Merry Christmas from The Orange Wit!

I noticed that my last post was about all my office rants. Embarrassing! Thankfully, it got sorted out three days after my supervisor started bullying me and my new officemate.

Lately, I have nothing interesting to write about. Most of the time, I am too lazy to even open my blogger account. I guess it happens to everyone so like Olivia Culpo who won Ms. Universe, I have no regrets. :D

I’ll be spending my Christmas Eve at the office. Boo! But I’ve been doing it for the past seven years so I can’t complaint at all. Before everything gets mayhem tomorrow, let me greet everyone a Merry Christmas! May all your heart’s desires be granted and may this season bring you a happier vibe!

You are all awesome! Also, this is my 300th post. Yey! Who would have thought? :D

Happy Holidays! :D

All I Want For Christmas Year 3!

Definitely, there is no stopping Christmas!

A year ago, I joined this cool activity where bloggers exchange gifts. It sounds out of this world. At first, I never even thought that it may happen, but it did. Who would have thought that I will meet my amazing blogger friends with the activity?

To continue the tradition, PM started another exchange gift activity. Yey! It is more meaningful this time because PM and I were already talking about it on Skype. Yes, we are excited. We already discussed who we can drag into the activity. And yes, since it’s been a year, probably we can have more people join the activity.

How does it work?

Okay, I will just tell you what I did last year. First you have to create a post where you will share your wish list. It is called the All I Want For Christmas post. Make sure your list is doable, minimum amount is PHP 200. After making your post, visit PM’s post here, and leave a comment. This will help her collect the names of the people who are interested to join.

On November 30, PM will post on her blog the pairs. Then the partners exchange gifts, you can send your gifts via mail, or you can meet your partner just like what Ayla and I did a year ago. If the instructions are still not clear, you can always check the mechanics on PM’s page.

The activity is really fun. Reading all the wish lists, knowing who is your partner and getting your gifts makes me more excited about the whole activity.

To my blogger friends, I am seriously hoping that you can join us this year. This is really a cool meet new people and gain more blogger friends. I can always testify to that. So please, please, pretty please, join us this year! It will make the spirit of giving more exciting.

Here’s my wish list. To my future partner, please be very good to me. Kidding.

Something small: Naruto Key Chains

Something big: A Big Orange Bag Pack:

Something cute: Akatzuki Mug

Something soft: Pillows will do.

Something techie: Flash drive.

Something fancy: Man, this is tough. Okay, Olay Total Effects facial wash. :D

Something (Orange):  Zen Zest Linen Sprays (The bottles are orange).

 Something wearable: Keffiyeh Scarf!

Something you need: I know I need a lot of things but I cannot think of one now. Damn! Okay, alarm clock!

Something you can use for work: Coasters. Don’t ask why. LOLS

Something sweet: Reese’s!

All I (really, really) Want for Christmas is: I lost my Power of Six book, oh well. That is what I really really want!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Deduction

He stares at this group picture on his page, still trying to figure out who he is.

There were nine of them, six guys and three girls.

He immediately cancelled the girls on the list; definitely they will never be him. This one is the queen, he knows that pretty well. He cancelled out another eye candy.  This one is the guy on twitter. Not him. He moves closer to his PC monitor trying his best to recognize the other fellow on the screen. This cannot be him; he is the warrior on the Queen's kingdom.

And now he is left with three souls, a warrior of light and two dark knights.

Still, his deduction skill is not working. He is sure of one thing, though, he is one of the knights. He grinned, in due time, the mystery will be solve. :D

Their picture was something like this

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Onse

Finally someone tagged me to this eleven questions thing. I’ve seen a lot of blog post like this, unfortunately, no one tagged me yet. Spell unpopular, right?

Thanks PM for the questions!

Let’s start…

Why are you blogging?

When I started blogging, I was writing to express myself. All I ever wanted was an avenue to express my thoughts. Then I started enjoying it to the point that I realized how fun it is – writing something and having someone somewhere react on it.

The story behind your blog username

Aside from someone used to call me orange, you can read it here, orange also is my favorite color.

When do you plan to retire your blog?

I cannot answer this question right now, I still enjoy doing this and I don’t want it to end yet.

What is your favorite blog to read?

MTM, many to mention. Haha… parang slumbook lang, haha

What is the story of the last book you have read?

