I started out this blog like 3 or 4 years ago, well, I can’t remember exactly when, bearing in mind that I have problems remember something that happened quite a while ago. I think from the start, I just wanted to write about my life and things that I do. Then it became quite a bit random with a lot of random posts about technology and other stuffs. A couple of years later, I decided to open another blog about any reviews that I can think of. It’s mostly about games, technology and movies. In that blog, I try to make it a huge long posts with sections like introduction, good and bad and final verdict. As my work got busy, that blog activities have become lower and lower as it is very time consuming to type out a review a day. And I have this blog to work on as well.

I think about that same time I started the review blog, I started writing blog posts for money. On a good day, I could earn a lot but I find it really difficult nowadays as there are too many blogs around. Some can have dozens of blogs. I wonder how they manage all their blogs. Do they just simply type anything or copy from one blog to another? I have a full time job which makes it difficult for me to even manage one.

To be honest, I think I’ve done a pretty good job writing a paid blog post compared to some that I have read. Anyway, it’s nice earn some extra money this way and in a way, it encourages me to blog more often as well as help with my English. I dare not to say that my English is perfect but compared to before, I’ve improved a lot.

Ooops, I kind of drifted away. Initially, I was going to write about spam comments. I am not sure how I attracted that many spams. Before I moved into WordPress, I had to monitor almost every comments that have been put on. Any one post could accumulate well over 100 spam comments overnight. They would be visible until I went in and delete them one by one. It’s tough, hence, I am now on WordPress. Though almost all of my blog posts are with zero comments, there are actually a lot of spam comments attached. I have over 1000 comments waiting to be screened. I reckon 90% of them are spams. I still can’t understand why and how did my blog attract this many spams.

Mee went to Boots today to purchase a top up voucher for my mobile and some vitamin C tablets. In the past, Boots double points voucher has not been very clear about it’s terms and conditions. There were a couple of times where Mee and I used two vouchers in one transaction but the points allowed in one transaction was capped to a certain limit. We had asked the cashier to see if we could use two vouchers but we were always told that it would be fine. On one occasion, we even confronted the manager but the manager said that it is the Boots’ policy and it’s written in the contract agreement when we signed up for Boots Advantage Card. I think it’s just ridiculous to think that every customer should always have the contract agreement imprint in their brains. But now, new vouchers have clearly stated that there the points will be capped. Well, at least it is now clearly printed and there should be no confusion. However, it has no mention of the exclusion of top up voucher like in the past. Hence, Mee received double points on the purchase of the top up voucher too.

While she was in the store, she received a leaflet with a title, is decaslim safe? I just thought, are they serious? Apparently, they were giving brochures to anyone regardless of the customers’ age and gender. For your information, decaslim is a type of diet product and shouldn’t it be targeted to a certain group of people? Though decaslim contains 10 super food ingredients, I don’t really think that is the way to distribute the brochures by Boots.

One of my colleagues is on paternity leave this week. His wife gave birth to a baby last weekend and the baby came three weeks early. However, I was told that the baby weighs around 7 pounds which is good news as it meant that the baby is not underweight. Anyway, as usual, we did some collection. I think most of the monies have been used to buy vouchers instead. We thought about sourcing silver bars but they are either too expensive or too many types to choose from. However, with the vouchers, he can use them to buy anything that he deems suitable.

When he comes in next week, he will be in for a surprise and on the other hand, I believe that there will be a lot of works waiting for him in his mailbox. I myself have a couple of things to talk to him about. Considering that I will be on holiday starting from half day on Wednesday until the third week of April, I do hope that we can both find a suitable time to sit down and go through the stuffs.

It’s like summer at the moment. It’s so hot in the afternoon that we had to switch the air conditioning unit. My hands are like heated gloves and they keep perspiring. I have to constantly keep them dry just so I can type comfortably on my mac. However, it’s more important to keep my mac clean. I wonder what will be the weather like next week. Hopefully, it will be as good as this week and then we will have a nice flight to Australia. By the way, did I mention that it was foggy in the morning?

Fog forms when the difference between temperature and dew point is generally less than 2.5 °C or 4 °F – Wikipedia

I have never experience that many fog days since I came here about 4 years ago. Well, that also gives me a chance to use the tail fog light. I am surprised that not many cars were using their tail fog light as the visibility was low. Or maybe they just didn’t know how to switch it on, or didn’t even know that their cars have tail fog lights. In case you don’t know, tail fog light is the one that shows constant bright red light and it’s even brighter than brake lights.

Just finished watching The Apprentice on BBC1. Since the last few series, The Apprentice is not about a job anymore. It has become a £250,000 investment where Lord Alan Sugar will invest in the winner’s business plan. When you look at how The Apprentice narrator describes all the candidates, they are all very good in business and doing what they do. However, when it comes to doing the tasks that Lord Alan Sugar sets out for them, most tv audience will definitely think that they can do better than them. Honestly, one of them has a company that has £3.5million turnover. Why would he still want a £250,000 investment? Maybe after that amount of turnover, there’s not much net profit left?

It’s quite hard to predict some of the things that might and might not happen in each episode of The Apprentice. For example, I thought that the girls group would won the task but it was the boys group who won. And then when it comes to firing an apprentice, the decision could sometime get affected by how the boardroom conversation goes. It’s all a bit fun watching The Apprentice where you get to criticise and act like an expert.

There are quite a number of things that I just couldn’t do or don’t do very well. One of the things would be swimming. I took on a swimming class a couple of years back, thinking that it would be easy to learn. How wrong was I? I don’t float very well is my reason and excuse. I blame it to the non-existent fat compound in my body as well. Apparently, it is quite true that muscular people are not very good swimmer. Well, I am not very muscular but it’s just that I don’t have much fat either. Swimming is just a tedious job for me and every time I swim, I need to use a lot of strength to keep me staying above the water. It’s also quite difficult to practice when the gym that Mee and I go to is quite crowded. Anyway, I kind of still remember what was being taught in the swimming lessons. When Mee and I were in Greece, we took the chance to swim in the hotel’s pool. I would say my progress has been static.

Another thing that I can’t really play is yoyo. When I look at how people play it, it just looks all too easy. When I have a go at it, I just can’t seem to work it out. There are various types, shapes and brands of yoyos like the duncan yoyos and I can’t even play the basic shape of yoyo. I used to be envious of the people in the advertisement where they could play all sort of things with yoyo. I just thought it would be nice if I could do those! But I can’t.

There’s one more thing, clutch bikes. I never try to drive clutch bikes even though I have a bike license. In fact, the idea of driving one already puts me off. I can’t imagine having to control the clutch using one of my hands. There are too many ‘what if’ conditions that refrain me from driving one. Before Mee and I went to Santorini, Greece, we thought that we might rent a quad bike. Upon learning that all quad bikes operate on clutch, I chose to rent a car instead.