Andrew Ooi

Yesterday was my last day of work and it was quite memorable. I got to have a ‘farewell lunch’ with my colleagues. I packed up my things and returned all the office equipment including my company tag id. Got my payslips and my last month’s pay banked in into my account. I even wrote a […]

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I have taught computer programming for more than 8 years. In that time, I calculate that I have taught over 1000 students. That’s a mind boggling number to me
Of course, the things I taught were just short courses on basic computer programming such as elementary Pascal, C, C++, COBOL, Java etc which typically […]

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This is A/Professor Andrew Ooi from the University of Melbourne. I am very concerned that you feel a need to knock me off the Google No. 1 spot I rightly dominate. If you wish to discuss face-to-face (so to speak) please call me on +61 3 XXXX XXXX
(I edited out the phone no. for privacy) […]

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My home Streamyx connection died on me and I have been able to get online from home for several days now. S
Tonight I’m outside of my house at a mamak stall using the WiFi connection there.
I hate to sit here in my work clothes late at night when I really want to be in […]

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My project manager tells me that they have 2 or 3 programmers coming in to replace me. It’s a good feeling that they need more than one person for the replacement.
However, I’ve yet to see the new guys (or gals). Since I’m left with only 8 working days, I guess I don’t have to give […]

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I found out from my wordpress dashboard that I’ve been linked in by 5xmom and found the article to be a tag.
I’ve never been ‘tagged’ before so this is a first for me. Hmmm thanks Lilian of 5xmom. So here goes..
Eight random things you do not know about Andrew Ooi:
1) I got robbed at knife […]

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For a blogger there are two types of income - Active or Passive
For my current thousand dollar experiment I’ll categorise the income channel this way.

Active
Passive

PayPerPost
Google Adsense

Sponsored Reviews
Text link ads […]

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On April this year I carried out the Thousand Dollar Experiment and successfully reached RM1100 in a month. Of course that was cheating a little as it was in Ringgit Malaysia not in actual US Dollars. Still it was a happy result which proves making money online isn’t all that difficult.
This month’s Thousand Dollar […]

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I’ve taken notice of what I do everyday. It’s going to be the last I will remember of a full time job anyway. I actually put in more effort in completing a bug fix and try to finish it in record time. It will be easier in the transition phase to handover my tasks to […]

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My boss didn’t read my blog and fire me. I QUIT !!!
This ‘frog’ is no longer in boiling water!!
I’ve handed in my resignation letter on Friday 29th June 2007. Technically I’ll be ‘out of the boiling water’ on the 31st July 2007. It feels liberating to be free but daunting as well in anticipation […]

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