Entries from June 2007 ↓

With a opportune moniker like Paris Beaverbanks and a lovely title like that, you can almost see the rumours start to fly. Not about me of course, but about the jailbird Paris Hilton who shares my same first name sitting in a Los Angeles jail somewhere, not sleeping nor eating apparently. She has her own cell with glass door and 24 hour guard. Not bad right? Some death row prisoners get less than that! You know, I thought getting into jail was the whole point of her violating her probation but then with eccentric rich heiresses you just never know.

But I digress. The point of this post is about me getting infected with the Blogivitis virus. Its all Wuching’s fault. He came around sowing his wild oats virus and infected me. Atichoo! Bless me. He got the virus so bad, he even confused me with Paris Hilton who is in jail so she can’t do the tag right now so its just me, Paris B.
According to Wuching, he had identified 10 symptoms of Blogivitis so I checked my own symptoms and these are my 10 symptoms of the Blogivitis virus I have contracted:

1. I get to work and immediately check Gmail for comments on my blogs - even before coffee. I’m a comment whore.
2. I find myself paying more attention to my surroundings just in case there’s something blog-worthy in the situation/place I’m in.
3. I never used to have dark circles under my eyes. I now have them worse than if I were to apply eye liner because I stay up late at night blogging when I should be catching up on my beauty sleep. Result, I have to spend money on concealer so I don’t scare little kids in the day.
4. I re-learn html, self-teach css, twist my head around wordpress, crack my skull on search engine optimization, and whore my sites for the traffic. 4 out of 5 ain’t bad
5. I find a reason to take a photo of anything, just in case I can blog about it, like the rude man who alas! refused to camwhore for me.
6. I know more about my blog friends’ lives and families than I do my real friends who don’t have blogs.
7. I do memes and tags because it tells you that someone appreciates your blog enough to help you boost your traffic and to link you. Also if you don’t then no one will tag you anymore and that would be a tragedy!
8. I get myself a new browser because I’m told my site looked funny in it and I had to make sure it did not happen again.
9. I learn to make my hobby work for me. So far, the dividends are satisfactory
10. I take photos of food. ’nuff said.

In the spirit of being loving and sharing I will hereby infect the Blogivitis virus to the following people who must tell us all what their symptoms are:

• Giddy Tigers - She said she’s infected already so lets see her symptoms
• PabloPabla - He was so kind to help me out with Firefox I’m returning the kindness lol
• Rinnah - She’s on a hiatus but I still spy her around. Must be the blogivitis virus!
• Sooyin - A taggee outside my usual blogosphere - a fresh take perhaps?
• Doris - because I still owe her a tag that I’m trying hard to work on

Yesterday I had someone tell me that one of my sites looked screwy because there was a big drop down menu in the middle of the post. I looked and looked on my Internet Explorer browser and saw nothing out of place. Everything looked fine and dandy.

So, I hopped onto Gmail chat and asked the only person I know who uses Firefox (Thanks Pablo!) and asked him to check. He came back and told me “OMG! Everything’s messed up!” Apparently, there were numbers everywhere, looking suspiciously like bra sizes!!

WTF?

You know how our Signor L B throws his mini-skirts around in a tantrum? Well, apparently, I must have been throwing one hell of a tantrum around my site to leave my bras everywhere for all and sundry to see! In the middle of the post somemore! How to miss a size 36DD bra thrown in your face right? Pamela Anderson - eat your heart out! Haha…

So anyway, Internet Explorer did not detect this. I don’t even know how long it has been going on. How many innocuous visitors to my site had clicked on a post to read it only to find themselves staring at a size 36F bra? One of the ads I’d included had gone wonky apparently.

To cut a long skirt story short, I cleaned up the code, but was appalled that my site would look so bad on another browser. So, today, I decided I’d go the way of many internet surfers and download Firefox as my browser. With so many fans, I’m sure I can’t go wrong.

So here I am, looking at a browser of a little red fox curled around the world, trying to get used to the functions. So far, everything looks manageable. The tabs will take some getting used to though. And I’ve found that some sites seem to load a tad faster. Hmm… More ppp ops perhaps?

*twitches foxy tail*

I was at the DKSH warehouse clearance sale in PJ on Saturday. There was a lot of food stuff on sale mostly because it was close to expiry. I managed to pick up some stuff for the house but the shopping high ended on a sour note.

