19.11.09 / Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (4)
Tags: bank, free, paypal, transfer
It has been something some of us wanted to have many years back when we were earning USD doing paid posting. It was so troublesome to transfer back the money we earned whereby where we had to open only certain account with free Debit Card (Al-Rajhi and Public Bank are the 2 common ones). Not only that, we even have to loose out USD5 for every USD 500 we transfer back to our local credit/debit card.
Now, we finally have Paypal connecting to our local bank here. Not only transfer of money into our local bank within less than a week (I got mine into Maybank within 3 days), best of all, its TOTALLY FREE! (for transfer amount >RM400)
Wish to find out more, go log into your Paypal Account and see for yourself!
31.10.08 / All about Blog, Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (10)
Tags: blog, blogs, cache
As my other 2 blogs, decuisine.net and dejourney.net is hosted at Hostican, I decided to move it back here so that access to the site is faster. Although my hosting (that comes together with free domain) has not expired, I decided to sign up with exabyte earlier due to the promotion it is having.
Guess what an IT idiot like me has done? Due to obtaining the EPP code for domain transfer, I was given to sign a cancellation form from Hostican. Mana tau, upon signing it, they cancel my hosting immediately without even letting me to backup and transfer all my database.
*Puff*…I lost everything from my 2 blogs, all database gone into the thin air. Although I wrote several emails to them for temporary access to my previous hosting company, but they said everything is deleted when I signed the cancellation form! (I almost tripped over my cat and ended up with a Plantar Fasciitis!)
So, CP advice me to quickly copy paste all my past postings from my feed while they are still in google. Thank goodness I subscribed to Google Reader and managed to retrieved all postings from dejourney.net. But somehow, all postings from another blog, decuisine.net was not in my feed.
Thanks again to this smart lady, who then again taught me how to cache manually, page by page (cache:http://decuisine.net/?paged=3) from google. When it failed, she pulak taught me how to cache month by month (cache:http://decuisine.net/?m=200807).
Now I have saved everything in Ms.Word so I will need to set up again these 2 blogs from scratch, and then copy paste all posting in again, one by one. Although there is a lot to be done, nevertheless, I am really grateful that at all postings are still with me.
Thanks a lot, CP, you are really my life saver!
21.12.07 / Blog Tech, Friends / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (8)
Tags: Angeleyes, Dove, Elina, samples, S_butter & bread, tote
Finally the long waited gift arrives!!
A complimentary pack (a beautiful soft tote, a nice white shirt and new samples) from Dove, self-esteem campaign.
Another 2 person to thank would be Angeleyes (for introducing me to BDMM) and Elina (founder of BDMM who has created so much opportunity to my blog.
Besides earning great from paid reviews from BDMM, obviously there are a lot of nice benefit being a proud member of BDMM huh? If you are not a BDMM blogger community yet, why not join?
All you have to do is to email Elina at biz4sahm@gmail.com . You can help me win the highest referral of $50 by telling Elina that Chin nee refers you 
(Btw, Elina, do let us know if advertiser giving out samples on gold bracelets for post writing yeah!)
Hehe….guess this is the only “Christmas present” I think I’ll be getting this year as we do not celebrate Christmas at home.
21.11.07 / Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (23)
Tags: 5xmom, blogohblog, Bob, Christmas Sale, designer, theme
Some great info if you haven’t found out about this latest trend in blogging.
If there is someone out there who will be willing to buy your blog for $10k, would you consider selling it?
In fact, a pro-blogger I know of just sold his PR6 blog for $10K. Bob, my dear blog theme designer achieve PR6 in just 5 months, and he sold of his blogohblog.com with that price. Smart move as anything could happen to a PR anytime!
Another blog that I frequently read, 5xmom has also put up her blog on Christmas Sale (announced on her personal blog with free snow flakes some more!). I am really surprise with her decision.
Well, I was jokingly asking my hubby this evening, if I should sell of my silly blog if there is anyone out there willing to pay such a good price. Guess what he said, “Why not?” Afterall, $10K is a lot for just a few months of blogging plus what I have earned here. So, what am I going to do after that? Probably open an online clothing store to earn income from home?
Anyway…I am really amazed with his answer. But how about all the personal touch and love that I have pour into this blog? But I can always setting up another one and continue from there right? It really sounds silly, but this is just a thought. No one can be that silly to buy a personal blog like this, I guess…..or hey, anyone? *giggling*
21.11.07 / Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (12)
Heard of our famous local BDMM (Blogs Do Make Money) community?
It works like something similar that we know, but of course with a more personal touch. WHY …..
- Coz we get batches of opps sent to our email directly from time to time
- Coz we get opps regardless of our blog PR
- Coz we get good paying opps
- BDMM is a blogroll link, so we get more links by linking to each other in the community
Rather on working independently on our blogs, BDMM unite us blogger to gained more bargaining power and strength in blogosphere. So shall we work hand-in-hand and united as one?
