Search Words for Refine Me, Part 3

Here is the third installment of the Search Words for Refine Me series (Part 1, Part 2), which I am doing not because of any SEO chuva, but because it’s so amusing to do. This installment is particularly amusing. ;) Much thanks to SiteMeter for this. :D

• Piolo Pascual at Robinson Galleria - Umm. Yes, the Piolo Pascual thing is still here (and I bet it willc ontinue until I stop posting about him…or not). Thing is, I never saw him in Galleria…I did see Sam Milby there, so why am I not getting any hits from Sam Milby searches?
• Dingdong Dantes Fans Club - This is just plain…weird. When did I mention Dingdong Dantes?
• ano mas maganda nokia 6233 o nokia n70 - Translation: Which is more beautiful, Nokia 6233 or Nokia N70? Personally? Nokia 6233 all the way! Captain Tal for the win! :)
• Backstreet Boys in Manila - I didn’t see them live here, unfortunately. :(
  
• Piolo Pascual’s home address in Manila - Okay, this is a killer. No, I don’t know where he lives.
  
• My backstabbing friend trying to turn our friends against me - I know how this feels, whoever you are. Maybe your friend is not a true friend if he/she does that…and if your other friends believe him/her…then they don’t know you that well and are probably not true friends too. *pat pat* I wish the best for you.
  
• photos of people with hangovers - My friends used to have a photo album of these kinds of shots back in college. Hilarious, but not really pretty. Yes, some people actually took pictures of the puke. Eww.
  
• Caleb Chapman Pictures - I only have some here in my blog, but most pictures are in my Multiply, during their visit here in the country. Tuesday, Happy and Jomar also has some great pictures. :) And let me just say, Caleb Chapman is such a handsome young man. It’s hard to believe he’s only 17.

I bet I’d get a lot of hits for Piolo Pascual once again. LOL. Till next installment!

Search Words for Refine Me, Part 2

Okay, I thought my bandwidth already reached its limit, but apparently, I can still access my blog. This morning I already got a 509, but then I accidentally clicked on the bookmark to this site and I got here…and it loaded. So…was it a false alarm?

Anyway, I have new things to talk about, like my new (and unexpected) gadget Triskal, buying an expensive earphones, some money-making rackets, planning trips to Oz and whatnot, but because I want to make sure what happened to my bandwidth before doing something a bit heavy, I’ll post that by this weekend instead. For now, it’s time for yet another Search Words for Refine Me post. This is a follow up of the first part, which I had so much fun writing. :P I think this one is going to be a bit funnier than the last one. ;)

• Home of Piolo Addicts - Okay this just made me laugh. I know I get hits for Piolo Pascual pictures (which I don’t have), but this is the best referral I’ve ever had for Piolo. No, this isn’t the home of the Piolo Addicts, unfortunately.
• Music, I am a Princess - I like this. This would make a good tag line or a novel title, don’t you think?
• Books simliar to Kristin Billerbeck - Ah, my forte. Whoever you are, I think you’d also enjoy Laura Jensen Walker, Judy Baer and Denise Hildreth. :) If you want something secular, try Sophie Kinsella or Meg Cabot.
• Words that rhyme with Tina - This should be easy. Gina, Mina, Rina, Ina, Yna, Katrina…okay, those are all names. How about words? Marina. Halina? Harina? Okay, who’s making a poem with Tina here? I bet that’s where this search phrase came from.
• Bretsch & Barrie - Well, that’s a place I haven’t been to for the longest time. This is where I had my first youth camp which I talked about here. One of these days I’ll write about my experience in this place; it’s unforgettable.
• Boyfriend never calls back - Um, okay.
• How much longer till September 3rd? - Around 97 days? :)
• Of me and I appear speck - Wha?! I know I talked about being an insignificant speck, but I do not understand this one.

Right now I am getting a lot of referrals from searches for Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 and the housemates, but it’s because my old PBB blog is redirecting here. :P

Okay now for some reason I can’t find any words to end this post. Oh well. I’ll do it the old-fashioned way then.

The End.

:P

I Won a Moleskine!

And it will be sent to me by tomorrow morning. :) How cool is that? Much thanks to PinoyCentric! How did I win? Just like Liz, who also won a few weeks back, I also won through PinoyCentric’s Ika Nga comic caption contest. I just happened to stumble upon their contest again after posting my graduation entry. I’m not really good with these things, but it’s a creative writing exercise so I thought, why not? I thought of a caption, posted a comment and a week later, I got an email. Really, really cool. =) I never expected to win. :P

This is the cartoon:

And my caption was: “Mai-d-drive ko ba ang Internet pagkatapos ng rehistro?”¹.

I’m still giddy about the entire winning thing. I’ve admired Moleskine notebooks, and being a notebook collector I want one but I’ve been waiting for a “special occasion” (like my birthday or Christmas or something) before I buy one since it’s kind of hard on my regular day budget. Now I will be able to get one for free! Really, really cool. :P

Many many thanks to PinoyCentric! If you want to win a pocket Moleskine notebook too and read lots of great content on all things brown and beatiful, visit PinoyCentric now! Go go go!

