Writing Guidelines for Freelance

Today I'm going to share with you a very informative and a reliable website. If you are thinking to be come a freelance writer as a part timer, there are few things that you should take in to consideration; such as what is you interest (topic), what is your writing style (formal or easy) and what do you want to achieve with your writing? Is it to educate or it is just as a hobby to express you idea out there.

The website is called freelance writing jobs. The fascinating part about this website is that they have a specific topic to write. So if your interest is about automotive, you can go directly to the “write about automotive” section or “review on automotive blog” something like that to see which writing job you are interested in with. You don’t have to waste so much time on going through the job post one by one.

How to start? Which website should I follow? As a newbie, this type of questions will always pop up as we go along to endeavor the freelance writing field. To be honest with you, to get a website like freelance writing jobs is good enough to follow or as a guideline to improve your writing skill and not to mention to get a writing job and earn some extra cash at one website. Why I say so because this site has been around for a long time and it is still actively interact with the world. This is the type of website we want because there will always be a new thing happening and they are they to shout it out for you. If you look at the people behind it, they are very well qualified in the writing field and this is what we want so that we will not go astray. 

Last but not least remember to go out there and join at least one community which you have the same thing to discuss with. There are a lot of forums or blogs out there for you to choose. This way, you will be able to pick up the momentum and you will feel motivated to push yourself more.

Part Time or Full Time Job

As promised, here is another site that makes magic by itself in the dot com world. The basic element of this site is very simple; it is like barter trading in the olden days but here the goods is replaced by services. Anyone can come and do their offer or get an offer for a job. Best of all you don’t have to event sign up and its free! 

The power of supplying and demanding a job here is totally in your hand. I noticed that the latest post in their blog is in 2009 and how brilliant is that when up until this moment there are still people visiting this site every day. Not forgetting this is a Malaysian brand website and a trusted outsourcing website.

So the site I was talking about is asiaparttime.com. For newbie and a Malaysian who wants to try out getting a par time job online, this is another site that gives you a lot of information on how this working online world works. If you seriously want to make some money online or want to get an online job, please go ahead and read their blog post you won’t regret it. Who knows you may even get a full time job offered at this site. 

Just a soft reminder to all of you; whatever it is, keep it in mind that when you are trying to get any job online be careful and do some research on the people who’s offering you a job because at the end of the day it is you and the other party is the one who is going to do the negotiation and not the website owner.

Happy reading everyone and will post another interesting topic soon.

Online Job For Newbie

Hi all, for this month I am concentrating on trying to search as many websites as possible for me to share regarding to things that you can do online. Most of the time we hear or we see a lot of advertisement around us on making money on the internet. Well this is my understanding on this topic, true you can get some money by doing things online as long as you put some time and effort to improve yourself around the internet. Since there are thousands of companies and individuals trying to promote their product or service online, this situation become very hard for a newbie to identify which is genuine and scam. So I decided to search for some websites that hopefully can help anyone of you out there to get some money online on your free time.

I bumped on this site a month ago and as soon as I get myself around their site I just got the feeling of “I know I can do something here” and the sense “I don’t really trust this site” is not even there at all. So I decided to try it myself and indeed I can see so much potential of getting an income here; and yes, you are doing it at your comfy place. 

I believed most of us who are looking for some extra income other than doing our nine to five jobs are trying to make a difference in our financial status. With all the prices of our necessity is going up right now, we have to be more flexible in adapting any opportunity in life. Well, website like Odesk, The On Demand Global Workforce - oDesk made it possible for those wanting to earn little extra more or just want to gain more experience in the field that they are interested. 

The thing I like about this site is their payment system which is for the employers, an hour billed is an hour worked, while for the contractors, an hour worked is an hour paid. Simple yet powerful enough to gain the trust of both parties involve in a job. Another thing is that, while working together, both parties are building a healthy working relationship no regardless of geographical factor.

 Here is a little tip for newbies, starting something new isn’t something that is easy with you alone facing your computer and doing your own research which sometimes you yourself will get confused with what you are doing because there will be a lot of distractions but I strongly suggest that you have be focus and just be persistence in what you are trying to do and one day you will just get it without even you realizing it that you already have it. 

For now, Since I am also new in Odesk, I am trying to get any writing job or even any job that I can handle with to start myself in this what I called online job and hopefully to get one soon.

