Wednesday, November 12, 2008
$1.52 Adsense earnings
I had 2 clicks last night, each costs .30c. I noticed that whenever I made backlinks such as submitting my URL's to directories, I earn clicks. I also had some tweaks on my ads. I'm now using large rectangle and wide skycraper which I learned from my adsense fellas that those formats are highly effective. Well, I guess it's true!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Not just an ordinary buffet
No occasion or anything. It's just that Myke and I are craving for seafoods. Yes, seafood word with an "s". Meaning we wanted to satisfy our huge tummy demands.
We were supposedly looking for 169 Seafood Restaurant which his brother Talong told us. No luck of eye-ing 169 though. Then a Causeway Restaurant valley park man politely referred us to Tramway (along Scout Tobias I think) and Chinatown's Best both in Banawe Streets. We had dinner with Chinatown Best a while back and that was the current best (quite inexpensive)buffet in town for both of us. We wanted to try something new so we headed for Tramway, the dinner cost P188. We got inside and took a glance at their dishes in the buffet table. We only sighted a big unknown kind of fish, we thought that wasn't good enough and we would not be satisfied. We went back to the car and finally decided dining in Tong Yang Hot Pot along Quezon Avenue across Aberdeen Court.
Tong Yang Hot Pot buffet costs P560 per pax including any (all-you-can) drink of your choice. The food setting for buffet is a little bit new to us. Normally, us dinners will see cooked food on the buffet table. Oh well, not for Tong Yang. The restaurant has wide array of fresh seafoods which will let diners pick what they want and cooked it on their own hot pot, except crab which is serve cooked. Hmmm...diners get to eat their food zizzlingly hot! Table setting is ala - shabu shabu style. You get to have the hot pot itself with a grill at the bottom. For soups you get to choose normal, spicy, and sinigang. We opted for spicy which is quite good. 
Samples of their seafood choices are slices of lapu-lapu, tanigue, yellow fin, and tuna. If I were to count it, i would say Tong Yang has around 15 kinds of fishes. And then there shrimps! hmmm... cooked with garlic and butter? why not?So tempting to eat huh. Aaahhhh, I might run to the car now and drive back to Tong Yang! Not yet, not until I finish this post!
Tong Yang also has choices of noodles, vegetables, marinated beef, chicken, pork, lamb...name it! And here's an exciting one... US prime beef,oh boy!
The highlight in Tong Yang Hot Pot is the the crabs. Those cooked to perfection pieces of huge crabs is oh so mouth watering. Take note that crabs are not served all the time. You can have unlimited crabs but you have to wait for it's serving time. Staying for 2 hours and a half in the restaurant, we had 2 servings of crabs, huge serving by the way. As far as we know, they served crabs every after an hour. Funny thing with these crabs is...whenever the diners hear the waiter saying "crabs are available" these diners (including Myke) immediately proceeded to where the crabs are situated. Tong Yang suddenly turned into a seemingly scene of a crowded people with vendors yelling in the wet market,just imagine that :)
Anyway, when you dine in Tong Yang Hot Pot make sure you have enough room for deserts. You cant get enough of ice creams, fresh fruits, and Filipino deserts buko pandan and halo-halo.
We were supposedly looking for 169 Seafood Restaurant which his brother Talong told us. No luck of eye-ing 169 though. Then a Causeway Restaurant valley park man politely referred us to Tramway (along Scout Tobias I think) and Chinatown's Best both in Banawe Streets. We had dinner with Chinatown Best a while back and that was the current best (quite inexpensive)buffet in town for both of us. We wanted to try something new so we headed for Tramway, the dinner cost P188. We got inside and took a glance at their dishes in the buffet table. We only sighted a big unknown kind of fish, we thought that wasn't good enough and we would not be satisfied. We went back to the car and finally decided dining in Tong Yang Hot Pot along Quezon Avenue across Aberdeen Court.
Tong Yang Hot Pot buffet costs P560 per pax including any (all-you-can) drink of your choice. The food setting for buffet is a little bit new to us. Normally, us dinners will see cooked food on the buffet table. Oh well, not for Tong Yang. The restaurant has wide array of fresh seafoods which will let diners pick what they want and cooked it on their own hot pot, except crab which is serve cooked. Hmmm...diners get to eat their food zizzlingly hot! Table setting is ala - shabu shabu style. You get to have the hot pot itself with a grill at the bottom. For soups you get to choose normal, spicy, and sinigang. We opted for spicy which is quite good.
Samples of their seafood choices are slices of lapu-lapu, tanigue, yellow fin, and tuna. If I were to count it, i would say Tong Yang has around 15 kinds of fishes. And then there shrimps! hmmm... cooked with garlic and butter? why not?So tempting to eat huh. Aaahhhh, I might run to the car now and drive back to Tong Yang! Not yet, not until I finish this post!
Tong Yang also has choices of noodles, vegetables, marinated beef, chicken, pork, lamb...name it! And here's an exciting one... US prime beef,oh boy!
The highlight in Tong Yang Hot Pot is the the crabs. Those cooked to perfection pieces of huge crabs is oh so mouth watering. Take note that crabs are not served all the time. You can have unlimited crabs but you have to wait for it's serving time. Staying for 2 hours and a half in the restaurant, we had 2 servings of crabs, huge serving by the way. As far as we know, they served crabs every after an hour. Funny thing with these crabs is...whenever the diners hear the waiter saying "crabs are available" these diners (including Myke) immediately proceeded to where the crabs are situated. Tong Yang suddenly turned into a seemingly scene of a crowded people with vendors yelling in the wet market,just imagine that :)
Anyway, when you dine in Tong Yang Hot Pot make sure you have enough room for deserts. You cant get enough of ice creams, fresh fruits, and Filipino deserts buko pandan and halo-halo.
