Happy 2nd Blogging Year Anniversary To Me

Two years ago, I decided to learn how to blog to keep in touch with my then-boyfriend Oreo so we could survive our Long Distance Relationship. He was working in Saudi Arabia at that time and I’m working as a kolboy (call center agent) in Taguig. I never imagined that I would still be blogging today and I’m determined to blog for a few more years.

I never imagined that I would be able to learn how to blog using Blogger. Right now, I can say that I can do almost all things in Blogger. I also tried to learn how to blog in Wordpress but that was a total failure. I can’t even put the Nuffnang codes in my Wordpress blog (which was later shut down by Wordpress due to inactivity).

Right now, I have around 6 blogs which I’m trying to update regularly. So far, I haven’t received any check payments yet for the advertisements that appeared on those blogs. However, I have received A LOT of products and movie tickets from Nuffnang because of my blogging efforts. When I started blogging two years ago, I just wanted to keep in touch with my boyfriend. I never imagined that I would meet other bloggers, join online blogging contests and have advertisements on my blogs.

In that 2 years of blogging experience I have so far, I learned the basic rule of blogging – update your blogs regularly. If you’re posting updates once a week, it’s okay as long as it’s consistent. The key to have a regularly influx of online traffic is to blog regularly. That’s all there is to it.

If you’re planning to start blogging and thinks that you’ll get a whole lot of money out of it, I suggest that you divert your time and energy to something else. I’m not saying there is no money in blogging. There is money in blogging! It just takes a lot of time, like years. Blogging is like an investment. It doesn’t produce money overnight. You have to improve your craft, make friends, and give something to your readers. In time, money would come.

For those of you who enjoys sharing updates with your friends, loves to write, friendly and loves to be online all the time then try blogging. It would be a worthy experience. You’ll gain friends through blogging and would learn a lot of things about the Internet, software and a whole lot of stuff.

So, I just wanted to give myself a tap on the back and say Happy 2^nd Blogging Anniversary To Me.

Picture taken from Hubspot Blog.

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Tobie and Rocky

Tobie and Rocky is one of the 4 gay couples that I truly admire. Today, I finally read the blog post on how Rocky narrates their beginning as a couple. I also found out that April 23, 2009 is their anniversary.

If I understood it correctly, sometime in 2007, Rocky accidentally took a picture of Tobie in a sci-fi convention. Rocky posted the said picture on the net when Tobie left a simple message saying that he’s the guy in the picture. It’s just a simple meet and greet and their love story didn’t took flight… yet.

Then they met online, the 2^nd time, after almost 2 years. Tobie saw Rocky’s profile in a famous gay dating site. It was then that Rocky realized that Tobie is a true-blooded bisexual. It’s something that they talked about. They became friends and would just talk occasionally, as Rocky indicated, “with the random bit of flirting here and there online”.

In February 2009, they decided to meet in person just to play NetRunner (I never heard about this game, promise). Rocky invited Tobie and they’ve realized that there is “spark” between them. They’ve “connected” (sort of) to each other’s soul. They’ve enjoyed the night playing the game.

They’ve hang out all throughout Valentine’s Day 2009 together after that and they get to know each other even more. Rocky at this time, have a partner and he left out the details on how that old relationship ended.

Eventually, Rocky and Tobie reached a point where in their bond and their feelings to each other are just RIGHT. They started living together in their apartment called “The Sietch” and since then, they’ve become a couple.

Rocky, by the way, is a successful blogger and the name behind the blog “The Geeky Guide to Nearly Everything” and is the marketing manager of a BPO company. Tobie is also a blogger, an artist, comic book creator and is the author of “The Garapata Can Speak”. He is also the boss of his own International Medical and Business Transcription Company.

Like the ending of the Harry Potter series, I can say that between Tobie and Rocky, all is well.

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