A Filipino Bachelor's Jurassic Cell Phone

At 2:45PM Saturday afternoon, on my way out of the village, I received a text message from my female boss.

She inquired if I can come to the office at 2PM in the afternoon because she wanted to discuss something with me.

Apparently, the SMS was sent much earlier. I didn't receive the SMS sooner because my Nokia 5110i celfone doesn't have any signal whenever I am inside the house.

Which suits me fine. Those who know me well enough have my landline.

I returned home and called the office. My boss answered the phone. I explained that I needed a celfone upgrade, badly.

I asked her what was up.

She was uncomfortable. I asked her if she preferred a face-to-face meeting. I told her that we can meet on November 6 since I will be in Malolos on the 30th and absent on the 31st.

She relented and told me what's on her mind.

She asked about a previous job I held, how I perceived another school's Franchiser when I was a consultant of one of its Franchisees.

I told her point blank that I, the center manager and the owner felt that we were being screwed by the franchisor.

I may have exagerated a bit, but that somehow puts things in perspective. That was how I felt. I was also getting bits and pieces from my former boss on how he got sold into the franchise.

Eventually, I got to see the financial projections presented to my previous employer. And the franchising contract. I really felt that he was really sold by his colleagues.

My boss was really silent. I wondered if I offended her with my vocabulary or she was processing things that had been happening to the business the past months.

She got to the meat of the matter. She told me that the school's management wanted to expand the business and she wanted to find out if I am also willing to expand my responsibility to include the franchisees apart from corporate sales.

The reason being that the franchisees are considered accounts and should fall into my hands being an account executive.

I refused, telling her that handling the franchisees requires a lot of time and needs focus.

At this point, I am doing comfortably with my job as corporate account sales representative, handling corporate training and placement.

No pressure here, really. And most of my clients are nice.

On the side, I made a marketing plan for the soon-to-be-opened branch. It was just really a tactical plan. Nothing fancy and new.

I refused my boss but I had to assure her of support. So, I promised to help out with the franchisees' center marketing. I promised to align the marketing efforts of the franchisees and to come up with regular marketing themes for the system.

So, without having to give me a raise, I have accepted additional responsibility.

Of course, I can decide to feel bad about the whole thing or I can be take on the job, and do well.

After all, this is a challenge I have wanted since I have dreamt of putting up my own school.

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Waiting on Tables: A Day in the life of a Filipino Bachelor

I have been waiting for the "hefe", a hard-nosed businessman who is my current employer. It has been a really long wait, almost 4 hours now.

Right after eating lunch, my boss immediately sent me to Eastwood, Libis to wait for the hefe. I was chosen because I conceptualized the advertising and promotional plan for the Eastwood branch.

Frankly, I don't feel lucky because the task given is very challenging with a low probability of success. It is as if I am being set-up to fall flat on my face.

To start with, the branch has been opened because the property is being leased at 200Php per sqm. It is considered a good deal because current rent in the area is above 500Php per sqm.

The only problem is how to exploit the "good deal."

The solution was to accrue the leasehold to two affiliated companies owned by the hefe.

One, a domestic recruitment agency catering to call centers and the other, an institute that specializes in call center training.

I have conceptualized a marketing program based on very meager resources, having to resort to on-the-job-trainees to help implement the program.

Another employee tasked to ensure ROI is already complaining that she can't do it by herself, having been the only one assigned on a full-time basis.

As for me, I have to continue reporting to Makati half of the week, the other half, to conduct and lead the awareness campaign for the Eastwood branch.

I have discussed the whole matter with my immediate superior, telling her of my concern for stretching our manpower pool thinly to cover all the bases.

I have in fact asked her to abandon the project.

But it is just not possible anymore, the hefe having gotten a two-year lease on the property.

This is really an interesting situation.

The branch is located in Eastwood which has pretensions of being a high-end location. On-site marketing is strictly prohibited.

The building administrator disallows outdoor signages since it will "destroy" the facade of the building.

The employees can not do leafleting within the compound unless space is rented in the the restaurant area. Streamers that will indicate the existence of the institute have also been disallowed.

To be accurate, I can do all the above as long as it is not within Eastwood.

My boss slashed the allocated budget for the banners intended for posting within the residential areas near Eastwood.

I am in deep-shit.

The main advertising medium used is print ads. It is not effective considering the costs involved and the inquiries generated from it.

