It took me some days to pick my favorite post from the 400  plus posts (actually 438 at the time when the Week 5 contest started)  of the blogger, Orman.  As part of his blogsary contest, a participant has to post what is his or her favorite post in the ever kagandahan na blog called GandaEverSoMuch.com site.

I really think that this blog is one of the most influential blog in the face of the earth. Why? Because as i’ve said in my previous contest entry, his readers (isa na ako dun) kept coming back for more of his posts.

From his long list of categories, two are my faves and that is the Tips Ever and Love Ever. Those were the first categories I read after i was tagged of the Week 5 Contest in Facebook.   Bakit Tips Ever?  Because Orman’s tips ever posts are most of the posts i come and read even before his weekly contest started.   Another reason is, his tips are very practical for every day living.  Bakit love?  Because his lovelife is very colorful and everyone can relate lalo na ako.  Iba talaga ang babae ma inlove and Orman is so great at that.

So, let’s come to the main point ~~~ What’s my favorite post of all the posts?  I had 3 to choose from and took me a hard time to pick the best.  I felt that all 3  were nice but after many hours of thinking, I decided that this gonna be my favorite post.  Drum roll pleaseeeeeeeeeee tang ta dang…

At ang paborito ko na post ay ~~~

SAMPUNG DAPAT GAWIN PAG KAKA-BREAK MO LANG NG SYOTA MO

Bakit iyan? Dahil ang mga tips nya dyan ay para sa lahat. Ma babae ka or ma lalaki pag kaka-break mo lang sa syota mo pwede mo yan gawin.

This particular post made me smile the first time i read it. Why? Because they are so practical, can easily be done, yet never ever in my life i have done it kahit gaano kasakit. I have healed of past painful lost loves but i mused to myself  now bakit hindi ko ginawa ang mga tips na ito? Imagine i still have notes, letters, memorablias in a scrapbook of all my past relationships? Sounds tangingot but ganun lang siguro ako. So nag comment ako sa post na ito na maybe in the future, when i love the next time around and lost it afterwards, i might do these tips.

All the 10 tips are favorite but the best advice ever are the following:

Magpakitang-tao ka! Show to the world na carry mo ang pagiging single uli.  Ano ka, affected?  Esmyuski lang.  Rampa ka to the max.  Go ka sa mga gimik left and right.  Saka ka na lang umiyak-iyak pagkauwi mo at pag nasa loob ka na ng kwarto mo.  Don’t forget the tissue.

Hndi ko ito magawa dati kasi feeling ko dapat pa ako magpaalam kahit hiwalay na. Haii lokaloka talaga ako.

Palitan mo na ang pictures ng ex mo sa naka-display na picture frames. Start with a clean slate.  Kung di mo kayang punitin, sige, itago mo muna.  Pag nalulungkot ka, utang na loob, wag mo nang titingnan ang mga pictures nyo together.  Palitan mo na ng pictures nina Ninoy at Cory Aquino.  At least hindi ka talaga nag-iisa nyan.

(let me add: alisin mo rin picture nya sa wallet mo!)

Buy something for yourself.  Buy something expensive. Take note, dahil sa ex mong yan, andaming naunsyaming things-to-buy ang buhay mo.  Now is the time.  Keber nang mahal basta para sa sarili mo dapat at wag mo na syang bilhan ng para sa kanya, gagah!

(this advice is really a great hit for me coz when i am inlove during my younger years, lahat makita ko sa mall or saan saan ay nice things for my guy. nothing for me. lol!)

Magbakasyon ka. Pero please lang wag kang pumunta sa mga lugar na pinuntahan nyo ng ex mo.  Iwasan ang mga lugar na pwede kang tumalon at magpasagasa.  Wag kang over-acting dyan.  Get a real vacation.   Isama mo ang pamilya mo.

(i think this is really going to be a great treat to oneself.)

Wanna read the complete ten tips? Click here!

So ayan, alam nyo na kung bakit ko fave ang post na ito.  Makakrelate din ako ano?  Am sure lahat kayo dyan ay na inlove din at some point in your life, you have grieved, did foolish things in the name of a lost love, and also moved on.  Kaya from now on, if you need some thoughts to perk your gloomy day dahil ka break mo lang, or ala kang pera at ala kang magawa, o gusto mo pumasyal ng General Santos, o gusto mo lang talaga maki osyoso sa buhay ng mga magaganda then don’t forget to visit GandaEverSoMuch.com ~~ and surely you will say life is too short to be grumpy, angry, and sad.  There are lots of things even the simplest things in this world that will you smile or make your heart feel lighter.

