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I have seen Smorty ad among bloggers sites but never picked it up since the guy with a hat looks a bit dubious to me. But reading from one of my blogcatalog group's forum I came to know that they are earning at Smorty since there are advertisers/companies willing to advertise on blogs . So why not give it a try so here I am posting my commercials. I welcome those who would like to advertise on my blog. Well I think it is fine to post commercial as break and then bloggers will have something to write about. But it is quite challenging sometime to be make use of those anchor words advertisers would like you to use. But definitely I don't want to see my blog turning into a commercial site. This is suppose to be a personal blog, not an advertisement blog, a minimum commercial blog will do. For now let me experiment with how to advertise on blogs . So what is Smorty? Smorty is a service connecting advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers can pay bloggers to write opinion posts with l...

Well I have signed up with tools to make this blog earn, I am really new about monetizing blog. So this is the first commercial that will appear in my blog - I mean that I will write about. Not just appearing as a widget on the side bar but a real entry.Well I have signed up with tools to make this blog earn, I am really new about monetizing blog. So this is the first commercial that will appear in my blog - I mean that I will write about. Not just appearing as a widget on the side bar but a real entry. Ashop Commerce is a leading provider of hosted shopping cart software in the world providing the most up to date and relevant advice you need to start or advance your online business. They offer a 10 day trial, to try out shopping cart software but according to the map their services is located in the US, UK and Australia. There are different categories for which you can try out the shopping cart software with its corresponding features,for the Light the starting fee is US $ 49.95...

Every year The May 18 Memorial Foundation (our office) recruits volunteers to help us in the conduct of the May 18 events. The volunteers are assigned to different teams. These volunteers after the May 18 events will be asked to apply for international volunteer work, they can chose to volunteer or become interns for 10 months to our partners and networks in Asia and the USA. One of the teams is the Culture and Solidarity Team which has three functions - media and PR, international programme, and culture.The media and PR unit is now in the process of training volunteers to do video documentation. Of the three groups formed, from among the volunteers assigned to the Media and PR decided to make me as their "guinea pig". So they dubbed their project - Special Lunch with Pete . At past 10:00 AM we went to E-mart for the first segment of the video. They interviewed me while they do the grocery, then took photo on the way home and cooked and eat lunch. We had a very nice meal, ...

An Ji Eun is a student and dreams to become a rock singer. She performs at school and do some gigs in clubs here in Gwangju. Together with some May 18 volunteer they came to the house to cook Korean food and document it in the process as a video project for the Foundation. An Ji Eun Sings What's Up - More amazing videos are a click away

Activity for the day - 5 Songs/Rhymes and 5 Stories. Merry Christmas was the story to be mapped. girls just wanna have fun and boys too, but Mrs. Park guides them back to focus on the stroy collective listening to the rhymes and stories by group story listening Hanul is the student-teacher with an orphan A mother-volunteer (her daughter and son are student-teachers for the orphans) help sets-up the PC kids drawing the story map one more time - what ornaments? presents? some words the kids were having difficulty in pronouncing logging their entry to their journal, the title of the story, the number it was hear, the level of the story - hard or easy to understand a proud boy displaying his story map a naughty one, with his story map all smiles with their creative story map can't get over the story? one more time, and another then they read to the group the story with their student-teacher having fun with vocabulary student-teachers read their story to the group as well pep-talk/in...

Hahahaha (malutong, crispy(?), hehehe) that was my reaction ! I tried switching the language from English to Taglish (not Filipino technically). There are some funny and unusual words that are being used or to say an appropriation of Filipino. inu-upload - ini-uupload/ina-upload ( this is hard ) preview - silip ( tanaw/patingin? ) (labels) etiketa - I easily associated with ethics - bansag/pamagat could be an alternative i-publish - could be ilathala /ilimbag Especially that language (a national language) remains a very sensitive issue in the Philippines. Is it language or dialect? A question that linguists and social scientists are coming up with a consensus. I do subscribe that Filipinos are for real multi-lingual, not speaking different dialects. A writer asked whether Ilocano (or the other so called dialects) is dialect of which language, definitely not Filipino or Tagalog since an Ilocano won't understand or be able to talk to a Tagalog speaker. Definitely my paternal...

