Cbox is Back!

I'm still sad over me losing my Adsense... Just when the hits of my blog went up, they banned me from it. I was at around 30 dollars then. Well, I guess God has better plans for my blog... Fwhahah! A lot of people are changing up things on their blog, so I'll guess ride on the wheel - well, at least I know one person, that's a lot, right?  *Sabaw* 


So here goes, I have my Cbox back. I hope you leave a message or two right here from time to time. It really means a lot to know that people drop by you blog, so please do to mine. :) It just a little left and a little down the page. Last message was by Hannah, a workmate on my previous stint as a call center agent - that's 8 Mar 10, 23:37, hahah! Please write the next one!

Not having my own internet when in I'm in Manila really sucks. I would have a lot of things on my mind but can't digitize anything to a post. It just stays still in limbo and then to nowhere. I would end up staring nowhere and then snooze of or burn it all up, hahaha! Tried using Smart Bro, but loading it every now and then sucks more than ever. Thinking of having a plan for it, but is having doubts if it is a smart choice. For the mean time, I found a haven just below our condo. Really cool and nice place to surf and blog. So expect more stuff on my blog from now on. :)

Three Steps Forward

These past few days, a lot of things were coming into my head - things to learn and make money out of.  I made some sort of a to-do list out of it. Here I go again, wanting to do so much - but this time, I'll make sure I'll get somewhere. I'm taking one step at a time and soon, definitely, I'll get there.

So here. Like most of my recent posts, I've been digging photography. Shot on the right is one of the firsts that I am happy about. This photo of Cecille was taken in Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street, during Digital Photographer Philippines' 4th Anniversary Celebration. We were listening to a session about sports photography but ended up going around the venue because the room was filled up. We just made the most of our visit the bookstore by going around and taking photos. That's one step closer to my goal.

Let's get to step two - learning everything about blogging. That meant doing AdSense, Analytics and Blogger from Google. Check out the AdSense corner on the side (click the links please, hahaha!). I also started doing some CSS and Javascript tweaks here in my blog. For some who had gone to my site the past week, you should have noticed minor changes on how the page looks like. I hope you like it, and come here more often.

And lastly, step three - setting up the financial part. Opened a bank account in BDO last Tuesday and I'm hoping that will be filled with savings and earnings. Been working out the saving parts, but am having a hard time, hahaha! Let's just wait and see, fwahahah! I am trying so hard, so I'll guess I'll do good, haha!

Guess that's it for now, I'm late for work. Good job for me! I'll make sure I'll do a progress report every now and then. I hope you guys will be checking it then. See yah!

Change Theme for the nth Time!

On top of my wish list was an SLR. Well, on the first of the month, I just got my Nikon D5000 from Kimstore. My cam is exactly 2 weeks old and pictures are piling up. I needed a place to showcase my noob shots, so here goes this new look for my blog. Made it more of a photo blog to highlight the pictures, less texty, sticked with two columns and a sweet spot for a small photo gallery. But wait, I didn't pull this off from ground up, haha! Let me share the creative process.

One. The theme of course is just something that I found on the web - not yet able to make my own. The Arthropod theme if from freeCSStemplates.org.

Tumblr vs MEME by Yahoo!

While I was reading my feeds from Google Reader, I came across an entry that talks about MEME by Yahoo! Here is the direct link to the article from Pinoy Tech Blog. It is a lot like Tumblr.

So what is similar with Tumblr and MEME? Its like the compromise between blogging and microblogging. Let's say, you want to share a picture, video, link or whatever online, it will look nice. You can put each post like a status update on Plurk or Twitter, in form of a mini blog post.

How Does Binog.net Sound?

I wanted to do this a long time ago. Its simply cool to have your spot on the world wide web - my own domain. This is so out of the blue. I was just going through my inbox and invites in Facebook when I saw hostingphil.com on my page... and the rest was history. Fwahahahah!

