Ramblings

Finally I Can Get Back W/Blogging

by Melvin · Dec 12, 2008

It seems to be like years ago when I last posted here! I just had tough times right now with me being sick, exams coming in, and well my monitor exploded. 😉

Anyway it seems that I have been recovering well from that pulmonary infection that has been bothering me since last week. Right now, I feel better and more better w/myself. Also I am up in to the last week of this trimester for my school and exams are coming in. The dreaded Application Project and System ANalaysis and Design defense has been over and thank God.

Also i have spent some moolah which was all planned for Christmas, for a new monitor (LCD) after the previous CRT announced its death. Anyway, before the CRT, I had another LCD which the adaptor exploded. I tried finding for the adaptor of that certain LCD but I just couldn’t. This is my third monitor in three years and oh how I hope it goes to last for lifetime. 🙂 The best thing is I can continue watching southpark episodes right now.

Also I was very elated to finally have received my Copeac’s check accounting for $1127 which should’ve been sent way earlier. The check was in commission until September 30 and it only came two days ago. It’s nice to finally have it on my hand as I immediately deposited it into well, my mom’s bank account. I was too unfortunate not to have an own dollar account so I have to always go to the account’s settings and change the payee’s name to my mothers name. In that way, a check doesn’t really seem to be mine. 🙁 Anyway I wasn’t able to take a pic of the real cheque because its already in the bank but I managed to take a picture of the depositors copy (which is the latter part of the check being cut out and thrown straight to the thrash can)

What Image Does Your Blog Portray?

by Melvin · Dec 2, 2008

When we first create our blog we set our niche, what is our topic all about, who is our target audience and etc. We don’t really dwell with what image does the blog really portray. As our blog gets older, we started to notice that “ah this blog is something like this” or “this blog’s jokes aren’t that funny” and so on. I think this is what our blog can be remembered for when they died. In short, this what makes the blog unique. For some reason, it could also be the reason why people are following you. Maybe they like a perverted blog or a blog that has a horrible grammar.

And its nice to see that whenever you look at each blog, you see what their images are. You head on to problogger and you see a blog that is very professional. No nonsense posts, no crappy paragraphs, all (seems) done to perfection. Go on to Chow’s blog and you’ll see a completely contrasting one. “Evil” full of affiliate links, 35% only are the helpful posts and so on. But on the flip side, it flows more natural, everyone can relate to it and you can learn a lot outside making money online. Now I’m not just talking about Big blogs here. Head on to smaller blogs and you’ll see some other too.

Now it goes on at the top of my mind and said to myself “What the heck does my blog portray?” “Why are people following me?” Sure I don’t provide solid money making tips as other bloggers do and I don’t claim this blog as a make money online as well. I was just like writing what is on my mind for the certain moment. Whenever I look at my archives (I always does), and see my past posts and read them, what I see common about them is how spontaneous the posts are. Sure people can rip me for saying i don’t pay attention to grammar and I don’t proofread and I don’t care to fix my previous page link and I don’t care to cloak links but then its like most of my readers like it here. The funny thing is that some of the most viewed/commented posts here aren’t related to internet marketing like this one.

Oh well. All in all my blog is just portraying an image an 18 year old intelligent student who has ton of interest w/making living of Google and the internet, someone who thinks he’s a great basketball player and a guy who’s deeply in love, attracted w/a girl named krishtalyn at the moment. What about your blog? I have my own thing on how each blog portrays themselves but more likely its better if it comes out in your own mouth first. 🙂

I Used To Have Three Mice For My PC

by Melvin · Nov 4, 2008

So I did have three mouses mice for my desktop computer. You might be wondering why, the answer is its because some of them are not functioning on some days and some of them does. It’s weird because I do believe that all of them are of a great quality, one is an old school mouse (I love old school mouse), the other one is laser and the last one is wireless. All of them are installed on startup and the wireless one seems to be the highest priority among all.

Anyway, I have won a lot of contest again for the last month. Some were affiliate marketing challenges and some other were just basically the mainstream contests wherein you’ll just need to subscribe via feed and maybe comment on some posts. Although, its not really that of a big value of money I still do appreciate it a lot. I’m slowly realizing there’s life in contests. 🙂 Also I was deeply in debt right now or not really. The Pay Per Click Campaigns we’ve had in the last month were not converting well. There was a stretch wherein we were losing $150 a day I think for 6 straight days. Of course its not just solely because of Pay Per Click, it’s a mixture of everything. Just have to call it quits this month and take time to think more and also ponder on how to spend the money more wisely.

I also have the list of the last months top commentator and well I will email them for their junk surprise prizes/incentives for commenting to my blog. Again finally I have transfered my Basketball Nonsense blog from blogspot to wordpress. It wasn’t 100 successful because comments were not imported mainly because early this year I have changed the commenting system to Intense Debate which wordpress doesn’t support for the mean time. It’s a tough decision because that blog is memorable to me. It’s how I started with blogging and I think blogspot played a vital role in it in guiding me from being stupid to being an intermediate user right now. But then blogspot I think is getting pissed now on how I overly customize my blog so I need more room to it.