It is the story of Jacob and his life while working as a Vet on a Circus.

Where did you hear the song you got last LSS?

From SMASH, a new television show in the U.S. It was a song cover of Michael Buble’s Have Met You Yet, watch it here…

Do you think I should watch [insert name of your most favorite movie of all time]?

Definitely! Aladdin is one of best movie I’ve ever watch.

Do you add blog friends on your personal Facebook account?

I don’t see any problems with that. But I don’t initiate the”adding” part; they should either add me up (if they will find me on Facebook) or communicate with me that they want me to be their friend there.

When you are bored, do you eat to fill your time?

Since I am on a diet now, NO, I sleep to fill time.

What is the happiest moment of your life so far?

Earning my own money and being independent.

How old are you?

26.

That was fun.

Now I am tagging Elmer, Bryan, Cherie, Nyl, Chet, A3c, ZaiZai, Green Breaker, Mark Joe, ^Travis, and Mac Callister. Kailangan daw mag tag, pasensiya naman. :D

For the eleven questions,

• Describe yourself using a science concept?
• How do you handle your last break up?
• What was the last video you watched on YOUTUBE?
• What was your favorite subject in school?
• Anong panget sa maganda at maganda sa panget? hehe.
• How will you describe your blogs to someone who doesn’t have any idea about blogging?
• What are your career goals and what are you doing to achieve them?
• Complete the sentence. If I will win 300M pesos on the lottery, the first thing I will do after I claim the money is….
• What is the last topic on Wikipedia that you’ve read?
• Favorite Walt Disney Character? Why?
• LSS of the moment.

I hope you will have fun answering this questions.

Keep it awesome, guys!

Prinsesa’s Anatomy

Last December, I remember joining this blogger exchange gift. It was one of the most memorable thing that I’ve done last year. Meeting a fellow blogger for the first time and being able to get a cool orange tie is really superb.

Aside from that, because of the exchange gift, I get to know PM.

  

PM is really a good writer. Her blog is really one of my favorites. Since our gift giving activity, I always make it a point to check her page and read all her recent posts. PM influenced me a lot, from creating a Bucket List, up to making sure that I will get a copy of the book she read, there was also a time where I want to study baking because I want to create my own version of No Baked Lemon Pie, where I will use oranges of course.

She just don’t write well, she always make sure that you are always welcome on her blog. It really means a lot to me when I comment on something, the blogger will even take time to reply on a comment. PM never fails, I always see her blog comments in sky rocketing numbers because aside from the fact that a lot of people read her stuff, she always replies on comments.

PM is also a reader of my blog which makes me feel conscious and nervous sometimes. Knowing how good a writer she is and how so so my posts can get, I should be very thankful because of her presence on my page.

Well, PM always knows how much I appreciate her. From the comments to my blog to her replies on my comments, PM will always be someone that I really look up to.

Its nice knowing that someone who has a post on a newspaper, who will take care of her boy friend in the hospital for week and who reads as fast as I am (I think) can seems to be so near, so accommodating, and be so humble. She rocks!

I am writing this because of PM's contest, she is celebrating her blog’s fourth year anniversary. I have no plans of indulging her, but knowing her and her blog makes me more honest with what I have said. PM will always deserves the praise and the attention that she is getting because she is not just a great blogger…

PM IS ALSO A GOOD FRIEND.

Thank you for being so nice to me, PM.

So for your Anniversary, pagpasensiyahan mo na ang post ko, ha? Alam kong di ka pa makakacomment, teehee…

Also, as a gift, The World’s Cutest Kitten! Un sabi sa video. Enjoy!

Oustanding RANGE

Follow me on Tumblr! Promise, I will follow you back. :)

It has all of my favorite things. 

http://outstandingrange.tumblr.com/

Thanks thanks. :)

Kailangan may Orange pa din sa title. haha.

Who Knows Your Blog?

kausap ko si lorena last week. as usual, bukod sa office gossips, kung ano ano naman ang pinagusapan namin. everything was pretty normal that day, hanggang sa itanong niya.

“alam bas a office na nagboblog ka?”

since si lorena naman ang kausap ko, dapat kahit papaano, comedy ang sagot.