I came across this article browsing through the internet. I can't believe that such remark was made by Steve Jobs, especially that I've been dreaming acquiring one of those dream Mac-machines. Also, I am passionate about reading and so I am posting this excerpt-link to the article by Timothy Egan of NYT on his column Outposts. Thumbs down to Steve Jobs ! Book Lust Timothy Egan February 20, 2008, 11:40 pm Every now and then, someone who is brilliant says something stupid — often the result of spending too much time riding a jet stream of high praise. Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc., did such a thing last month when he all but declared the death of reading. Asked about Kindle, the electronic book reader from Amazon.com, Jobs was dismissive. “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is,” he told John Markoff of The Times, “the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last y...

I have not posted this, it is almost a week old photos of my Korean class. The lesson, a nursery rhyme is about butterfly. My colleague teased me that she learned the song at age 4. I told here that is my level of Korean language skill. And added for an excuse that we are testing the story map pedagogy of Prof. Youngim Kim, of KONA, in my case learning Korean a reverse of the children learning English. It is fun learning with the family since everyone is learning in the process. If the children could not find the English words they ask their parents. The parents would then consult the dictionary if they don't have the the English words at their fingertips. I even got chocolate for valentine's gift from Hanul and ginseng slices (in packet) from the parents. My teachers - sangsengnim ( very patiently teaching me the pronunciation over and over again) That's my output - drawing and writing like a toddler !

Silly, squashy, sappy, mushy… Well it is the season of sentiments, the seasons of love. I found another contest from this site, it is not the prize that is important for me but celebrating with other lovers our passion of greeting online our dearest and beloved (last day today): http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/2008/02/04/valentines-day-contest/?#comment-20168 I am definitely pathetic, so here is the eros of my pathos (sorry folks as they said, it is sweeter to speak your own language/mother tongue when saying love and other endearing words, ask around for translation): Sa aking giliw, Nangangatog na ang aking tuhod sa ginaw ng aircon; nanginginig ang mga daliri sa pagtipa ng keyboard; nababaluktot na rin ang direksiyon ng pointer sa pagpindot ng mouse; nangingindat-ngindat na ang mata sa katititig sa screen; ang aking baywang sa matagal na pagkakaupo ngawit na rin, subalit lahat kakayanin, mabuo lamang ang mga katagang kailangan kong ma-decode sa isip ng sa gayon aking ma-encode sa puso ...

I received a recommendation for my entrecard site. Although I found out that the blogger makes the same kind of remarks to other bloggers. Still it is a good pat on my blogging back, hehehe... Oh, in exchange I made this recommendation for him : bloggin-clickin' good! click now and comeback for more... promise for those who would want a recommendation - I will be as creative and original (not again a Kentuckian fried chicken ad copy cat, hehehe), so try me. Great blog! I'm sure if you view this site you'll get a daily dose of great content :) Trust me! - Bloggin-Ads

It is the latest craze among bloggers and it is doing them a lot of good. Various contests are being created for bloggers to win points for them to advertise their blogs and for the generous to give-away. Also today I just created at blogcatalog a Pinoy entrecard group with this link: http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/pinoy-entrecard There is a blog about it now and I would like to keep up with Filipino entrecard members for easy access so I could easily keep updated with Filipino bloggers and advertise in their blogs. Then I found this revised contest by Nhuong Son about entrecard. I think I' ve signed up as forum member to the Asian Economist forum he also created. So the revise contest has now a simplifier instruction unlike other contests that is so complicated to follow so I just ignore most of them so let's try this one again. Well I think more than winning is also an opportunity to acknowledge the effort of bloggers. So here are the rules to his contest (or visit this...

The "Rat" is the first sign of the Chinese zodiac. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor invited the animals for a party. The first 12 to arrive was the Rat, followed by the Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and lastly, the Pig. All the animals were named after the 12-year cycle that governs Chinese life thereafter. Various versions of the Rat's story are particularly revealing about his character. One version has it that, towards the end of the journey, the animals had to cross a celestial river, and the Rat asked the Ox to ferry him across. When they arrived on the other side, the Rat jumped down off the Ox's head and that's how gained first spot in the order of the Chinese zodiac. Those born in the "Year of the Rat" are clever, ambitious, creative, hard-working, fastidious, charming and sociable, but can be a bit stingy when it comes to sharing their wealth or possessions. Rats are compatible with Dragons, Monkeys a...