1. Rough Translation: Can I drive the Internet after registration? [«]

Five Great Adventures

I’m a little bit late, but I’ve got less than an hour before the clock strikes midnight in Honolulu, Hawaii which is the deadline for this, so I still have time. :P This is my contribution to Darren Rowse’s Group Writing Project.

I’ve talked about my Great Adventure lots of times, and here’s another post about it. Bo Sanchez said that one thing we should do to make our dreams and ambitions come true is to write it down, because if we only think about it, it’s just what it is: thoughts. Writing them down makes them more concrete, and reading it everyday helps make it come true. So ever since I turned 21, I attached a list to my journal and (try to) read it everyday. The list is far from done, but at least I’ve got started. :P

Here are Top 5 things from my Great Adventure List (in no particular order):

1. Learn how to jumprope. I used to play lots of jumping games when I was a kid (Ten-Twenty, Chinese Garter) but I never learned how to jumprope. How sad is that? I’ve tried it some time, but I always mix my jumps up (my officemate told me that I lack dexterity or something like that that’s why I have a hard time doing jumps). I want to learn this just because I want to, and I hear it’s a great exercise to lose weight. :p
2. Get a degree in Creative Writing. The other day, my college thesismate Micko told me about the MA program in our alma mater. I checked out some programs in the College of Liberal Arts and the MA in Creative Writing program made me drool. The first subject (Fiction Writing Techniques) already made my heart quicken — I waaaant! If I didn’t take up Computer Science in college, I would’ve taken up Creative Writing instead. Seeing this MA program in DLSU might be the thing I’ve been waiting for. :D
3. Travel, travel, travel. Who doesn’t want this? One of my realizations after graduating is that I want to see the world. I want to visit different countries, be able to actually see the things I have only seen in TV/books/magazines/postcards before. I want to travel around the Philippines and the world. While I’m still single, I figure I better start doing this now. I don’t want to settle down until I have been able to travel, you know? Some places in my (growing) list are: [Philippines] Vigan, Batanes, Pagudpud, Ifugao, Bohol, Palawan, Davao (take 2!), Cebu, Albay, Aklan, Mindoro, Sulu; [outside the Philippines] New York City, Florida, California, Australia, Rome, Malaysia, China, Africa, Egypt, India, Israel, Indonesia — that’s just to name a few. :P My target for next year is: Sydney, Australia (MISSION: SYDNEY). Hello, World Youth Day 2008! Hello, Hillsong!
4. Put up a bookstore. It’s no secret that I love books. A bookstore for me is like a candy shop or toy store to a kid. One time, after a book shopping spree, my mom said, “Why don’t you put up a bookstore?” Which made me think, “Why not?” I have yet to figure out the specifics, but I’ve already got people to dream with me here — right Bea? :)
5. Drive on my own. It’s been a year since I went for driving lessons, but up to now I still couldn’t drive our car on my own. Well, one reason is because my mom returned my driver’s license to the driving school since it says I’m male instead of female, but the other reason is that…well I’m scared. :-s I know how to drive both manual and automatic (but I have to practice on the manual more), but the only thing closest to real driving I’ve ever done (besides my driving lessons, of course), is to drive the automatic Lancer out of our garage and sometimes, drive home from Sunday mass (with an average speed of less than 40kph and hazard lights turned on :p). I need to drive on my own. I have to! How will I ever get myself a Honda Jazz and name it Betty if I can’t even drive to the nearest mall on my own?!
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Well that was fun. Maybe I’d do pick another five soon, or make a progress report on these five things. :P How about you? What are your great adventures?

Search Keywords for Refine Me

I check my SiteMeter and FireStats referrals almost everyday because I am always on the lookout to see whoever gave linklove to my blog (and yes, I’m a bit narcissistic with regards to my blog :p). Jomar once told me that I’d probably see my niche based on my search words…so let’s see what my possible niche is. :P

• Stories of regret for unrequited love - Hahahaha! My site’s at the eighth spot, directing to my Writings page. :P I can’t help but laugh.
• Watch CSI NY online - I got this from my CSI NY post, obviously. :) Well, whoever you are, you can watch some episodes here. :P
• WP Themes - I’m on page 9, haha, too far. :P You can get some here, friend. I have a new one coming up by next week, hopefully.
• Living with an obssessive compulsive - Well, I have no answers for that.
• No Boyfriend Since Birth - again, hahahahahaha! Single and proud, bebeh. :P
• Chinese Garter Ten Twenty Philippines - I can’t find my site in the search results, but I got this referral. Talk about old school.
• Piolo Pascual Pictures and Photos - What? None here, but I did mention his name once — during the Hillsong United in Manila event.
  
• Happy Easter Acne - EH?!

More to come in Part 2. :P For now I shall go back to watching Heroes (my officemate is right, Heroes is like Pringles: once you pop, you can’t stop!) in one of the same links I posted above.

Oh, and before I go, mind if you take a bite at some Bitesized Fiction? :) Now open!