Blogging Again

I has been a while folks. I hope everyone is doing great. To all mommies, Happy Mother’s Day!

Year 2017 has been alright. I would not say not perfect but all creases have been ironed-out. Mostly work related issues.  To those you have been following my blog, I mentioned I have transferred to chat from being a voice tech support agent. There was a bit of struggle at the beginning of the year, 2017. It was all about my monthly score.

To call center representatives also known as call center agents, like me.  They know what I am saying here. Passing our annual score is a must, if we want a salary increase. It also helps management to know if the agent is performing. Or, the agent needs help. Worst, if they agent needs to leave the company. I had a bit of struggle for six months, getting not a passing customer survey. Luckily, I made it towards the middle of the year until year end.  Why did I not aim for promotion? Not worth it for a lot of pressure. I would rather retire looking young and healthy.

Family and love life is great I have no complain. They are very supportive. Busy at home on my day off and vacation from work.  It is normal for me to mind my organizing my small space.  I do not want to arrive from work to a topsy turvy home.  I am not a traveller, other than team building activities at work. I do not want to spend money when not needed. I would rather spend money in buying appliances and home maintenance.  I live frugally and in the most practical way. Please do not get me wrong. I am not against travelling.  Go ahead if you need to. I am speaking for myself.

Here I am back to blogging again. Just like saying hello to my blogging buddies and readers.  This blog is still alive. I may not be consistent with my post but  I can assure everyone this blog will stay until such time I can no longer type and run out of ideas.  I will be in touch with more stories.   My pillows are now waiting for me in my bed. 

Happy Plant

So it is true some plants respond to artificial light. This one is inside my room underneath my night lamp. I noticed leaves became shinier than when it was in my living room. I switched their places. Sanseviera plant was in here before. The sanseviera is bigger now with three shoots. I had to repot the sanseviera and put it in a roomy space in my living room. 

It enjoys reading my blog.. I guess.  (lol) 

Flag Counter

I had not known of so many countries in the world until I added this flag counter to my blog. Kudos to the developer!

I added this counter two years ago and since then, I had been mesmerized how this counter works.  

Please do not get me wrong, folks. I do not know the developer of this software. I am just happy about what I learned from this counter.   

Thank you to those who visited my blog. I thank more, those who kept coming back.

Family First

My sister and I, years back at our house in the province.

Folks, spam did not get into my blog it is why I was on vacation from blogging. I had just some activities for the past few weeks that got me so tied up. We had team building at work around the third week of April. Last week of April, my youngest brother and my sister came. My sister stayed with me for a week. The three of us, me my sis and my niece, my sis daughter who stays with me had bonding time in those days I am off from blogging.

The last time I saw my sister was October last year. She did not come last Christmas. She is lazy traveling when there are too many people. When she is in Manila that is the time I am on vacation from household chores. She does almost everything, from house cleaning, laundry and most importantly cooking for me and her daughter. Our stories do not seem to let up from our childhood years to our preteens. She is a good cook.  I always missed her cooking style.

Nine, Twenty Three, Twenty Eleven

After three months of my request for the transfer of service for my phone and internet. My service got transferred, finally. When was the date of transfer? Take a guess. But the phone had no dial tone for almost two weeks.

In my previous blog, I mentioned about subscribing to my previous internet provider. That one I had when I was in Makati City. I had a second thought, in view of too many months of service disconnects. When I transferred to Pasig City, I subscribed to Philippines main phone and internet provider PLDT. I requested to transfer the service in July to the new apartment, I am renting now. I was denied transfer for the reason the connection will be passing through private properties. PLDT was referring to the other apartment units.

I am Moving Again

Folks, I may not be online for a week or two. I am moving again. This time it will be a bigger place compared to my present home. I promise to post some photos soon as I get settled. I will have my phone and DSL transferred. I was advised by my phone and internet provider it would take a week or two depending on the location I am transferring to. Likewise they would take into consideration if the house is blacklisted or has available facilities already. Hopefully, it will be transferred soon. I have no time to go to internet café to post and visit blogs.

I am not happy my current landlord and landlady, they are spouses, did not deliver what they  promised me, especially the sub-meters for electricity and water. When I moved to their apartment 1st of February 2011, I repeatedly asked if I will have my own utility meters. I was assured I will have. Later, my electricity service was disconnected. I had to pay for the usage of the other tenants just so I will have the service back. Being out of electricity service in the warm weather in Manila is no joke.

Message of Thanks

Folks, I never thought of having so many of you to greet me on the birthday of Jolly Princess @ World Wide Web. You are the very reason my blog is surviving. I would like to mention that some of my blog visitors who came for the good wishes are first time blog visitors. Welcome aboard guys and gals. I just needed more sleep coming home from work. It is taking a little while before I visit your blogs. Do not fret I will be one of your visitors one of these days. To my old blogger friends, appreciate your blog support a lot!

