Paying online gig

For the past few days I’ve been thinking on how to generate income from the net. The most logical thing for me to do is to write or make reviews. Writing reviews is easy and I’ve done it before. I could also join those sites where you get paid for clicking on websites. I wanted to post paid advertisement but WordPress is not allowing it. So after a relentless search I stumbled upon 1 simple paying gig.

Reviewstream.com pays writers to review any subject under the sun.  Their current review rate pay is USD2.00. The review must be original, hasn’t been posted in other sites, and be over 200 words. You can review anything from anywhere. They welcome your opinions very much. It’s like doing a review in Amazon.com but this site pays you. They also offer a “bulk rate” for your review. Meaning they would still buy your review but at 0.40cents. This meant if you’re review is not worth publishing, you’ll still get paid for your writing efforts with the “bulk rate” option. The minimum payout is 50$ and you need to have a paypal account. When I started out, I was really confused on how to navigate their website. There’s no signing in or signing up. I thought it was a scam. So I read the testimonials on the website and it appears the website is made that way and some reviewers are also confused by the set-up.

So to start, you’ll just click on “Write Review” and enter your details. You’ll get an account in their system after they bought your review. It’s better to have a GMAIL account because up until now I don’t get confirmation emails for my reviews from my YAHOO account. Make sure you have a copy of your reviews. I write mine at Microsoft Word and then copy paste it to their site. After 5-7 days, you’ll get an answer if your review has been rejected or bought. To frequently check status of your review, click on the “control panel”. I thought my reviews were not getting any response because the processing was taking too long. I finally wrote to them about it and they replied and instantly my reviews were processes and bought. The good thing about this site is they reply to your queries immediately. So if you like to write and earn some, this is a good start.

It’s in our school too!

Earlier this day in our school, we were flummoxed by the news that we have confirmed cases of H1N1 virus. At first the rumors said that it’s a Dentistry student but from a different building. I wasn’t worried at all since it’s not in our building. However many of the college personnel started wearing mask even though our professors were not worried at all. So there was a mixed reaction – cautious, indifference, skeptic, doubt and fear. My classmate started bringing alcohol spray bottle with her and jokingly tried to spray the places she walks into.  I told her we could get drunk for inhaling all those alcohol droplets. Then our professor announced a memo given to him that there were actually 8 cases confirmed in our university – only 1 in the college of Dentistry. Of the many colleges, why ours?!

Dentistry students are  different breed. We despair when clinics are canceled. Whenever classes are suspended because of storms, we accept the suspension bitterly. When holidays fall on a weekend, we rejoice. When clinics are cut off early, we don’t want to go home and actually will stay until 5pm. When school year has ended, we would demand for extension  of clinic days. We just love school! hehehe. No I’m just kidding – we hate school. But we need all the school  days and time we can get to finish the tons of clinical requirements and graduate fast and escape the hell that is Dentistry.

So I definitely wouldn’t want to get infected by the H1N1 virus and furthermore I don’t want our school to get quarantined!

PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE: DS game review

Yesterday I picked up my sorely-neglected nintendo DS and on a whim chose to play Professor Layton game. I played this before but I stopped at puzzle 100plus because I’m stumped with this sliding puzzle I can’t solve. I played the game again this weekend and I’m so happy to have finished it.

Tips on how to save gas money

Remember last year when the gas prices hike up in an all time high? I was in the US back then and living in northern california. The gas price went up almost to USD4/gallon. We then scrambled to find ways on how to save on fuel. We limit our travel, we carpool, we do all errands in one trip, I rarely use the a/c, etc. Right now, compared to last year the gas price is relatively low and manageable. Still it’s always a good thing to save up anyhow we can.

Here’s how to save up on your gas: