Lazy Momentz

Moving Forward

2013-06-02T03:52:00.001+05:30

Things have stagnated for me.

That's the worst that can happen to me! I love new things, but since my last post, there hasn't been anything new. Sure, I still pull in a steady income, work at office is great but I feel stuck.

Right now, I am even at a loss of words to write.

Guess, that is what happens when you are still awake at 4am in the morning trying to figure out why the life is sucking at the moment.

I need a new plan of action! And I need to blog more often!!

Get Rs 2000 off or 10% off on any product

2012-11-04T16:11:00.000+05:30

Guys! Good news, I just came across the offer in Infibeam. Click on the banner to reach the deals page and you can read the instruction for yourself.

What it says is that:
1. Get 10% off on any product to a maximum of Rs2000.
2. Offer valid till 15th of November.

So don't miss this chance. Has there been a phone you have always liked but the price was high? This is a great chance to grab that dream phone(or any other product). Buy something at a discount and gift it to your girlfriend or boyfriend and surprise them!

Ultimate Diwali gift! ;)

Websites Developed(in a few cases designed) By Me!

2012-10-31T18:23:00.000+05:30

I had started with Fiverr in February 2012 as a way to pass time and also get a little extra money. I had then got my Paypal account and got it verified. I was so excited the day I got the first $3.89 in my Paypal account(I started receiving orders the very same day as when I had created the gig)!

Today, I was just listing all the websites I have created, designed or developed for making a portfolio and I realized there was 38 websites! Around 4 websites per month!!

I could have probably taken a few more jobs, but I always stop working when I feel like my personal life is getting suffocated by work. Lets see whether I can reach 50 websites by February 2013.

Now for the update of the month:

I had last posted an update on October 19th about my earnings. You can visit that post via this link.

Since October 19th till today, October 31st, I have earned another $412.5

And before October 15th, my earning was $247 from all my income sources online.

So then, the total for this month is $789.5 rounding off to $789! Quite impressive but not to my satisfaction! :(

If you add my offline income from my day job of Rs 23500 in hand (after all the deductions), the total is $1240 approximately. Close but not there yet. However the goal is to reach the target via online income only!

The goal is at $1500.

So guys, any words? Use the comment to start a discussion. Everybody reading the post, what is the first thought that cam to your mind after you read this post?

Get .com Domains for Rs 173 only!

2012-10-24T13:44:00.001+05:30

Do you want a domain? A .com domain is normally priced at Rs 699 if bought from GoDaddy. But they are running a limited offer for this month only.

You will get a .com domain for a year at only Rs 173. That includes the iCANN registration charge too!

And the offer doesn't end their.. you will get a .info domain for free!

So think of this as a Dussera offer and take full advantage of this! Here is the banner for the offer. Click and let us know in the comments which are the domains you have bought and what are you planning to do with them?

Don't let this offer go away.. you'll regret it otherwise. The first step to a steady online income is to have your own web presence and for that you will need a website. A free hosting service is good but the domain should always be a TLD. So grab your domain today and take the first step to a passive income stream!

Google Analytics has really evolved!

2012-10-21T00:42:00.001+05:30

Just now I was thinking about how to get a more detailed view of my traffic sources, so that I can optimize the links I put on different social sites. I remembered I had a Google Analytics account which I had stopped using after the time when the .co.cc domains were banned from Google. I had at that time reached the first page of Google for many keywords. I was getting around 1000 visitors only from Google using a .co.cc free domain that was only a couple of months old.

So I logged in to the GA account and I was really surprised at the great new interface presented in front of me. It took me two minutes to get accustomed to where they had put all the options. It was intuitive, and I really liked a couple of features.

For example the Real-time visitor tracking was awesome!

So enough about that but what I am actually here to talk about is that every webmaster needs a Google Analytics account, or for that matter any of the analytics you are comfortable with works. Because you have to know where you are getting your customers from and from where you are not getting any traffic. After that strengthen the tactics from where you are already receiving traffic and look into why you are getting from the other sources. With a couple of trials and errors I am sure you'll get the hang of it!

Analytics tools are lifeline for a webmaster, because if you cannot optimize the sources of traffic then people will never actually reach your website and then the whole reason for creating the website is lost. You wouldn't wish that even for your enemies, right?

So those of you who have already created a website, go ahead and integrate GA into your website and you'll thank me someday!! ;)

My New Domains!

2012-10-20T14:38:00.001+05:30

At an unbelievable price of just Rs 173, I got two domains!!!

