignificant and badly updated blog can make money, so can yours!

My favourite part about txtlinkads is the fact that it is completely non-intrusive and that I am not forced to blog about crap things like credit cards, florida holidays ect….yes, those that annoy you because your fav blogger talks about windows, floorpolish and other things that are completely unrelated in every other blog – just for the sake of getting some moolah.

So, click on the below to start making money….when you register using me as a referee, I get a small token payment as well, which will contribute to the running of this site. Click click click NOW!

I have spent the past few weeks working with the good people at The Dreymall regarding my dream shop.Yes, there is no denying that The Dreymall is run by my good friend dree and her business partners so I get preferential treatement blah blah .

Most of us have dreamt of running our own shops since the days of playing shopkeeper when we were children. With the advent of the internet and push button publishing, dreams have been coming true for many of us wannabe shopkeepers. Even me and drey have tried selling items online via multiply.I would be the first to admit that our multiply shop wasn’t as good as it should be, therefore no buyers for the lunabliss items that we tried hawking.

The problem with many new online shops that keeps popping up like mushrooms is that items are displayed and sold via blogging platforms (just like this one). This is totally marfan (troublesome) as each new post is a new item for sale, and sales cannot be done real time like amazon but interested buyers are asked to request for it via email to the seller. Also, there are no automatic notification when the item has run out, prompting interested customers to continue emailing the seller only to get a dissapointing reply a couple of days after.

I believe that if you are going to run a business, you’ve got to be professional. You’ve got to be prepared to provide the best service to your customers and be at their beck and call. Nothing turns me off more than a horribly designed website. What’s more frustrating is when you are really interested in the items up for sale, but not being able to buy it because the seller makes it so hard for the shopper to purchase it! In the current PayPal world, I am very annoyed that consumers still have to put up with shoddy displays, annoying shopfronts and difficult procedures in purchasing.

In comes the Dreymall team. They have created a easy to manage and customer friendly interface for all your online selling needs. As a seller, it helps you track your shipping, stock levels and is extremely easy to use and manage your prices and items for sale. As a buyer, the clean and intuitive controls helps you shop in a stress-free environment. Once you are done adding items to your shopping cart, you click checkout, where shipping will be calculated and your final bill is presented to you. Easy as 1-2-3. No agonizing waits for emails that you have been accepted as a buyer, no annoying controls to navigate through like other online shops that are on blogging platforms.

Don’t believe me? Check it out here. The team have even provided a test logon so you can just go in an have a look around at what the system can do. You manage your item listings, pictures, prices and shipping all from one easy to navigate system. It is all so clever! I was most impressed with the ability to compute shipping and track shipping rates. It just simplifies life for a small time online shopowner. I am not saying this just because me and dree are friends, but it really is clever – try it for yourself if you do not believe me.

So, if you have ever wanted to own a shop, have a look at The Dreymall now. From now until my birthday, as my gift to you (wrong way round isn’t it?) The Dreymall is even offering a free three month trial on their system. Go on, have a look. Speak with the Dreymall team. If you don’t like the system after three months you can always board the shop up at no extra cost to you at all. What’s more, if you should decide to keep it, setup costs are not expensive at all; unlike many of their competitors.

Who knows, you might be the next amazon…..

Yes, one of the thousands that must must have to have the Wii Fit – the revolutionary at-home personal trainer. I preordered this nearly three weeks ago, and it was delivered on launch date of 25th April. And it was well worth it!!!

It first measures your BMI, which puts me at overweight– no suprises there, especially since I entered the wrong height measurement. Then it measures your balance , which gave me my Wii Fit age at 44. Hah. However, I do think that it tends to measure younger users and give them an older age, whilst older users will be assigned a younger age. All about motivation me says. The younger ones will be determined to lower their Wiiage whilst the older ones are so happy about being a younger wiiage than they actually are and thus continue playing

And its games -nothing like Bubble Bobble or even Grand Thef Auto. This was just out of the world! Over the weekend I had jogged on the spot with the Wiimote (the controller) in my pockets, headed footballs, ski jumped, dressed up as a penguin and chased after fishes, did pushups and many others. What was excellent about this Wiifit is the Yoga section, which measures if your weight is evenly distributed between your feet and how much you are shaking when you are doing a pose. This is nearly impossible to judge with traditional classes or even one to one yoga training. Wiifit takes out the doubt that you might be doing it wrong by measuring your centre of gravity and shakiness of your leg supporting your upper body.

I also found out that I rocked in hulahooping! Excellent for straining the thigh muscles, it was absolutely exhausting! Step aerobics was one of my plus points as well, fairly similar with dance dance revolution. Just trying to do more cardio stuff at the moment due to my Mii ( avatar on Wii) currently resembling a rotund barrel – it automatically shrinks your Mii if you’re underweight and vice versa.

This was bacon doing step aerobics

I might dissapear in the next week or so, but will definately take more pics! Been to busy excercising myself and had no time to take pixs. Very happy with my progress so far, seeing that I am horrible with sticking to gym, Wiifit will actually scold me if I was not consistent with my excercises! It says good morning to you, asks you if you’ve had your lunch and tells you to stay off the afternoon snack. Now, have you seen a friendlier personal trainer?

The trailer is available from YouTube here

All those who are on their playstation 3 yearn for a day like this!!

It is over at last. After numerous presents,it is over,and my tree is bare of any pretty presents. It sure has been like Santa’s been….I have recevied presents from people that I have no idea who they are..relatives of Bacon’s relatives.Nothing small mind you,I received a £20 GAP voucher and some £50 odd quid from the same person.And silly bacon has no idea how is that particular person related to him,which made it more like christmas!

With Bacon telling one and all that I like pink,I now have loads of presents in all sorts of glaring pinks.From an ah lien metallic leather purse (which I have returned..:P) to pink piglet scarf to bath robe, I am going on pink withdrawal! And because I asked around for availibility of facials (hello,bride to be here!), I have received a fucking face steamer.Don’t play play ok…a face steamer! Hahahaha.Complete with scrubs and masks ect to allow me to turn into cinderella.

It’s the apres noel sales now,which is totally amazing because most things are at 50% off.Cute christmas boxed sets are all at 50%off…I got myself boxed creams and stuff from Body Shop,went crazy at boots and will be off to Marks and Spencer’s soon.I love this sale…at last I can afford to buy myself some new clothes. Did not get much though,other than the 7 pairs of socks..I never used to wear socks in Malaysia,always preferring to go barefooted.

Anyway…to my fav topic,xmas foods!!

Dinner at the mother-in-law’s


Duck and turkey with all the trimmings

Traditional Christmas Pud with sparklers..yay

We made a gingerbread house…this is Bacon’s geeky side

All puffed out..Bacon is so full that I am able to balance wasabi peas on the ridge of his big fat tummy

And then…Dinner with the father-in-law;ableit in a hotel

Smoked salmon…sibeh good leh.

Bacon’s pink roast beef

My ‘pink’ lamb

And the piece de la resistance…sticky toffee pudding.Looks like shit (literally) but one bite and I’m hooked!

Sorry all for the quality of the pictures…I was with ‘adults’ so I did not want glaring looks at what a crazy loon this new addition to the family was.Oh well,when I am officially in,I will trot around asking everyone to stop eating so I can snap away

How was everyone’s christmas?