Eric teaches you how to express emotions.

What happens when you are really stressed out...wait, what do you mean by 'stressed out'?
Meet Eric, he will show you how a stressed out person look like!

Oh, don't get annoyed at me for not explaining directly. Oh, yes, I am again going to direct you to Eric to show you how to express 'annoy'.

Oh! Is Eric such a brilliant actor? What else can he show me?
He will show these emotions:
Anger, happiness, sadness, fear, complacent and many more.

There are several requests pending on him to express emotions of gassy, woe, Schizophrenic joy and more.

Meet Eric now.

Feeling poor? Then visit....

Let me come to the title a little later. You will understand the reason when you have read the blog post till the end.

I am a very busy person. I hardly have time to talk to my husband. So where is the opportunity to get bored? I am afraid not. But that doesn't mean all are like me.

There are people who simply like to get bored. I mean it. I have encountered such persons in my life and I never meet then again. I avoid them. I am in no mood to tolerate them.

Then what mood I am in currently? Full of life and hope. Well Internet, rather Bored.com has a suggestion or me. It will take me to a website that reflect my current mood. Do you want to know where I was took? It is here: http://www.stackopolis.com/play/
It is a game site and I really enjoyed it.

I wanted to find out where I will be taken if I say I feel poor. I will be taken to... you guessed it right, will be taken to 'Help the homeless'.

Relocation services for employees.

IT companies frequently transfer their employees to various locations to fill up vacancies that arise. Such transfers invariably happen all of a sudden. An employee must be prepared to move without any complaint.

Though the process of moving is always cumbersome and tedious, the responsibility is taken by the employer itself. They entrust this task to the HRD department. They usually have a list of professional packers and movers.

Such moving companies cannot refuse orders at short notices. Else, the contract will be given to another company. Service Network is an organization that can help corporate clients because they too have a list of movers in their database.

Service Network has set up a network of moving companies that go through a strict application process to ensure a quality moving company. The movers in their network all possess valid license and fully insured. Service Network is set up to assist individuals and families to not only select a reputable mover, but to also have some assurance that they will have a smooth move.

See the firworks over Grand Canyon.

Digging though a box of old CDs, I retrieved one that is said to contain beautiful video clips of Grand Canyon.

Grand Canyon-my ardent dream place that I am yet to visit and enjoy. I collect video clips on Grand Canyon to watch then leisurely.

This particular CD contained some beautiful video clips. I think, it was taken when it was dark. The background of dark sky was a bit eerie. I wondered how the dark sky will look when lit up with colorful fireworks.

Do you wish to see such a scene-virtually I mean? Go to Cyber Fireworks.
You can choose several locations and Grand Canyon is one of them. When the screen comes up, just click the mouse on the empty sky. Don't forget to turn on the speakers. Watch the sky lit up with striking range of color fireworks.

Free.Create your own icons.

I am a forum buff. Rather, I used to be a forum buff but any more. I simply don't have time to visit forums.

There are certain forums I used to visit quite often mainly for the avatars or icons. I have seen beautiful icons and I never failed to appreciate them. When I asked how did they create such wonderful icons, a few replied that I go to Buddy Con.

This website offers us to create our own icon for free and we can use the icons in our blogs, web sites or in IMs as our identity.

I wanted to view their gallery of icons but the page never opened. I though at least I will see some the icons created by users recently but that attempt also failed.

Fly to Cyprus with me.

So, I have started using my new credit card to earn valuable reward points that will then get converted as air miles. I listened to my friend’s advice; she is enjoying the frequent travel by plane now.

When I told her I rarely travel, she encouraged me to try one of the Airline Miles Credit Cards and watch the free air miles getting accumulated. She assured me that once I see those free air miles, my desire to travel by plane will be self revealing.

Then I read several blogs that wrote about how certain credit cards reward their customers with free air miles. Some blogs directed me to a few web sites where I can read about the offers of various credit card issuing companies. I chose CreditCardSearchEngine.com as it is one of the Internet’s longest running sites for online credit card comparison.

It allows house wives like me to search, compare, and apply for all types of credit card offers, everything from low interest and reward card to cards for people with bad to average credit.

My choice destination once I can redeem the free air miles will be Cyprus. I encouraged my husband also to apply for one of those credit cards so that we can travel together.

Oh, what a day it will be!

Beautiful man made roses.

What a beauty, these roses!

I am a lover o roses! But then, who is not? These roses are not plucked away from a rose plant. These roses are made from maple leaves. I stumble onto this deliberately.

Yes, from the stumble upon tool bar, I was jumping from websites to websites of images only. This image attracted my attention.

Do you ant to make these roses? Then please visit Haha.

Workout your browsing cost.

I informed by my online friend that I used to workout my cost of time and I concluded that working for Mahalo is almost like working for free. The rate of pay is that much low when compared to blogging for money.