1st: www.wpdevworks.com
2nd: www.wpdevworks.info

:D

the offer is here http://x.co/ovBN

A Little Update And A Small Tip

2012-10-19T10:05:00.000+05:30

Well, I don't think I'll be crossing the set limit this month.

The total earning from October 15th to today October 18th has been only a measly $130. While that is not even a distinguished enough sum of money for a few marketers or online earners, I guess there are still many who are looking forward to cross their first $50 mark even. So don't take this lightly.

The toughest job in the online world is to make your first dollar. Many of the newbies fizz out even before making that first dollar. That is because their minds are still too fickle.

Here's a tip for all the guys looking for making some money online.

"An ounce of action is worth more than a ton of theory"

So its very good if you are learning new methods, but take my advice and start taking action! Take one method, learn all the ins and outs of it. But don't keep waiting or procrastinating. Keep doing the things that you are learning. You won't actually learn until you start practicing.

So if you are looking forward to making a presence as a web developer, I'll suggest you start making small HTML pages. That way whenever a client asks you to show your portfolio, you'll have something to show to them. You won't be like, "Sorry, I am new and I don't have anything to show you right at this moment." No one likes to hire a newbie without seeing their work. So start building your portfolio.

Buy a domain, get a free server and you'll never regret the amount invested.

Use Register.com with the coupon code: Reg250tj to get a domain at a discounted price of $2.50

Also for free server use 20gbfree.com to host the domain. Its one of the best free hosting service. I have personally used it for a year before moving on to Hostgator.

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Share what you feel or if you need any tips..

Get a year of free Hosting and A free domain for a year

2012-10-16T01:36:00.003+05:30

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A Floating Share bar

2012-10-15T01:56:00.000+05:30

This one's just for my Blogger friends. You see all the nice floating "Share-bars" in blogs and have you ever wanted to add one to your own blog?

Well here it is!

I have added one on my blog and am just sharing the code so that you guys can get the same. I am posting this step by step so that it is easy to understand. But if you still have doubts, just ask via the Comments at the bottom of the post.

Go to Blogger > Template
Backup your template
Click Edit HTML
Click Proceed
Then Click Expand Widget Templates
Search for

<b:includable id='post' var='post'>

7. Just below it paste the following code:


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "static_page"'>

<style>

.mbt_social_floating{

    position:fixed; bottom:10%; margin-left:-60px; float:left;

    width:60px;

    background-color:#f7f7f7;

    padding: 5px 0 0px 0px;

     border-top:1px solid #ddd;

border-left:1px solid #ddd;

border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;

z-index:9999 !important;

border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;

}

.mbt_social_floating .mbt_side_social_button{

    margin-bottom:5px;

    float:none;

    height:auto;

    width:60px;

}

.mbt_social_floating .st_twitter_vcount, .mbt_social_floating.st_plusone_vcount, .st_email{

    margin-left:5px;

}

.mbt_social_floating .st_fblike_vcount{

    margin-left:5px;

}

.mbt_social_floating .stButton_gradient{

    background:none !important;

    height:21px !important;

    padding-left:0 !important;

}

.mbt_social_floating .chicklets, .mbt_social_floating .stMainServices {

    background:url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFInjY7ox0OxP25axDQ7Z6peSafV3sLep_zpvdFwq6tuIHXu84lkQdOuB_emLiG20evQirqEHIko5V3l_BKzf6mVRBvSrpwpYrUukeoQvvJydGXxVnvIzGRb3P8VMn2BMUkLxNj9ZbDvge/s400/gc_social_sprite.gif') no-repeat !important;

    height:19px !important;

    width:45px !important;

    padding:0 !important;

}

.st_email .chicklets{

    background-position:0 -77px !important;

    background-image:url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFInjY7ox0OxP25axDQ7Z6peSafV3sLep_zpvdFwq6tuIHXu84lkQdOuB_emLiG20evQirqEHIko5V3l_BKzf6mVRBvSrpwpYrUukeoQvvJydGXxVnvIzGRb3P8VMn2BMUkLxNj9ZbDvge/s400/gc_social_sprite.gif') !important;

}

.mbt_social_floating .st_twitter_vcount .st-twitter-counter{

    background-position:0 -58px !important;

}

.mbt_social_floating  .stButton_gradient{

    border:none !important;

}

.mbt_social_floating .stBubble_count{

    width:44px !important;

    font-size: 15px !important;

    font-weight: normal !important;

    padding-top:7px !important;

    height:23px !important;

    background:none !important;

}

.mbt_social_floating .st_twitter_vcount .stBubble_count{

    color:#00a6df;

    background-color:#f8fbfc !important;

}

.st_fblike_vcount{

    margin-bottom: 0px;

    display: block;

