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Win a Ruff PC by Helping John Chow Win It 2008-01-02 02:18:38 I hope the title doesn't sound ridiculous. Okay, let me rephrase the Win-a-Ruff-PC-by-Helping-John-Chow-Win-It into Help John Chow Win the Ruff PC So You May Win It. John Chow is one of those shortlisted to win that "rough" PC by TheThinkingBlog PC Giveaway Contest, and he is generous enough to be bequeathing the PC to the lucky person who helped vote him if he wins it, instead of taking it for [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

My First Encashed Blog Earning 2008-01-02 00:02:31 A bummer like I may not, perhaps, be called a bummer at all, for in a little way I am earning while not having a formal employment, and just yesterday I received as cash some of the earnings my blog has generated since it started taking money-making opportunities, and that was late October, although my blog was born in September. As a fresh graduate of Nursing (still waiting for the licensure [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

New Year, New Look 2008-01-01 06:02:50 Happy New Year, everyone! Sure, mom and sister was busy preparing for the media noche yesterday but I was just as busy as they were... donning a new look for my blog, My Consoling Asylum (MCA). In a span of 118 days, or roughly about 4 months since its birth, MCA, or its author that is, has never been, say, so content, with its blog template and every time he sees a Wordpress-like, probably [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

How To Use Genie's 3 Wish Grants Wisely for New Year 2008-01-01 05:23:11 This article is part of How2Blogger’s Super Sexy Holiday ‘How To’ Contest which you can see at How2Blogger’s ‘How To’ site. As one of the ways to start your New Year, you decided to do a general cleaning of your home--the closet, the garage, the stockroom, etcetera--and you spotted a twinkling amongst an ocean of used and old materials. You pulled it and it was Genie's supposed lamp. You gave it [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

The symbols of Christmas 2008-01-01 05:16:55 Merry Christmas, everyone! It's the time our savior Jesus Christ was born, and it is therefore just to give more love to each other. This is the best time of the year to celebrate and be merry. Even before Christmas comes we decorate our homes with ornaments of green and red and of sparkling gold and silver, and also the lights of different dancing colors that twinkle at night. And as if these [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

My Consoling Asylum's End-of-year Report 2008-01-01 05:16:26 It's the end of the year 2007, and it is time I evaluate my blog's progress, if there were any. Well, there has been much of a progress, and I am glad about that, at least my blogging didn't go in vain. Blog's name: My Consoling Asylum Birthdate: September 4, 2007 Author: see under every post title, silly! Author status: single, but that's not it. Novice blogger, that's it! Age to date: 118 days [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Year End Movie List: Top 10 Movies of 2007 2008-01-01 05:16:00 The year 2007 is coming to a close. Let's see which films made it to the top this year. TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2007 (Based on box office gross income) 1. Spider-Man 3 Total Gross: $336,530,303 Spidey's third spin shattered the wall-crawler's own previous box office records, grabbing the biggest opening weekend of all time. 2. Shrek the Third Total Gross: $321,012,359 The green one returned to [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Movies

MCA on Mindanao's Top 100 Blogs of 2007 2007-12-31 05:34:15 My Consoling Asylum (MCA) is on the 26th spot in MindanaoBloggers.com's list of Top 100 Mindanaoan Blogs of 2007. This is such an honor for a blog which has started just yet, nearing its fourth month of age on January 4th. Hurray! Yahoo! Yehey! W00t! It's time to get the firecrackers roaring and marveling of the evening sky tonight! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

No gift received for Christmas 2007-12-29 09:48:27 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Ways to Make You Smile this New Year 2007-12-29 08:55:41 (Got this from Emusing and I thought I'd share to the people to made me smile, at least in this blogging world, and since I had not made any tagging this Christmas, this is what does it. If the list is too long for it to snatch your time, jump into #101.) 101 Ways to Make You Smile 01. Call an old friend, just to say hi. 02. Hold a door open for a stranger. 03. Invite someone to lunch. 04. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Remembering Benazir Bhutto 2007-12-29 08:48:31 If not with my History class, Asian Civilization, in college I would not have known this powerful woman, Benazir Bhutto, and she may well raise her brow (of her soul) if I had not remembered anything about her when I was in high school, but only in college. During our discussions in my last year at college, which was just last year, I really admire her political prowess. There aren't too many [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

My Ocean of Letters 2007-12-28 04:07:25 Overtime, I didn't notice that my mailbox (not the ones outside the house, not even in e-mail) already holds 96 letters, plus those that were not place inside it, especially the large ones. Most of these letters are from abroad, USA at most, from my penpals, chatmates, and ex-lovers (sigh). The first penpal that I had was from a nearer city, and I was 9 years old by then, and she was in high [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

My 7-and-a-half-hour Honeymoon 2007-12-28 03:30:41 The last time I had laid my hands (and pierced my eyes) on a book from cover to cover was a month after the release of J.K Rowling's latest, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, and from then on were only on few pages of my Nursing books, as preparation for my licensure exam then. If I had fed my senses—taste, smell, vision and hearing—on the runnings of Christmas days, I had thought I needed [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Flirting helps relationship? 2007-12-27 21:34:48 I had bumped into this crazy page and was totally astounded by article's title. It looks really sensically helpful but then again it may not be, also. Does flirting really helps your relationship? Let's look at this article by David Zinczenko. Why Flirting Can Help Your Relationship Flirting Gives You Confidence A relationship progresses after some time, and both sides fall into the same rut of [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Come on, and play online backgammon! 2007-12-25 07:22:35 Backgammon is one of the few select games I enjoy playing. I play it on my phone, and sometimes the online backgammon when I became an expert at it. You might not believe it when I say this but almost all my opponents in backgammon online did not finish the game with me, sensing, perhaps, the coming of their defeat. Well I have become wiser in this game they can't blame me for defeating them. Ha [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...