Category Archives: General

The Challenges Of A Tattoo Artist

I know of a blogger who is a real life tattoo artist. He told me about a website where one could purchase tattoos and then download it on our computer and print it out. I think it is remarkable.

He said that many of his clients are doing this and it actually saves time thumbing through the designs that he offers. His clients who are mostly internet savvy will now search the internet for the designs that they like first and then bring to him to tattoo on their body.

This blogger also told me that he finds it very challenging because he does not know what sort of designs his clients will bring and some are really complex and he has to replicate the art as real as possible or his clients will be very mad! Hahah!

I guess being a tattoo artist is not so easy at all in the internet age!

Seeking Help For Troubled Teens

I have in the past have written on quite a few posts about troubled teens. Well, I know too well the problem with troubled teens having seen this problem faced by my family and friends with troubled teens. While many people think that these teens are already “hopeless” I would like to point out that it is not so.

If you just check out the website called Help My Teen – Teen Help Options are available if only the parents and the teens recognize that there is a problem, but this problem could be solved.

Some of my friends were reluctant to send their teen away or afraid to send them to a school that are full of troubled teen fearing that they are putting their teen in the wrong company.

However, they need to know that organizations like Help My Teen have vast experience in handling teens and their problems and know just the right kind of programs to place each individual teen in.

I believe that teens who have undergone appropriate programs would come out with a new outlook and fresh perspective in life and will be positive in uniting with their families and society. If only we all give troubled teens another chance and not be ashamed to admit when we do need help!

Pursuing Higher Education With PLUS Loans

When I was in college, there weren’t many options for me to choose from as I am from a not that well to do family and studying in college itself was a luxury! How I appreciate that to enable me to attend college, my parents had to take out a loan to finance my education. Luckily, the plus loan application was not complex at all and we successfully applied for a parent plus loan.

It did not matter what my parents financial standing were but of course, that was the deciding factor in our part in taking out the PLUS loan. It is said that even Bill Gates, rich as he is, could even qualify for PLUS loans. Isn’t that funny?

I found that even for people who did not really need a Federal plus loan were taking it out because of the very attractive interest repayment rate and terms. Many of these investment savvy parents were able to earn more money elsewhere and use returns from there to service their loans plus the interest and with access too.

Believe me, it isn’t easy to find interest rate as low as 6.5% plus non-income sensitive loans. It was also an advantage that the loan was taken out by my parents and not myself. I feel that it is unfair to burden a student with a loan at such a young age. Everyone should have a shot at tertiary education irrespective of financial background. Don’t you think so?

Recommending Champori

The other day, I was running some advertisements on my blog here and I saw one on either eczema or psoriasis. I am not sure which as we are not allowed to click on our own ads. It caught my eye because I recently had a a scare by one guy that I met who had a terrible skin condition that made one side of his face so red and raw looking. I was afraid that it could be passed on to me if I were to shake hands with him.

So I went online and came across this website www.champori.com which carries organic herbal remedies specifically for eczema and psoriasis.

Some medical practitioners would use steroids and allergens to cure these but Champori is mild enough to babies yet strong enough for adults made from Tibetan recipes since skin conditions are known to Tibetan monks for generations already. It is no wonder that success rate is high, based on the photos on the website.

I am going to recommend Champori to the guy whom I met recently. He has all to gain anyway since they are so confident that Champori works with their money back guarantee.

Broadway A MUST

What is a trip to London if there is no Broadway? Many of my friends go to London BECAUSE of Broadway. I have had friends complain that they did not manage to buy any tickets while they were in London and were told that tickets will only be available NEXT season. I mean like, DUH? Do they expect us to go to London every year?

My friends, go purposely make a trip to London for Broadway, utilizes Broadway Ticket Brokers to secure the much coveted tickets and then plan their trip AROUND those dates. You may think that these must be rich folks but they are not. Rather, they are so passionate about theater that they are willing to adjust their holidays around the availability of Broadway tickets.

If I have the chance to go to London, I too would be planning ahead and buy my Broadway tickets through Broadway ticket brokers first before booking my flight!

Crestor or Not?

Last weekend, my friend told me that he wasn’t feeling too well. I told him to consult a doctor which he did. He said his doctor told him to get a full blood profile to then only he could check what was wrong. My friend was rather reluctant because he said he just had a full body check up at the end of the year but I advised him to go ahead and do what the doctor suggests because he knows best.

Well, the results came in yesterday and indicated that he has rather high cholesterol. Didn’t I tell him to go be careful with his diet? Now, the doctor said that he wants to put my friend on something called Crestor. My friend and I never heard of such a thing before but thankfully there is the internet where we could check up on just about anything at all.

We stumbled upon a website that has information about Crestor for doctors and medical practitioners and read up on the drug description and possible side effects. I think it is great that we are able to receive information on the internet just like that, especially when our doctors are too busy to explain in-depth to us what benefits a drug has.

Meanwhile, the doctor is waiting for the green light from my friend to start on Crestor. I’m not going to meddle here. He has to make his own decision.

Building Newsletters Professionally

I was surprised when I discovered that my friend has more than eight thousand people subscribing to his newsletter. I wonder how he managed to handle that many people but he told me the trick is in a newsletter software that helps to keep him organized.

Apart from managing subscribers, using MyNewsletterBuilder, he could customize his newsletters and store them online so that he could easily search it out if he needed to refer to older issues.

By publishing his newsletters online, his content is also easily picked up by the search engines because they conform to web standards hence making his text search engine friendly. Naturally, he gained a lot of traffic from this alone.

I was impressed with his professional looking newsletter but my friend revealed that it was a no-brainer to have the template and even I could make my newsletters professional looking because MyNewsletterBuilder has a wide range of templates to choose from that suits many different occasions!

For as little as $8 per month, we could easily create newsletters that would blow our subscribers away! My friend encouraged me to try the service out because there is a 60-day free trial for the newsletter software and templates. I’m afraid I would love it too much and then sign up even though my database of subscribers is small!