Facebook – How To Select All Your Friends In One Blink – Applicable For Events/Pages/Groups

May 23rd, 2010

Ever tried suggesting a Facebook Fan Page to your friends? How about a Facebook Groups? Or inviting your friends to your created Events? It’s easy if you only have 10 friends or so, it would only take 10 clicks and you are done. But, if you have 5000 friends, then I think you would agree that it would take a million years before you finish selecting them all.

There is this javascript code that you can see in most groups that suggest posting on your browser so that you can easily select all your friends, see it below:

javascript:
elms=
document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');
for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

This still works in Google Chrome but it will hang your Firefox browser if you try that code.

So, I’ve found a new code on the web and it is much simpler than the above code. You also need to post this code on your browser address bar.

To Select All Your Friends
javascript:fs.select_all()

To Deselect All Your Friends
javascript:fs.unselect_all()

The code above works on Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome. It would also work on Pages, Groups and Events.

So what are you waiting for? Test it and have fun :)

Facebook Castle Age Tips

February 20th, 2010

How to add a facebook friend into your Castle Age army?

* Applies when you recently added a friend for your army and he has no link for my army posted on his profile.
* Applies when you want another way to add a friend to your army.
* Tested on Mozilla Firefox.

1. Create a bookmark. Edit the location with this:

javascript:{nibor=document.location.href.split(‘=’)[1];%20document.location.href=’http://apps.facebook.com/castle_age/index.php?tp=cht&lka=’+nibor+’&buf=1′;}

castle age army add

castle age army add

Explanation of the code:

javascript:
{
nibor=document.location.href.split(‘=’)[1]; //put the profile id on nibor variable
%20document.location.href=’http://apps.facebook.com/castle_age/index.php?tp=cht&lka=‘+nibor+’&buf=1‘; //change the address to castle age add army format inserting the address saved on nibor
}

2. Go to your friend’s profile. Address on your browser should looked like this:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789

3. Click the bookmark you have created from step 1.

How to add a facebook friend to your EliteGuard?

1. Create a bookmark. Edit the location with this:

javascript:{nibor=document.location.href.split(‘=’)[1];%20document.location.href=’http://apps.facebook.com/castle_age/party.php?twt=jneg&jneg=true&user=’+nibor+’&lka=’+nibor+’&ref=nf’;}

2. Go to your friend’s profile. Address on your browser should looked like this:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789

3. Click the bookmark you have created from step 1.

Abraham – How to manifest financial abundance by emotional journey

February 7th, 2010

Disclaimer:

The following is my transcription of a part of Abraham Workshop that is not in anyway come from the transcription that was being sold by Hay House.

It is my intention that this transcription would shed some light of understanding regarding the use emotional journey for manifesting money. Embarking emotional journey means you are trusting the power of the Universe to manifest whatever you want in an effortless way.

The following is the transcription from Boca Raton, Florida workshop dated January 15, 2005 starting at 4 hr 16 min.

Woman: “I’m glad to be here and 3 years ago I sat in this chair and asked you to clean up my vibration to attract my soulmate, which I did a month later. And we got married a year later to the day and we are celebrating today 2nd wedding anniversary. And he truly is more than I ever expected. And..”

Abraham: “Not true. Can’t be.”

Woman: “I know! But I just amazed myself.”

Abraham: “More than you expected in the beginning but you have trained yourself into greater and greater expectation so he keeps becoming all that you want him to be.

Woman: “So I’ve figured if I can manifest him, I can manifest anything. And so…”

Abraham: “So, your time is up. (People laughs)

Woman: “Well that’s right. I like little more help with I’m now ready to manifest my financial abundance that is greater at one point in my life and I thought could ever be possible.”

stack-of-money

lots and lots of money :drool:

Abraham: “But, what took place within you, in other words, you were in a place where you really wanted something that you weren’t a vibrational match to, and in your words we helped you clean up your vibration. So, can you give us a brief description of, you, you hear now, in light of what we are talking about here today, that all we did was helped you take an emotional journey. You got you feeling better about that. So, it’s a same process relative to dollars. So..”