Let me say these to you … all ♥ Much more than…

You gave me a reason to smile. ☺

I Am Three Years Old

Jolly Princess @ World Wide Web will be three years old on the 11^th of January 2011! ☺

 

HaPpY BiRtHdAy! ♫

Friendship at World Wide Web

This blog post is especially dedicated to one of my blogger friends who despite her busy schedule had given me the time and space on her blog. Folks, please feel free to meet Stephanie at this link. -

http://www.bittersweetlife.co.cc/ 

My award says - The Kababayan Award. Kababayan by the way is a Filipino language stating you are from same country. 

Stephanie, I would like to say, much more than thank you for giving me a space in your blog. I am greatly honored for the award. I never thought I could bring sunshine to some of my readers. My blog posts are what I do everyday, my lifestyle, work and anything just to express my feelings. It is a hobby for a while. Now, my blog became my window to the World Wide Web. Likewise to my blogger friends and readers, thank you all, for your continued support.  ♥)

Tokens of Friendship

I got these awards from two of my blogger friends. I would like to share these with everyone. Yes, with you all. I do not want to name a few because there are so many of you who are dear to me.  Space may not be enough if I type all your names in here. 

Enjoy photos of different places she visited. Here she is ♥

http://www.travelphotojunkie.blogspot.com/

 

Laughter is the best medicine. Get to know my adopted son Baby Batman :♥)

http://beanizersinstincts.blogspot.com/

Inspired by the novel pocket books I had been reading, fighting with my insomnia years back. Jolly Princess at World Wide Web was born, to share the ideas of an aspiring writer in me. Blogging helped me fulfilled my dream of being a writer. Oh, well I mean partially fulfilled my dream.

Some says be careful with what you wished for. I do not mind really wishing for something good. Who knows the good fairy might be around and cast her magic wand. If miracles do happen then maybe a magic will do as well.

Kidding aside, what made me attached to the blogging world, without letting up writing are my blogger friends. Since the very day I decided to publish my blog by joining several blog communities. I had enjoyed the warmth of friendship from by blogger friends throughout the World Wide Web.

Tactless Showoff

I read this article posted on Yahoo Philippines where the good Korean actress Lee Da Hae tried to show off her allegedly mastery of English accent. Accordingly, Miss Lee imitated American and British accents and when she imitated English Filipino teacher she did it in a ridiculous way. This was aired in Korean Broadcasting System (KBS). Without her knowledge there are Filipinos in Korea who had watched the show and were apparently irked by her show off. This prompted Miss Lee to issue a statement on her Twitter account to apologize to her fans from the Philippines. This is how her statement on Twitter was written. http://tl.gd/6plc2r

On Wednesday 3rd November 2010, @cherry4eva84 said: 

First I'd like to give you my sincere apologies for what seems to be a misunderstanding.

It has come to my attention that many of you from the Philippines have posted comments protesting that i was being derisive by mimicking Filipinos when they speak English.

Therefore, in light of this matter I'd like to take this opportunity to clear the air.
In spite of what many people believe, I myself did NOT mention anything
about the Philippines or Filipino accent whilst on the TV show.

On the other hand I recall bringing up Southeast Asia and not the Philippines and the subtitles were inserted when the show was being edited of which I was not aware of until it was aired.

The TV show where this footage was taken from was designed to amuse its audience and my sole purpose was to entertain the viewers by coming up with lighthearted stories.

Since the producer knows that i speak English he asked me if I could
share any episodes that touch upon the English language.

As we all know every country has a typical accent when its people speak English (including myself) so after giving it some thought, I came up with a few lines where I simply tried to compare different English accents: the somewhat rigid British accent and beginners in Southeast Asia whose English tends to be a little hard-edged. No pun or ridicule was intended.

As an individual who use to take English classes over the phone with a Filipino instructor, I give you my word that even the mere thought of mocking Filipinos would never cross my mind.
I cannot tell you how much Filipino fans mean to me and as much as I love them, I would in no way
hurt or upset them.

I hope I have clarified any misunderstandings and once again I am truly sorry if I inadvertently
hurt anyone's feelings.

-i really love you, my Filipino fans.

Hmmm… just an after thought, if this is the kind of English you have Miss Lee. I suggest you better hire a Filipino English teacher to teach you to write better English. My English teachers never taught me this kind of English. Furthermore, I would like to invite you to join us in blogging. Be my guest, and learn how good your educated South East Asian neighbors write their blogs in English.

