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Dear Me,

Joining the bandwagon as tagged by Michelle.

Originally started by Mel of Monday Morning Power.

Let's face it. One of the main goals of joining a meme is to increase links. So, let's call a spade a spade and see how "Big" of a "Bang" we can get. The goal is to exceed 1,000 sites. Can it be done? With your help we will leave all the other memes in our dust! Just follow the instructions. No thought necessary.

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You do not have to be tagged to play along. This game is simple and so are the rules.

Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*

Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post at each site you add.

Tag or don't tag, your choice; however, the more tags you create the bigger the list will grow.

Let me know your blog's name and url by leaving me a comment HERE. I will add you to the master list.

Come back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This process will allow late-comers to get as much link benefit as the first ones in.

1-Attitude, the Ultimate Power 2-Juliana's Site 3-Rusin Roundup 4-Grow Rich Along With Me 5-Comedy Plus 6-lynda's loft 7-Amel's Realm 8-MAX 9-Speedcat Hollydale 10-Mariuca 11-Complain Complain Complain 12-Mariuca's Perfume Gallery 13-Life Is A Roller Coaster 14-Sugar Queen's Dream 15-First Time Dad 16-Life 17-My Life 18-The Painted Veil 19-My Thoughts 20-DatCurious.com 21-Little Aussie Cynic 22-A Nice Place in the Sun 23-DatMoney.com 24-The Down Side OF Up 25-Ladyjava's Lounge 26-Cat Tales 27-moms.....check nyo 28-Colorado Baby 29-It's a Woman's World 30-ENLIGHTENED BITS 31-My View of "It" 32-My Reviews and Finds Along the Way 33-Our Hep Chat 34-Rantings of a Woman 35-The Callalily Space 36-Mom Knows Everything 37-Hazel 38- Chronicles and Tales Unlimited (RED) 39-From the Mouth of Jabber Jaws 40-Sunny Side Up Foodie & Lifestyle 41-Carmel Corn 42-Daily Stock Picks 43-The Whole New World 44-Wifespeak 45-Slavery Bliss 46-Rooms of My Heart 47-Unpredictable Life 48-My Life, My World 49- At Your Service 50-All About Ebay 51-Everything Amazon 52-Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out 53-My So-Called Site 54-New Wife Blog 55-Tendre Poison 323 56-Nick's Bytes 57-My Scratch Pad 58-Choc Mint Girl 59-Life Is Just Around the Corner... 60-Amori, poseia, art... virtuali by Hanna 61-Maryannaville 62-monaco - monaco's 63-Nyumix's Blog 64-read my mind - my keyboard monologues 65-Shower You Children With Love - The Right Way 66-Secret Agent Mama 67-Pinaymama's Diary 68-Answers to the Questions 69-Work of the Poet 70-A Total Blog 71-My life, my hope, my future 72-NORTE 73-A Window to Our World 74-Life as a Mom 75-FIELD OF DREAMS 76-lisgold 77-See Me for What You 78-Caught in The Stream 79-Pinay Mommy Online - My Home 80-I'm Running To Win Two 81-CRUEL VIRGIN 82-Garden of Moments in Blog 83-So Cute 84-Love Everlasting 85-WeLcOmE To My CriB 86-WELCOM TO PINAYSMILE'S JOURNEY 87-Ice's Icelog 88-Jenny's Wandering Thoughts 89-Hobbies and Such 90-Sweet Paradise 91-Mommy's Gibble Gabbles 92-Rusin Review's 93-My Small World 94-Little Peanut 95-Online Ramblings 96-My Mood My Feeling 97-BLOG it with ALLEN 98-Entertainment World 99-Let's Go Singapore 100-Firelynx 101-Catsy Carpe Diem 102-Every Beat Of My Heart 103-Always Da Fresh Princess 104-Listening.. Learning..Living 105-All About Mars 106-Syii From Afar 107-Some Thoughts I Have 108-From Here and Beyond 109-My Paid To Blog 110-Scholarship Corner 111-Cell Phone Review 112-"Apples of the