Monthly Archives: May 2008

05/29/08

Earning Cash from Domain Name Investment

Despite the impending common tests, I’m only going at three-quarter pace for revision. The remaining quarter is stuck at my domain name investments.

I’ve managed to sell a few domains at more than twice the cost price on Ebay and I guess that has spurred me on. Right now, I’m looking for ways to get easy income from my portfolio of more than twenty domain names. And it seems I’ve found a way.

At least I’m achieving another of my goals of the life list. But the revenue generated per month is still short of my ideal amount. Please do not ask how much I’m earning because honestly I don’t know.

Firstly, the income stream is too unstable to warrant proper accounting. I’m just focusing on the inflows and outflows of cash (cash-basis, not accrual-basis). Secondly, I’m a Ebay-addict. The moment I see money coming in, I immediately do some shopping on Ebay. Thirdly, perhaps the most honest reason of the three reason, I’m just damn lazy to do calculation (especially when I have to retrieve invoices, receipts from my email, Paypal and Ebay).

Now, on the topic of common test. To my readers, the common test is a relatively important set of exams, which consist of around 20% of the final score.

Modules to be tested:

  • Cost Accounting
  • Auditing 1
  • Intermediate Financial Accounting
  • Financial Management

Thus far, I’m slowly covering two modules to be tested within the next five days, of which I’m confident in. The other two that will be tested in the middle of next week, give me the jitters. Both are memory-intensive.

Oh well, no point talking without acting. All the best to me and those who face the common test. May the will of the dragon be with you.

Logen L. (Sandaime Dragonkage, Head of the Dragon Clan, Member of the Legendary Elder Yonnin)

05/24/08

Happy Belated Birthday to Me

I turned 18 yesterday. I’d like to thank all those who wished me Happy Birthday. And I truly enjoyed the simplicity of the day.

To my classmates (a.k.a. villagers of the HIdden Vilage of The Dragon), thanks for your surprise at the Alumni with the Birthday cake. I haven’t been blowing the candles for my past years. Anyway, I think all of you sung the birthday song too loud. It made me so paiseh (embarrassed).

To Zhi Wei, thanks for the $1.50 out of $4 treat for my prawn noodles. Hahaha. To Horace and Jing Yi, no thanks for singing me the Pirates of the Caribbean theme while I was shitting in the toilet.

To my parents and sister, thanks for the pizzas and the company. That’s about it.

Please donate to the China Earthquake Fund.

Logen

05/22/08

Beings of Different Worlds

Your innocent eyes brings me profound misery. It is as though you have wrenched my beating heart with those graceful fingers and forced it into an over-small box.

The misery so profound because we are beings of separate dimensions and I’ve had the misfortune to fancy you. While in proximity we can be close, our hearts are separated by a heavy veil between each dimension.

Somehow, I hoped and believed I could challenge the laws of this world but I was stupid. I awaited the day you’d utter my name with the fevour of those who pray. It never came.

I’m a pathetic fool who is in love with you. I’m a dirty animal that you should rightly scorn because that is how it is. And I’m an idiot to leave myself vulnerable by trying to love.

Logen L.

05/22/08

To Conquer My Fear of Cockroaches

I’m still afraid of cockroaches. But so long as they stay away from my house and keep a distance of two metres away from me when I’m out, I don’t mind their existence. As for the flying ones, I prefer to extend the distance to one kilometre.

Why am I talking about this all of a sudden? I had previously mentioned using NLP to overcome phobias. I wanted to rid myself of this fear by the age of eighteen. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to (considering that I have less than three days).

I have let loose on my reins of time and haven’t been reading up on the NLP books I gathered. In oher words, I still lack the fundamentals to work NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) to that level. You will have to wait longer to see the results.

Logen L.

05/19/08

Juggle Ebay, Ninja Training and School Every Week

I’ve been in an entrepreneurial mood this past week. I’ve been doing a lot of selling on Ebay and have some successes. To test the market, I opened an Ebay Store. Hopefully, I can reach my target market and sell some more domain names.

Consequent to my obsession with Ebay, I’ve neglected some modules and have been putting off revision for the coming Common Test. Okay, this is nothing new. Remember last year?

Aside the business dealings that is eating up my time, I’ve recently started ‘ninja training’ on Wednesday and Friday evenings. I can honestly say, despite this I do actually have slack time if I don’t laze around. But my time management sucks.

Sighs…

Logen L.

05/17/08

Of Masks and Sorrowful Fate

Everyone lives to challenge the fate foisted upon them. But some of us will suffer more because the cost of challenging that fate is higher.

Why do we do it then? The cost of not challenging it is worse off than dying.

Till the final battle, whereupon I lose the ties of friendship and even kinship. This is where ambition and destiny intertwines…

Logen L.