Friday, November 7, 2008
A surprise call
At around 8 in the morning the telephone rang.
Ring,ring....Myke stood up from the bed and answered the call. I was still sleepy that time. I did not ask him who was calling.He got back to continue his interrupted bedtime.
Ring...ring. There's the disturbing telephone ring again. As usual, he answered the call. But this time, he shouted out to me "hon, sa embassy yata ito" ("hon, i think it's a call from the embassy"). I was surprised and immediately headed where the phone is situated.
"hello?"
"hi, im calling from the B_ Embassy. Is this ____(my real name)?"
"yes, this is she" ................and so on.
I was really surprised how an officer from __ embassy called me to explain one thing that she needed from me in order for her/them to make the final decision. First of all she called from a land line, it was just the other day I realized that I misplaced my cellphone SIM to which the number is the one reachable for the embassy. Luckily, I written down my land line number in the LBC package (I sent to embassy) which I thought can be useful in case the embassy calls me. Second, this is the third chance they had given me.
On my first attempt, I was a bit hopeless because they wanted me to submit something that I didn't have and a requirement that I have but is less qualified. In the letter I received from the embassy dated October 10, they said they needed my 1.bank statements and; 2. evidence of own funds. I have a bank statements but with very small deposits, next is a melting-on-the-knees answer: 'I do not have evidence of own funds', period!
Then there's Atty. Tupaz. Atty. instructed to submit a Letter together with Affidavit of Declaration and Undertaking in addition to job offer, bank statements, US visa and Notice of Action for visa extension BUT without the 'evidence of own funds'. These documents were submitted just Wednesday this week, just 2 days before today.
Just a day passed by after submitting the, I received the embassy call. The officer told me "there's nothing wrong with your documents. all we are needing is the evidence of your own funds which you can spend when you arrive in the UK...." meaning...a pocket money!
"okay, fine" I told myself. Is that all you needed in order for me to get a visa? I smiled while thinking of something. Now, you have given me a big chance of getting approve! By the way all those lines were just my thoughts.
And then I told the officer that I will submit my parent's bank account because they will be the one to support me when I get to UK. she said "that would be fine"
Now, my current problem is where to get the BIG amount? hmmm, I know! I'm crossing my fingers up to this moment hoping that this person will lend me the money.
P.S.
Ms _officer, I thank you so much for giving me lots of chances and taking your time calling me just to thoroughly explain what should I be submitting.
Lord, I thank You for letting that certain person handle my visa application. Thank you for sending her..
Well, you know, not all officers will give somebody those kind of efforts just for the visa applicant to comply with the requirements. All other officer can just 'refuse' a visa on the first attempt if the applicant's document is incomplete. I had 3 chances, by the way. Hopefully and praying that finally I will get that stamp on my passport very soon.
Ring,ring....Myke stood up from the bed and answered the call. I was still sleepy that time. I did not ask him who was calling.He got back to continue his interrupted bedtime.
Ring...ring. There's the disturbing telephone ring again. As usual, he answered the call. But this time, he shouted out to me "hon, sa embassy yata ito" ("hon, i think it's a call from the embassy"). I was surprised and immediately headed where the phone is situated.
"hello?"
"hi, im calling from the B_ Embassy. Is this ____(my real name)?"
"yes, this is she" ................and so on.
I was really surprised how an officer from __ embassy called me to explain one thing that she needed from me in order for her/them to make the final decision. First of all she called from a land line, it was just the other day I realized that I misplaced my cellphone SIM to which the number is the one reachable for the embassy. Luckily, I written down my land line number in the LBC package (I sent to embassy) which I thought can be useful in case the embassy calls me. Second, this is the third chance they had given me.
On my first attempt, I was a bit hopeless because they wanted me to submit something that I didn't have and a requirement that I have but is less qualified. In the letter I received from the embassy dated October 10, they said they needed my 1.bank statements and; 2. evidence of own funds. I have a bank statements but with very small deposits, next is a melting-on-the-knees answer: 'I do not have evidence of own funds', period!
Then there's Atty. Tupaz. Atty. instructed to submit a Letter together with Affidavit of Declaration and Undertaking in addition to job offer, bank statements, US visa and Notice of Action for visa extension BUT without the 'evidence of own funds'. These documents were submitted just Wednesday this week, just 2 days before today.
Just a day passed by after submitting the, I received the embassy call. The officer told me "there's nothing wrong with your documents. all we are needing is the evidence of your own funds which you can spend when you arrive in the UK...." meaning...a pocket money!
"okay, fine" I told myself. Is that all you needed in order for me to get a visa? I smiled while thinking of something. Now, you have given me a big chance of getting approve! By the way all those lines were just my thoughts.
And then I told the officer that I will submit my parent's bank account because they will be the one to support me when I get to UK. she said "that would be fine"
Now, my current problem is where to get the BIG amount? hmmm, I know! I'm crossing my fingers up to this moment hoping that this person will lend me the money.
P.S.
Ms _officer, I thank you so much for giving me lots of chances and taking your time calling me just to thoroughly explain what should I be submitting.
Lord, I thank You for letting that certain person handle my visa application. Thank you for sending her..
Well, you know, not all officers will give somebody those kind of efforts just for the visa applicant to comply with the requirements. All other officer can just 'refuse' a visa on the first attempt if the applicant's document is incomplete. I had 3 chances, by the way. Hopefully and praying that finally I will get that stamp on my passport very soon.
Very first adsense click
I checked my Adsense account this afternoon. I was so happy the moment I have seen my first revenue for my website. 12c. You might be laughing because it was just few cents. I laughed out loud too. But you know, It was just a beginning. Good thing there is now I learned how to make impression with my visitors in order for me to get those $$$ clicks.
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