Eyes" 113-It's All About Play 114-The Luttrull Journey 115-RennyBA's Terella 116-Unchained Melody 117-Out of the Blue 118-The Lure Of the Unknown 119-Maricel's 120-my blog 121-Spiff, the Spaceman 122-Living Well 123-The Dog Log 124-Catnip Corner 125-A Piece of Idea 126-Observations From the Back 40 127-Poetry by The Redneck Gypsy 128-Odd Facts 129-Juliana's Lair 130-My life is murphy's law 131-lisgoldsmemoirs 132-My memories, as time goes by 133-Somewhere over the rainbow 134-Blogging by Sandee 135-Our Journey to this so called life 136-Idaho Daily Photo 137-Memories that Never Fades.. 138-Anything goes 139-Your Caring Angels 140-Little Paces 141-Laketrees 142-PoeARTica 143-fracas 144-Just FraCas 145-Archies Archive 146-Growing Up Together 147-A Woman's Diary 148-Mother's Got A Dot Com 149-Close To You 150-Hot Shit Form Here 151-Astro Galaxy 152-Detector 153-Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 154-My Life is Peachy 155-The Down Side of Up 156-Magical Milestones 157-In Search of Life 158-RebelationsdotNet 159-Jen Jen's Place 160-Mimi Writes... 161-Strange but true 162-Depois de minha viagem 163-Your Perfect Wedding: 164-Make Money Online 165-Primitive Ornies and Bowl Fillers 166-Vegetarian Diet Lifestyle 167-Looking Out For You 168-BENOLSATUEM 169-OtherSide 170-Hacko's Site 171-where was I 172-Making Money Resources 173-text's Site 174-Movie Corner 175-Rahasia Bisnis Internet 176-Online Dating Tips 177-Beauty Kissing Tips 178-Forex Trading Tips 179-Singapore Tour Guide 180-PPC vs PTR 181-Indonesian Film 182-Adsense Success Stories 2008 183-Bali Tour 184-Paypal Indonesia 185-Review Bisnis Internet 186-Blog Daniel Scardua 187-Much of a muchness 188-Gagiers Amazing World 189-Clumsy Mommy 190-Leaotheblogger 191-PBDesigns Reading and Crochet Blog 192-Gagiers Striking Zone 193-DrowseyMonkey 194-Yesterday Today n Tomorrow 195-Auntie Dar's Life 196-Sky Windows... 197-Filippino Life Abroad 198-Leao the Blogger 199-Zoop's Rantings on Life 200-My Journey 201-A Sweet Taste of Life 202-This is a Miracle 203-Lavanderia Virtual 204-COLORADO COWGIRL IN UPSTATE NEW YORK 205-Dating Profile of the Day 206-my wooden robot 207-My World 208-urban : trendy : lifestyle 209-Lucel Juliana's Library 210-Cooking Momster - My Life Journal 211-Anggie & Jeremy boy Online Journal 212-'Doc Doc Doc' 213-Transforming My Life 214-Gratitude Journal 215-Simplydunn.net 216-emila's illustrated blog 217-AZZY'S BLOG-A-ROONIE! 218-MAMABLISS' TREASURED MOMENTS 219-The Sky's the Limit 220-PROJECT HEAVY TRAFFIC 221-just another ordinary story.. 222-Samuel Rolo 223-The end mission! 224-R S S Submissions 225-Laice's Pics 226-Health and Fitness 227-Brainybimbo 228-Journey with WaterLearner 229- Dear Me 230-


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Tagging: Vessa, Kaye, Lynn.

Dear Me,

I am promoting the upcoming 2008 Philippine Blog Awards in an effort to show recognition to those wonderful bloggers out there!



Are you a Filipino with a blog worth noticing? Think you got what it takes to be called one of the Philippines' best bloggers?

Help us spread the word about the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards!

The Philippine Blog Awards aims to recognize notable Filipino-owned blogs in their respective niches. With topics ranging from the arts, culture, technology and politics, Filipinos have become more abreast because of the fast growing blogging industry here and abroad. The Philippine Blog Awards is a venue to showcase notable blogs with quality content that engages readers from around the globe.

