Officially, I won’t be updating anything on this blog anymore. I don’t plan to take down the blog though, so the archives are staying.

Link partners need not to worry too… all the links will remain as well… let me know if you would like to exchange links with the new website instead, we will discuss about that.

One thing remains unchanged though… I am still who I am.

Thanks for all your support at Jeelife.com… visit my new website for updates from now on.

It is a pleasure to be blogging here since September 2005, but I felt that the blog has reached an embarrassing moment of losing its direction. I have a funny feeling when blogging my personal stuff and sharing my social political view at the same time… not to mention posting some interesting online findings as I often did when the blog first started. It’s kinda messy when all these stuff crumbled together…

So, I am moving this blog to a new domain at Yeinjee.com (that’s my name btw)… and separate the website into a few blogs instead. I am currently still working on the settings (templates, categories) etc. but the new blogs are generally working.

So here it is… the link to my Life Log and Malaysia Blog. I am working on another couple of other topics as well, will announce it later.

I also decided to close the comment option for my life stories… I felt more comfortable doing so. Comments are always welcome for the Malaysia blog.

I will update with further details when the new website is fully ready… at the moment, do visit my new blog for updates, as I will not be blogging her anymore.

Thanks for the support and sharing all this while, cheers.

I hadn’t been able to get online since last Saturday (June 13); I contacted Streamyx support on following Monday and was told that everything was working fine, that they could track that I was online.

Problem was, I was not able to access anything online at all… the call center support couldn’t figure out the problem and filed a report for me. The next day a technician called me and asked me to restart the modem again and everything should be ok. Being naive I just followed the instruction but I still could not connect the internet at all…

The technician didn’t contact me again and I had to call the support center on Wednesday to check my report. To my astonishment the technician (or the support team) closed my report straight away without verifying that everything was ok.

Fine, it could be a miscommunication… they opened another report for me… and guess what really pissed me off? Nobody from Streamyx called me to help settle the problem up until today.

I contacted my friend (thanks Bryan) this morning and he took about an hour to figure out that my modem was not working… we changed the modem and everything is working fine now. Funny thing is that I was assured numerous times by the Streamyx support that my connection was working perfectly (when my modem was not working…), woohoo!!!

It’s nothing new mumbling about how Streamyx sucks… it has become a norm in Malaysia really. The annoying thing is that we don’t have much choices… we still have to pay them monthly to use their service even though they sucks… irony isn’t it?

I love these rice dumplings… but I have a weak stomach; and glutinous rice is one of the evil stuff that could trigger some gastric and stomach problem for me. Problem is, I can’t resist the dumplings, at least not during these one or two months around the Dragon Boat festival.

Guess I will have some stomach ache and gastric for a couple of weeks.

His previous wife Endon Mahmud died in October 2005… it’s just less than 2 years ago… and Pak Lah is already 68.

Whatever, I am speechless.

Where could be better place than a zoo to bring a bunch of kids for outing?

I can’t remember when was my prior trip to Zoo Negara… it must be more than a decade ago. The zoo seemed decent though, the condition and animal ‘collection’ was better than I expected.

The practice was off track for a few years because my family was staying in different places… we didn’t celebrate our birthday together as often. I thought the tradition might have been broken, but when I found out that my brother and sister celebrate their kids’ birthday with chicken drumstick… I have a big grin on my face; the legend continues.

Forget about all the delicacies and gourmet… all I want for birthday for years to come is just a simple yet tasty chicken drumstick.

This will be a long and messy post… I will write whatever comes into my mind in random.

I received another 2 email requests during the weekend; and guess what, they won’t get a reply because a simple reason… they forgot to mention my name.

At my contact page I wrote that I replied to all emails… well, not exactly. These days there are lots of emails in disguise that are made to harvest email addresses for spam etc. once you replied ‘they’ will not that it is an active email address and will continue to spam it.

Use my name when contacting me

The best way to differentiate between a genuine email and a spam mail is the greetings. Just say “Hi Jee” and I will know that it’s a human being writing to me and not some spam bots. Besides it’s the polite thing to do to start a contact with greetings using the person’s name.

If someone is lazy enough to not find my name from my blog… don’t expect me to reply.

So, how much money am I making?

I used to work freelance in various projects… about a year ago I started building more websites of my own, which I aim to provide me passive income.

I am not going to tell anyone the exact figure that I am making online… I didn’t even tell my mum, let alone friends and strangers. What I can say is that I am not rich, and my income is decent enough to replace a normal job.

Do note that this blog is making peanuts only… enough to pay some bills perhaps. You need some better themed blogs to make serious money; personal blogs don’t perform well in this matter.

Know your goal

Don’t get over-excited with the dollar sign… newbies need to have a goal to start their venture into making online. How much do you want to make? Why do you want to do it online than to work in other conventional methods? How much time and investment are you willing to put it to your venture?

It is not easy

It is not difficult to make money online; it is not easy as well. You will need lots of time to learn, test and adapt. Besides if your primarily idea is to make money from blogging, you need time to write as well.

Out of the thousands of bloggers monetizing their blog, I bet that less than 100 are making a decent level of income (at least matching their offline job) from blogging.

