Mommy Moments: Cars And Kids

Dear Marce Chris,

I am really sorry I wasn't around for the last couples of Mommy Moments.. was busy preparing for a lot of things (contest and Mico's birthday). Aside from that, our Sati is being more playful. She can roll over with ease and demands attention. She hates it when I stay long on the computer. And oh, I just discovered, she is teething now! Our little angel is growing very fast!

So forgive me and I hope my entry for this week's theme will do. Cars. Cars. Cars.

That's me and Chico horsing inside the car when we stopped for gas. This was when we met Marce Niko for the ticket winners ad for the "Max's baptismal party" *wink

That's Chico, again, with his CAT car. He was being chased by the BRIEF boys.. wahaha.. and look at Sati, eager to join in the fun.

Love,
Marce Pehpot

Gambling For Our Contest

My blog life is not a secret to my hubby. He knows what happens on blogniverse. He is my shock absorber when I receive a bad comment. He is the first one to congratulate me when my PR increases. He knows that we are having a blog contest, he even compared our contest to casino games for real money. I can see his point as our sponsors are like gambling for back links. Imagine they trusted us and become one of our sponsor without even knowing how much they can gain from us.

I believe, as far as today, we had give what is due to our sponsors. We promised them back links, we gave them a lot. Now, it is like winning in an online slots for real money. Specially for the level 3 sponsors, they only pledge some dollars and yet they gain 50 plus back links. We were a bit shy on our major sponsors though, our promised of reviews were not met, but we devised something so that they can still have 200 plus back links.

So now, that the contest is about to end, I hope our sponsors will be happy and our contestant will be satisfied with the result. Our winners can try their luck on online roulette for real money. They can use the money they won from our contest. And if you don't know where to go, there are sites that gives out ratings for the best online gaming site.

More On Referrals

Dear Anonymous,

Change is good.

Love,
Pehpot

P.S.
You should join our contest now and start referring friends. Again, we devised the referral system of our contest. Thanks to our contestants who raised some issue regarding that.

We will not push through with 400 points for 5 referrals.I t would be too much so we'll just stick with the 50 points per referral. It would not be fair if a contestant will win just because she/ he referred a thousand contestants.

Another thing and again to be fair. We will limit the number of referrals that will be credited to your points (whew! I never thought having a contest can be like this).

Only contestant who have reviewed the major sponsors and the level 2 sponsors are allowed to have 20 referrals at the most.

Constants who only copy and paste the code are allowed up to 10 referrals only.

But if you can refer ore than 20, we would appreciate it and to show our appreciation, the cash incentive is back!

$50 worth of blog make over for the top referral (20 or more)
$10 for the 2nd (should be 20 or more)
$5 fort he 3rd

What are you waiting for Anonymous? Just follow the simple steps below:

Step 1: Open your dashboard and create a new post, titled it with anything you want

Step2: Copy the codes that can be found HERE

Step 3: Publish your post and copy the url or link location then comment the url HERE

Step 4: Create a new post in your blog and copy the codes that can be found HERE.

Step 5: Publish it and copy the url and comment the url HERE.

The contest will end on March 18, 2010.

Love, Pehpot

Updated Points!

As promised, here are the updated points as of March 8 12 p.m. (PHT). This list now includes the points from your comments on major and second level sponsors' blogs. Not much movement when compared to the list I posted the other day, but as I said, the points are not very far in between so there's still a lot of room for movement in the following days. Eight more days till the contest end!

1. Gene - 1745
2. Red - 1698
3. Kikamz - 1505
4. Niko -1429
5. Mys - 1250
6. Sherry - 1147
7. Chris -1054
8. Joan -900
9. Kasai - 788
10. Paula - 600

Moving Can Be Relaxing

As I have mentioned before, we are not going to move out of this house soon. I was relieved that hubby agreed to me. Moving is very stressful for me. In fact, to lessen the stress, I already started packing two months ago. Imagine, all the things you need to do when you are moving to another place (worse if you are moving to another country). I am really glad that there are more and more moving company that helps movers. I guess hubby realized how stressful it can be. As much as possible, I would like to minimize our moving activity. We're still renting and moving from apartment to apartment are really tiring, so I wish, the next time we move, it will be on our OWN house.

If you are living somewhere in Boston and looking for a boston moving company, Humboldt Storage and Moving is the answer. This is a very unique moving company. Their main focus is reducing the stress their client will experience when relocating to a new area. They offer local, long distance and even international service. The client is assured that their belongings will be handled with utmost care.

And if you want to have an estimate of their service, they offer a free, no obligation, in home estimate. This will be conducted by one of their certified professionals. Just go to their website and fill up the form that can be found on the right part of their site and they will contact you shortly. Now, with that kind of service, moving can be relaxing.

