There is news reports saying that Jet Li bought a condo at Armour Park and migrated to Singapore with his family – his wife, and 2 daughters. He is attracted by Singapore’s famous and successful education systems.
I wonder, his daughters will be studying in local schools or those international schools? Maybe one day when you are shopping at Orchard Road, you will see Jet and his wife 利智 also jalan jalan there at Taka?
Warning: Video in Mandarin
Open my gmail and saw a mail from Josh, same title as the one he sended out few days back, “Advertlets.com – We’re Sorry”. Initially I thought it was a repeated email. Upon reading it, then I realized it was about their compensation plan to bloggers, about their recent domain name cock-up.
Here is the details:
Hi Advertlets Members,
Some of you may have noted this over the past few days, but we wanted to make sure before notifying our members. We’ll like to officially announce that we are fully back online now as DNS servers internationally have now resolved. Hence, all issues regarding the code have been resolved and you can reinstate your Advertlets Ad units.
However, if you have problems accessing your account, please contact info@advertlets.com. We noted that some members have misspelled e-mails (eg, gmial.com), so please ensure that your e-mail address is entered correctly for us to validate your account and contact you if needed.
We understand that the recent service downtime caused much inconvenience, and we aim to make up for it. As our Singaporean members might have noticed today in The New Paper, we have announced our compensation plan. As compensation for the recent downtime, you will earn an additional 10-20% extra on top of all legit earnings the month of January. The amount will be calculated at the end of January, and credited within the first week of February.
The ratio of the percentage increase will be based on the duration of time you have been with Advertlets. Members who have been
with Advertlets longer, will receive a higher ratio. We hope that this is a suitable compensation for the downtime period faced, and hope you can accept this as a sign of our commitment to not repeat mistakes, and to continue to deliver better service in future.Hence, we advise you to reinstall your ad code formats as before to maximize your earnings from Advertlets. Just as a general guide, the maximum number of ads you can place per page is 4. Here are notes on our ad formats, to help you optimize your placements. They are arranged in the order of which will bring you the best results when placed on your blog, most optimal ad formats first.
-165×240 (Sidebar ad, to be placed high up enough the page to be visible without scrolling)
-336×280 (Best between blog posts, or after posts in the comments section)
-468×60 (To be placed on top of the page, good for those with international traffic)
-180×150 (To be placed inside posts, sidebar, etc)In addition, we will have more campaigns in the next few days to blogs, as well as a new premium ad format (720×90) that will deliver better earnings through its prominence and placing. The new ad format will be part of Advertlets 2.0. Please contact us if you would like to test out the new ad formats together with more exciting features such as earning graphs, trend monitoring, social features and more.
Thank you. We look forward to delivering you a better blog advertising experience. Please contact info@advertlets.com or myself at josh.lim@advertlets.com if you have any questions in future.
Regards,
Josh Lim
Advertlets.com
My earning from Advertlets has been very very little since start of 2008, like what I said here. They said it is due to the contract expiry of previous advertisers. I got the feeling that, even with 10-20% more, it is still very very little. But I shall see what happens at the end of this month…
Girls, time to learn to be a good wife! I just can’t stop laughing……
Just saw it. Finally, this trailer gave me the “Stephen Chow” feeling!
31th Jan, hop over to JB for <<CJ7>> in Cantonese!
I admire this mother-of-two man! She got the unique idea, and she did the research, even though it may be embarrassing. Then she put it into action, and now she is selling the product! Though it is not a big big business, but, it is a good start right?
So, do you need this dictionary? You can make an order, from UK, Brixham though.
Orgasm mum’s Ahh to Z of sex
By JOHN COLES
Published: 08 Jan 2008
A SAUCY mum has written a dictionary of sexual orgasms – claiming she has identified more than a HUNDRED different kinds.
Karen Manning, 41, hit on the idea after quizzing her pals about their sex lives.
Entries in her A to Z include the Quickie, the Oh My God . . . and the Ceiling Scraper.
Blonde mum-of-two Karen, who has sold 500 copies of her £7.99 guide in Brixham, Devon, grinned yesterday: “Every orgasm is different so I started taking notes and describing them.
“The research for this book has been a lot of fun.” She claims the ultimate orgasm is one called the A+.
Among the rarest is the Electrifying Orgasm – which leaves the body shaking.
The In-Flight Orgasm – also known as the Mile High – is “achieved while in an aeroplane lavatory,” according to her Orgasm Dictionary.
