Almost every day we read news of babies being dumped or foetuses being dumped and as a mother, each time I read such news, I cringed. It hurts to see cute little babies being treated like rubbish. So, of course, there are a lot of outraged people calling for those who dump babies to be sentenced to death.

Well, I personally feel that introducing a death penalty for cases like is the worst ever proposal to resolve this problem. What we have now is more of a social problem rather than a criminal one.   Instead of thinking about punishment, more thought and actions should be put into preventing it AND ensuring that the lives of these babies are spared. It is obvious that these women are spurred by desperation when they dump their illegal babies.

If they introduce a death penalty for this, then more babies will suffer as these women will be even more desperate to hide it and they will probably do worse things to get rid of the babies! So, the main priority here is not to punish but to provide a safe haven for these babies.

Like it or not, people are having sex out of wedlock and single women get pregnant everyday. No matter what law you impose, how much you frown upon it, it still happens. So, no point, sweeping it all under the carpet and pretend that our youngsters are are virginal saints. How else do you think these women end up pregnant and desperate?

What needs to be done now is to set up more centres to counsel and help these women. Obviously, they have nowhere to go so they resort to hiding their pregnancies and dumping the babies. They are desperate and they do not know where to go or what to do. Their babies are innocent. They deserve to live and the priority here is to ensure that these babies live!

Why is there so much objection to establishing hatches for unwanted babies? At the very least these hatches will ensure that babies are not dumped into rubbish bins or left to die. All this just because some stupid idiot thinks that hatches promote promiscuous behaviour. Err…hello, in case you haven’t noticed, unmarried couples are still doing it and getting pregnant out-of-wedlock now even without hatches!

Of course, society is to be blamed for these baby dumping cases too. It is when these desperate women are shunned, ignored and pushed to a corner that they had no where else to go but down the very wrong road of getting rid of their ‘mistake’.

So, lets stop this pointing fingers and condemning of the poor, desperate women. No mother, whether she wanted the baby or not, will resort to killing or abandoning her own flesh and blood if she was not pushed to a corner where she could not think straight at all. Also don’t forget that it takes two to make a baby so don’t just blame the mothers! What about the men? Why were they let off scot-free? Why were they not held responsible?

Sigh. The worse of these incidences is when politicians jump in to give their two cents worth of stupidity. They will blame anything, everything BUT find solutions to prevent and protect these innocent babies?

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I have this obsession with high tech gadgets..so it can be a new dangled smartphone, a laptop or a computer, I am always interested to check it out.
I particularly LOVE personal high-tech gadgets from Apple. When they released their iPod touch, I wanted one but I didn’t go get one. Then of course, there is this whole craze for the iPhone. Still, I am able to stop myself from going right out to buy one…well, the fact that getting one means having to sign up for Maxis ultra pointlessly expensive data and calls has stopped me from signing up just to get an iPhone.
Then, comes the iPad, the revolutionary Apple tablet computer. OMG. I was hooked, line and sinker. I wanted one really, really badly. We are talking about a small computer, the size of a netbook but thinner without the keyboard and yes, fully touchscreen. How cool is that?
So, there I was lusting after it on ebay and casually bidding for it when I won in one of my bids. Yep, it’s meant to be.I got an iPad 64gb with wifi and 3G capabilities. I was elated.
Nah, here’s my new toy…

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Of course you won’t be able to do that within a week. Or within a month. Or even in a few months. This is NOT a get rich quick scheme. So if you are looking for fast and easy money, sorry, you are at the wrong site. There is NO SUCH thing as fast and easy money. Well, at least, not the legal methods.

So, how do you earn money online and make $1000 (and that’s in USD, mind you!) a month? And how long does it take?

You will need to spend up to a year of hard work to reach that target. Of course, if you are extra hardworking, you may be able to reach that target in about 6 months. But, a year is a safer bet.

I am not going to list out all the ways and methods here cause it will probably take hundreds of posts to fully explain the mechanics of it all. BUT. I will list down some basic rules and the stuffs I am doing now to reach this target. Just so you know, I have been on this earn money online journey for quite a while but I have yet to reach that target because well…I let other things veer me off track.