The planned advertising campaign mainly uses below-the-line tools.

I have proposed an off-line and online advertising campaign.

The thing with the online campaign is that the institute's database is hardcopy.

The previous employee tasked to encode only did 10% of his job while getting 100% of his salary. I was pretty much amazed that he lasted a whole year, his reason being that his previous superiors were not strict with his deliverables.

There's some negligence here, obviously.

Good thing is that he is not with the institute anymore, although he transferred to the recruitment affiliate.

The hefe, it seems, has a high tolerance for incompetence.

This is not really a bad thing, especially considering my situation. But I think he has verbalized that he will close the institute if it continues to lose money which makes me return to my topic.

Initial activity has something to do with coming up with a database, fast.

This is easy since Eastwood hosts a lot of call centers and one call center alone processes about a hundred applicants on a BAD day!

Hiring rate is between 2-5 per hundred applicants, so, there's lot of fish to catch!

I just have to catch them in the right place at the right time.


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Metro Rail Transit - Filipino mass transport blues

I have been riding the MRT on my way home for the past days. The travel time from Buendia to Cubao Station is just about 20 minutes. Pretty fast and the fare is very cheap at only Php12.00.

The only downside is rush hour congestion. It seems that the MRT has reached its so-called system capacity, so most of the time, the trains are almost always full.

Congestion is really bad. During rush hour, I usually get to ride on the fourth train that arrives. To think I have to have help getting inside: the guy behind me usually has to push hard for me to be able to get inside. It is an unwritten rule that the guys behind have to "help" the guys in front by pushing. It is a fun rule. Just don't take things personally.

I am glad that I was born a man.

Imagine Pamela Anderson riding the MRT during rush hour. When she gets off the train, she'll be flat-chested!


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Hello?!? Moment

About a week ago, a friend inquired why I haven't been posting. Apart from lack of time, I haven't had any good topic lately, perhaps it can be attributed to blogger's block.

I didn't wish to post on the Abu Sayyaf/MILF denial on beheadings. What can I say about it? That the marines decided to commit suicide by beheading themselves?

Last Friday, before plumbing the depths of Raon in Quiapo, I did an errand for my sister who is taking the Licensure Exam for Teachers (LET) today. I went to PRC at Morayta to check her room assignment. The PRC guys posted huge bulletin boards outside of the building so it was relatively easy to find the room assignments. Having found and written the information, I hurriedly crossed Morayta and inquired with the security peeps about parking and the location of the building within the school compound.

The guard was confused, having no idea what I was talking about.

In an authoritative tone, I asked him if he was aware of a big event happening on Sunday. Somehow, he was a bit intimidated and asked me if I was a professor of the school since the parking building was for the exclusive use of Administrators and Professors. Not only that, that the school management has not informed them yet of any event happening on Sunday.

It was then that I realized I was at the wrong school! I was in FEU instead of UE!!!

Having realized my mistake, I couldn't of course admit it to the guard. Pressing my advantage, I told him that maybe management will send him the memo that afternoon or on Saturday and promptly left the premises to proceed to Raon.

I suppose, like Malu Fernandez, all of us, being human, have our Hello?!? moments.

Knocking on my skull, I ask myself, "Hello, anything in there???"

Rambling Musings of a Filipino Bachelor (for the sake of posting!)

I haven't had a post since Sunday. Today, I checked my anchor text, Filipino bachelor, and found out that I dropped to #3. Thankfully, I am still on the first page of Google's SERP but I am still nowhere to be found on Yahoo!'s search. Same thing with MSN and Live search.

Not that I was ever on Yahoo!'s nor even on MSN's search radar, but still, I am hopeful that I will land on their search engine results pages one of these days.

It seems that being a newbie blogger, I have to do double time to maintain rank with Google search. Has this something to do with the "freshness" factor?

I started this blog as part of product research on search engine optimization and marketing. I wanted to find out if SEO can be offered to the Filipino public as a short course. At this point, not yet for most small technical-vocational schools.

Perhaps, universities with huge enrollment in their business, marketing and web development degree courses should really get into it. These universities can easily recover the development cost especially if the SEO module becomes a required subject.

I have used Google Lab's search trends, a free tool that graphically shows keyword searches within a period in a given location. I used it to check awareness levels because if you are not aware of it, you can't search it. I also tried keyword selector tool, another free tool.

