I saw on today’s Travel and Tourism section of the Philippine Star newspaper. The first thing that caught my attention were the words “380-words story writing contest.”
With the intention of joining, I went on to read the rest of the article… only to find out that it is not for me.
The complete title of the article was “Singapore Airlines launches 380-word story writing contest” and is a contest for all who have experienced Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) A380.
Since I haven’t really traveled through air in my entire life, not even a domestic one, I really no stories to share about this. Easily, I can always do a made-up story just to join this contest… but then, it isn’t my style.
So, I’m doing the next best thing — blog about it!
Tags: A380, creativity, expression, News, Philippine Star, Singapore Airlines, story-writing, tourism, travel, writing contest
Whoever photoshopped the picture above is a genius!
I first saw it on Facebook, and afterwards on many internet sites. It depicts Manny Pacquiao as a one-man-demolition team, leaving fallen bodies – boxer’s bodies, wherever he passed.
Eric Morales, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto, Marco Antonio Barrera and even the great Oscar “Golden Boy” Dela Hoya, were just some of his victims.
Pacquiao with his seven titles in as many weight divisions makes him the undisputed pound-for-pound king. And in all his fights, especially in his latest ones, the Pacman appeared to be invincible, which makes this really non-boxing aficionado wants to ask, “Is Manny Pacquiao for real?”
Tags: boxing, boxing greats, chicken, Eric Morales, Filipino, hero, Joshua Clottey, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar dela Hoya, Philippines, pound-for-pound king
So I work hard on my blogs.
I exert efforts on every blog posts that I make. I may not be the best writer or blogger, but every time that I write, what I give is a part of me.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that my blog posts from my travel blog were copied – VERBATIM! From the title down to the last function… and even my grammatical bloopers!
All with nary an attribution as to where this blogger copied his posts. Instead he put links on the words Angeles City to his choice sites which I believe are also his.
My posts Where to eat in Angeles City and Halo-halo in Angeles City were copied and pasted to two different blogs which again, I suspect belong to the same xerox machine… err, I mean person.
What worse, the blogs were selling, or rather, riding the image of the city as an “entertainment” city.
What can be done?… Aside from raising hell.
Tags: copy-paste, fake blogs, piracy, pirate, plagiarism, verbatim
I wish I could attend this writing seminar.
I saw it on the lifestyle section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and got curious on the title of the article – “Baguio Travel Writing Workshop.”
It’s a seminar on writing… and it’s about Baguio!
For one who loves writing and knows that there’s a lot that he needs to improve on, I read the article with the hope that I could attend this seminar… wishful thinking.
This blogger admits that there is still a long way to go as far his writing is concern.
If only I could attend seminars like this, I know it won’t be long ‘til I get to even half of Jan’s eloquence, Jena’s deep vocabulary and Zorlone’s literary creativity. Who knows? It won’t be long ‘til I get to be a published author like Holly.
Tags: Baguio, Northern Luzon, Philippines, Struggling Blogger, travel writing, wishful thinking, workshop, writing, writing seminar