Woman: “I think what I didn’t realize at that time with my soulmate, ’cause I’ve been working for 4 yrs and nothing. And what you have helped me realize this.”

Abraham: “Well of course. Beating the drum of what you want from a vibration that this’nt letting it in could go on eternally.”

Woman: “True. But I think you could helped me to clarify was that I was focusing on what would it feel like in the future instead of in the present. And so you had me role model with you what would it feel like to have him sitting like.. immediately. And that’s what we did. And for whatever reason, it shifted and here he was.”

Abraham: “Well we have to say to you that.. with that little bit of effort you were almost there. In other words, 99.99% of all creation is complete before you see any physical evidence of it. And you’ve been wanting that and thinking about it for so long that your vibrational escrow was out there looming and a little bit of allowing goes a long way when you focus that hard about something. And it’s interesting because the subject of dollars is like that too. Because so much attention has gone toward that subject that there’s really a wonderful thing that is looming there. But the thing we want you to hear, we’ve said a few times today, but it is easier for you to hear it in direct relationship to this question, you have to find a way to make where you are OKAY before you can let where you are improve. And that is a really interesting thing, you can’t be pulsing with the feeling of not enough money and change it. You have to find a way to feel more satisfied where you are. We’ve offered two games, three games really, but two that have been the most significant in helping people shift their vibration about dollars. And the reason they work is it causes you to approach the subject of dollars in a way you have not done before. Now, describe to us if you will before we offer this, what is your current feeling about your current financial situation, in other words, what is it feel like? Are you optimistic, pessimistic? Are you worried? Are you anticipating good things? Where do you think your vibrational set-point is?

Woman: “I feel probably in the last several months that I made a very… uhm”

Abraham: “We don’t care, we wanna know where you are right NOW”

Woman: “I feel very positive about it and I feel very good in my.. uhm.. I feel secure in my anticipation that its coming, I mean, I’m much more hopeful than I’ve ever been before”

Abraham: “Good, all right. So.. so now, talk to us about money. Just ramble and let us see as you ramble here and just talk on and on and there’s no right or wrong here. As you ramble, we all will be able to feel if your vibration is really at the hopeful set-point, or if it is not so hopeful or if it is more hopeful. So just talk to us, how are things what’s it’s like?”

Woman: “Uhm.. I think life is really good right now”

Abraham: “Please speak specifically about financial conditions”

Woman: “Uhm.. Okay. I have fun spending money. I have fun going out to dinner with my friends and my family and I have fun going on trips and travelling and buying new clothes and thinking about future travel and thinking about buying planes and..”

Abraham: “Does anybody coming hear a ‘but’ coming up? (people laughs)

Woman: “Uhm..”

Abraham: “Say it.. it’s alright.. but?”

Woman: “No! I don’t really feel the ‘but’. I think the biggest difference from me is that in the past I have always have.. have a logical means that game is money.”

Abraham: “We want to give you something here and we think that’s really part of it because when you know how its gonna come it’s kinda easy for you to expect it. But the thing that we really want you to hear and the reason that we invited you here is because it’s so important for everyone here to hear this is that we want you to understand that if you.. if you feel pessimistic and you admit it and then you reach for more optimistic thoughts you clean your vibration up faster than if you feel pessimistic and pretend that you feel optimistic, in other words, there’s no danger in owning up to even if.. even if it’s not valid, owning up to a more resistant set-point than you really have because if you say ‘Oh, I feel fearful about money’ and then you begin talking about it, then you realize “Hey! I’m no way near fear, I’m up here in reasonable optimism” there’s some sort of momentum that takes place immediately. So, you’re better off to start lower and reach higher than you are claim to be higher than you are. And that’s.. that is the reason, we’re just gonna say this in a really blunt way, the reason that so many people hold themselves in a place of less than they want on a myriad of subjects is because they offer words that sound better than they really feel. So, they keep fooling themselves and then they make no effort and they have no way of feeling, they have no way of quantifying their journey! In other words, if you are saying you don’t mean or you don’t really feel and.. and.. so, you just feel the way you feel the way you feel..”

