By manilenya - Last updated: Saturday, August 23, 2008

I was talking to my daughter in YM last night and I can’t stop myself from my mirth.

Imagine that you have a 5 year old daughter sitting in front of you while you are doing your stuff in the computer. She nonchalantly pressing some letters on your keyboard and you definitely feeling messed up with whatever that stuff that you’re doing online.

Well, I was just chatting and maybe my then 5 year old daughter already felt that I was totally not paying attention to her. Given the smile that affixed to my face and a chuckle from time to time, she was certainly bored, but I was celebrating the joy of impenetrable conversation with other people online.

She had to retaliated. You know how the kids that age and below will wreck your amazing day. So I left her in front of the computer, I put the browser to Disney channel so that she will enjoy all the pictures and the shows that she usually loves to watch on TV.

I left the room and climb downstairs, I needed to block the annoying feeling that surfaced after she bothered me. I hadn’t left a minute yet when I heard her loud cry and when I returned, she was lamenting how the browser went so fast while she clicked some words with highlights. Of course, it opens to a new window. She was completely lost online.

Now she’s 11 and maybe spending time as much as I spend time online too. She started playing online games at the age of 7, torturing those other players when she has to linger in market places (I’m sure those playing online computer games know this) and bugged all players to add them to their team, later she already selling ammunition to all players, smart huh!

She taught me this online game where you will compete dancing with other players online (I forgot the game’s name but I became addicted to it when I visit home).

I asked her last night if what she was doing and I was surprised with her reply, “I am making my classmates profile. They said my profile page is so lovely and they want to have that lovely pages too. They paid me 10 every page.”For a mom who’s into blogging, of course I was speechless when I learned what she’s doing online. This is my life after work, and I do it for my friends for free while my daughter is earning a bit by doing that.

“You should learn the html codes”, I said.

“Html codes? I know that,” she pasted the html codes for a page with backgrounds, title and its font, the colors and more which was not done yet.

“But I want to make my own background, I already have the image here.”

“Oh you have to upload that in photo management and photo sharing application,send me the image and I will upload it in my flicker so that you’ll have your image link for your background.”

What will I do? She’s doing a good job and all I need to do is to help.

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By manilenya - Last updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I am late for this word game but that won’t stop me from playing. Here’s my supposedly Sunday unconscious mutterings.

1. Signature:: Brand
2. Olympics ::Games
3. 100% ::      orange (juice)
4. Damn! ::    I’m hot! (lol!)
5. Gold ::       fish
6. Fresh and natural ::foods
7. Fraction ::a small part
8. Hurry ::    me (they want me to move quickly)
9. Summer ::nights
10. 29th ::     of the month (feel free to add any month here)

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By manilenya - Last updated: Friday, August 15, 2008

Next day’s won’t be happening, sorry guys but my battery is dying, and I left my notebook’s AC adapter at work. 15% remaining and I’m dead.

But that’s okay. I have all the time to start my cross stitching and of course, I’ll get back to reading my Love in the Time of Cholera book.

See you on Monday Night!

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By manilenya - Last updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Three years of blogging had taught me to believe in myself (a little) and to know the things I am capable of doing. For an easy going and was been tagged as “irresponsible” happy go lucky parasite( I just made up this, please mother don’t get mad at me), blogging turned out to be my crowning glory.

I was nothing but a freeloader when my parents and my sister resolute to bring me to Singapore to look after my niece. There, I end up using my free time browsing the net – I was not allowed to chat anymore for they spent hundreds of bucks during my one month stay some years ago. There was no DSL and cable internet that time.

I didn’t chat this time but I discovered a whole lot of new things that I thought were far different from wasting time bitching with other bitched online. Sad to say…the latter part of my chat life wasn’t good. People are fighting over – I hate to say this- money, power and boys.

I have no money, powerless and boys were not born to get close to me, so I better stay away with these people or else, they will eat me alive.

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By manilenya - Last updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008

I said that I have to move my butt from laziness. I feel so sluggish making a post after three consecutive sponsored posts; it is so unlikely of me if you’re going to ask some friends/readers about this whole blog monetizing changes in my site. A blogger who once thought that making my blog a business will corrupt my mind (pardon my little brain exposing my then thought.) Even so, I have to accept now that I enjoy it, when I see my PayPal account accumulate some bucks from advertisers.

I enjoy everything about it, except of course if I know nothing about the given task, it screwed up my mind, it seems like playing a 2500 piece of puzzle, It’s challenging though. I have to read the product or the sites first before I do the task and finding myself typing a blah blah blah in the end. Still, I have to be thankful because the advertisers accept the posts.

