First Sponsored Reviews Payment Proof

Actually, this is a late post already but I still want to share it here. I received my very first payment from Sponsored Reviews last April 28 which was $7.50 after 4 months of being a member of this paid blogging network. It was supposed to be posted here a few weeks ago but because of time constraints, I wasn't able to post it. So, here’s a screen shot.

I know it’s not a big amount, but the fact that I received a task from them, was a big thing for me. I haven’t bid to any of the opportunities available in the marketplace, since I know it’s really hard to be selected by advertisers since there are hundreds of bloggers who also bid in a particular opportunity. So, I was just so surprised when I opened my e-mail that I received a task from Sponsored Review since I thought I won’t be able to receive a task from them. It was actually from an advertiser that wanted to have a sponsored post from my blog. I was so ecstatic about it and I immediately did the task. And the good thing about Sponsored Reviews is that they pay twice a month. So, you don’t have to wait one month to receive a payment from them. I’m hoping that this would not be the last time to receive a task from them, and I’m wishing to receive more “opps” from them in the coming days, and I’ll definitely share it again here. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

I haven't updated this blog

I haven't updated this blog for quite some time now since I'm very busy updating my newly-created self-hosted blog. Since it's a brand new blog, I have to write entries every single day, and hoping that in the coming months I could monetize it. It's quite hard because I have 5 blogs and at times, I ran out of ideas on what to write, but it's alright since I love what I do and that's the most important thing here. Well, I'll try my very best to update this blog a couple of times per week since I'm just too busy with my other blogs nowadays..

Manny Pacquiao and Mosley Fight

Today is the scheduled fight of our very own Manny Pacquiao against Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This is one of the much anticipated events of the Filipinos since Pacquiao will again give us a great fight, that will surely excite not just Filipinos but as well as the different nationalities. Well, let's all hope that Manny Pacquiao will become victorious again and wins the welterweight title against Shane Mosley. We are just a few hours away from this match-up, and I barely see people outside, that's absolutely because a lot of people are just inside their homes waiting for this moment. And not to mention, this is a perfect time for the family and friends to bond, wherein they can discuss a lot of things regarding the fight of Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley.

I've also noticed that it's less traffic now and it's no surprise at all to all of us, since we already knew what's the reason behind this. Every time Manny has a fight,this is always the scenario, since majority of the people are just glued and fixated on the boob tube including myself. I am also one of the millions of viewers who is ecstatic and thrilled if what's going to happen in this particular fight, and as always, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hope for the best for "Pacman". I'm also excited about Charice Pempengco, which is by the way, another fellow Filipino that we should be proud of, of what she had achieved, both in singing and acting career in Hollywood, and I believe there's still so much in store for her, in terms of singing and acting career as well, in Hollywood. She will be singing the Philippine national anthem, and I'm sure she will do a great job.


Anyway, let's us all wish Manny Pacquiao the best and I'm very positive that he will be victorious again.

So tired of waiting

It's been almost 7 months since I started blogging, but I'm still far away from my dreams, or would I be able to reach that dreams of mine. At times, it's too tiring, I don't know if I still have a brighter future ahead of me. Life is so unfair, I ran out of idea of what I'm going to do now. All I want to do is to cry out loud and shout out loud. Why all these things are happening to me? Am I that bad or something? When would I see the brighter side of life? It seems that I was only born here just to experience failure and hardships in life....


Please Lord, help me to overcome all these... I'm just so tired. Embrace me and let me feel your warmest touch. Comfort me, and let me feel your love for me. These are the things that I'm longing to feel from you.

The challenges you need to go through as a first time mother

A few years back, I still have some questions in mind such as what it feels like to become a first time mother, or the exact feeling of a girl who became a first time mom at a young age, like those girls who became pregnant during their teenage years. In this entry, I’m going to share with you guys the challenges I’ve faced for being a first time mom a couple of years back, and up to this very day.

Before, I thought becoming a mother will be that easy. And all I imagined was something like “I really want to have a daughter, a “mini me” something to that effect. I want to dress her up, or see her with those cute little outfits, and I want to give her all the cute stuffs or toys I’ve seen on the store. These were all the things I had in mind when I was still single.

Nevertheless, when I became a first time mother, everything has changed dramatically since it unveiled the reality of what exactly life is, and it actually taught me the real meaning of what motherhood is all about. I am a young mom myself, and I had my first baby in my early 20’s. However, when I had her, I could honestly say that I’m ready to embrace motherhood already even if I’m still young then. I remembered back then how my mom would remind me almost every single day on how hard it is to become a mom, and I was like “don’t worry mom I can handle this and I will do everything I can just to be the best mother for my child,” since I thought everything will be smooth and I can manage everything.

I’m just very thankful to my mother for the advices and all the things she imparted just to guide me in my journey through motherhood. And as we all know, mother knows best, that’s why I could say, what she had taught me through the years in terms of pregnancy, and as well as raising my daughter were really the best information I got than what were written in the books I’ve read.

