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My mom loves to give me chikka and up to date news. Lately, she told me she had a conversation with our new neighbor and she was told that her daughter makes money by selling clothing apparels in the mini mall near where we live. She pays 500 pesos a day for the rent but she makes around 10,000 pesos a day which makes up for it. Hmmm, this made me think. And so, here comes the new ambition: to be a clothing/fashion seller. I would like to have my own stall at the mall and sell dresses, t-shirts, fashionable accessories, blouses, shorts and the like. I thought people are really into fashion nowadays and that would really be a good idea to sell those items. Hmmm, my creative juices are working again. This made me come up with another plan. To save money to have enough capital to start that business. She said that she had 100,000 as a starting capital which is continuously growing right now. The lady stopped working and is now minding her own business. Let’s see where this will lead me. Join me in my search for becoming free from the so called “rat race”. Keep in tune to more posts and updates about my life.

By the way, I already bought my own computer. Yehey. I still need to wait for some time to finalize it. We still have to buy the computer table, to install the software and lastly to install the internet which will take days I guess. Thank you for all your support. Indeed, dreams do come true. I am so excited and I can’t wait to focus and give more time to blogging.

If your one like me who’s looking out for opportunities to earn money, you will not hesitate selling even diet pills, herbal medicines or blemish acne cream.
Well, I am proud of those people who are trying their best to make a decent living and who knows how to make use of their resources. People who are practical are usually the ones who survive.

You might have noticed that I’m posting less and less of personal rants and thoughts here than normal, and most of my entries are informative and sponsored. Well, it’s because I have another site, where I posts my personal rants about life, work etc. I have My Online Diary . This is a site where you can really keep track of the latest happenings on my life. I write on it regularly, though not every day specially on my days off, because I have no pc at home. It is intended for personal use, so someday I can look back and reminisce what happened. Memories are treasures but I have a foggy one, and I’m not really good at remembering. I am very forgetful. You might want to check it out for yourselves, you can check it too. You can check for updates at the left side of this blog. I’m happy to be able to share my life with you.

First of all, let me thank all those people who joined my drop list. I’ll try to visit you as much as possible. By the way, you might be seeing less rants and personal things here in this site. I just have a new website, My Online Diary.

These are the things that I did last week.

A Restful Day
Date: July 10, 08
Day: Thursday

It’s supposed to be my day off but I swapped schedule with Sally so I can be there at my baby’s dedication this Sunday. I rested from blogging and any goal activity. This is a rest day for me, though I’m working. This is a reward for accomplishing my long to do list, I feel happy and I feel that I ought to celebrate in a way.

I went shopping
Date: July 11, 08
Day: Friday

This is supposed to be posted yesterday, but I don’t have a laptop/computer at home, so its late but I still want to document it. This is my day off, so I stayed at home. In the morning, I busied myself with washing clothes, a bunch of them. I slept after that, it really made me tired. I went shopping in the afternoon and bought shoes for baby, and clothes for me to wear on her dedication.

Excited for Baby’s Dedication

Date: July 12, 08
Day: Saturday

I’m excited for tomorrow, it is baby’s dedication already and we are hoping everything will be fine. I just logged out from my work, and now I’m planning to spend some time blogging, I haven’t been giving so much time for my blogs recently because I observed that it’s giving me unnecessary stress. Well, I love to blog, but working and blogging too much at the same time, is not a good lifestyle. It can make you stressful at that level. So I will just spend probably a couple of hours and head back home to be with my family. I just changed my template for this blog and I graciously love it. I just want to be reminded that I am choosing to be happy that’s why the template is like for kids.

Baby’s Dedication

Date: July 13, 08
Day: Sunday

Yes, finally, its over. It wasn’t perfect, can you imagine? the chicken that we ordered for the gathering had a very bad smell and taste and the people told us about it. They told us next time to ask for their help in cooking instead of letting someone cook it for us. Well, we ordered it from our neighbor who sells food. It was really bad, most of them never ate it. I cried because of that, but in the end, everything else went well. What’s important is baby is now dedicated.

Date: July 14, 08
Date: Monday

I woke up late, instead of my plan to wake at 4 am, I wake up at 5 am. I hurried up to work. I decided to spent 2 hours after work to work on my blogs which I haven’t been working on lately. Just got so stressed at work and realized I need to moderate my blogging which is nice and makes me passionate but is not healthy and adds to my stress. I wrote an article “How I Want To Be Remembered”.
The article by leo of zenhabits about the death of her aunt, makes me realize that life indeed is short. Most of the time, we don’t realize that, and we have a tendency to think that we are here forever, which is so NOT TRUE.

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It’s been a while since I last posted for updates about what’s going in my life. Well, as you can see, my traffic is dropping. I haven’t been giving my blog the time it deserves. Work has been so stressful so I opt to go home and rest most of the time, than staying for few hours to blog. You know, I don’t have my own pc at home. If I have, perhaps you could expect me to get a good traffic and of course to do updates perhaps 5x a day. hahahaha! It’s just me, I couldn’t help writing, specially If I started it already. Like now, I made one post which resulted to 3 more, so 4 all in all. Hehhe! Well, right now, I’ve been busy preparing for my baby’s dedication this Sunday. Finally, we will be dedicating her to our God. In catholic, that is the baptism. But to us, its called dedication. I made it as simple as possible, but still there are few things I have to make sure would be okay. Food, the people or the ninongs and ninangs, my baby’s clothes and the money. It made me quiet busy right now. But still, you know what my one goal is as of now: that is to start a sari-sari store business. I’m keeping my eye on it and I’m doing what I can to make it real. I achieved my goal of not touching my husband’s salary. It’s still intact and hopefully will not be touched for other matters. Baby bless had fever since last last day. But she’s getting better now. Right after this, I will be off to SM to buy styrofoam for the food and plastic plates and spoon. Naahh, it’s such a busy day today. As usual, lots of calls while at work, which dried my throat. Good thing blogging does not require shouting.

