Blog Award from Marie.

Pacquiao's win against Cotto was the perfect ending of the week and so I am going to start the week with a positive vibe and post this award that I've received from Marie last week. I super appreciate receiving blog awards because it makes me feel like there's at least one person out there who takes time to visit and read my blog and some of my thoughts interesting enough to keep them coming (or so I think, lol).

I think I received the same award from before but I'd still post this. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I don't have the luxury of time to look for 15 blogs to share this award with but I'll put this up and let 15 blogger friends take this award. Just let me know.

I have just been too busy with my online assignment, I haven't been able to update my blogs anymore and visit other blogs as well. Hopefully super busy days will be less this coming week. My brain was almost fried from last week's work and not that I'm complaining but the topic wasn't my "forte" so I'm having a bit of difficulty with it. I'll get through this.

Time for scheduled posts and catching up this Sunday night.

Have a great, happy week ahead and see you guys on the weekend. I'll try to take a peek when I get the chance. ;)

One Lovely Blog Award.

I think this is a perfect way of ending the week, a blog post of an award given to me by Bambie and Marose last Friday. Sweet!

She has been visiting and commenting on my blog regularly and I would like to thank her for it and of course for this One Lovely Blog award. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I am sorry to break the rules of this award, I won't be passing this to 15 other bloggers cos one, most of them got this already and second, my eyes are already too strained to sift through every other blogs that I frequent to that still doesn't have this. So instead, I am inviting my first 15 visitors to grab or even just acknowledge this award from me and leave me a comment. Either way, you guys are all LOVELY!

P.S. This is a scheduled post cos I'm starting a "Sunday is a rest day from A LOT of online activities" day. ;)

My Own Wordless Wednesday :)

Intro:

This entry is different from the Wordless Wednesday Meme that we have here in the blogosphere. This is my OWN WORDLESS WEDNESDAY because some unexpected things happened that literally left me wordless/speechless from happiness and sincere appreciation.

MOWW Part 1:

To start, I would like to post my overdue blog award that I received from Anya of Kutsara at Tinidor and Riel of This is so me some weeks ago. I felt good when I came home from the hospital and saw that I was given this award. Thank you Anya! I love your blog, too. It makes me hungry all the time. LOL. :) Thank you Riel!!

The rules for these awards are:

1) To accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link.

2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

And now, I am passing these awards to:

1. Fedhz of Home Buddies

2. Mommy Maria of Conversations with Moms

3. Ate Bingkee of I Love-Hate America

4. Ate Pehpot of Make or Break

5. Grandy of Functional Schmunctional

Sorry I am stuck with only 5, maybe I'll pass it on to the remaining 10 SOON.

MOWW Part 2:

Funny how when you don't need something and it pops out of nowhere. I found a 500 peso bill ($10-12) in the inside pocket of my handbag. Just in time for me to have my nails done and remove my red nail polish for my job interview tomorrow. I am so excited. I hope this is it. Please let this be it! Please!

MOWW Part 3:

A very, very amazingly unbelievable thing happened while I was checking my blog for comments to approve. Someone offered to help me out a little by sending an amount to my PayPal. I didn't expect anyone to do such a thing for me. Never. Especially since we don't know each other personally here. Money is a different matter when it comes to things like this that's why I am so grateful to Doug for being so kind as to send me money, as I said, whether huge or small amount I don't care, I will still be thanking you. And I promise to give it back to you as soon as I can. Promise! Thank you! Thank you!

Another Blog Award!

I received another blog award days ago from MYE, I lost count on how many awards I've got not because I have a lot but because I get them on long intervals. Pretty sure it's about my 4th or 5th. Anyhow, thank you MYE for giving me this award!

The NENO AWARD: a dedication to those who love blogging and love encouraging friendship through blogging.

I am posting this now before it gets stuck in my "to-post list" for my blog. Now it's my turn to pass this award on to some old and new friends I have met online and some that I have encouraged or inspired to try blogging: ARA, BILL, ERIC, IAN. I'm not sure if you guys are going to post this award in your blogs but either way, I'm sharing this to you. :)

 

Perpetual Smiling Blogger Award.

I received this tag from Bill and I appreciate it. Thanks for tagging me with this and for the e-card that you've sent me via e-mail. It surely made me smile. :)

The Rules:

Copy the questions below. Simply use the first letter of your name/nickname as your answer for each questions. You can’t use any answer twice and don’t use your own name for questions # 3 & 4. After you’re done, tag 10 people.

1. What is your name? MARA
2. A four letter word: MOOD
3. A boy’s name : MATT
4. A girl’s name : MARGARET
5. An occupation : MANAGER
6. A color : MAGENTA
7. Something you wear : MAKE-UP?
8. A type of food : MIXED FRUITS?
9. Something found in the bathroom :  MIRROR
10. A place : MANILA
11. A reason for being late : MAD TRAFFIC
12. Something you shout : MALAY KO!!!
13. A movie title : MEAN GIRLS
14. Something you drink : MARGARITA
15. A musical group : METALLICA
16. A street name : MAGALLANES
17. A type of car : MAZDA
18. A song title: MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU
19. A verb : MILKING

And now I would like to tag Mye, Ara, Fedhz, Pehpot, Lace, Ian, and Grandy. Sorry, I can't come up with 10 people right now.

