Another way to increase your website traffic

I fould out there is 7 place where you can add your URL to top 7 search engines to help you increase your website traffic.

Google
Yahoo Site Explorer
MSN Live Search
Alexa
DMOZ
Entire Web
Scrub The Web

Good luck!

How to Increase Google Page Rank

Recently I am really concern about my Google page ranking (most people called it PR). I found that my PR status is really not good at all. Hence, come my search on this topic. I found a lot of website providing explainations on Understanding and Building Google Page Rank, and How to Check, Predict & Increase Google PageRank (PR).

The best tips I found out about to increase Google PR is by this 5 steps:

1. Join forums
2. Submit to search engine directories.
3. Using ezine ads (or newsletters).
4. Creating and publishing articles.
5. Links from related websites.

Read more on the above 5 steps click here.

As a blogger myself, it also useful to know that blogs can have high PR too. And why blogs can have high PR. Also great to know what problems you might have with blogs and PR. All this information I found it here at Global PR Blog Week 1.0

Sigh...I really hope that my PR rank will improve soon.

Blogs Do Make Money Community

This is my official first time joining a blog community. As simple as it may be, I am really noob at setting it up right at the beginning. Haha.... Well, I do not which to explain what silly thing I did, anyway this community I just joined is called "Blogs Do Make Money Community". As the title says, you already know what it means. Everyone is welcome to join if they like.

Click here to join

I love PPP

In another few days time it would be one month since I started on blogging for PPP. By the way, if you don't know what PPP means, it stands for PayPerPost a wonderful place where you can start earning money just by blogging the things you love. There are many sites like PPP, but what I like most about PPP is you get to choose which post/advertisement you like to write about. Unlike many others "pay you to blog" site, PPP has a wide range of advertisers who a willing to pay a lot for you to blog about their offers/items. In another description, PPP provide you the opportunity to write sponsored content.

In just 2 weeks time, I easily earn about US$ 70 and I actually didn't spend much time blogging it. And I only did eight post all together so far. If you are hardworking, you can earn double or triple times more than me. And the post I took is just paying a normal range. They also offers above US$ 100 range paid per post you wrote. So it is definitely a good grab. Another thing I like about PPP is they have special offer each Tuesday. The offer can be a lot of money for just one post you can earn US$ 1000. So far, I wasn't fast enough to grab those fantastic good offers. I hope God will bless me with it soon.

Updated post

Today I have updated the "Benefits of fruits & vegies" post.
This updates is a more complete A-Z list.
Come check it out at http://amidrin.blogspot.com/2007/08/benefits-of-fruits-vegies.html

Tea's benefits are color-blind.

The below article is taken from msn health & fitness. Written by Andrew Weil, MD, is a pioneer in the field of holistic health and founder and director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Arizona. He received his medical training at Harvard University.

All colors of true tea—which only comes from the Camellia sinensis plant—make especially healthful beverages. The lightest leaves, green and white, are minimally processed and, in general, retain more disease-protective polyphenols and other antioxidants. But darker teas contain healthy theaflavins, which form when their polyphenols ferment and turn orange red. (Teas brewed from herbs, such as peppermint or ginger, aren't considered true teas, but they may contain antioxidant properties.)

Research finds that regular tea drinkers are at lower risk of cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis—and even bacterial and viral infections. Experiment with different teas and try to drink 4 cups a day. You can cut back on caffeine by pouring boiling water over tea leaves and letting the mixture stand for 30 to 45 seconds. Then drain the water and brew normally. This removes much of the caffeine, which is very water soluble, but leaves the more durable polyphenols.

Black
The color refers to the leaves; the beverage is deep amber. Black tea varieties include Darjeeling and Earl Grey; flavors range from spicy to flowery.

Benefits: May lower risk of heart disease and colon cancer; inhibits bacteria that cause cavities and bad breath.

Green
If you find the flavor too "grassy," try jewel green matcha, and Japanese sencha.

Benefits: Has been shown in numerous studies to help prevent many kinds of cancer, lower cholesterol, and boost immunity.

Oolong
Midway between green and black tea in color, flavor, and antioxidant action, oolong has a fresh floral or fruity aroma.

Benefits: Drinking 3 cups a day can help relieve itchy skin rashes.

Pu-Erh (poo-air)
This dark red tea has an earthy flavor that reminds me of coffee and tobacco. It's considered a delicacy in China (you can purchase it online), where its processing is a highly guarded secret. The most oxidized of teas, pu-erh is said to mellow and improve with age, like wine.

