Talking about money, i just went to get some small bank notes exchange to prepare for Chinese New Year. Being married, it’s customary to give other unmarried relatives and kids angpows. And it don’t come cheap – especially if you consider giving to a lot of relatives. Even RM5 a packet can already set me back at least RM500 or more, depending on whether we have any special guests coming that year.

RM500 to RM1000. Enough to buy good and branded MP3 players like iPOD. Lucky that starting last year, it’s no longer only giving but also receiving. Well, not me and my wife, but our daughter. At least getting something back although it’s really receiving on her behalf, and putting it into her bank account. When she’s old enough, then all those money would be transferred to ASB and she can earn better dividend while at the same time, can sort of double as her education fund as well.

Well – that’ll still be long time to go.

I have to start writing again. When i stop writing, my Paypal stopped receiving USD. I have to write more, so that i’ll have more USD, and i can get stuffs online again. I don’t know – there’s way too many things that i want online but i don’t want to really touch my credit card for it.

One thing for sure is the hosting for the sites. Although it’ll not expire till August next year, but i have to start getting something in in order to pay for it then. At least, i can spread out the income so as not to run out of stuffs to write. If i have excess USD, i may want to be paying for my auto insurance quote as well using the USD.

Pray for my success and consistency. Hehe.

One month after my last post on my first cheque request from Nuffnang, i received another email today from them saying that the cheque is now on the way.

“Dear blogger,

Good news! Your cashout has just been marked as ‘Sent’ in our system, meaning the cheque is on its way. If you do not get your cheque within one month, kindly notify us, as cheques are only valid up to six months. All our cheques are sent via HSBC’s Cheque Outsourcing Service in which after a year, all unclaimed cheques will be sent to Bank Negara. Claiming cheques from Bank Negara may incur administrative costs.”

Cool news to me, although it’s probably not much for me to buy electric blanket, but still cool as i never thought i’ll be requesting payout from them. But it’s going to be here after all, and in time for Chinese New Year Power of Tiger!

Been looking at this option to explore if we can make money out of buying and selling properties, especially new projects in Penang and KL/Selangor area. There’s people i know who are actually making a living buying and selling properties. Well, at least it helps supplement their home income.

The reason i didn’t venture into this is the fact that i need quite a big sum of capital to play with. Well, initially at least, as once you started making money out of the first sales, you’ll have that profit to use as capital for next purchase. I guessed i have to get books on properties trading to understand more.

But i do realised one thing – shophouses are better money-earner than houses/apartments. But of course, it all depends on the locations. Something i got to learn more.

In looking for ways to bring back traffic to my blogs, i re-discover Project Petaling Street. I have been using PPS to bring traffic to my blogs previously, but i stopped doing it when i started blogging intermittently. I used to like going to PPS, and read the postings posted by other bloggers. I even made some friends that way – commenting on stuffs i liked and it’s mutual – i get visits back as well.

So i started doing what i used to do previously – ping PPS, and start visiting and actually commenting on people’s blog. Got to do it the hard way to get constant traffic back to my blogs. I’m not selling any truck accessories so i can’t expect people to come to my blogs searching for those things.

Let’s see how it goes.

Am looking at driving traffic back to my blogs. I have been abandoning them for way too long. I have not been writing regularly, that i sometimes forget what are the purpose of me starting this blog in the first place. Getting back on my foot (blogging-wise, that is) has not been very easy, what’s more with the easiness of Twitter where i could just tweet a one-liner whenever i felt like writing something.

Used to be doing that for my blogs – i must get back that motivation to write once again. Maybe the next time i can write when i first wear my breeches. Maybe next time i can find back what i’m supposed to write in this blog in the first place. Maybe then, i’ll start getting traffic back. But it’s going to be hard work. Let’s see how it goes.

Time to change template again. It’s been awhile since i last tampered with my blogs template – especially this blog and my main blog. Have been kinda lazy to go into the nitty-gritty details of themes update, and decided to leave it as it is for awhile. And i’m getting fed up with the look of my current blogs so decided to look out for some new themes to replace.

If you happen to be here while i was doing the change, don’t be alarmed. Don’t worry, it’s not like i’m selling any Couture Jewelry and lost all my stocks – it’s just my blog themes are changing. And i’m doing something with the rest of my domains that i have now. Let me see – i have……. 1, 2…..8 domains to play with. Damn…..

Tuxedos. I have always wanted to get one. I have always wanted to dress in one too. I mean, i have always wanted to work in such environment where tuxedos are a must – or at least when attending dinners or such. Really don’t know, maybe when i was smaller i used to like wearing smartly to anywhere, and always have this idea of attending dinners wearing tuxedo.

I never even wear a tuxedo during my wedding – it was just a blazer/coat thingy. Perhaps it wasn’t really matching at that time to be wearing tuxedo for my wedding. Well – never really thought about it at that time. Was watching the movie about the tuxedo last night and that sort of invoke my thoughts about tuxedo.

Let’s see if i can make whatever that i dream comes true

It’s almost the time of the year again. Yes – i am referring to Christmas. Although it’s a good 1 month away, but i can already sense Christmas is already coming. I can already see some shops started selling Christmas decorations. So it’s time for the people who celebrates Christmas to worry about what to get as presents for their loved ones.

So what are the usual presents that people buy? For tech-savvies, they may consider digital cameras, PDAs or computers as present. For older folks, perhaps something traditional and time-tested like decorations or glasswares may be the choice.

Whatever the choice is, just make sure enjoy it and don’t get into unnecessary debts