Since becoming a mommy, I have to admit I’ve become a scatterbrain most times the past couple of years. But I suppose my passion had been redirected to our new family addition, our beautiful little girl Sophia. Having passed her first birthday, she is becoming more independent: playing alone quietly by my feet for a few minutes, learning to feed herself, undress herself for a bath, ask for what she wants, etc. Breaking my heart while I burst with pride: so this is how it’s like to be a parent.

A passion for what you love doing, a passion for life itself. What are you passionate about?

I know through my more than three decades of existence, there are things about the world that I became and continue to feel passion for. In my life what makes me feel alive involve beauty, knowledge, simplicity and love. Beauty: photos, drawings, music, stories; knowledge: personalities, history, science; simplicity: practicality and frugality; love: family and treasured friends.

This is the essence of our blog. We write about things we are passionate about. But when we get immersed in these passions, these days we don’t get the chance to blog about it as soon as we could.

So yet again, I’ll try to revive this blog. Perhaps what they say about blogging being “dead” can be put off for a little while longer.

From my previous trusted webhost from the Philippines, I transferred the site to John’s (panelo.com) dedicated server. I also transferred my domain host to a new provider and now have total control in our domain name.

Hopefully, we will be in good hands with the new home.

Salamat John sa pag-host sa amin, wag mo ibebenta ang domain mo kay VJ Belinda. Hehe

It’s been a sweet ride WordPress! Thank you for the wonderful 5 years and looking for many years to come!

There’s an official party organized by WordPress god Matt in the US and there’s even one in Sydney!

I got a mass email from the Pinoy WordPress community administrator reminding me to make the link love for the members. The Chuckie Dreyfuss started this community and is gaining momentum since it was first started. This has been an ongoing effort to promote Pinoy bloggers using WordPress platform – either the freely hosted one or the own-install version. Well, I finally did it. I copied and pasted the links to make the new page Pinoy WordPress Link Love. Thanks for all the incoming links from the members and I hope I can do my share to juice up your blog page ranks.

Pen will be back from the Philippines stopping a day here in Singapore before finally heading back to Sydney. We are not yet quite sure when we’ll meet again as we are trying very hard to minimize expenses of travelling. If there will be a cheap flight sometime this year, either I fly to Sydney or she goes back here in Singapore. We still don’t know yet.

There goes my short window of time. Going back to face the real world now.

It is a little website made by some sad computer science student in UP (he’s probably somewhere writing code to save the world now). In the website, the author (Alec, from what I gather in his pages) outlines his experiences in each of his academic courses in bullets. He documented what he learned (if any) from the course, his professor/teacher and what he/she was like, and other things he experienced in his classes. At one point he says in one CS subject “walang lab, pero ewan ko kung bakit natuto akong mag-program dito”.

Math teachers he mentions are Dr Pizana, Dr Roque, Dr Alejandro (now Kazanidis), Prof Adorio, Cherry Ramos and Ajay Jorge =)

We may not know each other personally but we sure have one thing in common – WordPress! He’s been busy spearheading the Pinoy WordPress community among other things. I think this is a really great cause of establishing the Pinoy WordPress users in the Philippines and all over the interwebs. Join the community in the temporary message board that he put up.

I’d say his celebrity status contributed to the rapid growth of the community. It would not gain this much popularity if it had been organized by some random WordPress advocate. Hats off to you Chuckie! It would greatly speed up your efforts if keep in touch with somebody named Yuga – the blogging god of the Philippines.

Gawsh I really need to blog. In lieu of a sense”ful” post, I present to you, another stolen strip from Jorge Cham’s “Piled Higher and Deeper”. Egad, it’s Cecilia, my twin from the comic world:

Just spent the past day “scaffolding” tasks… and what do you know? I think I am stuck between scaffolds. I need some grease.

Readers can now click to comment without leaving a trace. No more email boxes to fill up. Just click on the icon below to leave a mark (albeit anonymously) in the site.

Try it!

Last year, I pegged janep’s anniversary to be on June 20th which coincides with our anniversary and Cia’s bday. It has been a very fruitful year both for me and Pen.

As you all know, Pen is currently in Sydney while I am here in Singapore. Yeah, it’s the dreaded long distance relationship, but we don’t really give a shit. We are having fun doing our own thing by ourselves. We could be happier though if we are together but we are on the last stretch of our single blessedness, might as well savor the moment. Carpe Diem!

Now, as for the new look, I do hope you notice the banner image (or at least it shows on your browser). It would not have been possible without the generosity of Mr. Jonas Diego of The Blurb!. I (formally) met Jonas in iBlog3 when I took all my courage to approach him. He’s a comics artist (and sometimes a comic too!) and I’m a comics fan. The meeting was a match made in heaven – well at least for me. I’m a big fan of webcomics apart from the usual singe comics sold at your comics shops. Jonas already has 6 webcomics published in the web. Grab/read/subscribe your copy over at his archive. Jonas, I thank you once again.

I’m not yet done with the details of the new look. There’s nothing you can do but bear with the inconvenience. Honestly, I haven’t fully tested the template so there might be some broken links here and there. I’m just a comment/email away, so please do tell me any thing you may have notice not working properly.

Thanks for continuously reading the blog. We hope you join us with our journey.