My husband has psoriasis and has been suffering with the affliction for about 12 years now. Lately, it has graduated to psoriasis arthritis, which means it isn’t just an inflammation of the skin, which is the general characteristic of psoriasis, but it has also now inflamed his joints.

It isn’t easy living with the disease. Hubbie has had his moments when the pain would just be too much. A bottle of Advil, Tylenol and every other pain reliever would always be by our bedside table. And somedays, it doesn’t help anymore. So you could just imagine how much we’ve prayed for a relief from the illness.

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I guess you might have read about the 26K Dancing Librarians either from the Filipino Librarian’s blog or heard it discussed on the Philippine Daily Inquirer, but were you able to watch the librarians sing on the CarolFest at UP this year?

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This are good sidelines especially if you have spare time in using the Internet.  You get paid by clicking on ads and reading on e-mails.  It’s not meant to make you rich but it’s in dollars so okay na rin, makakatulong sa pambayad ng bills, rents or even pang-shopping na rin…  But you can earn good if you could refer more.

First: You must have a pay-pal account.  Go to paypal.com and register.  It’s free.  It’s a good way to pay and get paid using paypal and it’s currently approved now here in the Philippines which is a good step for us in the web industry.

1. bux.to -minimum pay-out is 10$ use this link to join: http://bux.to/?r=patskydomingo

2. clicksalary.com -weekly pay-out no matter how much you have already earned: use this link to join: http://www.clicksalary.com/pages/index.php?refid=patskydomingo

3. donkeymals- minimum pay-out is $1- use this link to join: 

http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/index.php?refid=patskydomingo

4. deep-c links.com- many ads and emails to read- pay-out is $8.  Use this link to join:

http://deep-c-links.com/pages/index.php?refid=patskydomingo

5. aquamails.com- pay-out is $3. Click here to join:

http://www.aquamails.com/pages/index.php?refid=patskydomingo

Next: click on these ads and register.  It’s completely free.

Last: start earning by reading, and clicking on ads!  It’s fun and a way bit helpful for us pinoys especially those who want extra income on the net!

God bless! Hope you joined the sites! Mabuhay!

I don’t have time to quote all the quotable quotes surrounding issues of common concern in the pinoy blogging community during 2007, but here are some that I personally find memorable.

Julia Campbell:

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Buhay Pa Tayo

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(Title of the last entry on Julia’s blog dated January 13 this year. The American peace corps volunteer was killed last April.)

Benj:

…the last time I checked, the Philippine Blog Awards was an event that was supposed to champion Filipino bloggers regardless of creed, affiliation or niche. How it transformed to an exercise to remind bloggers to be steadfast in [our] Christian commitment and help bloggers lead us closer to You [the you being their god] is totally beyond me.

Decent Mother:

You [Sexy Mom] are a disgrace to the Filipino women. We have been trying to change the image of the Filipino women in the internet. Foreigners type “filipina” to search for women to have sex. The same kind of people (pedophiles and perverts) type “sexy mom” and it points to You . You are an embarassment to our country. Stop using SEXY MOM. Filipino mothers are loving caring mothers. Leave the SEX part in your bedroom . Mommy bloggers laugh behind your back because of your pseudonym. Filipino women are too polite to tell you to say that using sexy mom is killing the filipino women. (Posted in Sexy Mom’s blog)

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Happy Merry Christmas!!!

(sign outside a fastfood restaurant in Phnom Penh)

Read more in Toe’s Kurokuroatbp.

Monday, December 24, 2007
Naga launches festival of shepherds’ tales
By Jujemay G. Awit
Sun.Star Staff Reporter

THE year 2007 is a milestone year for Naga.

Even as it became a city, it also honored its traditions by officially launching its own festival, the Pastores de Naga.

Pastores de Naga depicts the shepherds’ retelling of Joseph and Mary’s journey to find a birthing place for the Savior, according to the Christian tradition.

The story is told through songs and dances. In between songs, the presenters tell the story in a poetic manner.