I won in another contest.  I cannot remember when was the last time i won a blog contest but last week i posted here my entry for the Week 1 Blogsary Contest at Ganda Ever So Much blog and luckily i was one of the winners!  When one hears the word winner for sure it makes one excited!  No matter how big or small the prize is — being a winner gives one a happy feeling. 

I was so happy.

Now Week2 Contest is up and it will be the LUCKY COMMENTER method.  I am given 3 chances to comment and i hope that one of those comments will happen to be in a winner’s slot.  Again the prizes are soooo fabulous that am hoping too that I will be one of the winners.    YOu can check out here on who will be those lucky commenters and its corresponding prize.

Hear ye, People!  A blogsary contest is going on.  Probably the biggest because this is just the first of the seven series.  Now you may be wondering whose blog is it?  Oh well, it is one of the famous blogs online – the Ganda Ever So Much by Orman.  Orman’s blog will be celebrating its first year on August 1, 2010.  Imagine in less than a year his blog is already PR 3.  He blogs so well that am wishing him more PRs as his blog continue to entertain his frequent readers and visitors.

This contest was officially announced today here although i have come across his post days back, teasing his readers of his bongga na bonggang blogsary give-aways.   Since this is just the first of seven, the winner will be announced next week.  Winners will be picked through Random (dot) org.

So, come and join us.  Fabulous prizes are waiting for each one.  Even if you are not a blogger – u still can join.

Here are the mechanics on how to join:

1. You must blog, tweet, plurk, post on FaceBook/Friendster and other Social Networking platforms  that GandaEverSoMuch is having a blogoversary soon and is giving away prizes. The status update must mention GandaEverSoMuch.com and contain a link to http://gandaeversomuch.com/2010/06/contest-ever/blogsary-give-aways/
2. After making the update on your blog or profile, participants should comment on THIS blog post (Week #1 Contest) with a link to the blogpost, tweet, plurk, FaceBook, Friendster status update.  That way, we can verify for its authenticity.
3. Winner(s) will be picked using Random.org
4. And more importantly, participants must be subscribers of GandaEverSoMuch.com

Now, let me post this on my facebook, friendster, and plurk. I forgot how to open my twitter account eh.

Remember the post i made about the comment contest at Yen’s site?   I was so happy to know the result that i got the 2nd place!  yahoooo.  See the announcement of winners here.   The prize for the second place is:

*Second Prize- $15 Cash Through Paypal or if you want it Western Union(Valid Only for the Philippine bloggers)
* A Fashion bracelet.

I already have in mind what i will do with that $15.  And the bracelet am excited to have so that i can share one with Dimple as last time i also received a fashion bracelet from Yen.

Thank you so much, Yen!  Am just waiting for your notice that you are posting na a package for me.  WU also works fine for me.

The contest

My entry

The Voting Campaign

Appreciation for the Voters

After i posted my appreciation post, i was really looking forward to the time when the winners will be announced.  I checked from time to time.  I was feeling negative about winning because of my few votes.  But i was wrong.  See the result here: ta daaaaaa

See?  I am saying ta da because I AM ONE OF THE WINNERS!  I almost can’t believe it that am one of the winners.  7th or whatever place, it does not matter.  What matters is am one of the winners!  Right?

I’ve know about this the other day yet but was too busy to post it here.  I have not yet even contacted sponsors for the prize that is meant for the 7th placer.

I suggest you check out the grand winner ZORLONE His piece is a truely winning piece.  He really deserve all those special awards.    Check out Written Expressions too! Or you can check out all of the winners entries by clicking into that winners image in this post.

Do you wanna know what i won? Hehehehe. I even too wonder what i won for the 7th place so i checked it right  away and here’s what i found:

• 3, 000 EntreCard Credits (Please see the names of the sponsors below)
• 4 Ad Spaces for Free Blog Exposure (Please see the names of the sponsors below).
• eBooks worth 100+ courtesy of News2Buzz.

• My So Called Life- 1, 000 EntreCard Credits
• Medan Daily- 1, 000 EntreCard Credits
• Make or Break- 1, 000 EntreCard Credits

• Another Contest- 125X125 Ad Spot for 1 month
• Erlinda’s Wandering Thoughts- 125X125 Ad Spot for 1 month
• Pinoy Medical Doctor- 125X125 Ad Spot for 2 weeks
• Sherry Rambling- 125X125 Ad Spot for 1 month

Aren’t they cool?   Just few items but worth great.

So this is all for now am off to inform sponsors that i won their sponsored prizes but before that I would lay to say my heartfelt thanks to Lainy - (Happy Blogsarry! )for making this very cool contest.  I know i have not expressed myself well because that was a last minute composition.  Thank you also to her judges for meticulously counting the points and luckily i was still counted as one of the winners.   Am looking forward to your next blog contest, Sis!

