Category: Interesting

Just some stuffs that interest me.

East Malaysian Bloggers Needed!

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Still can’t accept Paypal payments 🙁 Kept getting Paypal e-mails asking me to accept those payments but how to accept?!?!? You don’t let me, how am I going to accept? *ANGRY*

I know I’ve been writing a lot of paid posts lately 😛 hehehe… So sorry… The money is too good to resist. Besides, I’m lacking of things to blog too. Oh! This is NOT a paid post.

As you know, I’m one of the privileged ones to be given the first Advertlets ad. Now I have another ad. Both are random. For almost a month already and I have 3 figures in my account(see the pic, guess how much I have in there? :P). Oh ya…. I need to donate RM50 to Yvonne Foong. It’s quite fast compare to the other one which I was allocated with 1 ad before and now second one is here but both only last for one week and only making a mere 1 figure income from them hahaha… I’m lucky that I’m one of those that have 2 ads display simultaneously from two different companies.

I’m NOT taking sides. When there’s something interesting to write, I will just write regardless of which company they are. It just happened that I don’t have anything to write about for the other company because there is nothing for me to write about them. They have an event coming up but it’s not related to me.

I’m just one of the bloggers that want to earn some $$ from my blog. You know I’m very moneyface 😛 Advertlets claims that they practice targeted ad display. The poll will help them allocate suitable ad for your blog. However, many people misunderstood that they must complete the poll to get ad. I myself still need 6 more polls but I’m already allocated with 2 ads now even at the begining I only had about 30+ polls submitted from my site.

I know many people still do not have ad in their site but Advertlets promises that whoever sign up as members, properly installed the code and fill in necessary fields in their account, a proper blog will get ad starting from 24th May.

Back to the main topic. According to Josh, Advertlets only have less than 100 Advertlets Bloggers from East Malaysia. OMG! So little!! Where’s all my blogger friends? Where are you? Got money to earn you also don’t want? Aiyooo… At least the money can help maintain your blog, your domain name and hosting. Advertlets might have a few campaigns specifically for us in East Malaysia provided we have enough bloggers from East Malaysia to sign up to speed up the campaigns. If there are too few of us like now, less than 100 -.-” Gosshh… It will take quite a while for us to enjoy the privileges. You know how frustrating is that when West Malaysians always got the cool stuffs but we East Malaysians are always those that being left behind. So pathetic.

According to Josh’s e-mail:

…if you were to display an ad relevant to East Malaysia in general (where you are – a business, product, service, event or job opportunity) – you would get paid more for that than usual, as the advertisers message reaches more geographically relevant people.

Here’s something more also:

We have managed to attract the interest of an advertiser, who plans to advertise a relatively big series of lifestyle events on your blogs, sometime around June, in East Malaysia. The event will happen in both Sabah AND Sarawak. Fingers crossed, besides giving you a relevant ad to show on your blogs, we will also negotiate for free passes for all of you, and some of you will get paying review/blogvertorial opportunities of the event (before and after the event).

AISEH MAN! Damn cool!

NO! Josh doesn’t pay me for this. I’m doing this for myself! Actually, I have a motive behind this post OK? *LOL* Seriously, I DO! Hey, if this works, I will get the benefits, you will also get benefits from it! Got it? That’s my motive. *Hint hint to Josh* Eh… I’m getting paid for this or not? 😛 Joking…

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My Mood, My Fun, My Habits, My Love

Posted on By sweet surrender 2 Comments on My Mood, My Fun, My Habits, My Love

Goodness gracious… Secret Recipe is still packed with people WOW!

Saw many bloggers doing VisualDNA hehehe… So I decided to try out also after seeing so many. It’s quite accurate hehehe…





On other note, I’m planning to change my hairstyle. Hahaha… I’ve been talking about this for ages but never do anything to it except I dyed my hair last year which is the biggest change I had ever done to my hair. Hmm… I’m definitely not going to straighten my hair, this will only ask for troubles.

Hmmm… I might perm it hahaha… People will be saying that I’m crazy since I already have natural curls 😛 Actually many people ask me to perm it including my mom because my natural curls aren’t consistent, sometimes good, sometimes bad. So might as well have fixed one. *Shrug* No idea… In other words, this needs money again. I told my mom that having my hair perm is expensive, she said that I’m so stingy, that I should spend some money to groom myself. -.-”

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Kuchingites Or Kuchingnites?

Posted on By sweet surrender 13 Comments on Kuchingites Or Kuchingnites?

Secret Recipe will only open tomorrow,20th April.

People! Tell me which one is correct? “Kuchingites” or “Kuchingnites”? I’ve been seeing these two versions everywhere. HELP! I’m getting confused now! I used to use “Kuchingites”, then lately I saw many people using “Kuchingnites”, so… I’m super duper confuse now! Which is the correct one? If there is no definite answer, I guess we will have to end up calling ourselves “Kuching Kia” Hahaha… This one will be 100% correct! 😛 Ok… Seriously… Which one?

