Smorty - Earn through blogging

I have been through various online money advertising such as Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, AdBrite, Nuffnang and etc... Never really got a chance to get better return from the above mentioned providers because of various reasons. However, thanks to my friend Han Ping because he is the one who introduced Smorty to me.

Smorty is a blog advertising network company where advertiser get blogger to review their website while blogger has the opportunity to get paid to blog by writing review from advertiser.

Your blog will be approved based on some of the conditions, but not limited to :

-your blog must be older than 3 months and get indexed by Google and Yahoo.
-cannot have violent, hate related or adult contents in your blog and more.
-Your blog must be active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week (which I think is the most important thing to be noted for those who are willing to apply)

For more information, please check it out Smorty’s blogger FAQ.

Smorty pay you by weekly basis into your PayPal account. If you don't have a PayPal account please open one as it is the only method of payment.

Gigabyte GM-R03 Laser Mouse

My old Logitech optical mouse which comes together with the ASUS laptop I purchased 3 years and 5 months ago had served me well until recently the right click button wasn't as sensitive as before anymore. Seldom I need to press hard to make it works and this is not desirable in an intense DoTA gaming, so I decided to get a new mouse. Bought a Cliptech optical mouse for RM 10 at last year December PC Fair in Penang, but after a month, the left click button becomes too sensitive, always double click when I just press once. Cheap thing doesn't comes good, which is true...


So this time I decide to spent more to get a better mouse. After doing much research on the web, finally I found this - Gigabyte GM-R03 Laser Mouse. It is available in 3 colours - dark blue, silver and red. The real thing isn't as shinny as what was shown on their official website.


The mouse was packaged in a nice looking shinning box though, I bought it for RM 50, got RM 5 discount from a nice Chinese sales assistant at Sri Computer, Lowyat. 3 months warranty from the shop and 2 years from Gigabyte, worth it la considering much of the mouse are only with 1 year warranty, moreover this is a gaming mouse with :

Precision laser technology providing best-in-class performance and tracking 1600 dpi resolution for accurate motion 6 programmable buttons, one for office function

The mouse is big, about 13 cm in length, 8 cm witdth, and 5 cm in maximum thickness. Felt comfortable in my big hand. This mouse is very sensitive. The cursor moves right across my 1024px screen with just 1-1.5 cm of mouse movement.

With other gaming mouse such as Logitech MX 518 and Razer Krait costing RM 100 and above, well this is a value buy, why pay so much for a mouse by the way?

Personal Cash Advance

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• Currently have a job (or receive regular income)
• Make at least $1000 per month
• Are 18 years of age or older and a U.S. citizen Have a checking account
• Other requirements may apply
• Even bankruptcy, bounced-checks, charge-offs and other credit problems don’t prevent you from receiving the cash advance you need.
• Not active in the military.

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It's that easy, so why wait to get that cash advance?

Perfect Cash Advance

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Billiard Magic

BilliardMagic is the most reliable and authentic place to play online pool, snooker and billiards. It was an established online games sites for years and added BilliardMagic to the range in 2001.

With cutting edge technology and super graphics, playing pool at BilliardsMagic is fun and interactive. They are able to bring you the best pool games, providing you with information to help you improve your game, give you access to exciting tournaments, and the opportunity to win amazing prizes in a secure environment.

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Milf

As a Guangzhou-based one of the biggest import and export company, Milf Toy Manufacturer Co., Ltd is the professional distributor of various fashions product and services in China. Due to a comprehensive product supply, good price and prompt delivery, their business scope has been enlarged significantly over the past few years. Their products are sold regularly to partners in Europe and USA.

To match customers' request, they have diversified the product line. Their products now include plush toy, handbag, cap and craft.

They also have a powerful designingers team who always makes good investigation of the global fashion market and developing the latest designs.

Sri Petaling Proton Edar another bad experience

Previously I had wrote about the bad experience at Sri Petaling Proton Edar when Proton Persona was launched. Today I again went to take a look at the new Proton Saga, it make me feels that basically all the salesman at this Proton Edar branch are arrogant !

Here is how it started, I sat into the car and take a feel of its interior, and then a salesman, called T, in his mid 40's approached me :

T: Hey boss, what model are you interested in? Auto or Manual?

Me: Oh, I am just looking...

T: If just want to look don't want to buy then no need to look la, just waste your time only, go do business la, earn more money.

I laugh at the salesman, then I straight away walk out and swear that I will never come back to this place. It was so funny that to see a salesman trying to piss his customer off in just 5 seconds. Is there any wrong just for looking at this car ? He don't like his boss for not paying him bonus and trying to revenge by turning customers away ?