When my friend asked how do I work out the cost, I told her that I keep track of my working hours.

I saw a blog post by Mashable.com today about some FireFox tools that monitor our browsing history and warns us if we spend too much time on a particular website. I immediately thought of Mahalo and if these tools will help me accurately calculate my working hours on Mahalo.

I was really surprised to find out when I fully read the blog post by Mashable that Mahalo is excluded. What do I gauge from this?

Oh yes, on these FireFox tools, I liked this tool "Timer" - a very simple extension that does nothing but count the time from when you start it until you tell it stop. Good way to at least monitor how much time you’ve been in front of your web browser.

Over 17,000 free e-books.

Yes, I really counted with my calculator. There are more than 17,000 e-books for us to read online free of cost. Or, you can just and copy and paste in word and save it for leisurely reading.

But these books are not like other ebooks we have come across that are presented in PDF format. These so called ebooks are presented just as words in the web page itself. If we want to store it, we can do only copy and paste.

Of course, you can always save the entire web page itself but that is your choice.

Following the catalog of ebooks. I skimmed through a few and let me tell you that that quality of the content is just superb. A 'must bookmark' web site.

American_Literature (2369)
British_Literature_New (3049)
British_Literature_Old (847)
Children (1715)
Cooking (70)
Fine_Art_And_Music (307)
Games (60)
History (2035)
Music (328)
Philosophy (154)
Reference (19)
Religion (1013)
Science (625)
Social (537)
Travel (164)
Victoriana (134)
World_Literature (2781)
World_Reference (1225)

Automatic wealth building plan from ING bank.

Well, not exactly from ING bank but from its subsidiary “Share Builder”, this wealth building plan is offered to us all. This once in a life time automatic investment plan is sure to build our wealth over a period of time.

They are offering two different plans of share investment; one is automatic investing and the other is real time investing. In both the type of investment plans, one can choose different pricing schemes. There is also a low cost affordable pricing for those who would like to enter with just $4.

I liked the idea of automatic investment scheme where I can just add stocks to my plan, and enter the dollar amount I want to invest for each of the stocks I choose. Another advantage is the liberty offered to schedule my time of investment like a fixed date, or in varying frequencies of days.

Here comes the most attractive aspect of this automatic investment plan-the choice of funding. We are offered four different options to fund our account.

Come on; tap the investor in you.

How Mary Poppins saved me!

I did not know that one should have sufficient knowledge about Disney’s products to entertain kids from the U.S.

I was least prepared when my sister-in-law brought her son to India for the first time and we really didn’t know how to keep him engaged. Everything in India was new and strange to him. We even could not talk to him in English because he had a heavy accent that was beyond comprehension to us.

My sister-in-law asked me if we have membership to Disney movie club. When I said no, she asked me if we have at least Disney books. No, we didn’t have.

Suddenly I remembered having studied the famous classics “Mary Poppins” and I realized immediately what her son wanted. I rang up a few of my students and somehow was to come up two DVDs of Disney movies.

Then my sister-in-law patiently explained about the Disney movie club that offers customers 3 Disney Movies for just $1.99 each when user signs up for a free membership. Her son is a big fan of Disney movies.

Your best choice for home renovation.

I share your sorrow that the weekend is over and the hateful Monday has inevitably dawned. Though I didn’t do anything memorable during the weekend, that itself made me remember it. What a lazy weekend it was.

But it did not go without any purpose. Without real attention, I started mentally drawing an extra room on the terrace. The terrace is spacious and if I built one room there, my husband could use it as his work station.

It has to be without bathroom which makes the maintenance difficult. But I was mentally adding a bay window at the rear end facing south that could virtually suck the breeze out of nowhere.

Then I made a mental note to contact esayhomerenovations.com and request an appointment. They are really good and they undertake literally every kind of home renovation work that includes flooring, air-conditioning, adding new staircase, altering the bathroom etc etc.

How I am going to meet out the expenses? May be, I will allocate the thinking and planning for the next weekend.

Mini Colorful Business Cards.

Who doesn't business cards which are also called Calling Cards now. But I prefer to call them 'Visiting' cards.

And we see see almost stereo type cards-bland and designed with haste but without taste. We rarely see colored cards with some graphics on it. We wish to have our cards too printed like that but we refrain from asking around.

Don't ask around any more. Here is you go: Moo.com

They have 100s of colors and designs for us to choose from. If you prefer to use an image that you have on your PC, you are allowed to upload it without any extra cost.

You can also drag and drop images from their system and make your cards, preview them and then order. This is also an excellent gift idea.

Here is one card I made in their web site:

Take experts’ help to increase sales.

My wallet is getting thinner as the month end approaches. Nowadays, the month end starts at the end of three weeks-isn’t it so?

