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PayPal Asia Pacific Gives 10% Rebate on Valentine’s Day

PayPal Asia Pacific is celebrating Valentine’s Day by offering 10% rebate to online shoppers who are paying for their purchases via PayPal. This rebate, up to a maximum value of US$25, will be applicable on your purchases on anywhere where PayPal is accepted.

To participate in this Valentine’s Day rebate programme, you will have to register your primary PayPal email address on this website http://www.paypal-apac.com/valentines first, then only proceed to shop so that PayPal knows where to credit your rebate.

The good thing is that lucky shoppers may receive an email from PayPal to enjoy additional rebate on top of the standard 10% rebate this season of love. Isn’t that wonderful?

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Most Phished Brands For January 2010

Avira, an antivirus software solutions company, has released its recent findings on the most phished brands in January, 2010. According to them, the leading brand was PayPal at 61.89%, followed by HSBC Bank at 8.59% and Bank of America at 6.09% eBay is at number 6 with 5.48%.

Out of the 15 brands listed, excluding No. 4 which is made up of miscellaneous brands, most are financial, payment or funding websites, including Facebook, where many users have their credit card links to their social networking account.

Although most financial websites will not ask customers for their personal details over an email or even over the phone, it is still advisable to keep your email address linked to these websites private and use a separate, general email address for all other communications or public portals. I have personally found this very useful in helping me weed out a majority of phishing emails.

Source: Avira

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Residential Storage Facility

Lately, I have been thinking of buying an apartment in the capital city. I have wanted to move away from home for a long time already but because of commitments, I haven’t been able to. But even now when I can, I still haven’t found the perfect place yet.

Meanwhile, I have been clearing out my room and discarding what I no longer need and donating my collection of books to the neighborhood children’s home but it looks like no matter how many boxes of items I cart away, there are still so many things that I would love keeping. These items don’t have real monetary value but they do bring me lots of sweet memories. I think I should look for a nearby Residential Storage facility where I could park my belongings until I am ready to move in to my new apartment.

I was telling a friend that I actually feel safer storing my personal belongings at a storage facility than keeping them in my room while I am away in the capital city scouting for the perfect apartment because I am afraid that my family would rummage through my things, especially my personal diaries and bank statements. My friend thought that I have a strange family. Maybe the weirdo is just myself. LOL

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Time Consuming Listing Management

I don’t have too large an inventory on eBay anymore because I have been busy with other things over the past couple of weeks but according to my friends who are fellow sellers, they are telling me that with the many changes that are imposed, and there will be yet another major change come 30th March, 2010, it is becoming quite a chore just to manage their listings. Imagine that most listings have to be done manually instead of a global edit.

When something takes too much time to manage, it may no longer be a viable business, especially when they are just selling small priced items. A couple of these friends have decided to let go of their eBay business, unfortunately, and concentrate on selling by other avenues, especially their own store front where they sell on their own terms.

Anyway, even though eBay may have brought us sales previously, if it’s no longer viable, it is time to look elsewhere, if we haven’t already.

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NYC Tour

My friend, Paul, who is based in New York City as an architect-cum-contractor, asked me if I would be able to visit him this summer. We have planned this for a long time actually, but I had to postpone my trip numerous times because something or other came up that tied me down and I couldn’t leave.

Of course I would love to get a tour of New York City. Paul has been feeding me with the latest in the Big Apple and he said that he couldn’t wait to show me the many interesting things that only a local or a long time resident could show.

Paul is very adventurous when it comes to food but he said that he would wait for me so that we could explore the many new Restaurants in Manhattan together. Gosh… that’s like putting pressure on me to fly out. I definitely would feel pretty awful if I have to postpone this trip yet again.

I was telling a friend that although I love traveling, and thankfully flying is a lot cheaper these days, every time I am away, my income is affected. I really should look for ways to create residual income streams so that I wouldn’t feel the financial pinch if I were stay away from work for an extended period of time.

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Extra Special Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day is going to be extra special because it falls on the first day of Chinese New Year. Of course it would be all the more unique if it felled on the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar calendar because it is also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day but having it fall on the first day is pretty rare indeed.

Anyway, while retailers are doing roaring business with these two special days celebrated on the same day by Chinese people around the world, once again, I have to forgo this opportunity because I just could not find the time to fix up my store in tie for Valentine’s Day.

Just a reminder, if you are planning to shop for your Valentine’s gift online, you should do it early to allow time, at least two days, for your purchase(s) to be delivered.

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Double Eyelids

Call me vain but I always feel that I am not beautiful enough because of my single eyelids. I know this is a common feature for Chinese people but this doesn’t stop me from wishing that I could have double eyelids. It may look weird at first, right after the surgery, but I am convinced that double eyelids will enhance my looks.

Many years ago, my cousin sister underwent Eyelid Plastic Surgery even though she already had very large eyes and double eyelids. I felt that it was unnecessary for her to undergo the surgery and in fact, she looked a little doll-like after that.

However, for people like me who were born this way, I don’t see anything wrong with getting s procedure done to enhance our looks. When my cousin underwent her eyelid surgery, she suffered from infection on both her eyes for two weeks but I believe that with the advancement of technology, this would be very rare indeed.

Anyway, according to the website of Miami Plastic Surgery, they are very much sought after by people from around the world because they have the facilities to accommodate them, making their services more accessible to all.

You know, it is so easy to get a plastic surgery procedure done for double eyelids, I am all the more tempted to get it done!

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