Now this is not easy.  This is going to be a hard task but i will try my best to finish it.  Winner or not at least I have to say my piece.  A person will really do everything just so he or she can bag a prize.  As i’ve said manalo man o hindi – here’s what i can say of Orman’s blog.

Thinking on about how i know  GandaEverSoMuch brought me back to MBS3 even in Cagayan de Oro last year.  That was my first time to see Orman, the ganda ever kapatid of Avel whom i met for the first time in General Santos City during the MBS2.  We were not introduced personally but being in a bloggers crowed one can somehow felt being connected due to the fact that you share something in common with everyone – and that is blogging.  That was the first time i heard of Orman’s blog.

There are millions of blogs in the blogosphere and to each his own. But Orman’s blog is a very unique one. There’s something in it that makes one keeps coming back. His writing style can draw a crowd to a post. If you check out his blog, the first thing that will greet you is a smiling frog. Yes, a smiling frog that made me wonder – why frog? Bakit baki? Dahil ba ang baki ay komokokak? Kokak! So i presume that Orman’s blog is a journal of his thoughts based on his everyday life – be his day sunny, rainy, stormy, gloomy, wintry, etc. he will write about it. He shares what makes his day sunny and what makes his day gloomy or rainy. This kind of sharing enables his readers to connect with him easily.

I can state many reasons why i keep coming back to Gandaeversomuch {dot} com site, but i will only share the important ones:

1.  Maki chika!  Not really but am drawn to Orman’s writing style.  His post brings a smile to my face.  His posts are full of life.

2.  I can relate to his heartbreak posts that i can save some of those tips so that in the future if ever i fall in love again, i got some notes to glance on in case the journey turns bumpy.

3.  His ever bongga Blogsary contest!  Because he is giving away fabulous prizes I decided to join.  Being one of the lucky winners in the 1st and 2nd week, I am now craving for more.

In order to get a a third cupful serving of his giveaways – I am now posting this entry in my blog and submit my link to one of the most popular blogs in the world – Ganda Ever So Much!

Mabuhay ka Orman!

Mabuhay din ang iyong blog.

I wish you another year of a very colorful blogging life.  May you continue to inspire others through your writing.

Tags: blog contest, Blogsary Contest, Ganda Ever so Much, Orman Manansala

Welcome 2010 and goodbye 2009. For me, 2009 was a good year in spite of all the financial struggles. I know money is not everything but i realized that money is a very important tool to get things normally going. It was not a stress-free year although i am praying for a stress-free 2010. I find stress for a challenge me to tackle things so here are some of my unforgetables of 2009

1. Went back to the gym after almost a year
2. My blood sugar was real high for the first time
3. I was not able to take a leave on my birthday but had a grand time with my office mates. There was so much things to do that day because of the upcoming Anniversary program
4. Dimple officially become a little lady on my birthday
5. Kuya Nonoy’s death
6. Former Phil. President (1st Philippine woman President) died.
7. Michael Jackson died
8. Jun Acut’s death
9. MBS2 at Cagayan de Oro City
10. Victim to theft at Uni Top Mall (Dec 30, 2009)
11. Earned only 1/4 of what i earned from Sponsored REviews last year yet PU2B blessings was constant.
12. Managed to regularly update 3 blogs (personal, health, and travel blogs) even it’s an add on to my fix job.
13. We had a new baby boy in the family (March 9)
14. Got my first laptop (December 5)
15. Purchased a Globe Tattoo BB (December)
16. Experienced my first zip line and also river rafting (June)
17. Played badminton for some months with co-workers.
In the coming days, i will have to post a summary of the total number of posts i made in this blog and in all my blogs.

Till later, guys!

Tags: Blogging, life, sunshineforlife, unforgetables of 2009

My post’s title is the theme of the writing competition that is on going  now at Lainy’s blog to mark her blogging anniversary.

Now all i have to do to be able to qualify to this hot blogsary celebration is – i have to write about my blogging journey.  I had the whole day to think of how should i start or where should is start.  So, let me start.

