Crazy Chinese Woman

Gone are the days where watching a movie or a tv show is confined to the living room or tv room – these days – watching tv shows or a movie is in front of the computer.  Even my 7 yrs old watches Sabrina the Teenage witch on her very own computer -  she has had it since she was 4 yrs old.   Her friends think that she is darn lucky to have her own computer – but truth be told it’s because we don’t want to share our computer with her.   The spouse and I each have our own – so you can imagine the wires hanging around the entire study room and vacuuming has become harder – since the spouse loved his speakers and of course there are the wires for the routers and modem, printer, microphone – and all sorts of gadget that needs charging with a usb port.   So i finally decided to get some cable covers to help organize the mess – now I can vacuum and when I invite friends over to watch a movie with me – I don’t have to be ashamed of those ugly wires.

Some of my friends from home don’t see eye to eye with me – when i allow the kid to watch her movies on the computer – while i finish up my work on my own computer  – but I can’t really help it – else the kid would be so bored watching me type away or doing my little research work.  What about you?  do you let your kids watch a tv show on the computer?  or is watching a show confined to the tv room?  I think most ppl do that – the only ppl who can afford the luxury of not doing that are those who have lots of help with the kids at home.  So leave a comment and let me know.

We attended the niece’s graduation party a few weeks ago and was happy that she loved her graduation gift – lucky for us – we had some graduation presents ideas from a good friend.  Like all teenagers – they loved the electronics – the latest gadget would be good.   So we took the advice of her parents and bought her an e-book.  It was cheap too – at $199 and it was made bi-lingual – so pretty neat.  We could have bought her an iPod Nano or a digital camera – but we chose the e-book because she is going to college in the fall – and I guess it would be a lot more useful for her lectures and school work.  So if you are thinking of buying a gift for the nieces or nephews or even your own kids – or step – children – trust me – get some electronics – they will find it useful and they will loved you for it.

So someone asked me the other day – if I know where to find TVB dramas to watch on you tube – so that they can watch it on their  laptops notebooks when they are on the train to work.   You see – for some people – they take minutes to get to work – for others a hour or more on the bus or train – glad I don’t need to travel so far for work anymore – I used to when I was back home.  I can understand that it gets so bored just sitting there and doing nothing and watch people or pretend that they are sleeping – so one way to kill time is to watch our favorite shows on you tube.   Alas, I used to be able to find shows on you tube but these days its pretty hard -  but not impossible I guess. But as for myself – I haven’t found any of late that I can share – but if anyone out there knows somewhere – that one can watch tvb movies on youtube – please share eh and yes – although I don’t watch my movies on a netbook – i watch them on my laptop all the time.  Thank God for one of these inventions eh!  what would life be without them?

New releases for English movies comes out on every Tuesdays – and since we are a movie rental store – we have to print out copies of the cover for the new releases for the rental boxes that we send out with the customers – that way – they don’t return the wrong movies in the wrong case.  We have a laserjet that uses  laserjet ink cartridges that we use for printing the covers and been using it for years now – and we get our ink cartridges and toner for our fax machine  from a place in the mall or we can order them online.  We try to print covers for all our movies including the blu-ray ones and sometimes when someone sells us a game without the original box – we can use the laserjet to print out the cover as well.  It does a pretty good job – and we are quite happy with it.   At our store, we rent our movies for $3 for normal dvd and $4 for blu  – ray disc -  you can beat us for princes that’s for sure.

A business associate of ours – who owns a restaurant downtown have their daily special on a white board like the above – and next week – they are changing their prices due to the increase of product and wages.  They had asked us if we could help them print out the daily specials menu on paper to be laminated to be placed on each table because they don’t have a printer.  We have no problems doing it for them of course, but wouldn’t it be easier for them to use an  online printing service to help them with all their printing needs?  especially if your daily special changes on a weekly basis?  and you can do all sorts of promotions using this online printing service?  I would – they are so much more cheaper – and you can do all your work on your own and then use their services without leaving your office.   They have to pay me for doing the work too – and it’s not cheap for me to type out their daily specials for them every week – so I recommended them to the online printing service instead – since they refused to buy a printer.

We have been selling netbooks like hotcakes since they are like $150 a  pop at our store – pretty good price eh.  We can never keep them longer than a week – when they do get traded into our store.   In the near future – we hope we can offer discount laptop computers as well – because they are at 50% off ! yes!  it’s pretty awesome right?  not many people can afford a very expensive laptop – but a netbook although great – is still not as good as a normal 15 inch screen laptop.  Lets hope we can get some more discount laptops to pass the savings to our customers.   We have a netbook for traveling purpose – and we loved it – so small, so convenient and so light weight.

