Finances

Seeking Debt Relief and Credit Card Consolidation

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While surfing the internet this afternoon, I remember that a friend of mine has told me that he is in dire straits financially. Well, frankly, I am sick of people pouring their financial problems on me. I have the same problems to take care of and I do not need to share their problems and burden too.

However, I recall visiting a website not too long ago which has pointers on seeking Debt Relief. I thought I should let the friend read all about it and see how best he can apply the tips on his own situation.

The first step I advised him though, is to get Credit Card Consolidation. I know he holds numerous credit cards and I never saw the point of it. His excuse was that he applied for them to help his friends meet the quota of selling credit cards.

I am all for helping friends out but not to the point of getting myself into trouble too. When he holds so many cards, at the back of his mind, he is thinking that whatever purchases he has charged on his cards does not have to be taken care of. Hah! If only that was true!

Well, the information is already present to him and if he wants to get rid of debt fast, he should follow the advice given to him.

Charity

Click To Donate

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While searching for some information on the internet, I came upon a non-profit charitable site that encourages visitors to click on the advertisements and the revenue generated from this activity will be channelled to various charitable bodies or a specific cause that is championed by the website.

Actually, I have known of this kind of “click to donate” sites a long time ago and it is not a new concept but since I stumbled on it a few days ago, I was reminded of what we can contribute in a small way to charitable causes just by doing our normal thing: Surfing the internet.

The problem with me is that I never remember to go to these sites to click on the advertisements. I wrote in a previous post that I have to open more than thirty sites each time I turn my computer on and this number does not even include the blogs that I read occasionally.

I think I need to place all these Click to Donate sites to my bookmarks and access them daily or else I will forget again. Getting old *sigh*

Computing & Internet

Searching For Used Cars Online

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Some of you may know that I have been looking for a used car for many months now. In fact, I have visited many dealers of Used Cars locally but have yet to find one that suits my budget and meets my needs. I know I am fussy but then even used cars don’t come cheap enough for me that is why I have to be as discerning as possible when it comes to shopping for sometime as large as a car!

I was told to check online for Used Cars to get a better variety. I wonder why I never thought of it before! A long time ago, I was introduced to Auto Guide so that was where I went to start my search for used cars.

This site is rather comprehensive in its database of used cars. While I have been to a few used cars sites only, I find that Auto Guide is very friendly to search for our dream used cars. You didn’t think that used cars can be our dream cars too, did you?

Through Auto Guide, I was able to quickly narrow down my choices based on my car manufacturer, car model and year it was manufactured and one that fits my budget and also in my vicinity. I did not see a point in looking for a car that suits me only to find out later that it is half a world away, so to speak.

In any case, I would continue to search Auto Guide to see if there are new additions to their used car database before making a final decision.

Blogging

Network! Network!! Network!!!

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Urhg… blogging on so many blogs of my own and as a member of a group blog practically leaves me no time at all to network. Well, I could manage my blogs AND network if I were in this full time but I still have a job to keep and other household responsibilities that I can’t be sitting here the whole day. I am already sitting here THE WHOLE NIGHT haha! 😀

At times like these when I am overwhelmed with blogging and yet realise that I should spend more time to network, I can certainly understand why some people are buying comments, but only relevant comments that are on topic.

Sometimes I think that I am better off trying to raise my Page Rank but that doesn’t look like it’s coming anytime soon, either.

General

What People Do In Hollywood

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I was just surfing the internet just now when I came upon a website of a plastic surgery in America. Although I am a scaredy cat and have no plans to get any plastic surgery for myself, I am fascinated with the things that plastic surgery can do and the beautiful person it recreates from a plain Jane. I certainly would love to be beautiful without the pain! I read that breast augmentation is the most common plastic surgery procedure in America. I am not sure what the statistics are though but my sister, who lives in America, told me that not every one there is big-boobed! Well, of course not or it would be a strange land to live in!

However, my sister said that when she went to Hollywood once during her vacation, they Beverly Hills liposuction has been on everyone’s lips. It seems that this is THE “in” thing now and the Who’s Who of Hollywood has been lining up to get one done. Ahh.. this is something that I should get no thanks to the roll of fat that has accumulated around my waist from sitting at the computer the whole day!

Is it painful? Errmm if it is, I’d rather be fat, then!

Blogging, Computing & Internet

Blog Search Engine Marketing & Optimization

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As a blogger with multiple blogs, in a way, I have been trying to find a way to market my blogs. I know I can’t be forever writing as actively as I am now but if my niche blogs are marketed well, I believe that I can create passive income streams from link placements on my sidebar from relevant advertisers.

I have read up on search engine marketing and optimization. So far, people who are using these services are for commercial sites but I am trying to implement what I have learned on my blogs instead. I think that if I do it well, I could pull away from the pack of being just a “blog”.

The bottom line is, no matter what we call it, I am trying to not only to build my Page Rank but also to place certain keywords at the top of the major search engines pointing to my blog(s) so that advertisers would fight to be on my blog. I know this is daylight dreaming but if others have done it, what’s stopping me?

Computing & Internet

Happy Birthday, Google!

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This morning, I saw this picture on Google Search and don’t really recognise what special day it is. Apparently, it is Google’s ninth birthday. Happy Birthday, Google!

Well, Google wasn’t born yet when I started to get online and it is a surprise to realise that it has been more than nine years since my first foray into the World Wide Web. Has it been this long already? I know you must be thinking that I am quite old but I swear I am not that old! I started young, OK? 😀

Back to the Google art celebrating its ninth birthday, can you make out what the “g” is. I think that it’s a bunch of firecrackers but to me, it totally looks like a bunch of falling candy! Hahaha

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