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.

FT Island Invasion

Ah no, I am not a fan but I have been hearing a lot about them. My best bud is a fan girl, that's why. She even revived her blog just so she can share her photos and adventures/misadventure to Fandom. Would you believe that she even went to the airport just to see the band? I wouldn't be shocked if she even knew what kind of fat burner for men her band uses. I am pretty sure if I am not married and I don't have kids, I would tag along with her. She has been my partner in numerous crimes LOL. Anyways, I got some of her pics from FT Island concert.

Even her cat love the FT Island!

I suddenly missed our misadventures and escapades. Good thing that this coming May, we are set for another misadventure. I can't wait!

Goodies

The box that came here yesterday came from the US. My sister's mother in law was very kind to accommodate our items and have it shipped here. She even gave me some goodies (photo below). And some walnut for my sister. Last year, she even included a phone for her son (my sister's hubby). During the height of the flood, we thought we could use the phone. Apparently, the phone is not an unlocked phone. It is locked to the phone's provider. That is the difference between a locked phone and an unlocked phone. An unlocked phone can still be used with various carriers.


That's the goodies she sent for me. She says it was her Christmas gift for me (how sweet!). Hubby enjoyed the walnut the most.

It's Here!

The box that I have been waiting for has finally arrived! It's here! So yesterday my head aches like crazy and yeah I almost gone crazy because of it. I was sleeping when hubby woke me up. The box that was shipped last Feb is waiting for me downstairs.


Actually the box is not full of her clothes. More like, it's a box of Mega Bloks Building Bloks for the boys. Those Mega Bloks that I bid and bought in ebay. It also contains some goodies for my mom's business and of course Sati's clothes. We were all excited to try out her clothes. I will post more soon!