Its been sometime since I updated! I’ve finally graduated from University of Melbourne and Free from study life (at least for now)!

So what I’ve been doing?

• Exams, exams, exams..
• Japan trip!
• Graduation

Now they’re All DONE!

All that’s left is Christmas and New Year. Looking forward to 2010 and hope it’ll be a good one.

What is your New Year Resolution?

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If you’re an online shopper like myself, often I get the “insert coupon code” before clicking “Pay” button.

Being on the frugal side, I always search for a coupon codes at CouponChief, Retailmenot and CyberMonday, to name few others. Somehow, I always find myself ending up at CouponChief.com because of the huge number of coupon codes they have to offer.

I’m not sure how many coupon codes they have exactly, but it’s somewhere close to 40,000 coupons for over 8000 stores. Now that’s a LOT, if you ask me.

I did a mini test comparing Coupon Chief and Retailmenot to see if I could get a cheap Dell laptop (I’ve been considering buying one for my Japan trip). So I popped over to Coupon Chief and searched for a DELL, and out came the coupon codes.

Amazed? Yep, me too. I was even surprised they had a 20% off coupon code for the (Product) RED Dell with 24 inch display. The (Product) RED models were always no discount! Retailmenot had lesser coupon codes

Another thing I like about CouponChief is the easy navigation system. The search bar is huge, and the interface is very clean and tidy. very easy to navigate around with. The interface is clean and color selection is easy to the eyes. At the front page, you get a featured stores list and popular codes they have to offer.

I know, i know..we’ve seen all these in other coupon sites like Retailmenot and CyberMonday. So what’s so special about Coupon Chief? If you haven’t noticed, Coupon Chief is constantly being updated by an active community. At the time of writing this, Coupon Chief had a new DELL coupon offering free shipping for all Alienware laptops. I did a quick search in Retailmenot, but there was no such coupon code available. Under every coupon code people can leave comments to help future coupon seekers. A very important way to ensure codes are always fresh and updated. However, most of the coupon seekers may miss this because the of the font size being too small. Coupon Chief if you’re reading this, increase that font size!

Like any other Coupon code website, CouponChief offers a way to submit your coupon code. You can choose to sign up as a user or post your codes anonymously. Being able to share coupons instantly without registering first is a great feature. Check out this Save My marriage today review too if you’re at it..

That’s not all! By signing up as a member has it’s own benefits. Coupon Chief pays you 2% percent of sales they make if someone buys using your code. Yes, it’s that cool and it’s called Pays-2-Share. Imagine sharing your DELL coupon code and make $35 for every $1800 laptop sold. Does that sounds like a nice way to earn some passive income?

Overall, if you’re an online shopper finding for ways to save money, make sure you visit Coupon Chief first before hitting the “Pay” button. Most of the time, there is a coupon for you. The website has tons of coupon codes for stores like Sony, Amazon and BestBuy and it will only get better.

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Well, I haven’t been blogging much lately. I had many things to sort out lately. So apologies goes out to everyone who reads this. If you don’t come by often then subscribe to the feed! (it’s on the right lol)

Lets start somewhere from where I left off.

Sydney was alright, it was my first time there. There were lots and lots of weird people in Sydney, but lately I’ve seen quite a few popping up in Melbourne (trams especially). I don’t know what’s wrong but most of what I see often speak out what goes on in their head. More on that later. Sydney’s public transport fee is CRAZY. Maybe because I was travelling on the airport line frequently (kinda stupid, should take the bus instead) but it was the quickest way there. Me and Jos ordered pizza, and my name on the order screen was BEEF. Sad enough, when the pizza was ready, the Dominos guy actually called out my ‘name’, “BEEF”. What the heck? Is he retarded? I sense racism… Overall, Sydney was alright. Nice view.

I’m busy planning Japan trip, but I think we got everything sorted out. Now need to make sure everything works out for Ken. According to, JTB, they don’t offer tour to their local people so that Might be trouble for Tama-san. By the way, the girl at the tour agency was quite pretty. Japanese girls rox!

Coming back to weird people, I was on the tram, and this guy was so impatient he was speaking his mind out…saying how he’s pissed at the tram and how he couldn’t stand being in the tram. Funniest part….he was stomping his feet because he can’t wait for the tram doors to open. Weird guy…and he looks pretty young. 25-ish. For those who want to learn something, check out Google Sniper.

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Before I dwell further with my review, here’s a WPWebhost 30% discount coupon I’d like to share. Use “DAVIESLIM” for instant discount off any hosting plan.

One of the most important things overlooked by new bloggers these days is a quality web hosting.

How do I know? Because I’ve made nearly every mistake in the book. I didn’t do my homework so I suffered the consequences.

About WP WebHost

If you’re thinking of moving from Blogger or Wordpress.com or plan to change your current hosting provider, you should have a look at WPWebhost. They are giving away free domain name when you sign up to their hosting plan which costs only $5/month (or $3.50/month with my WPwebhost coupon code). WPWebhost is a young web hosting provider made by and for Wordpress users. Not many web hosting provider has a blog, which is why I think WPWebhost.com is unique as well.

