I may have outgrown my Sims2 but there are times when inspiration strikes and before you know it, I’m clocking into my Sims2, ready to murder one of my unexpected sims.. hahaha.. I certainly love to watch the ghost of the dead sims wander around the house and create havoc in their way.. At least I didn’t create loads of affair with more than one sim like my younger sister.

I had thought that Seasons would be their last expansion pack but I was amazed when I login into their website and saw their latest development. They have created another wondorous expansion pack, Apartment Life. Looking at their screenshots, it looks very, very tempting. But I’m not sure my computer is up to any more expansions. As it is, its chugging like an overload donkey trying to load the game up. Perhaps when I get myself a new gaming computer, then I would decide.

Anyway, my friend was telling me the other that she’s trying Orovo detox to slim down. I’m not sure of the result since she haven’t update me on it yet. I do however intend to call her up later next week to see if she manages to detox and slim herself down.

I was watching today’s tv programme, Small Spaces, Big Style. It’s about making small space constrained apartments into a spacious place with a little dollop of style. The ideas that was implemented and introduced by these ingenious architects are certainly worth the credit. It’s amazing to see small apartments, the size of my living room, into a stylish and spacious area without changing any of the foundations.

The trick to this I realise is organising and making use of every space that you have, even up to the small corner of your closet. I intend to use every bit of their advice and steal a little bit of their ideas to transform my messy place. It’s TOO small to be a room especially when the kids crashed over for the weekened. I could barely walk without stumbling onto their sleeping bodies.

Anyway the little star that pulsed in my mind, was this episode when they showed how a flat screen plasma tv is mounted on a wall. It’s not dead fixed and mounted onto the wall, but the mouting itself could extend and swivel 180 degrees. It is fantastic! I loved the whole idea…

In fact, I’m intending to purchase one of those plasma mount.

Reporting live from a local cyber cafe. It’s packed with kids that mostly wishes to run away from school work and the reality of life.. Or in my case, catching up with my work. The internet is down and I’m now rushing to get my work done and getting the latest dosage of my internet life. Amazing what internet does to normal people, makes us into internet addicts.

Right, for a price of RM 1.50, I get to get my fast speed internet, 20″ TFT LCD monitor, a set of blasting speakers, 5hp air con that is currently blasting in my face and a not so comfy chair. Its been throughly used that what once used to be a great seat is now left with a small amount of comfort with amazingly good back support. But I somehow felt a bit dwarfed by the chair I’m in… I’m not surprised if I suddenly found myself asleep.. Hehehe

It’s been an extremely busy and tiring day for me today. Accounts review is up once again and I’m being made to check and rectify any mistakes and unbalanced accounting. After 3 mugs of piping hot coffee, eyes strain and migraine throbbing, I near to the point of combustion. Nearly popped my head off when a colleague of mine informed me that our stack of Thermal labels which I had bought last month had finished.

This mean, I have to pause my work, leave a note for the person in charge to take note of the finish stock, get the approval from the Royal Majesty for the funds to buy the labels, pass the info back to the stockist and then return to my accounts.

A job that was suppose to be done within the day is now stretched to the next! Ugh.. just not my day.

As much as I like to have my current template design on Ramblings of Zackire, I’ve decided to scrap it out the moment I get a new design on my mind. It’s a huge mess with jumbled ads here and there and flying bugs crawling into the website and making a mess out of everything. I’m still going to continue having a 3column design template but with lesser ads and less junk.

I’m going to do my late summer clean up even though I’ve done a clean up session on Jan this year. I’m getting bored with black and pink, a total pain in the eye. I think I’ll settle for less color and more shelving space.

Wordpress is not being cooperative on me at this moment which is why readers can’t see any image of pictures on this site. I’ve downloaded and uploaded the root directory of the latest update on Wordpress more than three times even up to the point of deleting everything except the wp-content files from the server. Yet, my work is to no avail, the pictures still insist of showing me the HTTP Error when completion of uploaded pictures.

The Advertiser Read Me policy guide will be updated and those who are affected will be notified by email when its fully online. For the ease of readers, useless ads will be deleted, banners will be cut and smaller ad banner sizes will be used instead. This is to make sure that the downloaded time to open Ramblings Of Zackire is cut to a shorter time.

Hmm.. what else? I can’t decide yet, but the moment any new ideas danced my way, I will update you guys later.