Benefits: May reduce cholesterol.

White
Rare and expensive, this least processed tea has a flavor that's quite subtle.

Benefits: Contains more antioxidants than other teas. Test-tube studies show that it blocks DNA mutations (which trigger tumor formation); a study on rats discovered it prevented precancerous colon tumors.

Perfect Brewing
Dark Teas: Heat water to a vigorous boil.

Light Teas: Heat water just to boiling. Pour over leaves in a tea ball or strainer, 1 teaspoon (or tea bag) per cup. Steep just long enough to develop color and flavor, but not long enough to become bitter: 4 to 5 minutes for white; 2 to 5 minutes for pu-erh, black, and oolong; and 1 to 3 minutes for green. One pound of tea yields about 180 cups of beverage.

Is both coffee and tea really good for your health? Does it matter which one you drink?
Evidence for the health benefits of tea greatly outweighs that for coffee. Tea, especially green and white tea, is the source of some of the most powerful antioxidants known.

Japanese researchers have learned that women who drink at least 5 cups of green tea each day cut their risk of dying from heart disease by about a third. Their study followed 40,000 healthy adults for 11 years and was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association last September.

Black-tea drinkers also appear to enjoy similar protection. Researchers from University College London subjected a group of volunteers to stressful situations over 6 weeks. Those who regularly drank black tea over that time period reported feeling calmer than those asked to drink a placebo beverage with the same amount of caffeine. Tea drinkers also had lower levels of cortisol, the stress hormone that is thought to play an important role in heart disease. Be aware that adding milk to tea interferes with its antioxidant activity.

As for coffee, a 20-year study of more than 100,000 people reported in the journal Circulation found only modest benefits to the heart. My advice: If you are a coffee drinker, try substituting good-quality tea for some of the coffee you now consume.

Everything goes with Yogurt

I grew up not liking to eat yogurt in my yourger years. It was only until about 5 years ago that I started to really indulge in eating yogurt (low fat ones of course). As for now, I love having yogurt as my breakfast or snack. Sometimes, even supper because it is low in calories. It is packed with lots of calcium, vitamins and mineral benefits. Like Vitagen, yogurt is good for you digestive system too.

Do you know that yogurt can goes with everything? You do not need to eat it just by it own, but you can use yogurt to have a lot of mix combination of healthy food. Here I found out a few creative ways that you can try out. It's yummy!

Fruit smoothie: Combine 1/2 cup nonfat yogurt with 1/2 cup diced ripe fruit, add one or two ice cubes, and puree in a blender.

Yogurt shake: Blend 1/2 cup fruit-flavored frozen nonfat yogurt with 1/2 cup low-fat milk until creamy.

Cucumber dip: Peel, seed, and dice a large cucumber and combine with 1 cup plain nonfat yogurt, salt, pepper, and chopped fresh herbs. Serve as a dip for vegetables, a dressing for salad, or a sauce for fish.

Mild salsa: Mix 1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt with 1 mashed ripe avocado, 1 diced tomato, and chili powder to taste. Serve as a dip with tortilla chips and a sauce for enchiladas or hamburgers. Vegetable sauce: Mix plain nonfat yogurt with minced fresh dill and chopped cashews.

Garnish: Top cold cucumber soup or vichyssoise with plain nonfat yogurt and minced chives.

Things come in FIVE

FIVE thingy tag comes from LemonJude.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:
1. Ehon’s Rojak’d Life
2. Rinnah
3. Giddy Tiger
4. Leah
5. Kiasumum
6. LemonJude
7. Amidrin

Choose 5 people to tag:
rin-en
firethorn
YL
Amy
louisphotography

What were you doing 10 years ago?
Started studying in Stamford College in collaboration with USM.

What were you doing 1 year ago?
Working like crazy

Five snacks you enjoy
Double Decker's Prawn crackers
Twistees
Dried Guava
Potato chips
Cheezel

Five songs that you know all the lyrics to
Unfortunately, none that I can recall.

