My Birthday Give Away!
Kumusta po sa inyong lahat!
I am feeling very generous today because it’s my birthday! 
I want to celebrate by having a contest. I am giving away free domain registration with hosting for 5 years on a Linux server(of course) located in a US based world class state of the art facility. Yes, your very own domain name and not some silly sub domain!
The lucky(hard working) winner will receive:
Bandwidth Allotment: 250,000 MB or 244.1 GB transfer
Diskspace Allotment: 5,000 MB or 4.9 GB
Hosting and Registration value of $290.00! interested?
Romblon Chronicles: A bitter-sweet rendezvouz with RO-RO
Note: This is part of a series of my Romblon Chronicles. So watch out for the sequel this week. (Inkblots).
Finally, I am able to sit down and write what I have gone through almost two weeks ago. A week after I went to Batanes for a work-related trip which I blogged here, here, here, and here, I went to Romblon last October 4 for a consulting work with the Peace and Equity Foundation.
I was both excited and anxious about my trip to Romblon. Had it not for the consulting fee (lolz!) and the important social mission I have to accomplish (I will blog about it later.), I would not go to Romblon.
Have You Found The “Star” of Your Life Yet?
I am trying to write something tonight, well actually it’s already early morning, but for some reason I cannot begin to put all together the words and ideas that are flowing here in my mind. I don’t know how to put them all together. There are so many things that I want to write so I can let everyone know what I feel.
First of all, I don’t know what to do with my life… again! I am tired of my work and of what I do everyday. I am losing the drive to work and I feel that it’s time for me to do something new and different. I only do my work because I need to and because of necessity. I feel like I am a loser. I am no longer happy with what I do. I feel so lost. It’s not enough that I have a job, what I want is a career or to have my dream business that I can call my own. I do not want to work for someone anymore, I want other people to work for me. Well, that’s my dream.
Second, I am tired and sick of being alone and of being lonely. My friends and my family can not give me the happiness that a partner in life can give me. I may have true and cool friends and family whom I can count on at times when I experience difficulty in my life, who makes me happy and accompany me in good times. But when they’re gone, who will keep me warm in the middle of the night? Who will comfort me when I’m having a nightmare? I need someone to make me happy, someone who will bring out the best in me, who will help me see my worth and someone who believes in me. The time will come when all of my friends will have their own life, family and career and the sad truth is that they cannot be there for me when I need them. That’s the reality of life, right? The people who matters to us most cannot always be there for us to protect us.
Third, finding someone to share my life with is not that easy. I don’t know what’s wrong with our single guys here. Most of them only wants sex in women and someone who they can posses as their trophy. That’s the sad reality. And when you chance upon a guy who is like that, it can be so devastating. I had an experience just like that. I thought that guy really loved me but sooner I found out that what he wanted in me was just sex. The sad part was that I already fell for him, he already became part of my everyday routine. It was like without him would be so hard coz I was so used with him around me. But I cannot settle for something less coz I know I deserve much more than just a guy who only wants from me was to have sex. So, what do you do with that kind of man? Different women have different ways of disposing of these kinds of men. As for me, I want to kill him with guilt. That’s just exactly what I did. He did not hear any bad things or words against him from me though he wanted me to hurt him physically, maybe to ease some of the burden that he was carrying because he knew that he was guilty of hurting me and using me. But I am not like that, instead, I remain nice to him. True enough the guilt he was feeling was killing him. The good thing about it is that he was man enough to apologize for what he has done to me and because of that we remain friends up to this day.
After my last relationship, I’ve met several guys who I found are nice and gentlemen but I think I am not yet ready to jump into another relationship or maybe because I have not met yet the right man who I can say I want to spend my life with although in all honestly I want so bad to be with someone who I can love and in return be loved by this man. But I also believe that it is not right to be with someone just for the sake of having a boyfriend or just for the fun of it. There has to be love in there.
Lucky are those who have already found the other half of their heart and life. So, never take for granted that precious gift that you have right there in front of you. You have to realize that the love that you have right now is the most special thing that anyone can possibly have. Be grateful for that love. And if you have that special star in your life right now take care of it, cherish it and never break its heart, coz a star with a broken heart cannot shine.