Winners Of 2 and 1 Month Ad Space

Nope, dearies, we haven't forgotten our promise to those who completed the requirements without too much persuasion! Hee hee. Here are contestants twenty to thirty, who each have won two-months of sidebar advertising on Kaye's PR2 WAHMaholic blog and my PR2 NOOB blog (each are linked to their respective blogs where they first blogged about the contest):

• Levy
• Yami
• Yuuki
• Mae
• Aissa
• Melandria
• Tiff
• Paula
• John
• Monz

And here are the next ten people (contestants thirty to forty) who each gain a month of text link advertising space on the sidebars of the same blogs mentioned above:

• Liz
• Jade
• Fedhz
• Yobib
• Bambie
• Proud Mommy
• Earthling
• Joy
• Nuts
• Clarissa

Congrats everyone!

Our Nipa Hut

Before I gave you more updates regarding the contest, let me share with you some of my fondest memories with regards to roof. Why roof? Oh well, blame it to heat. it reminds us our home back int eh province. Our house then was made a Nipa Hut. Yup, I experienced living in a Nipa Hut. Our roofing was made out of grass, and my mother sometimes hire professional roofing contractor to repair it. She says, it is very important that our roof was checked and repaired. Since our roof were made out of grass, proper installations should be done with much care. Only professionals can do that.

Roof is one of the most important part of the house. Think of it as the crowning glory of a structure. It adds up to the beauty of the house and also protects the house from heat and rain. So why would you compromise your security blanket? Why not hire a professional roofing contractor for your roofing repairs? You can be assured that the quality of service is good and that your roof is in good hands.

Our roof then lasted a little longer although it was made out of grass, the professional roofing contractors did a good job on repairing the roof. When time comes and I have my own house, I will surely put a nipa house on my garden.

Contest Points As Of March 8

Cut-off time was 12:00 pm PHT (UTC/GMT +8 hours), so any URL commented after that time was not counted. Also, please note that this update still DOES NOT include points for your comments on the major sponsors' and second level sponsors'. Apparently, counting those will take much longer than we expected because of coordination issues. Nothing serious, really, just timezone differences. Anyways, we will update this update (imagine that!) tomorrow when we have managed to secure all the number of comments from the concerned sponsors. So as the following numbers will show, it's still anybody's game! Here are the top ten pointers as of March 8, 2010 12:00 pm PHT:
 
1. Red - 1530
2. Gene - 1480
3. Kikamz - 1410
4. Mys - 1250
5. Niko -1230
6. Sherry - 1100
7. Chris - 970
8. Joan - 830
9. Kasai - 780
10. Paula - 600

Compared to the last update, there are three newcomers, as you can see, and Mys was the only one who kept her stand at number four, and all the others have shuffled positions. We will say this, though: referral points count for much. And again, as mentioned in several of my posts in the past, we will make public a private blog that we made specially for the contest where we keep all your commented URLs (basically the contest score sheet) for transparency purpose.

Another Update!

Now that the contest is about to end, you're in for another surprise! We are gonna change the referral system. Now, you can GAIN points for your referrals. Every referral is 50 points! Refer 5 contestants and you will gain 400 points (yes not 250 but 400!)

So? Tell your friends to join the contest and tell them to mention you as their referral. Joining the contest is now easy as pie, er, no, easier than that. See?

Step 1: Open your dashboard and create a new post, titled it with anything you want

Step2: Copy the codes that can be found HERE

Step 3: Publish your post and copy the url or link location then comment the url HERE

Step 4: Create a new post in your blog and copy the codes that can be found HERE.

Step 5: Publish it and copy the url and comment the url HERE.

The contest will end on March 18, 2010.

PS: Yes, rewards are converted to points now. So no more cash for referrals. Instead, we will award 50 points per referral which will add up to your total points. We found out that offering cash as incentive didn't really motivate our contestants into referring, but when we announced the points incentive, several people immediately came forward to say their referral was this blogger and that. I hope you get our logic for changing the rules late in the game. As always, our only motive behind the referral system is to get as much backlinks as possible for our lovely sponsors, so whatever brings in additional contestants, we will implement.

Oh No!

I never thought that my boys would question my overspending on Sati's wardrobe. My eldest asked why is it that Sati have more clothes than them. Uh oh, now I feel guilty of not buying clothes for them. I thought they would not like clothes and would appreciate toys more. Oh boy, I was wrong. If only finding clothes for boys is as easy as finding Philadelphia jobs, I wouldn't have a problem. The thing is, clothes for boys are more expensive than clothes for girl. And I have three boys! Just imagine how much I need just to buy clothes for my boys.

some of their clothes, their closet was divided into 2, the upper part is for my 1st and 2nd boys. The lower part is for the 2 youngest (the pink hanger)

So I guess, I have to troop down the nearest mall and look for affordable boys clothes. Or maybe just search on local online shops. I do hope they accept paypal as a form of payment.