Art Auctions At Sea

Living in Ipoh, I sometimes feel like I am losing out on a lot of things, especially in arts and culture. I mean, I hardly get exposed on art although I love art and the best I could do is to attend an art exhibition once in a blue moon. My friend, Paul, tells me that I should attend an art auction one day as it is very interesting and exciting to see people bidding against each other for “just” a piece of fine art that could amazingly run into millions of dollars.

Park West Art Gallery is an art gallery based in Michigan USA and that is too far away from me so the best is to view their catalog of art collections through their website.

Did you know that they have an sister company named Park West at Sea that sails around the world to conduct art auctions on their cruise ship. Talking about bringing art to the people!

Behind Schedule

With my computer just home and my internet broadband still cranky with now you can, now you cannot connect, I am seriously behind schedule in updating my blogs. I am sure if you have read a few posts back, I have four new blogs. Luckily they are all my Passion Blogs, blogs that I write for absolute fun.

But still, I do not like it with the big gaps between posts but that can’t be helped and I can only work on my blogs for a limited hours a day because I am not a silai. LOL

I guess I shouldn’t even complain and should be grateful that I even have broadband internet and computer. Ya, that surely sounds like what my parents would say! See, this month has been extremely challenging with all the obstacles but what could not kill me can only make me stronger.

Useful Tool For Noobie Webmasters

I may be a webmaster of more than ten websites and blogs but I certainly am not as proficient in HTML or CSS coding as I would like. Just the other day, I was thinking of adding a poll to my blog post and I absolutely had no idea how to do so. I have seen many people embedding myspace surveys on their MySpace profiles and I thought it would be neat to use those on my blogs and do a little survey of my readers.

A friend told me that I do not have to write my own poll and I could use a ready-made one. There are plenty on the web if only I would search! The key points to look out for are user-friendliness, reliability and customization.

Easy-Poll, like the name says, is really “easy” to use. I mean, how easy could it get by just typing in your survey questions and options? They also do have different color schemes to suit the theme of our site and that is very important to me.

All About Loans On Netloans

My cousin, who lives in London and just bought a home recently, was telling the family how tough it is to take on a new responsibility. She says that her contemporaries are also facing the same financial issues.

It is like a perpetual loop that people keep being in one kind of loan or another. At first, we would start by taking out homeowner loans and from there our problem starts haha!

The informative website of Netloans.co.uk is helpful for people who are already committed to a long term purchase of a property. Yes, owning a property is not easy and I know of many people who will use that asset to take out secured loans because they need the lump sum of cash for business or something else. Netloans compiled a list of financial institutions that provide secured loans with homes in the United Kingdom as collateral.

If you are in business, you would be familiar with the term “bridging loan”. Bridging loans are supposed to be short term loans taken against a property and like the above, Netlaons has focused on the UK market. Although we may think that bridging loans are just small sums of money, we could actually secure up to £10 million, provided we have properties to secure the loan against.

Of course, with all these loans taken out, it is not surprising that some people may need to take out a debt consolidation secured loan to better manage their debts. Netloans has done the homework of researching over 250 debt consolidation loan plans to bring us those that benefit us the most, like deferred payment, low interest rates, no proof of income required and even those that are open to people who are self-employed.

I still say that before we take out a loan, any loan at all, we have to think a thousand times and read up as much as possible from sites like Netloans.co.uk.

*** This post was brought to you by Netloans Ltd. ***

Experiencing Fine Wine

I have always thought that wine drinking is a hobby reserved for the rich. I think I got this idea from watching too much soap opera like Falcon Crest. Last weekend, I had the opportunity to visit my friend’s new house. If you read my other blog, you would know that a friend of mine had a bar installed at home. Well, this was the friend who invited me and a few other friends home to show off his new bar.

I have no experience in drinking wine at all. In fact, I am a teetotaler and the only difference I can tell between red wine and white wine is the color. My friend, however, is more experienced in wine tasting. He says it’s his new hobby and has been reading up on fine wine and it is his dream to taste all the different wines in the world.

I saw that he has stocked his bar with Merlot and Chardonnay but I didn’t want to seem ignorant and ask him to tell me the history of these fine wine brand names. I think I better do a check on the web so that at least I will be able to follow their wine conversation the next time we converge at his home.

Somebody Tell Me Why I Should Not Be Pissed!!!

OK, so it is not enough that my Streamyx was down for a whole week. Last night, my PC gave up on me. I do not know what happened or why it suddenly K.O.-ed but I did not shut down my PC for slightly more than a day so last night, I thought I would reboot it as it was lagging. Little did I know that it would not even be able to load Windows. No, not even in Safe Mode.

So, this morning, I took my PC to the computer repair shop and their Streamyx was down as well. I came home and called up TM and asked them about my line and they told me that the problem is from my side. They said it could be wiring or modem or cable.

WTF, man….. don’t tell me the computer shop also same problem as me? Why can’t they admit that Streamyx is f@rked up in Ipoh? Now they are telling me to disable direct connection because they do not “support” it. They only support “manual connection”.

Argghh I am so pissed off….I think I am going to go on a holiday.

Minimizing Loss With Low Layout Capital

Some of you know that I am an online retailer. Lately, I have been thinking that I would like to expand my inventory but I had no idea what to procure. A friend suggested that I venture into wholesale sunglasses. Well, I have never thought of that but I remember coming across the website of CTS Wholesale Sunglasses a couple of months ago and was impressed with their vast selection of fashion sunglasses.

I am not in touch with the sunglasses market but according to this friend, fashion sunglasses are the bomb in e-commerce and many young people, and those young at heart, are willing to splash on a few pairs because they are just so cheap!

As a wholesale sunglasses buyer, we would be able to enjoy great savings as CTS Wholesale Sunglasses, a direct importer of fashion sunglasses from international importers, would be offering their customers a large cut of savings as well.

This low cost is perfect for retailers like us who would be able to sell our inventory at a reasonable price and yet gain a wide profit margin. In business, making the right decisions would mean a profit or loss but when we are able to procure our stocks at such low prices, our risk of losing would be minimal.

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