At times, when we were still young, we have this mind-set that the hardest part of being a mother was the pregnancy stage. When you carry your child in your womb for 9 months, and when you have to experience all those annoying signs and symptoms such as the morning sickness, the mood swings, the loss of appetite, constipation, and so on. But once you gave birth, we think that everything is manageable or everything is easy as 123, since we believe we already passed the toughest part of being a first time mother. However, the challenges won’t end there since it is still the beginning of our journey. And this thing was exactly I believed in, a few years back when I finally gave birth, but after a couple of months, I realized the truth was exactly the opposite of what I used to believe in, there were still few rough roads that I need to pass through. Nevertheless, those challenges were very necessary for me to become the best mom that I can be and even if it sounds ironic, those challenges I went through really helped me to appreciate motherhood more.

Furthermore, once you gave birth, one of the biggest responsibilities in your life takes place, and that is to make sure that you’ll the best mother to your child. You’ll now focus on the welfare of your child. You’ll also say goodbye to some of the things you used to do when you still have a single status since the top of your list now won’t be shopping or going to the salon with your friends, or go bar hopping with them, but your main priority now is your child, and how you could give her all the best things that this world has to offer.

Nevertheless, motherhood doesn’t necessarily mean your life would be boring since I have mentioned above that there will be some changes when it comes to your priorities in life, and there will be a lot of adjustments in life, and I totally understand that it’s just so hard to adjust on things, especially if you’re already used to all those stuffs, and it is indeed really hard to let go of the things that you enjoy doing. However, the key here is that you have to be ready emotionally, psychologically, and physically before you enter motherhood. You should be ready in these aspects so that you’ll be more willing to sacrifice things. And you also have to ensure that your partner is also ready in those 3 aspects and in financial aspect as well. You have to make sure that both of you have already anticipated if what are the parents’ responsibilities to their child, so that both of you won’t be overwhelmed with those responsibilities once you entered parenthood and married life.

Well, in my case, even though I became a first time mom at a young age, there were no regrets at all. Since I entered motherhood when I felt that I was ready, and I believed that I already made the most out of my single status. Enjoying your life while you’re single is very important, so that there will be no regrets on your part in the long run, once you’ve decided to tie the knot with your chosen partner. And not to mention, you’ll no longer tell yourself that if you could just turn back time, you will correct the mistake you’ve made, and you’ll make sure that you are just going to walk down the aisle, once you’ve made the most out of your single life and when you’re completely ready.

Moreover, as a first time mother, I really had a hard time adjusting to the new chapter in my life back then since everything was all new to me. There was this one time, when I just gave birth to my daughter, I had no idea at all on how to stop her from crying. I fed her and all since I thought she was just hungry or something.  I did everything I can just to stop her from crying out loud, but still nothing happens. I was really in tears as well while cuddling her, since I thought there was something wrong, if she’s in pain or whatsoever. This is really the hardest thing when taking care of a baby who is below one year old or when your child wasn’t able to express what they actually feel. Back then, it really broke my heart every time I saw her crying when I knew there was really something wrong but I couldn’t do a single thing for her as soon as I can, since I had a hard time figuring it out. And I’m really freaking out every time she was not feeling well or even if she was just having a slight fever.

Becoming a first time mother is not an easy task and it is indeed the toughest job in the world I must say. Nonetheless, it is the most fulfilling thing on earth. Once you felt and seen you’ve done an amazing job of raising your child, it would be the most wonderful feeling you could ever felt in your lifetime. Right now, my daughter is already 4 years old and I just realized how fast time flies. There are still little things I need to work on such as the best strategies for her to eat her healthy meal since all she wants to eat is fried chicken, *lol* and seriously, at times I ran out of idea on how to make her eat those healthy stuffs I prepared for her. And I believe that having a hard time feeding your child with healthy food during this age is normally most mothers would experience.

To top it all off, being a first time mom won’t be as easy as 123, but the joy that you’ve felt and the joy that you’re daughter is giving you is just so overwhelming. The happiness you felt once you’ve become a mom is indeed indescribable and absolutely beyond words.

However, I would say this with conviction, motherhood really requires a higher level of maturity. I need to emphasize maturity since I have read somewhere on the web, that a lot of teenagers would want to be mothers at a tender age, which is very alarming. We have to always bear in mind that there is always a right time for everything. Becoming pregnant at an early age is very unhealthy both on the mother and the unborn child, since they are still in the puberty stage. Just always be in the right track, do the things that you know in your hearts are right, and everything will fall into place. Just enjoy your youth, and don’t rush things.

Searching for ways on how to earn more money online ...

 I have been searching online for ways to earn more money online since honestly, it's really hard to earn a decent amount of money on the internet. I need to find possible ways in order to make a regular income every month and that would be very hard if you work from your home. I did an intense research on the web on how to do it. But there's a particular article that caught my attention, so I immediately read it.