When you want to earn money online, through blogging, through internet marketing, through paid posts, whatever way you chose, it is always important to note that you need to put in a modicum of effort into it. So, instead of concentrating on this, I played hooky. A LOT. Heheheh….I’ve been so caught up in FB games (that’s Facebook games to the uninspired) that I wasted too much time earning points and whatnots instead of using the time to reach my earn money online goals. *hangs head in utter shame*

Sigh. No point regretting now, right?

So, I am starting anew. I have already removed most of the FB games and vowed to never touch them again. Hopefully. Heheh. Then, I am diving right into my online work to earn money and reach that target in the shortest time ever. How am I gonna do it?

Well, I already have my numerous earn money sites. So, I will go back to work on them now. Here are the steps to take for beginners:

1. Find profitable keywords you want to target

2. Create websites / blogs based on the keywords

3. Write at least 10 posts based on the keywords on the websites

4. Place adsense strategically on the sites

5. Write 10 articles for each site and post it to article sites like Ezine articles with links back to the site

6. Search for similar sites and ask to exchange links with the site owners

7. Write more articles and post to more sites like Hubpages, Squidoo with links back to your site.

8. Repeat 5 – 7 every day.

9. Write a new blog post for your site for every 8 articles you post to article sites.

10. Continue to do that diligently and you will see the $$ rolling in pretty soon.

So, how do you target keywords and how to know what keywords are profitable? Well, if you need help and someone to guide you along, try joining The Keyword Academy for FREE! They are really, really good and their method really works! Trust me, after following their methods, I’ve doubled my online income so I believe I will be reaching the $1000 per month target pretty soon.

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Becoming your own boss and an entreprenuer is not all its made out to be. So, before you throw in the towel, tender the resignation and tell your employer to go fly kite, you better make sure you are prepared to advance your career on your own! Here are some of the tips I’ve learnt about being your own boss and starting your own business:

1. You must have the moolah (meaning money!) either your own savings or from a soft loan (as in your parents’ money) to be able to last you between 6 to 12 months. This is to ensure that you are able to stay afloat in the initial months when you are just starting out and getting sales.

2. Getting a bank loan may seem like a good idea but do remember, bank loans means you have to pay the loan every month and if your business is just starting out and you are not getting enough revenue in the beginning, how are you going to service the loan?

3. You may think it’s so much more fun and better being your own boss but remember, even if it’s a small business with limited staff, you have to deal with employees and that means the table has turned. You will have the headache of dealing with lazy employees, employees who under-perform or problems hiring good employees.

4. You no longer work fixed hours because it is your own business and you will have to spend more time making it a success so that you don’t end up bankrupting your business and yourself!

5. It is all about money and sens from now onwards as you will be thinking about covering costs, paying your employees, paying your debtors, paying yourself and whether you are making enough revenue to do that.

6. There are no fringe benefits anymore because you will be paying for your own medical, your own insurance, your own annual leave, your own allowances and claims.

7. You won’t have a carefree holiday because you will be worried about your business, whether your employees are keeping it going or not.

8. You can’t just decide to quit because your livelihood now depends on it and there’s your debtors and employees to consider too!

9. You are on your own literally. All decisons, big and small, are up to you now. If you make a wrong one, your business, you and your employees will suffer.

10. The risks of failure is always there as in any business, you are taking a chance and depending on revenue through sales so if you don’t work hard at it, you could fail miserably.

All that being said, don’t let these scare you from wanting to venture into business on your own.

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Whoever tells you that it will be so easy to earn money online is lying to you. There is no such thing as easy money, regardless of whether it is online or not. Seriously, there are so many earn money at home scams out there, it is no wonder many people fall for the ‘easy work’ lines. Well, let me tell you the nitty gritty about earning money online:

1. You need to set up websites and maintain them

2. This means you need to post to the websites regularly

3. Do website maintenance regularly, such as updating the plugins at all times, ensuring everything is in order, etc.

4. You also need to get more organic traffic to earn some adsense income

5. By building links to your site

6. Which means you either trade links with other sites which also takes time

7. Or you send in articles to article sites like Ezine articles, Hubpages, etc.

8. Most of your time will be spent writing those articles

9. And you have to continue doing that AT ALL TIMES

10. In the meantime, you can also start setting more websites

11. So that you will have multiple streams of income from various websites.

12. And again, you need to build links to those websites

13. Through link trading and submissions to article sites.

14. If you are earning through affiliate programmes and paid posts

15. It also means you need to vigourously promote your affiliate products

16. And spend time to write paid posts

So, you see? Whoever said earning money online is easy?