I used the following keyword / keyword phrases: medical transcription, javascript, java, html, call center, blog against SEO, SEM and Internet marketing for comparison. I also compared medical transcription and call center against Angelica Panganiban, education, franchise business and money.

Judging from the results, there is little or no awareness of SEO/SEM.

A small technical school doesn't have the resources to engage in course development and expect ROI within 2 years.

It is better to offer a Java programming course. Java being a free open source software, has practically no development cost. There are websites that offer free Java programming tutorials.

While the search level for "SEO" or "SEM" is almost nil, "blog" has a much higher search level than medical transcription. In fact, blog has a higher search level than call center. This points to an opportunity to be exploited.

A below-the-line ad campaign, "Optimize to Monetize Your Blog, a Home-based Biz" comes to mind. But, this is purely hype.

One thing I have to point out is that any Filipino who wish to become a SEO or SEM must be proficient in English. In the Philippine outsourcing industry, English proficiency is a core competency.

Better than Java programming, English courses have a bigger market especially an IELTS preparatory course.

This way, a small technical school has a chance to ride on the dominance of the nursing degree program for the Filipino nurse export market.

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Back with a Vengeance! A Post by a Pissed Filipino Bachelor

I didn't publish this post on Sunday because I was pissed when I wrote, but, what the heck.

Mr. Hyde.

In a sudden turn-around, John Chow is again on the 1st page of Google's SERP. He is back with a vengeance, taking the #1 spot for the keyword phrase "make money online."

From a victim, he has become a Google victor! All in a matter of hours. Ok, make that a day.

It has been topsy-turvy since Google launched its update. Search engine optimizers are really furiously working overtime to find out what works.

In a previous post, I mentioned that I found out new blog posts in Technorati containing pure keywords and of URLs redirecting to Google's search page. I read somewhere that redirecting to Google's search page is a way to increase page rank.

Hey, Matt, is this true?

If it is, then all bloggers should do this to equalize things, don't you think? And I really hope someone does something about all those blogs created purely for optimization purposes. Ang pinging Technorati for the link and index.

The irony of it all, using blogger.com to post optimization garbage.

So leisure bloggers, these are some of the things to do:

Damn IT Blog.

Create a post containing your URL, target keywords, making sure that you serve a 404 error [page not found, I think] for that particular page.

Or better yet, create a dummy blog with a post that contains your target keywords and variations of it. Don't forget to include your URL.

Then program the site to redirect to Google's search page. Don't forget to use a dummy gmail, using Juan or Juana de la Cruz [John or Joanne of the Cross].

Vidiot.

Link to YouTube Videos [or Google video] that has titles containing your target keywords. Relevance is key here. The most relevant issue is to deceive the search engine.

It is ok because it is not human. Human users are not relevant.

Ping Pong.

Ping everyone, including yourself, relatives, friends, & enemies, so you can pong the search engine.

Link Me, Baby.

Get into a linking orgy. Link to everyone. Don't mind if they called you freeloader or whatever. Just link to them so, hopefully, they will reciprocate.

If not, it's ok. You still are relevant to the search engine.

Link to Wikipedia and the other high traffic, hopefully, authoritative sites. Sites like BBC that has tons of broad content, news, science and technology, etc. Don't forget to link to online dictionaries for particular keywords.

Social Netwhoring.

This is similar to Link Me, Baby, but coming from the social networks. This is definitely, a group project. Involve everyone, most especially, teens. They just love social networks. This time, use Yahoo! mail. Since it is Yahoo!, you can spam it.

Nuke it.

Nuke and burn, using Atom or RSS feeder. Feed to MyDummyYahoo!. Dump your posts to everyone in your network.

Pimp Your Blog.

To create traffic, go to your nearest internet cafe and ask nicely the net admin to make sure that their clients open a window to your blog. This may require some convincing.

Actually, it is easy. Reward their clients with one hour free internet time for every ten hours or so of internet use. Just make sure a window to your blog is open. You can always install a keylogger to check!

If you have the technical skills, automate.

Now, it gets exciting because you are setting the stage for them to click on the ads, and surf the site. They don't have to read it, do they?

I can find porn easily but I don't want to see it when I am looking for my blog lists in Technorati, or other Filipino blogs on topics I am interested in. There's already a lot of garbage out there, perhaps this blog included.