This is me catching up!

I promised days ago that I will be back and will do some catching up on you guys. Sorry again if it took me this long to keep that promise. I just have a lot on my mind that I can't keep my focus straight. I've been thinking about getting a job (still!), I'm getting "addicted" to Facebook (playing Word Challenge and Poker), jogging and brisk walking but my mind's mainly occupied with the first one though. I feel like I'm just waking up just for the sake of waking up. I feel so lost!

Anyway, as promised here are some of the things that I've missed posting the last couple of weeks:

1. 

Another award for me! Here's the Triple Award that Mye of Blog Appetite gave me last January. I'm so so so sorry I only got to post it here just now. And thank you for giving me my blog its second award!! I feel like I'm doing a not-so-bad-job with my blog. Thank you!

I'm supposed to nominate and link up 10 people for this but my mind's not fully functional as of the moment so I'll add that up to my things to-do list, yet again.

2. 

And another one! Although this award isn't really like those other awards out there, Honest Scrap is about... well, being honest and I would like to thank Pehpot for this one. 

And so to follow the rules of this award, I will be posting 10 honest things about myself and I hope I won't bore you with it. :)

Ten Honest Things About ME:

1. I am scared of crawling insects and most reptiles. Roaches, spiders, snakes, alligators, they scare me to death I couldn't even look at them even if they're just in the movies.

2. My favorite things to do are: reading, watching TV and movies, listening to music, daydreaming, planning things and lately, JOGGING.

3. I get what I want. It might take some time but I have always gotten things that I wanted.

4. I am a firm believer of Karma. What goes around comes around. You get what you give. Do unto others what you want others to do unto you.

5. I listen to almost all genres of music except Filipino rap, novelty, rock, alternative, and so on. So that's like saying I hardly listen to any Filipino songs except for old school Eraserheads, Rivermaya, Parokya ni Edgar and old Filipino love songs. 

6. I am friendly, sweet, thoughtful, shy, sensitive, hard headed, emotional, realistic, mean, crazy, touchy, loud, frank, sensitive.

7. I have been single for almost 3 years now and I am on a love/hate relationship being that way. There are days I am missing having someone to talk to, cuddle with and share the feeling with and some days I'm just glad I'm single. Most of the time though, missing wins.

8. I love taking pictures. I'm no professional but I love taking pictures of almost anything and anyone. I love keeping memories.

9. I am confident but when it comes to job interviews, I feel like passing out.

10. I am still in search of a job. Somewhere near my place, pays good and I would enjoy doing. 

Rules of this award:

1. List 10 honest things about yourself - and make it interesting even if you have to dig deep!

2. Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of the Honest Scrap.

I could only think of 1 person to pass this award on to. Well, I have a lot on my mind but most of them already got this award. This one person I'm talking about is a friend I met online. I really think he should get this award though I'm not sure if he'll even post this. But still. Ian, this one's for you. :)

3. Ara! I'm sorry I haven't replied to your message (or comments) regarding the Copy Editor job. I would love to apply within this month if I still haven't heard from the companies that I've applied for last month. Promise! I'm just waiting for some of the calls since I have already been interviewed. You know, baka biglang tumawag eh one of the calls I'm waiting for is from my Dubai application. :) I will let you know soon.

There. That's 3 things down on my "catching up". I still have some photos and notes to share and my mind's just rumbling. Urgh! When will this pass!? 

I will be back again, soon!

I hope to hear from all of you!! 

My very first Blog Award!

Mara's Personal Bubble (was then Mara's Random Thoughts) was born July of last year but has only been regularly updating for the past 60 days or so. I have gone from posting referral links for my other money making websites to sharing some parts of my personal life here. I tried to make this blog about just a certain topic but I couldn't and I'm happy about it. Being random is more fun.

Anyway, from my search of getting high number of traffic and readers I have luckily stumbled upon Adgitize and Entrecard and both of these programs helped me get at least 50 visitors a day although it's just a handful who actually take time to read my post and comment on them or leave a message for me at my Message Box (Cbox).

So, I'm blabbing again. Whatever. I just feel thankful to Ice of Mga Kwentong Maalamat for giving me my first award ever. I don't think the You Make My Day Award from Mye counts as MY award but hey, I'm happy Mye shared it with us, her readers. :)

Here's the award that I got:

Thanks for giving me this award! I really really appreciate it. At least I know there are some people who "recognize" my blog and the effort that I'm doing in writing my entries every day. I know I'm still new at this and I'm sure I will improve in the long run (hopefully my blog would last longer than what I expect).

In return, I would also be giving this award to those I think deserve it:

1. Jed Chan

2. Bingkee

3. Mye

4. Tech by PC

5. Fedhz

6. RagingRev

7. Grandy

8. Blog de Manila

9. Out of town blog

10. Wise Crunch

11. Borzack

So,  by accepting this award you should follow these three simple rules.

• Put the logo anywhere in your page or post.
• Add a link to the person who awarded it to you.
• Link 10 other bloggers of whom you want to give this award to.

I know there's a lot more out there and I'm sorry but I reached the "quota" already.

Again, thank you for the award. It may not be the Pulitzer or the Nobel Prize but still, an award is still an award. :)