Food Lens is a hit!

Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls)

Photo Courtesy of Ja-minori.or.jp

Food lenses is a real hit at least for me, surprisingly.

In most cases in making lenses, I kinda second guess myself most of the time if I was doing the right thing or sometimes I'm not quite sure how to start with the things I end up like I did last time. It is somewhat a hard deal for me on how to keep up with a major fall back of ideas when I badly needed it.

So when all else fails, I tried to stick on my guts as they say. I often turn to the things which is passionately I know about or at least close to my heart... Food! The heck with it! I am a self-confessed food enthusiast but not that a heavy eater as for you to know.

Just this morning I was totally amuse to see that four of my lenses is in into the Food Top 100 since I started. It feels like I am paid for all of the hard work I put into this whole thing and it feels great to have fun and learn at the same time. Yup! I am taking everything so seriously. I don't know.

Updated as of May 15, 2008 PST

Lens Title: The Most Expensive Coffee In the World

Created: Aug 01, 2007

Payouts:

Lens Title: Easy Homemade Empanada Recipes

Created: January 03, 2008

Payouts:

Lens Title: Easy Mixed Rice Recipes

Created: April 10, 2008

Payout:

Lens Title: Bento: The Art of Japanese Boxed Meal

Created: May 06, 2008

Payout:

Cool! Finally, I inserted some screen print shots for it to be more believable. Whew! I didn't know that it really takes too long plus a little skill in paint/cropping is a must. I think I'm enjoying these free tutorials here. Thank you so much for the great help fellow lensmasters Adez and Rocky in lecturing me the basics on how to print screen shots. I truly enjoyed doing it!

Stay tuned!

Summary updates

As for this month, there are 34 lenses on my dashboard; 6 lenses on top 100; 4 lenses on top 1000 and lastly 19 on top 10000. So far so good!

I can say that I'm doing alright though at times it feels like I really need that extra effort of motivation to come up with something new and making sure that the contents is updated. My main goal is to maintain the quality rather than the quantity. Did I heard myself right? Is this really me talking?! I just hope that I'm still doing the right thing.

In the last past few months, it is really hard to keep up certain new ideas free-flowing because sometimes my eagerness is there but suddenly your body shift into this unwillingness mode, it doesn't cooperate. That is why I intentionally rest for awhile like a day off from your daily work. But it seems that in everything I do it runs through my system. Plus, I'm becoming a chronic dashboard checker nowadays. I don't know!

Let's start updating, shall we?

Every first week is Squidoo's payday. It is something I joyfully look forward to like everyone does on Squidoo... I'm actually jumping up on my chair every time I see that blue box containing my royalties in that said month. It's a surreal feeling earning extra bucks without leaving home.

Whew! It's like a breath of fresh air knowing that all your sleepless nights of updating, browsing, researching and thinking all over again are finally paying off at the end of it all!

In the last pay day for the month of March, Squidoo paid a whopping $47.70. It decrease for almost $7 unlike last month which so far one of my highest earnings since I started. I don't know. Does it has something to do with seasonal lenses like they say?

I think so. I notice that the last three months (Dec, Jan, Feb) are my highest pay day ever. I never thought that it would going to be like this exciting every month. So far so good! Oh, my! I realize that I got so many things to be thankful for especially a lot of supportive people in my life aside from my fellow lensmasters at SquidU, Squid team, HQ and all the creative minds behind this incredible platform.

Go! Go, Go! Squidooooo!

A bunch of thanks

I'm pretty much excited on coming up with this new blog that I should have done before in the first place. I am so grateful that there are people out there who are actually spending some time to check out some of the stuff I'm doing on the web in the past couple of months.

For me it's just so weird having those visits popping up every time I check my mail... A Bunch of thanks!

In my perspective, I think its now time to separate personal things in a manner that somehow I tend to be carried away with all the self-inflicted dramas. So, for the meantime let's just left them all behind.

Like what I said, if there is pain for sure there is something to gain. I'm talking about pain in general which is something a lot of us work out for at the end of the day in a positive note. I know. I'm becoming to whiny again but you see I'm not always in the shadows and I'm very much an upbeat person nowadays.

Can we get back to Squidoo?

For some of you who wouldn't know, I started squidooing last year of August 2007 which is referred to me by a dearest friend GramaBarb which I am uber-thankful that I came to learned so many incredible possible things in just one click away. I don't know. I was actually on the fondness of blogging because it is something that makes me feel better every time I wrote my thoughts and I remember I just can't stopped writing online since then. It was some sort of emotional release on whatever I was going at the end of the day.

In that same year, I was a college drop-out in Psych for several semesters just to pursue my medication. But not later on that year, I decided to take a certificate course in freelance writing which I'll finished in this coming July of this year. So, basically the biggest challenge that came on my way is on how to use my idle time in a more productive way while I am on the verge of recovery. So I realize that I needed something to divert my time on whatever things I can only do and that is writing.

Just to make the story short I did find the surest and possible comfort through writing and somehow it is the safest place to say everything you wanted to say without being criticized and minding other people's concern. And that's what I'm doing frantically still alive and kicking!

Then... there came Squidoo!

I actually don't have any idea on the technical things on the World Wide Web like adsense, pay-per-click (PPC), royalties, html (Well, I know a few... way back in HS computer class and other more advanced stuff I learned here in Squidoo) and the list goes on... But, mostly everything was something new to my ears but I do heard Amazon and eBay while I was browsing some information in Yahoo where they post news blogs on tech and entertainment. Well, as I am part of those people who are very much into the pop world as they say. I am very much a chronic news observer, a movie marathon fanatic (but I haven't watched new movies lately!), information junkie who just act dumb at times; I love watching reality shows! I just hate numbers and all the things that pertains to gibberish numbers. It really does brings me goosebumps every time... Basically, I am a total bummer who tends to over-analyze things under the sun. Well, it's just the way I am.

That is why I thought Squidoo is a perfect place, a platform where I can divert those ideas and passions into something that is very much productive. So, I just love that idea and knowing that I can have all my time to do whatever I wanted to do is a gift that I don't need to rush things in my circumstance. The great thing is that we can all do something in our lives if we just let it be.

I'm telling you it can really be addicting!

Just remember this super philosophy: Everyone's an expert on something!

Gotta keep on going on! Never, never never give up!