Posts made in May, 2009

My 100th Entry

Posted by Alma on 29 May 2009 in Blogging, Internet | 2 comments

This is my 100th entry.

Thank you to those who have wandered, lurked, commented and visited my site for the past months.  To celebrate my 100th entry, I gave myself a present and has decided to try Darren Rowse‘s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog.  It cost me $20 and I paid for it using Paypal.  Call it an investment…  Let’s see how it goes then.

Darren Rowse’s fame in blogosphere is more than awesome– its phenomenal.  I mean, who doesn’t know Darren or at least have visited Problogger.net?  I have been a follower of Problogger for almost 5 years now.  I have Darren’s feed in my trusty Newsgator filed under Top Tech Blogs.  His blog among LifeHacker, TechCrunch, Gigaom and what else Gizmodo… 

I guess most bloggers have dreams of becoming the next Darren Rowse or our local version of Darren, Yugatech’s Abe Olandres and Connie Veneracion.  Both Connie and Abe both enjoy highpage ranking including earning dollars from their blogs.

It wouldn’t hurt to try and this time, I am in for the long haul.

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Just tired and some updates…

Posted by Alma on 9 May 2009 in Children, Family | 0 comments

Yes, I have been guilty and I have neglected my own blog for awhile now.  Suffice to say I am busy trying to make ends meet since my tenant in Manila is scheduled to move out soon.  We haven’t have any income aside from my earnings in oDesk for 2 months now.

She's eight years now

I am just amazed how my hardwork and sleepless nights and barrels of coffee continue to pull us through.  I am just happy that we are okay and we continue to thrive.  There is hope… there really might be a God.

My daughter Alis turned 8 weeks ago.  Yes, my oldest is 8 years old.  She has grown alot the past month and has gained some weight not to mention some ass.    Thanks to the Papua New Guinean gene, physique wise she will definitely be a head turner when she grows up.

Work with oDesk is fine except that the sleepless nights took and sapped my energy weeks ago that I had to let go of one of my top paying and demanding client.  Sayang, I know.  I really liked working with him.  But I was not getting enough sleep and I felt like burning both end of the candle and I simpy couldn’t work anymore.

After sending my resignation letter I thought, shit I could have just asked for a short break– I knew he would have given me a break, but I knew he needed so much help with all the things he has to do everyday. Anyway, bye to Vee for now.  I hope to bump into you one of these days.  Skype and Gmail will always be there…

And to Alis, keep your head up. You are going to be one fine woman and like I promised, we are okay and will continue to be fine.  I love you.