Woman: “That’s why I want you to help me flush out to figure out exactly where I am. So I kinda know the baby steps to take to get to where I want to be.”

Abraham: “Well, how do you think you feel? What do you think the emotion is? We don’t feel that it’s optimistic. We don’t feel that it’s pessimistic.”

Woman: “I think my feeling is that I’m going along and everything is really good. And I’m feeling very hopeful and then there maybe less money and they count and I started to worry again.”

Abraham: “Well, you know what you’re doing? You are doing what a lot of people do. You’re barking on something changing on the action journey that will positively affect the emotional journey.”

Woman: “Yes”

Abraham: “And that is so crippling! Because now, you have to control conditions so that you’ll feel better and if you could control the conditions you would have already done it. So it’s like shooting yourself in the foot. So you’ve got to separate the action journey from the emotional journey and you’ve gotta.. and so.. did.. did you get that? That was really good. So.. so now.. that was really good! (People laughs and I laugh too). So now, what do you think the emotion is that you feel around money? And we’ll just give you some multiple choice and you see where it feels.”

Woman: “Okay”

Abraham: “Does it feel like ecstasy or does it feel like fear? Neither one are perfect choice but which way does it lean?”

Woman: “More fear”

Abraham: “Does it feel like fear or does it feel like hope? Neither one is perfect but which way does it lean?”

Woman: “I think it feels like more hope.”

Abraham: “Does it feel like hope or does it feel like worry? Neither one is perfect but which way does it lean?”

Woman: “Worry”

Abraham: “Does it feel like worry or does it feel like possible?”

Woman: “Uhm.. probably more worry”

Abraham: “So, you are worried about money.”

Woman: “Imagine that”

Abraham: “Imagine that (People laughs). So now your emotional journey..now what’s slightly up the emotional scale from worry? We don’t think hope is very far from there.”

Woman: “No. I mean.. I’ve saying myself that I’ve always been okay. I’ve always been on my feet. I’ve always had enough.”

Abraham: “well, what you have been doing hasn’t been working. So let’s do something different.”

Woman: “Okay”

Abraham: “So here you are in this vibration of worry. So now, you have one simple assignment, talk the worry down, try to talk in a way about money that gives you relief. That’s all. And you’ll know if you find something that gives you relief and you know if you’ll find something that doesn’t”

Woman: “I have always enough for what I need.”

Abraham: “Good statement.”

Woman: “A lot of times I have more than enough than for what I need.”

Abraham: “Good statement.”

Woman: “A lot of times I have plenty for what I want! Far more than what I need.”

Abraham: “Alright, so now.. now let those statements settle in because they’re factual statements you made them when you said them, did the worry dissolve at all in those statements?”

Woman: “Uh huh (nods)

Abraham: “Alright, then you’re on the roll so now keep talking like that.”

Woman: “Receiving money makes me feel really excited. I feel anticipation about new opportunities that are coming up to draw more money and to my life.”

Abraham: “Alright, stop for just a minute. Are you feeling relief in that?”

Woman: “No.”

Abraham: “You know you’re not are you? So, those statements aren’t helping because you don’t quite believe those statements and so you just step backwards, in other words, your journey becomes quantifiable. Can you feel it? So now keep talking and see if you can get some relief from that.”

Woman:(silent)

Abraham: “In other words, all that happened is you just try to jump too far.”

Woman: “Okay”

Abraham: “You went from worry into hopefulness and you try to get really positive expectation that was too big of a jump. So, just go back to where you are and start again. You can even start at worry if you want to but worry doesn’t quite fit anymore.”

Woman: “No. Uhm.. I believe I’m worthy of being financially abundant.”

Abraham: “We don’t feel any disagreement in your vibration about that.”

