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Appetizer
When you were a child, which crayon color was your favorite?

— I think my favorites would be the carnation pink and sea green crayons

Soup
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being highest), how likely would you be to change jobs if it required you to move?

— Maybe 5.

Salad
Take all the numbers in your birthday and your phone number and add them up, one by one. What’s the total?

— 82

Main Course
Have you ever “re-gifted” anything? If so, what was it and who did you pass it on to?

— Nope, I don’t think I ever gave to anyone gifts that were given to me.

Dessert
Name something you need from the store.

— books and some toiletries.

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First, I would like to thank everyone for supporting Pinoyblogosphere.Com. You might be wondering who I am. Let’s just say, I’m the woman behind pinoyblogosphere.com. Call me B. I haven’t done much for this site. I and Boo have so many plans. That is because I am chained to my desk working on freelance jobs and [...]

Parallel Universes is a blog authored by a Filipino physician, Dr. Emer. It’s rare finding a fellow doctor doing some blogging (because most are busy with medical practice or training). So, when I found his site, I bookmarked it immediately. He posts interesting medical commentaries.

On My Way Home is Dr. Martin Bautista’s personal blog. He is a senatorial candidate from the Ang Kapatiran Political Party. His blog is definitely refreshing for a politician’s blog. Whereas other politicians’ blogs contain neither their platforms or personal commentaries but rather contain pictures of their celebrity spouses, his blog is simple, minimalistic, and focuses on what is important: what he has in mind for the country.

Uncommon sense is a former US Navy Officer’s blog dedicated to the radical advocacy of man’s life as it ought to be: free from the initiation of force for all. Which means: freedom to pursue one’s own values; freedom to own and direct property and capital; freedom to produce, trade and celebrate the values necessary to body and soul. It is in this blog that I first got introduced to Ayn Rand’s and Sam Harris‘ books.

I haven’t been sleeping much lately. Haha~ I make the most of my vacation. Unlike others who have almost 2 months obreak, we only have less than a month. Yes, we have regular classes during the HOT SUMMER. Be envious of us. *sarcasm* Gawd, I woke up today kind of early only because of a bad news. Our newest band member, EJ who’s a trumpet player, wouldn’t be able to play with us on April 20 and 21. His grandmother just died this morning. I know the latter’s more of a bad news, but… Well, after looking forward for the gig and wanting to show the gig organizers who have been bugging me yesterday (the One Luv management asked us when we want we to play — either April 20 or 21 — I said 21 then they force us to play on the 20th instead!) what we’re made of. We have to practice x10 then. Luckily, Maru will already be with us. We’ll still show what we can do. But not as good if we’ll have a trumpet player.

I woke up early yesterday because I had a dental appointment. I lost the bracket on my lower right molar. For the second time!. I could have swallowed it or spit it out whene I tooth brushed. *shrugs* Since Tita Eileen just found out that moment (and I the other day), she’ll just put a new bracket in my next appointment.

Romeo X Juliet ep. 1 have been subbed by Umai! I’ll post about it in sashimi maybe later along with Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge ep. 19. I wish the series from last season I’ve been downloading be subbed quickly, so I can make space for the anime I have to watch out for this season. Ah! I also have Okane ga Nai ep. 1 that I even downloaded as soon as it was released and I haven’t watched it yet. *bah*

You know, I like taho. Haha~ *is eating taho now*

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From Manolo’s blog, I was directed to AlterNation101 blog. The last sentence on the blog caught my attention and it said ‘”But we just have to do something!” This is the reason why the writer is going to vote for Ang Kapatiran. This kind of reasoning won’t help our cause to achieve our dream Philippines. [...]

We are bless with a lovely weather and it will last throughout the weekend according to the weather forecast. I don’t usually pay attention to weather reports before being from a tropical country. The only thing you have to look out for are the monsoons and seasonal typhoons but the rest is boringly sunny. Living [...]

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Plug: The Pinoy Music Series is brought to you by PinoyBlogMachine.com!

Now I truly understand the real value of having the shuffle-feature in CD and MP3 players. I was listening to random songs on my Zune with Sugarfree's "Kung Ayaw Mo Na Sa Akin" came on.  Now, I like Sugarfree and listen to their other songs a lot, but for some reason just skipped this one.  Well, thanks to the shuffle-feature, this is now our next feature on the Pinoy Music Series.

Enjoy the video!

I've also included some other favorites from Sugarfree as well:

I'm back in Dublin after a wonderful 9 days in California where we enjoyed soaking up the sun and visiting both Legoland in Carlsbad and the fabulous La Quinta Resort in the desert.

Had a great time and looking forward to our next trip to Italy in a little over 3 weeks!

(I've changed my blog's theme back to the Euro version.)

I hate finals week. Its not that I don't study. Its not that I can't take it. Well, a part of me is saying that it needs a break. Sorry man. Not yet. Just one more day though. My mind is like an overclocked computer these days. Forcing it to go a few levels above normal to compensate for the added studying I have to do. And now its telling me it needs a break. Crap. Not now. Just for 24 more

People have different reasons for putting up blogs. There are some who only do it for leisure and use their blogs as an online journal to update their friends about what’s going on with their lives. Others use it to publish their creative outputs like poems, short stories, pictures (in the case of photo blogs), videos (video blogs or vlogs) and the like. Then there are those blogs that focus on a particular market like travel, technology and others. They can be a combination of two or of all, but most blogs fall under the categories above.

However, aside from leisure, publishing one’s creative works and writing about particular subjects, blogs can also be used to generate profit. There are a lot of ways to do so. But the most common of them is putting up ads on the pages.

Putting up ads on one’s blog page can be done by signing up to adsevers like Google’s Adsense program, Adbrite, etc. While I do not have anything against those who blog for money, I am against those who do it blatantly (eg. having pages filled with too much ads) and at the same time, do not have the good content to back their blogs up.

By good content, what I mean is the ability to at least construct a decent sentence regardless of the language used in the post. I don’t really mind if personal blogs overlook this, but it’s different for those who blog for a niche market. I think that more care should be taken when writing a post in the case of the latter. If you’re writing it for the money, make it worth it. Of course, English is the preferred language in writing a blog post to gather relevant keywords for adservers, but please, make an effort to learn how to write it well in that language.

While I won’t give particular examples of blogs, here are some examples of what I’m talking about (based on real blog posts, but modified to protect the blogger’s identity):

“I have AN cat that purrs every time it sees me.”
“I am with my sister right now. She WAS really beautiful.” (Unless of course the writer meant that she used to be pretty and now she’s not.)
“What have you been doing in the PASS two hours?”

I may sound like I’m nitpicking, but if there’s a consistent torrent of grammatical errors in every post (which is the case of the blogs I referred to in the samples above), then that’s another thing.

Surely, if a blogger can invest time in learning how to write HTML, CSS, php, asp, etc. codes, it’s also worth it to learn how to write at least in simple English.

This article was originally published in methinksreally.blogspot.com