If you wish to write erotica, then I can review it, as long as I get paid if I don't get an erection.

Now, John, I hope you didn't employ any optimization garbage and re-directs. And next time, it might be more consistent to your character to declare that you intend to get to the top again instead of dismissing it as not important.

I find it pretentious and it just sucks.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Syndrome

I tried posting "Watch Out, John Chow!" on my other blog at bloggerparty.com 2 or 3 nights ago. I tried posting twice and, in both instances, I failed. I got an "access denied" message. I wrote the admin of the site and got an email from them within a minute.

Hello,

We have recently enabled more spam filters to try to control the amount of spam that is posted at Bloggerparty.

There is a limit for the number of urls in a single post of 3 (2 for repeat urls) and this may be why your recent posts are not being published. Please try to publish again with fewer urls.

When a post is disabled due to the spam filter you may need to login again.

Regards

Admin
Bloggerparty

So, I am a spammer! And I didn't have any URLs on the post at that time. How I wish that I can create a program that will automatically send email, post on my blog, generate URLs and hide the links [I hide links as a matter of style, using Snap Shots instead].

Because of this, I decided to discontinue posting at blogger party.

This means that this blog will have a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality, as I am still developing the third one.

You know, personalities should be like girlf(r)iends, the more, the merrier!


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The SEO Race is On!!!

I checked my anchor text "filipino bachelor" in Technorati last night. I was intrigued by some new blog posts that appeared. The posts were mainly keywords/keyword phrases, without articles, verbs or punctuation.

Stupidly curious, I clicked on what seemed interesting because keywords mainly had to do with "sex". A sex blog!!! I never got to read the blog because I was re-directed to Google's search page! Wow! Opening a new window, I entered the URL, but the blog could not be found. Same thing happened that has something to do with an "oil" blog.

Using Technorati, I checked "jnb web promotion" as search keyword phrase. These guys are quite popular, if somewhat controversial. Whadda you know, they had a new, uncategorized blog post that had to do with SEO, adsense, adword, Matt Cutts, etc. This time, I was able to get into the blog and see the post. The keyword rich post was mainly just that, pure keywords, plus 4 videos.

Now, guys, I know you wish to stay on top of the SERPs especially your clients. I understand that you also want to figure out Google's search engine update, for The Color of Money.

Now, guys, let us be reasonable here. I am new to SEO and blogging. Two weeks into blogging, I found a space for myself. I am #1 out of 587,000 results. Compared to the 124 Million results for SEO, not really a competitive niche. But, it is my space at this point. Can't you guys just let me enjoy my ranking for the moment, let us say, for the next 3 decades?

In other words, get the fuck out of my cyber estate!!! Please?

Someone out there, hopefully a natural born female might be looking for a Filipino bachelor who will appreciate my kind of humor, wit and imagined good looks.

For a pet. Ok?

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NOTE: Just in case some Googlers happen to pass by, you might want to check these. I had to do some "modifications to my computer" after visiting these sites.

http://rt47506.blogspot.com/
http://rt11922.blogspot.com/
http://jnbwebpromotion.info/free-seosearch-engine-optimizationadsenseblogweb-traffic-courseseoadsense-seo-videos/

If you're like me, just an ordinary computer user, it is not worth the trouble checking.

Trust me on this.

SEO vs. SEO

Interesting bit of recent Philippine SEO history. I am following the advice Mr. Aaron Wall posted.

# aaron wall Says:
September 28th, 2006 at 5:47 AM

Depending on how pissed off you are at the guy it might make sense to make this page rank for brand related queries for their brand.

Bet all you would have to do is send a link request to the people on the mailing list to link to this page and relevancy would sort itself out.

To understand the story, click the link. jnb web promotion

filipino blog

Watch Out, John Chow!

John Chow got victimized by Google's recent update of its search engine algorithm. Sudden changes happened to johnchow.com who uses "make money online" as his main anchor text. At the time this post was being written, johnchow.com was on page 4 for the search keyword phrase "make money online" while he was 6th on Yahoo!'s 1st page search result. Previously, he was on Google's 1st page at #3.

Google has devalued links to counter link farm tactics. By how much, only Google knows.

The race is on to figure out Google's updated search engine. Certainly, Filipino SEOs are trying hard to figure out the changes. It is interesting how this will play out. Only time will tell.

So, have you been a Google victim lately?

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Google Chews Ass!

