Oh, yes! It’s another writing contest, and unlike the first one which requires traveling experience, I can join this one… AND SO CAN YOU!
So here’s the detail of this writing contest…
We all have our personal icons. People who have a special influence on us, people who inspired us, awakened us, shook us… in short, had a big impact in our lives.
This is the chance to let them (just in case they don’t know it yet), and world, know how they have made a difference in our life.
In the writing contest dubbed, “My Icon, My Hero” by the Philippine Star, contestants need to write about their personal hero — he/she could be a famous and distinguished achiever, he/she may be young or old, rich or poor, he could even be an unknown, unsung hero like your next door neighbor who you try to emulate… the only requirement is that, your hero must be Filipino.
Write about your hero, in the most creative way you can, sharing to the world how he or she made an impact in your life. Needless to say, the best written story would win, and one of the prizes include being one of Philippine Star’s contributing writer.
Now, that is really getting me excited.
Tags: cash prizes, contributing writer, dream, gift certificates, hero, Icon, LCD TV, money, Philippine Star, tribute, trivia, writing contest
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