Blog Update

I became too busy over the weekend. What made your Jolly Princess busy? I would like to make a formal announcement I made some revisions again in my blog. For those who had been tediously following my blog. I hope in some ways I could make you smile reading my post to commensurate the effort. And hopefully my humble blog would be remembered across the World Wide Web. For the new revision, I added a language translation and widgets for ads. I noticed some of my visitors are from non English speaking countries. Thanks to some blogger friends for the idea of language translation. I apologize for being a copycat, once in a while.

The language translation may not be the exact words in your language. But I guess the essence of my blog will be there. I was laughing when I clicked the translation for the Filipino language. Some of the words are colloquial, they are so funny. Oh, you must have noticed I removed the LinkWithin widget. It did not look good in my blog. I had to take the widget off. Should you want to rock your brain with my previous posts, you may simply click Older Posts at the bottom portion of my blog. Or another way is to go to my Blog Archive.

The idea of adding ads to my site is just another innovation I thought of trying it. I had to subscribe to AdBrite because I was banned by Google AdSense. It was a long story. I had some friends who used to borrow my computer. I showed them my blog. Alas! They thought they could help me earn by clicking my ads using the same computer I used to set up my AdSense. So, you know what happened next. I know AdBrite will still approve my site. I thought there is no harm putting those widgets. I might as well be of help to some bloggers and blog visitors. Who knows?

I had some blog hopping and I noticed most of my blogger friends had updated their design into a more comment friendly template. When I visit a blog I would normally leave a comment and follow the blog. The exception is those blogs insinuating promiscuity. My parents are strict you know. I do not exactly understand why some sites sell those ideas. We could cross the bridge when we get there, after all. I guess this is all for now folks. I will keep you posted for any catastrophic change. Jazzzzzz kidding! Have a lovely blogging days full of smiles! Remember, smiles are for free! ☺

Blog Widgets

If you had been following my blog you must have noticed I had been updating my designs.  Please do not fret okay? I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. It is just that I want my blog to radiate my blog title what else but your favorite Jolly Princess @ World Wide Web. My blog URL 
 

http://www.smile4meonline2.blogspot.com

That is good, you are smiling now. Ever since I had switched to the new template I discovered there are more designs and widgets I could do or add to improve my blog design. I added Link Within for easy reference to my older or earlier posts. I had seen many of my blogger friends used Link Within and thought of trying it on my blog. It would help my readers to read my previous posts without going to the hassle of clicking the button Older Posts. At first I hesitated to add Link Within because it makes my blog look too crowded. For the time being I will leave it here. Let me figure out if indeed it will be useful later on.

I also added Shout Mix for my visitors who are shy to leave me a comment. You may simply leave me a smiley should you want me to know you visited. In this way I could visit you as well. It does not matter if you do not own a Website or blog. You can use your e-mail address Twitter, Facebook or other Website account. I will not see your account if you are not a blogger. You have to type your name on the designated box. I deleted the widgets from the other communities I joined. For the reason it takes several minutes for the widgets to load in my blog.

Blogging is made easy nowadays. The limit is set in your own imagination. When started the hobby of blogging, it was a trial and error for me. The trial is good, minimal error is just fine. Did you know that coming home from work that first thing I logged in to, is my blog? Love your own, what else? Not exactly, I wanted to find out who visited my blog. And, should they left comments. I would like to thank them for making me smile. Yes, it feels good when someone on the other side of WWW cares of what you are doing. 

** Post Script **
I deleted Link Within today  07.24.10. I used it only as a trial. It makes my blog posts load too long.

New Blog Template

Surprise! I got a new blog template!

Yup! I did change my blog template because I am having trouble viewing my blog using Internet Explorer. I thought if I update my blog template to one of the new ones recommended by blogspot.com. I would be able to view my blog just like I used too with IE. To my dismay, my expectation did not happen. Since my previous template was on old one. I was unable to go back to it anymore. If you had been visiting my blog, this used to be how it looked. 

 

Well, I would say not bad for the update I did. I chose the simple template for me to be able to design my blog.  Pink is not actually one of my favorite colors but it denotes being young. Being a princess, I chose the color. My favorite colors are red, black and gold, extreme right? I like other colors of course and I can match colors to create a design. You got it!  I like every flower that grows on planet earth. However, roses and orchids are my favorites. It is not easy to design a blog. The thing is. I had to allot a certain time to do it. I love designing my own blog. I want my blog to look happy.  I am Jolly Princess after all. 

I had great time putting all together all the gadgets to make my blog looked this way. It was a bit tiring though. Yet it was worth it, when I see the end result. I mentioned about my internet browser. I am using Mozilla Firefox this time. I am not sure what will work for you. For me, my internet connection is faster when I used Firefox. I can view my blog in the manner I want it. I still use IE on other Websites, though. So I have two browsers I used alternately. I guess maybe there is something I need to do with IE. My busy brain has not figured it out yet for now.

 Thanks Josh Peterson!

I hope I made you happy with the blog template you designed.