At 2.30am this morning we received a phone call from Herman. Just as I expected, he brings sad news to everyone. His father, my uncle has passed away at University Hospital early this morning.

Let us pray for his soul to rest in peace.

We’ll miss you, Ah peh.

2 weeks ago, I got a mail sent from Buffalo, NY. Thinking that it was just another bank statement (yes, when you get to your late twenties, you’ll have plenty of mails from the bank), I chucked it aside. 2 days later, I decide to clear my pile of mails and to my surprise, the ’supposingly’ bank statement turns out to be a cheque from GOOGLE INC., issued by CITIBANK, NY!

Finally, I’ve got a decent payback from my time spent on the Internet. Well, this is not my first cheque that I’ve received. I did received a cheque for USD4.85 long time ago but I never did bother to bank in. After conversion, it’s only less than RM20 and the bank will charge me for processing fee and that will cost me RM30 for overseas cheques which totally pointless. So I never did bank in that cheque and I don’t know what happened to it now.

This time, GOOGLE or GOODGLE INC. as I like to call it now, paid me USDXXX! (Yes, it’s a 3 digit figure. I just found out that it’s against Google’s policy to display my income. So too bad :P) Which is quite a decent pay for almost a year effort.

I’m sure you have gotten your share from GOOGLE INC. as well and this is nothing new to some of you. Even though it’s a small amount, it’s definitely nice to get paid off for the effort you’ve put in.

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