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Contemplating On A Template Change

by Melvin · Aug 27, 2009

Everytime I ask for a review on forums or wherever, people always retort that my blog looks refreshing. That it looks very calm and tranquil, the color schemes are soothing. The truth is I always thought this is the perfect theme for my blog. Not only that not a lot of people uses it, but its also that I think it suits my personality the most. That’s why I managed to keep it this long even though I always voiced out that its in fact flawed.

But just like everything, changes always happen. Early this week I was looking for a suitable theme that would take over to the former one. A theme change is something that is always refreshing and thats why I always ask people what’s the better theme to place in. Well I wouldn’t make this long as I would show you how the new theme would look like and I would compare it to the old one. Share your insights and be honest: (click the pic for bigger res)

Old and Current Theme:

And the new one I’m planning to implement:

Of course, there is a ton of customization still at hand in case I would apply the new theme. I’m also trying to see if some of the custom things I have on the old one can be imported on the new theme with no hassle. What do you think?

How to Kill Yourself in Internship

by Melvin · Jun 20, 2009

Well probably a lot of you guys know that I have not posted for over a week because I am having an internship for the final school year of my college life. And to be honest it’s so toxic that I cannot even go out and tweet my balls in twitter and do facebook stuffs. To make it worst, I forgot that one of my test campaigns have almost ran for a week, getting me no conversion and over $50 in clicks!

Well if you don’t know, I am taking my intern (surprisingly) here in one of the biggest hospital in the country. I (and a friend named Kat) were associated with the IT-tech department in w/c we do techy stuffs (instead of doing programming w/c is what my course was really about). Actually its kinda scary because its been said that there are a ton of a(h1n1) cases in the hospital. Sometimes we were asked to pullout a computer from an infection control department and sometimes from the ER w/c is sick. But that doesn’t stop there, the hardest and most stressing part of the intern is the travel. It takes about 3 hours for me to arrive to that place and all in all 6 hours. As I arrived home, the only statement I can express is ”rest”.

GUEST POSTERS

Nuff said, as you see I can’t even make a post in a week so I am looking for quality and quirky guest posts over the week. The requirements are literally almost non-existing. As long as you think your post can please me then go ahead send it to me. Thus far I get 200+ uniques a day and 600 pageviews. I do also get an average of 16 comments per post. For those who are interested kindly save the wordpress html version of your post in notepad, then send it to my email melvin[at]melvinblog.com or by using the contact form. That’s it for now gotta take my rest.

Looking For Answers? Check this Out!

by Melvin · Jun 13, 2009

Are you looking for answers to your questions that are burdening you? (LOL) or is something bothering you that you cannot sleep @ night? Check this video out about peteranswers.com (pardon for the background music at the start)! Btw, tune the volume up as my voice is pretty low (both in tone and volume).

Personal Updates and Ramblings

by Melvin · May 30, 2009

Well many of you who followed me since I started would remember me emphasizing always that this blog is a personal blog, not a make money online or internet marketing blog. But like what most blog’s who share their experience w/internet marketing and in this niche alike, they usually morph to mmo blogs or blogs that people somehow read to learn some guides. Well I wouldn’t lie by saying this blog hasn’t gone from being a personal blog to an internet marketing/blogging one as my post in the archives would probably tell you how this blog really evolved from a ramblings blog to a blog that all of a sudden teaches something, oh well.

I really miss the aura of having a personal blog so here I’m going to list some personal updates from me and some ramblings:

I just gained 12 lbs since February though it didn’t really look evident.
I bought another walkman phone so to make it kinda a collection.
Got myself another reseller account strictly to host this blog and my friends blogs. 🙂
Next week I’m going to go to the Internship so for the first time I am looking for quality guest posters. For those who are interested you can state your interest in the contact form.
Bought myself an album of Taylor Swift (I know it’s gay and it sucks)
Visited my relatives that I haven’t seen in quite a while.
Started a small offline business related to nuts!

What to look for, for the upcoming days:

My upcoming ebook w/c is titled ‘Monetizing Make Money Online Blogs’. I’m planning on selling it for a bargain!
Contest – am planning to hold another massive contest to give back to my readers.
change of blog’s theme? – what say you?
Newsletter – This one is far-fetched but I’ll try my best. 🙂
Blogging Hiatus – w/c is again due to internship. If there is no interest on guest posting then I would probably just sell put my blog on hiatus.
And many more. 😀

How about you?

Happy Easter, What Have You Accomplished This Holy Week?

by Melvin · Apr 12, 2009

Many people would flame me maybe for not posting for almost a long time. I’m not really busy but few things just happened that made me not able to even look at the admin page of the blog. As I’ve mentioned last week I was terribly sick and I had to take a rest and so on. Then the internet connection went crappy making “online” an impossible for me. Then the holy week.

First I would like to greet all folks Happy Easter. Most people do sacrifice and fasting every holy week and my family isn’t different. For the first time, I completed a week w/o eating meat or any pork etc. I am really used in eating meat for almost everyday and I think passing for it for the whole week is a great accomplishment. Another is staying away from the internet. Of course we all know, we are internet geeks and it always seems that we couldn’t carry on living without getting a glimpse of the online world for a day. I never had an internet for almost the entire week and I think it makes me more productive with other stuffs in life.

The past week I also started my “fitness program”. Jogging every morning, working out, then eating as much as I can to make sure I wouldn’t lose more weight. My main goal in doing this is just to be physically fit. I mean of course gaining weight, and building muscles, having a greater looking body is in it, but basically it’s just trying to be fit.

I am planning on putting more posts on this blog for the next weeks as school closes. I was looking at the stats right now and it’s not a surprise that a lot have dropped. Uniques, pageviews per day, rss subscribers, Alexa Rank and total online visibility. I guess that is what really going to happen when you abandon a blog for almost 2 weeks. What do you think?

Sell A Blog for $9500 and Get 9500 Spams!

by Melvin · Mar 25, 2009

Sly Blanco, the famous dude who sold his blog for $9500 has been having his new blog beaten, swallowed, shove in the ass, destroyed, bludgeoned, attacked by spambots. Look:

And John has been his loyal reader commentator. 🙂

I am pretty much sure Sly’s really taking his time with the huge chunk of almost $10,000 that he got from his previous blog. So as the spams, taking their sweet time turning his blog to a splog.

Valentines Is For Everyone

by Melvin · Feb 13, 2009

Hey everyone I just want to greet you a happy and nice valentine. Most people take this day off, turn their computers off, to spend this time of day with their own love ones. Some would like to spend it with their girlfriends/boyfriends, some with their friends and some with the relatives and family members.

Really Valentines day is for everyone. Before I used to think Valentines is just for lovers but its not the case. What is in my plan this Valentine? Well how I wish I can spend the night of that day with my “girl” in a nice restaurant with some retards playing romantic violin music. It’s not possible. 🙁 I will be in duty for the whole Valentines day itself so what I planned is just to give a present to her in the 13th. and tell her I love her! LOLZ… Then on the 15th (the day after the Valentine) I am going to spend some time with my family and hopefully go into dinner or something. 🙂

Anyway what is the best flower for Valentines? They say its Tulips, other Rose. A friend told me Carnation is cheap but it can last for a week. Also, what’s the sidedish for a flower? I had in mind, chocolate cake, chocolate, figurine, heart-shaped pillow..err… stuff toy and so. Any suggestions?