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How I met my husband.  Last time I shared with you my prayer for the Man of my Life. I prayed this every night. Now, I’ll tell you how I met him.  October 2003, after months of job hunting, I finally landed my dream job; (I also prayed for this job). or shall I say the Job, it’s actually the job that I prayed for. Hey! Come to think of it, when I got the job, I got my man as well.  He and I were part of the same start group. And the rest as they say, is history.  

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How I prayed for my husband

I remember how as a young girl, I would wish on a star that someday I may meet the man of my dreams, my prince charming. And of all the good characteristics that I could wish my prince to have, only 2 things mattered; that he is handsome and kind-hearted.

Years later, I fell in love. Went broken-hearted then fell in love again. Went broken-hearted AGAIN then fell… Oh, you know the cycle.

The relationships I had before I met my husband were of weak foundation. Those were years of on and off tango with uncertainty; of good and bad times; of hoping and some more hoping. Each relationship, I would hope that the guy would be the one.

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I’ve been blogging since late 2003 but I never enjoyed posting entries back then. It’s because I hardly can think of topics to blog about.

There’s no Wordpress back then. I signed up on blogspot but I never had a single entry on it. (Well, as far as I can remember). And besides, I did not like its features. And since Wordpress was not yet out, I had to create my own CMS. But again, I didn’t have any topics to discuss so I’ve just been updating the backend scripts almost everyday. I had fun!

Being a regular visitor of Yuga’s and Albrine’s blogs (I miss this guy already), I got an idea of monetizing a blog and earn extra income thru AdSense. And after years of no income, Yuga helped me out and started to convert my blogging into some amount.

I got my first AdSense Check few months ago and for me it’s big enough. We dined at Bubba Gump for the first time; we bought a wooden cabinet (at last), I treated my friends out a month after my birthday; in short, we were able to pamper ourselves a bit. Excitement and joy I felt.

Since then, my earnings became even higher and it made me more interested in blogging. Although what I’m earning is still incomparable to what the others earn.

Now, I again have few months’ savings on AdSense and since we have two kids already, we figured that it now makes sense if we buy our own car. Our First car. (Seems like my dream is coming true now, eh?) We are planning to start with a used car and maybe upgrade little by little until we avail a new one.

While my AdSense savings is not enough for a used car, we decided to loan some amount and let AdSense pay for it every month.

Now, I only hope that we make a right decision on choosing a car. I am no grease monkey so I need your help.

• How much budget do you think is ideal for buying a used car?
• What factors do I need to consider in choosing a car?
• What tips would you advise that I should do when we already have the car? (Maintenance tips)

Before I end this, I just want you to know that earning from blogging is just the result. What makes the passion alive is your little time spent reading this blog and the mindset to earn more friends online and offline through blogging.

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A month ago ‘yesterday’, my wife gave birth to Ley. But I thought it was only yesterday. Time’s really passing by so fast. Tomorrow’s another month again.

With the past 31 days, Ley has experience a lot in this world already. In her second week she suffered from pneumonia and we’re thankful it never lasted long. Ley’s very healthy now and strong. She gained weight and grew few a inches. Before, she cries almost all day and night, seems like she feels uncomfortable all the time. But she’s more at ease now. She enjoys looking at things around her when she’s awake and just lying in her crib. You can never see her like that before. Many improvements happened to her in just a month. Thank God for fulfilling our hearts.

Now what? Get the cake and share it to the readers, honey. Ooops, you said I forgot to greet Ley, but I really did not. You think I did? Please. Maybe this post is a bit late… What do we have for next month? Oh, it’s Sam’s birthday. I’ll greet her now. Happy Birthday Sam.

To my Ladies, Lady Anna, Lady Sam & Lady Ley, I Love You.

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Like I just announced on my previous post, we just had our new baby. Like Maria Arwen Sofia, she also has three names on her first name, Laura Eowyn Ysabel.

Maria Arwen Sofia has her nickname as the reverse of her initials, SAM. But this time, we’ll call Laura Eowyn Ysabel as LEY. We have actually planned to use the reverse as well but it will just sound not too good as “yell”. We think that it might confuse her when she starts to learn following instructions. What if we say “Yel. Yel.”, then she might yell at us. Just kidding. And besides, Lei or Ley has been Leah’s nickname for her friends. But all her relatives call he ‘Honey’. Why? She’s just sooooo sweet.

You might ask where did we get the name. Well, we just thought of them. Only Eowyn has an explanation so far. Like Arwen, she’s also a character in the famous Lord of the Rings novel. The other 2 names, we just found them cute.

Ley is just 4 days old but many have commented that she’s gonna have a hard time to write her name on test papers when she go to school. But I heard that schools now allow nicknames on test papers except on National exams and Entrace exams. I’m not sure about it though.

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