bury me in this dress

After writing that post about not making money from blogging, I googled for ways to actually make money from blogging. That’s how I found out about Orble. It’s a blogging community with LOTS of ads. An Orble member can have several blogs but I only needed one. Everytime a member makes a post to his blog, other members can vote to show that they liked the post. I guess that makes the blog popular or something. I don’t really know. The Orble management keeps track of the traffic all blogs receive. If a particular blog has good potential and the content is good, they offer the member his own domain name for the blog. This ordinarily takes 2 to 3 weeks after the first post.
I started with Coffin Talk where I just posted about things which I find interesting (guro, Japanese wackiness, etc.). My first post was December 4 and I tried to post everyday. I just kept on posting and I even reposted my article on how not to make money from blogging and that drew a lot of attention from the community. I received a lot of votes and some comments. I guess that’s the turning point of my orble blog. Since then, I received regular readers. They don’t comment but it doesn’t matter. They still voted. And the blog’s traffic attracted the attention of the Orble team. One week after I started posting, I was notified by the management that they want to buy a domain for my blog. Yay me! I’m a rising star. LOL. Since coffintalk.com is already taken, she suggested that I use coffinconversations.com instead. I agreed and there’s nothing to lose anyway. If my readers click on the ads in my blog, I get half of the profit and the other half goes to Orble. I guess that’s fine. So if you want to check out my other blog, please try to click on an ad. Hehehe. Money is nice. I’m still transferring the coffin talk posts to the new blog. Hopefully I will finish soon so I can make fresh entries.

I know I know. It took me almost a week to continue the previous post. I got sick again. My throat got so sore last Wednesday so I went home early then rested at home for two days. Since it’s officially a holiday in the Philippines now, I don’t have to worry about sleeping early or getting up late. I’m feeling better now. Thank Goddess!

Remember my post about my ECG result? The one where irregularity was detected by the machine? Well I finally went to a cardiologist and she said that it’s normal. I should, however, lower my bad cholesterol. She referred me to an endocrinologist and I will go to her next week. At least now I could breathe a huge sigh of relief. I thought for awhile that I have a blockage in my artery or something.

Christmas is several days away but I don’t feel any Krismas spirit. I couldn’t believe it’ll be this Monday already. Monday feels like a regular working day. Weird. It’s not even remotely cold. Damn humanity for causing global warming!

Bought more DVDs from the ’suking piratas’. I now have Marie Antoinette, The Last Temptation of Christ,  The Seventh Seal, Undo, etc etc. Also bought Grey’s Anatomy and House, all third season. If I get bored during the Krismas family reunion, I have my DVDs to keep me company.

That’s it. I know I’ve forgotten a lot but you don’t really need to know them.

Sorry for the unexpected hiatus. I was sick last week with the flu. I was also absent from work for 3 days. A few things have changed since I last wrote here. I’ll try to them as I write this post.

I don’t think I ever mentioned this but a couple of weeks ago, I fell in love with a pink Anna Sui bag. The initial price is cheap. I think it was 800 pesos. I don’t remember if I was the first one to bid but another girl was wanted the bag too so for several days, we tried to outbid each other. I placed my maximum bid to 2,500. I don’t recall why I was sleepy. Maybe from lack of sleep or I was feeling sick. But I slept early. Like 10 PM. Can you believe that?! 10 PM!!!! So okay, when I checked my mail the next day, I found out I lost the bag. The bitch stole my bag for P2,700. Waaaah! So now I am still obsessed with that bag. In my desperation, I tried to find Ebay Japan but that doesn’t exist. There’s Yahoo Japan though but the site is in Japanese and I found out that the Japanese don’t really like selling to gaijins like me. So I googled for Japan auctions and learned that there are websites which offer bidding services for gaijins who want something from Yahoo Japan. I found a good one, japanauctioncenter.com which offers the service at a cheaper rate than their competitions. I joined the site and deposited a couple thousand of pesos. I saw bags like the one I lost in ebay.ph but they were brand new and expensive. I’ll keep on waiting for a good deal for that bag but for now, I still bid on other Anna Sui products. I actually won a nice wallet. I’m still crossing my fingers for the bag. It’s just like the bag in the photo here except it was pink.

I have 2 Anna Sui bags now which I won on ebay.ph. They’re not as nice as the one I wanted but what can I do?

I am working on a new project. It’s web-related and it’s looking good. I’ll keep that a secret for now.

I just remembered that my driver’s license is expired and I need to renew it. Gah. It expired last Nov. 26. I have to pay penalty fee for not renewing it in the proper time.

I ordered Absolutely Fabulous 1 to 3 and Degrassi Junior High the complete collection on Amazon and I got the DVDs last week. I haven’t started watching them though. Hopefully I’ll find time to watch during the short xmas holiday.

I’m so pretentious. I got myself a moleskine notebook and a large moleskine sketchbook. For those not in the know, moleskine is the brand of notebook Hemmingway, Van Gogh, Picasso, and other brilliant people used. This is what I get from hanging out in philmug.ph. Moleskine.ph overcharges those damn notebooks but I still ordered from the owner who is a philmug regular. It’s just a damn notebook but I’ll keep the illusion that I’m brilliant too because they are expensive. I just got them but I ordered last month. Damn longbeard (the seller). I’m still happy with the purchase though.

I already mentioned about the ibook I have. Well, I bought a bag for it. It’s a Samsonite laptop backpack but it’s way cheaper than the bag I saw in the Samsonite store. I bought mine from istudio in Greenhills. I also bought a…I don’t know what they’re called but they’re stands for the laptop and it’s spherical in shape. That one is expensive but it’s serving me well. I overspent my shopping that day because I also ended up buying an Edifier speaker for my ipod. It’s cheaper than the other good speakers I saw before so I took one.