Don’t start a blog to make money

There are difference between starting a blog and monetize it; and to start a blog to monetize it. You have to know what is your primarily plan… which is more important… your blog or the money?

If you don’t care about your blog… and the only thing you want from your blog is your money… don’t blog. You are wasting your time.

Find your topic and niche

Find a good topic that you have interest in (even better if you are really good with the topic)… do some research on the growth potential, monetization value and competition.

Join some forums and read more useful articles before starting your blog.

Quite often the success of your blog is already determined by the topic you choose… SEO and other promotion methods are to fulfill your blog potential; it cannot go beyond the limit of your topic if you chose the wrong topic to start with.

Read the right stuff

Read and learn, but make sure you are reading from the right person… what I mean is if you want to make money online, read from some one that is actually making some good money.

There are numerous Malaysian ‘how to make money online’ blogs that started in recent months, and the irony thing is that most of them are making close to zero dollar everyday… why learn from them?

So make sure you read from the right source… in fact, don’t believe in everything I write here, I could be wrong in some stuff.

Be patient and enjoy yourself

Continue to learn and implement, be patient… don’t expect anything to happen within the first 6 months.

Enjoy yourself as well… if you find that it’s not enjoyable, quit blogging.

Be thankful

I have actually read complaints from newbies that experience webmasters aren’t helpful and don’t want to share their secrets. I even received an email calling me selfish for not willing to share more than the basic.

Point is… why should we share our secrets with someone we don’t even know?

Besides, even the basics would work if a person follows the rules correctly. Be thankful that someone is willing to share just the basic.

Samy Vellu and the parliament roof

Some parliament roof (or ceiling to be precise) was falling down lately despite government spending RM90mil to restore and renovate the parliament a few years ago. According to Samy, the pipes were not part of the restoration.

My old house in Ipoh was renovated about a decade ago, and the first stuff that our contractor changed for us was the pipes and the (electric) wiring. My contractor didn’t even finish his high school and he knew what the priority when restoring a building is…

I wonder what contractors did Samy hired; it was not an easy task to be those dumb contractors. Besides, if they were not changing the pipes (and perhaps wiring as well), I wondered what would cost RM90mil for restoration? Too much coffee perhaps…

Bocor MPs made public apology

The MPs (MP Mohd Said Yusof and Kinabatangan MP Bung Mokthar Radin) who made the “bocor” remarks in Parliament made a formal public apology to all women after meeting Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil Friday morning. [Thestar]

They forgot to apologize to all men as well… as a man I felt as offended by their idiotic words as well. I have mother and sisters… if anyone says that to their face I will punch their nose for sure.

Never mind… not that I really care if they apologize… because apology will not be accepted anyway.

Malaysia Datukship

Honestly… if in future I somehow did something that makes Malaysia proud and is offered a Datukship… I wonder if I should accept it or not.

At the current situation, I don’t want to. No disrespect to ‘some’ of the good Datuks, but most of those that are honored with the title are a bunch of idiots. Take the above 2 MPs for example… they are Datuk… and I don’t want to associate myself with these peeps.

Malaysia is going to become MSC

In the 18th MSC Malaysia Implementation Council Meeting on 11 August 2005, chaired by the YAB Prime Minister of Malaysia, MSC Malaysia Cybercentre status has been awarded to Perak, Melaka, Pahang, Johor and Negeri Sembilan. MSC Malaysia Cybercentre status has also been awarded to KL Sentral. [Source]

In the end the whole nation will become Multimedia Super Corridor… I wonder why they wanted to specify a region as MSC at the first place.

I remembered lots of foreign companies spending millions to move their offices into the MSC region so that they can enjoy the benefits… and now the government is making an effort to make the whole nation MSC. I wonder how will the CEOs of those companies felt for wasting their money moving their offices…

I got a recorded message from ‘high court’ that I had missed a court hearing, and that I was summoned to another court hearing a couple days later… I was given the option to contact them for details by pressing a number (xxx press 1, xxx press 2 kind of style) and was investigated by a Bukit Aman officer… that I was suspected involving in a money laundry case, that a bank statement with my details were collected as evidence from a crime scene.

The officer mentioned that my details might be stolen from somewhere and used for crime, and he would need my cooperation to clear my name.

I was then contacted by some representative from high court. The lady showed some patience in asking some matters, sort of like clearing me from the case… the ‘investigation’ sounds convincing as she even told you that the conversation was recorded. (She spoke with me in Chinese, I should have suspected something fishy earlier)

Then came the funny part… she told me that the high court would have to freeze all my accounts for investigations, and that a new bank account would be opened by the high court, and I had to transfer all my money into that new account all risked my account being suspended until further notice.

I was not sure what to do, it didn’t sound right… I asked my sister for some discussions and felt that it might be a fraud case. I then contacted Bukit Aman (phone #) and Malaysia High Court (03-8880 3500 / 3900), and was told that there are no such investigation going on, and was advised to report to nearby police station.

I am just back from making the police report and decided to post a warning here. I was stupid enough to share my IC #, but luckily didn’t share anything about my bank account and didn’t lose any money here.

So, please help spread the news as warning to the others… and if you know any reporters, tell them to issue a warning of some sort if possible. Thanks.