Thanks to Wm Rowe
Today I was listening to NPR’s Morning Edition and they were airing one of their stories about the debt crisis. I feel like NPR is taking over my brain, and they have really come to shape my understanding of our nation’s financial crisis. I have not lost my job or been significantly set back by the debt crisis, but constantly hearing about the effects of the debt crisis on our nation as a whole and on other’s people’s lives have really gotten me in mindset that I need to be spending as little money as possible. I decided that I needed to examine every aspect of my life and manage my spending as much as possible. I decided that one easy place to start saving was on internet. I went online and did some research and came across http://www.satelliteinternetbroadband.com/hughesnet/Arizona/M/Maricopa/. I found that I could get the internet I was used to for a better price and wouldn’t have to even pay for installation. I went ahead and signed up, and I honestly was proud of myself for beginning to take proactive steps to better manage my money.
Since hubby is hardly around these days, I can get to use the desktop more often. So, my laptop has been abandoned. Since it is lying in the box collecting dust, I sent it for repair. I hope they can get a good toshiba laptops batteries for me and the cover can be fixed. The thing is, when I have assignments to write and I am not busy, the desktop is being occupied by my hubby. When I am free, I am nothing to do on the computer. 
Yesterday we bought a few LED Monitors for hubby’s shop. The LED monitor comes with free bluetooth stereo headset but we do not require it. If we put it at our CC, chances of it going missing is very high coz it is small. Furthermore the computers does not have bluetooth. If can get free 32gb ipod touch, that will be great. Thank God the supplier agreed to buy over the bluetooth stereo headset to sell at his computer shop.
My host has not been replying my emails, text messages and call with regards to the suspension of my blog at michemaylee.liquidblade.com. I am really saddened by his silence. He used to be a very nice and helpful online friend but why the sudden change in attitude, I wonder. You can never be too busy to reply a text message or pick up the phone and tell me “Sorry, I have no money to pay the host to get them to unsuspended the domain. I need money to pay for my cash advance payday loan kah, my kids are hospitalised and I am short of cash etc.”
At least tell me what’s going on. Don’t give me hope that I get to see my blog which I wrote about my children’s milestones. At least I can mourn for the death of my blog and all the memories that I have blogged.
Does anyone know how to get back all my post on a suspended blog?
Recently I received an offer for a text link in this blog for quite a good rate. The advertiser pays better if I want to accept gambling related links. I declined of course. I do not want my PR to be demoted again. And it is also against my believe to promote gambling.
Do you know that some advertiser will not buy any link on your blog if there is gambling link on your sidebar? Even though the pay is good, once you “contaminated” your sidebar with gambling links, no other advertiser will approach you. That is a bigger lose. I wonder whether the free web directories accept gambling links.
If you follow this blog, you will know that my husband is running a cyber cafe. Besides providing internet services, we provide photocopying, laminating, scanning, typing, printing, binding and faxing too. The most high maintenance item in the shop is the photocopier. The spare parts are quite costly. Hubby is so glad that he just discovered a local webstore that is selling photocopier spare parts and ink for a way cheaper price than his current supplier.
The computers in the shop needs upgrading too. Monitors need to be changed, RAM needs to be upgraded, and we need more headphones too. Thanks to Cyber Monday, we can get the items that we need at a very attractive price.
This month we were left with a big “angpow” by my tenant, a foreign MMU student; it was a RM2.5k of unpaid electricity bills and RM50 of water bills (thank God the water bill is under the Apartment’s Management control. They cut the water supply after 3 months no payment from the tenant). The deposit with us is definitely insufficient to pay for the bills.
I wonder why TNB did not cut the electricity supply when no payment was made within that 3 months and the amount exceeded the deposit amount. I still remember when one of my BILs started living with us, our electricity bills shot up from merely RM50++ per month to almost RM200, TNB immediately increased the deposit amount.
I think arh, TNB purposely do that to certain housing area coz they know most are rented properties. So if the tenant does not pay, the landlord have to pay in order for them to rent it out to another tenant. TNB make money mah. Later I found out that there are other landlord that have to pay way much more than me! Almost 50K! TNB sleeping kah? Read it here: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=nation&file=/2010/6/13/nation/6462448.
Due to this incident, I found out that we can actually check our electricity bill online at http://www.tnb.com.my/. First you have to sign up for their e-services than you can see your statement for the last 6 months including the place where payment was made. Am sure gonna monitor closely my apartment’s electricity from this month onwards.
Has anyone received any order (those who sells product online) from Dr Sarah Smith before? I did! Dr Sarah Smith lives in Scotland and claimed to be a medical doctor. Dr Sarah Smith wanted to buy my reversible bag which I posted at Mudah. At the end of the day, I realised that my bag is not what she wanted to buy. It is just a gimmick to get me to buy more expensive item like iPhone 4, iPod Touch and Sony PSP for her kid who is living in Nigeria. According to her, those items are cheaper here compared to Scotland. Hmmm…why not get them from Thailand then? I’m sure they are much cheaper there. 
And she seems to need the items very urgently. I think her kid in Nigeria will not stop throwing tantrum until he gets what he wants eh.
When I told her to pay me first, she told me that she is a minister of God who goes from work to the church to preach the Gospel. So, you want me to trust you just because you claim to be a Christian? I told her that I am a Christian too, a SAHM of 4 and my husband is a minister of God too and is currently on a mission trip (at the time of correspondence). After that email, I received no reply from her anymore. I wonder why? She has no heart to con another Christian? or She got the idea that I really have no money. 
I wanna buy the Xbox Controller also no money, let alone a new xbox, or PSP. I wonder who is the next victim after me. Maybe she will get her/him to buy Xbox games and xbox accessories too.
A few of my friends even taught me to just do what she wanted. Take pictures of the product while it is still at the shop of course and email to her then wait and see whether she actually pays. Haiya! What for con others. Do unto others what you want others to do unto you.
Spending money online can be very additive coz you don’t see the money going out from you purse. I started with buying clothes, then magazines and textbooks for my girl and my recent online purchase was fabric! Since the exchange rate from USD to MYR is so low, might as well I spend my USD online. Anyway, money out, money must come in. I should try selling my handmade bags on Etsy eh. 
Most of you that have been following this blog would know that I am so into sewing right now. I do sell them if there is a request for them. Unfortunately, living in Malacca has some disadvantages when it comes to getting fabrics. We do not have much option here. I’ve been to Kamdar, Nagoya, Astana Moda and Textile Shops at Bunga Raya. No more nice and interesting fabric from them. Have not been to the textile shop at MITC though; will go there when I have some cash.
My next option is to buy imported fabric online. But then the cost of my handmade bags will surely go up because one meter of fabric can be as expensive as RM50 and above. Will you buy my bag if I sell them at RM50 each? Anyway, I am not looking into that yet. I dare not take the risk. Furthermore I don’t know much about fabric and worried that I will buy the wrong one.
As I was browsing ShopWiki Buying Guide, I discovered that they do provide information about almost everything that is selling at ShopWiki. I learned a thing or two about fabric from ShopWiki. Btw, ShopWiki is expanding and they have gone to Australia recently. I wonder whether they will come to Asia soon.