Great. Most of my activities involve spending. What about me getting money? I hope I didn’t lose any of my regular readers with this update. I would also like to pass around my patented tin can with class? Funds are low once again and sprinking a few $$$ my way would cheer me up in time for the holidays :D

I’m too sleepy now. I could hardly keep my eyes open. Please be generous while I sleep. I’ll post again about the changes in my life when I find time at work.

Here’s my xmas present to you, my readers.

I made an elf of myself.

Things have been hectic lately and I feel like I have a million things to do. So just a short update.

To those who have emailed me, I will try to reply as soon as I can. Maybe I’ll be able to manage that tomorrow night. If not, hopefully this weekend.

I have an iBook now! I ended up not buying my friend’s because I saw another one with better specs and I know I would need one since I always abuse my computers. The one I bought has 1 GB ram, 60 GB HDD, 1.42 Ghz CPU, and superdrive. I’m happy with the purchase but it also means I’m almost broke now. Better put up more stuff on ebay.

I think I’m coming down with the colds. My throat hurts and I feel weaker than usual. I hope this is just a quick passing thing since sometimes my throat acts up and the pain goes away after a day.

That’s it. I feel like puking.

Maybe somebody could help me. I couldn’t figure out my my bullets aren’t showing up on my blog. I’m going crazy over this. Grrr.

I’ve been a blogger for more than 6 years now and I never really earned anything from doing it. Well not exactly. I got Mike to donate me a couple of dollars. Aside from that, nadda. Not a single cent. The Adsense on my sidebar is useless because nobody ever clicked on it. My Amazon Associate account never brought me revenue. And my textlink ad for RSS never got approved. With the advent of problogging and probloggers, the way I blog is probably as extinct as the Dodo bird. I can only drool as increasing number of bloggers in the interwebs receive paychecks or products for review. Hell, that bastard Darren Rowse who owns problogging.net was able to buy a house because of blogging. I wouldn’t even be able to buy a pack of chewing gum for my blog. I am hoping that would change in the future but as for now, I think I have enough credentials to give tips on how not to earn money from blogging.

1. Alienate your audience. Talk about yourself as much as possible and don’t forget to mention your elite tastes in music, film, literature, art, and the likes. Believe that you are better than most of humanity.
2. Make your posts non work-friendly. Display naked or half-naked photos. Make use of keywords such as porn, sex, bestiality, masturbation, incest and other sexual deviations you can think of.
3. Graphics overload. Never resize your graphics nor make thumbnails. Graphics should be 300 pixels or more. By doing so, users on dial-up won’t be able to access your blog.
4. Horizontal scrolling is your friend.
5. Offend. Cover taboo topics and constantly criticize religious groups, race, advocacies, etc. For best effect, contradict yourself often. You don’t want to create a following.
6. Hide your ads. Ads should not be easily seen.
7. Turn off commenting. This makes the readers feel unwelcome. Another alternative is to password protect entries.
8. Never promote your blog. It’s as if your blog doesn’t exist at all.
9. Do not link. This makes your blog self-contained. If someone links to your blog, do not link back. Too much links in posts can be effective too.
10. Sprinkle expletives often. Readers will surely love you for it.

My friend decided to sell her iBook because she’s planning to get a brand new Macbook so it’s for sure that I’m getting it. She said she won’t be bringing it to the US so I can get it before she leaves on the 15th. I can’t wait! It’s only 13 inches so it’s small and lightweight and I can take it anywhere, just perfect since I’m such a net addict. I don’t know the specs of her iBook but she took really good care of it so it’s in good condition. What’s really surprising is I have enough money to pay for it. Thank goodness for early 13th month and birthday money.

I was supposed to go out with my friends last night but a sudden emergency made Phoebe unavailable so I had to postpone the birthday gathering. It’s okay since I had to finish the ad lay-out my cousin commissioned me to do for him. The pay isn’t much but it’s easy work so I’m not complaining. Since my mac is in the office, I had to do my graphics there. I arrived around 5 PM and I think I finished the lay-out by 7 or earlier. By that time, I received Phoebe’s message so when my cousin said he wanted to see the work, I told him to go to the office to check it. We revised it several times but he liked the final outcome. We finished past 8 PM and we were famished. We decided to go to Podium Mall and eat at Burgoo. I suggested that we go to Chili’s or National Sports Grill but my cousin complained that those were too far.

In Podium, I window shopped for a while. I went to Dexter shoes and found an extra wide loafers I could wear to work. Problem is, it costs 5,800 pesos. Too much! I’ll think about it though. After window shopping, we headed to Burgoo. We got the Seafood Caesar Salad, the Salmon in Spinach and Cream sauce (mine), and the Oklahoma Ribs (my cousin’s). I liked my food but my cousin’s steak wasn’t tender. I told him to complain but he said it’s okay. He didn’t want to ruin his good mood. His friend Mike joined us and ate his leftovers. Mike has a new cellphone with wifi. It’s a nokia but I don’t know what it’s called. It’s interesting for me because of the wifi but it doesn’t have a camera. He got it for cheap though. He said he could get me one for the same price but I’m not really interested. I have other things I need and they’re more important. Besides, I already love my phone. My cousin wanted dessert so he ordered mud pie. It was good and it was gone in an instant. Mike had to return to his work (he works in Podium) so cousin and I decided to leave. He dropped me off at the office since I left the car there.