Have you noticed the changes in your blog’s landing page? I was not lucky with current update. This blog’s PR is down from PR2 to PR1 and my kids blog too down from PR3 to PR2. Not that I’m surprised with the results. Lack of update, no link buildings for months, link ads, paid reviews, etc. could be the reasons. Anyway, never mind! There always be another update. Hope I’ll be lucky next time and hopefully I don’t need to wait too long like this one.

So how’s your PR going? Good? Great? Terrible?

Theme setting

There’s still some Christmas feel in this second style though, notice the RSS and mailbox icons? Will find time to change that later. The template also came with its PSD source file so I might play around with it too later if I had time. Oh I so love this template!

Anyway, how’s your holiday? I know it’s kinda late to ask that but I do hope you all had a great holiday like us did. Though not all of our plans worked out, we still could enjoy it. I will make a post about it later when I have time, right now I’m still struggling with my office schedule. You what happens after coming back from holiday, right? Work, work and more work everyday!

Our Christmas theme color for this year is blue! We had “Blue Christmas” too last year, so we actually “back to blue” theme. But last year there were not so many blue items I could find, or like. I did not even have enough blue ornaments for our tree and had to combine them with silver. I also did not really like the blue clothes for my kids, but got no choice so I bought them anyway. That is why I decided to use blue again this year.

Now is much better. Last week I already bought several new blue ornaments to be added to our tree along with blue candles, blue toys for the kids and blue clothes for all of us. My hunt for blue items ended today with a new set of blue table mats, napkins and some other items for our dining table that will match to our blue dinner set from last year.

Having a themed Christmas is fun! It also save my time and money. Instead of trying to buy every single cute thing available in the stores, I only need to focus on the ones that match with my theme color.

Some new blue Christmas ornaments I bought last weekWhat's your Christmas theme this year?

We are going on vacation this Christmas – New Year holiday season, and I have been planning it for weeks now. Normally I would avoid airplane travel during holiday season, especially if I am going with family and kids. Higher ticket price, more airport crowds, longer check-in queue and some times more delays are some of the reasons I prefer to go somewhere within driving distance during peak season.

This time, however, I notice that my kids have not gone anywhere throughout the year. The last time we had vacation was last New Year holiday at a resort in Puncak, West Java, which is about two hours drive from home. After that we have not had any family trip again, even during the long school holiday on June-July because I got to go to London for office work. That makes me feel that I owe my kids a great family vacation before this year ends, so I plan to bring them to a new place away from home, probably abroad. Hence we got to use airplane this time.

I have not chosen our destination though, got three options: Bali, Singapore or Manado, and I already booked our plane tickets to those 3 places since last month. I still need to sort some things out before I decide where we are going to this holiday. Once decided, I will issue the tickets as soon as possible, and will make a post about it! Good thing that my company own a travel agent, so ticket and hotel bookings are relatively easy tasks for me, even during peak season.

Our destination options for this New Year's vacation

So for now there is nothing much I can tell about our vacation plan yet, except “We are going on vacation!” All six of us: me, hubby, two kids (5 yo boy and 14 months baby), my mom and our nanny.

I was so lucky I didn’t have to spend much time searching for a new theme. I saw this free Christmas theme last night, and fell in love with it instantly! Though it’s kinda “old” since it was made two years ago, so some of the latest WP features were not included. But I love the colors very much! It’s my favorite Christmas color, maroon! Looks beautiful and makes me feel so festive

I may need to do some tweaking later though, to make it works the way I want it. Or maybe just leave it like this, after all it’s only for a month!

Have a nice day everyone, thanks for stopping by

If you see the pictures one by one you’ll see they’re actually telling a story and my mind started to create one just for me…

It happens on Halloween… there’s a ghost trying to scare and steal candy from little kids. The little kids later tell Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby about what happens. Of course the Mystery Inc crews will say there’s no such thing as ghost so they decide to investigate the case.

Can they solve the mystery? Is there really a ghost? See the rest of the pictures to get the answer…

Have a great Halloween weekend everyone!

5th payment from Cashtream $5.05
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I also got my 1st payment from Incentria, not much only $1.03. Incentria along with its sister site, Clicksia, have been paying their members for over two years, so they’re reliable sites. However, their daily earning is ridiculously very low, so I think I’ll stop clicking there.

1st payment from Incentria $1
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5th payment from CashnHits: $7.06
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CashnHits is a trusted-over-a-year-paying Aurora site, so like most Auroras, the click rate is lower compare to Bux sites. But the good thing about Aurora, which suits my condition right now, is you still get earnings from your downline even if you’re not actively clicking. Bux sites, on the other hand, require you to click in order to get earnings from your downline the next day. If you miss clicking today you won’t get anything from your downline tomorrow.

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Anyway, now that I’ve received it! Will I use it? Well… tempted! I always wanted to know how Adwords works, this could be a great opportunity to learn  about it, and it’s free!!! I never turn down any free offer.

But err… why only $45? How long you think it would last? A day? A month? An hour? Besides what should I advertise? I don’t have anything to sell as of now. So I think I’ll pass on this one… 

Letter from Google

Anyone interested? I’ll give the code if you promise you’ll give a comprehensive report about the results later.