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My friend Kidino is organizing a contest for the best Minisite Template Design. I’m pretty bad at template designs, so when Kidino told me about his latest pet project MinisiteGallery.com, I was excited about it because from now on, I know where to go to when I need any templates.

As an incentive to kickstart his site, he’s organizing a best template design contest. Check it out here:

http://www.minisitegallery.com/contest

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What an eventful way to start off the Chinese New Year. I was using a small knife to cut some plastic strap yesterday when the knife slipped and went straight past my thumb. The wound was more than an inch long and probably a few millimeters deep.

As a result, I needed 4 stitches, and a huge bandage over it. The doc said I was lucky not to have hit my tendons as that would mean sending me to the hospital instead of getting it done at the local clinic.

There goes my badminton sessions for at least a few weeks. I’ll probably take a few days off as well because it hurts to type.

Great excuse to lay back and be a couch potato at least for a few more days.

Hopefully by the weekend, it’s ok enough for at least some typing and what nots.

To those of you who celebrated Chinese New Year, a belated wish for all of you!

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Here’s to a brand new year and a brand new blog theme.

Personally I’m not much of a resolution person. That doesn’t mean I don’t set any goals for myself.

2007 really flew past me without much significant event except for my trip to San Francisco for Mike Filsaime’s WIME.

It was probably I was taking things easy, and enjoying my life as it is.

2008 will be DIFFERENT!

Yes, 2008 will be another year where I’ve set very high standards for myself, and I’ll work my butt off to achieve them.

2008 will be the year where I will strike a more balance relationship between health, family and wealth.

I’m giving my health more emphasis instead of taking it for granted. In fact, I’ve already started on it towards the end of 2007 and will kick it up a notch further in 2008.

If everything goes well, I’m hoping to either visit Australia or New Zealand in 2008.

And in 2008, it’ll be the year where I’m scaling my business on a bigger scale by outsourcing more, and only working on projects which allows me to leverage, instead of sucking up my personal time.

So, what’s your plan for 2008? Set yourself some goals, and make sure you stick by them and push yourself. I’m very sure you can do it!

If 2007 was a super year, then make 2008 your best year yet! If 2007 was pretty uneventful, then do a check and balance, and find out what was missing. Find a way to deal with it!

One thing’s for sure…if you 2007 didn’t work out for you, then you need to change whatever it is that you’re doing.

There’s a saying, ‘Practice Makes Perfect’. I hate to be the one to digress…but…

Practice Makes Permanent

If you continue doing whatever that you’ve been doing in 2007, then chances are you won’t be achieving what you want in 2008, unless you do something about it. It might need some fine-tuning, or it might need a major overhaul. Only you will know.

With that said…I’m wishing you a healthy, happy and fulfilling 2008!

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege to play host to 4 of my Internet Marketing buddies from Indonesia and they are….

Dee - He’s a pro at relationship building so much so that he knows more Malaysian IMers than most of us do.

Francis - This guy is really a dynamite. He’s the outsourcing guy when it comes to writing. You can contact him for any writing or re-writing jobs, as well as copywriting.

Semmy and Sugeng - These 2 quiet guys are the Adwords expert and have built a huge income from arbitrage.

We had the privilege of having lunch with Richard Quek together with Steven Wong and Matt Ng

When it was Matt’s turn to play host, he upped the ante and arranged some super duper activities for us. It was also the first time I tried my hands at go-karting.

And the main reason they came to Malaysia was to attend the wedding of Khai and Yuenn.

And here’s a toast to an ever lasting marriage. Congrats to you guys, Khai and Yuenn.   Oh yes, it was the roundtable toast from the Internet Marketing group

That night, to celebrate Edmund’s birthday, Matt graciously organized a Karaoke session. It was a version of ‘wild and wilder’. Bet ya didn’t expect us to be that crazy…haha.

A last one for the album, the Adwords in a Box team, Peng Joon and Matt Ng, together with the birthday boy of the night, Edmund Loh.