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I’ve read quite a few sites on baby care, parenting, etc and in many of these sites, one of the main topics would be about the sleep patterns of babies. Oh trust me, there are so many damn articles about how to get baby to sleep, how to train baby to sleep on her own, how to establish a sleep pattern for baby to sleep through the night, everything about getting the small baby to sleep…it would definitely make new parents think that babies don’t sleep at all.

Well, I don’t really care about all those advice on how to train baby to sleep on her own. I mean, what the heck. How long do you think the baby is going to stay a baby? Forever? So what if my baby wants me to cuddle her and hold her close so she can feel secure before falling asleep? Is that a crime? There are so many stupid dos and don’ts about taking care of babies that the part about not carrying them too much and not lulling them to sleep too much that I totally do not agree with.

There’s this advice that we should not carry our babies too much. It will make them want to be carried all the time. Yeah, well, how long do you think the baby will remain a baby? What, you mean, she will still demand to be carried when she turns 21 years old? So, even if the baby wants to be carried all the time, at most, it was only in the first few years. Two or three years max. After that, she’d prefer to walk, run, hop around and destroying stuffs than being carried! And do you know that children grow up so fast that before you know it, you probably wished the sullen teenage creature hiding in her room can be your cute, chubby baby again who wants to be close to you all the time. By then, she probably don’t want to be seen near you, much less ask for cuddles and hugs!

So, what is a few years of having a manja, pampered baby who loves cuddling with you all the time? Is that SO bad? I really don’t understand the need for all those kaypohs/ busybodies who keep telling me not to carry the baby too much. Ceh. I don’t carry my baby anyway, I wear her using a ring sling and I love to have her close to me whenever I am home with her.

Then, there is this whole sleep pattern crap. I’ve read some that advice letting the baby cry it out and soothe herself to sleep. Well, over my cold dead body, I say. Again, my argument is how long do you think the baby will remain a baby? 10 years? 20 years? Puh-lez. So, the baby likes to be lulled to sleep in your arms. How long do you think you get to do that? Not long, I can tell you! I held my firstborn and lulled him to sleep every night for almost 2 years and I do not regret one single bit of it because now, he goes to sleep on his own and don’t need mummy to hold him anymore.
Now, I will do the same thing with my second one if that’s what she likes. She’s probably my last one so if I don’t enjoy the time I get with her when she’s a baby, I won’t get to enjoy it ever again. I would say lulling her to sleep in my arms is as comforting to me as it is to her. The very act of holding her close, breathing in her sweet baby smell and gently patting her is just so relaxing that all the stresses of my day job melts away like magic.

So there. Sleep patterns my arse. If I want to hold my baby and lull her to sleep, I shall very well do that because she will grow up one day and I do not want to wake up one day and realised that I missed my chance of cuddling my cute li’l baby when she’s still so small, so vulnerable, so cuddly and so adorable.

We should never do things just because we want it to be easy and convenient especially when it comes to babies. I know some parents thinks its a hassle to have to carry their babies all the time or to lull them to sleep all the time. If it is such a hassle, then don’t blardy well have babies. Having babies meant there is no such thing as convenience, easy, free time or peace. But it meant loads of wonderful, challenging times filled with frustrations and laughter, joy and hardships, ups and downs.

Nobody is perfect so don’t expect your babies to be perfect too. Accept them as they are, shower them with love, cuddle them all you want, hold them close now because one day, they will have grown up and do not want to be close to you anymore.