Reality TV Show

Hi all, i'm sure all of us do watch TV and what I can say is that most of the channel do show a reality show. I admit it I watch reality show :) but not all of them. I like to watch shows about family; probably because I have a family now and i'm trying to learn from anything and any where on how to bring up a good family. So here are some of the show that I follow.

The Kardashian. Oh, I like Khloe; she is just being real. hey! that what reality tv is all about is it. I like the fact that she is taking herself as a normal person than as a super star kind of person. I got to give it to them that they (the whole family) made it as a family and hope they will stay strong as a family to face what ever it is in front of them. Last but not least, they are all beautiful.

Jon and Kate plus 8 but now Kate plus 8 after the couple separated. I like to watch this show when Jon was around and it is nice to see a young couple can give such joy to their kids even in a smallest way. Nowadays, it is almost imposible to see both mummy and daddy can be there togather at the same time looking after little ones. Yes! with kids as many as that, it is tiring. I have three and I know how it feels. just a month ago, i saw on yahoo news stated that this show is fish and I hope for the best to the kids and hope their mummy will do a good job in bringing them up.

Sarah Palin's Alaska, a politician, commentator and author. Coming from a background like this to be a part of a reality show, for me it is another way of looking at life. She will always make sure that her family come first in her show, she will always add the family element all the time. My understanding on this show is that sacrifices have to be made to have a happy family. Even with demanding toddler, she is still able to do things around her but this is made easy with her family members supporting her all the way. Hey! at the end of the day, all of them will gain something out of what they are building now as a family. So, go go Sarah!

No matter where you are, who you are and what family background you are from, there is one thing that will always the same. We will love each other no matter how hard or how hurt we are at each other at one time but as time passed by and we learn to be wise in that situation, love in us will always be there for each other.

Part Time Job in Sabah

Hello again! its been quite sometimes I have not write anything on my blog. Today, I feel like writing something related with job. Nowadays, just to provide the necessity is already a burden to a middle class family. I'm not so good in economics but I do undestand certain terms like unemployed, retrechment and widing up and so on. This is basically what is happening to the world's economy and everyone seems too feel the impact. As an individual, we might not feel it here in Malaysia but in America, every low class and middle class individual feel it. I like how Michael Moore's way of thinking regarding to the world economic situation. As a personal opinoin, I think he presented it well on his movie documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story".

So now the current situation in Kota Kinabalu, a lot of us are working and I belived even if we are an employee to a company or the government, some of us are still trying to get side income inorder to provide a better living environment to our family. This is because the cost of living in our country are getting higher and we as a human will want to have the best for our family. Everyone want to send their kids to a better school, wanting to give a bigger or better house and so on. We as a human basically evolve all the time that this nature will create an opportunity to others to make business out of this evolving nature. If we are smart enough, we might be able to tap a niche of the situation. For example, a runner, a person who run around to provide service such as delivering parcel or getting a formal documentation done for some one else. I bet ten years ago everyone is being their own runner thenselves but now everything must go fast and as an individual, it is impossible to be at two places at one time. So this simple situation has already created a job opportunity for some who is willing to do this job.

I read the classified column on the local paper most of the time and i noticed that almost everyday there will have a part time job offer by local companies. Most of it are related to the service industry such as waiter & waitress, personal driver, cashier and so on. Online job search is another place i like to check for part time job. For me this is one easy way to access more advertisement since everyone is connected online all the time and you can even find a job in other country while you just have to be online to do the job that they offer you. I must emphasis that please do some background checking on any websites that you are interested to do job with or else you will be wasting time and get nothing out of it.

I have created a page on facebook regarding par time job in Sabah and hope to get some feeedback from the people of Sabah soon. The page name is SabahPartTimeJob and I feel that through this page,everyone can get or give a job to one another fast and easy.

Selamat Hari Raya!

Its a double celebration this year for Malaysia when Hari Raya falls on the Hari Merdeka or our National day. Hari Raya falls on the 30th of August and National Day was on the 31st of August. Our Prime Minister announced that this year, the National day will be on the 16 September. This date is actually the date when Sabah & Sarawak join and formed Malaysia.

