A.P.P.L.E

It’s passed 365 days. Before welcoming the new year, let’s look back at what important changes happened in my life throughout the year.

01.01.2007 - Officially started blogging (in Blogger.com).
xx.02.2007 - Signed up an account in Google Adsense.
14.02.2007 - 2nd Valentine’s Day spent with Him.
02.04.2007 - Officially resigned from previous job and work as an IT support now.
28.04.2007 - Changing blog layout.
08.05.2007 - Bought my domain name - xiaoyenzi.com
18.06.2007 - A minor car accident that scared the hell out of me.
07.07.2007 - Attended friend’s wedding dinner for the first time.
12.07.2007 - Joined Advertlets.
19.07.2007 - My birthday.
06.08.2007 - Joined EmailCashPro.
29.08.2007 - Switching from Blogger classic template to xml template.
15.09.2007 - Attended Catscity Clique.
13.10.2007 - 2nd Anniversary.
16.10.2007 - Bought my own domain and move my blog from Blogger to own hosted Wordpress.
24.10.2007 - Joined WidgetBucks.
24.10.2007 - Relaunched Free Collection.
02.11.2007 - Joined BlogRush.
11.11.2007 - Attended my Bachelor’s degree graduation ceremony.
27.11.2007 - Joined Smorty.
29.11.2007 - Received first Google Adsense payment via Western Union.
02.12.2007 - Attended an unforgettable wedding dinner.
23.12.2007 - Bought myself a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T2.
24.12.2007 - Bought a USD95 (one time payment and for life) hosting plan from TopHostingCenter.
27.12.2007 - Joined Nufflets.

And I would like to mention that, I start doing paid post at the end of November, and it’s one month till now. I’ve earned approximately USD200. And I’ve used USD95 to purchase a hosting plan.

So, that’s what happen to me and my blog for the whole year of 2007.

Till then, see you next year.

Happy 2008.

Recently our ISP make changes to its policies towards business organization. Later today, the person in charge will come to my office to help setup the new line. At the same time my boss intended to implement a wireless broadband into the existing network. It is just a proposal yet no further action taken yet.

The reason for which such wireless connection is needed is, the Managing Director and his assistant would like to access to the Internet from their laptops via Wi Fi. As an IT support in the company, I was consulted on which device to purchase for wireless connection. I suggested a wireless access point.

Updated: Before I quit this job, I’d setup a secured wireless network via my colleague’s router. This colleague live at the upper level of the office.

It’s 13th again.  Our anniversary since the first date.  It’s been 2 years and 2 months.  I’m so happy.

Thanks for everything, Orange.

Yesterday just received a parcel from Singapore. It’s my on stage graduation photo. It still need some time before my personal graduation photo, which we took at the studio, to be developed. Finally graduated. No, no increment in salary. Perhaps next year? or never… Working with the company for 8 months, I started to think if I should find a new one.

Nice photo with nice labeling - University of Portsmouth, UK. Yea, a UK honor degree! So? Every month also need to drive all the way from home to office, suffer from traffic jams, and get very little salary. Are you telling me a Bachelor’s degree graduand should have at least RM1500 and above? Sort of. But I will never have such offer if I stay back in the company. Read more…

I was really down yesterday. No updates were made to my blog. Not that I didn’t want to post anything new - I have PLENTY of things to share, yet my blog was DOWN for almost 12 HOURS!!!!! I was really very angry about this and thought of terminating the service with my web hoster. I paid RM150/year for this package yet the server was down for 5 times in this month!!!!!! How am I going to make money online in the future if my domain is not 24-hour available?!?!?!?!?!

When I can’t blog, my entire mood changes. I feel so depressed and I feel like killing people. I tried to play DotA (WTF mode) with Cherry, but within minutes I was pawned by the AI!!! I know I haven’t been playing games for some time, Orange comforted me saying that skills will go rusty when long time no play the game. I know…that’s not my type of game. I’m only good in arcade games…and I mean it, I’m GOOD IN ARCADE.

Another thing that made me very sad is when I heard the news of my hamster’s death. Read more…