With more shoppers going online to buy groceries, electronics and a whole lot of other stuff now, it’s time to start learning about E-commerce. 

And with the lockdown, we better equip ourselves with a new skill or a new discovery or something. If you’re not a frontliner and you’re not in the essential industry, then you’re probably housebound.

I’m familiar with affiliate marketing but dropshipping always baffles me, so I decided to do some research.

Drop Shipping is a retail fulfilment method where the drop shipper accepts the cash and places the order on behalf of the client.  The supplier then ships out the product according to the details the drop shipper has provided.  In this business model, the drop shipper does not need to keep an inventory or a warehouse to store the products.

Being a newbie, you will find it hard to identify reliable drop shippers, profitable products to sell and trustworthy suppliers.  But you may require more than just a directory to have a successful e-commerce business.

You still need to do more research and go through some trials and errors.  But having access to a directory may be like getting your hands on a road map or a GPS.

How does a drop shipper make money?

You do not need a physical shop but an online store is required so that you can showcase the products that you can drop ship.  To make a profit, there’s usually a 10 to 50% mark-up.

The easiest way to find drop shippers is through SaleHoo, a paid online directory that has over 8,000 drop shippers and  wholesalers. For US$67 (MYR290) per year, you have access to numerous products which are popular and trending.  There are also training and resources videos available, and a community where you may find people to network with.

There are plenty of drop shippers out there, particularly in China, but for a newbie you’ll be swimming in a sea of sharks and piranhas if you dive in clueless.

*ClickBank E-commerce product service and this is my affiliate link  https://www.salehoo.com/learn-more?aff=shopwithbe

It doesn’t taste that bad actually — Garlic Water.

Since we can’t roam outdoors, we can either surf the net for new things to explore and learn or we can go within to search for all the answers.

This forced downtime has allowed many of us to do that. I saw a lot of food pictures on Facebook and Instagram lately. People learning how to cook, and discovering their talent and passion for cooking.

I’ve always wanted to have a garden with all the herbs and fruit trees, vegetables but I never tried planting anything. Maybe I’ve tried before once in a while but nothing grew. Haha. Nevermind. It’s time to hit the reboot button.

Time to love myself a little more. Love my pets a little more. Love the people in my life and around me. Love my home. Just love love love. Nothing but love.

Covid-19 is really here to force us to take a pause, stay at home and reflect. We are surrounded by a fog now with so many uncertainties, and with time on our hands now, we can do some of the things that we’ve been wanting to do but never could find the time to do them.

This is really nature’s way of telling us that we don’t own this earth, that other species have as much right to be here. If we don’t like them, at least don’t hurt them. They’re so adorable. How could anyone intentionally want to cause them pain and fear?

I’m currently enjoying my solitude, learning new things and missing my pets and friends back home. Can’t do much roaming now as we’re under the Restricted Movement Control order in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading. Staying home is like doing our bit for the country and for humanity.

Sending love to dear ones near and far. Jauh di mata namun dekat di hati.

Hello again,

Yes, I’ve gone missing for a while. No, I’ve not been unwell, just a little busy. I have no problem with working at home. Am sad that this global pandemic has affected everyone of us, with the worldwide death toll reaching more than 11,000 as of time of writing.

Kudos to those in the medical profession, healthcare, food and all essential industries, the police and army personnels, road sweepers and garbage collectors. Thank you for being out there.

We will get through this. Love and compassion will get us through this. There’s social distancing now, but somehow that has drawn some of us closer. Be kind to one another, be kind to the earth, be kind to animals.

As I need to comply with the call to stay indoors under the Restricted Movement Order, I ordered food from Restaurant Kam Hin.

Yummy! Yummy! Really enjoying my staycation. Today’s meal for the entire day costs RM27.95 (minus the bottled mineral water).

My favourite was the spare ribs. The others were good too but maybe by lunch time they’ve gone cold so … but the spare ribs tasted delicious whether hot or cold.

The big pau with mushroom, egg and chicken filling was extremely filling for me.

I love this herbal tea very much. It is a refreshing thirst quencher which has a cooling effect on the body.

