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Mandaue Chamber of Commerce launches the 1st MBM LAN PARTY today. The 24 hour event (Aug. 23 8am up until Aug. 24 8am) officially opened at exactly 10 a.m this morning. Ten persons per minute were allowed to enter the arena. But prior to that, since it was announced that the event will start at 8am, hundreds of gamers were waiting outside for about 2 hours. In fact, there was a minor raffle draw held, as an apology for it took a while for the event to start. The prizes were 5 LAN Party T-shirt and 5 HP ball pen.

It’s been a while since I haven’t drop by at Wordpress Pinoy Site. I know I missed a lot of things in the community, but still trying to cope up. (lol)

I was actually making replies to some topics there, when I incidentally clicked on annie_thejourney’s blog. I was then having fun reading her posts, when a certain post caught my interest “THE JOURNEY’s First Year Anniversary Promo“

Needless to say, I dug everything about the promo and got interested in joining. I think it’s not yet too late to join the promo since the deadline of submission is on Aug 21, 2008 - Thursday at 5:00pm (Pacific Time)

Moreover the contest is brought by: ANNIE-THEJOURNEY & SHANN HOSTING

I would like to congratulate Annie for her success! Morepower!

I was making some updates with my blog last night and able to noticed an alert in my dashboard. Opps.. it’s about “WordPress 2.6.1”

WordPress 2.6.1 is available! Please update now.

As an overview of the new version (got the infos below from wordpress blog):

2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for right-to-left languages is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious gettext bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed. For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.

See full article about the newest version of Wordpress at wordpress blog.. [ Wordpress Blog ]

Last Sunday, August 10,  the Cebu Bloggers Society members met for the 3rd time at the same venue. It was indeed a successful met up. As noticed, there was an increase of attendance. The main objective of the met up btw, was meeting the 3 travel bloggers from manila. The following were:

Eric of Byahilo.com

Melo of lakbaypilipinas.com/blog

Nina of justwandering.org

For full reference about the recent met up, see X’s post: http://www.obnoxiousqueer.com

Most of the people really believed that such date - August 08, 2008 abbreviated as [ 08.08.08 ] is a lucky day for everyone. In Chinese culture, 8 is an extremely lucky number. (i believed so, since my date of birth has 8 as well 03.08.87)

Moreover, one of the most common event on this day is the: BIG DATE - Wedding. Couple believed that it’s a lucky wedding date. In fact, churches in the country today and around the world are fully booked for weddings. Hotels and some other reception areas for weddings are fully booked as well.

Another significant event is the opening of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games also known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.

However, according to some feng sui experts (as what i have watched a while ago in TV Patrol ), 08.08.08 is not really a lucky date.  An irony to what most people believed.

“she decided it: “A perfect blend of Friendship Award ” Maybe i’m that friendly? <evil laugh> .

A former teammate who is now living/working in Davao (her home place), gave me this cup of award. Just an overview about our friendship, or I may say how our friendship started, it goes like this…

We we’re batchmates when we applied for work as a technical support reps (we back January 2007). From the examination > HR interview > Technical interview and ’till we we’re hired. But then, destiny (i believed) sent her back to her home land - Davao. I consider her as well as my older sister and used to call here ate, for she is older than me (correct me if im wrong, 3 years gap). I was 19 at that time and she was 23 when we applied and start working here.

And yeah i forgot to introduced her. she is Raquel. Code name: “rsolera”.

Thanks for the award .

it’s the thought that counts ♥

she’s just an 18 year old girl, turning 19 this coming december. now, a mother of her child.

I arrived home almost 12 noon and was really really sleepy bacause my shift ended 8am. There, were my father and our youngest sister. The moment I entered the door, my father told me that my younger sister (next to me, 2nd to the last of the 5 siblings) delivered her son by 4.05 at the dawn of that day Saturday, August 04. I was a bit surprised with the news that I heard from my father - i mean it, but then with out so much to do, we (my father and I), went to the house of the medwife where my sister delivered her son and my mother was there as well taking cared of my sister.

Though I wasn’t there during the labor, but I could really tell how tired and sleepy my younger sister was at that time and how she struggled to gave birth to his son. And million thanks to God for He never forsake us.

P.S. : will put some photos here later.

CBS meet up at Bo's Coffee - Ayala. July 27, 2008

I know it’s too late to have this post. Well, for those who didn’t know, it’s simply because my blog got crashed and went off line for 3 consecutive days. Obviously, in the header it says :: start from scratch. . . database back up failed.

That really sucks!

So much for that, to view the full article about the meet up, I’ll just link the post from the co-CBS members who were there during the meet up, last August 27, 2007 at Bo’s Coffee - Ayala.

• 2nd CBS meet-up (July 27, 2008) - by Xerxes of http://www.obnoxiousqueer.com
• Cebu Bloggers Meet Up at Bo’s - by WIhelmina of http://www.misswilhelmina.com
• Cebu Bloggers Meet-Up - by Empress of http://empressofdrac.wordpress.com
• Lowdown on the CBS Meetup - by Nick of http://in-indie.org

Moreover, Aileen of http://sunchoke.net and Arnold of http://cebuheritage.com were there as well, and last but not the least, Kevin of http://marroxas2010.blogspot.com via YM.

On the other hand, a result from prchecker.info still shows that I maintained PR 3.

This really confused me. . . what do you think guys? I could tell as well that maybe it’s because, my blog got crashed and was down for 3 days. Even the Top Blogs ranking it dropped to 40o+.

I am still joining the Cebu SEO Contest, though I would need to start from scratch again.

In relation to Pinoy blogger: Cebu Seo Contest by Lhurey of http://phblogger.net, this would be my new entry for this contest.

An overview about the Cebu SEO Contest:

The “Pinoy blogger: Cebu Seo Contest” is open to all Visayas bloggers, Mindanao bloggers and Luzon bloggers recently living in the Philippines.

To participate in the Cebu SEO Contest you need to:

• create a post entry with a link back to http://www.phblogger.net and use the key phrase “Cebu Seo Contest“.
• Comment on this post with your complete name and blog URL (not the post entry) stating that you have join the contest.
• The contest ends on September 2, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.

Here are the prizes:

Top 1 position on google (September 8, 2008)
Php 700.00 cash via MLhuillier Kwarta Padala
Free 1 year hosting and a free .com, .org, .net or .info domain
+500 EC

Top 2 position on google (September 8, 2008)
Php 500.00 cash via MLhuillier Kwarta Padala
+1000 EC

Top 3 position on google (September 8, 2008)
Php 500.00 cash via MLhuillier Kwarta Padala
+500 EC

The Free 1 year hosting and a free .com, .org, .net or .info domain is a big thing already. I’m glad Lhurey is having this Cebu Seo Contest.