Do you know that lasik is the most performed surgery in the US? One would figure that other surgeries like plastic or breast enhancement would top the list. No pun intended.

Lasik is virtually painless, and recovery period is very fast too. Patients can see clearly typically within 2 to 3 days. It eliminates the need for contact lenses or glasses.

Stahl Eye Center is the leading lasik surgery center in the US with good reputation and served by doctors who graduated from top medical universities like UCLA.

I stumbled upon this website while surfing through the endless seas of junk and information overload. It is pretty interesting, and I joined right away after learning what you can do with it.

Redgage basically is a website where you can upload pictures, write stuff, share links and make new friends. The best part is, you get paid for it! The basic premise is that the more views you get to your uploaded content, the more you earn. And if you are lucky, your content might get featured and you instantly get a boost to your earning, typically in the range of $2.00 to $5.00.

Not bad for a couple minutes of work, aiy? Anyway, I uploaded just a picture yesterday and it had 15 views, a 5 star rating and earned $0.01.

… *deafening silence ensues*

Anyway, if you are the type that write stuff, and you have a lot of pictures in your hard drive, why not try Redgage for yourself and see what happens. Who knows, you might get addicted to it.

By the way, they pay the earnings by sending a preloaded Redgage Visa debit card. I checked the stuff out, and seems like there are a lot of charges that comes with it if you use the card. But still, better than nothing eh?

Anyway, here is the link if you are interested.

Click here to join under me and become a super man-eating money-printing robot!

I absolutely love this artist. She is so talented, so pretty and blessed with a wonderful voice. My kind of girl

I may not know about you, but personally I find them annoying, pesky and downright a thorn in the flesh. Or a pain in the bum. Whichever you choose.

For me, privacy is an integral part of my life. If I choose not to add people I do not know, it is my choice. I hate people, complete strangers, whom I know nothing about, coming up to me in social networking sites and say “hey let’s be friends add me pweez.” To that I say go jump off a bridge, I do not even know you.

I only add personal friends I know in Facebook. Keeps the interface clean and simple. No more stupid updates from vague acquaintances. I just went and deleted like two dozen contacts whom I regard as no more than annoying additions to my Facebook-ing experience.

And what a relief it was to slam the door in their faces.

What would you feel when someone adds you just for fun? At first it might seem okay, there is no harm done right? Yet after some time it gets annoying. You get updates from people you barely know. I really, really despise that.

So yeah. Goodbye strangers.

Have you ever heard of the term social media? If you have not, then I am pleased to at least introduce you to this concept.

Social media phenomenon has been around since the advent of Web 2.0 – again this might be a new term to you. We have been exposed to Web 1.0 since the dawn of Internet, where content on the Internet are created primarily by businesses, webmasters and gigantic Internet portals such as Yahoo! and MSN.

With Web 2.0, there exist another side to the equation – user-generated content. Previously, content lying around on the Internet cannot be controlled by us. Pathetic aiy? Good news is, with advancement of technology, many user-generated and user-centred sites have popped up like mushroom after rain (translate that to Malay yourself). These include high profile sites like Facebook, MySpace, Friendster (sadly, nearing its end), and so on.

It all started when weblogs, or popularly called ‘blogs’, became mainstream. Previously the domain of geeks and Internet lovers, now even grandpa’s and grandma’s have blogs. The growth of blogs around the world is unprecedented. The fact that you are reading this shows that you might have caught up in the blog ‘tsunami’ too.

So you have blogs, you connect with friends in Facebook etc.. that is great, of course. My task here is to introduce you to various social media sites that you might not know.

Now what is social media exactly? Well according to Wikipedia -

Social media is online content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. Social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content; it’s a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. Social media has become extremely popular because it allows people to connect in the online world to form relationships for personal, political and business use. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).

This means people power! The democratisation of information, as they call it, enables users like you and me, to determine what is ‘happening’ on the web and what is not. Users now determine what they like, what they want to see, and they are the main force in voicing out opinions and belting out creative, genuine and sometimes funny user-generated content. Youtube is a huge testament to this (yes, some of you are addicted to it.)

Of course, social media are not limited to that. There are many sites that you might not know and I shall introduce them in the coming posts. Examples include sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Twitter and many more.

Thank you for reading!