February 2010 | the twitterer

My First Two Awards

After two months after its creation, The Twitterer had finally garnered some blogging awards. Not just one, but two!

Here are the awards that I've received and the rules on these tags.

Beautiful Blogger Award

Rules:

Thank and link to the person who gave you the award;
Pass this award onto 15 bloggers you've recently discovered and think are fantastic;
Contact the blogs and let them know that they have won.
State 7 things about yourself.

I would like to thank Mom To The Power of Three for the recognition. I'll place the names of the bloggers to whom I'm passing this award at the end of this post. As for the 7 things about myself, here they go:
1. i'm a Filipina currently living abroad
2. i have a wonderful husband whom i consider as my soulmate (He's the Best!!!)
3. i gave birth to a sweet little princess late last year via CS
4. i am a certified public accountant
5. i am a frustrated singer
6. i love surfing the net
7. i am wearing eyeglasses because i'm near-sighted

Sunshine Award

Rules:

Put the logo on your blog or within your post;
Pass the award onto 12 bloggers;
Link the nominees within your post;
Let the nominees know they have won the award by commenting on their blog;
Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award.

I'm giving the Sunshine Award and Beautiful Blogger Award to: Basic Bloganomics, Dave Lucas, Basically Becky, Beyond Feron, Grampys World, Mom's Place, My Thoughts, My Heart, My Turf, The Way I See It, A Walk Through Life.

NOTE: Will edit this post to place additional links later (or tomorrow). Happy blogging!

It's not really a club, but at that time, my friends and I thought it's better sounding that way if we add the word "Club". I'm talking about the combination of the first letters of our names resulting to: D' KJ LAYAS. We coined that term for our barkada two decades ago during our elementary school days and look, it still helps me remember their names even though we haven't seen each other for years.

D - Dinalyn. We lost in touch after high school and I recently found her through NamesDataBase. She's one of my bestfriends.

K - Kathy. We went to same high school and college but haven't been in touch lately. We have the same birthday!

J - Jucel Mae. I last saw her when we graduated in elementary. Thanks to Friendster, we got connected again after more than a decade. Facebook and YM help us communicate despite the distance.

L - Lorevic Mae. We lost in touch when she transferred school in our third year in high school. I saw her through Facebook last month, added her but we haven't talked yet. I guess it's time to send her a message or write on her wall!

A - Aileen Grace. We met again while I was working in Antique and somehow we've managed to keep in touch. She's in my friendster and ANS Batch 95 Yahoo Groups.

Y - Yolanda. Lost in touch with her after elementary graduation although we managed to exchange some letter for a while. I was glad she went back to our province a few years ago and visited me. She's now in my friendster and Yahoo.

A - Annie Grace. I saw and talked to her (I think) five years ago. She's in friendster but is not active so I hadn't been in touch with her lately.

S - Sheryl Rose. Now, that's me!

It's Thursday Again!

Well, it's time for the weekly thanksgiving. For the period of February 19 to 25, 2010, the following sites/bloggers are my sponsors for Entrecard.

February 19, 2010

February 20, 2010

February 21, 2010

February 22, 2010

February 23, 2010

February 24, 2010

February 25, 2010

Many thanks for the support! Happy blogging!

Shopping Time!

Warning! This post is intended for the reading pleasure of Daddy George. Hopefully, I'll get the chance to use your credit card after you have read this. LOL!

Now In Auction: Page Rank 3 Blogger Blog

Would you like to have a PR3 blogger blog?

I currently have 7 blogs and would like to focus on just this blog and another one which is related to music/entertainment. I have a Page Rank 3 blogger blog and I don't want it to go to waste so I might as well auction it so that another blogger who have the time and interest can continue it and make it more popular and climb higher in PR.

If you are interested, just send me a message at thetwitterer2009@gmail.com. Bidding ends on March 20. Many thanks!

Beautiful Things Happen When A Woman Trusts God by Sheila Walsh

Life is a journey that is full of challenges and in the book "Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God", Sheila Walsh shares her own personal struggles as well as those of some biblical characters with the purpose of showing how trusting God through all those times of adversities could bring beautiful things to our lives.

I recommend this book to everyone especially to women. This book will inspire and help you see the beauty of life even in those times of pain, fear, uncertainty and darkness. But while trusting God brings nice things to our lives, let's still remember that God helps those who help themselves. Have faith in Him, but still do your part.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

My Bloghopping Find: Pinoy Teens Online

Have you encountered a site entitled Pinoy Teens Online during your bloghopping? If haven't, then you definitely must visit them, now.

As a Filipino, I'm proud to say that this site was created by Filipino teenagers and prides itself as the Philippines first and only Youth Site for Change. Although the site's market is mainly the Filipino teens, the site is brimming with content and information that older Pinoys who are teens-at-heart and even foreigners will enjoy reading.

Pinoy Teens Online feature different subject matters ranging from local and foreign news, entertainment, blogging tips and youth activities and campaigns. There are also educational topics (some sort of tutorial for different subject areas) and commentaries. Of course, social, emotional, financial and other issues faced by teeners in their day-to-day activities at home, at school and in the society are also discussed.

I just hope that the site's design is more colorful considering that the site wishes to capture the youth market. Nevertheless, it's black (or dark gray?) main color gives the impression that they taking their mission of bringing about positive change in the Philippines, South East Asia and everywhere seriously.

And that is what matters.

