So today, I officially ended my work with Health Sciences Authority as their website designer. If you are interested in the work I’ve done for them, take a look at my portfolio. In many ways it was the ideal job for me because, I finally get to know how does it feel like to get paid for something you enjoy doing. In the end, it was a little sad saying bye to the laptop I’ve been working on for 3 months, will I ever work in an IT related job, full-time? I’ve no idea. It was a great experience, and the people I’ve worked with made my job so much easier by being really friendly... 

You know, most website owners, dream of making money one day online, dreaming that someone or something out there will recognise your efforts for building a great website. As Football Manager Guru, a site of mine that I’ve been working on for the past year solidifies its place in the top 6 of Google search results for “Football Manager Blog”, a search term that gives 11 million hits, I see the amount of adsense money that I’ve been making from the site going up steadily. And boy is it a joy. The last step before I could receive real cash from Google, is that they need to... 

Ever since I printed out my own name card, I have been under pressure to update my website portfolio because, the old website portfolio was simply too outdated. Since then, I’ve been working on a new look for my portfolio site, in addition to adding 2 more websites that I am currently working on. I give you, my portfolio site 2.0 ! In case you are wonder what’s with the two big arrows, it’s a jQuery slider that allows you to go through all my work. If you would like to see it for yourself, click on “Portfolio” at the top of this page. My New Wishlist Okay, back to... 

Minutes ago, I’ve completed most of the SEO work to be done for my third dot com site to go live. I have been working with two other friends of mine in building a Singapore Fashion and Style Community website. And after a few weeks of hard work, the site is finally ready to go LIVE and compete with the existing Singapore Fashion websites out there, I am pretty sure given great content #2 spot on Google for the term “Singapore Fashion” will not be a problem. #1 spot requires tons of hard work although it is doable within a year I think. Enough of ranting, I present you, my third... 

As my full time contract comes to its last month, I was wondering if I could anything meaningful for the remaining time before I head off to uni. If there was anything I learnt since September 2009 about starting up dot coms, it is that, content is really king on the Internet. There is no question about that. All the blackhat ways to get revenue might work, but only for in the shortrun, eventually the Big G will catch up with you, and before you know it, your site would have disappeared from the first few pages of the search results. It took  me a while, but my Football Manager blog is consistently... 

Probably our biggest game of the season so far, yet we only have ourselves to blame for losing 2-1 at home to Chelsea. Now the title initiative lies with Chelsea, and we need a favour from Liverpool or Spurs in beating Chelsea, for us to catch up. Who is to blame? Is it Berbatov? Is it Gary Neville for letting Malouda slip past him? Is it Ferguson for his tactical decisions? I believe, it’s every single one who belongs to the Manchester United family. Don’t get me wrong, I will never turn against my own club that I supported for 12 years now. But, I was really gutted to see that display... 

Click on images for a larger view. Interesting story, about how I decided to get my own name card. After coughing for like an eternity, I finally decided to take a day off and head down to look up my old family doctor in the East of Singapore, to my surprise he is no longer working at the clinic anymore. In his place was a new doctor and well he was a really friendly guy, and I was like the only patient in the whole clinic, so we chatted a bit. He eventually asked me what was I working as, and I told him I designed websites for Health Sciences Authority and he became really interested in...