My next? That’s a big problem, what do I know about a hen party? But still I have to do that assignment, especially now that I intended to buy Nikon D60. I said, I want to get the camera by hook or by crook (insert a cynical smiley face here), and I don’t have anything in mind where to get the money to buy my next baby but doing some product or site review and maybe affiliation soon.

I’m doomed to pursue a business until I get my US$700. Wow! I just set a goal now, I can’t believe it.

Now I want to show you this photo I took yesterday afternoon, after playing in the trampoline, yes I played with them, and I did nothing but to scream while the big girl, Miranda, doing her usual gymnastic stunt in the trampoline. It just makes me believe that I am getting older and older; I can’t do the jump as higher as the kids do anymore and my knees are now complaining (Jesus! I want to cry.)

They asked me to change into a bathing suit after the trampoline fun and go straight to the pond, but I declined. I told them I’ll just watch them because I didn’t bring any bathing suit, I’m too shy to wear one, maybe some other time.

I could be better if I’ll post as  the photographer of a real action gymnast stunt by this pretty and surprising Miranda in the dock. She’s good, I wonder why she stopped attending her gymnastic class. What’s funny here is she did a lot of stunts in the dock but scared to touch the turtle with her feet while swimming in the pond.

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By manilenya - Last updated: Thursday, May 29, 2008

I assumed you have noticed some bloggers who visits your sites and telling you how they like your blog and would want to exchange links with you. I have many of them in my tag board. First, they will drop a line, usually hi! Hello! How are you? (lol! They aren’t that concern, don’t believe me.)After a few days, they will come back and tell you how much they like your post, and if you want to exchange link.

Some of them write comments in my post, and I tell you, they are making my ears clap. As a result, I am going to visit their sites and tell them how I appreciate their nice comment, and I would gladly have them in my link, which I actually do. I, more often than not, add these people in my link. EVEN WITHOUT THEM ADDING ME! (I hope these people read this out loud) Well, anyway, I don’t really mind these bloggers, unless they post good contents.

Now I suppose, I need to stop ranting. Instead of adding them in my blogroll, I am going to put a HTML code in my sidebar, which I saw in 23Blogs.com - FREE Blog Roll TEXT Link Exchange.(1:10).

This code will display 10 other different blogs titles on this blog, and I will earn 10x impressions after I put the CODE on my blog. In addition to that , I will get 1:1 click exchange, meaning when my visitors click the ad box , I will credit 1 click and the system will PAY back 1 click to me.

Cool diba?

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By manilenya - Last updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2008

So happy days are not over yet, I supposed it was. After posting a thank you message to all entrecarders who always drop in my ads and of course my new Google page rank, here is another awesome surprise from The Hochstadt.com Party Contest!

I have posted here a few days ago that a friend invited me to join the party, honestly, I was not that interested to join. I saw the contest many times from different blogs I visited, but it was just another blog contest for me and I am not really a fan of blog contests. Except if the contest host is my friend, I have joined one, and I did not know what happened after I commented to the contest post, that I am joining. The other one was, I just voted for my favorite logo, luckily I get 25 by simply voting.

This was the first time that I joined an ultra extravagant blog contest, and it was like, there was really a big party going on with many much awaited prizes. Thank you Guardian (I was considering of calling you Angel instead, but I guess you like being called Guardian) for the invite, if not for you, I will not be going to get this.

Marcus Hoschtad said I can get my prize through this:

Contestants, go ahead and actively approach your sponsor to claim your prize. Giving him/her this post’s URL makes their life a lot easier. Most can be contacted via the Entrecard community, a contact form on their blog, or by posting a comment in the most recent post on their blog. Your sponsor will then give you further instructions on how to claim your prize(s). Thanks for your help!

Now who is Robert G. Allan? I viewed the contest post to see Robert G. Allan and his link but I cannot find the name so I google his complete name but it is Robert G. Allen that I saw and he really have his own book, and his book is about money-making strategy, that’s cool. So who is who? Are they the same person? I have no idea. Maybe I’ll get my 10 cards account at SendOutCards.com for the meantime.

Now who’s going to make my One Buck Wiki page for Sitehoppin.com? Anyone please?

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By manilenya - Last updated: Sunday, May 4, 2008

I am so happy today. No, I am so excited. It is my first time to reach 300 drops in Entrecards, but that wasn’t made me feel so cheery at this moment. Although I am wondering what will happen if I made 300 drops, so far I can’t see any difference.

