free hosting!
Posted on May 10, 2008
Do you want your own domain? Are you blogging on a free blog-hosting platforms like Blogger, Wordpress.com, Tabulas, LiveJournal, Multiply, Friendster, etc? Would you like to have a blog that would let you earn more?
Then blogging on your own domain, with a paid hosting account just might be right for you. Getting your own domain is pretty easy but a hosting account can be pretty expensive, with maybe $4 per month = $48 per year. Last year, I bought a 2-year hosting account that could host as many domains as I want. I use only a small portion of the disk space and the bandwidth considering that I only have 3 blogs in it.
So here’s the deal… I’m offering hosting for 1-year, FREE! What do you need to do to get it? Simple:
- Write a blog post about this and link to my site. Also, include something in your post about how blogging has affected your life as a mother (if you’re a mommy) or simply, how blogging has affected your life (if you’re not a mommy).
- Leave a comment on this post with a link to your post to let me know.
I’ll be doing a raffle of the names of those who joined next Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:00 am so all comments and posts should be in by then. The winner should have his or her own domain. Winner could easily buy his or her preferred domain. I will be hosting that domain for free for a year. I will only use wordpress though because I don’t know other free blog platforms, hehe!
I think this would be ideal for those who are only just starting to explore the idea of blogging on their own domain and yet do not want to spend too much for it. Or for those who simply have too much ideas for a blog and would like to start another one. Or for those who would like to transfer their existing blogs to their own domain. So what are you waiting for? Write that post now! 
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To Do List tag
Posted on May 10, 2008
Litzie tagged me with a to-do-list. I used to have a post-it on my desktop for my to-do-list. I’m one of those who likes to be organized by listing down things I need to do. It brings me great pleasure to be able to cross out items on my list. So before lounging around this weekend, here’s my to-do-list for next week:
- Finish the academic budget for trigonometry, which I’m going to be teaching this coming schoolyear.
- Finish a total of 6 SMOs (subject matter outlines): 1 for Grade 6 Math, 2 for Year 2 Algebra, and 3 for Trigo (and I’m supposed to be a part-time teacher :D).
- Finish at least 2 pages of Mateo’s first year book. I’ve only finished layouting the first 10 pages, wah!
- Upload new themes on this blog.
- Fix my photoblog.
- Clean the bathrooms.
- Change the bedsheets.
- Get a list of drug rehab center that neighbor’s son could get into.
There are several more I can think of but I don’t want to risk getting overwhelmed and not doing anything at all. Haha!
Show me your list… Kathy, Jeng, Jenn. If you’d like to do this too, feel free to snag it.
BUSY PEOPLE: 1.) my chopsuey 2.) mind bubbles 3.) vanity kit 4.) somethingpurple 5.) a detour 5.) Confessions of a Supermodel Wannabe 6.) Mommy Talks. 7.) Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps 8.) Winding Creek Circle 9.) Pink and Brown Diaries. 10.) My BIG Picture. 11.) crazy mama
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summer sickies
Posted on May 9, 2008
A lot of people in school are having colds, cough, or worse, the flu. The crazy weather the past few days has wreaked havoc on everyone’s health. Lately, it would be unbearably hot during the afternoons but then it would rain on late afternoons or evenings. An NC health insurance would be ideal right now. It pays to be ready for any kind of sickness. It would be so much worse if you get sick and then you don’t have money to see a doctor or to bring yourself to the hospital. Even though prevention is always better, it also pays to be ready for any eventuality.
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upgraded to wordpress 2.5.1
Posted on May 7, 2008
Ever since I started blogging on my own domain last year, I didn’t upgrade my wordpress install. Last week though, something crazy happened… my blog got hacked.
My initial reaction was, why? Is my blog worth hacking? I found out that the wordpress version I was running (2.2, yep that old!) had many security issues and that it’s not unheard of for blogs still running this version to get hacked. The first thing I did was to back up my databases and then decided to just do a fresh install of the new version of wordpress. Here’s where I found myself with a big hurdle. Updating my databases was easy enough. Wiping my hosting account clean of all files was also hassle-free. I didn’t realize though that it’s not as easy as installing a new wordpress version and uploading my old databases. I had to install the original old version and then upgrade the whole thing since my databases need to be upgraded too.
After hours of installing, uploading, and upgrading, which I had to do several times by the way, my blog and Ramil’s blog are finally back online. I have yet to fix my photoblog though and I still want to install new templates on this one. After the whole ordeal though, I’ve realized that I have a huge amount of disk space and bandwidth just sitting there and not being utilized. So I’ve thought of cooking up something and offering FREE hosting for a year. To those who want to have additional blogs hosted on their own domain, I’ll be posting the details on Saturday.
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the husband (& wife) tag
Posted on May 1, 2008
Got this cute tag from Mai. I had fun answering this. Hehe!
1. How long did you date?
Hmmm, if my memory serves me right, our first date was a movie at SM North sometime February 2000. Nope, it wasn’t a valentine date. We’re both not valentine people. Grabe, I can’t even remember the title of the movie. Haha! 
2. How old is he?
Just turned 27 last April 24.
3. Who eats more?
No contest, he does.
4. Who said “I love you” first?
He did. I can’t remember the date but it was a Tuesday.