Woman: “Okay. Uhm.. I believe.. (in small voice) oh.. I start saying something not true”

Abraham: “Now, don’t. (Woman laughing) Now don’t lose track of what your goal here is reaching for relief from that knot of worry.”

Woman: “Uhm.. Money is fun.”

Abraham: “True enough.”

Woman: “Money offers freedom?”

Abraham: “True enough but that feeling is uncomfortable.”

Woman: “No! That like feels really good to me.”

Abraham: “Good. Then ride it.”

Woman: “Uhm.. All things are possible?”

Abraham: “We’ve think you’ve taken a big enough jump now that you are not feeling it anymore. So step back and say something that you really feel.”

Woman: “I have the ability to attract whatever level of money I choose.”

Abraham:

“And now, I’m learning about this emotional journey stuff.

I realize that I’m sort of barking at the wrong tree.

And I’m really feeling pretty hopeful even downright optimistic because I’m realising that I’m good at taking this emotional journey and

I’ve shifted already and that’s been the only thing that’s been in my way and

I’ve been thinking that I have to figure out how, or where, when or who.. when now I’m understanding that all I have to do to consistently get feeling better and that’s a piece of cake because I was able to do that sitting here in a whole room full of people and now

I’ve acknowledge that I’ve been feeling worried and that feeling of worry has been my indicators that my vibration is in a place I haven’t been able to let us much money that as I’m wanting, now

I’ve broken loose of that so I’m anticipating that money are gonna start flowing a little better already

and as money starts flowing a little better then I have evidence that my shift from worry into hopefulness as happened for me I have the evidence and confidence that I’ve made some headway

plus it was fun just to get let go of a little bit of worry and I’m looking forward to the next thing that happens where I can really feel that I feel worried because I’m gonna go right to work and move right past the worry and within 3 or 4 days I think I can have left worry about money far in my past and I think I will have stabilize in a place of more positive expectation and I’m really anticipating that things are gonna begin to shift for me and

I know that I deserve it and I’ve known that I’ve deserve it for a long time and now

OH! I’m so exhilarated because now I understand what I’ve been doing that’s keeping it from coming and I’m not gonna do that again without knowing that I’m doing it because I understand that negative emotion means that I’m doing that thing thats keeping it from coming and now even though I’ll probably will do that thing everybody does do that thing where I feel some negative emotion I will not be doing it in a blind way I’ll be doing it in a conscious way and because I really want to feel good I will reach for thought that feels better and every avenue of my life is bound to improve including this subject of dollars. Yeah. Yeah.”

Woman: “‘kay. ‘kay”

Abraham: “Yes. Indeed. (people claps)

Whew.. that was long.. hopefully you get the message. I’ll try to transcript more of Abraham teachings especially on the subject of money and relationships. And now, let me share you Abraham’s magnificent closing remarks on this workshop.

Abraham: You can be unhappy or as happy as you decide to be, but now you know what to do about it. You now know how to take an emotional journey and friends, we want so much for you to hear us and believe us and you cannot do that because words do not teach but teach yourself through the examples that you are offered on a day to day basis. Show yourself that life really is a series of emotional journeys and show yourself that when you create from the inside-out when you care about your vibration and you tend to it,  so that you tend to the alignment of the energy within you all of the resources of the Universe come into alignment to assist you. And those who are watching from the outside even though they cannot feel what you are feeling will be amazed at the seeming perfection of your life. Don’t do it for them, do it for the feeling within you.

We have enjoyed this interaction more than physical words can describe it .. really has been co-creating at its best. Some of it felt a little slow but there is not one of you here today who does not now understand the distinction between the action journey and the emotional journey. You now have a viable means to tend to your own vibration which means you can control anything and everything about your personal life experience. There isn’t anything that you want for any other reason that you believe in having of it that you will feel better, whether it’s a material object, a pile of money, and an improve relationship, or an improved bodily condition, everything you want is because you think you would feel better in the having of it. And we’ve just shown you that you can feel better whether you have it or not and when you do.. then you MUST have it. There is great love here for you. We are complete.

