Missing

I have not blogged for weeks and I really feel sad about it. I have not even checked my mails and offline messages. I've been eager to do all of these but I have been so pre-occupied with other things. Coping with all the new responsibilities as the head of the family is not easy. Work, too has been both very serious and boring these past days. I really miss the whole internet...

MySpace Hoax

How would you feel if somebody tells you that the world would be a better place without you? Would you get upset? Would you get mad at the person? Or would you kill yourself to satisfy him or her?

Last Friday, I got the chance to watch TV alone and had full control of the remote.. (harhar).. I was changing and browsing channels when something caught my attention. It was CNN's report about a young girl who committed suicide over an online hoax. Is this not interesting? I focused and listened very well to the news because I thought it was.

The story is about Megan Meiers, a thirteen-year-old girl who suffered depression and attention deficit. Megan thought that she made a new friend in cyberspace when Josh Evans who claimed to be sixteen-year-old contacted her on MySpace. "Josh" told her he thinks Megan is attractive and so they began exchanging messages online. Their online friendship lasted over a month and Megan's family started to notice that she was becoming more cheerful and described her as having had her "spirits lifted".

After over a month of exchanging messages, Josh abruptly ended their friendship telling Megan he heard that she was cruel, saying "I don't think I want to be friends with you because I heard that you are not very nice to your friends." Josh also sent Megan other troubling messages, shared Megan's messages to others and posted bulletins about her.

Megan got so depressed about this (who wouldn't?) and told her mom about the hurtful messages Josh sent her and went upstairs to her messages afterwards. She was found twenty minutes later, hanging by the neck in a closet. Despite attempts to revive her, she was pronounced dead the following day.

Megan's family later learned that Josh never actually existed. The last message Josh sent Megan? "The world would be a better place without you."

It really is a sad story. What's sadder is, the person behind the MySpace account, behind the Josh Evans identity is a mom who just laughed about it and told reporters that the whole hoax was a "joke"..

Blog No More??!!

I know, I know.. I have not blogged for days.. I have not been writing things with sense.. or things that might update you on how I am doing now...There are two reasons behind this. The first, and most impotant is, they have blocked Blogspot.com in the office where I blog most of the time (I usually do it during lunch and break times). The IT dept also blocked many blogging-related sites that I always visit and this pisses not only me but other bloggers in the office.. Grrrr.. We can't really blame them, though. They're just doing their jobs. The second reason is I always go home to Pampanga on my days off. We don't have internet access at home since we dont really need it there and I dont go to internet cafes that much when I'm there because I want to spend my time with the family.

Those two are the major reasons why I have not been blogging, visiting sites, and dropping entrecards.. The minor reasons are proxies where also blocked and our access to other computer programs were also restricted.. This is really sad.. My officemates are not happy about this, too. They joke and say that one of these days, we might just all be resigning because we simply are bored.. Because there are no more movies to watch.. No more online streaming.. No more online games.. No more blogging.. No more network societies..No more internet access.. LOL

I will still be blogging, though.. I'm sure my techi officemates will still come up with work-arounds, as always (harhar)... And I, too, will find one.. LOL... :D

Which Emoticon Are You?

I got this from Tickle!

Raine, the emoticon that represents you best is the Smiling Face

What's up, smiley? Somehow you just always seem to find a way to turn that frown upside down. Your upbeat attitude and friendly demeanor brighten up any room, including your favorite chat room.

Like your classic emoticon counterpart, you're a staple on anyone's list. Boring days and sleepless nights are far more bearable when you're online to chat. Whether you're shooting the breeze, catching up, or giving out advice, you can cheer up anyone on the other side of the conversation. So keep lightening the mood, making new friends, and bringing smiles to other folks' faces. After all, it's just so natural for you!

So, Which Emoticon Are You?

PEXLINKS TRIPLE LOVE PROJECT

I recently joined Pexlink Triple Love Project created by Mommy Ruby because I wanted to widen my range of connection and influence (LOL).. Well, actually, that is one of its aim. I've copied the requirements and goals of Pexlink for all those who may want to participate.

You need to have the following:

1. EntreCard Account
2. Technorati Account
3. RSS Readers Account (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.)

This project aims to achieve the following.

1. To have a lot of technorati fans.
2. To have a lot of RSS subscribers. (if we can't visit all blogs, we can always check what's new in just one click if you use a rss reader)
3. To have regular EntreCard droppers.
4. To get your blog exposed to others (you might have great content – all it needs is a little push to be seen by the world).
5. To have more friends in the blogosphere!!!

So, what should a participant do?

1. Write a post about this project and how this project can show love to fellow bloggers.
2. After that, leave a comment here with your post permalink, technorati fave link, rss/feeds link, your blog’s name and link, EntreCard user details and email (for updates please). You can optionally grab the banner if you want.
3. Then of course, please don’t forget to do the following:

• Fave 300 participants of this projects (more if you want)
• Add the blogrolling script at your post (to the post about this contest)
• Subscribe to their RSS/Feeds using bloglines – highly recommended (or any reader or email subscription if you want).

That would be it... Simple right? And oh, by the way, Mommy Ruby is also going to be giving away 50 EC credits to the first 150 participants of this project! Ain't that cool? That's 50 EC credits you can use to advertise your blog.. So guys, what are you waiting for? Come on and join now here! ;)

I Got Tagged Again.. :)

I was tagged again.. This time by Rozella.. :)

**Begin Copy**

This is the easy way and the fastest way to :

1. Make your Authority Technorati explode.
2. Increase your Google Page Rank.
3. Get more traffic to your blog.
4. Makes more new friends.

Rules :

1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog(for bloggers paste on the “compose” not the “edit html” part in posting blogs so it will be linked automatically).
2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag your friends as much as you can, the more the better!

1. Picturing of Life
2. Juliana’s Site
3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future.
4. Jeanne-The Callalily Space
5. Starz in De Sky
6. My Charmed Life
7. Denz Techtronics
8. Denz Recreational
9. Life’s Simple Pleasures
10. My Blog
11. Because Life is Fun
12. In This Game of Life
13. Scribbles of my Life
14. Changing Lanes
15. anna
16. joytoy
17. Surviving deployment
18. The Deviant
19. All I want is Everything
20. Shadows of love, fate and destiny
21. Tasteful Voyage
22. A mom’s note
23. Bittersweet Collide
24. Jackie Simplypinay
25. Jackie’s Everyday Life
26. Parisukat
27. Ang Sponge ni Bub
28. ee-ey
29. Life is too short to be ordinary
30. Asian Mutt International
31. My Inner Thoughts Revealed

**END COPY**

I'm tagging : Big Eyed Gal, CC, Mary Lyka, Princess, and Vien

Extra Cash

Get Me There

I Got Approved!

Whohooo! I can't really believe it! I am VERY happy!!! I REALLY am!

This morning at work, as I was checking through my new emails, a particular email caught my eyes.. Guess from where it was.. It's from PayPerPost and it said that my blog has been approved! Isn't that great? LOL... Well it is for me!

I originally intended my blog to be something just personal. A place where I can write and express my thoughts and opinions about things and events that concerns or interests me. But I have been thinking too that maybe I can turn this thing into something and earn extra cash from it.

I've been seeing PayPerPost icons and sign-up forms on a lot of blogs I check and view, in every blog network I go to. I'm quite new to blogging and although the name already says what it is for, I still got curious so got myself check on PayPerPost's website, read and learned more about the opportunities it offers to bloggers like me.It definitely is something I've been looking for. So I signed up, crossed my fingers (lol), and hoped that my application gets approved..

Nnow that my blog has been approved, I get to earn extra money for things I want to buy while still doing what I like.