And lastly the NBA season has begun and oh well, look Allen Iverson is now traded to Detroit Pistons for Chauncey Billups! Interesting season to watch, wht do you think?

Why Teens Should Try Making Money By Now

by Melvin · Nov 1, 2008

A lot of times, people credit me and say “You’re young and still in school yet you’re making your own money”. Of course I feel good and flattered upon hearing that and I say thank you deep from my heart. 🙂 On some other days, some of my friends are curious telling me why I am trying to make money. They say I don’t really need to and maybe its hurting my studies. Most of the times I just respond to it and say I wanted to buy a shirt with my own money. 😉

Obviously that’s a lame reason and not true. But then I think, I have one thousand reasons why I should try and make money now (online and offline). I know there are a lot of kids right now jumping heads first into making money online. Of course they have come to realize its not as easy as playing PSP or anything. With regards to this topic I always wanted to put up a list on why we, teens or kids should try making money by now. Here are my goats:

Helping your parents – Each and every of my friends know we are not a rich family. Although, we are never hurting financially, there are times wherein my parents just got everything that we need to spend. The point here is that, sometimes you can pay or buy something w/o annoying your parents for financial help. I’m not sure how you can relate to this but I think its a big and understandable reason.
Experience, nevertheless – Obviously there’s nothing in this world that can replace experience. Most people fail and still pursue and thats for experience. It’s your teacher and whatever you may want to call it. Most successful millionaires here in Philippines started out flat and crappy. They gained experience, learned from it and then applied what they learned. Now they are successful! It’s also an edge against everyone to have that experience in your belt.
Pride – I have talked about it a lot before with my friends. I did say I get complement from a lot of my relatives with it and to be honest it damn feel good! I am a pridey guy. I take pride in a lot of things. I take pride that I can buy shirts and gadgets w/o asking for help, I take pride that I am having transactions with bigger and more established marketers, and I take pride receiving checks day in and day out! It sounds arrogant but pride is what lights my butt to work harder! and I don’t want my pride to get hurt.
Emergency purposes – Imagine you had sex w/your crush or maybe your girlfriend. You had your sperm inside her and she got preggy! Now unless abortion is your religion then you having your own money can make things a lil better. In life there are a lot of things that we don’t expect. A lot of things that we don’t expect to bury our pockets. Having that little earnings from Adsense surely can help in case of hard times.
For Holidays – Halloween had just passed by and next is Christmas and New Year! Everytime you talk about holiday, you gotta to talk about shopping and buying gifts. I don’t feel actually the essence of buying gift for a friend using the money from your parents. How can you do it yourself? Start filling that coin bank now!

This is talking about making money in general, both online and offline. Not many kids and teens today take interest on trying their luck with online business or saving money. And I feel this is what makes us stand out from the rest. Of course the purpose varies. What do you think is yours?

Happy Halloween To Everyone

by Melvin · Oct 31, 2008

Hey just a quick note to greet everyone a nice and happy halloween. Just like Christmas we also have to rejoice this event and enjoy it. LOL 😉 Anyway, we just celebrated halloween pretty much like the normal. We just prepare foods and some nice dishes. There are a lot of Trick or Treat Kids outside that really pisses me off… Just Joking! How bout you, how do you spend your halloween?

So long So long

by Melvin · Oct 24, 2008

Seems like its been a long time since I have posted something here. I was very busy with school work these days pretty much like any other college studs or even high school bloggers and so on.

I have also attended some seminars and some Visual Basic workshops for the last couple of days and I can say I have learned a lot and benefited from it so much. The guy who explained it has done it all well making it look very easy for us to do almost everything.

So this is just a quick post today before I take another nap and hopefully prepare for the exams. How about you, whats new with you these days? 😉

Tyler’s Aff.Marketing 4 Is A Great One

by Melvin · Oct 21, 2008

With all the Market Leverage contests going around since early this year, i think this one from Tyler is a greater one. Tyler Cruz seemed to be a partner of Market Leverage for promoting the latter and the latter sponsoring each and every affiliate contest Tyler holds.

So well what makes this contest extra special? Its because for every contest there is like a new signup category wherein a newbie can compete with a newbie also which puts up a higher chances for both newbies. 😉 Basically I was about to join last month and I really regret that I wasn’t able to join because the new signups last year didn’t really generate a lot of revenue. The third place only even got $1 and still won an illuminated keyboard.

Now, Im targeting the Ipod Nano and am looking good for it. 😉 Anyway Im highly suggesting you to take a look at it and if you think you are already late to join it then you may want to prepare yourself for the next one as Im sure there is! 🙂 And well as this post obviously implies, I also would like to get the $20 prepaid card and i would want to beat out all those faggot contest bloggers which I feeel don’t deserve to win those prizes out. 😉