John Chow has "decided to put a stop to my review for linkback promotion" recognizing that Google has devalued links to counter link farm tactics.

Dismissing his loss of valuable piece of cyber estate, John ended his post by saying,

"Not being ranked number one for make money online won’t make the drastic change in my traffic. The term sent me about 150 people a day. A nice amount, but very tiny compared to the over 11,000 that read this blog everyday."

[150 visitors/day = 54,600 visitors/year. What about his conversion rate?]

Now John, really? But didn't you get this volume of readers because of organic search results? And Adwords, in order to get more traffic, hoping that random visitors will become converts? Not to mention that you eventually got media mileage because of your online popularity? Why suddenly change tactic the same day you dropped from the 1st page?

Since I don't have green eyes, I am wide-eyed with envy!

It is still too early to tell, but with its updated algorithm, Googlers may be smiling to themselves and calling you John Chewed.

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The Hardest Way to Make Money Online

This cartoon is from bLaugh



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#1, SEO Milestone

This is an echo of a post on my other blog, The Legally-Recycled Bachelor at bloggerparty.com.

I am now on the 1st page of Google's organic search for the keyword phrases filipino bachelor and filipino bachelor blog. I noticed this last night while checking on some keywords. Well, for a Filipino who practically stumbled into SEO/SEM, I am amused.

I find this amusing because I wasn't really thinking of getting into the 1st page of Google's search engine results page.

Frankly, until now, I am still clueless and confused on how this happened. I am still trying to recall and list the things I have done to land on the 1st page. Besides, I am not really sure if I can hold on to being #1.

I have started to blog just to understand what Avinash Kaushik was talking about. I am more interested in the basics of analytics.

In the Philippine setting, offline marketing is acutely important considering that there is only a small percentage of Filipinos who have access to the Internet much less own a computer.

Most young Filipinos gain access to the web through internet cafes, mainly for games.

It is still the offline marketing campaign and face-to-face selling that drive enrollment in schools.

It doesn't bother me not to be on the first page. What I find unsettling is that I am on Google's SERP [and #1 at that!] while the other search engines do not list me.

Definitely, I am not on the first 20 pages of Yahoo! and Live Search search results.

Obviously, the search engines are using different algorithms.

Hhhmmm...I just wonder is there is something wrong with Google.

I have been on the web for not even a month. And speaking of content, I don't have much that I can speak of either. I don't even have traffic.

Most of the traffic has something to do with my editing and changing the layout. So my traffic is mainly self-driven.

Before and until now, I hear some Filipino SEOs speak of [or blog]

"Content is King!".

Of course, they are not telling me their secrets and I am sure that they don't entirely believe this. But, I really wonder, with Google's new "universal search", is it now,

"Ignorance is King?!?"

Just thinking out loud, Sergey.


Excellent Analytics Site, Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik


P.S. I am still waiting to break the 1 cent ceiling for my blogs. :P

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Julius Ceasar On Not Being a Brute

Julius Ceasar said,

"Veni, vidi, vici"

If he were a brute of a man, he would have said [to quote ASSOC members] ,

"Vidi, vici, veni"

Don't you think so?

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A Phenomenology of the Modern, Poetic Vandal

This is an example of vandalism, a bathroom graffiti, that was written on the wall of my most used men's toilet when I was in university. Among all the bathroom grafittis I have read, this was my favorite.

Here I sit,
so lonely hearted.
Tried to shit,
but only farted.

It is not that I am advocating vandalism but I associated this particular bathroom graffiti as a humorously poetical attempt to self-expression by a vandal. Perhaps it was inspired by the author's difficulty in discharging digested food.

Years after graduation and the tuition having exponentially increased, my alma mater renovated most of the toilets in campus. When I returned after more than a decade, I was elated that the toilet didn't have the usual rank odor associated with it. Unfortunately, the bathroom graffitis were also painted over. The men's toilet was miraculously clean!

It then dawned upon me that an era had passed and that the emerging generation had found another medium to express themselves.

Man's unstoppable urge to express himself or to simply document his existence has been recorded throughout history. Pre-historic petroglyphs are a testament to this.

 Is this behavior somehow connected to our need to be affirmed by our fellow human and perhaps, the need to be affirmed transcends time?

