If your parents are getting ready for retirement, you can help them by cleaning out the house and getting them prepared for this next stage in their life. This is the time to make sure the home is safe for them as they age, and you can help make it more handicapped-friendly. Taking the right […]
3 Valuable Lessons I Learned About Guest Posting
If you Google the phrase, “guest posting” right this very minute, you’re sure to come up with a fair amount of results. And once you decide to click on links and see for yourself what people think guest posting is all about, you’ll be met with slightly differing opinions regarding the subject matter. One article […]
Call Me Lazy Maybe? Ouch!
Contrary to what others may believe, the journey of a single post doesn’t end the moment a blogger hits Publish. Instead, that is where it starts. Well, that is if you’re looking to gain some following. If you’re simply blogging for yourself, or as others say, for posterity’s sake, then, forget I even said that. […]
A Lesson to Learn from Pacquiao’s Loss to Bradley
I was getting ready to go home when my Facebook wall got bombarded with “OMG, he lost!” and “What? He lost!” and “Oh no, Bradley won via split!” Even without pay-per-view, I knew that the Filipino boxing champ, Manny Pacquiao, had lost a championship belt to undefeated Timothy Bradley. And then, when I stopped by […]
Sometimes, Hard Work Isn’t All It’s Hyped Up To Be
I’ve said this before, and I’m saying it again. If somebody asks me to find him a workaholic, there’s no need to look any further. I have me, and yes, I’m a workaholic. It’s not a good thing, mind you, especially when the urge to work takes the little time I have for my family […]
Confessions Of A Shopping What?
“Rebecca Bloomwood who?” I asked Miss E, my housemate. His left eyebrow shot skywards. Miss E is gay. Having lived with him and another housemate, a pretty female who hails from the same province as I do, for months now, I recognized the gesture to mean, “You don’t know?” Well, I didn’t, to be honest. […]
James Soriano: A Lesson on Contradiction
The first time I heard of James Soriano was in August, the same month as Linggo ng Wika. People, left and right, were talking about him. At one point, he became one of those water-dispenser topics in the office. In my Facebook network of friends, his name would crop up every now and then. As […]