The Struggling Blogger

This will be my first post of this nature. Maybe there could be more, as I began to realize that perhaps I can use the power of blogs to help in my own little way. Honestly, I really don’t have that much to offer, and at this point this is the best I can do. I just hope it amounts to something.

I just read it in Philippine Star today, that all it only needs P50,000 each to save the lives of two patients.

Those amount need not come from one person, if many would contribute even just a small amount, perhaps the amount would be raised in no time.

Americans did it to help Obama win, is it not possible for Filipinos to do it to help save lives?
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I guess they are just planning to go home to pay respect to their love ones in the cemetery, yesterday being the All Saints’ Day. Unfortunately a fateful accident has caused them to be with their love ones literally.

This was the sad news that I read in the Philippine Star this morning. A road accident that happened right within my province of Pampanga, where a passenger bus of Fermina Bus Lines collided head-on with a Toyota Revo along the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) in Mabalacat, Pampanga.

Six died from this accident, the bus driver with three of his passengers and the driver of the Revo with her passenger. Other victims of the collision were taken to various hospitals in Angeles City, City of San Fernando and Mabalacat.
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While it can be much cheaper since payment is only based on time consumption, there are definitely more disadvantages to blogging from an internet café than blogging from your own home.

The most obvious reason is privacy. While the blog is available to the general web surfing public, having someone watching over your shoulders while making your post is really irritating. This is definitely one of the top irritants of blogging from an internet café.

Another hassle of accessing your blog from an interment café is the environment, which is most of the time noisy. This is because most of the time, these internet cafes / game zones have as much gamers inside as there are web surfers (and sometimes even more). And if you have experienced trying to write amidst these gamers shouting instructions to one another as they play their games, you will know what I’m saying here.
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Not all bloggers would admit to it, but there exists what you might call blog fillers. These blog fillers can be anything that a blogger will post in his blog for various reasons. The most obvious of which is when there have been a lull in a blogger’s blog and posts takes too long to be come.

But I am not saying that blog fillers are outright nonsense posts nor are they out of context. In fact, these could also be classified reserved blog posts, as some bloggers really reserved them for times when there aren’t any articles to posts.
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No matter how hard I try, I can’t help but commit them. Even if i reviewed my post a hundred times, something always passes me. A misplaced article or a preposition - a ‘to’ where a ‘from’ should be, an ‘on’ where an ‘in’ is more fitting.

Sometimes, I go back to my previous posts and just laugh at myself. What’s a ‘d’ doing in my sentence when I was not referring to a past event… oh, bloopers, blooper, blooper… bloopers everywhere. No wonder, proofreaders are so valuable.

I am conscious of my grammar, spelling and everything. Yet, I still can’t understand why I wrote ‘live’ and I was meaning to write ‘leave’?… oops! there’s that quotation-punctuation combination again. Will I ever get them right?

Well I do hope, whatever blunder I do commit would be forgivable. I will try to review every work, perhaps go back to my posts way back when. I’m sure I still can find some in them. In the meantime, grammar blunders or not. I hope I still get my messages across.