}

.st_twitter_vcount{

    margin-bottom: 3px;

    display: block;

}

.st_email{

    margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 3px;

    display: block;

}

.mbt_social_floating .stBubble{

    background-position: 21px 31px !important;

    height:35px !important;

}

</style>

<div class='mbt_social_floating'>

    <script type='text/javascript'>var switchTo5x=true;</script>

    <script src='http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'/>

    <script type='text/javascript'>stLight.options({onhover:false});</script>

    <span class='st_fblike_vcount' displaytext=''/>

    <span class='st_twitter_vcount' displaytext='' st_via='sarkar1990'/>

<div style='margin:5px 0 0px 0;'>

<center><a class='pin-it-button' count-layout='vertical' expr:href='"http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=" + data:post.url'>Pin It</a>

<a href='javascript:void(run_pinmarklet())' style='margin-left:-46px; width:43px; height:20px; display:inline-block;'/>

<script src='http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<script type='text/javascript'>

function run_pinmarklet() {

var e=document.createElement('script');

e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');

e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');

e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r=' + Math.random()*99999999);

document.body.appendChild(e);

}

</script> </center>

</div>

<div style='margin:0px 0 0 5px;'>

    <span class='st_plusone_vcount' displaytext=''/>

</div>

<div class='addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style ' style='margin:5px 0px 5px 8px;'>

<a class='addthis_counter'/>

</div>

<script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<script type='text/javascript'>

var addthis_config = {

     ui_cobrand: "MY BLOGGER TRICKS",

ui_header_color: "#ffffff",

     ui_header_background: "#0080FF"

}

</script>

<span class='st_email' displaytext=''/>

</div>

</b:if></b:if>

That's it!
Just replace sarkar1990 with your Twitter Handle.

If you are using self-hosted Wordpress let me know if you need a similar plugin made for you. But there are lots for Wordpress already, so just search for it in the Plugins directory.

The Beginning of a Journey to be Remembered

2012-10-15T00:21:00.000+05:30

So now that I have already decided to reach the $1500 mark, let's set a time frame. Say about 2 to 3 months. It will need some ass-kicking dedication and a lot of work. That said, I will now let you know what my current status is regarding online earnings.

MY CURRENT STATUS:

Current online income: $400 to $500.
Source of income: Freelancing as a Web-Developer.
Passive income: $0.

So, I am already pulling in around $500 per month. But let's say, with the way the market is trending it will not be enough to keep me afloat! :D

Now here's the plan of action I have thought about:

Work as a freelancer.
Simultaneously polish up my PHP and Javascript
Start a new website for providing Wordpress development services.
Make a few videos for promoting and post them on Video sharing services (will also contribute to link building).
Start developing themes and sell them on different market places.
Start building a few web-based apps and sell them

So, what do you think about this plan of action?

Let me know what you think, or if you have a few suggestions through the comment section.

A Fresh Start!

2012-10-14T12:52:00.002+05:30

Well, I am no more a student now. Finished college and now am working in Larsen and Toubro, Hydropower Department as an engineer.

Lots has happened after my last post. Phew, it has been a really long time since I made a post here. I had almost forgotten about it. So today, I thought, why not use this as a personal diary?

So I changed the blog description from "A perfectly lazy life of an imperfect Hostelite" to "Let's make some money online!".

You'll see hundreds of posts online in forums and other blogs, trying to sound all "Guru" and trying to sell you stuff. I don't know whether they have tried it out or not. However, I won't be selling stuff blindly to you.

SO WHAT'S THIS FRESH START ABOUT?

Well, I have chosen a goal for myself. I want to reach $1500 per month in online earnings. I'll be documenting what I am doing and will be trying to update this blog everyday. So if people who are looking for some inspiration to earn online, keep tuned in to my blog.

And give me your opinions and whether you are doing something and its working. SO help me out guys!
I'll reach the goal.. That's a promise!

Long Time No See!

2011-05-18T17:23:00.000+05:30

i guess its been a really long time since I submitted a post. But what can I d. The daily live is sucking the life out of me. However I have started two other Tech related blogs if you care to visit. They have the latest info on how to make your website or blog look more interesting and get more traffic. The links will be at the bottom of the post and do visit them, even if for my sake. Now moving on with my life, my Third year engineering is almost at an end and I will be a 75% Engineer I guess!
So anyways, here are a few updates from the time I last posted:

I am 75% engineer (almost so).
I learnt about a few cool stuffs and no, I can't tell them to you.
My exams are going on. :(

So that means this was just a short post and now, I gotta go.

Tech School Blog

All About Tech

Am So Bored...

