Goodbye to my old theme
There’s a lot of revamping going on in my blogs lately and I am not done yet. I started with merging some of my blogs and changing the themes. Not only did this blog got a new theme but my other blog, Bizarre Marriage, is also running on a new theme since last week. The next few weeks will bring more merging. My target is to have less than five blogs and at the moment I still have like seven or so.
The reason why I am doing this is because I want to be able to manage all of my blogs well and with the day job coming this September, I’ll definitely have lesser time for blogging so I thought that it is better to keep fewer blogs but manage them well than to keep all my blogs and leave most them unattended.
So anyway, I like my old theme and it worked well for me but I’ve been using it for a long time so I thought of using a new one for a change.
I think my new theme is great! ElegantThemes.com has some really handsome themes and I particularly like this one because of it looks clean. The photos, if you noticed, are not related to the blog posts but for aesthetics’ sake, I placed one photo on each post. This theme looks way better with the photos and in the future I will try to put photos that are related to my blog posts. There’s one thing though… and I would do it if I could but I my PHP knowledge is very limited. It is actually not even enough to place the “recent comments” and “random articles” on the bottom of the page instead of displaying them on top.
And then there’s also the reminder from Sterndal that since I merge some of my blogs, I also have to fix some links. She’s right but I’m not sure if I would like to go through all that hassles. This blog alone has almost a hundred posts and I after putting photos on each of them, I don’t like to imagine going through each post to check if the links are linking to deleted blogs. But maybe I’ll do it someday. Who knows? It’ll definitely make my blog better.
Read MoreSo, what's up?
Our two week summer holiday is done and no, we didn’t spend it in Croatia. We stayed the whole time in Austria instead and visited some interesting places here and there. The reason why we didn’t go to Croatia is because it is not a part of the EU so I, as a Philippine citizen, still need a visa to go there and we just didn’t like to go through all that.
Austria has a lot of nice places that we haven’t seen so we spend the last two weeks making small trips and joy rides. I also spent most of the nights studying for my driving license and those nights paid off because I passed my theory exam today. I am so relieved. This means I am eligible to take the Practical exam. The next practical exam date will be sometime next week and I still have three practical driving lessons before that. On the last lesson, my driving instructor will be giving me his thoughts on whether I am good enough for the exam or not. I’ll see how these thoughts will affect my decision on taking the exam next week.
It’s been almost a month since my last post and the rarity of my posts is due to lack of time. Honest. I was busy—the teacher training, the German competency course, the driving lessons, the holiday, and some other things that follow like a complete medical check-up for the new teaching job in September, eye doctor’s appointment for the driving license, etc. But it’s getting better. I am done with the teacher training, the German competency course, the holiday, and I am almost done with the driving thing.
It looks like I will be having more time for my blogging from now on. I actually changed my theme a few days ago to sort of mark a new chapter of my life (ehem!). I am also planning to change the themes of my other blogs and merge some of them but that will follow. First, I have to see how it is going to be with the new job.
Read MoreMy writing is so lame
I want to write. To actually write. Not just about anything but to actually write about something interesting. And not just write about something but to write beautifully about something.
I want to write not with profound words but well constructed sentences. I want to really convey what I mean through words.
How does one do that?
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Writing is easy but only if you simply want to put plain words together to convey what you mean and that’s what I’ve been doing since I started blogging. I read my previous entries and I am like…. hmmm…everything is just so lame…(not to mention my frequent grammar mistakes).
My writing is so plain. I myself feel bored when reading my entries. I want to and have to write better. I’ve embarrassed myself long enough in the whole World Wide Web. It’s time to stop writing and publishing crappy blog entries. It’s time to work on my writing skills.
But where do I start?
Read MoreI merged two blogs today
The blog that contains my scrapbook pages (Digitally Designed) is now merged with this blog. I finally realized that I can’t handle that much blogs anymore. I am now busy looking for a real job and I have a good feeling that I will find one soon.
That means I will have less time for my blogs.
I still have nine blogs and I am thinking of merging some of these blogs together.
Read MoreI'm back from the remote island far far away
We got back here is Shanghai on 25th and from then on until late this morning, we packed some more moving boxes and worked on the shipping documents. Our stuff were collected this lunch by the shipping company and oh God, I am so relieved that the whole packing thing is over. That’s off the things I have to think about.
I tried to post entries during my holiday but unfortunately, I am not well equipped. I brought my laptop but the small hut we stayed in doesn’t have a WIFI. There’s a strong cellular network and a good GPRS connection but the phone I brought with me is crappy. I left my iPhone in Shanghai in the fear that it will be stolen or lost. You see, this holiday is special because unlike our other holidays, this one is done backpacking style. Except for our flights, nothing else is booked. No hotels booked in advance, no day trips planned, no boat rides reservations, etc. So there are no fancy hotels with tight security. I’d rather not use the iPhone for a few weeks than not use it forever.
In short, the only entry I was able to publish was the short poem below.
I still have some unpublished blog entries so the next few posts I will be publishing will be from these.