“hindi lahat. si officemate one at officemate two lang ang nakakaalam at siyempre sinabihan ko na sila to not give out the link. kasi alam mo naman sa office, maraming inggetera, baka gumaya, tapos feeling ko naman hindi naman dapat nilang malaman na. alam mo yun, baka isipin pa nila, ang arte arte naman nito may blog pa.”

totoo. dalawang tao lang sa 300 employees ng company naming ang nakakaalam na may blog ako. i don’t know. minsan kasi feeling ko hindi naman dapat malaman ng mga tao sa company namin ang mga pinagsususulat ko. hindi nila maiintindihan. for sure, minsan, hindi rin sila makakarelate.

alam ko din na minsan, i am posting some work related shits, though not offensive, without their consent naman. haha. pasalamat pa nga sila na sinusulat ko sila dito, 20 kaya ang followers ko! hahaha. 20 people will know more about them.

pero seriously, siguro most bloggers naman ay nagsimulang magsulat because they want to express themselves. ganoon din ako. nagsusulat ako kasi may mga idea na kailangang irelease sa utak ko, mga damdaming ayaw kimkimin, o may mga bugso ng puso na pag hindi nairelease, nakakamatay. minsan, gusto ko rin lang naman na magshare ng mga bagay na hilig ko.
mapalad na lang siguro kung may makakadiscover ng blog mo, o magkakaroon  ng followers, o may magcocomment pero ang unang rason mo para magsulat kasi gusto mo lang ng lugar na may paglalabasan ng lahat ng nararamdaman mo. isang instumento kung  saan walang manghuhusga, walang makikikialam at kahit kalian walang magsasabi na mali o tama.

hindi na siguro kailangang malaman ng mga officemates ko ang mga saloobin ko kasi kasama na nila ako. :p

ikaw, sinong nakakaalam ng blog mo?

100

After I wrote my post about singlehood, I noticed that it was my 99th post. I spent my whole shift thinking how I will write my 100th post. The 100th article should be something different, something epic, and something that must celebrate my kaartehans drive in maintaining Orange Wit.

I just started blogging, again, last July and never in my wildest dreams have I thought that I will enjoy it. It started when I discovered Google Reader. I was so bored in the office and to kill time, I read blogs. Reading became my motivation to write again. I was inspired by other bloggers who were able to express themselves freely. There were nights when I was excited to go to work not because of my job, but because I will be able to read again Teacher Mot’s blog, I will learn something from Robbie, Glenn will make my day because of his stories, Gelo will introduce a new movie or book, and I will be inspired by the Sole Sisters’ travel. Along with other bloggers, they made me write again.

It was never easy writing. There were days where I felt that my blog wasn’t good enough to even exist. Sometimes, I thought that I am just wasting my time because no one was even reading what I have written. I don’t even know how to edit my blog’s appearance. I still remember that I used to settle with black, white and orange because it was easy creating them. Haha. I don’t even know if I will write in English, because I know my grammar isn’t nice, but whenever I write in Filipino, my posts tends to be lengthy. Most of the time, I doubted myself.

Thanks to Elmer who pushed me to keep and writing, and to Chester who keeps on reading and commenting on my entries, all my doubts subsided.

While I keep on writing, I kept on blog hopping in the office. I learned some tricks. For people to go to your site, you have to visit them as well, give a comment, and tell them how they made your day or how great their post is. Some say that you have to write something that is socially relevant, that way people can relate to it. However, that will be hard for me because aside from I am really socially awkward; I am really not into things that other people like. Blame it on my weirdness, guys.

That was the time I just relied on the things that I love and I enjoyed doing. Reading stuff was one, surfing the net was another, third will be the things that I usually do, and last will be my life. Thankfully, I started having followers and it amazed me how my stats started to increase. I know it was not as good with the blogs that I have on reader, but for a beginner like me, these were the things that made me go back to blogger every day. These were the things that inspired me more.

And now, I am writing my 100th post. Isn’t that lovely? I never thought that I will be able to write this much. It’s crazier thinking that I have people who  read my posts, or even make comments. I feel so blessed, and if you are reading this, with all sincerity, THANK YOU.

Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards 2011

I am a blog hopper! Every time I am at work, to kill time and to stay awake, I read a lot of blogs.

Nuffnang already presented their list of Nominees for this year’s blog award, and to show my support to all my Idol Bloggers, I am posting their links below!

