Pissed!

I hate it when friends abuse my kindness!

I lent a friend some money back in July. I wouldn’t have lent him some if he really didn’t need it. I also trusted him not to double cross me. Boy was I wrong! Almost 6 months down the road, here I am, begging him to at least leave me a message on YM. I have left messages on his YM accounts, Gmail, Friendster and even texted him even if his cellphone number is always out of reach. All messages asking him to at least tell me if he can already pay me or he still needs more time. I was polite at first thinking maybe he has not gone online for a few days now and his cellphone was pawned to get money for his kids and all. I am creating scenarios in my head so as to avoid thinking that he has no more desire to pay me. And then I saw his Friendster account a few minutes ago. It says that his last log in was 24 hours ago. Tapos dedma??? WTF?!?!@#$!%

I left him an angry message telling him to give me some respect because I did not just picked up that money out of nowhere. Of all my friends…

Another friend is asking for some financial help. She might not pull something like this on me but I don’t know. I have a soft heart for people undergoing financial problems because I’ve been there so many times I know the feeling of drowning in a sea of debts. That’s why I help relatives and friends. I always keep in mind that when I was in that situation, I hardly had someone I can run to for some financial help. And now that I can do my share of helping, I want to at least give back the kindness I received from others before.

But with this situation, I don’t know if I will lend money to friends again.

I am really pissed right now!

Getting back my offline life…

…one day at a time.

I have been away from the internet most weekends now. I try to. It’s been fun. Had dinner with some friends on Thursday. Met up with the ex and his family on Friday. Party with the whole paternal side of the family on Makati for my aunt’s 55th birthday last Saturday. And the whole family went malling yesterday. It’s been a lot of fun!

And I get to kick back and relax. Which I haven’t been doing for so long now. I told my friend that I will be relaxing a bit this whole holiday season. And will get back on track come January. She’s started with lesser online time as well and is enjoying it. Lagi kaming inaantok sobra kaya dapat makatulog ng mas mahaba hehehe

Been following the coming US elections closely. Pretty interesting what with Hillary Clinton joining the presidentiables. I would love to know more about Barack Obama. Quite an interesting man. And he’s being endorsed by Oprah so that’s something for me…

Plus, whenever I go online, I immediately open YouTube! Aargh! Before I just ignore this site. But now, I am a self-confessed fan. I watch Iron Chef episodes I haven’t seen. That’s what’s keeping me busy *silly grin*

I will post my Weekend Snapshot entry later.

Have a great week ahead everyone!

Done with your Christmas shopping already?

Funny banner!

I bumped the entry that was supposed to go up tonight and instead I am posting this one. I am browsing sites of some popular bloggers today to get some idea on what is happening in the other side of the blogosphere (read: the upper class) and have found this banner really funny…

These people are kissing Poogle’s a$$ to be able to get their PRs back. Ha! As if Poogle Google will care about them!

This blogger, one of the top earners in PPP, is saying goodbye to her paid posts because she is on a “Poogle worship mission”, her words not mine. She can adopt all this kiss-a$$ attitude already because she has earned over $10K from PPP and is earning almost $1K from TLA every month. Now what about the little bloggers just starting out to earn some extra income for the holidays???

I say go on an Alexa worship mission! Haha

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I read Matt Cutts’ blog whenever he has updates. I love the guy even if he works at the Poogleplex. I admire his spunk in answering bitchy comments from bloggers slapped by his boss. I also admire his deep supply of patience in facing bloggers lambasting his boss. He explained some reasons why most blogs lost their PR. As well as why blogs not selling links or doing paid posts also got the slap. But there are loopholes in his explanation that I still don’t understand. Like, why are some blogs selling links not penalized like ours? Are they just lucky enough to avoid the Poogle’s all-encompassing eyes? And he said that blogs not into paid posts got a PR reduction because there was a PR update made at the same time the slap was happening. But then when you look at popular blogs previously slapped, they got their PR back just after a few days. What’s the deal?

Anyway, whatever, I still love Matt Cutts! Go read his blog if you are concerned whether Poogle will give you your PR back.

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Anyhow, this site is saying GOODBYE to PPP, Blogsvertise and ReviewMe. Ah no, I am not on a Poogle worship mission as well. It’s just that, now that this site is back to a PR0, I don’t feel compelled to write $5 posts under PPP anymore. And I am not really crazy about the Real Rank and Social Spark. It looks dubious to me and there is this nagging thought in my mind that Real Rank will only benefit the upper class of PPP posties and posties from the US, Canada and UK. Asian posties, notice how we don’t get decent opps but when you ask other posties in the US and UK they still get decent ones even if they have a PR0?

ReviewMe has brought me a decent amount of income when I joined them. But for some reason, campaigns get lesser and lesser for PR0 blogs. Ditto with Blogsvertise.