Many Thanks EC Advertiser Friends!

I'm glad that entrecard members are supporting my blog not only by dropping but advertising as well. Many thanks for the following members for advertising their sites here from February 12 to 18, 2010.

February 12, 2010

Stuff and Nonsense

February 13, 2010

Shalampax Speaks

February 14, 2010

SFV Blog

February 15, 2010

BLoGGiSTa iNFo CoRNeR

February 16, 2010

Fes-t'ho Tu!

February 17, 2010

Beyond Horizons

February 18, 2010

WAHM's Cozy Corner

Thank you for the support! Happy blogging!

Laugh Time: 911 Calls

It's time for some laughs. Here are some 911 calls that will surely, at the least, bring a smile to your face.

Dispatcher : 9-1-1 What is your emergency?

Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.

Dispatcher: Do you have an address?

Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?

Caller : Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich .

Dispatcher : Excuse me?

Caller : I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it.

Dispatcher : Was anything else taken?

Caller : No, but this has happened to me before and I'm sick and tired of it!

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency?

Caller: I'm trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an eleven on it.

Dispatcher: This is nine eleven.

Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one

Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing.

Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.

Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency?

Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart

Dispatcher: Is this her first child?

Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!

Dispatcher: 9-1-1

Caller: Yeah, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm all out of breath. Darn....I think I'm going to pass out.

Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from?

Caller: I'm at a pay phone. North and Foster.

Dispatcher: ! Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic?

Caller: No

Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing?

Caller: Running from the Police.

Music Monday: Mahal Kita Kasi

I still have that Valentine's day fever so for this week's edition of Music Monday, let me share with you an OPM song by Nicole Hyala entitled Mahal Kita Kasi. It's a collection of cheesy lines. I hope I can translate it in english for non-tagalog speaking readers but I can't do justice to that. But I may. Indulge me?

Anyway, here it goes:

To Love or Not To Love?

Today is valentine's day and so I decided to talk about love. No, not about mushy stuffs or about the love of my life. It's about my bestfriend's dilemma in love.

One of my bestfriends has fallen in love for the first time and just like any other girl in love, she thinks what they have is a great love story unfolding. But before they could go beyond the "once upon a time" phrase, the "the end" phrase began to lurk in every sentence of their story book.

Why?

She's in love with a man who has cancer. He was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after they met sometime ago.

I know this sounds like the movie A Walk To Remember but this is not fiction, it's real. And now she's asked for my advice and asked me that if I were in her place, would I be willing to go into a serious relationship with someone who has cancer?

We can't choose whom to fall in love with but being in a serious relationship is a choice. Many people get into relationships because they love each other but it takes more than love and lust to make a relationship work. Committing with another person is hard enough as it is. You have to deal with a lot of issues, face a lot of challenges together and hopefully come up with compromises for your differences.

Add to that the issue of terminal illness, and the problem gets bigger.

So, my answer to her question will be: IT DEPENDS.

It depends on how deeply I love and care for the other person. Will I be strong enough to lend my strength to him during those trying times? Will I be patient and understanding enough to take his mood swings in stride? Will I be of help to him rather than a liability? How committed am I if ever?

Life is a journey and we meet people along the way. If I happen to meet a wonderful person somewhere along the path, it doesn't matter whether the meeting will just be brief and short. What matters is that I had memorable sweet memories that will last a lifetime.

To love or not to love? It depends. But I really hope and pray that God will send a miracle to the both of you, miga Nic.

This is It!!!

Do you like my new template/design?

I've been editing and customizing a Zinmag template these past few days but when I saw this template yesterday while I was researching for some html codes, I fell in love with it! Simple but elegant. And unique too. A little customization here and there and presto! This blog is now sooo me.

I planned to changed my avatar too but didn't have the time to do it. Besides, my friends from entrecard, blog catalog and twitter might not recognize me if I change my profile picture for the nth time so I'll just stick with my current avatar.

Happy blogging everyone!

The Entrecard Hullabaloo

No, my site was not listed as an erring site and I'll vehemently deny any allegations if ever. I personally visit sites and drop those 300 EC cards per day despite my internet connection speed and busy life as a mom to a 5 month old daughter although I'm not much of a commenter.

But I do believe that there's a basis to this fuss about entrecard drops. My other blog, Bloggista Info Corner, received 8 drops today and 54 yesterday but based on my visitor counter, only 11 actually visited my site since the other day and two of them came from Google search engines. Wow!!!

It seems like this blog, The Twitterer, isn't spared too.

Oh well, I can't and I won't name names because they can't read it anyway (how can they do that when they were not here?) but thanks for the drops! You can do it for as many times as you'd like (suit yourself) for I won't know it... YET. But when I do... oh well, let's just see what happens when I do. (wink!)

PS. I don't believe that everybody included in Martin's list are ghost droppers because some of them are my friends and see their names in my chatbox, twitter widget, blogcatalog widget and comments section. What I mean to say is that it's possible that some EC members can cheat on their drops. This post is just for my peace of mind because eversince I read about that list, I became paranoid in dropping but then decided that I'll just let them be. If they cheat, then they cheat. It's their choice and let them bear the consequences but I'll just go on dropping anyway.

The Weekly Thanksgiving

It's Thursday again and it's time for the Thursday Thanksgiving (hmmmm... can be a new meme???). Many thanks to my Entrecard advertisers from February 5 to 11, 2010. Do check out these sites too!

February 5, 2010