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Below is a copy of our first monthly email newsletter, borne mostly out of boredom but hopefull some of you will find some use for this. If you did not receive a copy of the newsletter and would like to receive it next time, please email newsletter@brubakers.us with SUBSCRIBE either in the subject line or the body of the message. We will gladly add you to the distribution list. I cannot promise that this will be a regular monthly recurrence because there may be times that I will be too busy to send one, but I can promise a similar newsletter at the end of 2008. That’s all I can guarantee for now. Anyway, here is the newsletter that was sent today:

Well, we are snowed in as you can tell from this blog entry. Since I am bored out of my mind, with no homework and no work-work (Thank heavens I’m not on duty this weekend!), I have decided to create a monthly newsletter for our blog. If a monthly newsletter is too frequent for you and you do not really care to receive our updates, please read no further. Respond to this message with REMOVE in the subject and your email address will be promptly removed from this notification list. For the rest of you, welcome!

Since this is the very first email newsletter for our blog I felt a recap of our life together is in order. Before we begin, however, allow me to wish everyone merry Christmas! May you all have a wonderful and blessed holiday season, and a prosperous year ahead!

Though our blog didn’t begin until shortly after our marriage, life with Brian really began in early 2000. That’s when we moved in together. We lived in a two-bedroom townhouse at the northeast side of town with Brian’s brother Kevin. Incidentally, 2000 is also the year my nephew Logan was born.

A year after living together in the townhouse, Brian and I decided to become homeowners. We moved into our house in April 2001. Less than a month later, he proposed. We set the date for August 10, 2002. We chose the date because it is approximately three years into our relationship. You can find other 2001 highlights here.

These are all pre Life After Marriage events. I have been blogging about my life since before the word “blog” entered the vernacular so you could probably still find old journal entries floating around. You can try Google, but here are a couple of places that I was able to find if you’d like to read up:

• Chingay – this has stuff that I salvaged from the old Chingay.com web site. Many things are probably lost at this point. I never was any good at doing archives and backups.
• No. 2305 – a few things from my old Geocities. There was a period after Chingay.com and Chingay.net and Goldensushi.net when I didn’t have a domain and was using free hosting providers.
• I had a XOOM (pre-Chingay.com) and an Angelfire and a Crosswinds and a Scribble and all of those are pretty much gone. Always do your backups!

In 2002, I was laid off from my previous employer. Thankfully, I had another job lined up so I was only without work for a week. Someone up there is looking out for me. To this day, I firmly believe that the closing of the Spiegel call center is the best thing to have ever happened in my life (career-wise, anyway). You get comfortable and without even knowing it you’re stuck in a rut… [more here]

Hey guys, just want to let you know that I’m raffling a laptop bag on my blog. Raffle date is on Christmas and there’s only one entry so far. There’s really a great chance of winning in this raffle so I encourage you to join.

That first entry, he already won something. So I’m looking for other 5 early entries to win something too.

I swear this is not for link baitING. It’s just my way of giving something this season.

Here’s the link Win a Laptop Bag this Christmas.

Guess like almost all of our readers know about RF Online, one of the most successful games that Level Up! has ever been holding. Yet, despite the rumors that LU! still needs to pay 200,000PHP to the N.E.S.T Winners Ineffable guild from CDO, the ever dying hard Players still continue; to play the game.

Now, we have the 3 races, the Empire Accretia, Holy Alliance Cora and last but not the least, the Federal Bellato Union, all of them residing the so called planet Novus, where it is at war, usually all the time.

Yet, one little Princess, w/ the help of Kevin Paquet, a webmaster and former admin of some great known online pinoy sites have gathered they’re knowledge and wisdom to successfully create one great, website for the Federation, for fellow Bellato Players!

Why not come and check the young site out now?

Pederasyon!

One of the biggest reasons why I bought an ASUS Eee (which I call “MacEnvy” because of its uncanny similarity with a MacBook) is the form factor. I mean, it’s so frigging small and cute that it’s a guaranteed chick magnet. Not unlike using a very cute baby to walk around the mall with, in the hopes of finding an extremely hot lady who’ll go googly-eyed over the kid.

