Top 10: The Countries Where My Blog Viewers Come From

Whenever I look at my stats, I’m surprised to see that my blog viewers come from not just the Philippines but from all over the world. Are most of these viewers Filipinos who are merely scattered across the globe, or are they people of different nationalities who have become interested in my blog? Most of the time, I write about my life here in the Philippines or about Filipino culture. Do  those topics appeal to people from all over the world? I’m really curious. Anyway, below is the list of the top 10 countries where my viewers come from.

1. United States

I’ve posted about New York, so maybe that drew Americans to my blog. Then again, viewers from the U.S. got a higher ranking than viewers from the Philippines? I wonder why this is so.

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My Super Early Morning Routine

I wake up in the morning everyday at 5 a.m. Sometimes I do this because I need to finish something for work, but even if it’s not necessary to wake up early, I still get up at 5 a.m. I wasn’t always like this. I used to be a sleepyhead who slept until noon during weekends and the summer. After I graduated, I decided to train myself to wake up early because I didn’t want to waste the day. I also knew that this habit will come in handy someday. Now I don’t need an alarm clock to wake up, but I still set my phone on alarm just in case. Sometimes I sleep until late, or I wake up earlier like at 3 a.m. I can do this even if I slept at 12 midnight or was even drunk the night before.

I started to love mornings. There’s something so peaceful about it. I discovered that I was more productive in the mornings. I used to think that I was more of a night person, but now that has changed. Below are the things I do when I wake up.

1. WORK

One of the things I do as an editorial assistant is to post video articles to Hootsuite before 8 a.m. I also catch up on some work when I need to.

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Little Ja’s First Cooking Class

*Note: If Filipino words are used, they are translated below. 

Mama enrolled me in a cooking class when I was just around five years old. It was a big class where each kid had his or her own table, set of ingredients, and recipe card. We were doing no bake leche flan, and I was so excited.

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The Books I Bought at the Floating Book Fair

*Note: If Filipino words are used, they are translated below

A few weeks ago, I went to the Floating Book Fair in Manila. A ship called Logos Hope was docked at Pier 15 of the Manila South Harbor. It is open from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. from Tuesday to Saturday, and it will remain here in Manila until March 30.

From taft, I rode a jeep to Quiapo, and the jeepney driver let me off at a road where jeeps that went to Pier 15 passed by. When I was riding the Pier 15 jeep, I thought that once I passed by the harbor, I would see it, so I didn’t ask the driver to tell me if we were at Pier 15 already. It was a long jeep ride until I finally asked the driver “Malayo pa ba ung Pier 15?” and he said, “Naku, lampas na. Sige iikot naman tayo.”

When I arrived at the right stop, I had to walk quite a bit to get to the ship. There’s a P20 entrance fee and a briefing about the ship. I went inside the main bookstore, but I didn’t find any books I liked. Disappointed, I went past the cashier, and proceeded to the exit. Then, I discovered that there were more books! There were piles and piles of really informative textbooks that was 3 for P500. I bought six. They are all super thick, and some of them have CDs. Here are the books that I bought:

1. The Dynamics of Mass Communication: Media in the Digital Age by Joseph R. Dominick

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High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 14: Anwaar and the King)

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Note: In celebration of women’s month, I decided to post this play that I wrote when I was in second year high school. My groupmates helped me come up with ideas, but I was the one who was largely responsible for the conceptualization of the story and the writing of the script. In this play, I talk about two sisters who are awoken to the plight of women and are moved to fight oppression. I also slightly touch upon the issue of honor killings, specifically how raped women (usually in the Middle East) are killed because they have brought “dishonor” to their family. Our group was assigned to write about Pakistan, but in this script, I changed the name of the country into a fictional country because the depiction of this world is not an accurate depiction of Pakistan. I also changed “Allah” to “Azlah” because the god described in this story and the religious practices depicted are not accurate depictions of the Muslim faith.

Anwaar

Scene 14: The king is in one of the rooms of his palace. He is with General Najiya, Anwaar, and a guard. Anwaar’s hands are tied behind her back.)

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