I haven’t had a cell phone for many years now because I was trying to be an el cheapo – since the spouse and I are always together – we felt that there is no need for 2 cell phones.  But truth be told – i  would definitely be better especially when we go shopping and I need to go to Zellers and he need to look for his games – and in between – we can’t find each other – thus making it hard for me to really shop – for fear of missing him – when he is ready to leave.

Anyhow, the reason why i need a smart cell phone is because i refused to pay $20 for a organizer refill – for an old organizer – long story. So I am looking for one that I can keep my schedule into – and take little notes with.  The spouse recommended the blackberry phones but I already know that blackberry phones are good for stuff like that.   But since I’m so el cheapo – I don’t want to pay a lot for the phone – and yet want the functions that I just mentioned above.

I like the color of this Blackberry Curve – you can go on facebook with this model and send messages and do lots of other stuff – like taking a picture and also watch a video on u-tube.  But like I said I needed one that act as an organizer as well – so I’m still searching, so if anyone knows of one that I can get – that don’t cost anything – like this one – then I will definitely want one.

Yesterday, I woke up trying to update my blog – but I couldn’t get into it – so i thought – maybe – it’s my ip changed that blocked myself out.  I have a few spammers last year – and I had blocked them outta my blog – and sometimes with the change of IP – i can get block myself.  I didn’t think much about it – till the spouse had an email from our host telling us that he needed to shut my blog down because there was an unusual surge of traffic.   My poor little personal blog had gotten so much traffic that is slowing down the server?   Truth be told I don’t understand it myself – because at any one time – only about 15 people is online – unlike many years ago – whereby about 100 people can be online at the same time.

If I owned a blog or website that is more popular or belongs to a company – then I need to look for a more professional web hosting or what they called a dedicated hosting to managed web hosting for me.  But at the moment – I won’t need it but still it is frustrating to get your blog shut down every now and then and having these down times are just not good for the blog.  But yes!  if this continues i will have to look for some dedicated hosting.

I’ve been asked many a times by fellow blogger how one can make their blogs more popular and create more traffic.   I’m no Lord Google – but I know that you need to submit your blogs/websites – and get incoming links – linking to your website.  Try free directory which helps new blogger and old ones alike to get listed for free!!   So there – if you want to be more popular – make sure you are listed on different directories to help you be more visible to the people who wants to find out the information you provide.  For example – this blog is more about entertainment and product reviews – so when i submit my blog – i look for entertainment or product reviews as a category – pretty simple and easy.  Go ahead and try it – it’s free.

People asked me all the time – why I have so much time to watch movies and tvb shows and write synopsis for them when I have a store to look after and work to do – plus a kid to look after.  My secret?  scanner software – yes !  scanner software makes my office work  a lot easier leaving me with more time to do other stuff.  Going paperless was the best thing we did in our office – and it sure secures all the information of our customers – and I don’t have to do filing nor look for a document or index them anymore.  Doing it the old-fashioned way – wasted so much time – and not everyone knows about the filing system – so yes the software helped us all at the store – so much ! now i have time for shows  – cooking 2 home cooked meals a day for my kid – and yet – share my thoughts about shows with my friends.

I told my kid that this year Santa was going to be broke!  Why?  because she had written to Santa with her list – and handed it over to me – to mail it urgently to North Pole.  In the letter – she told Santa – she was somewhat good to mummy and daddy and doing well in school – so she hope Santa will bring her her list of toys – and it’s a long list i tell yer!  So I told her – Santa is going to be real broke this year – in which she replied a matter-of-factly – “No he won’t !  Santa has all these Elves that does all his work for him – he doesn’t need any money – MOM!!!”  *slap forehead*  – pray tell where does kids get all their smartness from these days!  We never ever give smart answers like that when we were kids – hahahha!!!

Teenagers are so hard to buy for these days – and even those who just turn 13 – they are hard to please too.  This year we are buying all of them ipods.  Yes! you heard me right ! at just $59 new for each of them – I think it’s the best geeky gift we can get for them – without wasting our money.  The ipod shuffle has so many colors to choose from – so the pink for the girls and the grey or blue for the boys.  For the really cool kid – we are getting them the orange and the green to be different.  The ipod shuffle is affordable – and it wouldn’t break our bank.  What are you getting for your nieces and nephews this Christmas?  we are pretty much all set now.