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Being a working mom is NOT easy. It is even worse when I have so many side income work on top of my regular, full time job. It means that on a daily basis I have to:

• Wake up at crack of dawn LITERALLY
• Rush like mad to get my kids ready
• Brave the traffic to drop them off at nursery / babysitter’s
• Go to work
• Fit in expressing breastmilk in between working hours (Yes, I am still fully breastfeeding! We DO NOT have infant formula at home)
• Brave the traffic again to pick up son from nursery and baby from babysitter’s
• Get son to eat his dinner & feed baby (luckily hubby helps by either preparing dinner or buying dinner)
• Gulp down my protein shake
• 15-minute exercise (no matter how busy, exercise is a MUST for our own health and to de-stress!)
• Gulp down my very light dinner (have to watch the waistline you know!)
• Boil water / wash the plates
• Load clothes into washing machine and get it started
• Play with pre-schooler and baby (quality family time!)
• Feed baby
• Tuck both kids into bed
• Start online work, website work and article writing work
• Go to sleep at around midnight
• Wake up at least twice a night to feed baby
• Repeat routine every work day

The weekends are just as bad, if not worse,  because I still have to wake up early, bathe both kids, give them breakfast, boil water,  cook lunch & dinner, sweep the floor, mop the floor, do laundry, keep pre-schooler occupied, feed baby every 2 hours, put them down for their naps, do more online and writing work, exercise, fold and keep laundry, etc…

So, who says we working moms had it easy? In fact, it only meant that I have MANY jobs (not in any particular order):

• As a mother
• As a breastmilk supplier
• As the second income earner
• As a wife
• As an online marketer
• As a blogger
• As a foodie @ The Food Site
• As a writer
• As a part-time homemaker (since I still DO have to do housework when I get home)

So much so that I have lost count of the numerous times I…

• boiled water (why can’t we just drink from the tap without risking diarrhea and food poisoning?)
• do the laundry (please, please, please someone invent self-cleaning clothes! I’ll be the first to buy them)
• change diapers (can’t wait to toilet train the baby!)
• sweep the floor (please, please, please someone invent self-cleaning floors too)
• mop the floor
• wash the dishes

If only there are more than 24 hours a day or that I do not need to sleep at all….sigh…

How did I manage to balance so many ‘jobs’ each day without keeling over and die of exhaustion? Simple.

Exercise & Yoga

Some of you may think that exercise will only tire me out more but that’s not true! In fact, when you exercise, even for 15 minutes a day, it clears your mind, it trains your muscles, it works your heart for cardio health and it gets your adrenaline up. A few times I skipped my daily exercise and after a few days, I feel lethargic, tired and not up to anything! So, I fully subscribe to exercising daily, whether it is a brisk jog, or some strength training routines or yoga poses. It is a totally ‘ME’ time to clear the mind, de-stress, lose the tension and get your body into shape.

Oh yeah, it’s also great to help me get rid of all of my pregnancy weight! YAY!

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I barely have time to update this blog nowadays due to my extreme busy-ness with real online money making stuffs and my full time job and my unpaid full time no leave no MC job (as a mother lah, what else?) but what the heck! I am getting spammed by spammers.

Each time I post something, I received spam comments. Dammit. That’s why I have to screen all the comments and no allow it to be published automatically. Or else my blog will be full of spam comments. So….

SCRAM!

GET LOST!

You stupid annoying, irritating spammers. If you are so free, please go spam all those politicians’ blogs. They have like thousands and thousands of readers, not like my paltry little blog which is probably being read by me and any stray souls who happened to wander here thanks to Google.

Anyway, this month is a really sad, sad month for my earn money online endeavour. Darn. Google adsense income is down by almost 30%! That’s what I get for neglecting my other websites and link building and traffic generation work. So, what other make money online stuff have I been doing other than generating income from those websites?

Oh well. I have been doing real part time work. Writing articles for $$.  It’s for a shopping website so I am sorta doing online work. At least I am getting paid for it rather than leaving the income to organic traffic which is rather erratic and sorta sad if I don’t work on it. So, you see, there is no such thing as easy income. Don’t believe all those lies about easy money, easy earn money online crap.

There is no such thing as a free ride in this world, much less free, easy income. The sooner you realize this the better. Which brings to mind all those email scams and even SMS scams that has been making the rounds.  I still find it absolutely unbelievable that people still fall for that!