The usual atmospher of raya in Malaysia is that the muslims will be going through a month of fasting and after that they celebrate the raya by going back to their home town or they balik kampung and visit they relatives and also to go to the grave yard to pray for their beloved ones who had gone to the other side of the world. In the fasting period, they usually will do preparation for raya.Such things as making kuih raya and making baju raya.

One thing I look forward about hari raya is the food such as kuih raya. oh, the batang buruk, makmur and many more and food like lemang, serunding and all the rich flavoured food will be my target when visiting friends or relatives house when they do open house for raya. 

This year, even though we don't celebrate hari raya, since it was a long holiday, we decided to do family gathering. Our family is quite big and thanks to my aunty for creating a family page on facebook and thats the place where we do our discussion all the time. So we decided to do barbeque and kareoke! The party started lated afternoon on the first day of raya and the man or the boys will usually get the fire place and the set up ready out side and we ladies will be in the kitchen preparing the food. Each family contributed something but since it was a bbq gathering, we decided each family must bring at least one packet of chicken wings and one container of ice cream. Usually when we put a terms this way, some will still bring other food like pudding, ribs for bbq and since it was raya holiday my aunty brought along a few containers of raya cookies. Ohh..she didn't buy them, her students gave her as raya goodies.

One thing about festive season in Malaysia, indirectly, every one will get to celebrate it because there will definitely be a holiday and even we are not celebrating that particular celebration, we will be doing something with our family.

So to all muslim friends, selamat hari raya and please drive safely when you guys balik kampung and balik report duty.

Tom Yam

After sending the kids to school, I usually will go for breakfast around my area. I like soupy thing, like ngau chap, tom yam, asam laksa and others. I guess in Penampang area, most of the people prefer pork noodle soup, beef or buffolo noodle soup. This probably also a religion factor where majority of us are christian. But never the less, we do have a lot of Indian and Malay restaurant apart from the Chinese. When I think about it, we do have a lot of nice eating places, to name a few, Wan Wan restaurant, who serves fish soup, Krishna Curry house, an Indian restaurant who serves very nice fish head curry dish, Mee Sup Pipin, who serves pork soup noodle, Wild Treasure restaurant, who serves crocodile meat and etc.

 

I think I have tasted a wide range of tom yam and I know what i'm talking about when it comes to tom yam. My favourite tom yam place will be some where in Thailand and unforfunately I can afford to go there all the time due to time and money constrain. We'll stick to local destination. ehem, my number 1 choice to have my tom yam is a friend house, she is a Thai lady and she is seriously good when come to this dish. I even craved for it when I was pregnant with my eldest son and she got no problem with doing the cooking for me. She always said " its for the baby", haha! she is a dear friend and thanks for letting me enjoy the moment (you know who you are when you read this :) ). Now she is rather busy and i'm not pregnant anymore so good enough to have that moment with her.

The second choice will be Wan Wan restaurant, its a must to go there atleast once a week. The tasted of the dish is so reach. Their tom yam is the creamy type, which I like most. Their ingredients are very fresh especially their fish and prawns. oohh..love it. I can almost taste it in my mouth right now ;)

My third choice use to be Atong but it seems that this restaurant has lost it taste when my husband and I when just now and my husband was really disappointed with the taste of his tom yam. Mine was same but I try not to focus on the disappointment rather tried to compliment it with some calamancy or kasturi we call it locally and some cili padi. It was tasteless at the beginning but as the flavous mixed together, it become ok.

I don't know about you but how I eat my noodle soup is by having two or three spoons of the soup first before diggin in to the noodles. This way, if the soup is good, I will be happy eating it the whole bawl. Other wise I can't stop trying to find some other things to eat just to ease the wanting the right taste apetite.  

No offense to hotel food but I still prefer the old school way of getting good food. For me, the taste of hotel food is very safe. Meaning you can add a little bit of this and that depending on how creative or deliciuos you want your soup to be to suite you taste bud because they do provide you with all the coriander, spring onion and etc at the side of the counter but who wants to take that hastle of doing all that when you can just order and get the right taste on the dot! At the end of the day we will still be paying with what we eat :)

So what is tom yam? For me, it is a delisious spicy soupy recipe from Thailand, mixed with curry paste, tamarind juice, turmeric, fish source, lime juice, lime leaves, lemon grass, coconut milk, brown sugar, cooking oil and alst but not least sliced fish or other sea food.

Some recipe book you can buy online with reasonable price, have fun and good luck!

