It’s Friday again! It’s the second time that my college buddies and I had a conference chat in YM. Most of them are working in the Middle East, where their typical work week is from Thursday to Saturday. Hence Friday is a free day for them, making them available for chatting.
We had a lot of fun teasing each other and some even have the courage to finally reveal their former crushes. The only problem is that YM isn’t reliable for a conference chat. There are times when my other friends cant read what’s being discussed, which is very annoying coz they’d missed the interesting scoops! Others also had problems with their internet connection or with their notebooks or PDAs, but oh well, we still thank technology for bringing us together after the long years of not hearing from each other. Till next Friday again!
There’s a funny TV ad about a techie grandma who’s very much into computers. There’s one episode where she talked to her nephew on a webcam and mentioning some social networking sites, another ad showed her playing computer war games, and an ad where she ordered some techie stuff on the phone while asking for senior citizen discount! Lol. Cool grandma huh. I bet she’s not a newbie to the Internet and we can even learn some website infos from her such as SEO, page rank, Adsense or directory submission services. It’s nice to see the older generation catching up with technology instead of the narrow-minded “I don’t need to learn that” attitude.
Why not? This is the trend nowadays, for a busy employee or a working mom planning to go to college, getting an online degree is a good alternative for them instead of studying in a brick and mortar university. Aside from saving up on gas or hiring a babysitter, studying online is more flexible as you can do it anytime and anywhere.
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Aside from blogging, I have another productive online activity that is giving me pleasure. I’m currently addicted to auctioning/bidding in a local Czech auction site. I have posted before that I signed up with ebay but I actually haven’t made use of it. I find this online Czech auction site more convenient to sell as I am now based in the said country. Thanks to my friend Tess for introducing me to this… This has been my second week since joining and so far I still haven’t sold an item. The first batch of goods I auctioned didn’t catch any bidders at all. But this time, there are several bidders. I have one auction ending tomorrow, and I have some bidders already. Weee! I am excited how it turns out!
I also enjoyed browsing at the items (from clothes to modern furniture) being auctioned that I couldn’t help but bid too! As I said it can be addicting! I have already spent quite an amount, that I’m telling myself to stop! It’s ridiculous how other people can bid so high for used items. I told my friend that with the amount, they can already buy new stuff with it. But she said, it’s challenging to bid, and it makes them proud to actually win the battle. hehe I have to agree to that. I’m looking forward to a fruitful experience in my auction venture. =)
I am already a three-day old eBay member! We put up an item for bidding the previous week using my hubby’s account which brought me to browsing more of this site. I found out that it has the potential to make lucrative income if you know the right products to sell so that’s why I signed up with them. I guess I was inspired by how others were able to earn money from selling their stuff online. The process is actually very easy and doesn’t cost an arm and leg to set up. Unlike if you open a real store where you need to rent a space, fill it up with lots of merchandise, hire someone to watch it, buy a barcode scanner, cash register, etc. etc. etc. But I have to watch out, with it’s easy access to shopping, I might end up being more of a shopper than a seller! Yikes!
Gotta start collecting stuff to sell online!
Now that our internet is back, I can do many productive things again. M and I have been downloading like crazy! With a speed of 10Mb/s, we’re able to download lots of movies simultaneously in a short time, some taking less than an hour. Our computers are working round the clock again!
The blogging bug hit me too! I’m more encouraged to blog and update my sites regularly coz I can open multiple sites without the connection slowing down. Though my sites aren’t making money as much as they do before, having a good and stable internet means money coming in. I’m currently considering creating a new site; well actually it’s more of transferring my blog - I just have to get a domain for my other blog that’s hosted in a free platform.
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“The best things in life are free“, and so the famous quote goes to which I don’t quite agree. Tomorrow it will be a week since we moved to our new home and it might take another week for our ISP to transfer our internet connection. In the meantime, I’m thankful I was able to find an unsecured wireless connection within or somewhere nearby our building which enables me to get online but … it’s definitely not the best! I’d get disconnected every few minutes; some of my friends are already complaining about my annoying online/offline status in YM. If you have YM, you’d know that it makes that ding sound whenever a friend goes online. And if I’m on your list, sorry for that! =) There are times though that I’d get lucky and have an interrupted connection which even allows me to watch movies online but not enough to inspire me to blog. I hope to see myself writing more when my internet is back to normal!
Somebody’s trying to access M’s computer!
Our internet connection at home has been acting up since last week that’s why I’m not in the mood to blog lately. Being used to the fast internet connection in Prague, it’s very annoying when the internet acts this way - here now, gone in a second; very unpredictable. The Globelines’ technicians already came here yesterday in the afternoon and fixed the problem but later in the evening, we experienced the same erratic connection all over again. Duh!
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Whenever I want to find someone, a long time friend, a former classmate or a relative, I would scour the social networking sites. Sometimes I am lucky to find the person I’m looking for, other times I’m not.
Up to this day, there is this one person whom I haven’t found yet. She was a good friend during my elementary years that I have lost contact when she transferred to another school. I remember her as a kind girl and we sort of made a pact that we’ll remain friends no matter what. I wonder if she still remembers all that.
Anyway, my hopes were renewed after finding the search engine called Lookupwho.com which I can use to locate my friend for free. I only need to input her name and the state where she’s living and the search engine will look it up for me. Unfortunately no match was found. =( My guess is that she might have been married and is now using a different family name and she’s not living in the US. Hopefully Lookupwho.com can come up with people search for other countries as well so I’ll have better chances of finding my friend. They’re currently supporting searches within the US and Canada only.
But for those who are sure of the names of the persons and state they’re located, go ahead and try it, it’s all for free anyway.