I was so shocked at what he mentioned, is this how a salesman should treat their potential customer? Last time when Proton dominated the market due to tax protection, this was the story you will frequently heard, " take it or leave it " from arrogant salesman. Now, probably due to good sales on this new model they became arrogant again. Who can provide me the direct line to the Proton's CEO ? I am thinking of calling him ! This kind of arrogant salesman are just tarnishing the already bad image of Proton.

Personally I think Proton had done a great job under the new management, this Saga is just worth considering for those lower income group and the quality was acceptable for price at 30-40k, but if this is how their salesman going to treat their customer, then I hope you can just close shop in future, you have made all Malaysians to suffer for more than 20 years to pay so much for a car and now it is time for us to get a better car at cheaper price.

Zenni Optical

ZenniOptical.com Sells Stylish Prescription Glasses Online. You can find huge selection of frames, with single vision lens, sunsensor (potochromic)lens, tinted suglasses lens, bifocal lens and progressive lens. The Secret to Zenni’s Low Prices is that they sell only their own manufactured frames direct to the customer, with no middlemen and virtually no advertising budget.

Some of the glasses which I found to be interesting to me at the new arrivals section are as below:



Memory Titanium Flat Top Half-Rim Frame $19.00


Stainless Steel Half-Rim Frame $35.95

This is the first time I see a frame made of Titanium, a material which is used to made a tank, so I believe it must be very durable, suitable for those careless people.

All of their Eyeglass Orders Including Zenni Optical $8 Rx Glasses Have:

High quality stylish frame

Thin and Light 1.57 index lens

Anti Scratch Coating

Full UV Protection

Lens edge polishing and beveling

Quality Hard Eyeglass case

Microfiber Lens Cleaning Cloth

Full Guarantee

Wow! With price starting from as low as $ 8 or less than RM 40, it is worth to have a look at this website which provide so many choices of eyeglass for you to choose from. Get a unique design frame at Great Discovery: Zenni Optical.

IMU vanished !

One day, when I looked out to the window, to my horror IMU was missing. IMU is located just in front of my Vista C condominium's window, about 100 meters distance. What had happened ? David Copperfield magic ?

Building on the left is Vista Komanwel B, directly in front is Vista C clubhouse.

At first I thought there was fire in IMU, luckily it wasn't. Anyway if there was fire it doesn't matter to me because I won't be attending classes until March :P

The usual view from my window

I don't know where the smoke comes from, it last for about 15 minutes, it was quite worrying at first because I had never seen haze as serious as this before.

Hotel Reservations

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Unlike hotels with per person pricing, there is a set price for an entire vacation rental with a maximum number of persons allowed. Most one-bedroom units sleep a maximum of four using a sleeper/sofa in the living room. Most two-bedroom vacation rentals sleep a maximum of six, and most three-bedroom vacation rentals sleep up to eight.

For more than 6 years HotelReservations.com has been providing travelers great prices on the places you want to stay for both leisure and business travel. If you are planning for a wedding, reunion, business event, sports team travel or other special occasion, their friendly and knowledgeable Group Reservations Specialists will be ready to help you 24/7 at over 20,000 hotels and resorts worldwide.

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Bypass Megaupload slot full error

For Mozilla Firefox 2.0 only

All credit goes to STUD from ipmart forum

Here is a crack/trick for Megaupload which stops the message "All download slots... assigned to your country are in use..." from appearing while downloading a file. UPDATED 13/11/2006

Here is the solution:

-Go to address bar and type: about:config

-Search for general.useragent.extra.firefox




-Double click on it
-Change the default text with this: Firefox/2.0 MEGAUPLOAD 1.0




-Start Downloading witout any Toolbar




This is so easy and within seconds u can resume ur download from Megaupload.

You can also pause and resume the download.

For IE6 or IE7

Start–>Run–>Regedit–>OK

In Registry Editor window:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform]

Right click Post Platform–>New–>String Value–> Type “Alexa Toolbar"=""

Restart PC. Done!

Note: For IE 7.0 the “Post Platform” will located at:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform]

Cloverfield Movie Review

I watched this movie last Friday, thinking it is an exciting movie to watch when the statue of freedom's head got broken, so I decided to spend RM 7 on to watch it in GSC cinema. The first 15 minutes was just nonsense where a guy will be holding a video camera interviewing people what they want to talk about on a guy who is getting married. You will be watching the whole movie as if you are the video camera. I felt dizzy when the movie was just started and luckily it was not a long movie, just around 75 minutes. If you got motion sickness, I would suggest you to take Novomin first before entering the hall or just watch other movie.

