....It has been 3 long months since my son raymond gave this idea of earning money writing blogs on a daily basis, just like a dairy, since I am on forced retirement and like many I know who dont have a financial parachute when hard times comes, I readily caught the idea in my wildest imagination. As my ideas ran full speed, i imagined myself sitting in front of a computer and just typing away all my fantasies and earning 700 pesos at that. Easy huh?, sure easy as ABC!!! Nah!!! ....I hit hard wall, my mind went blank of what to write !!! . Took me several days just sitting down in front of a blank screen, thinking and rethinking of what to write. I started having headaches just sitting down on a very uncomfortable chair and no ventilation room my son Rexel who dislike electric fans. Come to think of it, during my college days, I was a staffer of The Crusader Magazine & Newspaper and we had already had an air-conditioned office where my buddies enjoyed writing their assigned topics in comfy,spacious room with matching coffee breaks!!! Then again I realized that my contribution to the group was only on the technical layout and photo takings of events ,personalities in and around the campus. Except for occasional assigned cameo articles dished out by our editor in chief, I only spent just a little in writing my thoughts in paper. And in English class where my XY classmates excelled, i belong to the goat group of tail enders.
....The next several weeks got me engrossed in books my son Raymond sent me about bloggings.. started reading them all.. many and many of them got me interested in blogging, how liberating for these bloggers pouring out their ideas and opinions in their own time , place and space.. Some I noticed that it is just pure blurting out what they think and cares of nothing who or what or hello? is -any-body-home? attitude. Some got this genius of decorating their page photos, flowers, pictures, tanks, scuba-divings, gourmet and more advertisements and a lot more advertisements..And there are also a lot of pages in development stage with still blank postings, maybe they are like me who still a wannabe. The next thing i know i got lost in just by surfing and reading every bit of article and link ups, a lesson which my son told me the first time he introduced blogging to me.
....Still, there is no blog on my second month!! well. this month got me started on blogspot..I have to have a page to write.. I thought I write a draft then save and publish it.. It does not work that way.. Be brave, write anything, that way you got to familiarize the keyboard.. you get also friendly with the computer, yes I mean you get to understand and know the functions of the icons above the screen. I am a moron to this computer thing, i prefer the typewriter but it is another story to tell, another blog perhaps? . Well, it got me started.. I wrote " test" then publish.. What a victorious feeling when I was able to text my son..I got my Blog and post! ...Hehehe attached. Another milestone was when i was able to post a picture of myself, it took like a year to choose which picture will I publish, a baby pic would hide my senior citizenship or my scuba-dive pose which will reveal my sport-age if we have a word like this! Naturally, a committee was form from my family, headed by my daughter, Rani.. a resounding majority in favor of my picture scuba diving at sipaca point where I met the pet of my second son Ronald, Galactus, a very thorny Crown-of-torn starfish.
.....Then, what is next? another up hill climb to mount everest! how do i get this going? The battery provided for our brain to think and convert it into words is limited to our imagination. I have learned a long time ago that one plus one equals two and at the end of day, you deserve only what you worked for. Now, where's the second blog? you get your passive income from blog ad when you have a blog and frequently visited. Really tough.. I got this idea, why not pretend you are a columnist and on assignment, the editor is assigning you for a first topic. and the topic is " starting your own blog"
.....And this is it!!! starting my own blog, a little late for three months, my 3 cents worth of advice, Write Right NOw...and watch out for my ideas to shine in a-matter-of what have you topics which i think will run and rerun quite a number of nonsense and not so nonsense, opinions, celebrations of life, events, news , oldies, my dive log and more ads . read me soon..please.