But then if I had a cute baby on me I wouldn’t need to go around hunting for women, and kidnapping a baby to use as woman bait is out of the question (I promise to never do it again), I’d have to make do with this cute and sexy laptop of mine. I can actually imagine myself, hanging out at the Gateway foodcourt, leeching the shit out of their free wi-fi because I’m too cheap to buy a router, with my Eee, surfing the internet, writing a blog entry, and all that. Then, a really hot lady would walk up to me, and the following conversation ensues:

Lady: Excuse me.
Me: Yes?
Lady: I know you’re pretty busy and all but that is like the sexiest laptop I have ever set my eyes on.
Me: Oh, why thank you dear. Would you like to touch my, um, laptop?
Lady: Only on one condition.
Me: And that is?
Lady: I’ll touch your laptop if you touch my desktop. At home.
Me: Deal. Also, secks?
Lady: Yes.

Terrible sexual innuendos aside, though, the Eee is indeed an attention-grabber. I’ve been getting looks from various people whenever I bring it along. But I think it’s more of the “hey, isn’t that the fat guy who’s been looking at us in a perverted way and tried to steal the brownies we’ve been eating? Should we call the cops?” look. Read the rest of this entry »

Every human being has an inner self. No matter how much we deny it, that other side of us is there, lurking in our subconscious, making itself known through Freudian Slips, dreams, mutterings, etc.. How well do we know ourselves? How well do we know our inner selves?

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I don’t know if I am the last to know, but there is something new with Fish&Co.

A few months ago, I wrote about how I almost died when I ate the NY Fish and Chips, and the next time I ordered it I wasn’t even able to finish it.

This time, they have introduced several variations to the Fish and Chips dish. The Philadelphia fish and chips is served similarly with cheese filling. In this case though, they used cream cheese. The other choice you have is the one filled with garlic and herb.

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I was checking my blog stats this morning when I noticed that my blog’s visits this past week was generally lower when compared to the average number of visits that I had during the previous weeks. I bet that this coming week won’t be any different because of the holidays. Yep, people are now taking the opportunity to relax and enjoy the vacation. I’m thinking of doing so too this coming Christmas!

But what if you don’t want to waste your time for the holidays and would rather go online than to go to your Ninong and Ninang’s house for the traditional Pamasko? Or what if you are not Catholic?

I suggest that instead of spending the week posting articles, it is better to concentrate on doing other stuffs that would be a benefit for your blog.

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Kurt’s new business venture, Getaway Easy Travel, is offering a heck of a deal on their 2008 halloween poker cruise. Even though we’ve done this particular cruise before, we would totally book now (except we have vowed not to take a trip in 2008 so we can work on the house and put it in the market during the 2008 real estate sales season).

I remember when Brian and I took this exact same cruise (only backwards, our first port was Cozumel instead of Ocho Rios) during our honeymoon in 2002, it cost us about $3200 and our room was even on the bottom with mere portholes. If you book through this specal offer, $609 per person will get you an ocean view room, your tournament buy-in, and port fees.

They’ll even let you use easy pay — you can put down a reservation fee of $50 per person and then just pay in installments (to play poker). It truly is an unbeatable deal!

Working at the center of the Makati Business district, it is often difficult to find food that is affordable and good at the same time. I recall being a frequent customer to the nearest McDonalds or KFC to avail of cheap fastfood but I had to walk quite a distance from the place where I work. And we all know how fried and oily food can affect your health and diet, not to mention your body weight.

So when different dining establishments started popping up around Ayala Avenue, it became a relief to be provided much needed alternatives to our daily McChicken meal.

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The Alphasmart Neo is a full-sized electronic keyboard with a small screen that could fit six lines of text… just enough I think. See how it compares in size with my laptop.

Read more in Toe’s Kurokuroatbp.

