Feeling The Financial Pinch? Stop Stupid Stuff!

My sister tells me that the economy isn’t doing too well in America. The price of gas has more than doubled since the day she entered the country seven years ago. The American Dollar has continued to weaken against major world currencies BUT it is hoped that things will improve in the near term.

However, many people are already left in a financial fix. Some of them have lost jobs rendering them unable to meet their monthly debts. When I first learnt that people in America use their credit card so freely like cash cards, I was surprised. There was a guy who bought a CAR with his credit card! Well, it is fine if the card holder will settle his credit card bill FULLY at the end of the month but then this rarely happens.

I feel that it is time for us to learn how to be prudent and make wise financial decisions. Yes, all of us and not only Americans and I feel strongly about this because my parents were very bad financial managers and it affected us in many ways while we were growing up. One significant issue that I will always remember was that my parents were unable to put their children through tertiary education. I used to wonder why my friends were all able to go to college and we could not. As I grew older, I realized that their parents were financially capable of doing so because they managed their income well.

Well, the thing is, if we want to have a better future for our children and our own old age, we have to start spending wisely RIGHT NOW. Stop Stupid Stuff is a blog that share great money saving tips. Do you think that you can implement these tips in your daily living? Why not challenge yourself and see how much money you can actually save every week by cutting down on extra expenses? Did you know that one of the best ways to save money is to recycle? Read Stop Stupid Stuff to avoid financial self-created pitfalls!

Cindy, The First Malaysian Dreamgirl

As I predicted in my post dated 14th March, 2008, on the Malaysian Dreamgirl reality show, I’m doing a post once the winner has been declared.

Well, last night, if you do not already know, a girl by the name of Cindy, has ousted two other finalists, Hanis and Adeline, in the Malaysian Dreamgirl finale in One Utama to bag the first ever Malaysian Dreamgirl title.

Her win was based solely on the highest number of SMS votes garnered so whatever points that these girls have gained from the judges in the earlier rounds were no longer taken into consideration.

If you like any of these three girls, you should have cast your votes to show support to her, and only via SMS voting.

Well, I think that the winners in reality shows like these are the telcos, and of course, the winning contestant. The losers are the general audience, who “die die” also must vote even when the telcos and show organisers bleed you of your prepaid credit, just for whatever entertaining value these reality shows are worth.

That’s why although I may sometimes watch these reality shows, I don’t see why I should cast any vote at all. Who wins or lose, I don’t care either way.

The Club at Long View

I receive quite a number of hits from people who came looking for house plans for free download. Well, I am sorry to disappoint them because I do not have these house plans and even if I do, they will not be as beautiful as the Weddington NC luxury homes.

To view these Weddington golf homes for sale, you can just visit the website of The Club at Long View. I actually knew of this website for a long time already and although I dare not dream of owning one of these houses, I have to say that they have been a great motivator to me.

If you are wondering if there are any Weddington golf homes for sale that would suit your budget and taste, then check out The Club at Long View. I believe, like me, you will be blown away by the beauty and exclusivity of such homes!

Traffic, Traffic, Traffic

My traffic has recently fallen rather drastically. I put it down to my laziness to network. Well, that is my problem from the beginning but lately, that has coupled with my laziness to blog. Yeah, as you can see, I have not been updating my blogs as diligently as I used to. I would say that I was demotivated for a little while and then real life got in the way too.

I have heard that some people have received tremendous traffic from Twitter but I did not register because there’s nothing interesting enough in my life to share like that so I thought that I would rather not send more junk out to the web that I already am.

But just now, I received a free copy of an eBook and video file called Twitter It that supposedly teach us how to take advantage of the ready traffic from Twitter.

I have yet to read the instructions or even watched the video but the good thing is that I could slap y name to the product and sell it for a profit. So I’d probably try it out to see if it works as good as it claims.

Blogoria: Connecting Bloggers, Readers and Advertisers

As a blogger with a slew of blogs to run, networking is almost always at the last of priority my list. I know it’s bad but I have a tough time just publishing original content on all the blogs on a regular basis let alone go around blog hopping and networking.

Today, I was told of Blogoria, a Blogger Search and Networking resource site which brings together bloggers, blog readers and advertisers. This is the kind of site that people like me should join.

Blogoria is a member site so you have to register in order to use it and if you are a blogger, you get to register your blog and ping Blogoria with your new blog posts. Yes, Blogoria serves as a blog aggregator as well.

By joining Blogoria, you will be able to drive more traffic to your blogs, effectively increasing comments and at the same time participate in their forums where you can socialize with other Blogorians, learn blogging tips and tricks as well as discover effective ways to further monetize your blog(s).

Kira Is Back, This Time With Sex Photos of Jolin Tsai

As promised, Kira came back online in late April, 2008 to leak new sex photos of Edison Chen, this time they are of photos of Edison Chen with popular Taiwanese singer, Jolin Tsai. You may probably know her as Jolin Cai as well. They are one and the same, though.

Their photos are now all over the internet and you can’t help but wonder how many more photos of Edison Chen and female Hong Kong or Taiwanese celebrities are Kira holding, waiting for just the right time to bomb the web.

While Edison Chen has claimed copyright of these leaked homemade sex photos, for want of a better word instead of just “PORN”, he can copyright all he wants and there would still be people publishing and reproducing them on their blogs, websites and forums. Just because!

The search for Edison Chen’s sex photos by internet users never stopped since the first of these photos were leaked in late January, 2008 and right now, with fresh photos making the rounds, internet users are once again having a filed day online.

Have you cancelled your plans for the day? LOL

Finding A Suitable Credit Card

My college-going cousin will be leaving the nest to continue with his tertiary education in the capital city this June. My aunt, his mother, suggested that he apply for a credit card but wonders what is the best way to get a credit card and which card is the most suitable for him. She was rather worried that he would be alone in the city without much cash so a credit card would come in handy. At the same time, she was not certain that he could control his spending. She can’t afford it should he overspend!

She consulted me and really, I am in no position to help since I am not the one settling his credit card bills but I did inform her where to read the best credit card articles on the web. Actually, there are so many kinds of credit cards, there’s no way I could tell her about them one by one so the best is for her to read these articles herself.

I believe that after reading through the articles and understanding the usage of credit cards and how suitable they are for a college student, she would be able to better decide which one is the best to apply for her son. My hope is that no matter which card he gets, he will be a responsible credit card owner.

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