LINKY LOVE TO THE FIRST COMMENTATOR:

Sherry of

Am surprised!  Being a top commentator for the month of April made me win a token of a fashion bracelet from Yen.  You may read her post here.  It was Mommy E (thanks to her too) who first informed me because i was not logged in my blog or i could have read Yen’s comment first.  I wlll make another separate post of this again soon when the bracelet arrives.

Btw, it’s Yen’s and her hubby’s 8th wedding anniversary.  Congratulations to them and i wish them another ten fold 8 years in their marriage life. In relation to that, Yen launch a very easy to join contest which is open to everyone.

To win a prize,  here are Yen’s guidelines:

+ Just comment in any of my post from April 25 to May 31 posts. Make sure you don`t make spam comments because I will be very sad with that..LOL And I have a right to erase them if they aren`t related to the post.

+ Be the Top 15 commentators and you will have a chance to win something! I will use a Randomizer to pick for the Top 3 winners! So, you don`t have to be Top 1 or 2 or 3 in the commentator as long as you belong in Top 15, you will have a chance to win something since I will use a randomizer!

The prizes? Here.

I will definitely join!

Come one and all let’s join the fun!

LINKY LOVE TO THE FIRST COMMENTATOR:

Sheng

I AM CONTESTANT # 19 - JOYS IN LIFE

Only those with blog/s can vote.

Each of your votes will be highly appreciated.  Please drop me a line here if you have voted for me.

Thanks tons for the love.

LINKY LOVE TO THE FIRST COMMENTATOR

Mommy Ebie of The Main Ingredient

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!

Jade of  Filipina Bloggers just had her birthday last Sunday.  She officially started this big contest to commemorate her very special day.  ctually it’s not just a big contest but big big big one.   This activity costed her a lot of effort so that this contest will be one of the successful blog contests in the blogosphere.  For sure, this will be a very successful one.  So am inviting everyone who comes across my blog and read this post to join us — so you too can enjoy the prizes.

Here are the list of fabulous prizes:

BEST POST -

$50 cold hard paypal cash plus a chance to win the following as well:

GRAND PRIZE
* $50 cold hard paypal cash
* 100,000 Entrecard Credits
* 5 Free Ad Space on sites with Pagerank

SECOND PLACE
* 30,000 Entrecard Credits
* 10 Free Ad Space on sites with Pagerank
* Blog Review from Hot in Singapore

THIRD PLACE
* 20,000 Entrecard Credits
* 5 Free Ad Space on sites with Pagerank
* Blog Review from Make or Break

FOURTH PLACE
* 25,000 Entrecard Credits
* 4 Free Ad Space on sites with Pagerank

FIFTH PLACE
*15,000
* 4 Free Ad Space on sites with Pagerank
* T-shirt from Anything Under the Sun ( if the winner is from the Philippines )

2 SPECIAL PRIZE will go to the top point earner that didn’t win any of the MAJOR PRIZES
Each will get
* 1 x 5000 Entrecard Credits
* 1 x Dot com Domain

WHO CAN JOIN?

Anybody who has a blog that is at least ONE MONTH OLD and has at least 15 posts.

HOW TO JOIN: (The only required step)

Write a blog post/review about my blog with at least 100 words, it can be more of course. Link 2 x to my site with the following anchor text : Filipina blogger – http://pinayjade.com/ and another link to any other old blog post you have read and found interesting.

Give it your best shot because I will choose the best post at the end of the contest and the winner will get $50 cold hard cash !! Make sure the posts are unique and not copied from other entires. It will be rejected otherwise. Please Tag your post with Pinayjade (2 points)

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There are some more ways on how to accumulate more points.  Check out this link on how to.

If you wanna know the complete list of EC sponsors, check this out – Contest Sponsors.

Contest Duration – March 21, 2009 – April 30, 2009

Winners will be announced on May 5, 2009.

Come and join us!

Win $100 on March 25!

This contest is now run by Bloggertricks and is sponsored by Home Improvement Contractors and Banner-ad.

The prizes are as follows:

1st Place : $50 hard cash

2nd Place : $25

3rd Place: $15

4th, 5th & 6th Places : $5 each

The winners will not be picked by random dot org but this will be a point system contest. The more points you will have the greater the chances of winning.  So check out the contest post on how to acquire or earn points.

Another thing to note is that, the higher the PR of your blog that can be a plus to your points.

And also, don’t fail to post this widget at the sidebar of your blog and also in your post entry.

Opps lastly, don’t forget to subscribe through email.  That is also an additional post.

For more clarification about the contest, check out the author’s blog.