How to Check Tax Filing Records
A while ago, I published an article about filing my personal taxes for 2023, see "The Thing About NRA Tax Filing: Successful Tax Filing for Cloud Residents with ITIN."…
Built my own website analytics system
Before this, I had used website analytics systems like Google Analytics and Cloudflare, but they always failed to match my usage habits, and I felt a significant discrepancy between their data and my expectations.…
Why launching Z4A image hosting sub-site
Z4A image hosting has been operational since 2016, and it's now almost 8 years since it started. Initially, it was for personal use, but as registration and usage were opened to the public, it has now become a highly loaded, high-storage, and high-share-level image hosting service.…
Yearly Recap: How Much Did My Websites Lose
Today with some spare time, I decided to calculate whether my internet expenses and costs over the past calendar year were indeed powered by passion or if there was a small surplus. This was also part of considering whether to open a sister site to divert traffic for my fully loaded website. So, converting everything into Chinese Yuan, let's tally up.…
Regarding mortgages: shorten the term or reduce monthly payments
Recently, I got some extra cash and am planning to throw it into my mortgage to pay off a bit in advance.…
WeChat's official accounts now online
I once dabbled with WeChat's subscription and official accounts, but that was for a friend's business activity. As for my own blog, I've never hosted it on a server.…
NRA Tax Filing Insights: Success with ITIN for Digital Nomads
March 2024 has arrived, and for most Resident Aliens (RAs) and Nonresident Aliens (NRAs) in the United States, it's another tax season. However, in distant places, there's a group of friends who, for various reasons, have obtained an ITIN, and now they are in a dilemma about whether to file their taxes.…
received the real-name Octopus card
As a non-Hong Kong resident, it used to be very inconvenient to obtain a real-name Octopus card. I remember that one must physically be in Hong Kong and then go to the Octopus physical office to handle the process.…
FREE 8 YEARS ALIBABA HONGKONG SERVER
I saw that Alibaba Cloud has a business support plan, which can be applied for with a business license (it must be a new account, and when I applied, individual business licenses were also acceptable).…
暂时告一段落，保险的事可以消停了
Last time, in a hurry, I added another health insurance for myself, guaranteed renewable for 20 years. This weekend, I took a closer look at the 18th edition of Hao Yi Bao (Good Health Insurance) and this 20-year guaranteed renewable one.…
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