This movie was a huge disappointment, probably the worst movie in year 2008 that I am watching in cinema. Storyline is ok, but screen play and ending is just crap. The screen just moves around like mad and there were a few instances you are just looking at the floor. The ending is very simple, it ends when the video camera was destroy by a bomb, which blast the whole Manhattan. Wtf, it is just not worth the RM 7 ! Next time I will wait other people to watch movie first then let them to recommend me which one to watch.

Bad Credit Loans

The number of people with "bad credit" is increasing nowadays, and BadCreditOffers.com serves as a great resource to help these consumers get back on their feet financially by providing them bad credit loans. BadCreditOffers.com allows those in need to compare dozens of "bad credit" offers from major providers and find the best offer to fit their needs, such as credit card loans, home loans, auto loans, personal loans and credit repair. E.g. Those with "bad credit" rating can look into the credit card section to get easy and quick approval. By making timely payments, consumers can start to rebuild their credit history and, perhaps, their financial future.

Mister Gammon

Mister Gammon is the Internet's longest running backgammon site. It offers backgammon players the latest information about backgammon tournaments and events as well as backgammon software for real money or just for fun. The site is available in six languages.
The management team at Mister-Gammon has been in the online backgammon business since 1999 operating thriving online backgammon games. Mister-Gammon earned awards reserved for leading online backgammon managers.
Players can enjoy all of the value-added perks the fabulous interactive games to play online backgammon. Currently over 100,000 registered players are enjoying backgammon at Mister-Gammon on a regular basis.

Cost of dialysis

I really sympathize with those patients who need to undergo haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. It cost RM 2000-RM2500 per month to get this kind of treatment. The cost of dialysis per month is more than the income for a lot of low-middle income class people. Without any welfare support, not many people will be able to pay so much per month to receive treatment for End Stage Renal Failure (ESRF).

I have seen patient as young as 8 year-old in the nephro ward receiving CAPD (Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis). We should take care of our health, most of the patient with Renal failure was first diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. Although you may think that you are still young but it is better to prevent rather than being late.

MagicHoldem

MagicHoldem Poker Odds Calculator is a Card Game product from magicholdem.com.
Knowing how to figure out your odds in Texas Hold’em is one of the most fundamental points in becoming a solid poker player - It makes your decision-making easier by giving you an idea when you are in a good or bad situation. MagicHoldem Poker Odds Calculator helps you avoid simple mistakes, analyse the game better and strategize with ease. Play smart by knowing your odds.
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Chatting with a patient in Nephrology ward

This is not a case presentation!

Patient was an Indian guy, 74 years old. Suffered from ESRD, DM, HPT and left leg cellulitis. He was a very kind man who talked to me when I was clerking his case. This is the first time I talked to a real patient, rather than a simulated one in IMU CSU.
He told me that he used to work as an army accountant. He was also involved in the politics in his younger age, and he knows a lot of politician such as Karpal Singh, Lim Kit Siang, Lee Lam Thye and even Tunku Abdul Rahman (according to him is his neighbour) and Lee Kuan Yew ! wow...

While he was working in the army, someone offered him a bribe, but he rejected it. I was thinking if I was him, will I accept bribe? In army department, I believe the amount to bribe for something, such as modifying the account detail in purchasing of weapons could easily gave you millions of ringgit, but he rejected it.

Shall he had accepted the money, he would be probably now receiving treatment in a private hospital first class ward fitted with air-cond, personal toilet and personal room, with Indonesian maid take caring him, washing his legs. But he choose not to, and now had to stay at HKL's warm and uncomfortable ward, still looking for a haemodialysis centre because he cannot afford to pay RM 2000 per month for it. That is a lot for someone who is not working anymore and no children to pay for him.

If you were him, will you accept the bribe ? Those minister who cheated the people for so much money can live happily ever after when they retired but those who choose to be honest got this kind of ending ? How come god is so unfair to good people ?

32Vegas

32Vegas aims to put you in a glamorous and fashionable environment with the feel of stepping into a real Las Vegas Strip casino. On top of that, your odds of being a winner are likely a lot better than in any live casino thanks to the massive 320% sign-up bonus. The casino uses a custom version of the immensely popular PlayTech software, with more than 130 different games of the highest quality to suit all tastes. Of course you can play all of the old-fashioned casino classics games at 32Vegas, like blackjack, roulette and craps, some of them even with live dealers, but perhaps even more intriguing are the huge progressive jackpots.