My computer is forever at the technician's

I am getting impatient because the technician does not bother to phone me to inform that my desktop is ready for collection. I had to call in after 2 weeks at their place after it was infected with computer virus. The Indian guy who was formerly doing sales became a computer technician probably because the boss is trying to cut cost from hiring real people with computer repair knowledge. And when I went to collect my computer, what the heck! It still has nagging problems of booting up and when I took it back home, I could not start my computer at all. This Indian guy came to my house to collect the desktop again and told me that it will take another week before it is ready for collection. Blardy hell. I cannot get my work done.

Writing Articles

I just got a job offer to write in Bankruptcy in USA which I have to turn down as I don't have any legal background on this topic. My writer needs 5 articles of 600 words each. I feel honored that he thinks I can write it but it is too profound for my liking. Since I earn a comfortable income from my present employment since the last 4 years, I am not too hard up for extra work. It will be more pocket money, that's all. But it is nice to receive an email for job order now and then especially when I am free to write.

Bought a new Laptop

My desktop is still at the technician's and boy they are taking a long time to solve the problem. Anyway, I have bought a new laptop, Acer Aspire 4920 at RM2834.00 with Windows Vista. This model is a bestseller and the most affordable one. I don't even have to install my printer driver as it comes with it. A lot of things are made easier with Windows Vista though initially there were a lot of glitches in using Windows Vista when it was first launched. For a start, I am using Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile processor of 2GHz. I also have 2GB of DDR RAM and 160GB hard disk drive. The price justifies the components that I am using. It makes my work run smoother and I am able to take up more paid work online.

Computer Infected with Virus

My computer was infected with virus recently because it keeps booting up on its own very frequently. So it was sent to the technician for about more than 1 week before it was ok and that bugger installed a trial copy of Anti Virus XP 2008. This is a spam software because it lead me to a site to pay for the full version costing RM150 which I decided to use my credit to pay. Upon payment, I realized that I was charged RM350 instead of RM150 as stated by the so call anti virus web site. After that I got the password to key in for full execution of the software which maliciously installed anti spam guard which keeps prompting up for me to pay further for the full installation. This is spamming my computer with unnecessary messages and I just cannot removed it from my PC. Moral of the story is never trust your technician to know everything and don't pay to install anti virus software.

Just Came back from KL

I was back yesterday evening from Kuala Lumpur after staying 1 night there. I am feeling in a very relaxed mood and don't have the urge to write articles part time at the moment. I guess I need to rest from the long journey back to Penang. We stopped by in Tapah for Baskin Robbins ice-cream, which was our dinner. We had planned to stop in Ipoh but it was rather late, so we drove pass through it. This month, I have earned about RM250 so far from writing articles while last month, I got RM850. I will still continue to write articles to supplement my income in view of the increasing prices of fuel, rice and other raw materials.

Taking a Break on Sabbath

I have a lot of articles to write, about 10 in all due today. But I am taking a break on a Sabbath day. Making money is not everything and sometimes I need to take a good break from it all. The articles pay USD1.50 for 300 words which is not much at all. Sometimes, I need to forego making money even peanuts level so that I can update my blogs with beautiful photos of food taken at various places. And I am not a machine that churns out articles after articles every day. Even my assistants or co-writers are choosy about the topics that they write. So, this leaves me having to write them myself but not for today and tomorrow. I need a good holiday doing the things that I love.

More Articles to Write On

This month, I have several payments to my Paypal for writing articles. It comes to about RM700. Not bad on a part time basis. And I have one potential writer emailed me to be my assistant from Australia after reading my blogs. There is so much writing jobs online that you don't have to be afraid of bids from your competitors. Just put a reasonable price and time frame for the work to be done and bid on. As an aside, I may have to consider closing my 3 wordpress blogs due to undisclosed reasons. Earning from Google Adsense is just way too little to justify having the blogs around.

This morning, I have placed bids for a writing job that pays USD1 for every 100 words from USA. I hope to be successful in getting this job that requires native English speakers. It pays more than USD2 for 500 words which is the market rate at the moment. And this is what I am getting currently.