I am a self employed person. But even I am not spared by the month end mysteries. I wonder how small business people are coping up with! Would they be better off if they take the help of experts that help them increase the sales and maintain it too throughout the month?

I believe so, after I was recommended to take a look at a website that offers qualified leads

Even if you are not all doing any business, you know the effectiveness of a cold call from a financial product vendor. We have all accepted their sales once or twice in our life time. SalesProcessMastery.com is committed to help small business owners with their unique services.

Their highly experienced sales coach will help business owners to systematize their sales process with the help of their targeted leads that is sure to sky rocket your sales over a short period.

Visit them to learn what they can do for you!

Money is the greatest teacher.

Somewhere in my heart, I felt a murmur. No, it is nothing physiological to worry. I mean to say that my heart did not approve of something I did or didn’t.

I am a compulsive analyst of myself and I have a shockingly self honesty system that may at times seem to be working against me.

After a few hours of pondering, I think I got it cornered. The money in my bank! That’s it, the money in my bank is smirking at me. Even after leaving something for emergency cash needs, there is some more lying idle. The idle money is begging at me to give life to it.

I decided to use it immediately by buying two silver ingots from Monex, home to a large and dedicated staff of hard asset professionals committed to serving your precious metals investment needs and being America’s best dealer with a convenient market and competitive precious metals prices.

This investment on silver will fetch fairly good returns and I am sure that is what the idle money wanted to do for me.

Free international SMS.

Warning: Please don't abuse this free facility.

Feel like sending a message to your friend or relative anywhere in the U.S.?

Go to Dial People and fill up a short form that takes the telephone number of the person to who you wish to send a message. For security purposes, your IP address will be taken for record and the date and time of your message.

The site will immediately deliver the message by calling the number you have mentioned. If the number is busy, the site will make just one more attempt only.

You can make such calls three times in a day.

I wonder what is in it for them! Why this free service?

The best coffe shop in San Francisco.

Have you been to Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco? It is in Frisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood.

Ever since reading the "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, I started calling San Francisco as Frisco. I hope you don't mind.

I heard that out of the many coffee shops in Frisco, the Blue Bottle Coffee is the most famous and is frequented by several hundreds weekly. Is it so? I have been to Frisco in my life. So, I would listen to you.

I did a Google in the net on Blue Bottle Coffee and I read they serve a great many varieties of coffee. What a pity being a Madrasi that is known for best coffee lovers in the world because, here, we get only a handful of varieties of coffee that differ only on price and not on taste or flavor.

I read about a coffee called "Chiapas" that is sold at Blue Bottle Coffee and I here, I share with you what I read about its taste.
"At a single roast level this coffee is pleasant but dainty, with sweetness but not much complexity. However, roasted at different levels and then blended together (called melange roasting in the coffee biz - a practice sadly out of fashion these days) it really comes alive: hints of sage and leather, a touch of wood smoke - a John Ford western in a cup."

Hmm... yummy yummy must be.

Image Courtesy: Google Images.

Free books and video games.

Well almost free I should say because you pay only the shipping cost.

You exchange the books you have read with books you want to read and pay only cost of postage. In Swap Tree, you can swap books, video games and DVDs.

How it works:
You list the items you want to swap and thats all you have to. The rest of finding a match for your trade is done by their system. They find you several items that are available for trade and you can browse and choose what you like.

They say that you can use the post office's Media Mail service and you can send anything for less than $2.50. That is surely affordable foe all of us-right?


Don't go to Post Office:
Yes, you need not even go to post office, weigh your item, affix the required postage stamps. Swap Tree offers you a facility that is very simple.

To find out, please visit them.

Your mood is depicted through painting.

There are periods during which we sink in to a mood that we ourselves cannot describe what it is and what is the reason behind it.

Here is a website that paints your mood. It ask you what is your mood at present plus a few other innocuous questions. Based on your answer, it creates a picture reflecting your mood.

Shall we start with me?
* Today do you feel?
Happy, Depressed, Sad, Hyper, Mad, Relaxed, Sleepy, Nervous.
I chose 'Relaxed'.

* Which best describes you?
Detail oriented, Lazy, Frantic, Poetic
I chose 'Detail Oriented'.

* Would you rather?
Travel back in time, Travel to another planet, Travel to the bottom of the sea, I would not want to do any of those
I chose 'Travel back in time.

* Which do you like better?
Summer, Winter
My choice was Winter

* Are you quiet or do you talk a lot?
Quiet, Talkative
I am Quiet.

*Which location do you like best?
Tropical Island, Alaska, Farm, Wetlands, Rain Forest, Desert, Las Vegas
I selected 'Rain Forest'.

*Choose a color.
Red, Blue, Green, Gold, Pink, Black, Purple.
I chose 'Green'.

In the next screen was this picture. Beautiful and very creative.

Click here to create your own painting.