Good to know!

You Are 52% Open Minded

You are a very open minded person, but you’re also well grounded. Tolerant and flexible, you appreciate most lifestyles and viewpoints. But you also know where you stand firm, and you can draw that line. You’re open to considering every possibility - but in the end, you stand true to yourself.

Happy me!

I was browsing my other blogs and updating some of it a couple of hours ago when I saw Blogthings in one of them. I got sucked into answering some tests again! Here’s one of them…

How Happy Are You, Really?

Good to know I am generally happy. I am. I have a lot of plans, I need to do a lot of things. I have done some but there are so much more left undone. I know I will be able to do it but I am taking things slow.

Online again!

And we’re back!

All sites under BigSkyMedia were down for almost 3 days. Huge impact on our blogging…

I’ll be back later to post some more about this.

Meantime, Happy Friday everyone! Just a few more days and it’s Christmas already.

Belated happy birthday to my dearest sis Rebecca of Skippyheart. So sorry sis, been offline for a few days…

Later

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!

Melancholy and Josh Groban

As you very well know by now, I get sentimental easily. A song, a written note from long ago, even a cup of coffee or the smell of grass or an old book, it brings back a surge of longing for something, someone… And then I get sentimental. Before I know it, I am crying already because it just came to me that I miss this person. Or that a song reminded me of the good old days. And I miss the good old days…

Lately, something triggered this sadness… after each laughter, may kurot. It’s probably due to the fact that my mom’s death anniversary is coming up, or that I saw something in Friendster (darn that site!) or I heard that Josh Groban song again…

By the way, Josh Groban is coming to the Philippines for a concert. I really would love to watch it. I’m a big fan! But the ticket prices are way too expensive for me. Imagine the lowest price is P3,000 and for VIP seats it’s a whopping P20,000! Goodness! Sayang sa pera! Nakakahinayang lang because I know it’ll be a long time before he comes back again. It is during times like this that I miss having a boyfriend. Libre sana! Hahahah…

Also, I get hurt easily these days. Hay ewan ko ba… Thank God inay and itay are there daily

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I will cut my hair really short tomorrow. It just occurred to me that I haven’t done anything with my curly hair for months now. No trips to the salon for a hot oil, hair spa… no nothing. Kayo girls, how often to you go to the salon for the hair rituals?

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Some link love…

Please visit these great blogs: The Chronicler’s Life by Joshua, the new Tales of the Cenobite blog by Dom Lawrence, kapatid na Bluepanjeet’s newly moved OTWOMD and Maiylah’s Lifesnippets.