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Its funny how one thing someone does can make a change throughout the world and throughout genres.  Mary Schmich was a columnist of the Chicago Tribune and wrote something about wearing sunscreen.  She described this writing as something she would have given in a commencement exercise.  This article has been disputed to be owned by someone else; but, soon enough when there were a lot of people who heard about this column, it was set to music. 

If you just read the lyrics, you'll say it really does make a lot of sense, and truth is, you might as hear off some of those advice and take them to your life.  The first time I heard this music, was in my favorite Chillout Station, DeviantAudio.com.  I usually listen to Chillout and Lounge music for I find it relaxing.  In the middle of working and thought processing, I find myself listening to a music that tells me to wear sunscreen! :D  Well, I thought for a moment and listened intently to the advices, and found them really meaningful, not until I heard all about the sunscreen.

I must say, without this music piece and the video that has circulated in order to hype this message, this advertisement should have been dead.  The ad is very well hidden in the deep reservoire of sane and serious advice on living life.  Just watch the video while you read the lyrics.  Enjoy!

This is the music video of the song Love Team, by my new favorite band, The Itchyworms. Check out more videos from this great band at PinoyShow.com! http://www.pinoyshow.com

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Just after i wrote the previous post, my landline phone rang. I figured "Damn, its my brother's girlfriend again!" Then a smooth, silky voice sounded a big ring on my ears, "hello, is Mr. Kirby there?". . . I thought it was a prank call and i had the notion that it was just another guy friend trying to make fun of me. But it wasnt! It was Erin from ClickBooth.com verifying my membership. She was nice and soft-spoken. Me and my dirty thoughts!

I forgot to mention on my posts that I signed up for ClickBooth just 2 days ago. Its an ad provider that offers one of the Highest Paying programs on the internet. I remembered indicating my landline number on the registration form. Never thought in my wildest dream someone is going to call me to verify my application! But all was well taken cared of; she asked about my blog and what kinda ads im going to include on it. The conversation wasnt really that long but it was a good one. She ended up saying she's going to confirm my registration and accurately enough, after like few moments, there it was. . . My ClickBooth registration.

Whats my Take on ClickBooth?

Well, after i signed in, the interface was simple and user friendly. The offers are right before your eyes. Ive seen $1.25 as the lowest price per click and some offers as high as $36 per lead! Now, how does that sound? I browsed over the site and found it very comprehensive as it is professional. If i would do good on ClickBooth, I'd definitely stick with this one as my personal choice.

Starting from now, youll be seeing ads from them, the one very useful to every one is the work from home opportunity. Look for the ad around. ;)

Ive selected only what i deem as important to each of us to benefit whether in cash or in kind. Want to try your luck with the XboX 360? Go ahead try it. You might just find yourself playing your hearts out.


If you want to give ClickBooth a try, click here as i highly recommend this ad program to everyone.

It has Just been over a week ago since i posted my first post. I remember saying "i dont know where im heading". I also posted about how to increase blog traffic part 1 (part 2 is upcoming. . .) Now this is the result of that part 1.
A week ago, i was averaging a maximum of 6-10 visitors per day. After unrelenting hours of reading, learning, asking questions, submitting to blog directories, making friends with bloggers, here's what's the result of all these.

According to Sitemeter, i am averaging 20 visits and 25 page views a day. And for the past few days since i installed sitemeter, my blog has been endowed with 131 visits with 2:30 seconds per visit on the average. Turning out attention to the world map, surprisingly enough, ive been having alot of visitors from the USA aside from my hometown of the Philippines. Once in a while, i get visitors from usual internet users as Canada, UK, Russia and even more surprising is that, ive got quite a few from far flung areas as ROmania, Kenya and Jamaica. Well, thats a good thing for me. That would only mean that i have to use English in everything i do in here to cater to everyone. As i used to tell you guys on my Weekly FreeBie Post, "In kiRbitz, every reader is important".

Some updates, just a while ago, i added my site to yet another blog directories its called thevital. I promptly received my confirmation email telling me that my blog has been accepted already. Add your website/blog is you havent submitted to them yet.

Here are some of the things i plan to do in the coming days:

• Find more ad providers to target to my readers. (ive been doing well with affiliatebot. Try using them too. Its very easy to use as i highly recommend them.
• Continue to have more Blogging friends and continue to have more exchange links. If you want to have a link exchange with me, you are most welcome. Just comment on thios post if you want one.
• Write an article at assocoiatedcontent or ezineArticles and hopefully my article will be accepted. Do watch out for that one. ;)
• Continue to exchange Technorati Faves, Diggs and Stumble. If you want to exchange, again, please feel free comment on this post and expect a reply comment on your blog from me. ;)
• Have a Contest. Yes, Im planning to have a contest. But its still under brain-storming. Im still in the process of molding it but do watch out for this one.
  

