A Day In The Life Of RJ

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** The following post has been inspired by a commenter by the name of Lloyd, a soliloquist blogger from Davao. Thank you for your comment Lloyd. This post is my response to the question he raised in my post “So This Is How It Feels Like: Page Rank 3“. I hope he finds this useful. **

Hi there! If you got to this post through a search in Google, please let me know by leaving your comments at the end of this post. I would appreciate it if you can tell me what keywords you typed as well. God knows I’m dying to hear that. And I’d faint instantly if I ever even see five, yes five comments confirming that. You see, more than anything known to me, I think this blog is more an experiment than an outlet of personal thoughts, opinions, reviews and frustrations. Of course, I’d like to believe that all I care about in terms of this blog is all the fun I get in telling “mini-stories” of my experiences that most likely don’t matter to a lot of people (heck, maybe even to me..lol) but subconsciously, I feel that I also blog to test myself and see if “an old dog really is incapable of learning new tricks”. For those of you still clueless as to (more…)

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The 2008 SONA (State of the Nation Address) is over and done. What now? If you don’t mind, I’d like to quote and examine a few statements given at the SONA a follows:

“Many in this great hall live privileged lives and exert great influence in public affairs. I am accessible to you, but I spend time every day with the underprivileged and under represented who cannot get a grip on their lives in the daily, all-consuming struggle to make ends meet.”

Oh, you bet. Many. Many of which, also, I’m quite positive, do not care one bit of what you, Madam President have to say in today’s SONA. And this is all because they are part of those people you identify in this statement below. (more…)

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I do. It’s so ironic when something that happens only ONCE a year can be so tiring to listen to. Tomorrow’s SONA (State of the Nation Address) to be presented (or read–pun intended) by President Arroyo has not even happened yet but as early as now, I already feel a certain level of “exhaustion”. Maybe that’s because I read a lot of news.

Nevertheless, you may say (yes, I know), if you’re really tired of it, then why write more about it? Well, you may have a point there, but that’s how I am with something I find tiring or sickening — I tend to think about it or talk about it pretty much everyday until my brain’s short term memory passes the buck to my long-term memory. (more…)

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Okay, the President’s SONA is due Monday, July 28 — so I’ve heard. I wonder what sort of PowerPoint-style presentation we’ll see this time. I’m not a fan of the President’s SONA (State of the Nation Address) and I have to admit that I’ve seen only quite a few. If you want to know why, that’s because like many Filipinos, I grew tired of watching/listening to SONA’s. And why won’t I be? There are far more reasons not to watch it.

But in light of the crisis we have found ourselves in the midst of, it suddenly dawned on me that there is no better time to watch the SONA than on Monday. (more…)

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Now, this is wrong. Very wrong. I’m not a Gloria fan myself but hey, I won’t do such a thing. Not because I’m an elitist (how can I be an elitist when I don’t even belong to the “elite” myself?) but because it is indecent, downright dirty and stupid. I mean, come on people! How many times have we seen such display of rudeness? This is not helping anybody. In fact, it is adding problems to our already problematic country. If you want to do protests on the streets, then fine, do it anytime you want but do not destroy, and spray-paint public property! I understand you don’t like PGMA, I don’t like her either. But hasn’t it occured to these people’s minds that this is but a waste of time and energy? If you want change, (more…)

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As a write this post, I am plagued by an annoying and hard to ignore headache. This started at around 2 this afternoon and hasn’t stopped until now. And it’s almost 11pm. Imagine nine painful hours of consistent and persistent headache. It has made me very unproductive in all the sense of the word (not that I’m really productive when I don’t have a headache). Which reminds me of a post I’ve written a few months back, that was (more…)

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Thinking about how utterly pathetic and invisible my blog has been since its inception, I felt a certain connection to a boy band I was never a fan of — yeah, 98 Degrees, baby! Although, I must say that this song, which I am about to use is a personal favorite back in the days.

The original lyrics are still there, with the *new* or rather *inspired* lyrics enclosed in very shy parentheses.

You may find this funny. You may find gospel truth in it. You may find it interesting, or pathetic or offensive. Whatever. I don’t really care. This is my blog. I pay for webhosting, internet connection and electricity (okay, not really, it’s actually my husband who does..but that’s irrelevant..). I waste hours upon hours poring over content. The least I can get is the benefit of writing what I want. Indulge me on this, okay?

This is for all of the invisible blogs out there! One day, we will no longer be invisible…one day… (more…)

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I honestly didn’t think I’d figure out what exactly went wrong with my WordPress-powered blog that made this already invisible blog more invisible than it already is. As I’ve written in this post and in this post, the recent upgrade to WordPress 2.6 caused my blog to go down, down, down for at least three (3) days. The frequent “script-tinker” and “never-seem-to-be-content” person that I am had me thinking that it was my messing with the redirection script for mofuse.com that created a mobile-friendly version of my blog for those readers accessing via their mobile phones (as if there are any..*sigh*), has caused this problem. And for a while there, I actually told myself that I wouldn’t mess with scripts anymore (at least for this blog). As I’ve lost hope in ever identifying the root cause of this “blank screen of death” as another blogger puts it, I’ve abandoned all interests to continue researching online or elsewhere. But as fate would have it, maybe reinstallation wasn’t bad after all. Maybe it’s what I really needed — a fresh start, so I can see things clearer. (more…)

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Want to read the story of my struggle with the recent WordPress 2.6 upgrade? It’s not here. It’s on my new blog — my Post-WordPress 2.6 blog, I call it “The Reformed Blogger” and the exact post is here. I would’ve posted it here but I think I owe it to that other blog to write it there since it’s been my sanctuary in the few days that WordPress 2.6 has me heartbroken. If you wanna know if I’ll keep that new blog even if this blog is already fixed, well, hell yes! I love it there. It provided me sanity and support during those trying days and the least I can do is keep it. Besides, I love the way the i.ph blog is set.

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