Come join us in our nesting place.

No internet connection.

In the office.

*sigh*

I’m bored.

I’m now breaking my self-imposed blogging hiatus because I read earlier today (really early like 2 AM!) the draft of a memorandum circular by the National Telecommunication Commission about their plan to have all content developers (i.e. bloggers), providers, etc… registered.

Contents, Information, Applications and/or Electronic Games Providers, Contents Developers, Information Sources, Applications Developers, and Electronic Games Developers are required to have commercial presence in the country and shall secure Certificate of Registration (COR) from the Commission.

Read more of the Memorandum here

My initial reaction was one of incredulity. Registered, ey? And then there will be a registration fee. My eyebrows were raised ceiling-high! At an unholy hour. My gawd. I really could think about a million and one  benefits the department can reap from the registration *smirk*

Then when it all started to really sink in, I could only laugh my wicked witch laugh. This is all really hilarious. (And that’s the understatement of the year!)

Do you know I feel funny sometimes. Whenever I get the chance to reciprocate TT bloggers visits and read their TT post, I do feel funny sometimes because contrary to theirs, my posts seem to go off the topic (from the theme).

But that’s because I always autopublish my posts here.  There are busy days when I cannot even comb my hair, how much more sneak out to write my posts.  That’s why I write them in advance while I have the time. I don’t want to miss posting on Thursdays.

Now even if as I said so, trust me, I have days when I battle with negativity  and it’s a little difficult to be grateful for stuffs… But counting blessings always keeps me from wallowing in negative pits. Keeps me from drowning in the sea of misery and unhappiness for long. It does help me from feeling low and dejected.

Counting blessings - small or simple as they are - makes life more bearable, if not happier. And counting blessings makes me feel so loved. Doing so doesn’t really make things right or change things for me, but almost always, it sets me in the “right” state. It puts me in a good place - and that is to be thankful. Despite everything.

To be thankful, even if. To be thankful, just because.

If you’ve not participated in Thankful Thursdays, consider this an invitation to join us. Drop by the TT HQ. :-)

I’ve been lucky I had a the time to bloghop last week (which is somewhat of a luxury these days) and I just feel so blessed to have stumbled into this Blogger’s Prayer which Father Cuyos wrote.

I so love it that I had to share it to those who might chance upon my blog.

Anyway, three years ago, I had never heard about blogging. I didn’t even have a clue that such a word exist! Never knew that one day I’d get addicted to it and it would totally consume me (past tense? :->).

Fast forward. So I blog now (and true, there’s even one point in my life when I totally got addicted to it). Blogging has actually brought wonderful gifts in my life. Apart from being able to practise writing, I’ve learned and seen new things online. Learning html and php code is fun,  albeit headache-and-nosebleed causing (a perfect excuse for being too lazy to break codes at times!).  Through  blogging, I’ve seen a glimpse of the other people’s lives. I’ve forged friendship online. Quite unexpectedly, I’ve even earned some cash because of blogging (I’ve missed opps but got some to take care of some “extras”).

On a personal level, in a way, blogging has made me understand myself - and my feelings and my priorities better (I hope that makes sense).  I might not be blogging as  much as I’d love to  -or bloghopping and commenting - but this is also because of these priorities. (And I appreciate all of you who still visit and comment).

Through the pits and peaks of blogging, I’m grateful for everything. For what it has brought in my life-  still brings and will hopefully bring.

To wrap things up, I want to quote few of my favorite lines from the Blogger’s Prayer:

Make our hearts meek and humble that we may treat our readers as friends, not as unique hits, that we may strive to change ourselves for the better more often than we pimp our site templates, that we may find more time to ease the pain of someone in our own home than to reply to comments left by strangers, that we may interact with our next door neighbors as often as we chat with our blogrolled friends, that we may be more concerned about helping the less privileged than about the number of subscribers to our RSS feeds.

For more of Thankful Thursday participants, please visit Iris.

I know there are few many times when I wanted to give up my job and just be a full-time mother. But apart from the fact that the moolah every payday helps settle the cookie bills, the 8 hours I spend working give me the right amount of space and time to recollect my thoughts,

to prep myself for more parenting challenges,

to re-energize myself and most of all,

to terribly miss my son.

So that by the time I get home, I am (again) all ready for the endless “Mama, pleeease…,” the demanding “Mama -want this” or the very loud  “Mamaaaaaa.”

So today, I’m thankful for my job.

For more of Thankful Thursday participants, please visit Iris.

Se7en is my favorite number - and for no special reason. So today, I’m going to list 7 things I’m thankful for (in reality, I actually have more than that to be thankful for).

 7. A favorable exam result! Yay! I already saw it and when I thought about my reading/studying marathon, I couldn’t help but be glad. What a reward! I’m so HAPPY. Thanks God for guiding me through the examinations. For those who prayed for me, thanks so so much!

 6. For a wonderful husband. I’m really touched that he wanted to get me a phone similar to my old one -but told me that he couldn’t raise the amount to pay for it from his weekly allowance (which I am giving him) in time for my birthday. *grin*

 5. For parents who are helping me with my parenting responsibilities. My mother always helps me attend to my son. He’s more than a grandmother to him.

 4. For blogging friends who always leave inspiring messages.

 3. Whoever invented the nebulizer- I’m thankful for him.  Handling asthma attacks are easier with a nebulizer

 2. For a kid named Jep-jep, who visits, entertains and plays with my son. Matt badly needs a playmate (not above 30!) and it’s great to see him enjoy someone’s company- so much so that Jep’s name constantly pops up in our converstaions.

 1. For a kid -my kid- who teaches me to become a better person. Parenting is a daunting responsibility but it’s a very rewarding one.

For more Thankful Thursday posts, please visit Iris.

 I’ve been sick very recently. Got the flu. But I’m thankful that when I got sick - it happened after the exams. Actually, the fever came right after the last exam.

I am thankful that despite croaking like a frog and barking like a dog, I was able to conduct a technical presentation and impart lessons to a number of engineering students during a seminar last Sunday.

I’m still waiting for the result of the exams and I’m praying to get favorable results next week.  Thanks to those who helped me pray.

Lastly, thanks Maiylah for this rockin’ blog bling.