How I go started:
I came to know about BDMM only last month, and has made a great deal from this community. Elina, is who runs BDMM and has been working very hard to secure opps and good deals for our blogs. (Me, saving hard to get one of the Luminox watches, haha!)
* Do take note that BDMM started out for backlink purposes and the opps are just perks Elina trying to give to her members.
All existing BDMM members
You might wanna know that currently Elina is running contest to refer bloggers with own domain to sign up into BDMM community. So hurry up and sign up all your friends to this great community.
For those who are new to BDMM
You might wanna quickly sign up your blog (own domain preferred) by sending her an email at biz4sahm@gmail.com. You can help me win the highest referral of $50 by telling Elina that you learn about BDMM from Chinnee!
For more info, read here.
*muak-muak*,
09.11.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech, Melaka / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (25)
Tags: Adobe, Anggie, animation, Bakar, CD, CS3, Duyong, Ikan, Medan, Melaka, Miche, scrap
What do you think of my new header in my craft (also “chapalang=nonsense”) blog, Chinneeq? Take a peek and feel free to comment how I can improve the site.
I am so happy I learn another kind of scrap, with those cartoon graphics, thanks to the lead from Anggie. It is nothing so difficult compare to the normal scrap, and it is sure fun to see this happy pictures which can anytime brightened my day.
With the new Adobe CS3 I have got, I am hoping to learn the animation as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the CD I got from Melaka has got some problem and I can’t my my CS3 running on my computer. Only get to replace it when I go back Melaka, and this time (according to Miche) the Melaka bloggers are going to the famous Medan Ikan Bakar in Duyong! Coming soon…..wait for me yeah!!!!!!!
08.11.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Enter your password to view comments
05.11.07 / Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (0)
It has been quite sometime since I found out about Widget Buck, and only now, I am convinced to put it up after many bloggers claim that:
1. This can really generates some extra good income as compare to some famous one.
2. It does not slow down your site.
Not bad wor….read here:
With WidgetBucks’ Referral program, affiliates can earn a 10 percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people they refer. You’ll receive this 10 percent for the full 12 months after the new member joins. Your referral fees will be credited to your account and paid monthly, along with your commission payout. So, if you refer someone, and they make $100 in commissions, we pay you $10; if they make $1,000, we pay you $100.
Best of all, you can choose what category of advertisement that you want on you site. So, don’t wait lor…quickly click on the logo and signed up yourself to grab that $25 upon joining
03.11.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (23)
For all who concern if the money transfer from PayPal to Al Rajhi Bank works, yes, it WORKS !!!!! After much doubt and thanks write up from Steven and Yinsi who managed to convince me that transfer to Al Rajhi, I finally did my transfer a week later after I open my account.
Details of transfer here:
Fund transfered from PayPal: 26 Oct 2007 (Friday)
Fund received in my Al Rajhi account: 29 Oct 2007 (Monday)
Exchange Rate: 3.2871 (without any extra charges incurred during the transfer)
Although the rate is a bit on the low side, I am really surprise it took only one working day to reach SAFELY into my savings account. I only found out about this a moment ago when Eva buzz me to check on it.
To find out more about how to open a Al-Rajhi Savings Account.
Betul-betul mood swing man!!!……….SO HAPPY NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
31.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (10)
I was all these while using only Personal Account to accept money, but for Personal Account. I am wondering if I should upgrade it to Premier Account based on the difference of both accounts:
Personal Account
- Accept credit or debit card funded payments to a LIMIT OF 5 TRANSACTION ONLY per year with 5.4% plus $0.30 USD.
- Accept the following funded payments for free. (PayPal Balance,PayPal Instant Transfer,PayPal eCheck)
Premier Account
- Accept UNLIMITED credit or debit card funded payments with only up to USD to 3.4% + $0.30 USD
- Will be charged up to 3.4% + $0.30 USD for accept the following funded payments for free. (PayPal Balance,PayPal Instant Transfer,PayPal eCheck)
Wonder which should I choose? Anyone can explain what does PayPal Balance ,PayPal Instant Transfer and PayPal echeck mean?
29.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech, Child's Play, Chin Nee, Daddies, Melaka, QQ / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (26)
I have always wanted to meet some of the blogger friends who has extended so much help during my blogging journey, and this time in Melaka, I had a chance to do so. Even though there are only 4 of us, we could really chat for hours, from topics ranging from kids, education, and our exciting blogging journey.
Some of the very useful tips that I guess some of you might like to know:
1. Do you know that there are many mums who are currently homeschooling their children with lots of support by an online support group?
2. Do you know you can withdraw money from your Singapore bank account here in Malaysia ATM (such as Maybank & Public bank) for FOC?
3. Do you know what a day withdrawal limit is RM5k from our ATM, with each time limit withdrawal of RM1.5k?
4. Do you know that we are able to open a Singapore bank account here from UOB Bank?
5. Do you know that users of Blogger.com can actually check their blog site meter from Mozilla Firefox browser? Get your SEO for Firefox Extension.