Now on its second year, the Philippine Blog Awards continues to recognize Filipino blogging talent from around the world. This year, the awards extends its reach towards network blogs written by Filipinos, blogs written by mainstream media practitioners as well as local corporations that use blogs are effective communication tools.

Let the blogathon continue!


A Short History
The Philippine Blog Awards was a project conceived in the latter part of 2006 to recognize quality content in the Philippine blogosphere. The main propagators of this project involved Abe Olandres, Gail de la Cruz-Villanueva and Jayvee Fernandez, three individuals involved in different areas of online media. Though they are involved in their own projects, they have since become attracted to a common passion of organizing the Filipino blogosphere and help give Filipinos a louder voice in cyberspace.

Abe Olandres | yugatech.com
As one of the owners of Philippine web hosting start-up company plogHost, Abe has built his blogging success story as the chronicler of the Filipino blogosphere with his "The Philippines According to Blogs" and the Pinoy Top Blogs Project.

More famously known as "Yuga" in the local blogosphere, he has become a valuable resource person doing advocacy talks and trainings on blogging and podcasting both locally and on various Asian countries such as Taiwan, Pakistan and Indonesia.

As a professional blogger, he has successfully established several niche group blogs such as Pinoy Tech Blog, Pinoy Travel Blog and Pinoy Urban Blog. He is also one of the co-founders of the recently launched blog network, the Bayanihan Blog Network.


Gail Dela Cruz-Villanueva | kutitots.com
An international award winning designer, Gail has claimed several recognitions from the International WordPress 2.0 Theme Competition bringing a local flavor to the Web 2.0 design industry. She is the creator of the "Dapit Hapon" theme, the first Filipino-inspired WordPress theme on public release, which was recognized by international WordPress users and online media. Gail is also one of the owners of Sheero Media Solutions, where she had done work for some of the Philippines' top websites.

As a blogger, Gail runs Kutitots, My Filipino Wedding, Pinoy Dog Lover, Dog Fashionista, and The Filipino Web Designer. She has also co-founded The Pinoy Pets Network with Connie Veneracion.


Jayvee Fernandez | abuggedlife.com
In the Philippine technology scene, Jayvee is best known for his work as contributing editor for the four year old publication Mobile Philippines under Hinge-Inquirer Publications. He is deeply involved in the professional blogging industry as Technology Channel Editor for global new media network, b5media Inc as well as editorial consultant for INQUIRER.net, the number one news website in the Philippines.

He is also one of the minds behind the local blog advertising brokerage called The Blog Bank.

So while waiting for the nominations to commence, do your share and spread the word! =)

Dear Me,

Day by day, I'm seeing my son growing to be such an adorable kid. I never thought I would feel the same things other proud moms were saying about their own children. =)

Miguel loves his friend, Squishy. =)

PS. Please kindly vote for Carlos Miguel in the Pampers Baby Pic Contest.

Kindly visit this blog entry: http://ivan-ulrich.blogspot.com/2008/01/please-vote-for-my-son-carlos-miguel.html

Dear Everyone,

To my family, relatives, friends, mountaineering pals, former classmates & schoolmates from way back, blogger friends/visitors/lurkers:

Kindly vote for my 3-month old son, Carlos Miguel in the Pampers Baby Pic Contest.

Hope he wins! Hehehe.


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Hi!

I saw this website of Pamper's while searching for baby food recipes and there's this contest called "Extra Sleep, Extra Laughter Baby Pic Contest" which asked me to submit photos of my precious Carlos Miguel Manalansan Casagnap. Of course, I gave the cutest pictures of my son and they're now posted at http://www.pampers.com.ph, you should see it!

Please vote for my little darling Carlos Miguel Manalansan Casagnap.

Oh! You can also join the contest.

here's the link to it http://pampers.com.ph/module.php?LM=gallery.profile&id=1200845532656.


Sincerely,

Carlos Miguel's mom (that's moi)

Dear Me,

This is my third time to participate in this meme.


Appetizer
What is your favorite beverage?

My all-time fave bev would be CUPS OF AROMATIC COFFEE! =)

Soup
Name 3 things that are on your computer desk at home or work.

