Go on, sell your rubbish

There's this book about selling on eBay and it says the more unique your stuff is, the more you will sell. Don't sell things that everyone else is selling. Create your niche and make your own monopoly in the market.

There was this guy who sold old unusable phones. After selling a few, he started to call the whole of America and all suppliers who had these unsaleable, unusable phones. Some gave it to him for free and some sold it to him dirt cheap. Once he got all the phones, he sold it on eBay as antique phones. The smart, or should I say lucky fella made a fortune out of junk.

That prompted me to go through Lelong and eBay to see what other weird stuff people would sell. I used to laugh looking at people selling branded paperbags. Gosh, I've thrown throes of them away and these people are selling them no less than RM8.00! So one of those crazy days, I decided to try. I dug out all the paperbags left strewn near the rubbish dump that were ready to be used as the next rubbish bag, took pictures of them and put them on eBay and Lelong to see what would happen. Surprisingly, I've sold a couple of them.

I'm going to try selling Jusco plastic bags next. Maybe I should try all other stuff too like paper, empty milk cartons, biscuit tins, bread wrappers, old toilet paper with funny patterns....hmmm.....

To think I was once a fitness preacher!

From a non-anaerobic person in my early twenties to a preacher in fitness in my late twenties, I am now switching to be a slump in the fitness area. Why do I say this? I crave for sweet things especially ice-cream and have vowed to go on a dessert buffet soon. I salivate at the thoughts of J Co and if it were not for the long queues I swear I would have eaten more than a dozen dougnuts glazed with fats, cream and sugar.

 

Fast food was never an option for breakfast, lunch nor dinner but within these two weeks I have had MacDonald's for breakfast and lunch, Dominoes pizza for lunch twice with two days in between and KFC for dinner right after dining at home. It used to be twice a year of MacDonald's and the orders were usually the healthier stuff, no fries. KFC was a once a year kind of thing with NO chicken skin! I don't think I could resist the wonderful flavours burried within KFC's crispy chicken skin now. Even writing about it makes me salivate again.

 

To think that once if I were caught eating in any fast food outlets near the gym, I'd lose my part time job as the fitness preacher. I am now a glutton for fast food. Gosh, how things have changed!

 

Use Your Toes!

Ohhh...I'm so excited! I've learnt up a new trick! It's picking up things with my toes. I can now pick up a pen, a hair clip, a dollar and many many more things. I'm trying to learn how to pick up a coin lying flat on the floor but hopefully I would never be in this situation.

It's really easy peasy actually. What we humans usually take for granted when we can bend and use our hands to pick something up can be done without bending anything else except our knees. All one has to do is to learn how to curl the toes. It's kind of useful, really!

Does this entry explain my 'blogstipation' situation?

Blogging terms

I recently had to do a write-up on corporate blogging and found these blogging terms online:

Blogstipation - writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?
Yep, I'm definitely suffering from this right now. I log on just to see what other settings I've missed for the write-up but can't think of anything to write.

Blogathy - I do not want to post today and I do not care about it
Well, it's not that I don't care but I realy can't think of anything to blog about and I'm not the kind who blogs about what I'm having for lunch

Blogopotamus - A long long blog post
I am already having trouble thinking of what to update my blog with much less a long long blog post!

Blogorrhea - unusually high output of articles
Same comment as above

Bleg - To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.
I like this word - bleg....makes me think of "Blek" (putting your tongue out while saying it). Hmm...OK...can I like beg for money on my blog?

Hitnosis - Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased
Haha..I'd probably get myself hypnotized by looking at the same old page refreshing without any changes. I just managed to log in to my Adsense account after forgetting about it for 2 whole years and guess how much I earned? $2.74.

GAD - Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings.
$2.74 for 2 years. Is this normal?

Blego - Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth
My blog is worth nothing....nothing but $2.74!

Blog hopping - jumping from one blog to another
Not only am I suffering from blogstipation but I am also suffering from webstipation - Can't think of any sites to go to when I'm online.

Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
Why don't they just name the person cockroach?

Blogoholic - addicted to blogging
Haha..I'm far from being this. I should be saying, "I'm a blogstipaholic" instead.

Blogorific = blogtastic - something which a blogger says is terrific
If only I could have an ice-cream now, it would be blogorific! Is this how you use this word?

Blogsit - maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave
Do people get paid for blogsitting? I think I need someone to blogsit my blog.

Blogvertising - Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.
$2.74? Chey....for all the time I spent on putting Adsense up on my blog? I'd rather just post a rag up for sale on eBay. It'll be worth more than $2.74.

Blurker - a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.
I am not a blogoholic. I am a blurker....sometimes...when I don't suffer from webstipation.

Blogiversary - your blog's birthday
Ohhhh...I didn't know blogs celebrate birthdays! OK, OK, that gave me an idea. I'll just put a picture of a cake up for a post on that day..at least it gives me something to blog about.

Blogstorm - a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.
Definitely ain't gonna be a blog which earns $2.74 in 2 years.

Blogsnob - refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.
If only I could get more comments on my posts, I could very well practice this....

Doppelblogger - plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.
Oh boy! This is such a great idea! I shall do this when I suffer from blogstipation. Then perhaps I could earn more money from Adsense!

Blogophobia - Fear of blogs and blogging.
Help. I think I am turning into a blogophobia.

Oh well, constipation, blogstipation, what's new these days? I'm suffering from all the 'stipation' that you can name of.

Earth Day

Last Sunday was Earth Day. We were all supposed to live without electricity for an hour from 8pm to 9pm. Maybank said they will switch off all the lights except the big yellow logo. Oh well, it was a Sunday night, which office would have their lights on anyway?

My other half said we'd honour Earth Day so I took the opportunity to get out of the house to witness if KLCC or any other building in KL would honour it as well. Actually, I didn't think I could stand even half an hour without the fan blowing directly at me. Unfortunately, the whole city was lighted up and I found myself visiting Pavillion for the first time since they opened their doors. The minute I stepped into it, I was....stunned. I didn't actually know where to go and was stunned seeing the huge stadium-like staircase right in front of me. That part could have formed a swimming pool, no?

After half an hour of walking around aimlessly at the kid's floor, I decided to look for the food corner. Of course the prices of everything at the kid's floor was over the extreme. Even if I had millions, I don't think I would buy a baby t-shirt for RM80 which would be used only for a week or two before its outgrown. Looking for the queue at J Co should be more interesting. In fact it was. The food corner was packed and J Co of course had three long lines. Are their doughnuts really that nice? Too bad sweet stuff is on my 'barred-food-list'. I would've loved to get a bite of a doughnut. But anyway...resisting ice-cream for the past few months have been really hard work especially when I crave for it. I ended up eating ice-kacang which was close enough to eating ice-cream but not quite. Haaaaa........Well, at least honouring Earth Day was well spent for me.