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Misc.

Testing from iPhone.

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When I installed the WordPress plugin on the iPhone several months ago, it wasn’t working, probably because of some funny coding or something. Of course I was too lazy to figure out why, so I just deleted the app after trying for a few times.

As I was updating WordPress and some plugins today, I thought I should try using the app again. It seems OK so far, and as you are reading this, I was typing on my iPhone – while watching movie on my iMac. :)

All It Takes Is A Little Consistency and Humour.

After the unexpected exposures and sudden boom in sales earlier this month, things have kinda fallen back to a manageable level.

I’m kinda exhausted. Now this whole business thing is hitting me. I kinda realise that to successfully run our online business, I have to practically market and promote 24 hours a day – this sounds kinda obvious for any form of business but for some reason, I don’t REALISE it as much as I do now. Well the good – and bad – part about an online business is that your limit is probably the moon.

OK. Time to grow up. Fast.

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For the past two weeks I’ve found and read this new blog and am seriously loving it. dooce®. If you didn’t know, the author, Heather B. Armstrong is one of the most popular “mommyblogger” in the world, and was recently named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 30 most influential women in media (quoted from Design Happens). She is (or sounds) real, and absolutely hilarious – and I think she is nowhere near the type of traditional ‘mommyblogger’ that we’ve known. And most of all, together with her family, she has two dogs, with the younger one also named Coco (ooopss, sorry, it has to be COCO!! for her) and happened to be an awful dog.

Perhaps all dogs named Coco are awful?

Yes Coco, you hear me. Knowing that other Coco-s out there are as bad (or worse!) as you are, it makes me feel A LOT better.

New Theme.

I was looking around and for some reason I don’t quite like the previous theme that we were having here. So I googled around and found this – and I’m starting to love it!

A lot of customisation options that are easy to understand, especially for a noob like me. :P

Now it’s the time to make a new header image. Thinking of either having the dogs mug shot or some of our products. What say you? ;)

Creative + Malaysian + Blogger = Award.

Creative Malaysian Blogger Award. Keke. Yeap thanks to Jace, I’ve been awarded! :)

Took me a while to actually do this – I’m sorry Jace, I’m so busy at work that I really believe that I’m slowly loosing control of my life now. Seriously something that I need to rethink and reorganise.

OK back to the award. The rules are:

  1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
  2. List your 5 sources of inspiration.
  3. Nominate 5 other Malaysian blogs which demonstrate some form of creativity.
  4. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
  5. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog, and if possible, make sure they follow these 6 steps too!
  6. Share the love and link to the person from whom you received your award.

OK rule #1 done. Rule #2, my 5 sources of inspiration are:

  • My dog. Definitely my dog, Xiao Bi. She probably never realise that she was born as a Golden Retriever and was supposed to be easy going as one of the best temperament dog. When she was a pup (she is still a pup actually, turning 2 next month), she barked and barked and barked at people or animals who passed by for a continuous 2 hours or more, even though the object was already long gone. She dug big holes in the garden just to see if there was any gold in there, like this:

And the inspiration from her has always been: THERE IS NO RULES TO FOLLOW! :P

  • My family. Sometimes just by listening to their conversations, I could have something in mind that I’d quickly jot down in my journal to refer back later.
  • Books. I don’t read a lot nowadays, although I wish I could. But reading never fail to inspire me.
  • My new garden. It’s amazing to see how things on earth grow, live, and die, back to the earth. It’s even more inspiring to see someone who had killed a cactus before (yeah, that’s me) could grow something.
  • Well I hate to say this, but perhaps the world wide web. There are always so many info available everywhere and arrgggghhhh, sometimes I just can’t stop reading!

OK now the 5 nominees. I’m really not good in nominating people. Let’s see…

  1. Shu-Yin’s Sanctuary – Shu-Yin is my beloved cousin. I like that she is always experimenting new baking recipes and keep posting the photos, which is, quite tempting eh. >.<
  2. Journey so far … – Me and Eileen used to work together. A really creative and my-type of girl. :D
  3. satkuru.com – Me and Sat also knew each other when working. He is not an artist nor a crafter but he has got funny ideas all around. And I like his way of writing his post, makes me laugh. :P
  4. White Petals – Jasmine is the gf of one of my virtual friends. I like the way she plays with her photos in her blog.

I think I’ll have to break the rules this time and stop at 4 nominees. I do like and I read other blogs that I have in my blogroll but I just don’t know who should I be putting on number 5. @.@

Time to get to work so, perhaps will leave comments for them later. :)

Live Chat?

I stumbled upon something that, out of curiosity, I’ve installed on my blog. Notice that floating window at the right bottom of the site? Live Chat. I’m not quite sure how this will help me and the blog but I’m just installing for fun and would want to monitor its performance for a while. So catch me and chat with me if you want. :)

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Check out the Muffin Pagoda. Baked a dozen of this for the family for breakfast. Gave plenty to Bobby’s and colleague too. :)