All you have to do is go to this website and click the following Blogs. I got the list from Nina, one of the nominees, I’m sure she won’t mind if I will post it here. Hehe!

BEST FOOD BLOG – thefatkidinside.com
BEST TRAVEL BLOG – justwandering.org
BEST FASHION BLOG – itscamilleco.com
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG – lantaw.blogspot.com
BEST GEEK BLOG – geekout.ph
BEST GEEK BLOG – yugatech.com
BEST PARENTING BLOG – themisischronicles.com
BEST LIFESTYLE BLOG – jenniepperson.com
MOST ORIGINAL BLOG DESIGN – blog.ditz-revolution.net
HIDDEN GEM – googlygooeys.com

So, Friends, what are you waiting for? Start voting! Well I just did. :)

The Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards will be on December at Malaysia. Congrats to all the Pinoy Bloggers who are already winners for me. Represent!

Congrats!

 

As usual, talo ako sa contest ni Bianca G! Hahaha! Kamote naman kasi, dapat kinarir ko talaga iyon ng pak na pak, pero siguro someone just deserve the prizes more. Pero bitter ako, BITTER!

Congrats nalang sa mga nanalo. Aantayin kong ipost ni Idol ang mga sagot niyo, para next time, alam ko na kung paano sasagutin. Sana manalo na din next time, haha, asa!

 

"If you never lose then you can never appreciate the victories."
---Laura Twitchell

 

 

Blogs ng Pinoy

Anong gagawin mo pag habang nagiinternet biglang may magemail sa iyo para sabihin ito? 

Tapos may ganito na?

Tapos nung kinonfirm mo, ito lalabas?

Seriously? Kinabahan naman tuloy ako. Ibig sabihin dapat magsulat na ako ng tungkol sa porn maayos.

Salamat Blogs ng Pinoy! Saya saya ko today.

Super Bianca!

Mahilig akong magbasa. Kaya kapag may time sa office, at wala masyadong ginagawa, isa lang ang ginagawa ko – ANG MAG BLOG HOP!

Salamat sa google reader, hindi ako nawawalan ng babasahin, nakaadd na kasi ang mga blogs na gusto kong basahin. Consistent namang magupdate ang mga idol kong bloggers kaya hindi ako nawawalan ng bagong babasahin. Sa susunod ko na iisa isahin ang mga blogs na gusto kong basahin, ngayon pag usapan muna natin ang ginawa ko kahapon.

Habang nagaantay akong magrefresh ang energy sa citiville, at habang pinapakinggan ang Undivided ng blush, nagboblog-hop ako. Hindi naman halatang mahilig akong mag multitask, ano? Anyways, while blog hopping, nakita ko ang post ni Bianca Gonzales, since eight years na ang blog niya, mamimigay siya ng mga items. At hindi lang basta mga items, bonggang bonggang items! Mga salon makeovers, sapatos, damit, magazine subscrition, globe wifi kit, pati party sa mcdo, shala diba?

Marami na rin akong nakitang giveaways ng mga bloggers before. Kung ano ano din ang mga price. Pero ewan ko ba kung bakit naisip ko na sumali sa game ni Biance, well, sino bang hindi diba? Madali lang naman ang mechanics, lagay mo lang ang info mo, tapos anong post ang nagustuhan mo at bakit? Since nabasa ko na halos lahat ng mga post niya, sisiw na ito!

Tinignan ko ang mga comments, halos lahat ng babae, gusto ng mga girley stuff. Natural! Inisip ko kung ano ang magandang makuhang price, mahirap naman kung shoes, kasi for sure marami akong makakalaban doon. Naisip ko nalang prize yung wifi kit. Anytime kasi, magkakalappy na ako at for sure magagamit ko yun. Bukod pa sa nagiisang dahilan na WALA PA AKO NOON! haha…

Anyways, wala namang mawawala. Good luck nalang sa akin, haha!

Sali na din kayo… Click nu lang ito.

Reformat!

Binago ko na naman ang theme ng blog ko, hahaha! Hindi kasi ako mapakali, ang gaganda kasi ng mga blogs na nababasa ko. Oo nakakainggit, pero okay lang un, hindi naman talaga madaling gumawa ng blogs. Haist, kung alam nu lang. :D