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High 5 for Beautynomics!

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Vanity blog Beautynomics is celebrating its 5th year of existence with an exciting giveaway! 🙂

She has 24 prizes up for grabs, I’ve got my sights on number one 🙂

1. 5 Pond’s Gift Packs ( full range of either Pond’s Gold Radiance, Flawless White, or Age Miracle )
2. 1 The Body Shop Shiso White Skin Care range
3. 5 L’Oreal Paris Gift Packs + Charm Luxe Kabuki Brush
4. 5 Avon Gift Packs mixed with Purederm Goodies
5. 5 Golla Bags with Pond’s Dual Action UV Therapy Eye Cream inside each bag!
6. 1 Obagi C-Rx Set ( Cleanser, Toner, Moisturizer )
7. 1 Kerastase Hair Care Set ( Basic Nutritive Set )
8. 1 Special Gift Pack from Goodskin Labs

I haven’t had much lately in the giveaways I’ve entered, but with the mechanics being so easy, I couldn’t resist giving this one a shot. 🙂

“Win prizes from Avon, Pond’s, L’Oreal Paris, The Body Shop, PureDerm, Obagi, Beauty & Minerals, Goodskin Labs and Golla! Visit Beautynomics’ 5th Year Anniversary Contest entryto know how!”

Contest runs until the end of this month so there’s plenty of time to join!

Chill Out

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First, read about The Trip (or Cebu 2011 Part 1) and Be Resorts (Where we stayed)

On our first morning in Cebu, we headed down to the small wading pool by the beach to hangout. We weren’t due for the City Tour until around lunch time so we had plenty of time to kill and play around in the water. It was also Tixie’s debut as  a waterproof camera. 🙂 All photos in this post were shot using Tixie.

I spent a lot of time that morning laying on a lounge chair, with a huge umbrella shielding me from the heat of the sun. This, pretty much, was my view:

It was nice to just relax and chill out. Sounds ironic because we were at the beach! But really – it was very cool that day, not too windy but enough to keep the heat from biting. While lounging we talked about our hopes and dreams. In particular, I was dreaming about staying just like so for weeks and not having to go to an office. Oh to be able to live the life! We joked about finding jobs at call centers in Cebu just so we can have weekends like that, haha. Or of me just working online – I could whip out my tiny but powerful laptop and type and surf away – anywhere. I could literally earn while chilling out at the same time! No more having to worry about general management jobs and all the troubles and pressures these jobs bring. Of course, things are just never that easy…

So – back to the pool to have the water wake us up!

Thanks to Tixie, it was all about goofing off and snapping crazy photos 🙂

I’d have to say though, Alfred gets to have so many nice shots and I don’t! He tried getting underwater snapshots of me but I either look like a whale or all he gets are bubbles, hahahahaa 🙂

Oh by the way, these next two photos were supposed to be part of the Be Resorts post but I forgot to upload them.

This is a playset in the hotel’s recreation room. A kiddie sized sala set! I almost stayed behind to hangout here (but I think it was more because of the Rockband set in the room than for this :))

Now this is how the beds look like, there’s two in the room:

 

Sooooo… enough for today. See you around soon 🙂

Back to Blogging Basics

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Last night, I started thinking about the days when I had just started blogging. Back then, I had a list of blogs I would go through everyday. I’d visit other bloggers – some I’d interact with (comments), some I would just stalk. I developed some friendships doing that. I earned backlinks too even before I knew what those were. Through that I learned about the possibility of earning through my blog. My Bravejournal earned PR and I received paid link opportunities that fueled me on to blog even more.

I think that’s when things changed.

Now, I rarely visit blogs just for the sake of checking up on someone. I don’t always click on a link or badge looking forward to an exciting new post or another entry in a continuing saga of someone else’s life. More often than not, I click on to the next blog and expect nothing.

And that is plain sad.

Am I sad that my blog has PR and that I get sponsored link opportunities? No! But I have to remind myself every once in awhile NOT to lose sight of what blogging has always meant for me.

That said, let me just share with you two blogs that I visit even if they are outside of the two traffic-building blogging networks I am a part of – Entrecard and Adgitize.

I first found the blog Made by Petchy when I was looking for tutorials on how to make camera strap covers. You should really check it out, not just the tutorials but the rest of her blog as well. There’s a lot of eye candy with her sharing her wonderful photos, and the makeover she’s doing in her house. There is so much design inspiration in that blog, and some baking and cooking too 🙂

My first visit to Zakka Life was to checkout her post on this very cute 2009 calendar craft project. I did it too, and it looked like this:

But Zakka Life has many more craft projects to share and even if you’re not a crafter, you’ll spend a lot of time oodling over all the cuteness that can be found at her space. So check her out!
Zakka Life

Blog Backup Day

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Do you regularly backup your blog/s? I don’t. I try to back up files from my Webhost every once in a while but I don’t think I do it monthly. It’s more like an activity I do only when I remember to do it.

If something were to happen to my blog and I’d be unable to restore from the servers – I know I’d be devastated. Thanks to Eric of Blog de Manila for reminding us to set a regular Blog Backup Day – every first of the month. Not only does he call bloggers to action, but he also lists the various ways you can back up.

It’s only a few days past the 1st of the month, if you haven’t backed up yet then now would be a good time. Then setup a calendar reminder that would prompt you to do the same thing next month and the months after that. Come on, it doesn’t take too long and you will feel safe in the knowledge that you can restore your blog if necessary. 🙂

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I know we just had a vacation but I want another one! This time, a quick weekend in the City of Pines. It’s been years since I’ve stepped on Baguio soil, and even then, I was just passing through from heavenly Sagada. I’d love to go and bask under the sun without actually feeling/being hot. We don’t really have to stay in a fancy hotel with log furniture, hehe, just somewhere comfortable. Although, I’d have to say, I’d always been curious about The Manor hotel. Hmm…

But I don’t think this will happen anytime soon. We’re trying to save money after all.

What are your best memories of Baguio? Do share!

Goodbye Feb!

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We bid goodbye to month number 2 in 2011. Wow, we’re into the third month of this not-so-new year.

As has been customary, I’d like to thank my top Entrecard droppers for February:

On the work front, February went by so quickly and unfortunately my team didn’t get results similar to the previous month. I can say that in terms of doing well and making progress, we did a lot better in January. But no worries, I can see my team getting used to doing things the right way, and that’s what matters. We just need to sustain it, and be even more focused in all our efforts.

I am definitely looking forward to a busier March – and busy is good. Specially if it means seeing better results week over week. 🙂

Did you post a February roundup page, do link me up. I am too lazy to make one myself but I’ve always liked reading up monthly reviews from bloggy friends.

Do checkout Between the Covers, I’ve posted quite a couple of things up there this past week. 🙂

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