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My wife and I have been a great fan of Hugh since couple of years ago. My wife liked Hugh Grant for the first time when he starred Notting Hill (hey, we just re-watched this movie on TV this evening!). And me, I don’t remember when I liked Hugh Grant for the first time, but up to this very date, Hugh’s movie I love the most is Love Actually, the greatest drama-comedy-romance movie ever!

What I like from Hugh Grant is the perfectness with which he plays as loosers. In About A Boy, he shows a marvelous loosery (hey… can I say so? hehehe) as a son to a popular child religious song who inherits its royalty and live happily without having to bother himself finding a job. He makes friend with an also-looser boy and together they do a great thing, making the boy’s mother happy. Another looser character that Hugh plays is the one in Bridget Jones’ Diary (1st and 2nd). However, his character here is not very vital.

AND, the best looser role of Hugh Grant is in his latest movie Music and Lyrics with the marvelous Drew Barrymore (wow, a friend of mine is, I think, the greatest fan of Hugh Grant! hey you Sonny, you’re still Drew’s fan, right?. In this movie, Hugh plays a former pop boy band member who has lost his fame due to the birth of better young singers. In this movie, Hugh only sings in high school reunions attended by “almost-menopause women who used to be his fans as high school girls”, and he also sings in zoos and theme parks to entertain kids and families who mostly know nothing about him and who he used to be. However, with the help of Drew, Hugh wins his re-fame.

W ell, last but not least, I will just say that Hugh Grant, with his casual style and still-British accent, is a perfect entertainer for those who cherish happy-ending stories. And his looser characters, wow, they’re just great to make us think of who we, sometimes, are and how to do great things if we are looser.

I don’t know much about e-commerce. What I know about it is that I can buy things without ever visiting the store, or even touch the things I want to buy. I used to get scared about buying things through e-commerce. However, I realize that e-commerce has made things in life easy to do, such as buying a newly released books (without having to queue in front of the book store—remember Harry Potter case?).

Couple of hours ago I visited Ashop, a website that provides e-commerce software. From this website, I could learn the whole idea of e-commerce. And, as I said before, it turned out that managing an e-store is not difficult at all. I also knew from the site that to manage a shopping cart we don’t have to have our own hosting, design our shopping cart software and all.

Another important fact is that nowadays we don’t have to worry about the security of online transaction because e-commerce software has made some inventions which makes it possible for us to leave the e-store without being afraid that our credit card account number can be seen by other people—there’s the so called check out security.

Well, it’s quite enlightening that this afternoon I visit Ashop. By the way, I think I begin to be interested in e-commerce. Hehehe…

If you have a conventional store, then potential customers you can expect to come are those who live around 0-20 miles away from your store. It’s not wrong to have a conventional store—which demands you to have a building, some people you should hire, some advertisements you need to make when the number of your customers decreases. No, it’s not wrong. HOWEVER, what if I suggest you to start expanding your business? Why don’t you try e-commerce, where you can expect anyone from any corners of the world to see what you’ve got to offer and can buy your goods easily. Okay, you might think that e-commerce is a hard thing to do. But NO! It’s not hard at all with this Ashop Commerce, hosted shopping cart software.

With Ashop Commerce, you can start your electronic store easiy. You don’t need to hire any programmers to develop and maintain your electronic store. You just need to login and pay some small monthly investment you can choose, and you can upload the list and pictures of your goods. And one of the best thing is that YOU DON’T HAVE TO HIRE ANY WEBDESIGNER to design a catchy website, because Ashop already provides you with such supports as store design.

And the best thing is that its engine in search engine-friendly. Hey, in this cyber world, search engine means alot, more than alot. When you’re on the top of the list (in the search results of goods), then you can expect customers come from, as I said before, any corners of the world.

Well, well, well, with this shopping cart software, you can start expanding your store without having to do such hard things as developing, designing, and maintaining your e-commerce software. You can do it even without any of your employees know.

A friend of mine said something to me, “You can get money from blogging!” It was quite a shock to me a couple of months ago. I thought it was a joke. How can someone earn money from blogging? However, he then told me how it is possible to go blogging and earn some money simultaneously. It’s Smorty! Yes. It’s because of Smorty, a pay per review program. It’s the program where you get paid for blogging.
Smorty gives a cool opportunity for us bloggers to earn dollars by writing reviews of some products and posting the review on our blogs. “For each review, you can get some 6-20 dollars,” my friend said. Yeah, he said so.

So, why do you review the products, the websites, or the softwares? Yeah, still according to that friend of mine, it is because by reviewing the product, you also introduce them to your blog readers or subscribers. That way, you help them advertise their products. Well, both parties get the advantages, right? We bloggers get the money, and the producers also get recognition.

By the way, in this site, not only bloggers can come, producers or web owners can come to request for reviews. They can expect to get their products advertised in blogs. Well, these days, I believe that people like to read blogs better than advertisement columns in newspaper, right? So, blog advertising is a good alternative to advertise products. Yeah, once again, I must say that Smorty gives benefits to both sides.

By the way, another friend of mine, who also write reviews, told me that he earn around 200 dollars from his reviews for Smorty IN ONE WEEK. Wow, that’s a lot of money!

I just finished reading another Tolstoy. It’s The Raids. This short story is, again, inspired by Tolstoy’s life when he joined his brother in the front with soldiers in the province of Don Cossack, in a war with enemy Tartars.

In my opinion, this story is the most beautiful of Tolstoy’s first works, in terms of language. It is true that the story tells about wartime. Yes. But, telling about war doesn’t necessarily mean that a work is unbeautiful (:D). The Raids is beautiful in terms of its description of the landscape, the chain of snowy mountains, the crimson color of dusk, the violet mist surrounding the snowy mountains also in the dusk, and all. I believe it’s because Tolstoy had just seen such panorama there in the region.

Besides description of nature, I also find that it has a very good description of people. Here Tolstoy describes Captain Khlopov’s facial expression and how the I analyzes the characteristic of the Captain.

However, there’s one thing that, in my opinion, needs improvement, that is, its size. I don’t feel comfortable reading Tolstoy when it is very short. Yeah, Tolstoy is served best when it is long, comprehensive, and effectual!!!!!