My niece who recently joined the school debate theme had approached me to help with the club – because she knows I’m good with binding and photocopying stuff and doing presentation work.  Since I worked with the business center in a hotel for a long time before coming to Canada, she definitely found the right person.   They use VeloBind here and we used a different binding machine back home – but binding is made easier with these binding machine.  And it is a great way to bond with the niece and teach them a thing or two about office work and what to expect when they go out to work.  I think the school make them responsible for stuff because they want them to have hands on with all sorts of work machine – it is really a great way to nurture these kids and I can see how earnest they are – with their presentation.

For those who are not aware of this – i used to work as a Business Center Manager for one of the biggest hotel chain in Asia.  My 15 yrs in the hotel industry – taking care of the convention center requires that I test out equipments before they are bought.  So when the spouse wanted to get a printer for the store – I asked him to make sure that the ink for them are cheap to change too.   The Phaser using 108r00727 are said to be less messy – and if you know me – I like everything easy and simplified – plus the cost as gotta be one of the key point too.  I try not to interfere when it comes to the spouse’s business – afterall, I’m just the business owner by association but when it comes to saving money and photocopier and laser printer – no one knows them better than I.

OL Supreme Ep 24 is out for watching ! Anyhow.. if you want the synopsis .. follow the birdie.. leave a comment there.. for password.

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I love my cellphone and who doesn’t right? afterall,  I paid quite a lot for it and I’m sure you did too.   My cellphone is not only used as a phone for chatting and messaging – i go online to check my email and browse the web as well as when I am traveling from home to work.  When i first bought my cellphone, I wanted to buy protective covers for it because I know i would be using it a lot – so to protect it from wear and tear.  But the local phone store here didn’t carry the covers for the model I have and the ones tI found online were pretty expensive.

But now, I know that I can go to Cellphone Coupons, to get some real good deals on all kind of accessories that I needed.  You too would be impressed with how good some of the deals are, if you check out Cellular Factory Coupons, use their promotional codes and get your accessories at up to half price or 50% off retail.  I wouldn’t go anywhere else for my cellphone accessories.

Last chance for you to support PENNY 4 PLAYGROUND .. come on show some Christmas love.  We are at $216 as at 7.17pm here in Canada.  I’m only aiming to reach $300 by midnite tonite.   Plenty of time to show your support for this entertainment blog.  If you enjoy this blog or the many hours of entertainment it brought you and will continue .. please share some Christmas joy.  Every penny you donate will bring a little joy to the kids at Yarmouth Central School.  Thank you to all those who had been so generous .. and for those who will be donating before Christmas Day.

Updated : Thanks to Allana & Jiaming, we are at $231 as at 10.46pm here in Canada.  C’mon everyone.. i know we can reach $300 before midnite..!!

Again Updated :  $236 now as at 11.27pm, thanks to Audrey Mau!! you rock..!!  Actually you all ROCK..!! BIG TIME..!!!  Thank you ..!!!

Thank you all so much.. ! but it’s still Christmas Day.. therefore for those who wants to donate still.. please donch hesitate.. we really appreciate every single contribution.

Updated on Christmas morning : We are at $256 this morning..!! thanks to Alice Kwek..!! you so rock..!!!   C’mon everyone..!! it’s Christmas..!! you all want to give today.. to a good cause..! every penny you contribute will make the kids at Yarmouth Central School happy.

How cool is it..??  a USB Toaster.. !!! now i could definitely use that..!!! since i love to toast my bread so much.  And of course for the geeky spouse.. or a relative or nephew who is darn techie only person… then this is definitely for him/her.

Kekekekeke!! i fooled you ..!!!  it’s not real.. but for those who wants to trick their spouses or their nephews.. or their techie co-worker.. you can purchase the box ..   the box is for real.. at only $7.99 .. and that’s a great price to pay for an awesome prank.

Ahhhh..!! i’m but a woman right..?? this frangipani lights caught my eyes instantly, afterall, it does reminds me of home, where there are frangipanis everywhere.  This gorgeous Frangipani 80 bulb light chain is absolutely beautiful.  Use it to decorate any room.  Gorgeous in around your dressing table, pretty in a little girls room or just use it as a fabulous decoration.  Measure up to 4m long with 20 branches.. i must buy..!  But wait.. it’s £39.95, i need to work harder on my online trading to afford something so fanciful in our house.