What’s Your Phone Story

landline-phone.jpgWe do have our landline in the living room. Since we just moved in to this flat a few months ago, we have not really accessorized it that much yet and since we don’t usually use the landline, we thought that we don’t need other phone in other rooms. So anyway, when I am in other rooms and the phone rings, I run to the living room to answer it and most of the time I get mad because the calls I am getting are not really important. Calls such as those from telemarketers really ruin my mood.

Do you get such calls? Prank calls? You can visit www.reportphonenumbers.com and share your experience about unwanted calls there. That particular site allows you to comment about calls from certain numbers letting the other readers know what to expect from those numbers. You can also just visit the site and read about people’s phone call stories. You might just learn from them.

My Perfect Size

When we came here last June, I was like size “6” because of the overeating we did in Austria. It took me almost four months to get back in shape and it was difficult. When I did some shopping last Monday for the Austrian Party, I was relieved to learn that I can fit into size “4” dresses again! And it is not like I am forcing the clothes to zip up. It was really easy for me to fit in them.

I lost weight. From 55 kilos, I am now only 52 kilos. That is 3 kilos in less than 4 months. How did that happen? Well, I don’t go to the gym and I still sit in front of my computer most of the time when I am at home. I do go out every day for my class so there’s a little bit movement activity there but I don’t think that that did it.

I think it is because I don’t eat that often. I don’t eat breakfast and lunch because I am too lazy to prepare something to eat but I do eat a sandwich during our break in the afternoon then I also eat a small dinner.

I was initially size 0 then within a year and a half, I became size 6. For me, size 0 is unhealthy, size 2 is too thin, and size 4 is perfect so went I went over size 4 I panicked. I needed to do something immediately. Now that I am size 4, I am quite pleased.

I Am that Kind of Shopper.

I didn’t attend my German class yesterday. The reason to this is because I needed to shop for a dress for the Austrian National Day Party which was held yesterday evening. Initially, we agreed to go there in our traditional Austrian clothes but Marcus dress.JPGchanged his mind. So yesterday afternoon, I was checking a lot stores one after the other hoping to find a dress. It was not fun! In fact, it was a total stress! I cannot do shopping when I am constantly receiving calls from Marcus asking me if I already found a dress or not! Gosh!

The party was hosted by the Austrian Embassy and I will tell you all about the evening next time. Right now, I want to talk about yesterday afternoon.

So yeah, I hated the fact that I am given such short time to shop. I do have other clothes for evenings like this but they’re all in Austria so it was like…. I find a dress or Marcus and I won’t go to the party and the second option is a no no because Marcus is dying to be there to mingle with his fellow Austrians.

You see when I buy something; I make sure that after I bought it, use it, wash it, I still view “it” as pretty. And I can use “it” again in other occasion. So I need time when shopping especially if I also have to find other things like shoes and accessories to go with “it”. Plus I also try to find something that I think my husband will like specially if he is paying for it.

Thought on Loans

In my point of view, it is great that people can easily get loans. It is great that even those who are into a huge financial trouble and bad credit history can apply for some sort of loan. This system has  big benefits but what makes it bad is when people are not being responsible about it.

People should think that when they get themselves an online personal loan, a mortgage, payday loan, car loan, or others, they are actually capable of paying the loan back. One should never borrow more than what he can pay back within the agreed period of time. Otherwise, this great system of loaning people money when they  really need it will eventually crash.

So the next time you apply for a loan, think that there is also a responsibility attached to it.

Block Unknown Numbers

I was awakened last night because our landline kept ringing. I thought to just pretend that it doesn’t bother me and that I am sleeping soundly so my husband will answer it but turn out that my husband had thought  of that too. After several rings, I was not able to take it anymore so I decided to just answer it myself. Who the hell will call at such an unholy hour?

It turn out that it was just a prank call!

If anyone of you have encountered the same problem, know that you can do something about it. There is this thing called “reverse phone lookup” and this allows you to track unknown numbers that call you. With this service, you can then know if the number is important or not thus allowing you to block unimportant numbers. NationwidePhoneLookUp.com is available in US and their database has more records available than virtually any other service around, tipping the scales of running a successful search heavily in your favor. Visit their site now to learn more.

Cold Season Just Started

For the last three days, the weather here in Shanghai is really bad. It is cold, smoggy and we are getting rain showers every now and then. They said that autumn is here in Shanghai but I can’t see it anywhere just yet. The temperature is low but the maple trees are still green. I wonder how “Century Park” will look like when all turns to autumn colors because until now, it’s all just green. And the temperature switched from 27 degrees to 15 degrees in just one day. Three days ago, I am going to my class in my usual T-shirt/jeans combination but now, I can’t leave the house without a thick jacket.

September to late October is I think the best time of the year in Shanghai. Temperature is perfect in this time. It’s not cold but it is also not like you go outside and sweat immediately like it was in the summer.

I’ve heard that the cold season here is not long. That’s something I like because, if you remember, I really don’t like it when it’s coldI had always cursed Changchun for having long winter months. I remember writing about how I hate winter several times.

Dressing Up to Rave

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What is Page Rank?

To simply put it, Page Rank is being used by Google to measure the importance of you page (blog). It is from 0-10, 10 being the highest. If your blog is new, you normally have a PR of N/A of PR 0. This is because there no other pages linking to your blog yet so it’s best to exchange links (Blogroll links) with other people.

There are a lot of articles written about Page Rank already and I cannot explain it better than the others so I am not about to write another article about it instead, I will direct you to the best definitions of Page Rank. The simplest and most comprehensive definition I can find is here but if you really want to go in the details and the formula of how Google compute a Page Rank of a page, you may read it here.

When you plan to use your blog to earn some money, it’s important to understand Page Rank or, at least, have an idea of how it works. The reason why a lot of advertisers pay bloggers to write about their products and link to them is because they want to appear on the top of search results. In short, they want to manipulate the search results and that is of course NOT OK for Google. It is also important for you to understand that Google is against selling links and sponsored posts. These ruin Googles’ search results so if Google thinks that you use your blog for sponsored posts or link selling; it will give you a PR 0.