Moonstruck

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Kitakits! 

Money-making opportunities through the Internet are growing in popularity. In the US and UK, it has even become a full-time job to many. Most of them are moms who can’t afford to leave their kids to nannies, singles who are sick of living the corporate life, the handicapped whose only option is to work at home, and the curious Internet addicts. To students and to those with day jobs, online (or home-based) jobs are part-time opportunities where they earn their allowance and additional income.

Here in the Philippines however, online jobs are often labeled as scams. Surely you have received one of those emails that mysteriously go in your inbox saying “Work At Home. Earn Unlimited Income.“ The email promises you that you can earn XX dollars per day while just simply surfing the Internet or answering surveys. But at the end of the email they ask you to pay XXX dollars as one-time registration fee! To feed my curiosity, I clicked on the link they provided that says “Register and Get Started Right Away”. The link leads you to their main site showing (more and more) testimonials of people who have joined and are now earning an “unbelievably huge income“. I didn’t register of course. I was only curious where the link really leads. So I clicked on Exit to resume to my usual surfing activity. But once you try to Exit, a chat box appears and a live agent tries to chat with you. The agent would then tell you that if you register at once you will be given a 50% discount off your registration fee blah blah. If you don’t reply the agent tells you: “Please type Hi to let me know you’re still there. This is a limited offer blah blah and more blahs.”

First thing to remember about these online job offers is this: Stay away from those that ask you to pay anything. They need you to work for them so it should be them paying you, NOT the other way around. If they ask you to pay, MOST likely scam ‘yan!

So what exactly are these online or work-at-home jobs?

They are called GPT or Get Paid To- sites. Most common and popular types of GPTs are:

Paid To Click (PTC) - Get paid to click on advertisements. Standard rate per click is $0.01. This is perhaps the easiest, most popular among the GPTs. And because of these very reasons, scam PTCs are very common out there. It is important to check the legitimacy of a PTC site. Look into forums and search engines to research or better ask from somebody who actually earns from PTCs so he can refer you to legitimate (those that really pay) PTC sites.

Paid To Post (PTP) - Get paid to post in forums and discussions, comment on blogs, or comment on online articles. Rates vary with the quality and length of your post.

Paid To Read (PTR) - Get paid to read emails. I haven’t looked into how this works so if you are into PTRs, please enlighten us. =)

Paid To Blog (PTB) - Get paid to (of course) blog. (A blog is an online diary or journal). This is a popular GPT also. We have heard stories of bloggers who earns huge just by telling the whole world anything.

Other form of GPTs:

Get paid to answer surveys. Rates also vary per survey. The lengthier or time-consuming the survey, the higher it pays daw. Make sure you have a separate email where these surveys go in as you will have to deal with loads of spam emails. If you are receiving few survey invitations in your inbox this is because demographics have to apply. You have to qualify as respondent first before they send the survey to your email.

Get paid to post pictures, listen to music, make reviews, use a particular search engine. These, and more ways to earn money online.

So how do you get paid?

Unfortunately, the payment option that’s applicable to us Filipinos (and what I’ve learned pa) is through PayPal. So make sure that if you join any of these GPTs, look up in their FAQs if they pay through PayPal. Search through their FAQs also if they accept residents from outside the US, Canada or the UK.

So far, these are the GPT sites I found that Juan can be a member of. Registration is FREE to any of these sites. Feel free to comment on this blog or send me a message so we can expand this list.

CREWBUX - PTC site that pays through PayPal.

myLOT - a PTP social networking site. They pay you to post in their discussions, post pictures, comment on discussions. myLot is a fun way of earning because you get to meet friends as well. Payment is through PayPal. Happy myLotting!

Global Test Market, Survey Savvy, and Brand Institute meanwhile pay you to answer surveys.

Or these may be helpful:

Forum Booster and Paid Posting Tools are PTPs.

While Homepages Friends pay you to use a particular search engine.

Hope any of these has helped. Happy job hunting, Juan!

1. christmastime - smashing pumpkins
2. last christmas - jimmy eat world
3. santa claus is back in town - elvis presley
4. christmas at the zoo - the flaming lips
5. when i get home for christmas - snow patrol
6. o come, o come emmanuel - belle and sebastian
7. have yourself a merry little christmas - coldplay (oink)
8. frosty the snowman - fiona apple
9. happy xmas (war is over) - john lennon
10. rockin’ around the christmas tree - brenda lee
11. christmas (baby, please come home) - death cab for cutie
12. winter wonderland - phantom planet
13. rudolph the red-nosed reindeer - jack johnson
14. o holy night - bing crosby
15. christmas is going to the dogs - eels
16. the christmas song - the rayeonettes
17. i heard the bells on christmas - pedro the lion
18. come on! let’s boogie to the elf dance! - sufjan stevens

wala ko anang mga kantaha bitaw.  kung makakita mo, pm me. tagai kog kopya hehe.
happy christmas!

so this is it.  a good-bye to everyday Friendster, to sleeping until noon, to Wowowee while taking lunch, to Jumong during late nights and mIRC ’til dawn…

two days and then i’m back to being corporate slave again.  (excited, though.) 

