I was talking to Rafi a while ago. I asked him if he knows his provincial hymn. He said no. Actually he doesn’t even know if they have a provincial hymn. I grew up in the province and we have a provincial march and provincial hymn. That is like saying state march or state hymn.

The saying “Ang hindi lumingon sa katotohanan ay hindi makakarating sa patutunguhan” or roughly translated to English, “Those who don’t look back where they came from will never reach their destination”. I am saying this now because we all aspire to become rich. In our case to earn money online. Why do we need to look back and recognize our roots? It’s a simple gesture of thanks because whatever we are right now, we owe it from where our roots are. Or to put it in another perspective, to have something to compare with. Your goals and your past.

I am a provincial girl. Although I spent only 12 years of my life there and 13 years here in Manila already, I still consider myself a provincial girl. With this in mind, i’d like to share to you our hymn and march as I remember them.

Isabela Hymn

Isabela a home endeared by men, upright and free.
A land where peace and love abide, where men of truth reside
Endowed with rich and glorious past, a heritage known and vast
From Palanan to Jones they stood, for freedom and for truth.

Her shining rivers teem with fish and mountains lush with trees
Her fertile fields abound with yields are blessings for our meals.
Bless Isabela gracious Lord and keep her in your fold.
In unison we all proclaim her providential fame.

Isabela March

We’re Isabela’s true and loyal children
And we take pride in her great name
We’re marching out to tell all men
Of our lovely province’s name

From old San Pablo to Cordon Town
Mallig Plains to Palanan
Bless with bountiful wealth
Mental and body Health
Other blessings from above

So come join this happy throng
Come Isabelans come
Sing and shout her glorious one
And love her til years to come.

So how about you? Do you still remember where you come from?

I was (absent without leave) AWOL from this site for the whole summer. Yes April – May are the months for summer in the Philippines. Hopefully i get back in circulation now that school is starting again.

See ya ^_^

It’s been a while since i last wrote here. I have started many drafts and ended up not publishing them. The posts seem weak and hurried. Like I was just trying to post them for the sake of posting something.

When I started this out, I really wanted to post our journey online here in this “earn money online” blog. I wanted to write about everything under the sun and if possible connect them with how we are going to earn online or how we are earning online. I still want to do that.

A few hours ago, i browsed through some of my high school classmates’ online blogs. Some of my former classmates post in friendster, some in multiply, some in facebook and some in general wordpress, live journal, type pad and other blogs. Some of my high school mates went on and forged college friends. Some remained in constant communication with other high school friends. In these blogs I discovered what’s happening with them. Who are already married and who became gays or lesbians. In all these I also realized something. I don’t know what happened to me.

My closest high school friends and I meet each other just about once a year or probably trice at most since leaving college. I met many people in college but I don’t know where they are now. I met many people when I started working but after I resigned somehow we didn’t contact each other anymore.

Maybe I’m just a sentimental fool. I miss my younger years. When we didn’t have to worry about the world, about why the world is in chaos, why people obsess with the peso – dollar exchange rate, why why whys in the world.

Now I am in my mid 20sh. Some of my friends have kids of their own. Some are planning to get married. Some have passed from this earth. Some still worry about their own lives. Some have no lives at all. Where do I fit in?

Is this the midlife crisis? In any sense, I am still continuing our quest in getting from rags to riches in the cyberworld. Come join us!

A couple of days ago all of my sites were down because of some problems with my hosting. I waited for some hours since dreamhost was quick enough to announce that they are having problems with my cluster. But after announcing that they have fixed the problem but my sites were still down, I emailed their customer support. An hour after my email, all of my sites were back up. We’re back in the business of earning money online and get from rags to riches online.

I normally do these steps when encountering any problem whether on my site or in any of my other endeavors.

1. Be patient.
2. Check for announcements or apology.
3. Wait for a certain grace period.
4. After the time lapse, email the person or support.
5. Attach a supporting image to your claim.
6. Wait for results
7. Repeat from step 1.

I rarely get angry but if I do then there’s a darn good reason for it.

How about you? What do you do when your site is down? That’s the biggest problem of any blogger.