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Brother Jojo Torreja visited us yesterday morning. I was glad to see him again and had a long fellowship about our respective families and friends and churches. Bro. Jojo is one of the persons I will never forget in my entire life. He was instrumental, together with Pastor Romy Provido in my spiritual growth. Pastor Romy led the Sumulong Baptist Church where my family used to attend church

I asked a friend last week to do me a favor -- to come up with designs for my site. He agreed and here are three of them. The designs are very simple yet able to express what I wished for my site. I am still thinking though if will have to replace the picture of my kids (above) with any of this one... Meantime, I used the designs in creating some memorabilla which you may wish to see.

for eating too much chocolate, the national baseball team may fail to defend its southeast asian games title. a high-ranking philippine olympic committee official revealed monday that the olympic body got turned off when members of the team carted away loads of free chocolates during the 15th asian games in doha, qatar, in december 2006.

goodness, this is so humiliating. i can't imagine how the other foreign athletes reacted when they saw this kind of behavior. i mean, yeah, there's no fuzz on getting some freebies, but to take loads of 'em ain't cool. geez... just because of chocolates.. tsk tsk tsk

A holy day of obligation...
A quick update on my sober weekend (only this time i was really sober) So yeah i still cant sleep, although the weekend has helped a little because i went home so i pretty much slept the whole time, from the 3hour bus ride until we had to go to church on Sunday morning, yes i go to church. I woke up like 4am and started the day with ice cold milo (lots and lots of ice boosts my energy levels to yey high) and hotsilog. (with lots and lots of rice to boost my energy levels even yey higher) On the way to the church i fell asleep again, i was reading a copy of The Great Gatsby, which i've had for like the longest time but never got to read it, and after three chapters zzzz (wtf? you just woke up) Yeah im as good as dead during the weekends (except when there are drinking sessions or the like) all i do is sleep, making up for the hours i wasted staring at the walls and ceilings of my room looking for sheep to count. And we know ive had a lot of that in the past week. Oh and i forgot to mention that the church was in Manaoag, Pangasinan a good 5hour trip from my place, it was the last sunday of the month (or something) so we go to church there at times like those. Yeah my family is devoted like that.

this is also fae's despedida. bon voyage fae!

It really wasn't something I normally try out. I dislike testing new browsers because well, I'm happy with what I have. The trio of Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari would suffice. But having a weird name, it really roused up my curiosity. SpaceTime is a new generation browser that I recently found. It fosters 3D browsing which isn't really that common in our browsers to date.

But what is 3D browsing anyway? Based on what I've seen from the browser so far, it means good-bye tabs. But that doesn't mean we go back to single window viewing. The tabs are replaced by windows. Yep, windows. Each page you want to view will appear as one window, cascaded in a manner similar to Vista's Flip 3D.



For the most part, SpaceTime is a great proof of concept. Why brand it as a proof of concept then? From the user's POV, this browser is incomplete. Proxies have to be set using Internet Explorer instead of having an option on its own. Customization is limited mostly to the 3D interface.

No.B. You need to have a pretty good system for this to run seamlessly. But don't fret. Even my under-average laptop can handle so there isn't really any reason not to try it out. In case though you do try it on a low-spec computer, be prepared to see this (or similar) dialog.



don't say I didn't warn you...

Do not be discouraged.  You should persevere in what you do and you will succeed.

Lucky Fortune
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                            -- Fortune Cookie of Chowking 

Okay, one entry ticked off from my list of blogs awaiting publication.

I am so vain that I like talking about myself and my views to anybody who’d listen. And yeah, some people may also be starting to think I’m vain. Good thing Dan tagged me with this meme. Just gave me the perfect excuse to be talking about myself again. I really never get tired answering these things.

Okay, the actual title of this meme is 8 Random Facts About Me.

The Rules (if you don’t follow these rules, you’ll develop allergy to latex):

1. Post these rules before you give the facts.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) eight people and list their names (linking to them).
4. Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged!

The Facts:

1. I have a dream blog called “Prudence, Dreaming“. I’m not sure everybody knows it exists, though I have put a link here in my main blog and in my email signature. It’s okay if people don’t visit. The blog is just my online dream journal. That is, when I do manage to remember those dreams, some of which, if I remember correctly, are happy while some can be terrifying. It’s an interesting exercise trying to recall the details. You might want to try it out.
2. I’m addicted to Clover Chips. I start to have withdrawal symptoms if I don’t get to eat even a small bag in days.
3. I like hanging out at TriNoMa and The Block. I like hanging out in places where I can read books and write down my thoughts. Actually, I’d rather stay at home but I’m just forced to leave house because I don’t like it when people at home invades my territorial bubble. Sometimes, it’s better to be surrounded by strangers because I know they wouldn’t bother me.
4. Everytime I go to a bookstore, I buy a small notebook and a pen but not because I easily lose pens or notebooks. I just feel I have to. I easily get attracted to pretty notebook covers. But no celeb covers please!
5. Right now, I’m trying to limit my blogging time. I’ll have to start spending more of my time reviewing for an upcoming exam.
6. I still haven’t finished watching my House, M.D. DVDs.
7. One of my greatest weakness: Men who can sing. Remember my gay ex-bf and the guy who’s a member of the L.V.G. (League of the Vanishing Gentlemen)?
8. I absolutely HATE watching rape scenes. And just hearing the screams leave me traumatized.