Best of all,they provide WordPress support. I’m talking about exclusive Wordpress support. Which means, if you have any difficulties or problem working on your WordPress website, you can contact them directly.

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Before, I was still with my old web hosting provider and I wasn’t ready to migrate to WPWebhost, so I sent an email the support team. They replied almost instantly and gave me all the details I needed. First an auto-reply email to confirm the ticket number and within minutes I had a proper response. Here’s what it looked like.

I sent a few more questions and they gave me enough information for me to proceed with their hosting plan. Basically I needed to upload my backup to their server along with the Wordpress database and proceed to change the nameservers for my domain name. Sounds pretty confusing? Don’t worry, the support team guided me through everything in minute basis so the transition was smooth as silk.

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Questions

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Other web hosting provider such as Dreamhost charges around $9.95 and they have a reputation of overloading their servers with many websites thus slowing down the performance overall.

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- Everything will be self explanatory after that! Have fun!

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I consider the third module very valuable as it takes you through the process of upgrading, backup and optimizing your RSS feeds with Feedburner. What I like most about this module is how to submit a post with Windows Live Writer, giving everything to you on a silver platter
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I’ll tell you how to make your IntenseDebate XHTML valid on Wordpress by modifying the plugin code. I’ve been using IntenseDebate for quite a bit now but it never passed the XHTML validation service. I got annoyed and solved it pretty quick.

- Login to your Plugins section and find IntenseDebate plugin.
- Choose Edit the plugin button.
- You’ll be given the .php file of the Plugin, just scroll down to almost the end of the file to locate the code as shown below.
- (Or you can Ctrl+F and search for this “idcommentsreplace”)
- Replace the ID=’idcommentsreplace’ to CLASS=’idcommentsreplace’
- Repeat for the rest of the ID tags, as shown below:

Modifying the php file

return "
<span class='IDCommentsReplace style='display:none'>$id</span>$comment_text
<span class='IDCommentPostInfoPermalink$id' style='display:none' >$permalink</span>
<span class='IDCommentPostInfoTitle$id' style='display:none' >$posttitle</span>
<span class='IDCommentPostInfoTime$id' style='display:none' >$posttime</span>
<span class='IDCommentPostInfoAuthor$id' style='display:none' >$postauthor</span>";
}

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This time Anberlin’s back in Melbourne for the 2nd time this year and it was brilliant. Although I’ve seen them at Soundwave 09,why not see them live another time? I didn’t bother remembering the setlist but most songs were from Cities and New Surrender. I thought they should’ve given us a better encore. I always think a slow song doesn’t end the night proper. Nobody wants to feel sad thinking it’s all going to be over once these guys finishes the song.

Alright Update with the Set List they played that night.

Resistance
Disappear
Breaking
Adelaide
A Day Late
Paperthin Hymn
Inevitable
The Unwinding Cable Car
Hello Alone
True Faith (cover)
Dismantle.Repair.
Godspeed
Feel Good Drag Fin (encore)

tall guy.

Why don’t tall guys at gigs realise that they’re just too tall for the crowd. Of course, everyone would like to get a close-up view of their favorite band but it’s nice to always consider the crowd behind. Tall guys pretty much get a better view from the back anyways! If I were in his shoes I’d just pick up a short girl by letting her stand in front of me for the night instead of her standing behind sweat-filled t-shirts. Uber score.

with my so-so camera skils

Almost the end.

Brilliant show, wished they played more songs. I bought the first two albums from the merch shop, 20 bucks each, pretty decent!! Hope to see them again real soon!

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Soundwave has been an annual thing for me so I won’t be missing out in next year’s event. Ticket sales for early bird tickets start this week but not much information is released. I’m guessing it’ll be out on Friday. (checked out, turns out I’m right) I should be in Melbourne on the 26th Feb 2010 for the event but I’m contemplating whether to go to the Sidewaves/sideshow or Soundwave event or both!
Bands that I look forward to are:

AFI
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
ALEXISONFIRE
PARAMORE
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE

So happy that AFI will be coming!!!! I missed them the last time they toured Australia in 2006. Waiting for their new album release, Crash love, out sometime in September.

The 2010 lineup includes:

HIM
FAITH NO MORE
JANES ADDICTION
TRIVIUM
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE
EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
THE GET UP KIDS
ANTI FLAG
REEL BIG FISH
MESHUGGAH
ALL TIME LOW
A DAY TO REMEMBER
IT DIES TODAY
ESCAPE THE FATE
CLUTCH
ISIS
GALLOWS
A WILHELM SCREAM
THE WEAKERTHANS
EMAROSA
ANVIL
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
COMEBACK KID
DANCE GAVIN DANCE
FOUR YEAR STRONG
YOU ME AT SIX
WHITECHAPEL
THE AQUABATS
ROLO TOMASSI
BARONESS
RX BANDITS
THE ALMOST
THE CREEPSHOW

Early bird details as follows:
Brisbane: Wed 26 August – 9am (Brisbane local standard time)
Sydney: Thurs 27 August – 9am (Sydney local standard time)
Melbourne: Fri 28 August – 9am (Melbourne local standard time)
Adelaide & Perth: Sat 29 August – 9am (Adelaide & Perth local standard time respectively)

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