Recently, there seems to be a lot of private car selling going on at the moment. Everywhere I go, there will be one or two cars park at the roadside with a piece of paper sticks on its window, stating the price and condition of the car. Just last week, there was a Peugeot 106 on sale for £500 and it was sold within 4 days. For the last couple of days, one of our neighbours park his car just beside our house, a BMW P reg selling at £895. I wonder why. At the main road, there’s a SUV with its kuat bike racks still attached but with no selling price. Only a mobile number for those who are interested. Is it because summer is on its way and they want to sell their old cars to get convertibles? Or they just want to pay off some debts.

Anyway, I am not sure whether or not I will be doing the same thing when it comes to selling my car one day. I might try to get some trade in deal though my car would be too old by the time I want to sell it. It’s still quite good in every way and it would be a waste to scrap it. On the other hand, it would be difficult to put a price on it. Hmm… maybe it’s too early to think about it. House should come first before car unless it fails on me, touchwood!

Every since Mee and I came back from our Australia and New Zealand trip, Mee has been texting my cousins in New Zealand through Viber. Most of the time, she was asking about home cook recipes as well as tailgating recipes from my aunt. Since then, Mee has been following those tips and advices in her everyday cooking. One of the problems, which is not related to those recipes, is Viber. Mee’s iPhone is still running on iOS 4.3.3 and I have been urging her to update it to the latest iOS 5.1. Viber is the culprit as there is not way of doing a backup on the messages and neither does iTunes backup Viber. I can’t imagine why such a popular app is so poorly designed. It’s free but there are a lot of free apps that are designed better than that.

The most annoying thing was when I tweeted Viber regarding turning off notifications whenever I received a text message. Viber support then tweeted that I can turn off my phone’s notifications. My phone has its own notification settings, my message app has its own notification settings, Whatsapp has its own notification settings and even my alarm has its own notification settings. Judging from what the Viber support has told me, they don’t seem to have a great deal of knowledge on mobile phone user experiences. I might as well power off my mobile phone if I were to continue using Viber. In fact, it might be a myth why so many users using Viber. It’s free but not great.

On another note, I better ask Mee to copy out her Viber messages manually before her messages get out of control.

One of my housemates is about to move out at the end of this month I think. It’s funny that we never heard anything from our landlord. I thought we should always be informed about anything that is happening or going to happen in our rented house. We wouldn’t want to come home one day and find a “stranger” walking in the house. Anyway, I am going to be the bad guy now and say that it’s good that the fellow housemate moves out. She has been a total nightmare for the past year. Even more ridiculous is that our landlord seems to always listen to what she says without investigate. Due to an incident, Mee and I found out her true colours and we just keep a distance from her. Unknowingly to us, she just keeps complaining to the landlord about us.

We couldn’t care much and if there’s something serious, I am sure that the landlord will talk directly to us. I am pretty sure that we haven’t done anything wrong. Otherwise, the landlord would have spoken to us if anything she says was valid.

Well, even though she is only renting a small single room, I bet that she has as many things as Mee and I have in this house. She starts to pack her stuffs into boxes and moves them into the living room. I saw a brand new dvd storage box and come on, who still uses that kind of thing? I thought everything went digital a long time ago except games and she is definitely not a gamer. On the other hand, there are less and less gamers buying games in the form of dvd nowadays.

I can’t wait for a new guy or gal to move in but hopefully, that person will be a good one though chances are quite slim considering that the landlord doesn’t have a good instinct. Maybe he just wants money rather than having a good tenant.

Since blogging, I have joined several types of affiliate network service providers. I must admit that some do work and some didn’t. Well, to be honest, majority of them didn’t work and most of the time, I kind of have to spend a good couple of hours in order to make them worthwhile for my blog. However, there have been quite a few of those companies that actually closed down due to low activities from fellow bloggers.

Recently, I found out about sterkly network and it does look quite promising from its website to how it advertises itself in the world wide web. As I am currently doing some blogging jobs, I have to be quite careful when joining these types of affiliate networks. I better spend sometime reading its FAQs just to make sure that I don’t break any rules. It would be nice to have some clean traffic though.

Today, Mee and I went to a few supermarkets to stock up our fridge and also to use up some vouchers that we have from taking surveys. Upon arriving at Lidl, we saw a huge queue outside the entrance, waiting for Lidl to open. Was there a big sale going on or was Lidl giving out free gifts? It’s the non-food sales again. I never knew that people queue outside of Lidl during non-food sales. Well, Mee and I had bought some stuffs from the non-food sales before but now, we are just getting a bit fed up. Some of the customers could get a bit rough while rummaging through boxes of items.

While going from one place to another, we saw a market nearby and thought about going there and have a look. When arriving outside the market area, we realised that it was some kind of patio furniture sale. According to Mee, she has heard some of our colleagues mentioning about the market and it seems like it’s not just selling patio furniture. Anyway, we couldn’t find any spaces at all, hence, we just went home.

On my first day at work after a three weeks holiday, I found out that I only had just over 50 emails. Which was pretty good but it didn’t mean that I have less things to do. In addition, it’s the second day at work for my new manager. Yes, at last, they recruited a manager but the interim manager is still there to handover some tasks. The new manager only has some experience working in colleges but no experience in the software that we are using. I guess the management now knows that it will be impossible to hire someone who knows-it-all and can start work immediately.

Upon checking my personal email, I have a few hundred unread emails. During the three weeks holiday, I did check my mailbox once a while and if not, I wonder how unread emails I will have when I come back. I have also set a few mailbox rules where mails from my family will go to a folder named family and etc. To my surprise, I got lots of emails about axis ht details and Maximuscle promotions in the supplement folder. It seems like there have been lots of supplements discount on the internet at the moment. I wonder if I am fortunate or unfortunate as I won’t be needing supplements for the next couple of months.