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how i hated you when we first met.  you get into my callouses always.  but a year has passed surprisingly.  i hate you still.  but i guess that kept me with you.  or you with me.  haha.  (nobody would admit who’s most clingy).

the endless debates…and how i hated you more everytime you win.  topics which are usually left to be discussed in social studies or philosophy classes and not to couples in love.  you are the best teacher i’ve had.  oh did you ever realize i’ve learned so much from you?

and even when you weren’t the prince charming i dreamt since i was little, you are the only person i could imagine to whom i will whole-heartedly share my malong with.

thank you for: the patience (this should be in all caps).  PATIENCE.  for hanging out with me even when i don’t say anything the whole night.  for understanding that i get seriously mad at the world when i wanted a Cheez-It and i don’t find any..  for laughing at the stupidest, shallowest things i tell you.  and for doing the most unreasonable things because i asked you to.

so maybe then i must believe in a God.  because there has to be that great Somebody to say "thank you" to for bringing you to me.

utangan pa ka’g Cheez-It, garaa ka. 

i love you.

<shikamaru> talk green?

<riot-grrl> no

<riot-grrl> pink.

<shikamaru> ok

<shikamaru>
bye 

 

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/quit rawwwrrr!

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kitakits! =P

You Are Not Destined to Rule the World

You are destined for something else… Like inventing a new type of cupcake. You just don’t have the stomach for brutality. But watch out - because many people do!

ay genun.. oh okay.

pick up lines galore!! in time for february aron nana moy ka-date. =D

1. Minamalat na naman ang puso ko..

*** paano kasi, laging sinisigaw ang pangalan mo..

2. Ikaw ba may-ari ng Crayola??

*** ikaw kasi nagbibigay ng kulay sa buhay ko..

3. Uy picture tayo!!

*** para ma-develop tayo!!

4. Kung ikaw ay bola at ako ang player, mashushoot ba kita??

*** hinde, para lagi kita mamimiss..

5. Can i take your picture??

*** coz i want to show Santa exactly what i want for christmas!!

6. Exam ka ba??

*** gustong gusto na kasi kitang i-take home eh!!

7. Lecture mo ba ako??

*** lab kasi kita..

8. Centrum ka ba??

*
** kasi you make my life complete!!

9. Miss pwede ba kita maging driver??

*** para ikaw na magpapatakbo ng buhay ko..

10. Mahilig ka ba sa asukal??

*** ang tamis kasi ng mga ngiti mo..

11. Pinaglihi ka ba sa keyboard??

*** kasi type kita..

12. I hate to say this but… You are like my underwear..

*** coz i can’t last a day without you!!

13. Ibibili kita ng salbabida..

*** kasi malulunod ka sa pagmamahal ko..

14. Pwede ba kitang maging sidecar??

*
** single kasi ako eh..

15.Me lisensya ka ba??

*** coz you’re driving me crazy eh..

16. May kilala ka bang gumagawa ng relo??

*** may sira ata relo ko.. pag ikaw kasi kasama ko, humihinto ang oras ko..

17. Grabe nakakatawa yung mga pick-up lines noh?? hahaha! May alam ka pa
bang iba?? Wala na akong maisip eh..

*** coz all i ever think of is you..

18. I’m a bee..

*** can you be my honey??

19. Nakakatakot diba ang multo??

*** pero mas nakakatakot kapag nawala ka sa buhay ko..

20. Am i a bad shooter??

*** coz i keep on missing you..

21. May lahi ka bang aswang??

*** ang pangit mo kasi eh..

22. Naniniwala ka ba sa love at first sight??

*** O gusto mong dumaan ulit ako??
23. Mabilis ka siguro sa mga puzzle noh??

*** kasi kakasimula pa lang ng araw ko, pero nabuo mo na agad..

24. Excuse me.. Are you a dictionary??

*** because you give meaning to my life..

25. Bangin ka ba??

*
** nahuhulog kasi ako sa’yo..

26. Pustiso ka ba??

*** kasi, can’t smile without you..

27. Pagod na pagod ka na noh??

*** maghapon at magdamag kana kasing tumatakbo sa isipan ko eh..

28. May butas ba puso mo??

*
** kasi natrap na ako sa loob, can’t find my way out!!

29. Anung height mo??

*** ha?? pano ka nagkasya sa loob ng puso ko..

30. Hey, did you fart??

*** coz you blew me away!!

31. Sana "T" na lang ako..

*** para i’m always right next to "U"

32. Are you Jamaican??

*** kasi Ja-maican me crazy!!

33. Nde tayo tao..Nde tayo hayop.BAGAY tayo.BAGAY tlga tayo.

34. Ako ay isang exam.kaya sagutin mo na ako…

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pro (kung way swerte) expect flying kicksfrom girls. haha! good luck!

and so i let go of these kites and neon paper planes
leave this sandcastle for the waves to slowly wash away.
for whom are these all anyway?

i don’t know if i’d still stay to see the sun kiss the earth later
it would make so nice a poetry, i’m sure
–a sort of an epilogue.
but it might be too much to bear.

familiar seashells intentionally dropped along this shoreline
creating a fun, sad path
ending on this sandcastle.

i turn away
at once
careful not to look back.
i reach the ugly, asphalt road
and now have to hitchhike
for i left everything behind.
i raise my thumb to do the sign
but realize

i have one of those seashells in my hand.

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