Until next time! Thanks for your unending support.

Zackire a.k.a Syikin

Last Sunday, I went out for dinner with my darling, which was why some complained I didn’t return their calls and sms. As if my six days per week devotion to work and family is not enough, must sacrifice my Sundays along.

So anyway didn’t do much except walking around at Sungai Segget area which my darling still haven’t had time to explore due to his busy schedule. Had dinner at Vivo restaurant in City Square which I will never step foot again. The food was horrible, my fish and chips were too oily and you can see the fish is still soaked with oil. The Oreo cheesecake was too bland that I didn’t manage to finish it (surprise.. cheesecakes are usually my favourite). I’m not going to bother talking about their service. It’s terrible, really terrible.

Anyway I decided to end my curiosity in the old shopping mall that used to be a hit with the locals about a decade ago, Kota Raya. Unfortunately for them, they still remain that old nostalgic feeling and the ambiance and design is still sadly, 15yrs ago.

Even though the place is old and never have once be redecorated and reconstructed, I was quite surprise to find recipes book written by well known chefs like Chef Wan in the almost dilapidated bookstore. But since the price was quite out of my budget, I left with an unsatisfied feeling. I need to get that Chef Wan recipe book!!

It’s getting a little bit difficult in driving traffic to your website, be it for advertisement case or just to have readers becoming a fan of your writings. We have to endlessly sign and insert our websites in all the blog directories; new and old directories. It’s a tedious job but its rewarding when I see my monthly statement from PayPal.

The cycle of driving traffic to your website doesn’t end there. We have to constantly promote our website by including our links in all our forums that we are in, emails and comments that we leave, hoping their curiosity will drive them to our site. But in some cases, rare cases, when I am too lazy to promote my website, I’d just indulge in advertising my website in one of those PTC or PPC advertising campaigns.

Some of the advertising rates are very good while some can get very expensive. However just because we paid for our clicks and visits doesn’t really guarantee our contents being read since these clickers are just interested in getting extra cash from PTC and PPC as they are only paid 1cent for each click. So in order to ensure that I get my unique visitors and hopefully get them to read whatever is written, I would ensure a minimum of 15sec timer be included in my PTC and PPC advertising campaign. This is also to ensure that my system doesn’t crash down on me when all 10,000 clicks are being processed within the hour.

If you are lucky, make sure to get a campaign that you can dictate how many visits and clicks can be processed within each day, so that Google doesn’t sniff you out. Google is currently sniffing out those that are using PTC and PPC and link exchange to drive traffic and increase their PR.

Luckily I’m still in their good books. Hopefully they won’t sniff me out, I’d hate to see my monthly income being dragged down to the gutters by them again. One time is enough to make me extra cautious. (I’m still having a grudge on them for blacklisting my old site and zapping my PR3 site to PR0.. Grrr..)

The PTC and PPC ad campaigns cost can differ, depending on the targeted countries, timer and other specifications. I usually would search for anything that cost below my budget of USD7.00 for 10,000 clicks. USD7.00 for 10,000 unique visitors?!! It’s not impossible my dears, what you need is just Google search engine and constantly pick and choose of advertisers.

You want to pay for the cheapest and the best in town, then you have to survey around for it. You’d be surprise that the best sometimes are listed in the 15th to 20th pages of Google Search Engine. I’ve done it and it works like a charm. The best deal I’ve ever gotten was USD1.50 for 10,000 clicks and I received around 300 to 500 visits from the advertising website per week. As long as it doesn’t crash my website and get my weekly dosage of readers, I’m fine with it.

I used to pay USD8.00 for 500 unique visitors but ever since everything became expensive and my online income wasn’t as impressive as the previous years, I’ve decided to get a better deal. If anyone wishes to know what advertisers I’m using, feel free to contact me.

Ever really wondered what does a reputable company such as Johnson & Johnson does to make their products consumer wanting? It all lies in their company structure and dividing their departments to delegate the correct jobs to the right departments.

I was surfing through their website since I happen to be fan of their Johnson & Johnson Milk Bath product. Apart from their well manufactured, R&D and QA products, they happen to have well structured backbone, pharmaceutical companies, to oversee all the matters pertaining manufacturing, R&D and QA of all their products.

I was even quite shock to know that they have a branch called B.I.O. (Biotechnology, Immunology & Oncology). They are targeted to develops traditional and biologic medicines to treat autoimmune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and Crohn’s disease; a wide range of cancers; and blood disorders, such as anemia.

