Farewell.. Temporarily..

The news was so bad. So bad that all of us were blown away.

We had a brief meeting with our Deputy Resident Engineer awhile ago. He announced this morning that we will be having a meeting after lunchbreak. All of us were guessing what would be the agenda of the meeting. Our bosses were used to conduct meetings without telling us what we will discussing about in advance.

1300H. I immediately submitted to my immediate boss all the papers that I have to submit so I don't have to worry about those papers during the meeting. When I went back to my desk, the meeting was about to start. We were still cracking jokes because one of us went to the toilet so we ca not start the meeting. After about five minutes, the meeting started.

The first topic : "THE INTERNET CONNECTION WILL BE DISCONNECTED TEMPORARILY.". All of us were sad of the announcement. The only way that we can connect to the outside world was being cut. For heaven's sake, we are in very a very remote area and the nearest city with internet connection was about 2-hour drive. We argued about the disconnection thing, but still the decision of the boss prevailed.

I will purchase a new laptop, the first thing that came to my mind. But the problem is, Muscat, the nearest city to buy is a very tiring 6-hour drive. And our employer will not permit us to go on a regular day.

BUT I WILL RETURN TO THE BLOGGING WORLD.. IN DUE TIME.. I WILL MISS THE BLOG WORLD, TREMENDOUSLY..

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The Wonder called "AlphaInventions.com"

"AlphaInventions.com will hlep your site get tremendous traffic, and its for real."

I was stumbling through my own blog one Friday afternoon looking for a way to get traffic to my site. I just signed up a week earlier to one referral system but I was just too lazy to do those site reviews just to get a view for a day. What made me gave up that site was the "crab mentality" of some of the members. They will try to put you down by making those silly reviews and giving you a rate of 1 out of 10. Anyways, those silly thoughts and experience are long gone.

And then came AlphaInventions to the rescue. Actually, I tried this site because I saw it on one of the links that Adsense posted on my blog. I never thought the results would be that tremendous. After just a minute entering my URL into the the box and clicking the notification button, I immediately got 5 visitors. I was really amazed. Because I was at the office that time, I went back to my work first and during my break I went back to my blogging session and tried AI again. The results was more amazing. In just a couple of hours, my once gloomy blog got more than 50 visitors. And I was still doing that in a 30 minute interval notifying bloggers patronizing AI. From then on, I am getting a minimum of 250 visitors a day. Just still a little traffic compared to what others are getting.

Convinced of the rsults, I applied for a credit card just to purchase an AIID. I never applied for a credit card my whole life. But just to keep AI alive, I will get one.

I am still observant though of the way things are going at AI. As of now, I got nothing to lose. All I know is that the ranking of my blog is climbing up in its category and starting to have value.

Just to share some of the comments that AI users posted on the site, here are some for you to help convince yourself and be one of AI subcribers:

"I am new to Alphainventions.com. I will be giving sometime to see how well it works. I have heard nothing but excellent feedback" - Jennifer Jones

Hi Cheru....thanks for your efforts on this!! I have been getting amazing results and readership. I hope to grow with your help. You are the best!!" - dailyrefresh.wordpress.com

"I would like to thank http://alphainventions.com/ for promoting my site so well." - Boyofbow

"Alpha Inventions helped me rack up over 10,000 hits in two days. Thanks AI!!" - Mel Ancholy

"Thanks for making it easy to get internet traffic Cheru!"- DJ Kold

"Alpha inventions is a wonder product of the net working.Thanks" - stockresearch52

"Alpha inventions is the best way to connect with other bloggers." - Catherine

"AlphaInventions is a bloggers best friend.Thanks for adding wristband4festivals.wordpress.com to your site! " - lyndsey.green.freelance

"This is a fantastic site and has opened new vistas for our site. Thank you .... Thank you... thank you..." - hopeworks

"Alphainventions is genius! What a great connecting tool. Thanks, Cheru. -The Domesticated Bachelor." - jonathanatos

"Brilliant idea Cheru. My blog is making its way to the top of my category. Thanks." - Gani

"Simply fantastic, i went from 10 views a day to 2,000!! thats alpha inventions for giving me a fanbase." - Alex H

"Alpha Inventions is my top referrer - by miles." - Jeannine

"You're wonderfull! you bring blog's closer to everyone..." - johan.bockstaele

"I am always at Alpha Inventions Bro... watching you as you grow and your detractors overthrow. may health wealth peace and prosperityyour life overflowadding to your karmic glowman you are one hell of a promay you make a lot of dough." - photographerno1

"Because of AI, I have increased my on-AI hits by about 40%. " - jwatts

"Wristband4festivals.wordpress.com is really taking off thanks to AlphaInventions!" - lyndsey.green.freelance

Try this one guys. AI will never fail you. And congratulations Cheru. You really are a genius. Keep up the good work, buddy.

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Stages of Life

What a way to summarize the stages of life.. Without saying a word.

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My First US$ 0.01 as a Blogger

US$0.01? Does it matter? What can this negligible amount can do? For me, it made me so happy the past days.

I checked my Adsense account last 31st January 2009. I was so happy with what I saw. After 6 days after creating this blog, together with my Adsense and Google accounts, I finally got to see the first fruit of "having fun" of making this blog instead of trying hard just to have a blog.

Of course, it is still almost zero but the motivation that I got from this is tremendous. Enough to make me think of ways to further improve this blog. Inspiration to help me produce more interesting posts.

I am also starting to learn to edit the HTML script of this blog. I started from the simplest of the layouts from Blogger and slowly I develop the script day by day. And my blog is now running from my own script. Though I only work on this blog after work, I am still trying my very best to somehow be a good blogger.


Most of all, now I am beginning to met new friends from all over the world. Though, at first, I only target Philippine web surfers, I already have a bunch of friends from the globe over. A lifetime reward that blogging brought me about.

What did US$0.01 did to me? Well, of course it motivated me to improve this blog further and it will continue to inspire me to give life to this blog longer.

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

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SONG OF THE YEAR - Viva La Vida

Download the song here.

Viva La Vida won the Song of the Year award at the recently concluded 51st Grammy Awards. Loved this masterpiece from Coldplay but Fix You is still my favorite from the Chris Martin group's bunch of hit songs.

Visit their website.

Check out also the complete list of this year's Grammy winners.


"Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself."

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