6. Do you know that we can actually use coupon codes to buy our hosting package and domain with just a fraction of price (which cames along with unlimited domain!)
6. And a lot more which I couldn’t think of at the moment…
(Source: fantastic bloggers like Miche, Leah and Jesslyn so now you know who’s blog to visit to get the answer)
Wasn’t it a fruitful meet up after all? Also not forgetting to thank to the fathers who go round chasing and entertained the kids for almost 3 hours while mummies busy catching up with each other
26.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (4)
Announcement!!!
Hey, just wanna announce De’Cuisine has been transferred to its own domain! Tell me what you see in the URL when u click on http://de-cuisine.blogspot.com!
See la, how “cleber” I am now…. All these while, I din even realised that we can have our own domain with FREE hosting on blogspot. Instead having to pay hundreds of ringgit, we CAN maintain our blogspot account by just transferring our blogspot URL to our own domain. I just did that with De’Cuisine!!! Thanks to Leah for informing me:)
How to do that?
1. Buy a domain (I bought mine from Netfirms with only $5.95)
2. Forward from blogspot to your new domain
But I must tell you the procedure was very tough for me as I really cannot understand technical terms on the instruction given. If you plan to use netfirms, just see and copy from the picture how I set my control panel. Thank goodness to the patient from the help I received from Leah and Netfirms support team (I think they almost vomit blood talking to me also), I able to pull through after almost one week. If you want to do it easily, you might wanna try godaddy as blogspot provide full instruction how to do it.
24.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech, Chin Nee, QQ / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (8)
Thanks at lot for all wishes. I am really flushing blushing red with all the compliments pouring into this Ah Soh yellow face lady and my little star behind the blog. I see lots of great friends taking the pain to catch the show, waiting to show their kids “there, this is QQ”, and some even patiently stood in front of the TV capturing our once in a lifetime, glory moment with their cameras, or their video recorder. Thanks all, it really touches me how our community stay so united in this difficult (it is for me) but fantastic blogging journey. Although I have not receive the video from Sony (still waiting to be edited, thanks to my ex-colleagues who all stood by for this show), I hereby would like to extend my thanks to people behind the posting of these clips and write-up.
http://www.judelittle.com/?p=12
http://chumsyashley.blogspot.com/2007/10/friends-on-tv.html
http://montessorimum.com/?p=2457
http://sashablablabla.blogspot.com/2007/10/wanita-hari-ini-22-october-2007.html
http://www.shannonchong.com/?p=454
http://www.shannonchong.com/?p=455
P/S: Please let me know if I miss out any for I wish to keep this beautiful history with me
23.10.07 / All about Blog, Aspiration, Blog Tech, Chin Nee / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (37)
Look at how these superstars tumble down the place today! They are on the sofa of the live TV3, “Wanita Hari Ini” airing room. And guess what, these kids are really funny when the show is going on. Every mummy brought a helper along. I was only with QQ and thank goodness, QQ was very busy with the Congkak on the table that she could play quietly while staying with me through the show. Hubby even missed out the show and regretted for not tagging along!
Yes, four of some plain looking mums (ONLY when compared to the superstars walking in and out la) was hooked on our local TV channel, live!, this afternoon. It was quite an experience for me, thanks to this beautiful stunning mummy who shares the “lubang” (I mean opportunity) with me. This proves that even with a yellow face and body which almost needed some maternity clothes also can be on air, hehe………. (I seriously realise that a slimmer version of me would obviously looks better!).
19.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech, Chin Nee, Just info / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (15)
Thanks to my source from here and here. I am glad there is a way to get a debit card issued on the spot instead of having to apply at our local “pah pai” banks with so many conditions. Just in case you wanna know, Al Rahji is a Middle East Bank. And the branch I visited in Kajang even macam showroom. With the money, there are so much christmas gift ideas which is popping up in my head now!
Things you might wanna know for Al Rajhi Savings Account:
1. Just with a minimal deposit of Rm20. FOC (no annual fee).
2. Immediate issuance of debit card.
3. Daily maximum withdrawal is up to RM5k! (Aiyo, good lor if I have problem with this)
4. Foreign money transfer into Malaysia = RM10 one time (regardless of any amount)
5. Online balance check and internal transfer is possible (but no online transfer to OTHER bank at the moment)
6. Unlimited withdrawal transaction. (with condition No.3)
7. Withdrawal from other ATM (INCLUDING Maybank) there will be a charge of RM10
8. Oh, yes, no interest rate for savings ya!
For current account, also with debit card
1. Opening account with a minimal of RM500 deposit.
2. Need introducer (signature) from their current account member or 6 months current account statement from any bank that you have.
3. However you need to maintain at least RM1K in the current account to avoid being charged, just like any other current account from other bank.
4. Else, everything the same. Just that you have the benefit of withdrawing through your cheques without having to visit their ATM.
NOTE : I was told that PayPal will freeze our account if we make sudden huge withdrawals with a new card. To be safe go slow with smaller amount first. After all, not worth withdrawing now also as USD rate drops very low, hehe…