If you are interested in Abraham-Hicks materials you can visit their website.

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

January 17th, 2010

This is one powerful article. I have been suggesting this to my friends who are not happy with their job. Why they shouldn’t continue doing what they don’t want to do. Why trading time for money is the worst trade. Here are the 10 Reasons from Steve Pavlina’s Blog. I just want to share it here with you.

By Steve Pavlina

1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?

Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?

Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.

Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.

The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?

Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?

3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.

Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?

How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?

Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?

Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…

4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half …….

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Law of Attraction: Attracting a Specific Person

January 17th, 2010

I have found this very helpful post about Law of Attraction for attracting a specific person. In case you don’t know what LoA is, better check this Abraham-Hicks site and the movie The Secret. It could totally change the way you look at our world.

By Brightmiracles.com

How to attract a Specific Person?

One of the most often asked questions is “Can you attract a specific person using the law of attraction?” The good news is Yes you can absolutely attract a specific person in your life in a relationship you choose and with success.

Love is the most important emotion of all in this entire universe. When it comes to money, jobs, and so many other things people don’t really have that much difficulty in manifesting. In matters of the heart if you don’t get what you want the pain is maximum. The one you love, that specific person, is the most important person for you, and even the entire world cannot substitute for that person. Now I have absolutely great news for you today. Yes, you can attract that specific person you are in love with. So today allow yourself to be absolutely elated and just follow the procedure below.

Desire and Desperation – You need to let go of the desperation

While desire is a sacred energy, an energy of creation, desperation is just the opposite, a destructive energy. When desire is unfulfilled the void is taken over by desperation. While desire is a pure and good energy, desperation is a powerful negative energy. Desire creates those vibes in you to attract, desperation creates just the opposite vibes, to repel. When you fell in love with that special person, the sacred seed of desire was sown in you. Due to whatever reasons when that desire was unfulfilled desperation crept in. So the first step is remove that desperation. Clear all desperation.


How to clear desperation?

The easiest way to clear desperation is to let go. Surrender to the light of divine love of the Universe. Imagine a beautiful light of divine love, a pure radiant love light. Just surrender to that beautiful sparkling light. That light created you, gave you everything that you possess, and that light simply loves you, no matter what you have done so far. That light is forgiving, 100% pure love and powerful enough to create a beautiful reality beyond your wildest imagination. When you fell in love that light was silently telling you what to do, only if you listened. So let go of everything, surrender and start anew. Today submit yourself to that divine light and affirm to yourself you let go, you surrender and you allow that Divine Light to create a bright future, a bright love life for you. You accept the divine will because the divine will make your life far happier than you can imagine.

Once you do this you let go of any attachment to the result. Now the fun part begins.

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Custom inconvenience: About My Books ordered from Amazon Japan

December 30th, 2009

I have ordered three books from Amazon Japan last March 19, 2009.

I choose Expedited FedEx delivery so that my orders would arrive here within 3 days. It already took months, so I checked the package tracking and I noticed that my order was hold in Paranaque Post Office. I didn’t receive any notice from the PO.

This is what I have ordered:
* 1 点 Kanji in context [ Reference Book ] ―中・上級学習者のための漢字と語彙 (Reference book)
販売: Amazon.com Int’l Sales, Inc.
* 1 点 Kanji in context [ Workbook Vol. 1 ] ―中・上級学習者のための漢字と語彙 (Workbook vol.1)
販売: Amazon.com Int’l Sales, Inc.
* 1 点 Kanji in context [ Workbook Vol. 2 ] ―中・上級学習者のための漢字と語彙 (Workbook Vol.2) (Kanji in Context Series) (Kanji in Context
販売: Amazon.com Int’l Sales, Inc.

Total is 9,700 yen or 4850 php (2yen/1php) including shipping and other charges.

Those books were always out of stock. So I was always on look out for these books. The moment they were available in Amazon Japan, I immediately ordered without a second thought. Since I also have a plan to take JLPT 3 again this year.