Indian recipe

Chinese recipe

Athlete recipe

What do you do when you can't sleep

We all have those days where we just couldn't get ourselves to sleep. This is my case at the moment. Usually I would stay on bed and read a book or just lay down and try to fall asleep but today is just out of the odinary, I'm writing on my blog :). 

There are so many reasons why people can't sleep. For example, having a test tomorrow, waiting for a reply from college, had a fight with wife or husband or friend and so much more. In my case now is that i slept early and i'm awake now at 5am. I put my children to sleep all the time and most of the time I will fall asleep with them at the same time :). Hey! running around for 3 is not an easy job you know. but there is always something good behind it like yeah, your tired but I loose most of my weight just by doing this and well ofcourse selective food intake.  

By the time I go to my own bed, I can't get myself to sleep any more. So I do some homework on yahoo answers on the net and found out that 5822 results or posting just on this topic. wow! most of the posting are actually having dilema. Out of 10, 4 will some how relate to some dilema. The strage part and actually it made me smile when some of them write a song lyrics or what is their plan for tomorrow.

Well i guess this is it for now, I took 35 minutes to write this topic :). Its time to get my kids stuff ready to school. Getting sleepy later on is another chapter ..haha!

How internet affect your day?

Its been more then a decade that I have known internet. My first encounter with this technology is at the internet cafe down in Donggongon town. A town where I grew up with. If I'm not mistaken, the place called cybercafe and the rate that they charges their customer is RM4.00 pe hour and when you want to connect to the internet, you got to click the dial button to connect and before you can connect to the web, you will be hearing a funny sound for few seconds. At the rate of rm4/ hour, we are still willing to pay that much just to learn and to familiarise the www. com thingy. Yahoo has been loyal to www world and guess what? i've been using my first email address till today.

Just like human, the technology evolve all the time and today, we even have this broadband and wireless service to get connected to the internet. Now we have so many choices to access the internet. I guess most of us still using land line or we called it Streamyx because it is faster or it is some how better than broadband service. But hey! who cares how you access the net, as long as you get it there right! :). But I can assure you that most of us will prefer a faster connection all the time, even if our pc is 7 years old and still the original condition..haha..

Now with or without being aware of it, we actually can't live without accessing the internet. Lates gadgets such as Ipad and Iphone you can use to access the net easily 24 7, Anything to do with writing now been taken over by computer because of it sophisticated fuctions and what amazing things that it can do. Imagine those days if you want to send a letter, the process goes like writing it (15 min), going to the post office (30 min) and God knows when it is actually reach the address of the receiver. Now, Sharing files, email, broacasting live on line, listening ot music, watching movie and so much more is just a few clicks away. No more sweaty armpits to the post office. :)

With everything going so fast now, every body is trying to cope up with every body being fast and at the end of the day we feel so tired that we didn't actually notice how the day passed by so fast because there is still email that we haven't got the chance to reply and so on and we are basically repeating this activities all the time in front of the computer just to get things done. Those who are working most of the time infront of the computer will fine it awkward when out of a suddent their pc is not working or their boss ask them to go for a leave. 99%  of them will definitely still go online to do something. Unless they are put to a place where internet is not possible.

Apart from all the good things that we benefits from internet, there are some negative things when we depends on it too much. We seldom hear things like credit card being violated and a lot more scams that has been going around. Other than that, the exposure of negativity towards our children on the internet are just a matter of fine line.  

Well now I said my day will definitely in some ways will have to intereact with the internet. Every time when I need to check on something, internet is the first place that I will go. Thanks to those brains which invented this technology and all Ican say is that theres always some bad fruits among the good ones.

                                                                    

Food Channel

My husband and I have one thing  in common when it comes to tv channel, we enjoyed watching TLC. Most of the time we will be watching food related series such as Jamie Oliver, Andrew Zimmern, Anthony Bourdain and others. My back ground with food is totally local. I'm not those type who really curious with what I eat but my husband is the total opposite of me. Coming from a family brackground of baba nyonya, english, chinese and kadazan (total rojak!) and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, he experienced so much of the west and the east of Malaysian cuisine.