And the PA Orgasm Broadcast is defined as “an orgasm that is accidentally broadcast over a PA system”.
Karen said of her own experiences with husband Nick, 41: “We’ve always had a good sex life.”
Source: Metro.co.uk, The Sun.co.uk
She is a doctor some more!. I wonder, if the cost to engaging her will be higher, since Japanese are also kind of idolizing angmoh stuff!. But, with the thick thick cosmetic on the face, we can’t really tell if she is a angmohor not…
An Australian woman has become the first non-Japanese geisha to debut since the ancient tradition began.
It took more than a year for Anthropologist Doctor Fiona Graham to be granted permission and another year in training but she has finally made history, becoming ‘Sayuki’.
The former Mount Waverley school girl is the first foreigner to enter the 400 year old sisterhood.
‘I am honoured and I also feel a huge weight of responsibility,’ Sayuki said.
Sayuki headed to her debut wearing a $21,000 kimono, dressed in silks and sashes and her face painted white.
‘The make-up takes me a long time because I am still working out what is most flattering,’ she said.
‘And because obviously I am white. The make-up wasn’t designed for white faces,’ she added.
Her interest in the culture and traditions started when she was just 15 on an exchange trip to Japan.
Sayuki now spends her days learning the geisha arts – bamboo flute is her specialty.
At night the geishas go to banquets and entertain customers.
Despite misconceptions, the geisha world has no link with prostitution. Geishas sell their skills as entertainers, not their bodies.
Ms Graham will earn about $315 for a two hour engagement, which includes serving food and sake to guests, entertaining, dance and music.
But classes can cost up to $1050 a month and the cost of a new kimono could pay for a car.
Ms Graham said she wants to explain the geisha world when she leaves, and will film her experiences over the next year.
It is certainly a long way from a Melbourne high school.
Source: Sky News
I do believe that LOVE and HATE are the same. They are just, of opposite directions…
I received and email in the afternoon from Nuffnang. It is about their about-to-launch Gliterrati Cub. This is said to be a exclusive club for Nuffnangers who have no others ads from other South East Asia Oriented ads networks, except Nuffnang’s. Well, I am not going to explain more on this club, you can just go over to HERE or HERE to read the details. (Don’t worry, you will not be re-direceted to some parking sites!)
Upon receiving this, immediately a question came into my mind. It is very common that bloggers nowadays have more than 1 blog, some even have more than 10. Let’s say I have 5 active blogs registered with Nuffnang under same publisher account. Then, all the 5 blogs must be clean from other South East Asia Oriented ads networks, except Nuffnang’s? If I keep 4 with Nuffnang and 1 with, say GrabMyAds or Nufflets or Advertlets, then I will be kicked out from the club and become a Non-exclusive member. Am I right? Actually I have replied Nuffnang’s email with my question to Ming, but haven’t got any reply yet. Anyone can answer my question?
Something I found funny from that email:
Dear Nuffnangers,
Today Nuffnang has successfully established itself as the blog advertising market leader in both Malaysia and Singapore. As such we have also faced increasing pressure from many of our loyal exclusive Nuffnangers to enact an exclusive program, rewarding them for their loyalty.
We have always kept it as no secret that we often give priority to our exclusive Nuffnangers in everything from community events to even the serving of ads.
However with the establishment of the Nuffnang Gliteratti, we have now crystallized these benefits as part of our community policy.
Please note that the Nuffnang Gliterati will take effect automatically from the 13th of January 2008.
To view the benefits of being a Nuffnang Glitterati, click here.
Best regards,
Ming
Co-Founder
Nuffnang.com
You guys notice anything? The name of the club was actually mentioned 3 times in this email, but all with DIFFERENT SPELLING. I wonder if they guys are sure which name that they are going to use? As for my title of this post, I follow what I saw from their official site.
I tried to access www.friendster.com to check something. However, I encountered this:
This is strange. Are they undergoing maintenance? I doubt so. Normally if there is maintenance, there will be a notice put up on the main page rather than just this “HTTP/1.1 Service Unavailable”.
I asked a friend to try from her home, she encountered the samething.
What happened to Friendster? Anybody knows?
Edited: knn, just after I posted this, the “Temporary Maintenance” page appeared…….
Took a look at ping.sg in the morning. 5 out of the top 10 most popular articles are about Advertlets. You don’t achieve this often, right?
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