At this particular sale was also sale of electrical products distributed by Diethlam. One of it was Fujitsu air-conditioners. I strolled over when I saw a friend talking to a DKSH member of staff manning the air-conditioner booth. Now, I was in the market for an air-conditioner for one of my rooms. However, I knew that no matter how cheap the price is, there is always a tag on of labour charge for fixing it up and everywhere I went, I’ve been quoted a sum of RM150.

So, I asked the staff member how much the service charge was and he said RM180 for a 1.0 HP air conditioner and the price goes up, depending on the size needed. This was the conversation that ensued:-

Me: Wah! RM180 ah… outside its only RM150.
Him: This is by our in-house Diethlam technician.
Me: Ya, but still, shops outside are only charging RM150.
Him: Haiyah! Outside you can get RM150 or even RM130. Ours is Diethlam technician. Its only RM30 difference (In Cantonese) Sam sap khau tai um hoi meh?

A rough translation of what he said in Cantonese is: Its only RM30 why so stingy? (Correct me if I’m wrong. I get the gist but not the exact words)

At this point I got angry. Its not that I could not afford the additional RM30 they were charging. I just did not like his supercilious attitude. He was not a sales man, that’s for sure because salesmen always sweet talk you, not abuse you. He looked like a member of staff acting as salesman for the day.

So, I said, “How rude!” and walked away. I was not the only one who found the service charge expensive because I overheard many people commenting that it was on the high side.

Anyway, I don’t care if anyone knows who he is. There, his picture if up for everyone to see. If you know him, tell him that he was abominably rude to a potential customer, and that this is no way to make a sale. You do not abuse your customers because you just never know who they might be and what they can or cannot afford.

So nah! Your mug is now on my blog for the world to see. *sticks tongue out*

I hope I don’t look like I’m bragging but….

Heck! I’m bragging, why sugar-coat it! Look what getting paid to write posts has gotten me!

A full leather sofa set!!

I’m so pleased, can you tell? hehe… Its lovely and comfy and large which I thought would over power the space in my apartment, but hey, it doesn’t! I can stretch out full length on the 3-seater and snooze and I can curl up in the chair and watch telly.

I got it from Lorenzo and they were having a clear-out sale at one of their outlets pre-renovation. If the sales lady is to be believed, it is at a hefty 90% discount, down to RM3000 from RM13000. But I don’t really believe her because I did not see the original price. I had to top up the cost (the USD didn’t quite cover it) but I think its pretty worth it for RM3000.

Its especially more worth it when a major part of it was paid for by Payperpost and various other programmes LOL! So, this post is sponsored by all the paid-to-blog programmes out there that paid me in the last 6 months.

Thank you for a lovely sofa set! LOL!

… like Timothy Tiah aka Boss Stewie! LOL

I don’t usually do a bodek (ass kissing) post but I thought I’d make an exception just once. This was brought on because I came across his post Nuffnang Orientation giving us an insight into the running of his company Nuffnang.

I’d read Timothy’s blog off and on from way before Nuffnang and I liked what I read. I must admit to be very surprised to see that the Nuffnang staff wear shirts and ties. I just never expected that from a web based company. I was thinking Google with staff being able to wear khakis and polo t-shirts to work. But the idea of eating, shopping and blogging on company time sound awesome! 

Anyway, Timothy is now an entrepreneur just like the heading of his blog says, and he promotes his business, he holds blogger meets (like the one Nuffnang will be having in Penang soon - if you are in Penang, make sure you try to get in on the action), and he continues to blog on his (I might add free hosted blogspot) blog. So why did I single Timothy out? Well, because I’m trying to run things in a similar sort of fashion.

I don’t like a traditional straitlaced office atmosphere that inspires fear or coldness in dealings with clients and staff. I prefer an open relaxed concept where everyone can do what they want provided they do what they are supposed to do in a timely and efficient manner. We aren’t at the polo t-shirt and khakis stage yet due to various restrictions but ties are pretty much optional for now and company lunches will be a pretty regular occurance. We have to eat anyway right? Might as well get some expenses deductions while we are at it haha….

So all the best with Nuffnang, Boss Stewie aka Timothy. Don’t stop at building the biggest dotcom in South East Asia - head for Asia!

*This post is NOT sponsored in any fashion and I probably will not get any Nuffnang ads for the forthcoming weeks just to show there’s no biasness wot? but I hope not because though I don’t earn enough from the ads to get a check for a few years, the ads add colour to my sidebar LOL!*