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yung elementary buddy ko, nakipag break recently sa girlfriend nya. told him to blog na lang para magkaron sya ng ibang outlet. and he's now making a dollar sa adsense. LOL. and ung gf nya naman, pinag blog ko na rin. at shempre, puro kadramahan ang laman. lahat ng makita ko, pinagba-blog ko na. haha. when people ask me, ano friendster/fb acct mo? lagi ko sabi, ung blog ko na ang fb ko. hehe. kung gusto nila ko makontak, visit my blog instead. ^^
dati inaaway ko si bf na ang dami daming browsers at tabs na nakabukas sa kanya. ngayon, ako 3 browsers - firefox, IE, chrome nakabukas lahat. with 10 tabs each at least. O, anong ginagawa ko dun? sa isa, blogging, sa isa bloghopping, sa isa blogging ulit. san ka pa?
o yan, LJ. di na ko naglalaba. sa wakas, pumayag na rin si boyfriend na magpalaba na lang sa Laundria. ang kapalit.. ano pa nga ba, eh di lagyan ng laman ung blog nya?
pag gising namin, computer agad ang kaharap. wala pang mumog at pee un ha. as in bukas agad ng pc/lappy. click click click.. sunod sundo na un. ni hindi na halos huminga. ni hindi na nakakakain. lagi na lang dial 8-mcdo or 8700.. teka bakit di pa din ako tumataba? wahahaha!
So that's how it came to be. Now I understand why there are so many emo blogs out there. It's your fault! You drive them to blogging! Ahahaha.
Must you include in this comment my housekeeping advice to you? OMG. My niche is blogging and writing tips. Not pep talk for mom bloggers. Ahahaha. But I'm happy you'd have now more time for the things you love. Go, go, go.
But what if you convince granny to take up blogging, too. Ahehehe.
Keep it up fedhz! Have fun! Extra fun! God Bless! :D
You can take it both ways: Raw as in hilaw. Or Raw as untruth or hallucination. Ahehehe.
Now, I don't have dreams anymore. I'm so beat with all the late hours I keep that I sleep like a log every single time. :)
reply ko, "kunin nyo na lang sa friendster ko."
hehe.
Father, sana dinagdagan mo, "Check nyo na lang sa photo blog ko." Kidding aside, you've lots of wonderful stories. Do you fancy writing a book about your experiences? Bibili tiyak ako kahit walang discount. :)
Blogging has helped me cope with stress. Have I said it correctly? Well, sometimes blogging causes me added pressure, but most of the time, blogging has helped me become more relaxed by helping me release all the pent up tensions inside me.
I guess, this blogging thing helped to have more depth in life and my way of looking at things.
I'm glad you're coping well, bro. Short of finally making good on my promise to write a guest post for you, I think this will help you a lot for the meantime: my gift for you.
Enjoy. Ahehehe
Don't worry, I will wait for that guest post...hopefully it will come to my email's inbox not on my retirement day. :D
Well, hazards of the trade. Thanks for sharing it with me.
What's with you and fencesitting by the way? lols. Never mind, you need not answer that. I love puzzles if they don't hurt the brain too much. :)
Well, except for the fact that anytime we take note of anything of even the remotest interestingness, the Mrs. will nudge me with a "you should blog about that!" comment. Otherwise, everything's pretty much the same. (rolls eyes) :-D
BUT, it doesn't always happen. Most of the time, the idea just pops out from nowhere, like from daily conversations with friends, or from a boring jeepney ride, and then my mind starts to work excitedly, thinking how I can relay my message on a slightly different angle, without the risk of being so narrative.
BUT it doesn't always happen as well.
If you've a good one, do write it. You're very creative, Badongskie. I have no doubt at all you can make it more wonderful in the retelling. :)
Permission granted, of course. Ikaw pa. [Grabe na toh, dami ko na apo. Ahahaha]
in another story, i have this cousin whom i know loves writing too. i told him about blogging sometime in early 2008. it took a few months more before he started his own blog. an american he befriended online was kind enough to give him a hosting space. my cousin is blogging at palawananecdotes.com
my own blog addiction has mellowed down a bit. not anymore the "i ba-blog ko to" type. and i have yet to post those drafts hibernating in my hard disk.
Ah well, we bring into our blogging our own rhythm. If we take another individual's pace and apply it on our own blogging routine it might be a foolhardy thing to do. At the moment, I can't do several posts a day. I'm not up for it. Maybe if I'm into this full time, but at the moment, nah.
Blogging has also affected me positively because it is a de-stressing activity and a productive one at that - I was able to come up with my first creative venture.
The most important one is that I was able to meet new, genuine friends - like you Jan, and of course the rest of the group.
i need to walk a certain distance - looking spaced out but inwardly processing mental images, pictures, thoughts, snippets of dialogue, bits of news and tidbits of gossip - before i can come up with story ideas.
a cab ride is too short, too fleeting. an MRT ride a bit too distracting. on a couch, the TV and the computer take all the attention. in a cafe, too intimate are the conversations. in a movie house, too cold, too loud. in bed, too sleep-inducing.
so, long walks = blog brilliance. hehehe. :P
my real-life buddies don't blog, so i can't talk to them about blogging as frequently as i would like. i go like: "let's talk about my blog again," and they roll their eyes and begin talking about personal matters that i can NOT blog about. :P
Long walks, however, spooks me. Drunks on the streets, too many dogs out there. We have this small hut at the back of the house though. I take my coffee there and think about ideas. Sunday morning is best for doing that. There's no rush, except for the temptation to go back to bed.