This leads me to introduce you to my recent project that I’ve been doing with Jimmy lately and decided that now it’s the time to fully release it to everyone.

Why we started it?
This blog is dedicated solely for money making and Kuching. You can only make money when you have proper content for your blog. If you only want to make money and you don’t have the content, it can’t work. This is because there are rules that you need to obey to make money. Nothing is free.

Since catscity.net has a higher PR compare to this blog, it can make more money. Summore nothing was done to this URL for a while already, it used to be a very high traffic Chinese forum, that’s why it has such high PR. So we decided to put everything about Kuching that we had blogged before into it to make it into an information blog with ratings from us. The write-ups are not the same as the one you see in my blog. This means I have to come out with two versions of write-ups. One for my blog and another one for catscity.net. If I just copy paste my content over, PPP would not approve catscity.net. Therefore, if you go to catscity.net, you will be seeing a non-sponsored post followed by a sponsored post.

It’s not an easy work. We have to find content to put in between the sponsored posts, else PPP won’t approve us at all. I have to update two blogs about the same thing but with different content. So it’s not all about making money, it makes us work extra hard to find things related to Kuching to blog. For the record, I had blogged 10 posts(2 blogs both with their own contents and own sponsored posts) a day within 3 hours, such madness! The post in between the sponsored posts must be of certain standard too. You cannot just dump a video or photo in. You must have at least 5 sentences in your non-sponsored post and of certain length.

Such crazy job but love it 😛 The craziest part is to grab PPP opps for catscity.net and my own blog. Summore PPP opps are not easy to grab nowadays. They’re gone too fast! They can gone in seconds! Goshhh… That’s why sometimes you can see continous sponsored posts and then later on I will insert the non-sponsored posts in between them.

Ok… Enough of the introduction. Hahaha… Hop over to catscity.net and you will know what I’m trying to tell you. We make sure we update it everyday with quality content of course. Then I can write at least one sponsored post a day. If we are lucky, I can write three sponsored posts a day and this will mean I need to compose another 2 to 3 non-sponsored posts a day. Crazy right? It’s legal way to make money anyway 😛

Let me get this straight, the domain name belongs to Jimmy, the photos belong to Jimmy, the write-ups belongs to me except the newspapers articles. We split the earning 50-50. Fair enough. OH! Is it Kuchingites Or Kuchingnites?

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Bling Bling With Advertlets

Posted on By sweet surrender 1 Comment on Bling Bling With Advertlets

All right people! Get ready for another money making opportunity! Goshh… I’m so money face! Who cares? Who doesn’t want money? I saw Advertlets’ poll in many bloggers’ site but I didn’t bother much about it until my friend asked me to try out the poll by Advertlets. Since I was still busy, I didn’t bother much about it after taking part in the poll.

Finally I have a bit of time to sign up and go tru’ it. At the beginning, it’s just simply register and copy paste the codes into your blog. When the time comes, they will generate adverts that are relevant to your blog. This will make sure your readers will not be bombard with unrelated advertisements. For me the concept is the same as the one I registered earlier on from another company. They both claim that we can make money from it. That’s why I register. I don’t mind who will give me more money as long that they can generate money for me. Hahaha…

Frankly, to us, we don’t really mind as long that they can generate money. I found out that, if a blogger is register with Advertlets, he or she will sure to sign up with the other one. It really doesn’t matter at all. Bloggers don’t really mind but advertisers do. They are the one that will make decision of where to advertise. The one with more advertisers will win of course. Still… As long that there’s money given to us, we don’t mind.

Just recently I received a mail saying that they will be having feature where bloggers will be paid for blogging about products and services. Advertlets is started by Malaysians to Malaysians. Therefore things that we are going to write about will be much more applicable to us. Also, no language restriction applied. This is a good chance for many bloggers that blog in other languages as my friend has been seeing GREEN that I’m making money in the US based one. *blek*

Look at the ad banners at my sidebar. You can see two of them right? I’m not practicing favouritism, I have no idea who to place first so I resorted to placing them based on alphabetical order. 😛

So… Why wait? Sign up now and be a part of us!

This post is brought to you by Advertlets.

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Qing Ming 2007

Posted on By sweet surrender 2 Comments on Qing Ming 2007

It’s April’s Fool today. I don’t play tricks on people for a long long long long time already. Also no one fools me for don’t know how many years already. However, was fooled by Lilian!! Eh.. But doesn’t count ok? Hahaha… Coz it’s not on 1st April, it’s yesterday.

The actual day of Qing Ming(in Mandarin, in Hokkien is “Cheng Beng”, what is it called in English?) should be 5.4.2007(to be exact the the 18th day of the second month of Lunar calender) but most people will start going to the cemetery to clean up and pay respect to the ancestors during the weekend before the actual day since the actual day falls on a weekday.