The answer, I really don't know! To me, self-expression is simply self-affirmation. Whether the medium is considered legitimate or not, as in the case of bathroom grafittis, the act of expressing oneself is just an act of self-affirmation. Rather than slap myself, it is just a way of telling that I exist.

Which brings me back to the grafitti above. I was rather dismayed to find that the bathroom grafittis were painted over because I had added a phrase that gave me a profound sense to my existence.

It goes like this.

Here I sit,
so lonely hearted.
Tried to shit,
but only farted.

Me too. :(

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Life-Threatening Dilemma, A Non-Adsensical Story

I got it! After a furious exchange of two emails and, since there is no appeal process, resubmissions, I finally got an Adsense account. This has given rise to a life-threatening dilemma: to delete or not to delete? That is the question.

Resolution of The Dilemma is of paramount importance, so I called Me, and Myself to a conference.

I: "Guys, I have good news and bad news. Good news, we have an Adsense account."


Me: "What's the bad news?"


I: "Well, after giving it much thought, I don't know what to do with our blog, The Legally-Recycled Bachelor."


Myself: "Who is the Legally-Recycled Bachelor? Do we know him?"


I: "Don't mind him. He's been forgetful lately. Must be the late hours he has been spending tracking porn sites. Anyway, do we delete our blog and just create a new one? We have been skating on thin ice. Referring to self-clicks, spambots, tracking porn sites and, worst of all, referring to Yahoo!. We've been really walking on a tightrope."


Me: "Delete our blog!?! Unthinkable! Haven't you seen the traffic we've been getting? What about the links? We already have three. We can't just abandon those poor people with Pay Per Click Syndrome. Aren't you also afraid of Pinoy R.N.? She's a nurse and nurses are very skillful with sharp objects. Besides, I am a good acrobat. Walking on a tightrope is my thing."


Myself: "Isn't Pinoy R.N. the pretty nurse? Not much luck getting my medication from her though, always insisting to see prescriptions."


I: "So, what do we do? We can't possibly put Adsense on our blog. You know, people might not really understand what our blog is all about. We ourselves haven't even resolved that. And this has to come up."


Me: "I suggest that we continue this blog and create another one. We can put Adsense there and just let things click into place. What do you say, guys?"


I: "Fine. Put the link on this post, will you? Hey, Myself! What are you smoking!?!" Click me, ok?

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A Knight in Tarnished Armor

T'was an exchange of words, not quite intelligible.
Motives were put to question, reared an ugly head.
Once there was warmth, now turned cold.

It is what I fear the most, I've deepened festering wound.
It is where I tread so often, I've forgotten road forbidden.
It is why I am not a knight, I've worn tarnished armor.

It is a broken sword that I hold, I wound as I'm told.
It is a shattered shield that I carry, I hurt as I tarry.
It is a tired horse that I ride, I fall as I prime.

I am not a knight, but surely not a knave.
I am not mighty, but certainly not weak.
I am not wise, but undoubtedly not a fool.

I may be tired, but rest, to continue my journey.
I may be fallen, but stand, to face the world.
I may be broken, but care, to offer as sacrifice.

It was from brokeness whence I came.
It has been from weariness whence I've been.
It is from woundedness whence I speak.

Thus, friendly counsel I freely give.

Let it lie not festering in the brooding darkness.
Let it be accepting under the warmth of sunshine.
Let it go forgiving into the vastness of space.

Let go, friend, let it go.

NOTE: This is a longer version of a post in another blog, Friend, Let it go

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Heads-up! Matt Cutts, Google!

This post anticipates that "Google is going to be looking at paid links more closely in the future." as mentioned in Matt Cutts' post on hidden links. [Click me, ok?]

Disclosures:

1) I have paid Me and Myself to link to I.
2) Me and Myself paid I to link to them. [I find circular links a bit confusing, it is starting to give me a headache.]
3) I have been paid by Me and Myself to review The Legally-Recycled Bachelor blog.
4) Me and Myself will soon buy Adwords so I can click on my ads.

Since I don't only love to rant, I also love to rat.

1) All Filipino bloggers will think or are thinking of paid linking schemes, except me of course. Ditch them.
2) I wish to report the biggest paid link provider who has insistently shown link whenever I search for Me or Myself. I find it a bit irritating that my fellow professional bloggers keep on appearing as paid links even if I am on the last page of the search engine result. Why, whadda you know, it's...Google!.

