Walking along the pristine beach on the island paradise of Boracay will really get you to think of never wanting to go back. Sure, living there could be helluva expensive, but I bet I can sustain a modest lifestyle, more along the lines of “bumming” it out.
Now I’m back in the real world. And it sucks. I wanna go back to Boracay. Just riding the Zorb and rolling all the blues away.
Call it a post-birthday, post-anniversary trip. Good thing we managed to snag a really really cheap airfare last year. And now, in two days we will be in this island paradise once more. This time, it will just be the two of us.
So excited! Will definitely post an update once we get back, complete with pictures and what not.
I am home. The storm has just finished pounding most of Luzon, including Metro Manila and Cavite. Luckily the power and internet did not conk out. I was able to monitor what’s been happening, and most of the news did not come out pretty.
I was able to finish much of my pending school work. At least something good came out of this storm. H is in KL right now, and while the weather there is not sunny, at least he did not experience the wrath of Pedring.
As expected, Manila took a beating from the storm, and even the US Embassy was not spared. I guess the US will start deploying their troops here to declare war against our antiquated drainages and that old seawall.
Even Hotel Sofitel (Formely Westin Philippine Plaza) was not spared and guests were forced to evacuate. So much for 5-star accommodations.
While Pedring did not have the epic water spewing proportions of Ondoy, the damage in Luzon is pretty big. Let’s see what happens in the next few days.
Aww sorry blog, and sorry readers. I have neglected you too long. I’ve had so much going on right now, the updates will never matter anyway.
Let me just restart my blogging with this amazing rendition of “Somebody To Love” by this cutie. I will have to create my youtube video soon!
Written and Directed by Jerome Daclison
Edited by Jher Trinona
Starring:
Levin Garcia as Paul
Ruth Octaviano as Mira
Produced for the PBSP Valentines Day Short-Film Competition 2011
Me! Yes! I am the Big Bad Blogger! Buwahahahaha!!!! *insert flames and lightning here*
Yeah right. I wish this blog has been that active and that controversial. It’s been a year or so since I attended a blog event, and even longer than that when I visited a restaurant organized by someone so that we can have reviews of the place.
Organized blogger events can be tricky. As a blogger you feel that you have your reputation to protect since no one is there to protect or castigate you (an editor). But a part of you wants to please the owner since he thought about you and gave you something in return (food, for example). I admit some of my posts from these blog events were slightly leaned towards pleasing the “client” of the organizer. Yes I would put some “not so good” points there but generally it is more to “promote” the venue. So typically pinoy, the hiya and utang na loob.
Anyway, after the initial organized blogger events, I still got invited to other events, but seeing that these events were not even my cup of tea, or outright promoting a product or a person, I just declined. I have been struggling for years to bring focus to my blogging, and these events promoting just about anything is not helping. Eventually the invites stopped.
I am not as active as I used to be, but this issue of the Big Bad Blogger is hitting home and is giving bloggers a bad name. There are still a lot of us out there who blog because we genuinely enjoy (or despise) a product, food or service. We are grateful if we are acknowledged for being “the blogger to invite” for events but at the end of the day, we still need to maintain whatever reputation that we have. And no freebie can compensate for that reputation that we tried so very hard to establish.
So bloggers who still get those freebies or get paid to post, if you get invited for an event, please think of your readers, and not just what’s in that goodie bag. You have not been paid for blogging for years, why should that change? Get a real job if you want to get paid. 
Read the controversial Inquirer article of Margaux Salcedo here…
And Anton Diaz, of Our Awesome Planet, insinuated to be the BBB has this to say…
I just want to kill the person who coined that phrase. For real.
As the new year started I really wanted to push forth with my plans of reducing my weight. I believe that by December I have already been 10 lbs over weight. I have been generally sedentary the past 6 months save for the 1 or two visits to the gym, which have been generally lousy since I was cheating on myself.
So at the 4th day of the month I decided, I will jog again. I really felt good after to be honest.
That’s until I woke up this morning.
I was in pain, I walk as if I’ve just given birth, and I feel a slight elevation in my temperature. But I proceeded to go to work since I thought I will be just fine. I was wrong.
By noon I was having a fever and the pain in my legs and thighs seemed to have radiated towards my back and arms. Days before my mom and brother have been having fevers themselves, which they got from a visiting aunt. So, I am pretty sure that I got the fever/colds from them, and the jogging has aggravated the situation.
Now obviously I won’t be able to jog again tomorrow, since I have to rest till this fever breaks and disappears. I still want to continue to jog and I want to do it again soon.
But for the meantime, ouch, ouch, ouch!
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