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire
Stop being employed
Investment (money grow money)
Charity
Go holiday once a year
Shop till I drop

Five bad habits
Hard to wake up early in the morning
Don't like to drink plain water
Sleep too much sometimes
Forgetful
Lazy to eat dinner

Five favourite toys
Computer
Handphone
Zigsaw Puzzle
Cube
Cards

Five things you like doing
Playing computer games
Reading
Spending time with my love ones and Jojo
Shopping
Blogging

Five things you would never wear again
Hot pants
Uggly floral printed blouse
Checked pants
Cardigan
Large flower printed dress

Home Improvements

Many people likes to go to Ikea store which sell a wide range of housing ideas and needs. I, myself also likes to go there sometimes just to view the many beautifully displayed and demo ideas for your home. With the many variety, you can mix and match to cater for your wildest imagination of how you want your home to look like. For those who are thinking of having home improvements ideas, it would be great to be able to look for a high quality home improvement service company to help you model your home instead of having to go through the traffic jams and crowed in those housing store by yourself.

If you are residing in the UK, you can obtain the high quality home improvement service through Anglian Home Improvements. They have Double glazing, uPVC Windows, uPVC Doors, Conservatories, Rooftrim, Driveways, Garage Doors, Garage Conversions, and the one you can't missed, Kitchens home improvements.

Dear God, Please Make Me Rich

I was watching The Oprah Winfrey Show on the Hallmark Channel last Saturday. Well, the synopsis advertisement the day earlier cought my attention about the featured star Matthew McConaughey, Eva Longoria and Bon Jovi. Hence, I did not miss out the opportunity to watch the talk show.

Last Saturday topic was about how these three celebrities go the extra mile to help the Hurricane Katrina victims rebuild their lives which their homes has been wrecked by the disaster late 2005. This happened in New Orleans, Louisiana.


Matthew McConaughey gave up his lovely 1971 Chevy Stingray Corvette by putting it up for auction on eBay to raise money for Oprah's Angel Network. The money he raised was being put to used by building a playground for the evacuees whom they were relocated. Eva Longoria helped out by volenteering for yard duty. In the show, I saw her helped a lady plant her garden in a freshly new lawn in the lady's new home. Bon Jovi with his band donated US$ 1 million to Oprah's Angel Network for building a new neighbourhood for the victims. The new neighbourhood was called Bon Jovi Boulevard. To make the new home recepient (which were the Hurricane Katrina's victims) feel even happier, he personally deliver their new house keys to them. Those houses were fully furnished and customised according to the receipient's number of family members. For a family of two with a mother and a son, their new home will have a master beedroom, and a bedroom designed for a male child - with study desk, school supplies and all. They might have done it out of the reason for publicity or such, but anyhow what they did is already very much better than the many rich rich people out there. But I think their effort is mostly sincere and true because they don't need this kind of publicity as they are already very famous. Ever seen Paris Hilton or Britney Spears do such charity? Nope, I don't think so...

If you missed out watching this on The Oprah Winfrey Show, you can check out this link http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200609/tows_past_20060920.jhtml

Following their footsteps, I really wish I am rich. Not just rich, but extremely rich to make the big difference in helping those in need. Just like what Oprah is doing. Ok, I know this dream is a bit extreme and it won't going to happen. I want to be able to help out financially and contribute in making the fund well spend by putting in the sweat and tears of building/ rebuilding what is needed. I want not just going to be able to help out physically but also financially. What a big dream I have here... haha... Don't worry, I am not crazy. I know it is impossible for me. Dear God, please make me rich so that I can donate more to the needy. I want to feel this sense of satisfaction which I have never felt before in my life. Well, maybe I can start with something small like donating a small sum monthy to support the WWF ?

My National Day Holiday

Want to know what I do during our 50th Malaysia National Day holiday? Well, there is nothing much difference than my other normal weekends. Just feel happy that I got one day off on Friday because of the public holiday. Ok, without further ado, here's my this year National Holiday summarized journal starting from 30th Aug - 2nd Sep.

30th Aug (Thu): It's Merdeka eve... I am working as usual. My company social committee organized a Traditional Costume Compertition. We were all encouraged to wear any traditional clothing to work but I did not show the enthusiasm to it. As a matter of fact, there is only one or two out of the 20 staff in my department who actually participated in it. It would seem kind of weired thing to do in this situation... Anyway, I never even thought of participating. So, why bother. I was extremely busy with my work. While most left the office early after working hours for the celebration, I was left alone working like crazy in the office. I was the last to leave at 10:15pm and have to lock the office door. Reach home have my dinner (or should I say supper) at 11.15pm. Feeling tired and goggy but could not sleep yet because stomoch full so, watch a Japanese series drama on VCD until about 2am. Body really don't feel well. Had some tingling sensation on my hands, face and head. Just like the time I was sick after taking the penicilin type antibiotic. After 2 months still feel like that sometimes. Probably I took the milk tea during lunch time it triggers back the symtoms. I tried to sleep that night but just couldn't because of my health condition that time. 3am wake my mom up to ask her borrow the blood pressure monitor. Found that my blood pressure is normal but I feel not well. Hold on going back to the hospital and see how is my morning condition.

