Last Day of NaBloPoMo
I can’t believe I actually did it. I completed NaBloPoMo. A whole month of blogging. This is the 2nd time I’ve completed NaBloPoMo and I think I’ve joined 5 times so far. So for the last day, I’ll answer the last prompt.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
What did you learn from doing NaBloPoMo?
Hmmm, I’ve learned to be even more committed in the blogging process. It was hard to keep blogging everyday in my personal blog. And this has been happening to me in the past 3 years now. I could churn out 3-5 blog posts a day in other niched blogs but when it comes to here, I feel restricted most of the times. I don’t feel like sharing more about my life anymore. I have a lot to say about news and stuff but I usually stop myself from blurting out things in fear of being judged by people I don’t know which totally contradicts my tagline –watch out, she bites-. And I have been into this blogging thing for a long time that I feel like I’ve shared more than I should have online throughout the years. That’s the dilemma in blogging these days. Sometimes it’s better to just do it in 140 characters via Twitter or Facebook then be done with it.
So it was really hard to come up with things to blog about for 30 days. But I stuck to it and really wanted to finish this challenge. I ‘m happy about that.
For 2012, I’m thinking about really living up to my tagline. Perhaps, but I’m not promising anything. I might bite more than what I’ve bitten in the past 3 years. Maybe that will get me more readers coz truth of the matter is, I’ve babbled here for a month and I can count in my left hand how many people visited to comment, Haha. Thank you to those who visited me from time to time. So what I’m saying is, maybe I should be more controversial. Ehhh, we’ll see.
So long NaBloPoMo. See you again next year!
The Duggar’s Make 20
I turned on the TODAY Show as soon as I got up this morning coz I was so excited to find out where Matt Lauer was doing his 2nd day of Where In The World Is Matt Lauer? thing. Then Ann Curry announced that The Duggar family are there to make an announcement. My husband who was in front of the TV while ironing his work uniform predicted that it’s either they’re having another child or a grandchild.
And the winner is, Momma Duggar is having her 20th child. I don’t know about other people who were watching this morning but I think Ann Curry mustered every patience in her body and logic in her brain just to stay professional and not be judgmental although you could sense amazement from her because the woman in front of her doesn’t think 19 kids plus grandchildren are not enough. Ann asked the young kids if they’re excited about the new baby and of course they said they are. You don’t really expect them to say NO on national TV in front of their parents, right?
I don’t mean to be judgmental but geez, there has to be a point sometime in the Duggar’s life when someone will say, “Maybe we should stop having children coz we’ve used all of the possible names that starts with letter J.” I couldn’t think of MAJOR reasons why they should stop at all. [/SARCASM]
Just saying…..
Hurricane Irene In The Neighborhood
Thankfully, we don’t have it bad around here. It’s rainy and windy but we’ve still got electric power so we’re good. I saw a few fallen trees when we were driving but not that bad really. *knock on wood*
Here’s my husband being a good citizen by dragging branches out of the way to avoid any road accidents. We don’t even live around this area but that’s how my husband is.
I Hope Donald Trump Is Happy Now
I sure hope so, anyway. President Barrack Obama and the White House decided to take time to show President Obama’s birth certificate and have a press conference to point out how ridiculous and such a waste of time that they actually have to do it just to pretty much shut Mr. Trump up and whomever else is questioning Obama’s citizenship.
Every Mother Counts
While I sit here in front of my monitor trying to fight that annual minor depression which occurs 2-3 days before any of my children celebrate their birthdays, I found a profound and heartfelt video about Mothers from Dooce.com. This is actually a project from Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns focusing on at-risk pregnancies in different parts of the world.
This PINAY Would Kick Your ASS, And Be Proud Of It!
So I have this Filipino Showbiz blog which gets almost 5k views a day. FilipinasInShowbiz.com is my guilty pleasure. I used to be a snooty bitch about Pinoy Showbiz years ago until a celebrity named Marian Rivera came into my life. I liked a few Filipino celebrities before but I wasn’t as informed or dedicated to it until 2008 when I created the FilipinasInShowbiz.com as my outlet for anything that’s Marian Rivera. So of course I have a Twitter account (PinaysInShowbiz) for it as part of promotion and other things that’s related to social networking when running a blog.
In the middle of all the twittering going on about the Manny Pacquiao fight against Antonio Margarito, I checked the “Mentions” part of the Twitter account coz the dashboard was moving too fast and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss any mentions from my 1400 followers. Imagine my surprise when I saw a tweet from a twitter named Jazz2Slick.
@PinaysInShowbiz nobody cares about that crap just stick with the pacquiao and margarito tweet all we wanna hear about is pacquiao
My first reaction was, who the hell is this guy telling me what not to Tweet about. Hellloooo? First of all the Twitter account name is PINAYSINSHOWBIZ. Did he really expect me to tweet ONLY the Pacquiao-Margarito fight? Besides, why the hell is he following me? And why is he reading my tweets if he only cares to read about the Pacquiao fight? So I replied to him.
@jazz2slick Excuse Me?? Don’t tell me what I should tweet abt. Don’t follow me then.. Ass!
His reply:
@PinaysInShowbiz i’m not following you my dear.
OK, so he’s not following me. So how in the world was he able to read my Tweets? I ‘m not following him and the only way I was able to read his “mention” of my Twitter is when I checked the “mentions” section.
