Happy birthday to myself!

Ok, I am one year closer to be 100 years old! 

I was talking about having a big party however, I guess, I should appreciate this time just by my hubby, my kitty, and myself. So, I decide to stay home and work from home and hang out with hubby and Boo from home. 

I called my mama last night to thank her giving me my body and life since it was 13th in China yesterday. I am super happy baba and mama are coming to spend three weeks with us. Since my hubby is having his birthday on 19th and it will be my lunar birthday,so, we will have a real birthday dinner together: the older couple and the younger couple and BOO. 

I don’t really have any plans yet though.

But today, on 13th, I am having a quiet birthday and I am really enjoying it: tons of Happy Birthday from my friends on FB. I love this way to receiving wishes, simple and fast. I am so touched and feel yes I am the birthday girl. 

Hubby stays home with me and works from home. So, I can quietly grab my computer and work from my day bed and look at home time to time. I have Boo with me and nap with me. 

Lunch, I cooked myself an instant noodles but fancy version with Hongshaorou and fresh greens. Eat it with my hubby watching Youtube videos together. So yummy and so cool.

Then I took a nap from my work/daybed with Boo…

Then I am just wondering in my house and enjoy my time from not working. Right, my neighbor living in the crossing building get her curtains up and waived hello to me. Hahaha. Fun! 

It is raining today…and we will have a date tonight…lol 

Happy birthday to me Heidi, Han, Yu! 

I really think today is so special and very enjoyable. Cheers and thank my baba and mama again give me my body and life. Thank all my family and friends to be my family and friends and always with me in different ways! 

I love you all!

Cheers!

Wish you all happiness, safe, and young forever! 

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Top iOS apps I like and I use often, what’s yours? Any god recommendations?

Just like you, I am with my phone, iPad, and my computers forever.

For my phone, it already become: the phone is not mainly used to answer the phone calls or text. Personally I like text at all. I am so slow on typing on that mini keyboard on my phone, and text is just too old of the fashion for me. A lot of my friends already know,get Heidi on her FB, don’t call her or don’t text her. LOL. So true. 

But I still love my iPhone5 and on it a lot when I am not with my computers. 

Because I am using the apps I love when I am on the go:

1, FB of course, for checking your message to you on FB and also watching Pocomaru fan page while on the go. 

2, Skype: I need this one to call internationally 

3, Instagram: recently I am following in love with this app and for business, this is the recommended top app for you if you are using a lot of photos to  promote your business just like Pocomaru.

4, Googlemaps 

5,WeChat: this is my alternative voice text for my friends. I don’t really use this one very often, however, Tencent is doing a great job for this app. If I just wanna text someone, but as you know I hate texting, I will just use WeChat to send them a voice message to say hi. and chat like texting but using voice messages, easy and fast, and don’t have to switch the keyboard if I wanna speak Chinese. 

 

For iPad, the app I used most are:

1, Youtube: I watch a lot of Youtube TV series or TV shows when I am eating lunch. 

2, Instagram: since I use Instagram for business, this screen is much bigger than iPhone. Although they don’t really have an iPad version for Instagram, but I can still use the iPhone version and click 2x version to have a much bigger screen just in case I wanna comment on someone’s photo or reply someone’s comments on my photos. 

3, FB 

4, Kindle reader: yes, I am challenging my weakness now, I am reading more books now. I used to listen books from Audible, which is much faster and I can drive and listen at the same time, however, I guess Kindle has the dictionary if there’s anything I don’t understand, I can just check it. 

5, QQ: yes, I am still on QQ, since 1999, so I have a beautiful 7 number QQ. It was my first QQ and it was the whole reason why I love computer and internet. I only add my old school classmate or my family to my QQ or really close friends. The new feature I like about QQ is their photowall which I don’t have to go to each person’s space to see what’s new. Just like Pinterest, all the updated photos are there. Easy and fun! 

What are the apps you like? Any good recommendations? 

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Fake likes and fake followers, stay away from them

Yes, there are programs out there can generate your Twitter account and Instagram account so many likes and so many follows. They said if you paid them $8 you can get 200 likes immoderately. STFO! 

Stay away from them. 

I really don’t understand there would be a market for this. If you are a business, you are spending each penny smart for marketing. You know those are fake likes and fake accounts and they will never turn to your customers or referrals, why would you buy them? Would you like those ghost followers? Won’t you like your real follows and fans are really engaging with you and they eventually would buy from you and refer real friends to you and buy again and again? 

I just started my Instagram for business yesterday and there are at least 30 ghost account followed me within 24 hours. I reported each of them as spams. Sorry, I know, ghost accounts, you are promoting you fake Instagram like generators by auto following people, but I hate the fake stuff and I am going to report you every single time! 

Stay away from me! 

Some business accounts has 20K followers or 200K followers on Instagram but they only followed under 200…hmmmmm…I am not sure how much of the percentage in your 200K are real followers. Stop using those auto likes and auto followers! 

Some of the accounts has 300k followers and great photos btw, I went to check their website rank page, N/A! There you go! So, your 300K ghost followers all followed you and liked your photos, none of them even visit your site? Don’t even talk about purchase then! What a waste of time and $.

 

Anyways, just my honest 3 cents. Yes, marketing is burning money in a smart way to acquire customers, you could say buy customers! It is true. However, burn your $smart and generate real customers and fans. Not the ghost followers. 

Happy Friday! 

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Who said Social Media is dying?

Some

Yes, someone told me the other day social media is dying. Really? I cannot agree. 

Our Pocomaru Facebook Fan Page is growing more than 200 real fans every day. We didn’t use any services to grab fake fans, this is rule number one! Don’t buy fake fans and likes! 

Hashtags are cool! But don’t over use it for your Twitter. I am still not a big fan for twitter. However, during the Boston bombing, every one was chasing the murder on Twitter. I guess it is useful and really fast. 

Instagram is super. But I am still trying to understanding what is #likeforlike really mean something? 

Ok. Like or unlike. All up to you. 

It is so easy for anyone to click LIKE. Just like it! 

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破壳马路

Seattle Chinese Radio invited me to be their guest to have a live chat show about the story of Pocomaru and startup….The chat show has to be done in Chinese, and I was asked what is the meaning of Pocomaru and how to say it in Chinese. 

To be honest, I never think about it before, so, this afternoon, I started to think some Chinese meaning for Pocomaru. 

By literary, Poco is Spanish means little, and Maru is Japanese means a human’s name. Our designer’s name is Maru. So, Pocomaru means the little Maru. Also, in Japanese, Maru is really a little cute and smart girl’s name. Since we are selling all the small little cute things for hand held sets. I would say, small is the new big and small is the new beauty. 

However, by sounds, Pocomaru in Chinese could sound really close to 破壳马路。

破壳means the new born from the egg, 破壳日means birthday, so, it means the fresh new things. 

马路means the road, and it also means average people’s daily life. 

So, I guess it could means some little fresh things comes from average people’s life and could also benefit everybody’s daily life. 

破壳also means a crap case…haha…when it say this way, it could means someone really like it and say wow, what a crap! Which means they really like it. I guess. our crap case for hand held sets comes from everybody’s daily life goes back to benefit and inspires everyone’s life now. 

I like the Chinese name! It is cute and edge! 

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