Amazing… Simply amazing!

And here I thought they only make shower foams, medication creams and Hydrogen Peroxide.

I was surfing through Digg.com for my usual dose of news, tech updates and gossips. There are alot of news that captured my attention and some of the lucky ones will grace the topics of the day on Ramblings of a Vamp. So anyway, this particular insert was too catchy and reeled my interest since the article that is written about it is about the myth of  sizing up the size of your man’s penis with his height, hands and feet.

Quit blushing will you! We are all adults here and I bet most of you readers are as interested as I was when I read the article. While there are many opinions with some old wives tale regarding sizing up the men’s asset by their height, hands and feet, this article is about to clear up the nonsense.

As much as we women love to get everything in one yummy package (brains, brawns, Kah-Ching, yummy-licious, etc) sometimes we tend to forget that not all people are perfect. Just because the man is tall and yummy-licious body doesn’t mean that he is equipped with the best assets in town. Or by looking at his big hands, you’d assume that his item is as thick as them.

Wrong! DON’T fall for those old tales. There are reasons why there are old wives tales.. these old women were to free until even that topic they had to gossip amongst themselves. Ehem.. So back to the topic at hand. Studies have shown that measuring the men of his asset based on his height, hands and feet are absurd. 1500 men has been volunteered to conduct these studies and initially the research came in with a difficult bout since they couldn’t decide whether to measure the penis when it’s flacid, erect or stretched. (I’m clueless on this issue since I’ve never partook in any pre-marital sex before)

I know that many men are worried about their lengths and size. Worry no more my darlings! Biologically speaking, a woman’s vagina is only 4 inch long so no matter how long you are, I’m not sure your women partner would appreciate having her uterus shoved again and again. As if menstrual crams are not enough…

Though, I did say most women doesn’t worry about the men’s asset, some are quite particular about it. Therefore it’s up to you men to come out with creative ideas to please your women.

Cheers to all men!

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I am not a golfer and I can barely differentiate between a birdie and a boogie, let alone give a proper swing. I’m no Tiger Woods nor am I Vijay Singh. I have been brought to a few golfing galleries to accompany my uncles or my friends and while they are doing their picks with the different leverages and weights, I kept imagining great ways of clobbering my irritating siblings with the golf sticks.

Don’t look at me as if I’ve lost a nut! I do not have an ounce of golfing education in me and I will never understand why anyone would swing the stick to see the ball fly ( I would of course understand if they imagine the ball as their hated nemesis, it would give great satisfaction to swing at them).

Ehem.. So there are times when I did bring some souvenirs from companies, mostly my customers, which surprisingly are golf balls and their tees. I had opted to use the gold balls for missiles at my siblings but considering they will get a hole in their head, I left the balls to my cats. At least they used it as a yarn ball.

Just because I am a lost cause in golf, doesn’t mean I do not know which shops to go and whom to recommend. If I’m not wrong, Callaway golf clubs, is a good place to get your golf clubs and swing like the pros.

I remember those days when I was in secondary school. I was one of the common people, never mingle with the IT groups and always sticking to myself. The library, canteen and the computer lab are my solace from the “weird world”. In my third year, the current principal was so nice and outgoing that she created a relax corner (I’ve forgotten the name). I was equipped with a piano, electric guitars, TV and a mini amphitheater.

That became my next on the list.

Although I was quite common, unfortunately I got famous for all the wrong reasons. Not only did my peculiar looks (I have fangs mind you…), impressive feminine contours, I was also a well known ICE Queen. While almost all the girls were flaunting off and flirting at every ‘cute’ looking boys that comes their way, I was busy glaring off those idiots that dare to cross my way. Some unlucky creatures managed to have my footprint imprinted on their body parts.

While the gals were enthralled by feminine items like foundations, mascara, top wrinkle cream, etc.. (don’t look at me! I don’t know why wrinkles-less young girls want to cream their face with it), I was happily devouring latest information on the technology world, literature writing and indulging most of my past time in watching animes.

Even though I was not the IT group, I do however know the latest gossip of the gals since my good friend happens to be one of them. Hehehe… And it so happen that everytime they need some technical help about their computer or software, they will approach me.

Hmm… come to think of it, my secondary school life was very boring. Very, very boring…