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Susceptible

Susceptible. This was a hard word to find an image for with my stock photo provider. It’s an adjective. I tried to relate the photos depicting susceptibility to temptation. Certain people are just susceptible to temptations in many forms. Susceptibility to the temptation of alcohol to dumb down their emotional pain. To the evils of gambling addiction. To greed in the form of gluttony or lust.

  1. Likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.
  2. (of a person) Easily influenced by feelings or emotions; sensitive.

Synonyms: sensitive, responsive, touchy, thin-skinned, delicate

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16. May, 2012
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Ruminate

Ruminate, ruminating, rumination

  1. Think deeply about something: “we sat ruminating on the nature of existence”.
  2. To turn a matter over and over in the mind.

Synonyms: meditate, reflect, muse, ponder, contemplate

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14. May, 2012
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Free Fitness – Exercises Which Won’t Cost You a Cent

Here are some free exercises you can do to boost your fitness.

  • Push ups. If the basic push ups bore you, try to do pushups on your knuckles. Or try to elevate your legs. Another variation is to widen out your arms further out to make it more of a challenge.
  • Burpees. Squat. Pushup. Jump. (See video)
  • Pull Up. Find somewhere you can safely hang: either on a support beam or from a door frame attachment. Pull ups are a tough comprehensive upper body exercise.
  • Skipping rope. Spend $10. Start jumping.
  • Curl to Shoulder Press Combo. From a standing position you perform your dumbell curl, then from there do a shoulder press. See video below for demo.

Burpee Demo:

Curl to Shoulder Press Combo


from SMH “The Great Fitness Rort”

Disclosure: I am a paying member of a gym. Being a member of a gym could be a waste of money if you never use the gym. Which does happen – I bet 60-75% of people who sign up to a gym plan don’t even turn up to use the facilities.

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12. May, 2012
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Importers Continue to Rip Off Australians

News like this one “Importers close door on overseas online stores” annoys me. How can importers do this to us? In the long term this isn’t going to work. Consumers are going to get smarter: the work-around importers putting up barricades to sending it to you directly you could consider using mail forwarding/parcel forwarding services like ShipItTo. Or having friends and family pick up your parcels when they travel to USA.

Australian consumers will be forced to pay substantially more for their favourite fashion brands as a growing number of local importers reach agreements with international brands to stop selling their clothes to Australians on overseas websites or to lift their web prices. SMH

It’s ridiculous how Australian’s are continuously ripped off at the checkout – for clothing, accessories, technology, software, etc.

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11. May, 2012
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How to Poach an Egg

 Poached eggs form a part of that yummy dish eggs benedict.

Generally the tips to cook a well formed poached egg:

  • Use fresh eggs (if not, use vinegar to help the whites set and coagulate quicker)
  • Use a saucepan, 10cm deep.
  • Crack egg into a bowl before cooking. Check yolk is intact. Guide the egg into the swirling boiling water smoothly.

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11. May, 2012
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Cowering

Cowering – a verb

Crouch down in fear.

Synonyms: crouch, cringe, huddle

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10. May, 2012
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eBay Business Idea – Buying and Selling – Online Retail

Business idea #245: Become a middle man. Buy products cheaply from China. Resell products at a tidy markup in your home country. Sell it on eBay and other online classifieds.

eBay Fake Products Warning

Be aware that if you risk selling fake products on eBay, your product listing can be removed by eBay or worse still, your account may be revoked and cancelled.

Be wary that if your product originates from China (or if your local supplier is a little shady) it is likely it is a fraudulent imitation of a product – especially if it is branded. It’s well known that there is a lot of cheap clothing and accessories floating around eBay – many of them quite possibly fakes. There is also fake memory sticks circulating – so be wary of extremely fake branded memory USB dongles – you may find yourself losing data as a consequence of this. Earphones are also widely copied – I no longer buy earphones on eBay having been duped a few times of inferior products.

List of Cheap Chinese Shopping Sites

Here is a list of cheap shopping websites based in China. I first fell in love with DealExtreme for their cheap prices and free worldwide shipping. Here are other shopping ecommerce websites like DealExtreme (a lot of them also offer dropshipping options):

There are plenty more other smaller websites but those are the most trafficked one’s I can find. AliExpress is associated with the large Chinese product soucing website AliBaba.

Many two dollar stores stock the sort of items the above sites sell. Also if you are looking to become an eBay seller, you may be able to find a supplier on these sites, especially on AliExpress/AliBaba or DHGate.

Extra reading… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

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07. May, 2012
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Coles my5 Promotion – Save 10% on 5 Products

The new Flybuys promotion, my5 Coles offers a 10% discount on your purchases up until 31 October 2012. List of grocery products on my5 promotion here (Excel Spreadsheet).

Parameters:

  • 5 product limit for each product group.
  • Need to spend over $50

You’ll need to do a bit of planning but if all your 5 products total $50… optimally you’ll save ($50*10%) around $2.50 on average.

If you buy 5 products from each product line you’ve chosen as your Coles my5 and you only want to spend $50, then the average product price would be (5 products x 5 lines = 25 products, $50/25 = $2 average price) [Of course that calculation has its assumptions...] If the 25 products you choose total $100 (with average price of $5) then the savings would be $10… and so on…

So what products could you choose? It’s best to choose products that

  • you buy often
  • worth some $ (high value)

But the catch is that not every product is on the list available to be chosen. So if you usually buy the cheaper brand (which defeats the savings – since you already save money) or prefer another brand then this system doesn’t really work.

Don’t forget to study the weekly specials Aldi, Coles and Woolworths put out and buying stuff you use in bulk when it goes on special at any of the supermarkets or your local grocer/butcher/fish market.

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05. May, 2012
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Spoiler Alert: Person of Interest

I thought the TV show “Person of Interest” was a little boring at first. Who is this old fogie think he is? Can I believe that someone who looks late 40′s mid 50′s (Jim Caviezel who plays John Reese is in fact 44 years old) can take down a bunch of evil men all on his own? And what the hell is this story with a limping Ben Linus (Lost) err Harold Finch played by Michael Emerson… I didn’t like the show at first but I gave it a chance. The story is getting better, but I don’t think this show deserves another season.

The latest episode (s01e21 Many Happy Returns) which aired in US a few days ago revealed an interesting plot and raises a few questions as to how Harold Finch came to find Reese. Did Finch get his limp from a car accident? In the flashback, Finch was in a wheelchair in the hospital – having overheard Reese’s conversation with the nurse and the nurse telling Reese that  Jessica (John’s former girlfriend/soulmate) passed in a car accident – as Reese walks away bumps into Finch who apologises under his breath. “I’m sorry”… Was Reese or Jessica one of his numbers?

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05. May, 2012
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Antagonist

I was thinking “bad guy” and I knew there was a better, more sophisticated way of saying “bad buy”. Of course that ‘right’ word is always on the tip of our tongue right?

Antagonist:

  1. A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

Synonyms:

bad guy, adversary, evil person, competitor, contender, crip, enemy, foe, match, opponent, opposer, opposite number, rival

Antonyms/opposite:

ally, protagonist, supporter

ally, protagonist, supporter

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05. May, 2012
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