I guess I am just so fiery to drop more because this blog is doing well this week and not to mention that I can’t think of anything to do this Saturday but to get busy prowling – yes just prowling in front of my computer. So why not drop while prowling?

Like some blogs that I visited, they are all so liven up with their new Google page rank and so do I. I’ve got PR 4 without a sweat; I’m not even linked to any blogs that has higher page rank. I believe I owe it to Entrecard since most of my traffic comes from them.

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By manilenya - Last updated: Thursday, April 3, 2008

So I need to bring my eyes and my right hand again to a halt, or else I will be here again hunting for another theme for this blog. Now I need to admit that I have an obsessive compulsive behavior, and together with prolong dropping obsession in Entrecard sites, my searching and visiting to some wordpress theme sites is now becoming a ritual.

I don’t like it so I tied my right hand on the feet of my side table, and I urged my eyes to read the book that I left behind. I’m glad that my eyes kept to me. That makes me realize that my disease can still be cured.

Now besides creeping around WP themes sites, I have to stop skulking on Google News so that I can have an idea what to post. If I keep on searching for something what to post in Google or some other sites, I believe that will make me mechanical, a robotic. In Filipino term walang puso, atay at balun-balunan (no heart, liver and gizzard - that’s for birds lol!). I don’t want to blog something that I am really not familiar with, but of course I am willing to learn about anything with passion and conviction. Without the two how can I write about something here?

My gratitude belongs to Itot for all the tips on how to make this blog generates some bucks, however my psyche keep on bucking me and asking me the reasons I made this blog. My answer could also be the answer to Bendz question on why I made another blog and why this goes with the same URL name only that I am using dotnet here.

I want to be honest. I want to generate income thru blogging, I enjoy every time my Pay Pal account received payments from review sites, even though they are in  a small amount.

But what leads me to create another (English) blog is the passion to learn English writing.

Entrecard also is liable for this. I enjoy it too much lately and most of Entrecard droppers are non-Filipino blogger, I am enticed to some of their post that makes me leaving them some comments. Of course I want them to swing back, how can I encouraged them to read my post if they don’t understand what I am blogging and besides someone told me that Entrecard user’s blog must be written in English only.

Not that I am dumping my mother tongue as my language for blogging, I get pleasure from using it in my site, I tell you but progressing in a language that I not quite use, and I admit I am not good at is quite an achievement to me.

So here I am trying so hard.

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By manilenya - Last updated: Wednesday, February 6, 2008

One of the questions I get from the interview that was never used by the blogger/student of UP (yes after two nights of spending on the 17 Question for her Media Ethics class, she didn’t get the chance to use my answers. I want to ask the GOD of Blogging why, but I don’t know who GOD of blogging is. Anyone who has a big heart, tell me please!!!) is my opinion on the latest craze that the blogger is now dancing which is problogging or doing a paid post.

I sometime singing this line “everybody’s doing a brand new dance now” by my favorite Kylie Minogue

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By manilenya - Last updated: Thursday, January 31, 2008

- bukod sa content ng blog/s mo, mas maganda kung maibabahagi rin kung paano nag-evolve ang pagbblog. Like, ano ang mga usually isinusulat dati kung ikukumpara ngayon. Ano ang mga dahilan sa pag-evolve.

Kasalukuyan akong sumasagot ng mga tanong para sa Media Ethics Class ng isang estudyanteng blagista tungkol sa blog ethics. Habang nirerebyu ko yung sagot ko sa pinakahuling tanong na nasagot ko (nasa ika apat pa lang ako ng labingpitong tanong) sabi ko pwedeng ipost ito. Kung baga laman blag din lang. Ganyan ang blagista diba?

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By manilenya - Last updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Masaya ito. Kitang kita ng (balat ng madla) ng iilang readers ko yung kahinaan kong magpalit-palit ng isip. Ito yung sinasabi ng nanay ko na minana ko sa tatay ko. Sa ngayon ito ang gusto, bukas iba naman. Sa loob ng mahigit isang buwan, nagmistula akong naglaro ng pitik bulag na walang kalaro. Pero dahil sa hindi ko ganun maipaliwanag yung larong pitik-bulag na walang kalaro, mas madali sigurong sabihing nilaro-laro ko ang blag ko. Bukod pa doon naglaro-laro pa ako sa mga blag na ginawa ko pero pinagbubura ko rin naman. Ganoon naman yata talaga ang mga nababagot.

Sabi nga nila kapag bagot ka na sa buhay mo, bakit hindi ka gumawa ng mga bagay na hindi mo ginagawa dati kaya naman baligtarin mo. Katulad ng hmmnn….baligtarin mo mundo mo. Siguro naman nakukuha nyo na ito.

