Leah’s Cafe

A remark of a blogger about those of us who blog for money disturbed me quite a bit. He mentioned that if you have been blogging for money all this while, he won’t listen to what you have to say about social and political issues and so on.

How do this people got their hollier than thou attitude? Excuse me, if you choose not to blog for money, it doesn’t make you hollier than us! It may mean you are luckier than us as you do not need the money, or you are more stupid than us as you don’t grab the opportunity like some of us do.

Writing paid posts is hard work! You work in a dungeon, lie through your teeth to help your clients beautifying their balance sheets, and we work at home punching the keyboards rushing out posts that help our advertisers to rank well in the search engines. What makes think you are somehow more noble and contributing more to the society by blogging about your life in slavery and rants about the useless government ?(like all of us don’t know?)

We used to run a small preschool and a tutoring center. We started the business with our savings, which is quite typical of small business owners, most could not or would not get financing from the big lenders.

It’s actually quite difficult or should I say near impossible to obtain a Business Loan without collaterals or co-signor(s). Most conventional lenders do provide unsecured loans, but they have ridiculously high interest. Unless the business that you are going to start has very high profit margins and good returns, it can be quite a burden to keep up with the repayments. That’s something that we need to take into consideration before taking a loan to start a business.

Just learned that Elaine gained back the PR of her blog after submitting a reconsideration request to granny G a week ago. I am considering whether to clean up my Montessori blog on blogspot and ask for a reconsideration.

Since it has been smacked to PR0 and being on a subdomain, there is really no much opportunity to write paid posts on it. The blog has hit quite a few keywords in its niche and rank high in the SERP for this keywords. It gets a lot of search engine traffics and has been doing quite well with Adsense recently.

Should I?

When I was 13 years old, I often couldn’t see clearly what was written on the blackboard in school. I told my parents about it, they just dismissed me because they thought I wanted to wear glasses for the vain reasons, not until that incident happened.

It was in the beginning of the year, the new English teacher gave us a test, she wrote the questions on the blackboard. Since I couldn’t see clearly, I asked my friend KF to help me to copy the questions. Being a good friend, she obliged. When my friend passed the paper with the questions back to me, the teacher saw it.

She thought we were trying to cheat in the test. She took our papers away and gave each of us a big fat zero. We tried to explain to her what was going on but she wouldn’t listen. My parents of course learned about that when the report card was sent home. My dad brought me to an optical shop to get a pair of glasses the same day!

Being a careless teenager, there were numerous pairs of glasses broken, frames bended or misplaced over the years. They were no $ 8 Zenni Optical Rx Eyeglasses and they cost a few hundreds bucks per pair. Till today, my parents still joke that they have spent all their retirement fund replacing glasses for me. :-)

We spent a few hours cleaning out the store room at the preschool, throwing away some of the stuffs and sending some recyclable materials to the recycle center. We have a sewing machine, a power tool and a sanding machine that we haven’t decided what to do with them.

We used to do some wood work creating wooden boxes and shelves for the Montessori classroom, that’s why we have sander machine, sander abrasives and sanding sponges lying around. Do you know what is a sander machine? Go to Delta machinery and click on the category on the sidebar, you will see how crazy we were to own one of this machines. :-)

There are a couple of things that we need to settle before the pending move to IL. One of them will be to rent out our house before the move.

We do not plan to sell it yet because the real estate market is really sluggish in this area and the resell value of our house is horrible. We live not too far from a university, it’s not too difficult to rent out the house as the demands for rentals are reasonably good.

Did a search on the net and found some discount coupon codes for winter jackets and coats that I have thought of getting for the big boy as Valentine’s gift. But, he said he doesn’t need a winter jacket or coat, as he has a few of them already. Headache, headache, really don’t know what to get him.

Of course the big boy will always appreciate anything that provides entertainment, if i can’t think of anything else, will just buy him a DVD or I can always grab him a game or two with the Gamefly coupons. If you want, go over and see what other coupons you can get. They have a wide range of baby stuffs, women stuffs and lots of other things.

Before noon on Wed, I rushed out of the door and drove about 60 miles to the nearby town and didn’t reach home until 8.45 p.m that night. The trip was to conduct a demo of Spell to Write and Read for a few mummies.

It is a short trip and it shouldn’t be too tiring because it was an informal class. But I came home totally exhausted, went to bed right after taking a shower. It took me two days to recuperate from the tiredness!  Five years ago, we drove up to Cameron Highland, Ipoh and Penang,  it wasn’t even this tired. Age is really catching up with me. Driving and running around tired me out this days.