And I know for a fact that all of us wants someone in our lives who will shine through us.
Education for all?
Government statistics show that for the last six years there was a steady increase in total school enrollment, but there was also an increasing proportion of elementary school-age children who remained out of school. In the 2005-2006 school year, almost 65 percent of six-year old children did not begin their primary education on time.
Read more at Mongster’s Nest
Marking a Good First-Impression
Note: The final list of nominees for the Pinoy Blog of the Month Contest has already been finalized. Please wait for the official list later tonight tomorrow morning!
Did you know that out of the total amount of first-time visitors that your blog gets everyday, only a percentage of it actually reads your blog and comes back for more?
First time visitors are those visitors who had just viewed your blog for the first time. The problem with this type of visitor is that, unless they have an initial interest in reading your blog, they won’t go into the trouble of browsing your blog to read it. Some of them would just look at your blog and would immediately leave if nothing interesting catches their eye.
So, what should you do? The solution is to mark a good first impression on your first-time visitors.
Speak Up About the Environment
Some years ago, while on a public utility jeepney (PUJ), I noticed how the environment suffered but I declined to speak up. This is what happened.
Moderation is the Key
Author’s note: Okay, so my blogs in my own domain are down (account suspended) but I won’t let that hinder me from participating from Blog Action Day! So here we go…
Recently there has been a lot of commotion and discussions going on about the real status of our environment. Some may argue that we’re going about the wrong way of protecting our environment by promoting extreme environmentalism but one just have to look at our surroundings and know that we ought to do something about man’s destruction of the environment. But it is also not correct to pursue all means of protecting the environment, while neglecting human progress. It’s a delicate balance, I guess, and we haven’t found the formula for it yet.
My belief in this is that we should exercise moderation. For example, I do not say that we stop using paper altogether, but rather we only be wary of indiscriminate use of it. Nor do we forego all plastic products, but rather we should be prudent in using these materials and not produce more than we could use.
Here are some other tips I’d like to share:
My Creed on Recycling – Blog Action Day
I have recently been to Hong Kong and what awesomed me more is surprisingly neither the night market nor Disneyland. Do you know that almost all their local companies and establishments strictly encourage and implement the recycling of PET (or Polyethylene Terephthalate) bottles? In our Hong Kong office, they have a separate bin for empty PET bottles. In Disneyland, all trash bins come in pairs where one is dedicated solely for PET bottle disposal as in the picture accompanying this article.
This consciousness for preserving the environment must come from each and everyone of us. True. But the initiative must really come from the government. I’m sorry for this hard sell, but Hong Kong’s Environmental Protection Department deserves high praises for making its citizens and visitors realize the value of recycling if only for the PET bottle recycling movement they had successfully implemented. Adults do it and so children follow suit and live the habit from example.
Read on my creed and the rest of this post at fritzified.com>>
It’s a generational thing
Cross-posted from my weblog.
DURING weekends, it has become a family tradition to motor to my hometown in Sagrada, Pili for our weekly worship and a visit at the old folks.
For about three months, the trips became an ordeal as the electronics of our 10-year old car that survived Reming’s wrath, though bruised and battered by flying purlins that twisted in the winds, suddenly conked out. But everything is back to normal now, our weekly pilgrimage even made better by the rediscovered versatility of the car CD player.
You see, that three-year old CD player can play MP3 tracks. If you can’t grasp the difference, think about this: while traditional CDs can only have 20 singles — my Ultraelectromagneticjam for instance had 17 — a blank CD can have around 140 MP3s on them. That’s more or less seven music albums in one serving.
Since I started burning MP3 songs and playing them the past three weeks, with all my seven kids on board, with their mom and grandma to boot, I noticed that if there is one other thing that binds our family together, it is our common love for music.
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I Want to Know More Bloggers
Hello there are you a Filipino Blogger ?, I would like to expand my reach to other bloggers and I would like to gather more friends in the web, specially Filipino & Filipina Bloggers.
