***This is not a sponsored post nor a collaboration. This lady/blog just inspired me and I wanted to feature her as the first blogger that I would want to recommend. Any collaborations or if you wanted to be featured on my blog, please send me an email at mimitachinita@yahoo.com***
How does a 30-year old blogger keep herself inspired?
By checking out other people’s blog! Life is hard as we know it. The stress of work and society’s standards of how a 30 year old should be in life is getting in to me from time to time. To ensure that I do not drive myself to sanity, I check out how others do it and I am just happy to see successful bloggers, dreaming that one day, I will to be in their league and have the same success.
I need to ensure that I have a high standard in choosing a blogger especially that this is going to be the first blogger that I will be featuring. I still have not yet finalized how the format is going to be. This is not something that I just thought of because I am having a writer’s block or anything, no that’s not the case. I really wanted to write about other people. (Since the popular opinion, is that I am maarte and puro daw ako kwento). (Maarte- for some people, they define this as overly dramatic or high maintenance , I look this up in Google, yeah, that’s how most people define maarte, LOL and Puro daw ako kwento- I am nothing but stories). People say it so negatively and all I wanted to do in life is be a nice person, not entirely a saint but keep on choosing positivity in life. I will use that negative trait for something good so I will make it a point not to entirely just write about myself but to write about other people, their cause and how inspiring they are.
Going back to this blogger, so the blogger’s name is Mona Verdida. According to her blog post, she was a former secretary and now she is a work-at-home mom who enjoys writing. I really did not see myself as a very talented writer but most part of my life, I write good stuff, I just don’t end up finishing them and getting published but I believe that writing has been my strong suit and I really did not have to be afraid when it comes to writing reports and things like that. I enjoy doing a lot of drafts because ideas are just pouring in, whether it is a scientific paper, a journalistic one, a literary one or just an email for work or posts for my blog, I like doing drafts and writing. I will just be more consistent and ensure that I finish what I will be starting. OK, so here I am talking about myself but the point is that she is my life goals. Don’t get me wrong, I do not hate my job but I also see myself as a really hands-on mom when I eventually become a parent so I may not be seeing myself quitting my job any time soon or an option once I get married and have kids but this is just my ideal life, being a stay at home mom, just writing on my blog and running my business. I’ve been browsing through her blog and see that she is a mom of two and she likes to travel and enjoy reviews of different hotels.
Her blog is www.eyesonmanila.com. She recently just had this post about her joining #LighttheWorld campaign. She posted her activities during the three days, she bought food for kids, she and her family bought groceries for an orphanage and she also fed animals. It’s just nice to see someone giving back to community during this festive season. It’s not just about sharing the blessings to the ones that you love but also to strangers and less fortunate. I planned to do something similar in 2015 but it just did not materialize because of my work commitments. I am not sure if I will be doing it this coming year but knowing that there is a go to person if in case I plan to proceed with that activity gives me comfort. Here’s the ultimate plan for 2018, I will not allow my work commitments to stop me from doing the things that I plan.
Now about her blog and formatting, I really do not want to sound like as if I am reviewing her blog or anything but here are the things that I love about eyesonmanila. Since I am someone who really like things being organized, I love her blog, it is so organized. She had tabs for beauty, food and beverage, giveaway and health, etc. Aside from that, she also have labels on the sidebar. I found her affiliates and others are organized as well, don’t you hate it when all the ads are in the middle of the blog posts? Well, I do. I hate it when they also popped out from nowhere and would not even allow you from closing ad but this is not the case on her blog. The ads on her blog are still catchy that you would still want to click them if any of those ads would catch your attention. Her blog has been around since 2011, based on the archive she has posts from that year. Here’s a screenshot of her blog.
Most of the posts under Beauty are places for grooming. She posts them when they newly opened in a certain mall or area. I like how I learn about some of these places through her blog. I just saw this Sports Barbers, a place of grooming for man. If you would check out my social media accounts, you would see that my boyfriend is a bear. LOL. It’s not like, it’s a bad thing, he does remind people of a young Ian Veneracion, and that’s a plus on why we are together. So we know that my boyfriend has facial hair, a lot, he would go and have it shaved off but after 3 days, it’s back again. I know from time to time he likes to go to those fancy grooming places and I cannot wait to take him to Sports Barbers just to check out the place.
I also wanted to focus on my health for this year so her Health tab caught my attention. I love her Health tab, though most of them are about products, I like how she raise awareness on health issues that people tend to ignore. I am now 30 and afraid that all of the things that were bad for my body will accumulate and will just come to haunt me and by 40, I am one of those people who is just tired and body is just aching and is just drinking maintenance medicine just to be fine. I will definitely be checking out her Health tab and those products.
I checked out her Travels and Leisure tabs and she’s been to places, her recent posts were in the US. Her other posts under Travels and Leisure also include discounts and also featured other place in Manila. I liked her story about their stay in Manila Ocean Park. I am so envious with her trip to the US especially to the one in St Louis. Another post from that tab that I found useful is Things to Consider in Planning Your Hotel Staycation. I am for one on those staycation, I am just not an outdoors person, that’s why. (Diba nga maarte ako?- Remember, I am overly dramatic and high maintenance, LOL).
Overall, she is an inspiring person, she travels a lot, she likes to stay in hotels, she writes according to occassion (you may want to check out her post about gifts not to give your girl), she is a good person and she has 2 cute kids and she writes all about these experiences in her blog. I guess another thing why I enjoyed reading her blog posts is because she is objective with her writing, she does not sound obnoxious. I hate it when I come across to blogs where in the blogger is just so obnoxious of the things that they have rather than just being objective with the review and the experience. Well, that’s just me. I hope you check out her blog, www.eyesonmanila.com. and you get the same inspiration as I do everytime I check out her blog.
***Again, to reiterate, I am not paid for this and this is not a collaboration. I did send her an email that I am writing about her and her blog and liked her page in facebook.***
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