Recently we had an intimate sharing with Chris Ling, one of the pioneers in the local (and international) wedding photography scene. Though it was a photography sharing session, I walked away learning more than that. His words inspired me.

Quoting one phrase he shared which left deep impression in my mind and will be using it for future hire for 24seven…

Here’s a snippet of Chris Ling sharing on his journey towards his career…

More about this sharing session on Blogpress.sg soon! With photography tips learned that night of course! :)

Please Note: This trick is no longer working after the upgrade.

Yes! That’s what I did without having to open my restaurant! I’d been playing the game the wrong way for the entire week! Sooo silly! And now may I share the tips I found – the short-cut way of earning 2000 coins every hour or so in Restaurant City (a game in facebook).

Yes! I had been playing Restaurant City in facebook for the past one week or so. All thanks to my girlfriend who would rather watch their staff cooking than playing her favorite Mahjong with us! Curious me than started playing the game and building my restaurant… and after an hour, I got hooked! I’m the kind of person who likes building houses (in SIMS) and stuff. So this restaurant empire thinggy got me glued!

How I initially started was to make sure I have the game running whenever I’m online and keep it on tap to monitor the health of my staff. Objective is of course to up my level and grow the size of my restaurant and the staff strength. Now I’ve got a 11 x 11 squared restaurant and 6 staff. And the money (coins) earned is not growing as fast as I hope it would. But now, I can earn 2000 coins every hour or so and needs only 2 staff! This is how you can do it…

1. Block the door to stop customers from entering. This is also to prevent your popularity from dropping.
2. Let all your staff rest and just have 1 chef and 1 waiter with 100% health working in the empty restaurant.
3. Save and exit the game.
4. Come back to the game an hour (to 1.5hour) later and be rewarded with 2000 coins for your recent earnings!
5. Than replace your dying staff with those who’d rested and gained 100% health and repeat step 2 to 5.

This trick was discovered from a quick search on google and stumbling upon this post.

There you go! So now you can start earning coins the faster and easier way. This is useful if you’d reached a sizable restaurant and just want to get more coins to do up the place. This trick will not gain you any GP nor help you level up. So use it only if you want to grow your coin bank.

Have fun!

Claudia live blogs! She blogs on the go and her posts get to twitter almost instantly. How did she post those photos at events up online so quickly? Does she has some magic power?? Or did she has inbuilt computer and chips within her brain, eyes and fingers that auto processes whatever she sees, hears and touched into digital format and post it online automatically? How the hell did she do it?!

No! I’ve got no magic power nor potion and I’m 101% human. What I’m doing can easily be implemented into your blogging routine too. It just take a little effort of finding the right tools and ways to link them all up. And with RSS feeds, linking up isn’t that tough.

Let’s use BlogOut! 2009 as an example…

What I used?

1. My Samsung Innov 8 mobile phone
2. My Singtel SIM card with mobile broadband service
3. My email account
4. My posterous account
5. My other blog
6. Twitterfeed
8. My twitter account

Throughout the two days at Blogout!, I posted photos live from the event to my other blog. I took photos with my mobile phone, attached the photo and sent an email to my posterous account where it auto post my update to my blogspot blog. With twitterfeed and the power of #tags, followers online during those two days were able to read updates on their tweets with photos accompanying what was happening during that time. This also resulted in an increase in the views over at my unknown and totally random blog (as seen on the graph on the right).

Example: I wanted to share the prizes we were giving away on Day 1 of blogout, so I took photos of the prizes and sent an email to posterous. It got posted to my other blog and got feed to my other twitter. And because I included the #tags in my email subject (aka the post title), followers of Blogout! on day 1 were able to see the post too if they’re following #blogout09 on the various #tag-following websites.

Its simple isn’t it? For me, I find Posterous useful and fits my needs. Till I discover another tool more powerful and easier than Posterous, I will stick to it. If you want to learn more about Posterous, I did share about it before in this post.

If you’re still unsure of the process of my method of live blogging and broadcasting, let me illustrate the process for you. This is what I always do…

Sometimes, instead of posting to my blogspot blog through posterous, I post direct to my flickr account too. If you’re asking why I choose to post at different places, well, I also don’t know the answer wor. When I feel that its necessary or good to share with my twitter followers, I’ll post on my blogspot (which I’d linked to my twitterfeed), and when I want to use different sizes of a photo I took, I’ll post it to flickr.

Now that you know how it can be done, are you going to try it out yourself? If you are keen to be part of a live blogging/ tweeting/ broadcasting team too, you can sign up at http://tr.im/hpnB or follow @sgtweet for updates.