2011-03-24T15:26:00.001+05:30

Is it only me or is it really so boring these days? It's as if there is nothing to do and still I cannot find time to blog. And now that I have some time, there is nothing to blog about. The World Cup quarterfinals between India and Australia is going on and here I am stuck in the Geo-technical Engineering lab taking readings for the past 1:30 hours...it seriously sucks big time. How I wish I was at home watching the World Cup on the big screen! Ah..but those are all wishful thinking, it won't be happening anytime soon. I really hope the Team India wins today. I really want to see them kick the asses of the Kangaroos...

Well the best part of the last week was the Oreo Cookie Cupcake made by Ashmita. They were so YUM!! If you want to check out the recipe or want to try making them visit her site: Heavenly Hearth You'll find all types of recipes and believe me they are scrumptious and awesomely delicious!

And another discovery made this week...we (read my college friends) have started idolising dogs all of a sudden! I mean seriously guys, if someone is sleeping, he's sleeping like a dog. If somebody is eating, he's said to be eating like a dog. Similarly there's studying like a dog, drinking like a dog...and so many other things like dogs...

I guess that's all for now.. Stay happy and stay great...just like dogs!

Followers!!

2011-03-15T16:27:00.001+05:30

Well, according to the stats of this blog, I guess it is going pretty good. And thanks to all of you guys coming here and reading it. Well the main thing I wanted to say today was about the necessity of followers. Without followers what would leaders be doing?

Leaders are created only because he has followers…now just think if there were no followers how could there ever be a leader? We had a subject called Entrepreneurship and Management…and as most of you will remember, all we talked about were how important a leader is. But we never gave any thought to the guys who were following the leader.

In short, the world needs followers, and we as bloggers are no different. The number of people following the blogs is sort of a status…and supposedly the more the number of followers the better the blog. Just think what would happen if there were no followers of the blog we write? We would go crazy and would have to comment on our own posts and then again find a suitable reply to it. As of now I have 9 followers who come and read my (its time to use your own adjectives like inspiring, weird, or whatever-the-hell adjectives come to your mind) blog and comment on it. Well there are many more who do come and read but never click on the follow button. It hardly takes two minutes.

All in all, we are all followers. I myself follow some pretty interesting blogs run by people with names such as Mithil, Ashmita, Simple Dude and Jumble Mash. I follow blogs which strike a chord with me and not those “specialty blogs” on things such as parenting, gardening or even the XXX kinds! In the end it’s just that we all need followers to stay sane.

So I would really like people to follow this blog. I wonder whether people will be more interested in following my blog if I offered them a bribe. After all I am not above bribery to support my fragile ego!!

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Reminiscing the Past

2011-03-10T20:40:00.001+05:30

I know it’s been a really long time since my last post, and how can I help? What with the colleges trying to suck the life out of me and then again the college internals to take the rest of my waking time…I seriously couldn’t get in the mood to write.

But just because I am not writing does not mean that I am not thinking, and the problem with us bloggers is that if the thoughts are not shared then it keeps on growing and growing till our head bursts.

Thus, breaking the radio silence, here’s the post.

Have you ever met someone suddenly after a number of years and even though you don’t remember his name you remember his face? Well let’s say that I get into this situation very often and most of the times it is really embarrassing as they turn out to be classmates till very recently (recently as in till my 12^th standard and I am a real sucker at remembering names).

Just today when I came back for a short visit to my hometown, I met a guy at the station and though I knew his face, I couldn’t really put a name to it. Well, I thought,” Here I go again…” and tried to sneak out of the station real stealthily. But when something bad can happen, it always happens… So this guy calls me by my name (why don’t they ever forget my name?) and says,”You remember me right?” And there began another day of embarrassment. We go out to the CCD nearest to us and then starting reminiscing the past and going down the memory lane. Meanwhile I keep trying to remember his name. I just go on nodding my head and saying,” Ya, do you really believe it happened.” Or “that was so funny dude” (though I really cannot remember his name). After an hour and half, which cost me 350 rupees, he asks me,” you don’t remember my name na?” and I was caught…I said I didn’t remember his name and all that guy could say was ”Chutya”.

He laughed, I laughed, then he left and so did I but I still didn’t get his name!

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And I Am Back!

2011-01-15T15:46:00.002+05:30

Finally, it’s over. My internship at Unity Infraprojects Ltd. is finally over. No more waking up at 7a.m. in the morning. No more sleeping at 11pm at night. Now, I can go back to my own lifestyle. I can again sleep till 1p.m. in the afternoon and go to sleep at 6a.m. in the morning. I can get wasted again and not worry about office while getting wasted. The only thing I’ll have to worry about is the hangover when I wake up.