Free SEX I.D. Test

I took a free sex ID test on BBCs site. Part three of the free sex ID test involved guessing the emotional states of persons by looking at images of their eyes.

By the way, BBC mentioned this particular part of the test is used by psychologists to determine autism.

Sneaky of them, don't you think?

So, if, unlike me, you do not have the capacity to absorb bad news, forgo this. Digg?

With a very stiff upper lip, I happily clicked on the choices given, although, I admit, I found it a bit bothersome that I could only click on one choice per image.

Dudes, haven't you heard of the right to The Pursuit of Happyness? Don't you have pirated DVDs? By Jove, I wanted to click all!

It was a good thing that I emailed them. I suggested that they start replacing their management and staff with Americans. Or, if it is not feasible, to transfer their headquarters to the USA.

Follow Murdoch's lead, will you?

The Universal Beer Principle

Humans are visual beings. Males, more so than females. This insight is not new.

Hugh Hefner and his industry associates knew this even before the commercialization of Arpanet. They are pretty adaptable too, having populated the Internet even before the bricks and mortars did.

Another insight is that women love to show off their flawless skin.

What do you know, men being more visual and women showing off skin.

This is an excellent example of the principle of universal compatibility, the yin and the yang.

Don't trust me on this.

The few successes I had with women shedding their clothes off to give me a delightful experience had something to do with the Universal Beer Principle.

As stated in a bar somewhere in Manila,

"Give Her Beer. It helps ugly men get laid."

Hey gorgeous, wanna drink beer? ;)


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Thanks, Google!

At this point, please allow me to to thank Sergey and Larry for giving me an Adsense account.

Hey, guys, thanks! I will be a lot more grateful if you send me some Gcash.

A million will suffice as I lead a simple life. I also head a foundation that helps the always hungry and thirsty consisting of me, family, relatives, friends and freeloaders.

What's a million compared to your billions? Loose change.

An Emerging Disease, the Pay Per Click Syndrome

We click our own ads, proudly!

This is the slogan for the support group I intend to put up for those afflicted with the Pay Per Click (PPC) Syndrome. The slogan is copyrighted, so don't use it.

Instead, as Nike tells you, just do it. Click your own ad, proudly!

The Pay Per Click Syndrome is similar to Tourette's but it requires the presence of a mouse to manifest itself.

While the cause of the disease is still unknown, the disease is spread by a carrier called the monetization bug.

The palpable symptoms are the delirious and almost unstoppable desire to monetize a personal website during office hours.

Dilbert calls this pretending to work.

Sounds familiar?

If you feel that you belong to this group, wait for my announcement when I will be getting your email.

I am still constructing the site that you will access. I am having a bit of a problem with my spambot. Fortunately, I have an RSS feed.

Be patient. Things will come up sooner than you can click. Also, let us chat about Amazon Associates and eBay, will you?

I have a mailing list I wish to auction. And a book about methods and techniques to get it.

I promise, should I ever get an Adsense account, I will click my own ads too, ok? I am willing to bet your life on it.

I almost forget, please do link to my blog.


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Lipat-Bahay, An Adsense Story

I have been blogging at bloggerparty.com using the same blog title, The Legally-Recycled Bachelor.

I was told by PinoyRN and Romskee that I have been generating "reads".

The "reads" were indicated at the bottom of each post and the most "reads" I have at this point is 45. The article's title is "Sex in the Philippines and Google Trends".

It is not really surprising because the word sex is competitive.

Two things triggered the transfer to this site.

First, a suggestion by Romzkee when she visited my bloggerparty blog. I don't know how to thank you Romzkee. You really are heaven sent.

Second, I made a mistake in the URL I sent to Adsense, so my application was denied.

I am new to blogging you see, and URLs weren't discussed in class when I was in college. During this time, the Internet was still called Arpanet.

[I was enrolled in the BS in Computer Science program, by the way.]

Unfortunately, there is no appeal process indicated. Thus, sealing my fate. I wouldn't be able to participate in the revenue-sharing scheme of the site.

The skin I have chosen has a very homey feel. You will notice that all the useless parts are on the right side of the page. The most useful features are at the bottom, written in fine print.

Hmmmm....it feels very much like Yahoo!.

In case you are afflicted with the Pay Per Click Syndrome, just go back to your blog and start clicking the ads.

I don't have Adsense, so, just use yours in the meantime, ok?