We went today. My dad went to clean it with my uncles and aunties last Sunday. Started from home at about 6am and reached there at about 6.30am. It’s very near to the Anglican Cemetary. Oppsss.. I had forgotten the cemetery’s name that we went though been going there every year ever since I’m in kindergaten. This year I’m crazy enough to bring my camera along and shot a lot of photos. Hmmm… My relatives were quite amused about me taking photos there but hmm… I think there’s somebody that was not very happy about it(I’m not sure but I think there is). They played along and arranged those “gifts” to my late grandparents for me to take photos. (-.-“) Not sure is the right thing to do or not taking photos there? Hmm… Phew… I didn’t snap “something”.

You know the Chinese cemetery is always such a spooky place. However, I dare to walk alone in the dark with torchlight to my grandparents’ grave. Hehehe… There’s no light there at all, it’s pitch black but the grave is not so far from the parking place, that’s why I dare hahaha… Well… I only walked there alone once, it was few years back. My cousin was shocked when they reached and saw me alone there while my parents were still unloading stuffs at the car. NO NO NO, it’s not what you’re thinking OK? I’m aware that I am walking there alone to put down those praying stuffs there and since I’m one of them with the torchlight, so I placed the torchlight there and waited for the rest to arrive. 😛

We were quite late this year. Usually we started from home at about 5.30am. It’s quite bright already when we reached there today and so many people there already.


Left: See the smoke from far far away? It’s from another cemetery. You know how much pollution cause by these burning activities? That’s why we alwasy go early so that we won’t be suffocated by all those smokes. No wonder the Taiwanese government urges their citizen to reduce burning activities during Qing Ming. Also, it’s not hot too. The sun was quite strong already at around 7.30am. Usually, we ended the ritual before 8am. This year, we dragged until 9am+ because we were waiting for my another cousin and aunt that couldn’t find the way to the cemetary. It’s about 8am+ when they arrived. Then when we wanted to leave, another cousin and aunt came. So couldn’t leave so soon. Gosshh… The sun was biting every inch of my skin even with umbrellas!

Right: The old fashion hell money and coloured papers scattered on the grave to symbolise that the children and grandchildren had came to visit them.


People busy cleaning up. Some clean the grave and pay respect the same day.


Left: Hahaha… Clothings. This is the old fashion type. It will be burn together with the hell money.

Right: Hell money from the The Hell Bank Corporation. Yes! You got it right! The human bought the money from hell and send it back to hell again. (-.-“) Oh… So there is no heaven at all. We die, we all go to hell. If those go to heaven, they won’t be getting anything right? Or heaven is already filled with all the things they need so there is no need to give them anything. So That’s why only got hell money no heaven money.

Hmm… Think from another perspective, since generally people always said that, if you are good you go to heaven; if you are bad, you go to hell. So you are very sure your love ones are bad, that’s why they go to hell. How disrespectful to them? I’m sure no one will want their love ones to go to hell. If they go to heaven, then I’m sure they will be very sad that you think that they are not a good person.

All these are just gimmick of the businessmen. I’m a Christian(most of my relatives are not), so I don’t believe in these stuffs. To us, hell is hell, where those in hell suffer from the burn of fire every single second. There is nothing else but fire. No matter how many things you had “sent” to hell they will not get it at all. There’s no such thing. What’s on earth, remains on earth. It won’t go anyway unless they have spirits or souls. You are just burning your money. It seems to be a sane way to burn money instead of burning the real money hahaha…


Modern clothings! Got heels, got shoes, got hat, got trousers, shirts, dress, skirts, wallet, mobile phone, pen even credit card from The Hell Bank! Branded wallet and belt summore! *LOL*


Left: Some food for offerings.
Middle: Another type of hell money. Every buddhist group has their own type of hell money.
Right: We have Darlie, they have Hellie. So funny… It comes with Toothbrush and towel too.


Left: These are money too. They are the money used in the olden days called silver ingot or “yuan bao”.
Right: Let’s burn them! Let’s burn money!


On the way out of the cemetery. See the long queue of cars, “smoking” hills(not so clear) and the tombs(not so clear also).

This year we made a last minute decision to visit the ashes storage place of my uncle and my cousin. It’s at the one and only crematorium in Kuching. I’m not sure the name of the place. This is my second time there. I didn’t attend the cremation of my cousin.

Left: They have quite a nice water feature there.
Right: The place where the worshippers place their joss sticks. Quite a tall one. What you see here is the top part.


This is where all the ashes are kept. You have to pay a yearly maintenance fee, not sure how much, depends on the “slot” too. To buy a “slot”, the price depends on the position too, the cheapest is RM6000. The most expensive is RM24,000(photo on the right).

Reached home, showered, slept, ate then online till now. This is my April’s Fool. How about you?

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