I checked and I only have 9 posts under PPP and 8 posts under ReviewMe. Not really sure how many under Blogsvertise but I think it’s around 5. There will be no more than that.

I will still be doing paid posts for SponsoredReviews, Smorty, PayU2Blog, BTOP and others.

BUT, it would be lesser or in between 2 non sponsored posts. That will be my goal for this blog come 2008.

Happy blogging everyone!

Watch it!

My best friend is a watch person. He loves watches, collects them in fact. He has at least 12 right now. All in good working condition. This coming holidays, I believe he’s going to get an Audemars Piguet for himself. Classy. I told him to check out EssentialWatches.com for more classy watches. You might want to check it out yourself. Almost every classy brand that you can think of are being offered by Essential Watches. Go check out the site now.

Can you feel the Christmas spirit?

Not really. I just felt it when we went to Divisoria last weekend. Saturday and Sunday mornings, we were at Tutuban and 168 Malls. We bought gifts for relatives and friends already. That is the only time I felt its already Christmas because there are so many people around doing their Christmas shopping. But other than that, wala.

I just feel sad because you cannot feel the old Christmas spirit anymore. Those times we were kids when shopping was not really important. Caroling was the main focus of kids, eagerly awaiting December 16th. I miss the old times when Christmas decorations did not consist of huge, expensive “parols” bought from Pampanga or Gilmore Street but of a simple parol made of papel de Hapon. Christmas is so commercialized nowadays. If you don’t have enough money, your Christmas is doomed. That’s the idea injected in our minds.

I noticed that in our neighborhood, only 3 houses, including ours, put up Christmas lights and parol. How sad no? When before, after November 2, decorations are in full swing already. Now, it’s already December 3 and yet people are not yet in the Christmas mood.

Ask them why and only one answer will they give you…

Wala kasing pera.

Didn’t they know that with or without money we can all celebrate Christmas? It need not be an expensive celebration. We just have to go back to basic and celebrate it because of the Lord. A simple parol will do. It need not be an expensive one. Banderitas will do. And some Christmas songs blasting from the neighbor’s radio will do the trick.

Wait, come to think of it, do you hear Christmas songs being played on the radio?

Come on, let’s start spreading the Christmas spirit. It’s 22 days before Christmas… can you suggest ways we can celebrate Christmas even without much money involved?

An angel for the kids

There is an organization that helps children from around the world get back on their feet and move on to a better future. Car Angel, a non-profit company found online at www.carangel.com, uses car and other donations to make videos for kids and teens. With the funds that they accumulated, they were able to make and give away over 2.4 million videos! Yes, they use car donations to help fund the children’s causes that they support and believe in. They make videos to give to kids and teens who need upliftment and help in their studies. (more…)

Understanding the market

When a business is formulating a product, it is vital to know what the market’s response is. But of course, the business is focused on the product formulation. Now there is a company who can do the market research for the business. Synovate is a curious company. It can help you understand your target market better.

So if you want to know more about the market you are targeting, consult Synovate about it. Focus on the product, let them handle the market.

Help in dieting

There are so many things that one can do these days to slim down. One can go on a diet. One can go to the gym. One can even hire a personal trainer to make sure one is following everything for an effective diet program. Of course, there are diet pills that one can take. You can check it out at FemNutrition.com. One need only be careful because there are so many diet pills and supplements out in the market that you don’t know what to choose and who to trust when it comes to these pills. Just take extra precautions. And read more about a certain product before buying it. For diet pills, read more on FemNutrition.com now.

Weekend Snapshot #9

We went to Robinson’s Place Mall at Ermita, Manila one weekend with our little ‘alaga’. She had so much fun looking and pointing at these mall display of stuffed animals.

I am a bit late posting this weekend. I tried to stay offline the whole day yesterday and just read and watch tv. That’s a record for me. For the past 6 months, I have been online for more than 15 hours daily. So yesterday was like a lazy rest day for me woohoo!

Have a safe productive week ahead everyone!

*All awards, tags/memes and other stuff are scheduled to go up daily starting this afternoon. I already made some scheduled posts. Sorry for the delay in doing the tags and acknowledging the awards given to me.

Home care

Problems arise when you grow old. That’s a fact. An illness will strike most likely that’s why there should be a back-up plan that you have should things like these arise. A care home is one of the things that you should look into. Plan for a care system that you think will suit your future needs. Plan carefully. And the better way to plan for a care program for you is to learn more about the care system at Bettercaring. This website is a dedicated service for anyone who needs answers to crucial questions about care for themselves or their loved ones. Look into the possibility of receiving care when you grow old or get sick. This way, you will not bother loved ones with the burden of taking care of you. Meet other individuals who are planning to get into the care system or have been into it. Discuss their experiences within the system through Bettercaring’s forum. If you want to plan for your future care, go and check out Bettercaring now.