@jazz2slick Well I’m not following you either.. Who The Fuck are you telling me not to tweet abt certain things coz you only care about the Manny Pacquiao tweets.. I’m sure Twitter is loaded with it already so why bother read my tweets? Hellllleerrr!
And he came back with this:
@PinaysInShowbiz is this how you pinays are? All cursing and stuff? Nice one to represent your country. i got no time to fight with you bye
Now that really pissed me off. Who the heck is this guy, seriously? What, a Pinay can’t cuss? Way to represent a country? So coz I cussed at him for being an ass, rude and stupid for not thinking about the name of the Twitter account, I’m not representing my country in a nice way?.. Puhlleaazzeee.
@jazz2slick LOL.. Puhhlleeasseee.. This Pinay will kick your ass and proud of it. So get used to it. And Yes, go, dumbass!
I am proud to be a PINAY. A PINAY who can defend herself and not let some male chauvinistic pig tell her what to do, EVER. The Twitter account is called PINAYSINSHOWBIZ, that means I will be tweeting about what’s going on in showbiz. That’s what I was doing yesterday. There was an award show, celebrity sightings, celebrity news, and mentions of the fight.
How was I supposed to represent the Philippines which I haven’t lived in for years? Was I supposed to apologize to him for twitting about celebrity news and not about Pacquiao? Was I supposed to say “Yes Sir, and you are right?” And of course, he went for the typical elitist crap that some Pinoys utter when confronted by a strong individual, a woman at that.
@PinaysInShowbiz great breeding right there
Some Pinoys are so obsessed with putting distinctions among themselves by introducing the “breeding” word in an argument to prove that they’re better than everyone else. I guess a Filipina like me who says strong words and would point out what an asshole he is has no “breeding.” An ignorant and typical defense from pa-sosyal wannabes who think they’re the shiznits because they speak trying-hard conyo-English.
@jazz2slick whatever.. LOL.. typical!
So yeah, while Pacquiao was beating Margarito to a bloody pulp, I was also in a fighting mode on Twitter with this dickhead who came out of nowhere telling me what to do in a social network where practically the whole world population was talking about the Pacquiao fight. Like it was such a sin for a twitter account called PinaysInShowbiz to tweet about what it was created for in the first place. Maybe I reacted angrily, but I stand by my words. I am a PINAY who can kick his ass and Proud of it. If that’s not a good PINAY representation of the Philippines then that’s their problem, not mine! And if calling out his stupidity instead of bowing my head and acquiesce to his request speaks of my “breeding” then I am proud to be in that class of “breeding.”
He messed with the wrong PINAY.
Day 12: Something you never get compliments on.
Blogging prompt for day 12th of 30 Days of Truth & Blessings is Something you never get compliments on.
To be honest, it took me a while to think about this which is why I’m just blogging about it now at 10pm. Coz you know, I’m freaking fabulous so I get complimented on pretty much everything. HAHAHAHA!
After a while, I thought of something I’d never get complimented on. My Singing. Why? Coz you wouldn’t actually hear me sing unless playfully on a Karaoke session which I haven’t done in a long long time. Why wouldn’t I sing? Coz I’m not good.
I mean I could carry a tune, and believe it or not, I used to sing in a choir back in my Elementary and High School days. Still, I know and have accepted that I am not a singer. I’ve discovered that when my husband critiqued my awful rendition of Bring Me To Life by Evanescence probably like 8 years ago. I thought I was rockin’ the song while cleaning my house when we were still living in New York. My husband who heard me shriek while he was outside doing some yard work disagreed. He said I was bad 
Some wives would have gone to depression after that but I appreciated my husband for telling me the truth. I’d rather hear it from my him early on before I made a fool of myself thinking I’m all that and a bag of chips in front of other people and it turns out I suck. Right?
So yeah, unless you get me really really drunk with a bottle of Tequila, you probably won’t be able to drag me to sing Karaoke in front of a crowd anytime soon. That would prevent you from NOT giving me any compliments in my singing. 
Day 9th: Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted.
To help me with writing profoundly in this blog for NaBloPoMo, I decided to participate on a few writing prompts from the 30 Days of Truth & Blessings which I stumbled upon on Echo’s blog. I’m probably not going to do all prompts though coz some are too private to share.
Day 9th’s prompt is: Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted.
My friends from San Diego and New York.
When I got married, I had to leave San Diego California to move to Virginia coz that’s where my husband was stationed. We all tried to keep in touch for a few months but busy lives just took over. And then we move to New York.
I was friends with fellow military wives who were also my neighbors. But then we left the Army and moved to North Carolina. Same thing, we tried to keep in touch for a few months but it was hard to sustain it. Busy lives, kids, work, etc. I don’t think we really made that much effort to keep the communication going anyway.
I miss them so much. They’re the last group of people whom I’ve actually trusted. These days, I don’t really open up to anyone at all. I have like maybe 5 people who knows me pretty well but lo and behold, they’re “online” friends. They know who they are .
I’ll search for my old friends in Facebook someday and will find my courage to say hi. As childish as it sounds, I really don’t know where to start. I find myself being shy all of a sudden. It’s been so long so I really don’t know what to say and I’m not sure if they still remember me.
All I could do is try, right?