It's not the usual article on earning money online, as a matter of fact it doesn't give ideas at all to its readers on how to earn more money online.  In fairness to the person who wrote it, she pointed out some things on what's the reality of blogging and if there's really truth to what others claiming over the net that indeed, they earn from it. She jotted down there that only a very small percentage of bloggers around the world who make a living from blogging, and majority of bloggers don't earn that much or let's just say, their hard work didn't pay-off in the long run.


However, what I didn't like about the article, as well as the rest of the people who have read it is that, you have to be very great for you to earn money from it or you don't have future at all in blogging if you're not as talented as her in writing, and she has a wrong way of saying it to her readers. It's kind of insulting a person that if you're not as great as her, then you better stop or don't try reaching your dream. She even boasted her achievements, her traffic, how a great writer she is, which is kind of a slap in the face. It's her way of saying that "if you don't have achievements like mine, or you don't have that fantastic writing skills as mine, then you better stop blogging. " As a matter of fact, she received numerous negative comments from that entry. A lot of people were saying that she just wrote that article just to drive traffic to her site, and others said that she is just so mean for saying those kind of things to a person who have read it and just starting to reach his/her dream in the world of blogging, wherein he/she might be discouraged and would give that person a low self-esteem if he/she has still a place in the blogosphere.


Honestly, when I read that post, I was sort of discouraged, but thanks to the majority of people who have commented and they just enlightened me. They have pointed out that you don't have to be  great writer for you to earn money from blogging. All you need is determination, hard work, patience, and you love what you do. If you have the passion for it, then don't stop reaching your dream.


I'm very much willing to work hard so that I could earn more money online. I completely understand that it would really take time to earn a decent amount of money on the web or if you work from your home. So, it really requires  lot of patience and hard work.

I hope you understand me....

I just want to express here what I really felt at the moment. I was talking to my mother over the phone yesterday, and after that conversation, I felt so little. I got hurt not because she scolded me and the like, but as a matter of fact it was just the typical conversation we had every time she called us up. The conversation ended well, however, after we talked I just felt so helpless and discouraged with myself.


I love my mother so much, I owe every thing to her. If not because of her I won't be the person I am now. She is both the mother and the father at the same time. However, all I want is that she will be more sensitive and careful about the words she uttered since even if she never intentioned to hurt me, but the words or comments she used kind of belittled me. There were times as well that she did that and all I want to do is to cry out loud. I don't compete with anyone, even though she don't see my efforts I'm really working hard for my future and most especially for my baby, God knows every thing what's truly in my heart. I don't want to rush things that's why I'm doing things one day at a time.


She has the tendency to control my life and she really wants that I'll be the one to fulfill all her dreams for herself and for our family. I'm very much willing to do every thing I can just to improve our living and to give the things that I believe she would be very happy to have.It's just that, I want her to be realistic, since if you want a particular thing, you can't have that at a certain age, even if you already told yourself, "at the age of 30 I want to achieve this or that or I want to have this or that" since you don't have control of what's going to happen in the future. Yes, I really understand that it really needs a lot of hard work and luck as well, of course with the guidance and the help of God.


All I want is that she would be sensitive on what I actually feel, and let me live my life the way I want. I'm not a bad person, I don't even go out with my friends, and most of the time, I'm just at home. I already considered myself a responsible person. I had corrected the wrong things I've done in the past and because of those things, I became a better person. I'm doing and practicing the things what I believe what's right not just in the eyes of people but most importantly, in the eyes of God.


All I want is that she would just guide me and not totally make a decision for me. "Just let me live my life and let me decide for myself, what career path I should take, and let me achieve my dreams the way I want it. " I want to say it with conviction, I know what are my duties and responsibilities in life, for you, for my family, and for my daughter. Just don't take away my dream to be with my daughter and see her grow. She's my life, my every thing. I don't want to work abroad, since all I want is to try my luck here, no matter how hard it is, as long as I'm with my daughter, that's the most important thing for me. I want to take care of her and be with her when she's going through something. I want her to feel my love. And I can't do these things when I'm far away from her. Please stop insisting that I should work abroad since you believe that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. "


"Mom, you're a great mother, I understand that all you want is the best for us. But always remember that we're not kids anymore. We already know how to make decisions for ourselves, and please don't take that away from us.You have to always ask us what we want to do with our lives and the things we want to do. All you have to do is to give us advices, and make us feel that whenever we fell and made bad decisions in life, you are always there to welcome us with open arms. Please LET US MAKE DECISIONS FOR OURSELVES SO THAT WE WILL GROW AS A PERSON, AND PLEASE DON'T COMPARE US WITH OTHER PEOPLE, WITH THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, SINCE YOU JUST MAKE US FEEL HOW LITTLE WE ARE. I hope you understand me."