Then when I asked Amazon customer service for what happened to my order. They investigate it and they emailed me this:

Thank you for waiting the reply from Amazon.co.jp.

Regarding your inquiry, I could find out the situation on the shipment for the order #XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX.

Actually, we had confirm that you had refused to pay the custom tax when the FedEx had tried to deliver it, and they are holding this package then.

The details of the tax:

CUSTOMS FORMS/STAMPS PHP: 315.00
DUTIES AND TAXES PHP: 1,824.00
STORAGE FEE PHP: 826.45
————————-
Total: 2965.45

You may be subject to import duties and taxes, which are levied once a shipment reaches your country. Additional charges
for customs clearance must be borne by you; we have no control over these charges and cannot predict what they may be.

Upon calling the Post Office and confirming the amount Custom was charging me, I decided to cancel my order. They are asking me almost 61% of the total cost of my order!

So I emailed back Amazon Japan about my decision of canceling my order. Here is their reply:

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Thank you for writing to Amazon.co.jp.

If you want to cancel your order, please contact your local FedEx and let them know that you are willing to refuse the package and return the package to the shipper.

We will process your refund when we receive the package and send confirmation of the refund via e-mail. Refunds are processed within 7 to 14 business days of our receiving.

So I called the PO and tell them that I’m returning back the books to the shipper. And they said they would process it.

I waited for few weeks, then after checking Amazon. It seems that my ordered books was not returned! I called back the PO and heard the worst words I could ever hear. “We are sorry but your books has been incinerated!” Whoa!! They said that the books have been idling for too long in their storage and decided to burn it. Damn! I asked them if there’s no hope to recover it and they said no. Waaaaaa… my books was gone and so is my money. Because of this, I lost the will to continue my study of Nihongo and decided not to take JLPT this December.

After this incident, I fear of ordering online again. This has never been happened before. :(

Windows 2000 warning: 1 min to shutdown

December 13th, 2009

Okay, one of the PC from our Plant got some really weird error. It’s a Windows 2000 system and whenever you load windows a popup goes with error saying like this:

The system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

The system process C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\SERVICES.EXE terminated unexpectedly with status code 128. The system will shut down and restart.

From Microsoft site:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318447

Once that popup appear, it will start a 1 minute countdown before shutting down the system. Here’s the problem, I can’t fix it if it doesn’t let me in. I know that I can issue a command “shutdown -a” to abort the countdown but I can only do it if I have access to a CMD prompt or on the Run menu.  So here some of ways I have tried:

1. Normal boot,  not a chance. Computer too slow to load before I can have glimpse of the Start menu. Failed.

2. Normal Safe Mode (the first option), popup still appears. But loading goes up to Windows Logon. I press Enter and nothing happens. Failed.

3. Safe Mode with Command Prompt (the usual third option), goes up to Windows Logon. I press Enter and after a few seconds, a CMD prompt appears. Countdown is now on 15 seconds. I quickly typed “shutdown -a”. Error appears it wasn’t supported. Damn! Computer now reboots itself. Failed.

4. Boot Windows CD. Goes to setup, and enter Recovery Console. Type “help”. I didn’t find a command to be of any use. Failed.

5. Boot Windows CD. Goes to setup, press R, choose Quick Restore. After rebooting and loading windows. Popup still there. Failed.

6. Boot Windows CD. Goes to setup, press R, choose Manual Restore. Same with no. 5. Failed.

This time, I almost gave up.  And take a break.

Going back from the Microsoft support page, I think I have to try the registry thing. I decided to create Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCDWin 3.50) because it says that it has an offline Registry Editor.

7. I load UBCD CD.  Load Registry Editor. Unfortunately, I can’t find the key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Shares. Failed.

I decided to scan the disk for virus. But before that, I need to clear first if it got any disk errors. I run Chkdsk. It repairs some errors, maybe due to improper shutdown. I also run Chkdsk -r to locate bad sectors and repair them.

