I have won a scholarship from another organization to go to University College London, UK. I am ceasing all sales of Virtual Real Estate, advertising spots, sponsored posts, links and merchandises on this website. Thank you everyone for your support.
SendBobToBerkeley Blog
End of Fundraising Activities After I launched this website, I was informed by another scholarship body that I was given a scholarship to go UCL, UK. The scholarship body was insistent that I can only study in UCL and not UC Berkeley. I was pretty much undecided on what to do. However after much deliberation, I have finally decided that the best course of action is to simply accept the scholarship to go to UCL, UK and cease all fundraising activities on SendBobToBerkeley.com It is the right thing to do after securing a scholarship to go to the UK. Although it is not my main choice to go to the UK, it is still a wonderful opportunity to study there. I am grateful to be offered the chance to study in the UK. I am thankful to all who have supported me in this quest. My main intention was to neither obtain charity money nor sympathy from the public to fund my education. My objective was to sell advertising space that will create a win-win situation for both. I believe that this site would have become popular given time to promote and market. It is a waste that I would have to cease operations on this website just after I launched it. I have received numerous enquiries on people interested to buy the properties and wanting to contribute money to the fund. Some are turned off by the relatively high price. I am sorry; the price was the way it is because I am actually targeting US and large Malaysian business entities and not Malaysian small business owners or individuals. Nonetheless, thank you for your interest and support especially from those who have written to me and blogged about this website. Thank you again. At the moment the fund counter stands at $333. I have contacted my sponsors about the funds. They would want me to use the funds for some education-related initiative. I have not given much thought on how exactly I am going to use the funds for the education-related initiative. I have till late August to do something about this before flying off to the UK. Anyone with any ideas to start-up some education-initiative may contact me at Bobby@SendBobToBerkeley.com I hope my initiative in setting up this website will inspire other youths and students to always think positive. Things always happen for a reason. It's what you do in your circumstances that really matters. I allowed a scholarship to slip out of my hands. I do not have any angry feelings for Khazanah for rejecting me all the way in the 4th round. I just did not perform on the last interview. I lost fair and square. I know many of you are in the same circumstance as me. The question you should ask yourself is, do you sit back and resign to fate that you have lost? Or do you jump back up and take the necessary next steps to make your dream come true? Think positive. You will always find something that will change your luck. No use sitting around cursing your bad luck. You create your own good luck. Dream Big, Dream Differently, Chase the Dream. Do something about your life and good things will come your way.
Update Lots of things have happened in the past 24 hours. No new buildings were sold but there were inquiries by certain to transfer some money to me as a token of support. First, I was informed that I could not use the name BerkeleyBob and the sale of US Properties such as Empire State Building and World Trade Center is illegal without prior approval. I was not aware of this and had since removed all public building and am now selling only generic building like the office towers, bungalow houses and camping tents. To boost sales, I have slashed prices of the buildings by $50. Camping Tents can now be bought for $50, Bungalow Houses for $100 and Office Towers for $150. The header banner (one-off purchase) can now be bought at $1,000 from $3,000. The banner on the front page is now $3,000 instead of $10,000. Sponsored links can be bought at $100/link at the footer and $50/link on the sidebar. I have also created an image widget for you to put on your blog.
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Petronas Twin Towers Sold The first property on SendBobToBerkeley has been sold. Chen Chow has kindly paid $300 to own the Petronas Twin Towers. Many thanks to Chen Chow for the show of support and encouragement. Go visit his blog from the Petronas Twin Towers on the main page. As can be seen the Fund Counter now stands at $333. I received a contribution of S$50 ($33) from Jason Ong earlier in the day. Thank you for your show of support. Besides that, you can see on my sidebar are Digg and Twitter widgets. Digg this webpage up and post Retweet of this webpage. Also add me on the SendBobToBerkeley.com Facebook group.
Launch Day I am proud to announce that SendBobToBerkeley.com is now officially launched. This is now a 30 days quest ending 23 July 2009 to raise $150,000. The official launch time and date of SendBobToBerkeley.com is 01:23 23/06/09 +08:00GMT. There are several ways I plan to reach this magic figure. The bulk of the money will come from sales of virtual real estate. Next will be sales of advertising banners followed by advertising links. I will also be doing sponsored posts here on this blog and also some revenue will come from sales of Premium Tweets, merchandises and sponsors contributions. I am excited about the prospect of SendBobToBerkeley. Hopefully this will be successful.
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