Andrew Ooi

I’m on holiday in Cameron Highlands and when I checked using the free WiFi hotspot at Tanah Rata, I saw that I could already cashout my November Google Adsense earnings.

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Currently in Cameron Highlands for holidays.

In Tanah Rata - my Uncle’s house.
This is a real fireplace!

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Finally!My Advertlets cheque arrived. It was in an envelope with the HSBC logo on the top left hand side.
Interesting that Nuffnang and Advertlets both use HSBC as their bank to pay their members.
Ok the comparison continues. So far, Nuffnang’s income is double that of Advertlets. Since I cashed out at the same time, as comparison, […]

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Even with the terrible performance I got for my previous Ebiz1 (RM 199/year) shared hosting account, I’m going to stick with Exabytes. To date I have 3 Ebiz1 and 1 Ebiz Gold(RM 399/year) account with them. Out of this four, only one has given me a bad experience. However after the upgrade from Ebiz1 to […]

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I’m excited! Payment is already made for the eBiz-Gold upgrade. Previously I was hosted on the RM 199 a year eBiz1 package.
However it’ll take about a day before the transfer is complete - according to Exabytes email I received just now.
I read this from LiewCF.com before about checking your neighbours. Although I have no […]

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After I’ve turned off all the plugins that may have been CPU intensive and shutting down another blog, it’s indeed stressful to get another warning email such as this from Exabytes, my webhosting company:-
Hello Andrew,
Please be informed that the domain maribelajar.com which is hosted under our Linux server has been again found to overload the […]

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Isn’t it funny after the last Google nuke on PR that nobody has asked this question?
I for one am pretty eager. I saw many newcomers get PR3 and PR4 from brand new websites. I think this is because they got a high PR link and almost no outgoing links. I come to this conclusion because […]

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I was surprised to get this cheque in the mail.
It couldn’t be from Nuffnang because I just received from them.
It couldn’t be from Google Adsense because I’ve switched to Western Union for faster payment.
It couldn’t be Advertlets (still waiting for it) because the amount was 20x more than what I expected.
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I purposely cashed out my Nuffnang and Advertlets income on the same day over a month ago. I just wanted to see which cheque would arrive first.
Looks like Nuffnang is first! My Advertlets cheque of RM 100 have yet to arrive.
Here’s my first ever Nuffnang cheque:-

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Nothing is more disconcerting than logging in and seeing your website has been suspended.
This happened to me yesterday on my www.maribelajar.com domain. This is the second time this has happened. That domain is hosted on Exabytes EBiz1 shared hosting package that costs RM 199 per year. It’s cheap and therein lies the problem with shared […]

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I want to make money and survive purely from blogging. Problogger wannabe! Geeky as that may sound, there is such a thing as a professional chess player. Can you imagine that? Making money and to survive just from chess.
I wanted to interview this Woman Grandmaster from China known Zhang Jilin to find out what […]

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This is what I’ve observed with bloggers who took a long break and came back to the blogosphere. They would make a post saying why the blog has not been updated for a long time and then promise to catch by blogging more often. Then, as expected they go missing for another long period of […]

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Currently at Concorde Hotel Shah Alam witnessing a chess game where one woman GM is playing against as many as 56 participants at once.
WGM Zhang Jilin giving a simul to 56 junior players. Participants are quite strong including Yeap Eng Cheam and Yeoh Li Tian.
Puteri Rifqah Fahada and Puteri Munajjah
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I’m the unofficial reporter for chess tournaments in Malaysia. Right now I’m at a major chess tournament between ASEAN youth chess teams. It kills me when I cannot blog about it because of the lack of Internet connection.
I am currently staying at the Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam to provide coverage for the event via the […]

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