Having the opportunity to be at the northen part of west Malaysia is a wonderful experience. The people, the social enviroment and most of all with the foooood... I was then in my university (University Utara Malaysia) years and staying in the campus. What do you expect if the location of the university is so far away from the hustle and bustle of town and it is actually at the border of Malaysia and Thailand to be exact. So you have no choice but to enjoy campus food. I never fancy hot and spicy food and  was having bad, I mean seriously bad moment with food there for nearly a month untill I managed to adjust myself with it. Fast forward, I actually miss the fusion of Malay and Thai cuisine back then. Its been a decade after I graduated and back in Kota Kinabalu, I sometimes pop by Nok Thai restaurant in Damai where they serve delicious Thai food and their desserts are fabulous just to eased my craving for Thai food and for Malay food, Kak Nong is my choice.

Now, I am in to cooking, not only for the sack of pleasing my appetite but also to make my whole family feel happy with food. People always said the heart of a home is in the kitchen. Thanks to TLC, I learned more than just local cusine and can get most of the recipes on their website. For me, cooking is like solving an algebra where you can either be using +, -, x or / in order to solve the question and at the end of it you will get a negative or positive answer. With cooking, you can use so many ingredients in so many ways of cooking and will get a nice or nasty out come at the end of it.

Since I have my bunddle of joy, I have been trying most of the kids recipe which I found on the internet. As a mother, I believe cooking good food for my kids is very important. I will always make sure that they will have variety of food all the time. My kids usually eat rice with soup. I always rotate between chicken, beef or fish soup and I used a lot of vegetables to compliment the taste. I do give them fried food sometimes and their favourite is fried ikan bilis (anchovy) and oh, fruits is a must with them. To Share some tricks on how to make your child to eat vegetable is I guess by training them or make them familiar with this kind of food at the early age (6 or 7 months old) is critical because if they are not familiar with it, the chances of them eating it is less. What I did with my kids is that I usually boil some vegetable such as carrot, broccoli or other local vege for them as snack. They didn't really care what was that back then. They will just put inside their mouth what ever you give them. I will also blend some of it in to their porridge and thanks God until now they don't have problem eating green. Other trick is for kids at age of  4 years and above. I've seen some friends do this to their kids. They cut the vege finely and mix it with minced meat or even in soup. Its seems woking for them but hey! no harm trying right.

Will share some more write up about food soon but for now I got to go back to my food channel :)

             

Local Music

I like music, I don't seems to know any one in my life doesn't like music. In my family, most of us actually either can sing or play any music instruments. Hmm..wonder why none of us actually really make music as a career.

I can see that the local music industry had changed a lot since those days when you can really count just how many local song was produced by listening to RTM Sabah (now as Sabah vfm)  every morning and evening. Why I said morning and evening is because back in the 80's and 90's, this is the only time when my late grandpa will tune in to the Kadazan section on radio. The main purpose was I guess to hear the tuahi (death anouncement on radia). So out of that two hours session, I remembered very well that the radio station can play a song repeatedly once in the morning and once in the evening. To name some of the old time favourites by the artis like Aloysius Mojilis, Justin Stimol, the late John Gaisah and others.

I don't really tune in to the channel where my grandpa used to listen those days but any Sabahan will definitely know Suria FM 105.9 and as the technology continue to enhanced itself, we can also tune in to KK FM, Hitz FM and others no matter where we are, at home or in our car. Being in the area of having an internet access enable us to tune in to any radio channel around the globe. Other than radio channel, Music production company such as Kadus Entertainment, Ampal production and others does play big role to get our talented people to polish their skill in the industry. Last but mot least, Websites such as Youtube, Itune and others does make the local music industry grow faster.

Coming back to the local music, I have to admit it that I don't fancy local music when I was younger, I prefer listening to music from America, Europe or as long as it is in english. This is probably because the family has been listening to this kind of music and I just go with the flow or I was having inferiority complex.hhmm.. But now as I began to listen to some of the local radio channel, I do actually like some of the songs. Songs like Tanak Kampung by Jimmy Palikat, Sayang Kinabalu by the late Kimin Mudin some others.

This present moment, english song by our local artist is no longer surprising. My kids and me favourite at the moment is a song called Butterfly Baby by Angelina Perete and her daughter Estee. This song is full of soul, something what we always called evergreen. I am not surpise in ten or twenty years time we will still be hearing this song being played in some happy occasions. Having to know Angelina personally is a blessing. She is just like her song, fun and full of love.