A laptop, my books, pens/paper.

Salad
On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being highest), how honest do you think you are?

Probably 7-8. I think I'm honest enough but I have to do the occasional white lie to facilitate a lot of things that need to be done in the quickest, most proper way.

Main Course
If you could change the name of one city in the world, what would you rename it and why?

I can't think of anything I would want to change.

Dessert
What stresses you out? What calms you down?

Stress: Deadlines, sickness in the family, verbal fight with someone.
Calm: reading a book, going to Baguio for a brief getaway, having a very rare light moment with my family...

Links to other Friday's Feast diners!

Dear Me,

A continuation of my last post about T13.

Paolo Coelho has been highly regarded by his readers. The books he wrote exemplified various lessons in life as learned by the character's experiences. His insightful approach is very much appealing to me.

I would love to share meaningful quotes from his books.


graphic courtesy of Emily

Thirteen Paolo Coelho Quotes (2)

1. "You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter."
   
   
2. "When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city... without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning."
   
   
3. "To realize one's personal legend is one's only true obligation."
   
   
4. "Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
   
   
5. "Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in which have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams."
   
   
6. "No one can hit their target with their eyes closed."
   
   
7. "Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem."
   
   
8. "I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God."
   
   
9. "You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."
   
   
10. "All battles in life serve to teach us something, even the battles we lose."
    
    
11. "A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations. "
    
    
12. "The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we able to know everything, because it's all written there."
    
    
13. "That's how love got lost," he said. "When we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear."

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Dear Me,

I've been a little off about blogging lately. It's kinda late but here's a few tweets of my 2007.



Where did you begin the year 2008?
At home - in the kitchen with my sister.

What was your status by Valentine's Day?
attached and loving it.

Did you have to go to the hospital?
Yep. To deliver my baby boy. =)

Where did you go for vacation?
Singapore... =) But it was business for hubby (who was back then my bf).

What did you purchase that was over 100 dollars?
microwave oven, electric stove.

What was your favourite TV program?
I have a lot of faves: CSI Miami & New York, 24, Bones, Angel, Criminal Minds, etc.

Did you know anybody who got married?
Yes! Me...hehehe.

Anybody who passed away?
Yeah. My high school Values Educ teacher.

How's your birthday?
I celebrated it like any other day.

Your favorite moment(s)?
Getting married and seeing my newborn right after delivery.

New additions to your family?
Carlos Miguel, my son.

What was your best month?
October!

How old did you turn this year?
29

Have any new year's resolution?
I have a lot with the intention of fulfilling them.

Have you had any regrets?
Yeah. I should have carefully mapped out year 2007.

Have you gotten sick?
Not really except for the typical colds, cough and tonsilitis.

What's the valuable life lesson you learned in 2007?
That no matter what I think how a family sucks, they will always be there for you when you least expect them to.

What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Patience and Focus.

If you could give your life to get anything back, what would it be?
I love my life as it is. I would have done better if given the chance to do so.

What has been your motto this year? Did you live up to it?
My lifetime motto: Live life to the fullest as if there's no tomorrow. Actually, I had some regrets because I didn't live up to it.

Dear Me,

January 8, 2007: University of the Philippines' 100 years of existence. UP @ 100.

I love my alma mater. I miss UP!

As part of UP's 100th year celebration, we are putting together "100 Kwentong Peyups," a series of columns which will appear in the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Philippine Star throughout the year. We invite all past students of any of the University of the Philippines' units to submit their stories.

Submissions should:

1. Be a maximum of 1,000 words
   
2. Be a personal experience and written in the 1st person
   
3. Emotionally engaging ---- funny, sad, scary, etc.
   
4. Make the connection between the story and a life lesson that serves you well today .
   
5. If possible, please include an old photo/scanned memento

Please include your name, college or unit and course and year you entered UP as well as your email address. If you remember your Student Number, even better.

Send your submissions to 100kwentongpeyups@campaignsandgrey.net.

You will be notified via email if your story has been selected for publication or for use in other Centennial celebrations.

Submissions will be accepted starting January 1, 2008. Btw, pls. feel free to pass this on to other UP alumni.