Nothing personal against Twitter, but I seem to enjoy Facebook more lately and have made myself scarce in Twitterville. But I still drop by every now and then, I still remember dropping one-liners there before.
Facebook or FB, however, is just perfect for me. Aside from being reunited with friends and classmates from way back in elementary days, it provides me a great venue to vent out anything that I feel. And since I have REAL friends following me, I get immediate feedback if I am making sense or not.
The FB status update line is really a perfect place for me especially when I am having my regular bouts with procrastination-disguised-as-writer’s-block which seems to happen regularly as of late. The status line however, as far as I am concern, is more than just a space for rants or bringing out my secret identity as a Bill Cosby-wannabe.
The space has become a ‘breeding ground’ of ideas for me, actually. What were rants or one-liners in FB have become a full-blown post, a poem, and even a song! Yes, that’s how that FB status line has become so useful to me, it’s like I’m making a draft every time I make a post there.
And speaking of status line updates, may I share here some of my ‘original’ posts in FB which were most replied and ‘liked’ by my FB friends. These are all my personal quotes, and I didn’t include those one-liners I picked up all over. So here they are:
Tags: Facebook, FB, one-liners, Personal, post, quotations, quotes, rants, Roy, social media, status update
And finally, I am able to complete my list for the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2010, and am proud to post my choices here.
With the deadline I believe still in August, I think my post is just in time. And maybe, those who have incomplete list may find this list useful to complete theirs.
Without much further ado, here’s my complete list for the 2010 Top 10 EIB
1. Realm of Thoughts
A blog by my eldest son, Ralph Emerson. Don’t be surprised by the name, having a poet for a father, it’s not far fetched that he got his name from a poet/writer too.
And it was, I believe, prophetic. Not just because he’s my son, but I always believe that Ralph thinks deep, and has a lot to share. And if giving his father a wake-up call isn’t influential, I don’t know what is.
Tags: complete list, EIB 2010, emerging influential blogs, Realm of Thoughts, Short Stories Blog, top 10, writing project
When does one conform to what the norms dictate? And when does he need to stand up for what he believes in?
John Keating, the character played by Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society, teaches his students in an unorthodox manner. Inspiring them to go after what their heart desire, even if it is not what others could accept.
A rather tall order, because in Welton Academy where he teaches, conforming to norms and the school’s policy has been one of the main priorities.
Tags: achieve, aspire, carpe diem, Dead Poets Society, dream, fight, inspiration, Movie, Robin Williams, Roy, seize the day, unorthodox
When I am not spewing rants and gibberish thoughts on my blogs, or when I am not killing anyone in my short stories, waxing some poetic woes, shooting videos, or doing some doodles, I can be found strumming on the guitar, singing my blues away.
And most of the time, what I played on my guitar are my original compositions. Yes, believe it or not, the struggling blogger is a struggling songwriter. Just another one of the medium I express myself. You can say that I have a multi-faceted insanity.
The latest of my so-called ‘original compositions’ is one called Be Happy.
Tags: Be Happy, composer, original composition, pain, Roy, songs, songwriter, Struggling Blogger, YouTube
“Yadayada! Ole-ole-oleo!“
Doesn’t really make amy sense, does it? Well, because it was really meant NOT to make any sense, and most part of this post, even.
You know that feeling when you have nothing to say? Or you have so much to say, and yet you don’t know how to say it?
It usually happens under two extreme emotional conditions – either you are too happy, too ecstatic, or too “high” that you don’t know how to put into words how joyful you are. Or you are too depressed, down, low, pissed, frustrated, and other depressing condition you can think of, that you don’t even want to talk about it.
Tags: conflict, gibberish, giving up, goodbye, nonsense, quit, rant, short story, Struggling Blogger, swan song, voices
Have already posted this video before, but it was raw. So I went back to it, still with Vince’s inspiring talk on iBlog6 in mind, and edited it.
It was basically the same video though, I just added a background music to mask the not-too-nice sound that were heard on the background haha!
And this is the finished product!
So, how’s this for a vlog entry?
Tags: funny, macho man, pull-up bar, Roy, Struggling Blogger, video, video edit, vimeo, Vlog
I think I have done quite a number of post from Zenni: the #1 online eyeglasses store, based on the news and reviews I received. But this is the first time that I’ve read something like “Opticians don’t want give you PD data” and that “Opticians keep you away from ZenniOpt.” I don’t know, I still believe in professionals. Maybe they have their reason, and their credibility to protect. While consumers would want to save on costs, which is what Zenni is all about. I just hope there could be some ways these two conditions could compromise.
I like to express myself through different medium – through poems, stories, pictures, music, cartwheel… err, scratch that last one. I’m a pound heavier to do cartwheel.
But there was a time that I used to draw too. I’m not really good at it, but I draw. My drawings were not ones that I can really be proud of, but at least I draw.
Just recently, I found an old notebook containing drawings that I made back in 1998. There were not actually “just drawings” but signatures of my classmates then in a training class that I was attending.
Tags: Art, bbmtp, doodles, drawing, drawings, fun, kids, looking back, Roy, signature, traces
Still looking for a web hosting service provider to host your blog? In a previous post, I mentioned that there are many websites conducting independent webhosting reviews and I even mentioned one particular website for your reference. But you should not just based your decision on a single web hosting review site. Like I said, there are many out there, and you might want to check out as many as you can to help you make your final choice.
I must be really getting rusty, or just too slow on the draw lately. I can’t believe that after 4 weeks (or is it 5?), I still haven’t made a post for my Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2010 when I was one of those who made an early post about it, after Janette announced the contest.
Well, as they say, better late than later 
so here I am presenting my list of blogs for this years Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs.
Mequeni Cabalen
I am a proud Kapampangan! Maybe non-Kapampangans cannot understand what Jules and Jaypee are writing in their blog, but I assure you that it is no-nonsense Kapampangan literature, promoting the cultures, life and happenings in Pampanga.
I urge all our Kapampangan and non-Kapampangan friends to please support a blog that promotes one of our country’s richest culture.
Tags: blogging event, EIB 2010, Emerging Influential Blogs for 2010, top 10, writing project