At dahil blogging ang mundo ko (patunay na wala akong social life o mas tamang ito ang social life ko ayon kay Isagani) binaligtad ko ang pagbablag ko. Hindi naman ako natalo. Isinisigaw ko na nag enjoy ako. Pero lahat ng laro syempre may katapusan. Tapos nang maglaro ang bobang pinay. Balik na ulit sa katotohanan.

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By manilenya - Last updated: Sunday, January 27, 2008

What inspire you to blog?  I was supposed to post “how to post after 4 days of hiatus” but then I don’t know how I will start my entry.

You’ve seen this topic a zillion time I know, but this time I definitely would tell you that it’s not about helping you to make a post, or to blog (if you want to blog, because I know all of  you are miles away from this very trivial tip that most of probloggers always offers in their entries.)

I just simply can’t post any entry (I am trying now though) and some friends will not agree 4 days of not posting a hiatus considering that I, drools in their blog comments (that would be Daddee Ambo’s and Kagandahang Reynz blogs) these past few days.

I encouraged myself to post my weekend snapshot entry today, it’s been a while since my last WS post but then some friends came by.  That left my WS entry on the shelf.

I even urged myself to post those awards some friends had given me, but I am sorry guys my hands are even so lazy to save the files and upload it.  That may yield you to think that I am not worth of those awards maybe.  Nevertheless I want to thank Diwatingbyaning, pusa, Ate Liza and Ate Gigi, Kuya Mon, sis che and chuvaness (my tukayo) for the awards and for the tags. 

I am sluggish to this day.  I’m not feeling well also. And to top it all, I am not enthusing to blog.  But I’m happy that I can make 350 English words in a single entry today.  I hope this will make me reach someday hehehehe!

By the way, I was busy (today) creating PANDAYAN, a blog community for those who writes poem, short stories and songs with a nationalist standpoint.  It’s not done yet though, I still have to transfer some entries from the previous site (a guestbook page actually).

And of course my blog where in you can see bobang pinay again, I am sure some friends miss her.

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By manilenya - Last updated: Monday, January 21, 2008

This must be my lucky day (again). Nope, it wasn’t the black squirrel who loves to climb on the bird’s food behind the kitchen glass or those deers I always see beside the ponds and right in front of me while I am doing kitchen works.

Oh how I love my Monday!

First, somebody in Facebook just told me how nice and great I am (that’s because he thinks that I am harsh to myself- so piteous of me, arghh!)

Second, oh how I love Reynz too! He/She/It/Whatever made me laughed today in his/her/whatever comments of today’s entry.

Third, Ms. Leah’s comment and of course the rest of you guys who had left your comments in my previous entries. You really made my day today.

And fourth but not the least, I think I found my stalker. Yes! I saw his comment (just one but I guess he will do another comment, and another one, and another one again, and maybe one again until you finally agree that, yes he is going to be my stalker indeed.)

Well, of course I am not telling the truth. Who I am kidding here?

Okay! Okay! I just happened to see his comment in this previous post (I don’t want to put a link - I was supposed to make that a private post actually), and this comment really made me giggle. (Because I thought that he is from some review sites or some sort of advertiser. Hehehehe! Silly me!) Here come his comment:

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By manilenya - Last updated: Sunday, January 13, 2008

I am blogging for more than two and half years now and, before that I was a certified chat addict in Internet Relay Chat (MiRC - I forgot what M is sorry and I have no intention of searching for it) for eight years.

I have joined some sites where in I have to create my own profile, it’s just a form that you need to answer, I’m sure you know it and after hitting the submit button, voila! Anybody can see my profile and to a more hallucinating gaga, I should say that anyone can stalk me after creeping around my profile page (as if somebody will waste their precious time for me.)

Now I don’t want to talk about stalker because, I hate to say this, I have no stalker and I want a stalker rrrrigghttt NOW!!!

But that’s not a real problem, my silliness can wait. My problem is I can’t make simple details of something about me. When I reach that part that I need to enter some even shorter details about myself, I cannot continue anymore. Whether it’s blank or you’ll see pinay chatter and now blogger. I cannot contain any descriptive words (good or bad) and put them into words to describe myself. It’s like I DON’T KNOW MY SELF!!! And I hate that. It’s two thousand and eight and this is my year (I’m a RAT), I should overcome that stupidity.

The bottom lines of this is, I want to ask you guys ( the two to five readers of this blog) to help me describe myself and my blog in 3.057.857 words because I am having a hard time whenever I have to sign up my blog to some networking site.

Please! Please! Please!

Thank you!

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