I have run AntiVir. It doens’t found anything. Tried McAfee Stinger, none too. Tried Spybot, still no signs of malware or virus or anything.

I have found this site: http://www.anetforums.com/posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=42845. It says deleting Winsock2 from the Registry. I load the Editor and delete it. After rebooting, it still doesn’t work.

Now, I’m running out of options. I’ve started to explore from the programs included on UBCD. Clicking here and there. LOL.. Then this one program save my day.

ezpcfix from ubcd

ezpcfix from ubcd

Can be found on Programs -> Anti-Spyware Tools -> EZPcFix

I clicked that Winsock/Winsock2 then restarted the computer. The popup error was now gone!! How nice..  Since it involved Winsock2, I tested it for network connection. It can’t connect to the internet. Or access a shared resource.

I decided to uninstall TCP/IP from Network Connection. Then restart.

Then after I reinstall TCP/IP, no more popup error and my network connectivity is back :)

Ordered Books from Amazon Shipped by JAC

November 24th, 2009

So, having my free time occupied by reading lots of different e-books, well mostly, personal development and positive thinking type. I want to own a paperback version of those books that I deemed to be very useful so that I can share it at home. But after my last traumatic experience of ordering online, see my previous post here, I need to find a way of bringing my ordered books to safety :) . I learned from reading forums here and there that some are using a reroute system.  So using our favorite search engine, here’s what I think to be a likely candidate:

1. Johnny Air Cargo

2. Manila Forwarder

3. Pobox.ph

4. MyUS.com

5. Xend Express

After reading and analyzing each, I decided to give Johnny Air Cargo (JAC) a try. Since they’ve been operating since 2006 and are still active so I guess they are doing a great job, ne? Hehe. So reading from another blog and verifying in JAC location, I emailed Miss Analyn Diego:

Hello!!

I’m going to order books from Amazon.com and I’m thinking of using Johnny Air Cargo to ship my orders here in Philippines.

What steps should I do? Where do I register?

Thank you.

Surprisingly, she got on me very fast and she replied back this:

Dear (My Name),

Thank you for your email. You do not need to register.

Once you decide on what to order-please ask your vendor to label the package as follows:

JOHNNY AIR RETAIL

C/O ANALYN-ROBIN POGI
69-04 ROOSEVELT AVE.
WOODSIDE, NY 11377

(718) 672-7080

Please email the tracking number once it’s available.

Please advise me your contact number and the branch where you want to pick up your package.

Thank you for your email and hope to so business with you.
Sincerely,

Analyn Diego
69-04 Roosevelt Ave.
Woodside, NY 11377
(718)672-7080
analynd@aol.com

There. So I made my purchased at Amazon and ordered these 4 books:

2 of : The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence (Revised)

1 of : The Secret of the Soul: Using Out-of-Body Experiences to Understand Our True Nature

1 of : Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self

Ohh, those books sound weird right? Heheh, we’ll I’m weird so there’s nothing unusual on those books  :) . The first one, is about personal development and I ordered two because I’m going to give one as a gift to one of my friend. The 2nd and 3rd book is about OBE and Lucid Dreaming. I’ll talk more about those topics later and maybe post some reviews on those books. And by the way, those books are over $25 so shipping is free :) .

So those orders was shipped on November 10, 2009.  Using tracking on Amazon it arrived at JAC warehouse on November 15. It was then shipped by JAC from New York to Philippines on November 19. I picked it up then on SM Megamall on November 24. The books are sealed in a hard plastic and put inside of a Amazon box and weight 3 lbs. When I arrived on SM Megamall, I picked it up in its original Amazon box without any sign of tampering. That’s nice eh? I then pay their service and shipping free of around 1300 pesos since it weights 3 lbs. The fee is based on weight by the way.

Overall, I’m happy with JAC service :) . I got my books unharmed and I have dealed with their very friendly agents. Oh, even the staffs of JAC at SM Megamall are very accomodating.

I would definitely use their service again in the near future. Ciao! :)