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Is my site ready yet? I’ve been refreshing my site for an hour, I am in the mood for making a post today when I realized that I was like ditched by this miserable site in the middle of the long winding road.

It’s been a week since Entrecard launched their magic toolbar and I was in awed because I figured that it will help me to get more drops than usual. I’ve been goaling to get 300 drops a day but my long working days don’t allow me to do so. It is even cutting me to post regularly.

11 to 13 hours work daily, depends on what time I want to go downto my room, there is nothing much to blog actually. And I don’t have that much knowledge on everything around me, all you see here is nothing but whining and drooling over something I want to do but I cannot do or I am refusing to do.

Yesterday I received a call from Winghill Writing School, it is an online school for writing. I said before that I want to learn creative writing, I don’t want to just blog about something and earn a little. Alright, I am making myself stupid here.

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How many times I told myself not to read other blogs or just visiting other sites, and I want to add dropping EC before I do my business (which is blog posting)?

I realized by doing those stuff before mine is a cruel thing to do for my blog. I honestly cannot post anything, and I totally put Residual Matters in limbo. First, too much reading of considerable topics on blogosphere drains my mind.

Second, I was affected by the recent email I received from PPP. For the nth time, they rejected me. I took it ruefully that I made this blog a photoblog (for the meantime) without thinking. I must say that I was hurt, especially when I saw this line, “Accepted blogs must contain posts which are written clearly and are easy to understand. Your blog contains a high number of grammatical errors.”

It’s killing me.

It’s over-reacting if I say I am lamenting, but yes I am. You see I am trying hard to do the thing that I am not good at. I know I can write in my native language excellently (yes, I am boasting), but I want to prove that I can write other languages too. Yes, languages because you might see me writing in French, Italian, Korean, or it depends if what language I want to learn. Now I am dreaming.

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This is another weekly meme and I can’t ignore Ivan’s invitation, she’s one blogger that always remember my blog even I don’t visit hers regularly. Aside from that, I find She says, He says interesting to make.

According to Ivan:

The idea is that any of these: a question, fill in the blank, multiple choices, photo or a writing prompt will be posted here. Express your thoughts in your blog and feel free to leave a link to your blog with your answers when you’re done. Anyone can hop in and join the fun every Tuesday! =)

Today’s activity is a question.

What is your regular day like?

I am a Live-In Caregiver, and I find my day as stay at home wife and a mother usually does; only I am employed to do that. And only I submit to the wife and most importantly, the the youngest daughter. I am glad that both my employers don’t treat me differently though.

I start my day in the kitchen, second to the washrooms; I believe the kitchen should be always clean. Every time the kids mess up, I see the needs to tidy up the place again. I do the laundry and cooking also. I clean the whole house if the kids are in school, and I play and watch TV with the youngest, whenever she’s at home, that’s cool eh? If I don’t play and watch TV or movies with her, I’m in total trouble. I don’t want that to happen.

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Yesterday I was loaded with words that continue running on my mind. While my body was busy cleaning the whole house my mind was busy too constructing ideas which are mostly for my blog entry. That is how my everyday life evolves, my physique is doing the errands and my mind is creating some text that I can hardly remember when the time that I need to post it.

Sometimes I think of keeping a paper and a pen in my pocket so that I can write every detail that is flowing inside my brain. I remember how a Singaporean author wrote his entire book; it was at the tail of the bus during his ride to home after office hours.

But me writing in between chores is not advisable. I don’t want to lose a job,  and that, I am sure.

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I received a package from Quality of Course Incorporated this morning. The package includes some books and CD installers. The Sources (directory of experts and spokespersons in Canada). A student handbook of Unit 1 to 4 of my course and my first assignment. The assignment is my student profile, I have to answer series of questions about me and one of these is the previous job that I had. Below is an excerpt of the answer I did.

I worked first as an Internet staff in an Internet cafe and when they decided to put up another branch they asked me to work as an assistant supervisor. I enjoyed the work a lot because I’m into computers. Internet in particular.

When my mother has decided to go to Singapore for a while, I have to carry out her job. She is a sidewalk vendor that sells fish. It’s her own business and I have to look for it while she was out of the country.

So I sell fish in the sidewalk where Filipino-Chinese live. Its kind a not so good job for me at first. Imagine I was holding computers and do programming subjects when I was in a technical school and there I was in sea port to get fish to sell, go to Chinese customers with the raw sea foods in my hand and take their orders, clean the orders after and delivered it. But later I enjoyed doing the odd job but still I have reservations. I don’t think that business was for me.

I did a freelance massage therapist too while I was working as a nanny in Singapore.

I am currently working as a Live-In Caregiver.

If I will add all the job experiences I have since I was small (yes you’ve read it right), I consider them electrifying. My friend once told me it’s moving and he can make a movie out of it.

It is not unusual. I know some people who have more unusual experiences than mine.

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It’s like I am doing it the first time. I have created numerous of blogs but decided to delete them one by one. It’s not that I can’t work on them all, but I don’t know exactly what to post in there. I have known myself a spontaneous blogger. I blog my mind. I blog the emotions I feel inside me. I blog what happened to me last night or what thing that troubles me while I am constructing post.

And I blog simply because I want to write, even without any topic in mind. But usually, I can get on my feet and just write and after the long stumbling block of  uncertain words that will fill my writing, I know I have feed my sense of self.

Here I decided I want to write. Now I am serious.

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