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Life In A New City

My friend, Alex, recently moved to Adelaide after finishing university in Sydney. He said he would like to start a new life in a new city as he relishes the new challenges that lie ahead.

I really salute him that he is able to uproot himself from a comfortable life like that without any definite plans in Adelaide. Alex only started looking for jobs in Adelaide after he had toured the city for a month and enjoyed himself as if he were a tourist! He did not even bother to browse through Adelaide classifieds every day! Ahhh what a carefree life he leads!

Alex also told me that he expects dating in Adelaide to be interesting and exciting with all the hot babes in the city! How hot, I guess I will have to wait for PHOTOS!!! Or wait for him to come home with a beautiful girl on his arm! That is possible, you know!

Which Poker?

The other day, a reader reprimanded me for writing about gambling. Well, I have to disagree that gambling is evil. The problem actually stems from the way we handle gambling.

I started gambling when I was young. I shall not reveal the age as it would probably shock some people. Speaking from experience, I think that gambling is fine as long as there is no addiction or obsession to it. Instead, it is a great recreational sport to test your skills and sharpness of mind.

A few years ago, I started to be interested in poker after watching a show on TV. I was impressed that there are pro-gamblers who make and lose millions just playing poker. Of course, I am not in that league but that spurred me to do some research to see if and where I could make some pocket money.

A search on the internet returned a list of online casinos offering poker and to look for the best site is pretty daunting and confusing what with my lack of knowledge and experience.

Luckily, I was told that I should start my research reading review sites like WhichPoker.com. I am glad that I did because they give very comprehensive reviews of some of the top poker sites. I read their reviews of Pacific Poker, Poker Stars and Paradise Poker. According to Which Poker, Party Poker is the top online poker site but that does not mean that sites like Pacific Poker is sub standard. In fact, only the high scorers are featured on the site.

If you have been wondering, “Which Poker?”, wonder no more as you can make a better decision after reading such thorough reviews.

An iPod, Please!

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you would know that I have made numerous attempts at winning an iPod by joining blog contests that offered an iPod as a prize. So far, I have not been successful not for lack of trying but rather Lady Luck has failed me miserably.

If you have read those posts, you would know that I always put in my best effort, simply because I would really love to win an iPod. If there is one word to put it, it’s DESPERATE.

It can be pretty VERY boring commuting to and from work every day, including Saturdays and Sundays on a bus full of strangers that are just waiting to make small talk. If I could carry music with me in an iPod, strangers would not bother me when I don’t give them a reaction since I can’t hear them with my ears plugged! That would be a perfect excuse.

You are probably thinking that I should BUY my own iPod. I know but just this week, I requested a cheque from Advertlets for RM110 and it is only expected to arrive in December, just before Christmas I hope, and it is still way short of the price of an iPod.

The lucky thing is that Advertlets and Faces magazine are giving away exclusive prizes to members and one of them is the iPod. I am hoping to bag this prize! Just for the record, I have been a member of Faces for years and I am not only now registering with them just so that I could participate in this contest.

I have entered many contests on Faces and never lucky enough to win. I hope that this iPod will make up for all the past disappointments.

Faxing On The Go

When I first discovered the internet, one of the things that fascinated me was that we could send and receive faxes on the computer over the internet connection. Back then, it was a BIG DEAL to own a fax machine at home and when we needed to send or receive fax, we would have to do it from an ‘office’.

However, since then, the internet has evolved so much that we could now do it from a computer and even PDA. Some people may prefer real document fax over Internet Fax which is email based but this is an ideal solution, not to mention, the most cost effective, for business people who are always on the move.

I personally know of executives who are in a few different countries every week and they live out of the suitcase. They equip themselves with electronic gadgets like laptop, PDA and smart phone and they keep in constant contact with their office via phone calls and email and faxes.

Metro Hi Speed offers two different packages to individual and small businesses as well as to corporate clients. At only a basic price of $12.95 per month to fax 1,000 pages, this price is really worth the mobility and freedom it accords.

How Many Germs Live On your Keyboard?

While surfing the internet, I came cross this quiz. I just had to do it! As you know, I am stuck to my computer 20/7 and the keyboard is the second thing I touch when I wake up and the second last thing before I go to bed. The first and the last is my mobile device haha!

You may wonder why I just have to do this quiz. It is because my keyboard is black in colour and I never cleaned it before! Why should I when I don’t see any dirt on it? Haha! yes, there are dust particles here and there but they have cleverly sipped down between the keys. Haha!! So now you know why I don’t see the need to wipe it.

Yet, I am curious enough to take this quiz so let’s see, by answering the quiz honestly, how many germs are living and multiplying on my keyboard!

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An Ideal Maui Vacation

Last week, I wrote that my friend and her family have decided to spend their annual year end holiday in Maui, Hawaii. It is not a surprise that they decided on Maui. Although they come from a tropical country, Hawaii and particularly Maui, offers so much more that we are not able to find here, namely the culture, friendly people and the hospitality. It may be a first trip for them but they have heard so much about Maui that they decided to experience the island first hand.

If I were to go to Maui, I would love to rent the Executive Lower Ohana. This looks like the perfect Maui vacation rental for my small family. It’s cosy, offers a great ocean view and comes with a picturesque garden. Some people may prefer Maui condo rental instead but I prefer a cottage. I’m not saying accommodation at a Maui condo or hotel is not ideal but I would rather have the privacy that a cottage offers than put up with nosy tourists!

Going to Hawaii for a vacation which is so far away and without direct flight, the wise thing to do is to cut down on the hassle of arranging for the whole trip. Booking one of these Maui vacation rentals through Vacation Rentals On Maui, we could have our accommodation taken care of without additional headache! That’s the idea of going on a vacation, isn’t it?

Shifting The Balance

You may notice that I have shifted the balance of my blog. Last month, I was being a law abiding good girl and kept at 50:50 across my blogs, and I mean ALL of them. Guess what? At the end of the month, I realise that I have missed all the opportunities from one particular marketplace which I was having a good month the previous month.

And so, I decided that to hell with following my self-imposed rule so strictly. I will once again blog as and when I want to be they sponsored or not. I will publish them as and when I like. I would still be keeping drafts on my blog for emergencies but I will no longer keep count on the number of drafts sitting pretty in my draft folder.

And what do you know? My bid was once again accepted. I was so happy 😀 Didn’t I say that it takes a little to make me happy? Yes, I am convinced that most sponsors for not mind or do not care if our blogs are full of outgoing links as long as each post is well thought out and well composed and the blog is relevant to their own website.

Once again, I am hoping to get more opportunities from this marketplace, because, really, in this business, you can’t survive on one marketplace alone unless you are a Page Rank 6 but then I don’t see why you should monetize your blog this way if you have a Page Rank 6!