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My Sympathizers

The links on the right side are blogs of persons who were previously my subordinates. Now that we are equal, they have become my friends.

Why the few links? It has something to do with a long-held belief.

I believe that sociability is overrated because, like my fine motor skills, I have poorly developed social skills.

In fact, Darell - the only one of my previous subordinates who doesn't blog - pleadingly told me to pretend to be someone else as not to be an embarrassment whenever I am with her. [I encouraged open communication lines between me and my subordinates, you see.]

I appreciated and thanked her for her candor. But I had to totally ignore her suggestion. What she has termed as "embarrassing behavior", I called child-like exuberance.

So, it was nothing more than a slight difference in perspective.

Since then, I noticed that Darell had always kept a deferential distance whenever we went out to buy lunch.

Darell, thank you for respecting my space.

One thing I can honestly tell you about our group, we are not only an independent and self-actualizing bunch, we are also self-clicking.

Going back to the links, if you visit their blogs, don't click their ads. Return to your blog and click yours, ok?

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I am a management consultant for technical, vocational education and training (TVET). I started The Legally-Recycled Bachelor blog as part of product research on search engine optimization and search engine marketing. I am a Filipino bachelor with two children. My wonderful children reside in the USA with their mother.

Close Encounters with Two Bachelorettes Pt. 2

This post departs from my usual rambling style without any consideration to my target market, that is YOU, my dear reader.

The reason will become evident as you read this post.

I managed to squeeze in a few exchange with Romzkee,
while chatting with Ycats, .

I asked Romzkee to critique my blog.

She mentioned that it was long. She said that most Gen Y internet users just scan blogs. This made me pause and think hard.

Eureka! My readers have a short visit span.

This led me to recognize another symptom of the Pay Per Click Syndrome. Those afflicted with the Pay Per Click Syndrome can't wait to return to their blogs to click on their ads resulting in a short visit time to read my blog.

I can't thank you enough Romzkee. As I mentioned earlier, you are really heaven sent.

To express my gratitude, once I've helped Ycats buy a groom [her idea], I will do the same thing for you.

Romzkee, better start saving up, ok?

Close Encounters with Two Bachelorettes Pt. 1

It was almost lunch time when I got to chat with two very young and lovely specimens of the Female Tribe, ycats and romzkee.

No, they're not my type as my girlfriend was sitting beside me. Ycats was asking permission if I can be her godfather when she marries.

It was really a bittersweet moment for me. Sweet of her to consider me worthy to be a godfather, bitter of me to be reminded that I am almost 40.

I don't have any age issue, you know. It is just that a lot of times, I wish they were my age and, like me, arthritic. Oh well, time really flies.

Having accepted the role of a marriage adviser slash second parent slash elderly counselor, I would like to start with a fatherly reminder.

Ycats, don't forget that you need a groom when you marry, ok?

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Disclaimer

About The Blog

This is a Filipino blog by a Filipino bachelor. The topics on this blog will be rambling rants on Philippine education, Philippine outsourcing industry, TVET (technical vocational education and training) and ladderized education.

The blog also attempts to provide a satirical commentary on web site monetization, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and the Internet.

This blog will also touch on my fumbling attempts to move on with life at almost 40.

The Legally-Recycled Bachelor

You may be wondering why I have chosen "The Legally-Recycled Bachelor" as the blog title. It is really simple. It refers to how I regained my preferred civil status.

I may be putting a positive spin on things, but, hey, that is just the way I am. I think positively.

But I don't believe my blog will reflect this characteristic, though. Tough luck.

It is also almost certain that in spilling out my guts, the insightful reader will eventually understand why I am legally-recycled and, up until now, still a bachelor.

I do not promise to be logical, articulate, grammatically correct, insightful, intelligent and wise. Nor do I promise to be mature, respectful, politically correct and polite. I JUST CAN NOT.

I wouldn't be The Legally-Recycled Bachelor in the first place if I had some of those attributes, would I?

And depending on my mood, there will be visceral ejaculations that you may find inappropriate, mean and offensive. Should this happen, feel free to send an email or post a comment.

One thing I promise, should you happen to be disagreeable, I will try to be tolerant and understanding.

Just send me your picture, contact details and vicinity map so I can ask a neighbor to bring you flowers.

If not, then a picture will do. I'll have to ask another neighbor to just hex you.

I am sure you understand. After all, this is my blog.

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