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.

Have you just bought the new iPad? Did you sell your old iPad? Nah, I did none of those. The new iPad is certainly attractive but I have no extra cash to burn. One of the reasons that I didn’t buy the first iPad was because of the lack of camera. So, in came the iPad2, and I knew that I have waited for too long. iPad2 back camera is not impressive but I just couldn’t wait for this new iPad and therefore, I took the plunge. Otherwise, I would have missed another year’s of fun!

I can’t seem to remember if there were any faults with the iPad2 when it was launched. Neither did I notice anything bad with the first iPad. This new iPad however, already have reports of it being too hot. As with iPhone4S, there were all sorts of problems when it first launched. I wonder if that is going to be a trend for Apple products from now on. Anyone would have thought that they must have tested their products countless times. Maybe, Apple should stop carrying the “Assembled in China” tag for its range of products.

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.

Top Gear is one of my favourite tv programmes. Sometimes, I don’t even mind watch an episode from years ago. I just find it quite hilarious seeing the three of them presenting the show. At one stage, I even downloaded their first series of Top Gear. The very first episode of Top Gear, there were only about 20 – 30 live audiences. The audience just got more and more towards the end of the series. In fact, some say that the waiting list is now 3 – 5 years just to get in to see the show live! If you have something to criticise about the show, think again.

Actually, I kind of like the first series because most of the cars presented were affordable and they gave the kind of review where most normal people would appreciate. A few series later, it’s all about super car and occasionally normal consumer car. I wouldn’t blame them and to be honest, it’s a tv programme and it’s showing the cars that aren’t affordable to most people. After all, why would I want to see my car on the show when I am already driving one? Not unless it’s a super car, I think.

One very special person on the show is The Stig, who always wear scorpion helmets. He is the one who drives the super cars on the show on a designated track and they then place the lap time on a board to determine the fastest road car at the end of the series. It is claimed that The Stig can drive around the track and record a consistent lap time. I just thought that over time, The Stig should be able to improve his lap time and at the end of the series, he would be recording a faster lap time compared to the beginning of the series.

Fifth gear came and like Top Gear, it started with normal consumer cars and later on, went into super cars too. However, I kind of prefer the way Top Gear presenting a car show. No doubt they all know how to drive but not everyone can present in an interesting way. I don’t think I have ever watched an episode of Fifth Gear from start to finish.