Blogging achieved goals

Here I am after the longest years of my life; I am finally on the continent of Europe with no plans yet to go back to the Philippines.

Life's abroad is not always a bed of roses but full of misery and loneliness. I work abroad not only for myself but for my family most of the time. Aside from working hard and my new environment, loneliness is one of the toughest hurdles to overcome.

I am starting to miss my family, the people especially in my school days, though there are now many ways to communicate or contact them thanks to social networking (Facebook, Tweeter, YM, etc). I am thinking to write my own online journal to share to them things goods and bads I've noticed about life, career, and just about anything else involved with my recent move to the UK and how it all translate to me.

Since the time I start blogging, they keep following on me because they said every post was very informative and they know how life's could be. They are all my inspiration to keep on writing and I am very happy every comments they leave. In blogging, it affects my whole life here. Every time I am writing and expressing my thought and ideas on my blog it feels me very relaxing and my lonesome and tiredness from work goes away.

My goal in blogging is to keep my family get closer because we are very far from each other; 2 lives in Riyadh, 1 in Hawaii, me and my sister here in UK and my family in the Philippines. We have both our own blogs and we keep sharing whether bad or good news in our every life and to the whole family as well. I can achieve this goal through constant blogging with all the interesting facts about what's life abroad and by visiting our blogs to keep our family relations comes close.

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I got my own Paypal account

Alot of people use Paypal nowadays to make and receive payments. And bloggers use it when making money from blogs. I do not have the interest of having a Paypal account but few weeks ago I received an email from Google.com with reports overview of my money-earned from contextual program Google-Adsense. A lot of resources I read about the program with question How do I get paid? When? and Where? but having a Paypal account is the easiest way to get the money and transfer it in just few clicks.

PayPal’s great. If you were intimidated by it before, then maybe after doing a little more research you won’t be.

One of the greatest things about it is that it’s free. Sometimes using a credit card online will result in big fees, especially if you are buying something in a different currency. Personal accounts with PayPal are free. Personal accounts differ from business accounts in that you would be using your account to pay for things, instead of receiving money.

PayPal may require you to validate your account, though. This would require you to submit personal information, like a bank account number, where they would deposit a small amount of money into your account and once you receive it, you need to tell them how much they’ve put in. This prevents people from creating many accounts and limits money laundering. Simply brilliant!

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Am I Going to be Rich?

Since child, I’ve always heard the word Abroad. It seems to be a nicest place for me then that someday I could also work abroad because all our neighbors who’ve been there brings a lot of money when they come back in our village.

Going abroad for work is said to be making your life more progressive compare to work in our place, many work in Japan, America, Middle East and some other countries they are very happy to their life and many people migrate in that place.

Now, I was giving a chance to be here in abroad and know the life that could bring answer to all my questions, it reminds me to a place I wanted to visit and to live for that someday I could grab a piece of opportunity to become rich. I can’t imagine how my life's become now adays.

In my situation, I have found the answer to my ambition in life “Am I going to be rich?” That depends on you, if you work hard and save your money, invest it in the right things then you will find yourself there, and don't forget those who told you that you would.

A law protecting bloggers

I must admit that before hitting my publish button on my blog I am always think first of myself the danger if ever I had a post involve some person, because I really do have on my post particularly on My Journey Going to UK.

It is Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago wants online journalists and bloggers included in Philippine Senate Bill No. 455 seeking to protect journalists, although I didn’t vote her during her presidency election. There is no reason why we should not include in the proposed law, because many bloggers post socio-political commentaries using our own web-based journals. Even though we are not traditionally referred to as members of the media, we may actually be exposed to the same dangers encountered by institutional media practitioners.

Santiago cited as an example the case of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, who was reportedly subjected to harassment and threats after his website published sensitive and confidential information, including hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables, so bloggers should likewise be given protection by the law.

Why Brits called it aubergine?

One of my favorite vegetable is the eggplant. This is very versatile and I can use it in a variety of ways from a simple Tortang Talong (fried eggplant) to Pinakbet (mixed vegetables).

 

I planned to cook a Filipino dish today and am looking for some vegies in the grocery shop. Of course, I won't forget my eggplant so I picked and ask the salesman how much the cost of each eggplant. Then he said it's an aubergine, I don't think I've heard that word before, or rather, I haven't known its meaning.

Why do the British refer to his eggplant as an 'aubergine'? I want to know. Upon my arrival in the UK, I am collecting all new words what the Brits are spoken which are different in American that's for me to know what's the meaning.

So, the name eggplant, used in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada refers to the fact that the fruits of some 18th century European cultivars were yellow or white and resembled goose or hen's eggs. The name aubergine, which is used in British English, is an adaptation from the French word derived from Catalan alberginia.

From now on, I will call it aubergine but going back to the Philippines its a simple Talong. Shall I call it fried aubergine too?

Brinjal plant from India. The green fruits turn yellow when ripe.