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

If you get an email / SMS telling you that:

• You won some contest you’ve never entered or heard of and won a lot of cash
• Some tycoon’s heir needs your help to move money out of his country
• You have been picked to be a winner of some lottery and won millions
• Some businessman/woman promising to pay you to help him to do simple stuffs like banking in money for him/her

Or anything that sounds like the above, DELETE it. Any email / SMS that asks you for your personal details cannot be trusted. That’s because other than cheating you of money, these fraudsters also do identity theft so you do not want to end up with a long list of trouble and debts because someone used your identity!

But then, I guess this warning is pointless because it seems that people still keep falling for such old tricks all the time. So, if you are one of them, I save you the trouble. Just gimme the money :grin:  At least I will invest it in something worthwhile…like setting up more money making websites or buying more savings bonds, unit trusts, etc….

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And obviously, I am still alive and kicking!

I’ve been pretty tied up these few weeks with new earn money online projects so I hardly have time to stop by here or even at my food site. It is amazing how time flies. Seriously. I remember walking around like a live blimp just a few months back and now my baby is already rolling around and teething.

Yep. Time sure don’t wait for anyone. And that’s why I have been pretty busy. I am rushing for time to create more content for my earn money online sites so that I can start to seriously earn money from those sites. And yes, by sites, I meant more than 10 sites. Although those sites are Wordpress blogs, they are mainly static sites with the sole purpose of earning me some Adsense income and hopefully some affiliate income. So, why do I have more than 10 sites?

The answer is simple.  If one site earns me USD2 per day, it would mean I am getting USD20 per day from all 10. And if I get USD20 per day, this means I will get on average USD600 each month. Not bad for a side income, eh? But sadly, I have not reached that target. At most, I am still getting a few cents per site, sometimes even zero. Sigh.

And what do I need to do to increase the income?

A HECK of a LOT than what I am doing now. I tell you.

For one thing, I need to start getting way more links to those sites than there are now.

Then, I have to add some more keyword targeted SEO content to those sites to draw in more organic traffic.

Then, I have to upgrade all those stupid plugins, WP, etc. And check to get all my revenue-making stuffs like the HTML codes are in place, etc.

A lot of administrative stuffs involved. And I only have one pair of hands. And 24 hours a day.

Oh well. And I have also immersed myself into another writing project, more like freelance work. Meaning I write articles for this company and they pay me per article. They are not paying much but it is still money. And every week, I will find myself rushing like mad to meet the deadline. Darn. I should not push myself so hard. But what to do, all for the sake of $$.

And why my rush for so much $$? Hmmm…I don’t even know. Perhaps, I just want to clear off our home loan fast and also to be able to bring my children to nice restaurants once in a while is a bonus. Whatever the reasons, who’s to say no to legitimate, honest, clean $$ from our own hard work, right?

So.

I have not abandoned this blog. I am just busy making money blogging on those money making sites. If only this blog makes me more money, then I don’t have to work on those other sites so much. Oh yeah, do stay tuned to this blog.

I have lost immense amount of weight (all the pregnancy weight and then some) and I will share the tips on how to lose weight one of these days when I am not up in my neck with online work.

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EXTREMELY SLOW internet connection.

Streamyx SUX big time. And it is time that some other bigger, better companies give them real competition…

I mean all the broadband packages by Maxis and Digi really does not cut it. NOT at all. Those are like child’s play.

And don’t even get me started about WiMax. It is SAID to be fast and all that jazz but in the end it’s just empty talk. Many places still can’t get it and yes, those living in the upper floors of high rise buildings also won’t be able to use it.

So, now, how?

We are stuck with Streamyx. They need to end this monopoly or else their services will NEVER EVER improve. Sigh.

It takes me 10 blardy freaking minutes to log into this blog.

It takes me even more blardy freaking minutes to do something with my money making sites such as changing themes, adding the adsense, setting up the SEO,testing the loading of the theme, deleting spam comments, adding links…etc. You know, all the work required to keep a website going and updated. And I was in the midst of exchanging links with other earn money online bloggers.

Sigh. How to work like this, I ask you?

So, ONCE AGAIN, stupid, blardy effing SLOW streamyx SUX big time! Damn.

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