Today is the D-Day. I should be getting my call-up letter to the NYSC camp. All of a sudden I’m kinda wishing I had applied for Lagos as my first choice. As the days get closer, I’m reminded of my hatred for packing my travelling bag and I just wish I would be in Lagos where I can have easy access to all my property without having to pay a huge sum to fly them down to somewhere else.

I keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best.

This will be the last installment of StrictlyOnlineBiz Top Blog Posts until my 3 week stint @ the NYSC camp is over. During those three weeks, Mondays and Wednesdays shall be dedicated to all what I learned from attending Henry Omenogor’s Breakthrough seminar on the 27th of February 2010. Fridays will be dedicated to regular blog posts and an excellent guest post by Mk Akan. Actually he’ll be the first guest blogger @ StrictlyOnlineBiz

All comments during the upcoming weeks will be moderated via my little phone but replies will not be possible until I’m out of camp unless if by some magic, I’m enabled access to a laptop/PC while sweating it out @ camp .

So I hope this week’s top blog posts meets you all well and here they are:

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What a week! I’ve been messing around with my theme files so much that some of you might have outdated files cached in your browser and thus some information/images etc might appear twisted or worse: new info might not appear @ all.

I implore you all to please clear your browser caches so you can get the most recent configuration of my theme/blog. If you don’t know how to do this on your own please try CCleaner so you can clear your browser cache and windows temporary files as well!

Tomorrow, by God's grace, I’ll be attending my very first make money online seminar hosted by a Nigerian "guru". This time around Henry Omenogor will supposedly be showing those in attendance how to make real money from The Business of : Affiliate Programs, Blog Farming & Autoblogging! As a bonus he’s also going to teach how to open, verify, fund and withdraw from Payoneer, PayPal and LibertyReserve as well as how to bid on Lime Exchange.

As always, if you stay subscribed to my feed, you’ll DEFINITELY receive a free update regarding ALL the info offered @ this seminar. This is for the benefit of those of you who can’t attend or are wary cos they’ve been conned before.

Now let’s discuss the business of the day

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I took a bold step @ achieving my dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter last Tuesday and auditioned for Nigeria’s Star Quest 2010. I did a song of mine and was asked to do another, so I did the bridge of Beyonce’s If I Was A Boy. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough for the judges. They asked me to sing yet another song this time by a Nigerian artiste and there and then singer’s block set it in. LMAO.

I can’t sing any Nigerian song even if my life depended on it. I tried TuFace Idibia’s African Queen and had to stop 10 seconds into the song cos I just sounded STUPID. I simply couldn’t fake it and the crowd burst out laughing. That moment was priceless !

End of story, I was told Star Quest 2010 was a NIGERIAN talent show and that I needed to sound NIGERIAN!

That’s one feat that I know I might NEVER be able to achieve cos none of the few vocalists in Nigeria has what it takes to make me actually want to go the extra mile to learn his/her style. Besides I’m so OBSESSED with Mariah and Christina as they are the ones after whom I’ve chiseled certain facets of my voice.

I guess that means I’m back to life as a grumpy Medical Doctor until the Big Guy upstairs says, IT’S YOUR TIME TO BE A STAR! lol

Back to the world of blogging as we know it, here are this week’s top blog posts. Enjoy!

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It’s been one hell of week as I had to make a few trips around town as I sought to buy a laptop for my sibling who had a budget of N98,000 ($650). I succeeded in getting a Dell Vostro A840 for $15 less . If he didn’t have a certain dislike for Acer, he would have saved even more with the Acer EMachine E725 which had better features for N88,000 ($580).

At the same time I struggled to optimize the SEO tags across my blogs (this one and Patchwork Of Tips). Now that I’ve finally gotten that out of the way, I can’t wait to see if my search engine rankings improve or not

I acquired more used paperbacks to keep me company when the power goes out as is a common occurrence here in Nigeria. James Hadley Chase (Come Easy Go Easy and The Whiff Of Money: Mark Girland).

As you can imagine I didn’t have much time to go through my feed reader but @ least I’ve got a few interesting posts to share.

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My Google Adsense account remains inactive till date . I went to the post office 4 days ago, hoping that my Google Adsense PIN has arrived. No luck! It’s been 6 weeks already and this is the second time the PIN is being sent to me. I’m going to wait another week or two and if no luck by then, I shall be contacting the folks @ Google to see if I can use a friend’s address in the UK to get my PIN.

Anyway, in the mean time, I’ve been doing some reading. I can’t believe I’d forgotten how captivating James Hadley Chase novels are. I also picked up Ann Rice’s Queen of the Damned and Feast Of All Saints but had to quit on them. They were way to intellectual for me. It was as though I was reading one of those poems that are so hard to decipher! . I’ll just settle with watching the Film and TV adaptations .

Let’s get back to my discoveries of the week .

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I’m gradually getting bored of sitting home doing nothing apart from working on my laptop. A part of me wishes the NYSC thing should just come so I can join the legion of the employed once again though I would be earning half my previous paycheck all in the name of "serving my country" for one year.

As the month of January comes to an end, here are this week’s top blog posts.

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It’s been quite an interesting week. Global warming had us basking in intense heat for Christmas and now it appears the rains have come too early. Not that it bothers me actually. I kinda love it as it means more cozy siestas for lazy me. LOL.

Here are this week’s top blog posts.

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It’s been an interesting week. I lost a phone and managed to replace it with the new Samsung C3212 Dual SIM. It isn’t a high end phone but it sure does gets the job done for me, without a hitch .

Back to the topic of the day, here are the top posts for this week.

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As from today, I shall be releasing a compilation of the top 10 blog posts that really made an impression on me very week. This compilation will go out every Friday without a hitch (hopefully)

Without wasting much of your time, here’s this week’s top 10 posts. Enjoy !

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