I started blogging, actually journaling online in September 14, 2006 in my friendster account.  I got interested to start that because i’ve already been reading many other blogs, especially of Mitch, but i can’t bring myself to start one, not until someone urged me to do so when he read my posts in my friendster account.   With the encouragement, of Rhoen, amd with the inspiration of Mitch, i started making a blog for Dimple which i later deleted because i integrated my posts with my main personal blog.  I would say personal because it is a free wp hosted blog and money making is not allowed there.   Earning is not my aim when i first started blogging.  I find my blog as an outlet of what i think on anything and what i would like to share.  With my first personal blog, i began to blog hop through Mitches visitors and that was almost the time too i joined a Filipina mommy community

From that point of blogging, i then started my photoblog in May 2007.  I was getting the hang of blogging and am enjoying it very much.  I then started to meet bloggers  who earn while blogging.  I then thought maybe i should try.  I did not wish to earn much money, i just want to prove that is it really true to earn dollars by blogging – so my blogspot blog was born.  In 4 months time, i already got 4 blogs to maintain.  Meaning, i got hooked! lol!

It is almost 2 years now that i have been blogging, and i can say i enjoyed every minute of it.  Talking of perks i got in blogging aside from oppsss – there are lots but i would just like to mention some major ones as they help me spice up my blogging life.

1.  I met a lot of online friendship that continue even offline.  Special and huge thanks to Kerslyn for helping me me realized my first personal domain and later free hosted another personal domain for me.

2.  Another huge thanks to Mommy Ruby for being an angel by making my freehosted blogspot blog into a domain one.  And then later she offered very affordable hosting so she enabled me to wp hosted my blogspot blog.

3.  I feel i have developed blogger friendship throughout these years and they are many to mention yet i have them each one in my mind and heart – they inspired me to continue blogging as i got ideas on what to blog about, they let me learn blogging etiquettes (if there are some) lol and they help my blogs in one way or another get famous in the blogosphere. (yeah am famous) lol!

4.  Mitch played a big role in my blogging life.  I dunno if she believes me when i say that but really through her personal blog, i was inspired to start my own.  She introduced me to Pinoy Moms Network where i met a lot of great moms and also to Paraiso Philippines where i won my first $50.00 cold cash by just posting endlessly (non-stop) for 8 long hours.

5.  Through blogging, i got active in the forum site of  Paraiso Philippines, a travel information site, that made me able to attend the 2nd Mindanao Blogger Summit in General Santos City in October last year by sponsoring all my expenses.  That event made me met the author of this competition in personal.  Actually i only met her there and we talked a lot during the night of the Tuna Cocktail party.  That time she informed me of her on going contest of which i become one of the winners later.

6.  Rhoen, another longtime friend, is the one who gave me the strong push to start blogging.   Or else i won’t be blessed by what i enumerated above.

Now, let me congratulate the active blogger girl in the person of Lainy.  I wish her more success in blogging and real life.  Personally i also have to thank blogging or else i will never have the chance to take these photos with her:

Lainy surely have gone a long way in the blogging world. Right now, she is maintaining four blogs -

KUERDAS | Our Journey to Forever | The Certified Fashionable Chic | Lainy’s Musings

I want to wish her more years and more exciting blogs to author.    I feel lucky to be part of Lainy’s blogging world and so are the following:

