Personal Blog and Themes Club Update
Personal Blog
(By the way, this is the last personal entry from me on this blog.)
My personal blog is up and running with only one post, a to-do list. I’m not leaving Wpdesigner.com. Simply, I’m going to blog at both sites and keep the personal topics on Braintied.com.
Braintied.com will be my personal to-do list throughout this year. I’ll also use it to comment on various topics and video-blog about places that I’m going to visit (overseas). First up for this year is Viet Nam, which is where I was born and haven’t visited for eleven years. I’ll be booking a flight in March with hopefully no delays.
For this first trip, I want to gain some mobile lifestyle experience. But mainly, I’d finally get a chance to visit my cousin’s grave. My cousin was about 10 years older than I was. He and I grew up in the same house until I was 8 or 9 years old. He died young (motorcycle accident) and I never got the chance to go to his grave.
- Traveling Overseas – I’ve been living in Sacramento, CA for 11 years (currently 21 years old). The only times I’ve been out of the city were school field trips (pumpkin patch, six flags, and etc.). The thought of traveling overseas (alone) is definitely scary, but also exciting. After the trip to Viet Nam with my family, I’m going to come back, review the trip, see what I need to improve and bring with me, and then continue to travel to other countries on my own. After Viet Nam, it’s probably South Korea. If you think I’d be interested in visiting your city, state, or country, let me know in the comments. This year, if I get to, I’ll meet some of my
readerssmall potatoes in person.
Themes Club
About some of the recent designs posted on this blog, yes, they are paid themes, not free themes. However, you won’t have to spend a fortune to get your hands on all of them. Joining the Wpdesigner themes club would give you access to download all of them. (I’m still reconsidering the price for joining the club.) Your club membership would last for one year. And during that one year, more themes would be released monthly, at least 1 theme per month.
I said at least one theme per month because while other clubs limit their releases to one per month in order to maximize profit, I will not do that. Along with the one release per month guarantee, for sure, some months will have multiple releases.
Basically, I will be creating several more designs and themes. Once they’re all finished, you can join the Wpdesigner themes club to download all of them. And then, you’d get at least 11-12 more themes within your one-year membership.
Note: This club is not for bloggers looking for a semi-unique solution, in which customers have to pay for individual themes in order to limit each theme’s level of saturation in the blogosphere. This is for bloggers looking for good lookin’ and well-designed themes at one affordable price; that’s it.
If you have any question, feel free to ask me in the comments.

Hey, I live near Sac! Folsom area.
Would you like to Visit India ?
@Dave – I’ve never been to Folsom, but dang.. you are close!
@dinsan – If you can convince me India is a lot of fun then yes I would. That’s not to say it wouldn’t be fun to go there. I just haven’t heard about its tourist attractions.
isnt it spelled Vietnam? I am going there too somewhere close to summer to visit my girlfriend
Vietnamese is monosyllabic so it’s actually Viet Nam.
Thailand Thailand Thailand!
You’d visit here on 13-15 April
There’s Water festival (Song Kran)
Wow I learned something new today. Vietnam to Viet Nam. Thanks!
Want to visit the Philippines? We have a lot of nice beaches here.
Shifting the focus from east to west, if you’re ever in London, by all means look me up. I’d be happy to spend a day showing you some of the sights and talking tech of course!
tell me when you come to Korea. I would like to meet you in person.
:)
Come to england! (although it is pretty rubbish)
Let me know if you’re in Korea in the next 7 months. I’m living about an hour outside Seoul right now. Maybe you, BlogRants, and I can do a little exploring.
If you ever have a desire to visit the world’s largest musical fountain, let me know, and I’ll show you around a small town on the beaches of lake Michigan…;)
@Nice – If I can make it in time, I would definitely go. The water festival looks like a lot of fun. The trip to Viet Nam ends on April 5 and I don’t know if I’d be ready for another trip within a week. I’ll see.
@Donalyza – I’m a geek, not really beach friendly and don’t know how to swim. You’re gonna have to try harder than beaches to get me there
@Andrew and Rob – London is definitely one of the places I want to visit.
@BlogRants and Justin – For sure, I’ll take a trip there within 7 months. The last time I was in South Korea, the airport food was… sour. That was 11 years ago during a stop of a flight from Viet Nam to the States. I’m very interested in exploring (especially restaurants) with you two.
@One Eyed View – Largest huh? I’ll look it up and see if I’m interested or you could show me some pictures.
nice
:).i’ll be in korea until july so be hoping to see you.don’t be late lol
come on up to my neck of the woods here in canada SP, alex king seemed to enjoy it: http://alexking.org/blog/2005/06/22/nova-scotia
I would sign up for a theme club!
We’ll have to find a good Galbi restaurant then. My favorite food is Gogi Mondu.
Hi SP,
I live half a year in south of France (Marseille, Cannes, Nice) and the other half in Tokyo.
I think that those places are worth visiting.
Besides, it only takes (from France) 2 hours to get to Italy, and 4 hours to get to Spain.
Nature – http://www.troude.com/Famille/...
http://www.kayak-marseille.fr/...
Architecture -
http://www.flickr.com/...
http://academie.sla.mars.free.fr/...
Parties -
http://www.nicecarnaval.com/carnaval4.html
etc… not so bad?
Hope you have lots of fun on your trip!
I’d prefer to go travelling as well, but alas <_< Anyway, having been to Thailand, I can definitely recommend the country!
how about Philippines…?
Hi SP,
How about new free WP Themes? Anything comming up next?
Sorry guys. No Philippines for me. I checked the US travel site and Philippines is on the unsafe list.
@Stan – I want to be in Montreal for the UFC Canada show, but it might be too much for me to make it to the Thailand water festival and then fly to Canada for the event on Apr. 19. They’re only several days apart and I’m not experienced.
@Jordan – Thanks for the encouragement. I think you’ll like what I have in store for the themes club.
@Ange – Do I need Visas to visit European cities by land travel?
@Mosey – What’s stopping you from traveling?
@LastOne – I don’t have any plans for new free themes yet, but Wpdesigner is always going to release free themes once in a while.
@Sp
I am almost sure that you don’t need any Visa as you would travel in a country that belongs to “Shengen space”.
That may be different due to the country where you come from, but the United states of America (that’s where you live, right? I’m not sure) citizens are exempt from the requirement to obtain a visa according to this french official document :
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/...
or those informations, in english :
http://www.schengenspace.com/...
You would find more related informations by searching “shengen+space+visa” or by calling the french embassy in your country.
Hope it helps.
I forgot to mention that “being exempted from Visa application doesn’t allow visitors to work or to stay longer than 90 days in a period of 180 days in Schengen countries”.
Hi Small Potato,
If you happen to be near south east asia, come to Kuala Lumpur.
You can check out the computer hardware and accessories here as it’s pretty cheap.
Of course, you’d need to take a local person shopping with you if you want even better bargains.
Sounds good. Would you be interested in showing me around… Auntie?
Vietnamese is monosyllabic so it’s actually Viet Nam.