Wow, we have something in common - my pre-blogging buddies don't blog, too. They visit me once in a while in FB but that's just about it. We keep in touch by email and sms.
and while you're out enjoying your time with your family and friend, at the back of your mind, you are making a journal of everything that's going around you
but, I don't see myself giving the driver a lecture on blogging or anything, I will not even warn him that I will blog him lol
what I'm trying to say here really, is that suddenly, everything, even just a small sneeze can be blogworthy... or is it?
And while I make myself ridiculous with my crying, I'm already writing the first draft of my tempest in a teacup. lols
It's very hard to take yourself seriously sometimes. In an argument, I hear a little voice inside me, "That lead paragraph of your argument is lame. Revise it."
Yeah, everything can be worthy of a blog post. A sneeze. A breeze. Even a passerby who dismiss us with a contemptuous, "Sheesh." Ahahaha.
actually, I was about to retire when I saw your tweet, so I immediately rush here ;)
Come 11pm and I'm still not done with the post? I start to panic. So many things to do still - finding the picture, formatting the post, adding links. You know the drill. Ahahaha.
So 12 midnight is the ballpark figure. I'm less likely to fly off the handle now when interrupted. Ask Elmot. His talent is to send me texts messages every time I'm writing a post. lols. I've learned to live with it already. What can I tell him, "Hey, bro, genius at work here. Please evaporate?" Ahehehehe. I don't have the heart. Besides, genius needs company. lols
Well as for me, I think I can enumerate a lot but I'll just sum it up to 2 aspects.
1.) Became an observer.
I became a hunter of new post opportunities. Blogging made me appreciate my environment as I became more observant, aware, and immersed to it. I tend to be savvy to try out and learn new things that I may share it on my blog.
It also made me an observer of myself. (Self-evaluation, self-realization) And I think this is very important as an entrepreneur.
2.) Ambassador of blogging.
Like you lolo Jan, everytime I met an entrepreneur or any knowledgeable person whom I think can share great thoughts, I always entice them to start a blog (lol) XD
Well, I hope I could share more about it but I think it would took a whole post to enumerate them all. Having that said, it actually gives me an idea for my next post (LOL)
Oh well, bottomline..Blogging is a way of life, online or offline. XD
Have a great one. God Bless!
I'm not above converting those uninitiated to blogging. Because I'm seeing a captive audience? lols. Maybe that, too.
Out of the 3.3M who uses the internet here in the Philippines, there are only around 2.somethingM who knows or blogs (based from the statistics I heard at the wordcamp last Saturday, I may be wrong). So, in a projected population of 92.23 for 2009, we are just a handful.
Now what has blogging done for me? I became a writer. LOL. At least, even if I am just a "feeling writer" I can hone my craft and actually deliver this dream into a reality.
Z
What has blogging done for you? You've taught your parents how to use Facebook. Good boy! Ahahaha. Now, teach your father LinkedIn so he can showcase his skills and services to the world. Age is not a factor in blogging.
I have Grandma Lorrene for a blogging buddy remember? She's in her eighties and she writes wonderful posts.
And stop saying you're a "feeling writer." You're a writer. Period. :)
Keep it up Doc! God Bless!
I can't say I have changed much from before in terms of social interaction - although, being the (slightly) obsessive person that I am, I sometimes find myself with nothing no talk about other than blogging. Haha. I think my gf and my friends are beginning to get tired of it. Lol.
I'm not. Tee hee hee.
But offline? We can't even get them to comment on our blogs. Do you have
some success in this department? I don't. But it's okay. Just as long as
they don't interrupt my writing just because some misfortune happened to the
heroes of their favorite telenovela. LOL.
Gah, I never get to watch TV anymore. What's on?
Can i add... documenting?
So it would read like this;
Writing. Blogging.Documenting. It's all the same.
And this, too: when I write creative fiction and it reflects objective realities of certain segments of society that weave around the hero or heroine, can say I've documented it very well? Maybe this is what you mean?
Beautiful! You got it right, bro. Thanks!
I'm real sure diving deep into the blogging world had a significantly not good impact on my last relationships... with a wanna be writer, God bless her heart.
Writing is pain.
NOT writing is worse pain.
Woops, there's a blog post there... gotta run. Ta!
(Just knocked it out, short one.)
From what I can see, in your recommendations here and on Google, you sincerely dedicate a great deal of time and knowledge to helping people.
Prodding a sister into telling her story better isn't wrong either. It's not even impolite dinner conversation where I come from. But then I live with my husband and me. Telling the other to "cut to the chase" is considered helpful, since there are some things that are difficult to say.
hey, by the way (i know im late) i heard that you won the most influ together with rot, congrats, where can i sent the lechon?
in that blog contest. We have free lechon? Wow. Ahehehe
K lang naman, tagal ko di naka online kasi nga after a month sa pinas derecho na sa 6wks sa kabundukan then natagalan bago ko nakahanap ng maayos na proxy/client to get in to my site after a long time,tinatyaga ko na kahit super bagal.
oy totoo yun, lechon, unless nagda diet kayo nila elmot at roy hahaha,san ko ibabalibag? hahaha
na't involved na ang lechon. Alam mo naman kaming magaganang kumain. LOL.
Are you serious?! Wag na po kaya, Lee. As long as you're happy doing your
usual stuff on blogging okay na kaya un. Ahehehe