Briggs Time for Escapades| Chronic Chic Talk | Computer Technology Gadgets | Confessions of a Fitness Diva | Daily Stop | Dancing in Midlife Tune | Dark Angel | eastcoastlife | elai’s haven | e-Pamilya | Erikson’s Home | Erlinda’s Wandering Thought | Everything Has a Reason | Everything PLUS the Kitchen Sink | Everything Under the Sun | Filipino Online Community | Fragments of Thoughts… A Piece of Life | Girls are Made of Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice | God’s Best Gift | Happy Family | Healthy Living and Lifestyle | Heart Random | History of Supernova and Sweet Pain | Homemade Beads Jewelry and More | I Thought So | iLUVcontest | I’m Walking on Sunshine | In My Kitchen | In the Eyes of the Beholder | Iowahippiechick | JoyOz Photography | Joys in Life| Juliana’s Lair | Juliana’s World | KiSsMi | Kokey Gadgets | Kusinera sa Amerika | Kutsara at Tinidor | La vida es hermosa | Life’s Journey | Life’s Sweets and Spices | Lifetime Mom | Make or Break | Mama ASID’s E N T R E P O D | Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery | Medan Daily | Moments of My Life | Mommy’s Little Corner | moms… check nyo | My Online Adventures | My Barefoot Journey | My Blog Says | My Country Home | My Crossroads | My Kitchen | My Library | My Life and Family Journey | My Life’s Collections | My Online Diary | My Piece of Paradise | My So Called Life | My So-Called World | My Whole New World | My Written xPressions | nameSherry | NetSource | News2Buzz | Night Clicks | Nita’s Corner | Nita’s Random Thoughts | Novice Master | Pinoy Medical Doctor | Praning’s Shoutout | Random Ramblings | Random Thoughts | Rare Ordinary Thoughts | Serendipity | Serradinho | Sherry Contest | Sherry Rambling | Shopping | Show Me Your Interest | Simply Shinade | SimplyWP | Sir Robbie Rob | Sushi Freak | Symphony of Love | Take a Coffee Break… | Taste Buds | Technology Talks | THE DESIGNERS BLOG | The Designer’s Chic | The Lady Programmer | The Maiden’s Testimony | The Modern Mom | The Painted Veil | The Reporter | There is Happiness | Things About Computer | This is So Me | Thomas Travel Tales | Thomas Web Links | Through the Rain | Towts 4U | Twerlermz Blog | Twinkletoe Writing Space | Twins Happiness | walkingnewspaper | Web Blog of Greg Mathews | Web Blog of Sapimoto | What Have You | Windmill on the Hill | Wishing on a Falling Star | Wonderful Things in Life | Words of Love

To you my dear friend, Happy Blogsary!  Good luck to many more!

Tags: blogging life, Blogsary Contest, sunshineforlife, writing competition

and i will be off on a trip to attend the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit.  This will be my first time and I can imagine i will be meeting so many bloggers out there.  Still up to now,  i haven’t find any of friends in my list that are going but even then, i know i will find many bloggers out there.  It is also good to know that one of the resource speakers will be from Iligan City in the person of Bobby Timonera.  I haven’t meet him ever yet but i heard his name through my photographer friends.

In preparation of the trip, Mitch has already sent me the flyers promoting Paraiso Philippines and i will be printing them out anytime this week.  She sent me too something to be given as surprise to some people i should meet there and Bariles (Avel) will be one of them.

My leave form has been signed already as my boss will be leaving on Monday for Manila and will be away for the whole week. 

Yey am so excited!  Wish anyone i know here can go.

Tags: 2nd Mindanao Blogger Summit, Bariles, General Santos City, iligan city, mitchteryosa, Paraiso Philippines, Tourism, Tuna Capital of the Philippines

Yes, am going to attend the 2nd MBS to be held in General Santos City, the Tuna capital of this country. It would be more or less 8 hours travel from my hometown so the expenses would be very high but thanks to Paraiso Philippines — i can be able to attend.  Thanks to PPF or else i will not have idea of this activity.

I think it would be a great opportunity to meet many Mindanaowan bloggers.

The said affair will be sponsored by the following:

CO-PRESENTERS:
NOKIA (Philippines), Inc.
Mayor Pedro B. Acharon, Jr.
Congresswoman Darlene Antonino-Custodio
ABS-CBN Regional Network Group
Mindanao Bloggers
Bariles Republic

GOLD SPONSORS:
ACLC-Skeptron Ventures, Inc.
Gregoria Printing Press
Grab A Crab Restaurant and Coffee Club 101

SILVER SPONSORS:
Asia United Bank
NoKiAHOST.COM – P5/day Philippines Webhosting
Family Country Hotel & Convention Center
East Asia Royale Hotel

BRONZE SPONSORS:
GensanSALE.COM – AnyThings for Sale in Gensan
Blogging from Home Book
Pacific Seas Seafood Market
Shalom-Crest Wizard Academy
Generals Logimark Exponent
Prints and You
Sta. Cruz Seafood, Inc.
Dellosa Design Builders, Inc.
Forest Lake San Carlos
Rolees Bakery & Cafe