I Hate Washing The Dishes

What is the thing you hate to do most after almost every meal. For me? It has to be washing the dishes. Those oily pans, bowls, spoons, forks. Just give me a headache.

I am not the person in charge of washing the dishes at home. My dad is. So after dinner, he would just wash the dishes for the whole family. Poor him.

Sometimes I just wish I own the bosch dishwasher that I saw online. This seems to be the solution to all my dishes problems. No more washing of dishes after every meal.

The problem I have with the bosch dishwasher is it’s size. It seems to be too big for a Singapore HDB flat. In fact it looked just like a washing machine from the pictures!

The price of the bosch dishwasher is another worrying point. Too expensive! Unless I own a restaurant, getting that is totally out of the question. Guess I have to live with my dishes problems for quite a while.

Why Would Someone Seek Death?

I was taught how valuable life was since I was a child. Seeing my loved ones by their death beds and not able to care for them enforced this value further.

Thus it pains me to read news of people who commit suicide. Don’t they understand that being able to wake up every morning is a gift? Why problems were so great that they could not find the solution to it?

Sometime ago my friends and I were discussing how the youngsters nowadays were reluctant to care for their aging parents. They would use all sort of excuse to put their parents into nursing homes. Most of the excuse used were that they were too busy making more money to provide a more comfortable life for their parents. Since most of the time were spend on work, no one would could take care of the ageing parents and the nursing home were the answer.

But fear not. There are many help lines available both locally and overseas. Bettercaring are one of the few available. They provide crucial questions about caring for oneself and their loved ones. Always seek help before it is too late.

Did Xiaxue Have A Sex Change?

This was on the front page of Lianhe Wanbao. In fact it covered a quarter of the front page. I could not make out of the Chinese characters and wondered what was the big fuss on the local blogger Xiaxue. To take up at a quarter of the front page must be something serious.

It turns out that Xiaxue had blog about her sex change in Thailand. That was surprising. I blog hop down to her blog and check it out. Yeah the blog entry was there. It did sound like she had a sex change. Was it all true or just another publicity stunt?

I followed her blog when I had just started blogging and from the way she blog, chances of this being a publicity was so much higher. Guess any Tom, Dick and Harry would know that by now. After the Lianhe Wanbao published the entry, she receive quite a number of concern calls from her friends. She did another entry to clarify things.

As a blogger myself I, there was nothing wrong in creating frictional entries for her readers. In fact I believed her for just a second. But did this piece of frictional blog entry deserved to be on the front page of the local newspaper? What happened to the more important news headlines like the revamp of the public bus system?

Are Newspapers running out of worthy news to be published? Do you think this piece of news about Xiaxue sex change deserved to be on the front page?

Review of Samsung Latest MP3 Player YP-T10 + Discounts

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I was getting bored of my 3 years old ipod nano and was thinking of getting a new mp3 player. Just as I was shopping around, an email came informing me that I was picked by Ripplevox to take part as a trial user for Samsung latest range of MP3 players.

I was both shocked and amazed by the technology that this baby came with. The YP-T10 came with Bluetooth function. That means no more wires! How cool can that be.

Design And Colour

Samsung YP-T10 comes in 5 colours namely Midnight Black, Mystic Purple, Maple Red, Lime Yellow and White Cloud. Since I was just a trial user, no bargaining chips here. I would prefer a White Cloud actually.

The trial set comes with a Bluetooth Headset SBH500

Samsung YP-T10

Functionality

The T10 is also equip with a 2-inch colour LCD display which seems to be the norm for MP3 players. Comparing with Ipod Nano, I would still prefer the design of Nano. The edges are kind of rough when handling it.

Did I mention that the T10 lets you play movies on it? A full charge lets me use up to 30 hours of music and 4 hours of movie. Nice huh?

Instead of a scroll wheel like the Nano, T10 comes with touch sensitive keypad commonly found on mobile phones. High tech enough?

Pair with the Bluetooth headset SBH500 and I can control the playback via the Headset while the T10 is safely inside my pocket.

Samsung YP-T10 Full Accessories

Samsung Bluetooth Headset SBH500

Improvement opportunities

There is still room for improvement in terms of design. It’s shape is unique but the edges are rough to touch.

Overall Likes & Dislike

I am seriously consider this as an alternatives to Ipod or Creative. The functions that I cannot live without are available in T10. Bluetooth, Radio, Able to play Movies and Touch Sensitive keypads. What more can I ask for?

Oh well maybe just reduce the sensitivity of the keypad. It is just too sensitive. Many times I move to a different menu on the T10 without me knowing.

Making Profit From Affiliate Program

There are just so many ways we can squeeze money out of the Internet. Doing reviews, putting up advertisements are just a few ways of doing it. Another way would be to join a affiliate programs of companies which offers products to your readers.

But there are thousands of affiliate programs to chose from. So how do we know where to find a program which will bring in cash for your site?