Restaurant Kam Hin is located at Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park, off Kuchai Lama in Kuala Lumpur.

This is a new product from Korea which I’ve been asked to review. Two of my friends have tried this infusion tea and they didn’t quite like it simply because they liked their tea hot. I’m ok with it. At the moment I don’t have a kettle so this novel method of making tea is ideal for me. Of the two flavours, I prefer the tomato and beet.

You need a bottled mineral water or you can just fill up the bottle with drinking water which was what I did. It can be a 600ml or 1500ml bottle as the infuser comes in two sizes. For this review I’m using the 600ml bottle.

Remove the mineral water cap and replace it with the infuser. Turn the bottle over like what you see in the picture above and just leave it for 30 minutes to 1 hour. You can shake it a little to speed up the process or make it blend better.

A word of caution. The tea may spill as you’re shaking the bottle or when you unscrew the infuser so just take note of this, especially if you’re wearing white clothing.

The tomato and apple flavour has a milder taste, and the tea is light green in colour.

This is a cool way to make tea when you don’t have hot water, and I am ok with the taste.

Going back to basics where life is simple and peaceful …

Economic development is important but do not underestimate the importance of the forests.

Besides offering urbanites a refreshing change from the concrete jungle, a forest has so much more to offer such as resources that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. Imagine having all the money in the world and no place to call home as the earth is dying because we keep pumping chemicals into the air that deplete the ozone layer.

I’m not saying economic development is bad. Progress is always good, but we shouldn’t be overzealous.

In Japan, there are economic incentives for green initiatives. Malaysia also has incentives for green initiatives but it needs some fine-tuning for it to be more enticing.

I started this post to highlight the Rainforest Tree House in Kulai but got carried away after learning that Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is set to be sworn in as Malaysia’s 8th Prime Minister.

https://www.edgeprop.my/content/1643860/rainforest-tree-house-living-it-nature

Rainforest Tree House
25, Jalan Air Terjun,
Kampung Sri Gunung Pulai,
81000 Kulai, Johor
T: +6012 930 9914
E: rainforest.tree.house1@gmail.com
FB: @rainforest.treehouse.johor

Located 10 metres from Sungai Lubok Mulong, Rumah Singgora was built with the concept of a traditional Malay village in mind. The kampung houses featured natural lighting and airflow as environmental factors were considered in the design.

There are also herbal plants and trees, including "halia" (ginger), "kunyit" (turmeric), "limau purut" (kaffir lime) and pandan found in the resort.  These herbs and spices are used for cooking the meals which are served dulang-style.

Link to the story https://www.edgeprop.my/content/1643855/home-rumah-singgora

Rumah Singgora
Lot 860, Kampung Air Deras,
Jalan Tengku Mohd Maasom,
15100 Pasir Hor, Kota Bharu,
Kelantan
T: +6019 900 9535
E: kbkondo@gmail.com
FB: @Singgora

Another gorgeous getaway gem in Malaysia that’s worth checking out.

In 2010 owners Nikt and Suze checked out this piece of land situated next to the Berembun forest reserve in the district of Seremban. When they eventually saw the hilly outcrop several months later, it was love at first sight. They imagined living in a house perched precariously on the outcrop, and that was how Spyder Hill came about.

Nikt and Suze will “as much or as little as you like, get involved in your stay here”.

Spyder Hill story in the link below

https://www.edgeprop.my/content/1643232/simple-life-spyder-hill

Lot 3171, Pantai Hill,
Jalan Kampung Pantai Baharu,
71770 Negeri Sembilan
E: spyderhill@protonmail.com
T: +6016 358 6115 / +6017 255 1862
http://www.spyderhill.com

This house once belonged to a village chief Penghulu Ismail Khatib Bakar. It had survived three flash floods (in 1926, 1972 and 2014) while some of the surrounding houses were swept away.

Called the Pahang House, it was dismantled onsite in a village in Jerantut, Pahang, and re-assembled at the Malay Heritage Centre on UPM’s grounds in 2015. The house was donated by Datuk Ahmad Nazlan Idris, the Member of Parliament for Jerantut.

Full story in the link https://www.edgeprop.my/content/1644677/protecting-our-cultural-identity