Skrill

Many years ago, I registered in Skrill which is an alternative to PayPal and a payment gateway provider from UK.

I had to verify my Skrill account last year 2023. I have not yet used it to send money.

Allah Akbar...Allah is great... 

Intel and Dhiraagu shares

In late 2017, I had to spend one full day and night without sleeping searching to buy shares of my favorite company Intel Corporation (Nasdaq ticker symbol INTC). 

Starting that Thursday morning in late 2017, I was searching the internet, and it was very stressful and late that night around 1:30 AM (which was now Friday) Google shifted the search to an app called JStock which was developed in Malaysia, and it provides investing in US securities through a Fintech (Financial Technology) company named DriveWealth.

I had to deposit 10 US$ and submit a photo of my passport and DriveWealth electronically submitted the W-7 form to IRS and my investing account was opened.

I kept depositing small amounts of cash using my Visa debit card in US$ and after a few days I bought my first ever share of a company. It was Intel Corporation.

A few years ago, DriveWealth stopped serving investing accounts opened in Maldives and I had to transfer my shares to another broker.

I searched the internet this time for a few hours and found a securities investing company named Interactive Brokers which turned to be one of the largest brokers of stocks in the United States. I transferred my shares to Interactive Brokers that nigh.

In 2003 I sold my 3 shares of MTCC which my father had bought for me when I was a child.

In early 2018 I for the very first time bought a share of my favorite local company Dhivehi Raajegey Gulhun PLC (MSD ticker symbol DHR).

My broker was Aariya Securities Pvt Ltd in Male', Maldives. Now Aariya Securities Pvt Ltd has closed their operations in Male'.

Now I own 1 share of Dhiraagu and 1 share of Intel.

Allah Akbar...Allah is great...

My foreign bank accounts (Payoneer and Wise)

There is talk that PayPal is coming to Maldives...At this time only we can send money using PayPal but can't receive money nor link PayPal to a local bank account...

What I have to say is that these payment gateways charges lot's of money as processing fees...I read this many years ago...

Year 2018 was an important year of my life. I registered my own business as a sole trader in the Economic ministry of Maldives and also wrote my first ever book...I tried to open a bank account in a US bank but was rejected by IRS.

So it was very difficult to open a bank account remotely without visiting any country...So as a solution I used Google search and researched the internet and found Payoneer and Wise (formerly TransferWise)...Many years has gone since I have opened these virtual bank accounts (not a real bank account) in Payoneer and Wise in different currencies...I have registered and started my own business but doesn't have the capital to deal with foreign businesses.

In early 2019 I paid Google Ads to advertise my self published book in Amazon KDP but was cheated by Amazon and I till this date hadn't received any payments as royalties...

I have planned to export tuna to foreign countries but don't have enough money to do it...

These screenshots show the virtual bank accounts I have in my name in different currencies.

Allah Akbar...Allah is great...

Cisco Packet Tracer

Tonight, a little while ago I downloaded the latest version of Cisco Packet Tracer after enrolling in a self-paced two hour free course in Cisco Networking Academy and Skills For All (which is also a Cisco website).

Cisco Packet Tracer is network simulation and virtualization tool and I tried to build and model my own network.

Allah Akbar...Allah is great.

Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server

I am not sleeping tonight and did this till now from midnight...

It's now 4:16 AM early morning and close to dawn prayers...

I have now successfully installed IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty in my new Dell OptiPlex Windows computer...I have tried to install it before but ran into problems with my old Lenovo system...

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is an application server to deploy J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) applications.

I had to install IBM Installation Manager to install it...

Allah Akbar...Allah is great...