‘Bloggers For A Cause’ to celebrate Hearts’ Day with strangers
While most people all over the world spends the day only with their special someone, exchanging roses, chocolates and sweet nothings, BFAC, “an organization of bloggers who want to make a difference in other peoples’ lives through blogging and beyond” will be spending the day with the strangers — the underprivileged ones. Members and friends of “Bloggers For A Cause” (BFAC) will once again conquer the streets of Metro Manila to reach out for the street people, this time to celebrate with them the...
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By JERICK BALUYOT, The Comfort Rooms Sunday School taught me that when “we are in the service of our fellow beings, we are only in the service of our God.” If asked if we would want and /or volunteer to be of God’s service, I’m sure everyone would raise his/her hand and say “yes.” Sure, it would be very huge of an honor to be given the privilege to serve God but one might be dumb-founded on what ways we could serve God and give back to him. Being the selfless superbeing that He is, He wanted us to, instead of serving him literally,...
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By ELISEO H. VALENDEZ, Ely’s Planet It was in 2005 when I first got an informal training on blogging, when Philippines’ veteran journalist, Luis V. Teodoro with other journalism professors from the University of the Philippines incorporated “blogging” as one of the sub-topics in that year’s Lopez Jaena Journalism Workshop held in Baguio City. I was then a third year Economics student at Palawan State University and working as a reporter for Bandillo ng Palawan, an environmental newspaper based in Puerto Princesa...
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By LEY LACAR, My Various First Times Because I wanted Oprah to interview me. Yup, no shit. I always daydreamed about sharing my crazy encounters to bring laughter, lesson or both to people. I fantasized about doing it live on camera, with the great Oprah. But she’s soon retiring and I haven’t really done anything grand that’s worth being interviewed, yet. So I started a blog instead, chronicling my funny and sometimes sad first times. I guess the point here is I want to share. Yes I like writing, that’s a given. But what sets blogging...
read moreWhy do I blog? The Vendor Mom’s Experience
By ROWENA IGUIS, The Vendor Mom I’m not out to prove myself, I’m here because I have something to say”. I find great joy in sharing my thoughts, my life and my emotions but hardly express them at times. No matter how surreal, when timing isn’t right, when someone around is not worthy to share my bliss with, I would rather keep them for self consumption. But not anymore when I discovered blogging. I get to express my self with no inhibitions. I get to ask common people about anything under the internet sun. I earn...
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