Just found out that there are a lot of Pinoy Entrecard users who are looking for other Pinoy Entrecard blogs to advertise on. It’s not that easy looking for them, I tell you. I had to check out the about pages of every blog to see if they are Pinoys! Hahaha!So in order to make things easier for everyone, I have neatly compiled a list of Pinoy Entrecard blogs here in PinoyBlogero.com.

If you have a Pinoy blog but cant find it on the list, leave your blog name and URL on the comments page so i could add you up. ^_^ Don’t forget to leave an ad spot for me to advertise on!

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These pictures were taken last year in Policarpio Street in Mandaluyong. (That’s in the Philippines. I need to mention the country since I might just have some readers from Angola. Never underestimate your popularity, says Confucius. And Yoda.) It’s been years before that that I’ve been wanting to visit the place. I know it’s no Disneyland, but hey, ti’s the season. It’d be fun to know how far people would go to deck their halls.

(More obligatory Christmas blahs….)

I met my very pretty bestfriend in college when we were still a freshman student among the known Catholic university in Manila. We were not close then. We were just a mere acquaintance with each other. Next semester came, we were on the same classes again. Actually, we belong in a block section again. But our sophomore year came, I just had some classes with her because my course was different from her. We can only had minor subjects together. As we went on our college life, we met so many different people. Especially her. She taught me many things about fashion and I taught her many things about certain things. We used to go to Shakey’s in UN Ave. after classes. We would go home around 8pm. We would go to Rob Place to buy her blouse, pants, and shoes. Even bags. She kinda love all those things until now. She has a collection of them at home. I always go to their home and met her family. All of them, and I was happy to belong there. They made me feel at home. When we got home to our own houses, before going to sleep, she would call me to talk and review our day. If we don’t have any classes, she would call twice in the morning, thrice in the afternoon, about 4 times in the evening and sometimes I can’t count how many times we call each other because we always do. We always laugh and laugh. And when we graduated from college, she first had her job in a bank. She didn’t like the people there so I referred her to my sister. My sister interviewed her and since then on, they became friends. My sister already has a family of her own but they treat each other like they have the same age. Although we don’t see each other anymore, I can still know about her life, and she about my life, through my sister. After not seeing her for a couple of months, I slept with their newly-renovated home. When I came there, they acknowledged me again with hospitality. They all know me and how me and my bestfriend are very close. They also kidded me as if I’m a part of their family. 

By the way, since college we call each other BES. My bes and I always had fun and when she had problems, I’m always there for her. As for me, I barely tell her my own problems cause I’m a quiet type of person. We are exact opposites when it comes to personality but we have some sides that are the same. We eat too much, we like tall guys, we are both Capricornians (I was born Jan 06, 1982 and she was born 3days after me). We are loyal and faithful. And we are both close to our families. My family was very fond of her when she visited us at home. She came when we had occassions like the debut of my niece. She is a very beautiful girl with so much stories to tell. She can talk to a stranger and befriended that person in a matter of seconds. I am shy, she is a little more confident than me. She is tall, I have average height. But we had the same cravings for a spiced ham sandwich in Masagana we always bought more than a couple of it for ourselves. When we talked on phone and recall our adventures when we were in college, we always had a fit. We always reminisce and it’s a healthy thing for any relationship.

Right now, my bes is in China, where she and my sister are working. But my sister is in a Christmas vacation with us so my bes is all alone in Beijing. But after a week when my sister returned to their flat, she’ll not alone anymore. They would continue their work and happy times there. My bes and I miss each other and I plan on going there with them. But as of now, I have other plans and they can do without me for a while.

Bes, this post is for you. Thanks for all the things you’ve done for me. I have another sister in you. I have another family in yours. I’m glad that you and my sister got along with each other very well and treat her as your own age. Hahaha… (She doesn’t look her age though…) Goodluck and we’ll see each other soon next year!!!  

Hey yah, guys!!! I want to meet people from all over the world who love to write and read too. Just email me and I’ll get in touch with you… Thanks….