Though I want to rant more mundane things about me, the meme limited me to just citing eight facts. Too bad. Maybe someone would like to tag me again?

Here are eight people I’m tagging to do this meme:

1. L.A.
2. Maki
3. Yna
4. Sorsi
5. Carl
6. Lalon
7. Frances
8. Helga

I’m going to bend the rules a little bit. Anybody who wants to do this meme but I haven’t tagged… JUST DO IT! And leave a comment here if you’re going to do it. I want to read your random facts!

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Non-anime:

• Bambino Ep. 1-7
• Mecha Mecha Iketeru 0129
• Mecha Mecha Iketeru 0320
• Mecha Mecha Iketeru 1016

Anime:

• Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge Ep. 25 [complete]
• Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Ep. 1-11
• Death Note Ep. 29-37 [complete]
• Tsubasa Chronicle - The Princess of the Birdcage Land
• Shusaku Replay [hentai] [wmv format]

Audiobooks:

• Gaiman, Neil - American Gods
• Gaiman, Neil - Anansi Boys
• King, Stephen - Black House
• King, Stephen - Dolores Claiborne
• King, Stephen - Hearts in Atlantis
• Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter - (Book 2) Chamber of Secrets
• Edgar Cayce - Astrology

Manga:

• Adagio by Kodaka Kazuma [PoT]
• Animal X - Sugimoto Ami Illustrations
• Bougen Honey by Kikkawa Kabao
• Cheer for V by Ed
• Final Fantasy IX Visual Arts Collection
• Final Fantasy Japan Artbook by Yoshitaka Amano
• Harimaro by NiseMIDIdoronokai [School Rumble]
• Hurdle
• Kikkake wa Marumaru by Kikkawa Kabao
• Kindan - Himitsu no Hanazano by Osakabe Mashin
• Mune Hatte Ikou by Kikkawa Kabao
• Nakaba by NiseMIDIdoronokai [He is My Master]
• Native Heart
• Negimaru by Studio Kimigabuchi
• Pochatto Love
• SNK Characters All About Illustrations
• Street Fighter III New Generation Artbook
• Swing Out Sisters by Shinonome Tarou
• The Necessity of Happiness by Akizuki Ryou [FFVII]
• Yoshitaka Amano Hiten - Acryl Watercolor Pen and Ink
• Akai Koi by Kujou Aoi
• Ano Kado wo Magatta Tokoro by Kawai Toko
• Ares Vol. 1-10 by Ryu Kum Chel
• Bad Boys by Yamane Ayano and Gou Siira
• Fifteen - Artwork based on Slam Dunk by Yamane Ayano
• Harem Night Ruriiro no Oukan by Yamane Ayano
• I Don’t Need You by Mimori Ao
• Koi no Okite by Tohjoh Asami
• Mom and Sis
• Ninpu de Pon by Syowmaru
• Revenge! by Rokuya Sanae
• Soba ni Oitene by Sakuragi Yaya
• A Love For Sweet Things by Hinata Mahiru
• Hatenkou Shoujo Dojibiron Pink by Akabei Soft [School Rumble] [SaHa]
• Kimi ga Koi ni Ochiru by Takanaga Hinako
• Romantic Glance
• Seimaden by You Higuri
• Sorcerer Stabber Orphen by Akita Yoshinobu and Sawada Hajime
• Under Control by KinKan [PoT]
• Aijin wa Korosareru by Umetarou
• Ai-Ren by Yutaka Tanaka
• Autocrat (Sensei-kunshu) by Flower Place [PoT]
• Crystal Moon [Apocripha/0]
• Good Vibrations Artbook by Sakurai Shushushu
• Rare Love by Chi-Ran
• Snow in the Dark by Kano Yasuhiro
• Specter by Kisaragi Hirotaka
• Suki ni Naccha Ikenai Hito by CJ Michalski
• The Violinist of Hameln Perfect Guide Book
• Vampire Girl by Kaoru Fujiwara
• Zaiaku wa Hada no Ue ni [Sin is Above Skin Level] by Naono Bohra
• Goto-P Illustrations 2
• X Vol. 7-17 by Clamp
• Eyeshield 21 Vol. 1-17 by Murata Yuusuke and Inagaki Riichiro

The Every Nation World Conference is over and almost entirely off my table. Just the post-event communications to get out and life goes back to normal and I can finally focus all my energy on moving back to the US. EN07 was great! It was like thi...

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