Ruby Programming Learning

I bought a book on Ruby and it was designed by a Japanese to make coding fun and easier, with shorter codes as compared to Java. Ruby is useful for Shopify stores and you don't need to create icons, etc as in website development. The game is more competitive with siblings where one of them is a professional graphic designer, while the other is a professional coder with backend database experience. Ruby on Rails is pretty popular and I shall take my own sweet time to digest the many codes and syntax of Ruby. Eventually, I hope to be good enough to work on Freelancer or Upwork and earn much more.

I love moonlighting

I may have a full-time job to work in a home office, but nevertheless, I still moonlight part-time by blogging, completing surveys and doing micro-jobs. These are within my area of expertise and easy peasy. But don't ask me to do coding or debugging and such. You see, I am a very confused programmer and will create bugs and cannot link the logic. It is all unfamiliar territory for me. Today, I gave mum RM 900 for the household expenditure; RM 500 for her own expenses while RM 400 is to help the youngest sis to pay for the utilities, petrol, Astro, etc. Being the only parent left where I inherited my DNA, I should honor my mum, regardless of what happened in the past. As the Bible states, 'Honor your parents, then your life will be prolonged.'

Join a Good Survey for Cash through my Link

I have earned a part-time income from Toluna and if you would like to join, here is my referral link >> https://enmy.toluna.com/referral/philin135 It is not much, but about RM 20 a month, which to me, something is better than nothing at all. You also need to be active and participate in surveys. This is the most paying survey for me as compared to others which will take a very long time to hit the minimum benchmark to withdraw. And if you are lucky, you will get the 1,000,000 points daily lottery which amounts to slightly more than RM 1,200.00 It pays to be diligent and post interesting pictures, encouragements, etc.

Ruby for Kids

I am taking my leisurely time to learn Ruby programming for Kids or rather for dummies like me. You see, I am a very confused programmer and my codes will surely have bugs that need debugging with help. I chose the simplest and basic programming language that's obscure in uni, and that's FORTRAN. My knowledge of arrays, loops, do...while etc are next to nothing. Hence, I got myself a book to hopefully relearn and unlearn what I know and start from scratch again. After all, a man learned how to code using a 3D printer to print out prosthetics for the disabled. When he was asked which uni he graduated from, he replied to the University of Google.

Quayside Condo Pictures

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At QS condo in Tanjung Tokong. Mum fell on 9th June and she’s recuperating there. Hired a maid and got a caterer. After dad’s experience, she can’t stay in a nursing home. Swipe to the left.

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Above are awesome pictures of the lifestyle condominium at Quayside in Tanjung Tokong. The swimming pool was the best I had swum. Plenty of greenery lined the edge of the pool giving one a feel of being in an exotic resort. The maintenance bill is a whopping $1,600 per month. There's also a children's playground and wading pool designed like a mini beach with sundeck chairs surrounding the area. The library is also opened long hours and there are many novels to read and exercise the mind. The facilities at Quayside is certainly top-class and unrivaled in Penang. My aunt certainly has good taste and choose the unit with the best view and almost private lift. There are only 5 units with access to 4 lifts for each floor. We had stayed here for 2 months+ already for mum to recuperate fast and able to be independent again. She is 81 this year.

Make $90 profit today

I am pleased that I managed to sell my free Condotti cabin luggage bag from Ambank for a premium at $90 instead of a mere $60, due to a last-minute message from Mudah.com.my. I sold it to Nurul, who is a student, just finished her STPM and waiting to be a prisons officer through training. We met up at Tesco food court at Tanjung Tokong which is less than 5 minutes drive from Quayside Condo. The Condotti luggage bag is an extra bag that I received it free from Ambank since I subscribed to monthly insurance payment of $300 per month per policy. I have 2 similar policies here. Tomorrow, the hired maid is leaving and it is a big relief since so many things were destroyed due to her itchy fingers. As she does not take care of people's property, we better let her go earlier than usual. Mum is 90% recovered.

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

I hired a maid on 15th June 2019 from Medan, Indonesia. On the first day, she asked if my mother has an extra green jade bangle for her!!! The reason I hired her was to take care of mum who had a fall and suffered compressed disc of the spine, etc. She also had diarrhea and it comes out almost non stop. Youngest sis, wanted to send mum to a nursing home since she sent granny and dad to nursing homes and refuse to let them come back. It was not karma as I intervened and said mum is to recuperate in Quayside Condo and immediately hired a maid from a 'joker factory' for her. The maid was Yati, I call her yeti, the beast. She had the audacity to break the glass door with so many lines of cracks to show her dissatisfaction when mum asked that youngest one help distribute my late father's estate to me and youngest sis, bypassing the second sis, since she did not contribute a cent for 5 years while doing her Ph.D. which took from 3 years to 5 years.

Yeti even used mum's handphone to download 25-30 apps of Dangdut music with baby laughing so loudly being played. I had the impression, yeti was using her own handphone since she secretly found her handphone in the drawer that I kept away from her. Well, her itchy hands just love to open and discover new things and perhaps look for loose cash here and there!

Mum's bone's density has more or less recovered at age 80 from osteoporosis to osteopenia. This means that the Forteo injection that costs RM 1,600 a month using dad's pension was helping her bone density. In the first 3 days, she even wanted to borrow RM 500 from mum, then me and then sis. It was all youngest sis' fault; spoiling her to bits by giving her 3 nightgowns, and more than 10 pieces of her branded t-shirts that she could no longer wear for the last 10 years. Yeti became bold and brazen, disobeyed orders and finished up my Ensure milk even though she has her own cheaper milk that we gave to her! I only drank 3 cups and the RM 84 Ensure milk tin was finished.

She also ate out 'bak kua' without permission. She will cut them into pieces and fry with rice for her dinner and other meals. There were 12 pieces of 'bak kua', where I had 4, mum 1, my spouse 1 and there rest, she just 'hau kor' away. Well for being disobedient, too brazen and bold, I decided to shorten her stay from 3 months to 2 months and that very day, she slammed the door showing her anger. The agent seems to inform her what's happening or rather the agent's other maid seems to inform yeti of her early dismissal. Well, good riddance to bad rubbish this 15th August 2019, her last day. Also mum's RM 10 is missing and we cannot let yeti stay at home in Island Park since mum's cash is kept all over the house including her costly jewelry.

Looking for Opportunities

It is 2:15am here and I am now blogging for opportunities while updating this blog. I am a night owl, as they say, but sometimes, I feel very tired at these early hours of dawn. Well, in the US, it is noontime. This is the time where they are actively working or having lunch for the employees. My spouse is fast asleep, but being the workaholic that I am, I am writing this blog to update it. I don't like to neglect any blogs that I maintain if I have the time. As you might know by now, blogging takes effort and don't be an ordinary blogger.