Here is the screenshot of my last interaction with Hostingphil. Its really cool because there is this pop chat, the green thingy on the upper right corner. The person on the other end told me what I want and what I need. Good customer experience so far. For the domain, its Php 550 / year. You can pay through PayPal or any BPI branch. Planning to Budget Hosting when I'm no noob to blogging anymore.Thats another 600 bucks every year. Well, seems worth it.

Will be paying for binog.net tomorrow. So looking forward to it. Fahaynahlee!!

Over The Drama

I had my intro on my blog as:

Marvin T. Bonifacio a.k.a. Binog is a 6th year student taking up BS Electronics and Communications Engineering in UP Diliman, plus, working part-time in a call center.

Binog equals frustration divided by open parenthesis academic performance plus singing plus writing plus sports plus healthy eating close parenthesis. Simplifying the term, you have breaking free over growing up conservative.

I've decided to remove it, along with a new layout/theme of my blog. Just wanted to make things a little less frustrating, hahaha! But really, taking one step at a time is doing a lot for me. Keep a target but don't let the pressure eat you up. With things happening not so well, I just think of what could do some good. Even if its a losing battle, nobody really knows how things are gonna end up.

Picture here is me after my final interview at UST Global. After less than a week, I was informed that I was shortlisted. Wohoo! All I have to wait for is graduation day. Conditions before contract signing is getting GWA of 2.5 and of course, doing the march! If I pass my subject this semester, I'm at 2.36, haha - borderline, wahahah! If I pass. Its just a month left, and everything is gonna change. Everything is up to me, how everything is gonna end up, so I'm gonna give it my all, this point forward.

To get away from all the stress, here I am, blogging for a bit and doing some changes. Found myself a new theme which has some yellow going on. Cams, workmate at the center, said the lucky color of the year is yellow and white, so here goes the new look. Here are other themes I found and thought were catchy as well:

Summary - http://btemplates.com/2010/02/18/summary/demo/

My Diario - http://mydiario-bloggerthemes.blogspot.com/

Brown Stitch - http://www.bloggerthemes.net/2010/02/brown-stitch.html#

Work - http://iwork-blog.blogspot.com/

I still want to create my own theme, maybe when I'm a little less busy. See y'all!

Plurk Surprise

I must have a lot of free time! Hahaha! Just joking! Haha! Its just that when you have a lot in your bucket, it becomes fun doing something else. But here, I changed my plurk theme. Been loving neutral colors lately and here goes my new plurk layout. Just dropped by to check my page and out of nowhere, I wanted to change how it looks like. Hehe!

After I logged in, I was surprised to see my Karma increase, been months since I last logged in. I froze my Karma because I was so over addiction to waiting new plurks all night. Found a couple of badges on my profile. Thinking that did the magic on my Karma.

Let It Rain doodle theme downloadable here.
My plurk page here.

Feel free to click my links in this post. :D

Karma Freeze in Plurk

I really love blogging and with these not-so-contented fingers, it brought me to microblogging. I was trying to resist it before, then next thing, I'm on Plurk and Twitter. Beat that! Hehehe! After a while, here goes what I was trying to get out off - maintaining accounts. I'm not much of a bum anymore. I go to school and work part-time. I hardly go online. Frustration plays its role again - my karma in Plurk is going down big time. I had 95.xx already and then it went down.

Good thing I heard from Jo yesterday. She told me about karma freeze. It was just the thing. Here goes! I call upon the powers that surround me! Karma Freeze!! Boom!

Want the recipe? Got this from Sanjaya's Blog.

Follow this step :

1. Go to "My Account"

2. Seek for "Karma vacation mode (freeze karma)"

3. Check the box with "I confirm I will lose 1 karma point on enabling karma vacation"

4. Click "TURN IT ON"

NOTE:

However, you will lose one(1) karma point in using Karma Freeze. But its all worth it for me. I won't feel the guilt if I didn't update within 12 hours. A sure win for a busy person.