Take a look at C-Planet if you ever decided to use affiliate program as a means of increasing your earnings. C-Planet provides accurate Real Time traffic statistics of your site for you to analyse and find out how much does your traffic really worth.

Right now they have a casino affiliate program going on. Since online gambling is one of the major markets around, joining an affiliate program might just bring in that extra cash for a rainy day.

GrabMyAds Is Not Going Down Quietly

Ever since Nuffnang announced the launched of Nuffnang Gliterati, it had created quite a stir with the bloggers. Many vowed not to remove the ads from other South East Asia Ads network while others decided to serve only Nuffnangs Ads from now.

For bloggers who had sign up with GrabMyAds, you would have noticed that there was incoming ads send to your blogs since last night. (See the ads on the left of my blog) I had contacted GrabMyAds for more information since I did not receive any email regarding the incoming ads. Turns out that the ads were send to all bloggers who had signed up for GrabMyAds.

So far, only Blog2U and Nufflets had not reacted to Nuffnang announcements or were they planning a new strategy to counter all this?

Nuffnang Strikes Back With Exclusive Program Nuffnang Gliterati

Is it pure coincidence or is Nuffnang trying to convince more bloggers to join them after the big blunder that Advertlets had made in the beginning of 2008? Starting on the 13th of January 2008, Nuffnang will kick start it’s exclusive program Nuffnang Gliterati for it’s exclusive members.

What is an “exclusive Nuffnang blogger”?

An exclusive Nuffnang blogger is a blogger that has NO advertisements from any other ad network that originates from South East Asia on his/her blog.

How do I apply for the Nuffnang Gliterati club?

You do not need to apply and will automatically be included as a Nuffnang Gliterati as long as you do NOT have any ads from any other ad network that originates from South East Asia. Our crawlers will automatically include your blog in the club within 48 hours.

Note that if an ad from another ad network is placed on your blog at any time, our crawlers will pick it up within 48 hours and you will automatically be removed from the program.

Why You Should Join The Nuffnang Gliterati?

1) Payment Rates for both Cost Per Unique Visitor and Cost-Per-Click.

The less ads a blogger has on his blog, the higher share of voice and the less each ad will have to compete with other ads for attention. Hence, the higher the CTR and the higher the value of that particular ad space on the blog.

That is why for example you will never see 8 different ads on the same page on a newspaper unless it’s in the Classifieds where each advertiser pays a small amount.

As a result of that, Glitterati Nuffnangers will earn 20-40% more than ordinary Nuffnangers.

2) Payment Terms

In the advertising industry just like in many industries, payment from advertisers come from specific terms like 60 or 90 days. In the past, Nuffnang has used its cash reserves to pay off bloggers for campaigns that we still have not been paid for by our clients. Due to the great increase of bloggers in the Nuffnang community, we are no longer able to provide this service for all our Nuffnangers and unfortunately will have to restrict this service to Nuffnang Gliterati.

However, all Nuffnangers will still be paid in a timely manner as stipulated in the Program Table.

3) Advertorial Opportunities

Many bloggers know that while banner ad campaigns earn a decent stable income, it is advertorials that pay the most. Each advertorial depending on the advertiser, commitment and traffic can earn a blogger a minimum of SGD 50 to SGD 1,500 not including freebies that may sometimes be included.

In the past, advertorial opportunities were available for all our Nuffnangers. However, due to the high demand for advertorials and the need for us to narrow down which blogger of the thousands will get advertorials, only exclusive bloggers will now be eligible for advertorials.

4) Community Events

Nuffnang is known to organize the biggest community events ever which range from free movie screenings, lunch meet ups and many more. We find that in many of these events, many Nuffnangers would like to bring guests along with them and we at Nuffnang would like to oblige as much as we can.

As such, 70% of the seats for each event will be allocated to Nuffnang Gliterati AND the guests they may bring.

5) Contests

Contests among Nuffnangers have been something we’ve been having quite a lot with many bloggers winning everything from free meals at Friday’s to mobile phones or even the upcoming contest of a free trip to Gold Coast. With the high demand for these contests, we will give priority to Nuffnang Gliterati with 70% of the prizes to be allocated to them and the remaining 30% to be allocated to non-Nuffnang Gliterati.

6) Innit

Innit is a tool developed and hosted by Nuffnang to add the additional service of driving traffic to any Nuffnang blog. This tool will now only be restricted to Nuffnang Gliterati since it is within our best interest of our community not to indirectly drive any traffic to a future competing network.

The vast majority of the Nuffnang Community is already eligible for the exclusive program so there isn’t much to worry about. All of us at Nuffnang sincerely hope that this new initiative will show how much we do appreciate your loyalty.

Will bloggers start moving towards Nuffnang by serving only Nuffnang ads once Nuffnang Gliterati starts? Nuffnang Gliterati not only affect Advertlets but Grabmyads as well. Have Nuffnang officially started a war with all other South East Asia Advertising Network? Will Nuffnang break any Competition Act in Singapore or Malaysia?

Would you serve only Nuffnang Ads from now on?