How many times have you guys woken up to feel the hangover and then again drink to overcome that hangover? I can remember several…though in my case neither was the hangover because of alcohol, neither was its cure. In my case, it was either because of something green or something brown. In most case it was green.

By the way how many of you like getting totally wasted on weeknights?

So coming back to the topic…it’s time to return to my sweet lazy life!

Oh, how I have missed that laziness…doing nothing all day long, and doing something all night long…finally getting wasted and hitting the bed…sometimes waking up in the morning with almost no recollection of the night.

Or sometimes going on a movie-watching marathon...That was my life and I am going back to it!

Sweeeeeet!!!!

I am going to go “Green” tonight! Full on!

Ciao!

( p.s. the above has nothing to do with real life...it has no references to anybody dead or alive! so dont get the wrong ideas...whatever they might be!! :P )

ツ Monday Randomness

2011-01-10T14:52:00.001+05:30

Well Mondays are the days when I think about all the random things that come to mind during the week-ends.

Like I was thinking this Sunday whether Sunday is the last day of the week or the first day?

All my school days I had known it to be the first day of the week. When I was at my primary school I learnt this poem

Learning the days of the week can be fun.
Knowing from the first day it starts to the last day it's done.

Here is a way to remember each day;
Picking a day you would most like to play.

S is for SUNDAY, the first day of the week

M is for MONDAY, time for school don't over sleep

T is for TUESDAY, maybe a special day for you

W is for WEDNESDAY, half of the week is through

T is for THURSDAY, as you struggle along

F is for FRIDAY, it's time to play and have fun

S is for SATURDAY, ending the week

And we've learned all seven days not having to peak.
Again let’s say the days of the week;
If you do not rhyme you're on a hot streak.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
How proud you can be for learning each day;
Forever in your mind each day will stay.

By Berine

Now if that is true, how can you call Saturday and Sunday week-ends?

And if you consider it to be the first day of the week, why do you have a holiday on the first day of every week?

Now that’s some Monkey stuff...

The Bloody Crowd

2011-01-07T18:16:00.004+05:30

GOD! It’s so crowded over here.. Where you may ask? The answer is everywhere. Just look around you. All you'll see are people and more people. The trains are getting more and more crowded with each passing day.

Try polishing your shoes at home and then try to go from Andheri to Dadar. Before you know it, your shoes will get stamped and your ironed shirt will get crumpled. I guess if you wear a shirt right out of your drier, it will be ironed by the time you get down from the train.
Like for example, today I got my shoes shined at the Dadar station. And just as I turned around after paying the guy, some-bloody-one stepped on my shoes. I was like, " What the FUCK man?" And then I thought,"Shit, just my luck.."
I have to fight a war each day while getting on a train and even off it. No one has the patience to let the commuters get down from the train before boarding themselves. People start boarding the train even before it has stopped. And, so the poor people who are on the train and want to get down start jumping off the train before it has reached the station. That way they try to avoid the rush. I mean really.. What the hell? Only if they could just wait for the passengers to get down before they started boarding.

THE DOGS

But who'll wait. They see a train coming and suddenly all these "gentlemen" and "ladies" start behaving like a dog who hasn't eaten in days and is seeing a nice piece of meat

But who am I to preach? I am one of those hungry dogs myself. :-P

And so are you…

The Abominable Roomie

2011-01-06T10:59:00.001+05:30

Well as u know I am a hostelite. There are some perks of being a hostelite. But with these perks come certain disadvantages. One of these is the guy I share my room with. I dont know what's wrong with him but he seems retarded in some ways. One of his favourite activties is scratching, n I think u can guess where. I mean..really..he cares nothing about where he is standing or with whom he's talking..all of a sudden he just starts scratching. Yuck!

And that's not all.. Just the other night he wakes up around 4 in the morning and starts shouting at the stray dogs. And why? Because the dogs were barking. I mean..now if the dogs won't bark who will?? Retard..

Have you ever encountered some one even close to being as retard as my room partner? Well, i hope you never do..

Another New Year..

2011-01-04T16:24:00.001+05:30

another new year..and another set of new year's resolutions..
another bunch of high achieving targets which we can almost never achieve..
still..we write them..still we think that "this year i will complete this objective, that
i will reach the target"..and so on..
but y do we do it? the most that we do is to follow our target for a month (and thats the
maximum we do, i give up by the very next day)
and so i wonder..
does everyone have that substance in them? its very easy to try to change others.
but can we change our selves?

leave ur comments guys..
gotta sleep..my head hurts because of thinking so much..
Ciao!