My Egg Noodles

Win a Free Unique Wordpress Blog Design!

With Christmas fast approaching, and to celebrate my new blog design I launched this week, myself and Gut Shot Studios decided to come up with a pretty sweet competition for you all.

We are going to give away a free unique blog design to one lucky reader! To up the ante, we’ll also code the design for you as well!

This is your chance to go into the New Year with a design that’s right for you, a design that expresses your own identity and separates you among the thousands of other bloggers out there!

As with all Gut Shot Studios clients, you’ll be entitled to as many revisions as you want with the design. If your not happy with how it looks, nor are we!

How to enter

Entering is super easy. All you need to do in order to stand a chance of winning your own unique Wordpress blog is to tweet the following on your Twitter account:

Win a FREE Unique Wordpress Theme courtesy of @GutShotStudios & @MyEggNoodles – Learn how you can enter here http://is.gd/5b3QU #gss

Just copy and paste the tweet above, publish it on your Twitter account and you automatically stand a chance of winning!

Terms

1. The deadline is December 27th 2009
2. We will pick one winner on December 28th 2009
3. You must have at least 20 Twitter followers (this will prevent spamming)
4. We reserve the right to add more terms and conditions at a later date

Good luck!

Over the last month I’ve been working on a new design for my blog… and I’m excited to announce it’s now live!

I worked with Adnan from Gut Shot Studios on the design. The main aim was to:

1. Make the content area wider so I can publish bigger images
2. Showcase the 3 main subjects of the blog (Food, Travel and Business) so that peps can quickly skip to the content they are interested in.
2. Remove clutter and make the design more clean looking (while still having some “texture” and feel to it)
3. Add some ads, that are not intrusive so I can donate the ad rev to charity
4. Add a section I can add my social media nipples too
5. Make it feel warm and personal

I’m pleased with how it’s turned out – and think I’ve achieved all of my goals.

Ads for charity

I’m one of very few blogs out there that do not blog for money – I’ve never had ads on this blog, until now. I’ve been proud of this fact as I honestly update the blog because I enjoy doing it, which is why you don’t see lot’s of “fluff” in my posts (with affiliate links).

There will only be 4 125×125 ads in the side bar at any one time, and I will donate 100% of the proceeds to charity. I will change the charity on a yearly basis, but the first years ad rev will go to Baan Gerda, a HIV/AIDS Charity based in Thailand. The ads are priced at $100 per month, so if you are interested in buying an ad, feel free to hit me up!

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What do you think of the new design?

I have just realised that it’s been 3 years since I started this blog! All I can say is wow… and THANKS.

I can clearly remember starting the blog. I was at my first office located in Chitlom and one of the best staff members I have ever worked with, Khun A, was telling me about the open source blogging software called Wordpress. I asked him to set me up a personal blog and within the hour I had written my first post and had sent my mum an email so should could read it. The rest as they say, is history.

Keeping the blog updated does take a fair bit of time, especially when I’m on the road and trying to build a million dollar business. But the thing that keeps me going is the feedback, emails and comments you guys leave here… it really does make it worth while. This blog has also allowed me to network and meet many of my readers – and that is by far the best bit.

Thanks guys and gals for the support and feedback you have given me over the last 3 years. It’s much appreciated.

Sorry for the lack of blog posts recently… I dropped my notebook on the way back to Bali and buggered the motherboard. A shop in a small IT plaza in Bali takes 400 squid to buy a new one from Jakarta, although it never came. After lot’s of excuses I was able to get my money back and waited to either buy a new one (Sony Z90) in Bangkok or to see if I could get it quickly fixed. As luck would have it, a shop in Pantip managed to sort out the problem with a bit of soldering. Sweet.

Having no notebook for the last 3 weeks has been a blessing, while a pain in the arse (and depressing) at times. Having more time on my hands to really think about my new business has been great. I’ve filled 6 text books up with ideas and notes, had more time to exercise and have read through 7 books.

I’ve also had time to think about how I’m going to run my new company – which I have finally decided a name on (I’ve been thinking for 3 months now!). This will be a media company creating web sites aimed at Men in the UK. Blue Tag Media will be my baby I’ll nurture for many years ahead and I can’t wait. I look forward to writing up on the ups and downs over the next few years.

After spending 3 weeks in Bali after my visa run in Singapore, I flew into Bangkok for a night, then up to Mukdahan (North East Thailand) where I am now. I plan on heading back to the UK next week, where I’ll be attending my Dad’s wedding, having business lunches over over-priced bacon sandwiches in London, visiting friends and going out with friends visiting me from Denmark. A trip to the south coast is also on the cards (where I’ll hopefully get the opportunity to eat at Rick Stein’s seafood resturant). Should be fun.

From the UK I’ll visit somewhere else before returning to Asia (Keen on checking out snowboarding in Japan), although I haven’t got a clue where to go. Somewhere I haven’t been before. I may write down all the cities in the world and drop them into a hat and pick one at random

I have tones of images and videos from 3 weeks exploring Bali, which I’ll upload as soon as I catch up on work!

In the mean time, I’ll leave you with an interview I did over at Jet Set Citizen that you might be interested in reading.

I’ve always covered a wide range of topics here on this blog, but I think it’s about time to try and get a better understanding of what content you enjoy reading most, hence I created this little poll.

Whether you are a regular reader or new stopping by, please help me and complete the poll below so I can improve this blog. Thanks!