im not really a pro blogger in the blogging community and none of my blog buddies are pro bloggers, except for one aspiring one (hehe you know who you are)... but i know i have to do my share by posting my top 10 emerging influential blogs of 2007 (based on my opinion)...

 

firstly, i have been blogging since 1998. they didnt call it blogging then... it was more of an online journal whose purpose was to update my friends who migrated to canada about how my life was doing. i had a profile on asianavenue.com (its now blocked in the UAE) and my handle was justcallmerhey. i doubt if my page still exists...  but that was where i first started posting about stuff about life and random things. wasnt seriously on the net much because it was too darn expensive back then. so blogging wasnt much of a 'karir' until around 2004 when i got this page in blogdrive... but before that, i had blogs in blogger, and other ones i dont remember...

 

anyhoo... responsible for this 'thing' going around is this entry by janettoral who runs a pretty high profile kicka$$ site (pardon my language). most of my nominees (i only have 3 as of the moment) are the ones that i know are pretty young blogsites... if we were only allowed to nominate older sites, i would have more pages to nominate...

anyhoo part two- here is my list

 

1. the philosophical bastard- paolo has it all... the wit, the sarcasm, the craziness, the random bouts of serious entries, fiction... and ofcourse, the wide readership. i think that should be a plus plus element when we mention the word influential...

2. alas-filipinas- you have no idea how hard it is to blog in another language but jom actually pulled it off. apart from being one of the very few filipino spanish bloggers out there, he is also part of the skirmisher team which has been around for more than a year now... and yeah this guy is a kick a$$ dad, friend and historian. :)

3. hai.foo- foo is one of my few photo blogger buds... actually he is my only photo blogger bud. i know there are a lot of them out there but most of them are just too high and mighty. and high and mighty is not influential... hahaha lol

 

so... there you have it. i doubt if i will be adding to this list, but i hope one of these blogs win.

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karir? karir!

i have been tagged by lws and its a long overdue (hehehe) response to her survey so i am doing this now... without any delays... lol

 

The rules and mechanics of this chain:

Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog! Let's begin…

 

1. i am not a rocker chick. i like random music that can range from earl klugh to red hot chilli peppers to tasmin archer to deep purple to craig david

2. i love earrings and other weird burloloys... nothing gothic like those black bands, but i love those girly looking ones. that's my only kakikayan.

3. i've owned only 3 guitars in my entire lifetime. bought my first guitar (on my 17th bday), the second one was given by my ex bf (brother's friends broke that one), the one i have now is from one of my good friends... before that, the guitars i ever played with were not mine.
4. i dont smoke. dont want to smoke. dont want to try. never tried. dont have anything against people who smoke. but no ' lighted' cigarette will ever touch my lips... which means i can play around with an unlighted one... lol
5. right now, i have 35 skirts hanging in my closet... i dont have any idea how many more are in the laundry...
6. i have a Canon 400d SLR. its a dream come true... i just hope nobody steals it.
7. my band's name is the Zephyrs. *snigger*

 

ok... im expecting aya, the deity, pao, codi, emong, foo, mauze, alec and geno to do their list. (that's pretty much all my blog buds)

 

please note that you are not under any obligation to do the survey... but it would be cool if you did...

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like i have stated before, i am suppose to migrate to wordpress in a few weeks... which means goodbye blogdrive?... dunnow. im gonna be testing the waters... foo is helping me out a lot... thanks buddy... but still i can't customize as much as blogdrive... the one thing i appreciate about it is the free hand you have with the CSS scripting... though im not that good, im okay when it comes to that...

im sleepy. Good gowd im so sleepy.
i think i slept around 4 this morning, woke up at 5. left the house at 5:30. gym at 6:10. work at 7:30...

 

if this diet and exercise regimen does not help me lose weight, its going to kill me... but im seriously taking into consideration running the 10k dubai marathon this coming Feb. Right now, i can only run 1.5k without stopping... and finish 5 K stop and go... got a lot of work to do... imagine what an achievement that's going to be if i get to do that...

 

everyone should go over to Paolo's blog to watch his video. im still thinking whether i should take him into my band... but his video is totally out of this world... watch it and you will see what im talking about. dont forget to leave a comment on you tube and do those other things he asked for... i think he deserves to get what he wants after that video... hahahaha

 

speaking of other blogs- emong mentioned that i dont speak tagalog anymore. which isnt true. hindi ko lang maisip ang aking mga iniisip sa tagalog... wala kasing masabi minsan. minsan kulang ang mga panguri na gusto ko gamitin (tama ba yun?)... hindi ko alam kung anung salita ang gagamitin... nauutal ako sa kakatype...

 

pasensya na pero talaga? naiinlab ka sa akin? hehehehe

 

our MD came to my office and saw the pile of work that's ganging up on my desk... he even asked me for something that was in a box and i couldnt think of the right thing. hehehe he pointed at my shoulders (dinutdut nya) and told me that these are things that i should know. blah blah blah... good thing im in such a cheery spirits or i would have said something nasty and lost my job. anyway, i gave him what he wanted and he was off...

 

here is a snapshot of my clean desk. :)

wanna work with me? lol

so im repeating this mantra over and over again

 

- im happy, i should show it.

 

i finally realized that the reason why i get so easily upset is because i make myself upset.

 

so everytime i wake up, and i get ready to go to the gym (yes i am finally exercising again- bwahahaha... ) i tell myself, why should i fret about the things that i don't, can't and will never have when i have so much already?...

 

zeeeen........aaaaaaaaaaaaah
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i was surfing once again for content since i started ignoring whatever dissatisfied me and i couldnt come up with anything. didnt want to post any surveys since i already do that on Friendster and i didnt want to take any tests and post the results here. so im just a bored blogger blogging about the boringness that is my life...

 

however in response to Paolo's entry about the top 10 most influential Pinoy blogs, i did manage to come up with a bunch of things why my blog did not make it to that top 10... i am not a sore loser, but this is an assessment of how far i have taken this blog. *snigger* (which is not so far)

 

> i dont have a theme. most blogs have themes. they blog about tech stuff or they emanate the techiness that is in their blood when describing their lives. there are also the artists who just by the layout, you can say 'wow'... and you can say 'wow' further after reading them discuss their emotions with artsy fartsy adjectives... there are the participative blogs who blog about anything under the sun but ask readers opinions about em. and then there are the writer's blogs, who have the talent to write and persuade anyone to stay longer and read.
RESOLUTION: start a theme!

 

> the first point therefore results to very low readership. i only have around 5 readers and only about two to three of those readers leave comments. which means i have written something these readers could not relate to. ofcourse, i write for me, and the journal that i have that is my blog is for me, but i like writing with interactions. i like it better when people interact with what i say. its encouraging :p
RESOLUTION: get more readers? i dont know... lol

 

> i dont enjoy myself much, so how can i expect other people to enjoy me. anyway i should also stop this unfriendly effect and go out and be friendly... and blog drop... and chat more... lol
RESOLUTION: be friendly, go out, enjoy myself, blogdrop, chat more

 

> hmmm what else is wrong with my blog? it needs attitude. so.. here's my attitude :)

 

i really cant think of anything... wanted to post this before i slept.

 

sayonara folks.

secret nga eh...
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how can you bring positive vibes into your life?

 

intend it!