With my family, when ever we are having a gathering, kareoke session is a must. we will be singing english to Dusun song and sometimes even filipino or chinese songs :). The element of music actually make the whole environment more happening. 

Family Weeked Activity

Every Satuday and Sunday my world revolved around the family. Visiting the family house in Kg. Pogunon is a must in the weekend itenery. The trio are looking forward to play with their cousins over the weekend. Well, what else happy kids like them should be doing right?! Speaking about playing, going back to my memoryland of being a little girl and grew up in a kampung was seriously fun. Haha..i can still smile to the things that we did those days as a budak kampung.

Grew up in a family of seven in a typical kampung atmospher is usually what the new generation is missing right now. I still remember freshly the things that we usually do after school. To name a few, taking a deep in the Moyog river, going to the kabun (field) with our grand parent, mokilo'o bundu (waiting for the bundu fruit to fall) and the list goes on and on..but the champion of all the memories is when I was just about nine or ten years old and we just got to understand how the Kadazan or Dusun funeral was being conducted traditionally. If I'm not wrong, this incident hapened after my late great grand mother's (Yapa's mother) funeral. We (my borther, sisters, cousin and I) tried practicing the culture by burying a dead chick and we got a big scolding from our late granpa (Yapa) and being chased by him with a rotan. We were literally crying and do all those stuff they did at the funeral for the chick. We did the mongodunsai (gong beating for the dead), mogiad (crying session for the dead), making the cross and ect. haha..As a kids I can say we are very well trained physically in a kampung and we managed to get away with the rotan by climbing up the rambutan trees. One of the tree is still loyaly producing fruits for us up till today but its shorter now as my father had trimed it because it grew so tall that it caused some damages to the roof of our humble kampung house those days. Back to the strory, as yapa was going towards us and shouting we are causing a big trouble when we played the sound of gong for the death with empty tins and emty diesel drum, with split seconds some of us already at the top of the trees and I think one of us run to the river. It was hilarious when we knew that Yapa couln't clim the tree and all of us where laughing instead of terified.."Angalangas kou no ki, tinggorudon kou ngawi" ka di yapa! ( Yapa said to us,"you guys are very naughty, the lightning will stike you guys"!). This is how the elderly usually will get angry with us and how as a child at that time handle it oohh..priceless! Most of the time this story will always comes out if we have big family gathering.

Now, most of the time on Sunday after Sunday school, all the kids will come to the family house and I will be cooking lunch for them. Most popular and still in demand recipe is fried egg with rice and kicap (soy sos). I have to admit it that I do still eat this recipe some times.haha.. Clap!clap! to my cousin Lester who had been entertaining the small ones with his skill of pushing the wilbarrow around the compound. They love it!

For me I will try my very best to let my kids enjoy what is left as what we call a kampung lifestyle. Being able to run around in the house compound freely, eat what  ever you can find around your compound such as lapak, korobintoi, biabas (guava) and a lot more and most of all feeling free from being a control freak towards my kids.

Bloging the Blog

This is my first serious blog and looking forward to share with the world in things I learned everyday. So i'm  from a place called Penampang in a state of Sabah, Malaysia. If you don't know where is Malaysia, you can probably google the name Borneo.

I basically grew up in a small village or in local language we call it as kampung. Primary and high school was fun and university life was crazy but all and all I managed to get it all done with good grades. ;)

I am a wife and a mum of 3 wonderful children, oohh i love being a mum and you can't imagine the suprises that the 3 gives me all the time. For now, my life has been 110% all about them. oh! and their name are Michael, 5 and a half (he is dreaming of being 6 everyday :) ) he was born in the month of December. The second one is Andrew, 4 and Zoe, my girl, she is 2.

So now that I don't go out that much and partying is wayyy out of my schedule, hey! thanks to Facebook and who ever invented this internet thingy for keeping me connected with friends even i'm at home or else i'll be a katak di bawah tempung. :'(

 I have always wanted a blog which I can share my thoughts and hopefully can learn something from bloging. Things that I prefer doing now, so to improve myself as a wife and a mum are cooking, teaching my children about life (hopefully I will do good in this subject) and things that benefits my family :). I used to like sport activities so much but I guess for now I need to just stick with 1 sport activy, which is running around for my family :).

Ahh...I guess that its for the intro and will be doing a lot more posting from now on.