I am now reviewing the events of the past week to think about what would be the best accomplishment I could write about. Hmmm, let me see. I think this would be all about my blogging experience.

I’m a newbie in the blogging world, and all that I learned from blogging was a result of my own persistence and effort, backed with the help of the friends that I’ve met from the online world.

This blogging thing in my life, started due to one thing. I wanted to have an extra income, and I wanted to do it online. In the beginning, I had been scammed a number of times. I lost almost 3 thousands all to nothing. I thought, there must really be a way that I could earn online. After few months of researching, I heard about blogs, but my knowledge was still very little and everything still appeared to be vague to me. But I persevered and continued. Think about this, I know nothing about it, and I had no idea blogging exists. So, just come to think of all the hassles I had to go through to learn everything. Some of you might have learned blogging through a friend you know, and that’s easier cause you can always ask a question if you don’t understand something.

But every bit of information I got, was a result of trial and error. It was only later on, when I gained some friends, whom I confided about my confusions. And they are of great help.

This is my very first month, that I started to earn from blogging. I have just been accepted by payu2blog, where I am earning most of my income from blogging right now. But I’ll never forget how many times smorty rejected me. Huhuhu, but that was challenging huh. As of this month, I have earned a total of $118. That’s not as great as your earnings, but this is already a great help for me. I am just so thankful that I discovered the world of blogging.

Cheers to me and to all bloggers.
P.S my butt is aching so much right now,while I’m sitting at work. I fell from the stairs early this morning. hhuhuhuhuhu. Ouch!

Sadness? Its part of life. Right now, I certainly feel lonely and sad. I’m trying to find reasons to be happy and to be grateful for the day. But there are just days that I find it hard to do so. It’s complicated and I really have reasons to be sad. But, I can’t divulge the details. It just seems like things are not going my way. ***sigh**** how I wish. How I wish I have more freedom, and I don’t have to stand up to a job that doesn’t really make me happy. How I wish I can make choices. Like, staying with my baby in the house, run a sari-sari store business and take care of my family instead of working all day long, turmoiled with emotional issues and stress from work.
Yes, it is my choice. But it’s because I have no choice right now. I really don’t. I know, I have to deal with it, and hope that everything will be alright. There are just some times that life is pressing us too hard and you don’t understand a single thing. Your doing your best and yet your best is still not enough. Get it? If you are too happy right now, you might not, but if you are dealing with life issues, most likely you get what I mean. If only I could tell you everything. But hey, I just have to relax and wait until the blue feeling fades away. After all, at the end of the day, one thing prevails: God loves me and He has good plans for me. Everything will work out just fine.
Sorry guys, this post might be a little vague for you, I just couldn’t share you the very details of it, but yes, I am having a lot of issues lately. I hope you understand. If you don’t that’s your problem. Just kidding !

I would like to learn how to be grateful for each day I live. I don’t want to see all beautiful things on this earth, and just neglect it because to me its just NORMAL. From now on, I commit that I will be thankful for all the wonderful things in my life, even for the not so wonderful ones. I will be keen in observing the blessing and small surprises in my life, and be quick to do something to show that I am thankful. This is my pledge, to live a meaningful and purposeful life, and to be grateful come what may.

Pledged by: Irish Blanca Digamon on Wednesday 3:30 pm at June 18, 08

Things I am grateful for today
1. I’m back at my original seat, and I don’t have to transfer to another workstation. I love my pc here.
2. I’m grateful to be able to do oopss, even without grabbing and chasing for it.
3. Happy that my blog is now on the first page of Google.
4. Happy to have a loving husband.
5. Happy that everyone is healthy at home. A little bit worried of the lump on mother’s knee but I know everything will be okay.
6. Grateful for being able to stick to my plan of saving ronel’s paycheck.
7. Happy for being closer to my dreams everyday as we gradually work on it.
8. Happy that by early October, will be starting our very first sari-sari store.
9. Happy that we now have electricity again. No more, tapping into our neighbor’s house.
10. Happy to reach more 252 posts in a matter of 3 months. With that, I mean active blogging. As you can see on my archive, I started this on November, and never really understood what blogging means. So I stopped, and in march, that’s when I started to do it actively. As in, I have to write everyday and read blogs to learn more. I’m happy of what I have accomplished as for now.

Thank God for this life, for this wonderful life. Whatever life I may have, whatever happens I will have joy deep inside that no one can steal and I will not let anyone or anything ruin it. As long as, you are with me.

What’s up with me?

1. I’m at the internet cafe near our home, to check on my blog, to check for opps, to check my favorite blogs. Will just stay here for an hour and then go home.

2. At home with my little girl. She’s a crybaby for now. hehe, she always cry, because she is in the teething stage. She is so smart and she can easily imitate anyone. She knows how to clap, to imitate sounds of cats and kittens in our home. She can raise her hand up high if someone says darna. She can put her hand on her ear if someone says hello. She can close and open her hands. She can laugh, make you smile and make you go crazy because she moves a lot. hehe. that’s my baby girl, baby bless.

3. keeping my eye fixed on my one goal: to have a sari-sari store. sticking to my action principle that we will save and not touched my husband’s earnings.

4. eating “binignit”. i don’t know what’s the english term for that. my mom cooked it.

5. considering about getting a loan from lbc bank. interested in the idea.