Planning To Diversify And Change Course

Our little trip to Genting Highlands was a great was to get away from business and just have fun. But it was also an eye opener. Up there, we saw so many ways people were making money – from vending food to novelties. Since returning from the hilltop, I’ve been extremely busy catching up with my websites and more importantly, ...

3rd Anniversary As A Full Time Work At Home Dad

3 years ago on 15th December 2004, I began my life as a full time work at home Dad, running a home based catering business with my wife and managing my websites (and this blog). It hasn’t been a bed of roses I can tell you. Being my own boss calls for lots to sweat (literally) and grit. If we ...

Adsense Testing New Scrolling Ad Format

A member on Webmasterworld noticed a new Adsense format being tested on some sites. A number of members confirmed seeing this new format as well. Here’s a sample image : I think that there are a number of advantages to this format : It adds interactivity to the ads; I believe visitors are more likely to click on an ad ...

Getaway To Genting Highlands

We’ll be going for a short family holiday this weekend to Genting Highlands. Genting Highlands is a massive hilltop resort that’s a really fun place so it’s also almost always packed with people. Food also costs double up there than it does anywhere else in Malaysia. But the kids love it because there’s just sooooo much to do. I like ...

My Last Adsense Check And Payment Via Western Union Received!

I received my first payment from Adsense via Western Union today. It was fanta-bulously easy and quick! In fact it’s soooo quick that my payment for October is already in my hands and I still haven’t received September’s payment, which came by check : My last Adsense check which has yet to be banked into my account Okay… I know ...

Set Up Adsense Payment Via Western Union

I’m a slow snail when it comes to making changes, but after hearing other bloggers’ positive experience with cashing out their Adsense payments via Western Union, I finally changed my own payment option. Here’s how to set up your Adsense account for payments via Western Union. Step 1 : Log into you Adsense account and click on the My Account ...

My Shiny New Visa Cards

After Paypal okayed the withdrawal of funds to Malaysian Visa Credit and Debit Cards, I applied for 2 cards : Hong Leong’s Visa Credit Card and Public Bank’s Visa Electron Debit Card. Since these two cards will be for the sole purpose of withdrawing funds from Paypal, I chose to apply only for the basic and not gold cards. So ...

Part-time Income, Full-time Peace of Mind

All is not well with Alice (not her real name), a friend of ours who works as a floor manager in a popular fast food restaurant (I can’t say which one). As she sat with us to chat, she recounted the events of the past week. A new area manager was assigned to her outlet and things were far from ...

My First Nail Polish Treatment

Like any other seven year old girl, Sara loves pretty things and one of the things she loves is makeup. We only allow her to “mess around” with makeup during the weekends and holidays. She already has lip stick and lip gloss (what’s the difference – I asked), mini compacts and eye shadow. So before the holidays began, we got ...

Camptasia Studio 3 Now Available As Full Free Download

Camptasia Studio, the cool Windows screencast creator is now available for download. This is a really neat piece of software that you can use to record everything that you see and do on screen. Here’s some ways you can use Camptasia Studio : Record Powerpoint presentations, upload to a web server so you can screen it from anywhere in the ...