I am actually giving me a 1 month goal starting from now, the goal is that I need to earn USD$1000 in a month. This is actually to earn an extra money and also to test the water on how to make USD$1000 from USD$0 without nothing on hand.

I haven’t figure out the plan and method on doing this, what in my mind now is that if I am able to make this extra money in a month, then there is no more difficulty for me to make this amount any after. I am getting exciting about this project, I got the time, I got the strength for this, the only thing to stop me is the experience because this is the first time I do this.

And yes, end of next month, I will provide a simple report on the result, whatever the result is.

I am getting very excited now, one of my favorite game all time are going to release on Jan 28,2010, and without a doubt, I have pre-order this game on Play-Asia.com, an online game store located at Hong Kong, I think it is the best source to buy game online if you are in Malaysia.

Dragon Quest VI

This is it, I played this game when I was 12-13 year old, and I still remember how I was playing this game without any sleep in few days. It was released for Nintendo Console that time and I bet you all remember how expensive it was and also the game tape. I spent around RM250 to buy an original game tape, imagine how big the money is at the time 1998(I can eat around 150 times with the money).

Ok for the old story, and yes, I pre-order the game today, it is releasing for Nintendo DS, and I am glad that I know it before it release, because I got a pre-order discount + a discount coupon for this. I can’t wait to play the game, so I pay extra shipping fees to make sure that I got the game within 4 days, hopefully it will deliver to my house 1 day after it release.

I am highly recommend this game to anyone who like to play game or RPG. You can buy the game on Play-Asia.com just like me. Reminder: take some time to google for discount coupon, there are lots out there.

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Starting a Design Blog in Chinese will be the no.1 project in 2010. There are so much blog about design, web, blogging, freelance and so around the net but I rarely found a similar blog in Chinese, so I was thinking why not to start 1 myself? It should be really fun write something what I am passionate with, and share whatever I have learned in this few years and so to all the people who speak Chinese.

How to get it work?

I am reading articles about all these field everyday and I have bunch of idea to write, to blog with. I don’t think this is really that hard at the moment.

At the starting point, I am going to use a free WordPress theme, and of course it is well design, readable, and usable. I won’t spend too much time on designing a unique theme at first as I want to really focus on the content. I will write a lot before it launch, and upload it on a schedule to make sure the continuity of the blog. I think something new to read in every 3-4 days would be nice.

What’s in the blog?

Some of the categories filled up in my mind is tutorial, inspiration, design trend, showcases, a little bit of freelance,  and what I really love – CSS. All these are still a simple sketch in my mind and it won’t be too much different at the end.

So what now?

I am still researching, I don’t even think of the blog name yet, so everything is just at the beginning stage, stay tuned.

It is a very exciting project and I am going to make it work!

Today, I received a fake mail from UPS manager, telling that they failed to deliver my parcel to my address, and want me to pickup the parcel at the post office. It require you to download and print the attachment for the shipping label.

Funny is that, in the email, it say please do not reply to this e-mail because it is an unmonitored mailbox. Now the UPS manager is telling he is crap.

Do not open this email or even download the attachment, it is virus filled!

I have tried a couple of day using iCal on Mac, similar to Google Calender, which help you to organize your schedule, telling when you need to do this and that. First off, this seem good to me as it can help me organize my daily task, I know what I am going to do in what time, but the fact is, this kill my daily productivity.

I am extremely low productivity when I was using a schedule for my daily task. It was an alarm clock keep on warning that it is time to start to do something and you have to finished it before sometime as there are still lot of tasks waiting in a minute or an hour! OMG, this is suck, I can’t really concentrate on what I am doing but keep on counting the time like a human time tracker.

Then I give up this application and focus on 1 app for my task management which is Things, a To-Do list apps, you can list all the task you have to do, come with a due date management and scheduling, yes, a scheduling function, but unlike iCal, it help you to schedule some repeating task like jogging in 3 days a week, from Wed to Fri, then the app will pop up the task on the specific day for you.

The reason why I like this app is because it tell you what you have to do rather than tell you when you need to start doing this and how many hour remaining. I can more concentrate on my task and more relax when I performing.

This post is short, I will show you the simple step how I get things done.

1. Have Enough Sleep, So you will wake up earlier and have more time.
2. Make Your Schedule, well organize will improve your lifestyle.
3. Use To-Do List. So you know what to do.
4. Write your note. So you won’t forget something.
5. Clean your workspace, less distraction.
6. Listen to Music while you are working. Music, not rock song or any other which you make you dance with.
7. Don’t watch TV while you are working. You will forget there is a off button on your remote control.
8. Don’t chat while you are working. I am pretty sure you won’t stop after all.
9. Ask some one to help you, if you really out of time.
10. Last one, is simple, DO IT!