5. Who is taller?
He is, by a mere inch. Haha! Good thing I hate high-heels.
6. Who sings better?
Ask anyone who’s heard him sing and they’ll say that he’s a good singer.
7. Who is smarter?
Hmmm, this one needs a lot of thinking… Haha! I’d say I’m smarter but I’m sure he’d say he’s smarter. I guess it’s safe to say that I’m glad I married someone who’s at least as smart as me 
8. Whose temper is worse?
During my sister’s speech/message on our wedding day, she said something like ‘… ate, ikaw ha… kasi pag galit ka galit lahat e…’ I’m a scorpio, he’s a taurus. Anybody who’s familiar with zodiacs would get the picture, hehe!
9. Who does the laundry?
When we were newly married, he used to do the laundry. Then we thought that since there’s only the two of us, why not bring it to a nearby laundry shop. Then a few weeks before I gave birth, I decided to stop going to school and teaching. Doing the laundry was good exercise for me then since I’d do squats. When we got a household helper, we finally got rid of this chore. Haha!
10. Who does the dishes?
Our rule used to be… ‘if one cooks, the other does the dishes’. Again, when we got a household helper, we got rid of another chore.
11. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?
Me.
12. Who pays the bills?
I do but I get the money from him.
13. Who cooks dinner?
Most of the time, I do the cooking.
14. Who drives when you are together?
He’s the driver.
15. Who is more stubborn?
I guess we both have our ways of being stubborn.
16. Who kissed who first?
I’d say him but I also think it was something that just happened.
17. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong?
Please see number 15. LOL.
18. Whose parents do you see the most?
Mine.
19. Who proposed?
He did.
20. Who is more sensitive?
Definitely me.
21. Who has more friends?
Since we’ve been friends since grade school, through high school and college, and we also teach at the same school now, we have the same set of friends. So I guess it’s a tie.
22. Who has more siblings?
I do, a sister and a brother. He has only one brother.
23. Who wears the pants in the family?
He does but I like to borrow it sometimes, LOL.
I had fun answering this tag. Feel free to snag it if you want
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on growing
Posted on April 29, 2008
I’m so amazed with how fast children grow. Before I experienced this with Mateo, I witnessed this with my students. On my first year of teaching, I was the math teacher for the grade four class. They were a bunch of boisterous, gregarious kids. Some of them were so small, they look like first graders. This coming June, the same class will be in first year high school and I am amazed at how fast and how big they’ve grown. Some are experiencing growth spurts. The girls are starting to look like young ladies. Some of them might be needing an acne treatment soon. I sometimes feel like they are my own kids already! Soon, they will not be kids anymore. I dread the day when I’d see them graduate from high school. Of course, I’d be happy for them and I’d be hoping they turn out to be fine young people.
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a wedding/reunion
Posted on April 27, 2008
Ramil and I attended one of my former officemate’s wedding last April 19. Both the bride (my former officemate) and the groom are Chinese so it was a church-full and ballroom-full of Chinese or at least Chinese-speaking people. There were even parts of the wedding when we could only guess what it was being said because the host was speaking in Chinese. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful wedding and I had fun catching up with my former officemates. We has a fun conversation about our wedding gifts for the couple since one of my former officemates bought a lingerie. According to her, they’ll both enjoy it anyway. Hehe! Some of them will also be getting married in the next few months so I guess I’ll be seeing them again soon.
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trickled move
Posted on April 26, 2008
My sister has been transporting her things little by little to our house in Antipolo. She’s already getting tired and wishing that there’s something like a New York Moving Company to make things easier for her. We try to help whenever we visit my mom so that she’ll have a car to help her bring her things over. At the rate she’s going and with the amount of stuff she wants to bring over, she’s not done with moving anytime soon. A few more weeks would be more like it.
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Sir Ramil over Dr.Herrera
Posted on April 26, 2008
Ramil was supposed to take up medicine. His was a family who have been frustrated at producing one and they had high hopes for him. However, circumstances prevented him from pursuing this after finishing his BS Biology degree. All his batchmates who pursued medicine are all doctors now. Whenever we talk about them, we always say that he could have been one of them. His constant attire might have been a white coat instead of our blue uniform. His most used gadget might have been a PDA CME instead of his laptop. His most held thing might have been a stethoscope instead of a piece of chalk. I always ask him whether he regrets anything and he always answers me with a ‘no’. If he pursued medicine, we wouldn’t have gotten married right after we turned 24 because he wouldn’t be done with med yet. Also, he has come to love teaching so much that I know he couldn’t imagine doing anything else. He’d rather be a Sir Ramil than a Dr.Herrera
This announcement was paid for by Epocrates.
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one more year
Posted on April 25, 2008
My mom’s friend would finally graduate from college next year. She’s been working on her media coursework for several months now and she’s dying to finally finish it. Another batchmate of hers who will also be graduating decided to make a RE coursework, a piece of writing disclosing the problems of religion, ethics, and philosophy. It made me recall a friend taking up Spanish when we were in college. She had to make a Spanish coursework too. Making a paper can be a real challenge for some students. A service like Course-Works can be such a big help for requirements like these. They offer professional writing, editing, and proofreading service. How I wish I knew about them when I was a student too
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