So You Want To be A Model?

So Malaysian DreamGirl has wrapped up. If you have always wanted to be a winner of a beauty contest, like Cindy Tey, there’s an even better chance for you with Look of The Year.

I am sure you know that many young and beautiful models right now have won one or two beauty pageants and made their win a stepping stone into the glamor world.

If this is the kind of limelight you are after and you want to be a world famous model, lika Cindy Crawford, check out Look of the Year at their website http://www.lookoftheyear.com. Go let them see you! This is your best chance!

Make Money Through BloggerWave

I am sure every one who is interested in blogging knows that there’s money to be made and I am sure many of us have already heard of BloggerWave, after their teething problems. Well, I personally have no problems with them except that I wish they have more opportunities for us. I realize that their links are NOFOLLOW links and that is good news to us, bloggers.

If you would like to make money with your blog, from your blog, you may want to check out BloggerWave. You can submit up to five blogs to the system which means more opportunities for you to make money with your blogs!

Getting Crossed-Eyed

Some of you may know that I have three Blogger blogs and due to the frequency of posting, I have to enter the verification code each time I publish a new post. Well, I know that they did say that if I were human, I would have no problems reading that verification code or that I could send a note to them to tell them I want my blog reviewed to lift the requirement for verification each time I publish or even edit a post. But I decided not to.

Anyway, I’ve been doing OK but I don’t know how many of you noticed, recently, the verification code is getting more and more difficult to decipher! I keep getting them wrong and each time, I at least have to enter the code two times before getting it right. There are times, on bad days that I would only get it right after four times!

Luckily there is no limit of the number of tries we get, like banking security or something and our account would get locked if we failed after X attempts LOL Maybe other people do not find it difficult to read at all. Maybe it’s my eyes… or my brains!

My Impression Of Social Spark

When I was invited to Social Spark a month or two ago, I went to check out the site. I told my friend that I will not be registering because it’s “nothing special”. In fact, the site was pretty confusing and I did not have the time to explore.

I also did not like it that we are made to socialize with other bloggers and/or advertisers and by the time I received my invitation, I could see that cliques have already been formed. I am not a social blogger so I don’t see how I could fit in. Later, I was told that a friend’s blog was rejected and I thought that to get accepted into Social Spark, we would have to submit virgin blogs. I am still undecided if I should submit any of my virgin blogs.

What I like about SocialSpark, though, is that all links are NOFOLLOW. I wish that Social Spark was already in place when I started paid blogging but it’s not possible to turn back time. What I don’t like is the in-post disclosure. I do not see the need to bring it up so obviously since my posts are usually written based on my own life, my experiences or those of my friends and people I know. So whether they do contain a link to a product, website or service or not I would still have written that post in a similar fashion.

I just registered with Social Spark and have submitted a blog for approval. I hope that it is approved so that I could use the features of the website fully. When I was registering, I felt that we had to enter irrelevant information like favorite team sports, shoe size and favorite color. I know this is supposed to help advertisers to decide whom to send products for reviews BUT coming from Malaysia, it’s not as if we get product reviews at all. This is my Social Spark profile and it is pretty empty right now but I was surprised to see that the Boss is now my friend. I think he goes around being buddies with all new members.

I hope that as time goes on, I will be more comfortable with the Social Spark and will not feel as if the site is overloaded with information and features.

*** This post was brought to you by Social Spark ***

If It Ain’t Broken

I have MS Office 2007 in one system and MS Office 2003 in another. I told the computer shop that I wanted MS Office 2003, specifically, but he did not listen and went and upgrade it to 2007 for me. BAH! Now I am confused like hell. And each time, I need to keep remembering to save my file as MS Office 2003, or else I would have problem opening it with the other version.

But that’s not all. The toolbar is damn confusing too as well. I hate all that clutter. Why must they make changes to something that we all have gotten used to using? I know that you may say that I do not accept changes and that I am fixated in the way I work but heck, who has the time to keep learning to use a program just because the developers think that the new one is better?

I personally do not think that this new version is better. In fact, I think that it’s clumsy and bulky and maybe even uses more resources than MS Office 2003. Sigh… I wished I didn’t need to use it but the Word Count in MS Word is so useful!

Summer Is Here!

Well, it is going to be here soon enough! And I guess many people will be hitting the beach, especially teenagers! I remember when I was a teenager, my mom will always tell me to remember to leave home with a bottle of sunscreen. Well, I did leave home with it but I never used it. I did not like the icky feel on my skin!

Back then, I was not lucky enough to be able to find a sunscreen product that I like enough to use. Teenagers nowadays have this new range of sunscreen product that is NOT bottles of chemicals, thanks to Screen, Inc.

These products were created by two ladies who felt the void in the sunscreen product market and that teenagers were neglected without proper sunscreen protection for them. The good news is that even the Skin Cancer Foundation has approved these products to be safe for use on skin!

I was told that this sunscreen is as natural as could be. If you have a teenager, or two, at home, you may want to get some of these!

Decorating With Wholesale Flowers

Julie, who is a part time wedding planner, told me that flowers are becoming popularly again in weddings. I guess the bridal couples want the color and freshness that only flowers could provide.

I thought that using flowers will be a waste of money because flowers cannot last that long but Julie says that the wholesale roses that she orders every time are very fresh and just delivered from the flower farms.

Check out the website of FiftyFlowers to see the kinds of flowers that you can buy at wholesale prices. Frankly, there are so many species of flowers that if I were to pick a favorite flower, I really could not decide. I’d want them all! Luckily they are not that expensive!

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