I was busy, lazy, crazy and zeey before and kept delaying the upgrade.
Finally I’ve done that. Mayvelous upgraded from WP 1.5.1.2 to WP 1.5.2

Hmm…I don’t see any change in my admin controls…well they say upgrade so there is it.
I’m sure it’s for the better performance

Ok I still don’t know how to ping or track back to other blog posts. Stupid me I know, I just never tried that yet. Will have to try that somehow. hmmm.

K Tar!.

It’s so hot in here! Last week it was too much raining. This week hella HOT.
You can never tell Fiji weather. It changes a lot, even in a day time. One minute it’s raining and the next it’s sunny like not a single drop of rain before.

It’s a tiny island and the capital city, Suva, is even tinier. My place to my work is only 10 min drive and within that short distance, there are different weathers. Sometime it’s raining back home and so hot at my office. Can you believe that!

Today it’s so hot at my office and at home too. Too humid last night and I can’t sleep well. No wind at all and the sky becomes a big slice of orange. When I get home this evening, it’s drizzling in the hot orange sky. Then, there form a gloomy rainbow due to the mixture of water particles and the ugly sunray. Rainbows are supposed to be beautiful but this one looks awful. My sis took a picture of it and you can see how gloomy the rainbow looks in that ugly reddish-orange sky. I hate the hot, humid, gloomy weather.

How’s the weather like in your part of the world?

Me?, the wedding planner? NOT! :p
I was just reading today’s eHow article “How to Save Money on Your Wedding Ceremony and Reception”, a few tips from there are as followed :

• Trim the guest list
• Have your wedding ceremony and/or reception held at a hotel, and ask for discounts when your family and friends are staying at same hotel.
• Stick to your schedule for your ceremony and reception.
• Have your ceremony and reception in the same location to simplify things and save you money.
• Ask friends to lend their talents in lieu of a gift such as invitations or flowers
• Consider having your wedding any day but Saturday
• Consider altering tradition
• Remember that the wedding is one day at the start of a life-long commitment.

Interesting enough, I remember this old song my brother used to sing and thought that it should probably goes under saving money on expensive transportation like limo or pumpkin horse and should go with a traditional 2 wheel drive, “the bicycle”. LOL

Daisy Daisy,
Give me your answer true,
I’m half crazy,
With the love for you.

It would be a marvelous marriage,
but I can’t afford a carriage,

You’ll look neat,
Upon a seat,
Of a bicycle built for two…

You got to admit that’s much better than 9693. (Burmese Numbers: koe – chout – koe – thone).

I bet your lady won’t be that pleased to see all those tide budget but if you sing the above song very nicely, she might consider it.

I was reading Arloo’s Making Money By Blogging post and was amazed by his achievement in a short while. A hundred plus bucks for a month is quite an achievement. I was inspired by his dedication to his blog and his efforts on making money out of it, I thought of reviewing how my blog doing.

Looking back my earning ie. $1 to $2 per month and some months my account shows $0, I’m in no competition with him.
My highest ever earning would be $4.28 on August
Boy, I was like WOW! I go over 4 bucks?? WOW! lol.

Now I’m thinking why do I blog?
Do I ever want to make money out of it?
What do I trying to achieve by having my own site?

I think I can perfectly answer those and I’m glad that I still maintain my main purpose.

To answer the question “Why do I blog?”,
I think know I always wanted my little place where I can express my thoughts and opinions freely.
I want to improve my writing and expressing things.
I want to exchange ideas with alike kind of people.
I want to be one of very first Burmese to try new internet technology and
I want to be part of the world fastest growing blogger community.

Do I want to make money out of it?
I’m not sure, may be.
Who wouldn’t want money anyway? We all human right?
If I say, no I don’t want to make money, then I’ll be lying.
So, I’m gonna say, yes I want to make money out of it, if it’s possible.
But I’m not too serious about it.
It won’t be my first priority for blogging and I don’t care if I don’t make a single cent from it.
I’m happy as it is. I add adsense to my blog as every other bloggers do.
But I don’t want to over do it by clattering ads with my contents or site design.
I prefer clear, neat and easy reading pages than every space mess up with ads.
I dislike hate blogs where its content got disappeared under numerious ads.

I appreciate a good content and respect the blogger with creative ideas, a great writer and a decent looking site.
So coming back to my second point, I like to make money but I would rather maintain a decent site with a good content than adding excessive ads to make money from it.

Some of the thing I’m trying to achieve by having my own site is to maintain my ideas, thoughts and notes archived nicely online able to access anytime.
Having this site, I’m trying to publish my progress in life. One day I’ll read those back and may be I’ll laugh or cry about my past happenings.
Also I’m trying to add one more line to my CV where my future employer can easily get to know my personalities as well as any other talents I may have by viewing my personal site.

So now you know why I blog and why have my own site. I wonder why you blog and what’s your plans are.

OH MYYY!!!

Seriously, I’m so in love with wordpress.com.
The Geeks over there are superb!!

I just discover the new “Import” feature in my wordpress.com blog “Musing Along Extraordinary Exaggerations“.

It lets you import your blogger posts to your wordpress site and guess what, it’s easie pisie!
Won’t even take 3min of your time. It takes care of everything for your, format the text, archive the posts accordingly …. boy! I just love it.

Log in to Blogger
The script will log into your Blogger account, change some settings so it can read your blog, and restore the original settings when it’s done. Here’s what you do:

1. Back up your Blogger template.
2. Back up any other Blogger settings you might need later.
3. Log out of Blogger
4. Log in here with your Blogger username and password.
5. On the next screen, click one of your Blogger blogs.
6. Do not close this window or navigate away until the process is complete.

Out of those, the only thing you have to do is, login to your blogger account.
I just imported my posts + comments from “Gifted7ven Technical Blog” to “Musing Along Extraordinary Exaggerations” and voila all there!

I just love it! Thank you, thank you so so much WP!!!

Ladies and Gents,

Lend me your ears…
I have wordpress.com one invite to give away.
Anyone interested in having that, tell me:
# why you want it,
# what you plan to do with it,
Tell me the best short and sweet as you can and I’ll give you the invite.
You can leave your reasons as a comment under this post or you can mail to me
:: mayvelous[at]gmail.com ::

This post will close on 31st Oct and will announce the invite receiver on 1st Nov.

Tar!

The Invite has been sent to Wai Pyo.

Ok someone explain me how in the name did they pile those spices that high and in that shape?
My understanding of spices is that they tend to flow over or blown away easily if placed in the open. This one is just amazing, no wind to blow them away or no movement around, make them so still???

I wonder how they sell them…can’t scoop with the spoon from those heaps for sure, may be those are just for show casing and must have ready packed ones for selling.
Hmmm…interesting.

Image via Moveable Feast.