BLOGGITYBOOP!

Told you this is the month of Domain Name giveaways! :)  Yehey! Mommy Chris is having a giveaway for the first anniversary of her blog - Inspirational Insights. It's very easy to join in - all you'll have to do is to make two blog posts - one about the contest, and in the other, you'll have to detail what inspires you. Just make sure the posts link back to her contest post. Here are the prizes up for grabs... 1st Place Seiko's Diary - $30 Topics on Earth - $10 SAHM Hosting - INFO Domain with Free Blog Hosting 2nd Place Mommy Rubz - $5 The Mommy Journey - $5 Chris Chronicles - $5 SEO Friendly Blog Directory - $5 Rubz Online - INFO Domain with Free Blog Hosting 3rd Place WAHM sa Pinas - $5 MommaWannabe- $5 Pinayjade - One Year Free Hosting I want the domain name and free blog hosting... please random.org, give me one... please please...(pleading to an inanimate program.. tsktsktsk)

This month is THE month of domain name and blog hosting giveaways... and I sure hope I get blessed with one. I haven't won anything for months now... tsktsk.. I hope my luck changes for the better soon :) haha... Anyway, I'm joining this Mommy's Merry Month of May Blog Giveaway by Mommy Rubz . She's an amazing mommy who is incredibly capable of maintaining several blogs! (I don't know how she does it!).  The giveaway is posted on what she dubs as her "personal blog of all personal blogs" - www.mommyrubz.com. The prizes would be COM domain and web hosting for the 1st and 2nd placers, and then an INFO domain and web hosting for the 3rd placer. The three winners will also get paypal cash, entrecard credits, and ad spaces/links. All of which will be selected using Random.org. Back to mommyrubz.com: I personally love browsing her site because it has a very nice layout. The theme gives me a cozy-homey feeling with all the blue-green and wood-like designs al...

My fave summer activity is to go on out-of-town trips...  When I was still single, I was fond of moving around. I was a wanderer. I wanted to be on the road - all the time. In fact, I made it a point to be on the road once every week. I couldn't care less where I was going. What mattered to me was that I was 'traveling'.  I often visited Antipolo, Batangas, Laguna, Olongapo, and most of all - Baguio. Most of the time, I go alone - just to relax and explore. Now, I super miss those places and I do wish that I can start moving around again.... ***sigh*** if only there was a nanny... I'd like to go to Tagaytay again or to Cebu, with the babies... Anyway, this post is actually for a giveaway - Lizz' giveaway. She'll be giving away nail, lips, and skin care items for this month of May and the set includes... **Three bottles of Johnson & Johnson Body Care products: UV Lotion, Daily Calming Lotion, and Lasting Moisture Body Lotion-- all are full sized (20...

This is for my mom. It's a mash up of mommy messages which best express how happy I am to have my mom - and how much I miss her. I'll have this printed, poster size, and I'll give it to her the next time we go on a visit. I wasn't able to spend mother's day with her because we couldn't commute with all the babies... and we can't afford to rent vans now - not yet... ***sigh***. I always give my mom cards and letters during mom's day and I'm really happy that she has kept those cards since. SHOUT OUT TO MAMA: MISS NA MISS KO NA KAYO!!! P.S. Mommies, I'm hosting my first ever blog contest this June and maybe you can sponsor it... Please check the details here:  http://ejcayaba.blogspot.com/2010/05/wanted-sponsors-for-my-breaking-free.html ... I can also send you the contest mechanics if you'd like, just leave you email addy. Thanks!

Before Bloggityboop, I have already tried starting several blogs but I failed. What usually happened was that I was inspired to write one day - or for a week, and then suddenly, I would lose my interest to maintain it. That didn't happen with Bloggityboop because it opened a whole new world of opportunities for me. Ok, I have to admit that the craze started with all the freebies I won... but eventually, I saw my blog as an opportunity to break free. It gave me the chance to dwell away from my usual routine, publish and share my thoughts and emotions, offer relevant info to others (relevant to me at least), be more in touch with myself, explore my creativity, and make friends - friends I've never actually met - but friends still. I think blogging is actually a very liberating experience... that it's not just an activity that bored people engage in but an actual culture developed by and contributing to the creation of a global village. For those reasons - and because of ...

Sometimes I wish I had the power to instantly change the world for the better... so that every street kid would instantly have a happy meal, the homeless and informal settlers would have permanent, legal homes, public school kids would have plenty of books and chairs, rebels hiding in the mountains would be united with their families, drivers would stop drinking or texting while driving, smokers would just quit smoking, alcoholics would just drink tea instead, no one can do abortion, and there would be free food and medicine for the needy... but then, I wake myself up and I know that those things are quite impossible to instantly happen... For my Inang Bayan... The bad news is that things are getting worse than ever. According to the World Bank, almost three billion pesos is wasted in widespread corruption in our country. That's an awfully big amount considering that 8.1 million Filipino families rate themselves as poor based on the most recent SWS (Social Weather Station) sur...

Based on Alexa.com , Blogger.com ranks 6th, Multiply ranks 10th, and Wordpress ranks 11th among the top sites that Filipinos visit. This must only mean one thing - that the number of bloggers and those interested in blogs already make up a significant part of the Philippine population who surf the internet. With the persistent financial and economical crisis in the Philippines, I guess a great percentage of those bloggers are like me... like me who wants to make my hobby a bit profitable. That is why I find this project interesting. Okay, well maybe my last MMM post was really a bit boring because it was all technical money-making stuff, but I wish you can bear with me because those things had to be discussed so I can show you what I had to do and let other bloggers learn from my blog. Anyway, I've decided that before I start with the techie blahs today, I would share some pics first... These are my Ysha and Yza and yes, they are my twins.  They will be three months old thi...