31st Aug (Fri): Wake up 7.30am... Body feel ok. Just tried to sleep longer but couldn't. So wake up at 8am, brush teeth, have breakfast and watch the Merdeka day parade on the TV. It has been ages long since I last watch the Merdeka day parade. I don't usually wake up early to watch it. This time was unplaned for. While I was watching the show, my memories of my participation on the Merdeka day celebration came back to me. I remember I was in Form 4 that time. My school was chosen to participate on the formation of the 38th Merdeka day logo on the field at Dataran Merdeka. Only 2 clases 4Sc1 & 4Sc2 were allowed and compulsory to join it. I was in 4Sc2 class. We had hard time practicing everyday and best thing is we got to skip classes with apporvals. Dispite having to stand in the hot sun, it was a very memorable event for me to be able to participate in the 38th Merdeka celebration. Well, that's my thoughts the whole morning on last Friday. This year 50th Merdeka celebration was a much bigger event compare to the many previous years. After my lunch that day, I had a nap from 3.30pm - 6pm. After that, went to Pasar Malam near my house to buy dinner with Ald. At night, watch TV and go to sleep.

1st Sep (Sat): Wake up 10.45am. The whole day just stay home watch Astro and a Chinese movie on DVD. The Chinese movie is quite nice to watch. But I forgot the title. New movie not on cinema yet... hehe... I also spent some time checking e-mails and blogs. I have a lot of time that day but don't feel like blogging anything. Time just pass by so quickly while I enjoy myself laze around the house the whole day.

2nd Sep (Sun): Just spent my day just like any other Sundays. Watched Ho Chiak at 6pm and that day's episode is about nice place to eat crabs. I was mentioning about where I had nice crabs before and after the show finished, Ald surprise me with crabs for dinner. Yummy.... Though we spent more than we should, but it's really a wonderful thing he does for me this way onec in a while. But of course, I don't expect him to do this for the rest of the month. Just once a while will do to make me happy.

Well, that's how I spent my 3 days off last weekend. I am sure most of you people had a much more interesting and hip and happening thing to do on your National day holiday. You might think mine is boring, but suprisingly I do not feel bored at all. I feel rested.....

One Word/Sentence

I got another tag from Judy. It's about "One word/sentence". Yeah, why not take this as my first Monday post?
Ok, here it goes....

Where is your cell phone? Charging on the floor of my bedroom.
Relationship? Single but not available.
Your hair? A little wavy now.
Work? Yes, working like crazy.
Your sister? My sister (younger than me) just got married 2 months ago.
Your favorite thing? Watching movies/ tv, reading, travelling, shopping, playing computer game, blogging.
Your dream last night? Having a war in the jungle.
Your favorite drink? Thick Milo 'kosong'.
Your dream car? Mercedees.
The room you’re in? My bedroom.
Your shoes? NYC brand.
Your fears? Snake.
What do you want to be in 10 years? Out of debts and happier.
Who did you hang out with this weekend? My darling.
What are you not good at? Communication and caring.
Muffin? Yes, I like chocolate flavour.
One of your wish list items? Wisdom.
Where you grew up? Klang Valley.
Last thing you did? Read newspaper a moment ago.
What are you wearing? T-shirt and shorts.
What aren’t you wearing? My contact lense.
Your pet? Jojo, my beloved doggie.
Your computer? Acer.
Your life? Lots of trials and tribulations.
Your mood? Sleepy.
Missing? Spiritual life.
What are you thinking about right now? How can I earn more money.
Your car? None.
Your kitchen? Looks fine.
Your summer? Don't really bother everyday the same.
Your favorite color? Purple.
Last time you laughed? 5 hours ago.
Last time you cried? Last year.
School? Primary, secondary, college/uni.
Love? Yes, I am contented with it right now.

Although usually when I pass tag on to some and they don't usually do it, anyhow I would like to pass this on to:-
Amy
firethorn
rin-en
YL