My Consoling Asylum

Marhgil Macuha's name may sound so funny to me but I don't think I have the right to delve deeper into that issue. The first name looked as if it were supposed to be Markgil and was typographically mistaken. Who knows? My conjecture could be right, although there is a searing thought in me that his name was given to him with purpose and rationale.

Okay, who am I by the way to keep inquiring, and on some form ridiculing, Marhgil Macuha's personality when I am just a novice blogger and he is someone whom I think will be the next SEO analysis master? I think I need to shut me off now...

But oops, wait, just a sec. You might want to join in his mini-SEO contest in line with his blog's nearing anniversary and take $150 for your New Year-after party. I'm glad I just did, and I hope I will win in this Marhgil Macuha $150-Anniversary-Mini-SEO-Contest thingy.

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It is said that one is good; two is better, but it is also said that a whole lot bunched into one is far better, as confirmed by a Tagalog adage that says, “Mas malakas (o matibay) ang walis kapag nakabigkis”.

The MindanaoBloggers.com strongly believes in such an exalting maxim, thus uniting the earnest bloggers of the Land of Promise, Mindanao, to promote solidarity, camaraderie, peace and a welcoming atmosphere of belongingness in the ever expanding and dynamic world of blogging.

In this particular site, each and every blog is systematically categorized according to the blog author's place, whether by hometown or origin, or the recent topographic point of stay, whichever the blog owner heartily chooses. Even the non-Mindanaoan bloggers can park their domains in the directory as long as they possess love, adoration and a substantial amount of regard for the Mindanaoan land, the home of the mighty and the free in the south. The directory is divided orderly into regions of Mindanao—Region IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and ARMM—and these are further subdivided into provinces to provide blog hoppers the ease and comfort when navigating the site, and one directory listing is even dedicated for those non-Mindanaoans who love the island.

But MindanaoBloggers.com does not merely list blog domains from the Land of Promise in its interior as it also provides bloggers some exposure by featuring blogs and their authors who are worthy of note. It has also provided Mindanao bloggers an opportunity to improve and maximize their blogging pursuits, and also the chance to get interactive with co-Mindanao bloggers in person, by hosting the first ever Mindanao Bloggers Summit last October 27, 2007 at Mindanao's key and crowning glory city and the Philippines biggest and world's largest (in terms of area), Davao City. And as if those weren't enough, this site of friendship and bonding also increases its blogger to blogger awareness by procuring a contest that lets a blogger review a Mindanaoan blog or two other than his own. This is a yet another first by MindanaoBloggers.

If there is one dedicated site to be hailed for its creativity, commitment, passion and love for the Mindanao island, it is going to be MindanaoBloggers.com. I am so glad I belong...

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I didn't know where I was actually heading to that time but I dropped by a site of a journey of an internet entrepreneur and was so enticed about a teaser in his sidebar that said "Win a Wii". Therefore I clicked it right in an instant and got to his specific post as how to win the console, and I am sharing this for you to have the chance to win the item, too.

Truebluetitan.com's author is cooking a dish for us to feast on this holiday to celebrate his wonderful journey becoming an internet entrepreneur. The rules to grab his delightful treat are indeed very simple. You can win the Nintendo Wii by either (1) leaving a comment on any of his various helpful posts and subscribe to his RSS feed via an RSS reader or email (if by reader send him a screenshot of his website in your reader) or (2) you write a blog post about his website, Truebluetitan.com, and his Nintendo Wii contest with at least 250 words containing a link back to his website with the anchor text "internet entrepreneur" and another link back to that particular post/article, and when you're done contact him via the contact form.

Contest ends December 14, 2007. The winner will be drawn on that same day at 11:59 PM and the prize will be sent out on December 15, 2007. See, he even sees to it that it will arrive at your doorsteps to make your Christmas any happier. It's gonna be a Wii-lectrifying Christmas!

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It is intriguing as much as it is entertaining how a popular female musician’s name is parodied into one’s nativeness (Mandaya) and extended with a supposedly adopted surname like that by a married woman. But Mandaya Moore-Orlis blog is authored not by a woman, or not quite a woman that is. He technically calls himself, as stated in his blog’s sidebar, “ang bayot sa bukid” or the gay in the highlands, which immediately creates either a silent, self hysterics (when you’re alone) or a laugh-out-loud hilarity when you’re scanning the site with a friend or two.

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Anyone who understands and speaks Bisaya and who intentionally or accidentally browse through MindanaoBloggers.com directory, particularly that in the long list of Davao City, would be captivated at once by the words that say “Batang Yagit” that one would actually click at it right in an instant with a thoughtful curiosity, leaving the other lists of Davao weblogs behind. That is if one actually left-clicks it, and not right-clicks hitting open in a new tab. Well the matter is that I did the latter, not that it matters anyway…

Batang Yagit – translation, Disheveled Child. One would actually think that a pediatric author—one not older than 13, medical-wise—updates his page at his own will. And with a childhood photo for the about-the-author portion on the sidebar will fortify the thinking that it is truly child-authored. But it isn’t.

Enter the page, and any visitor will be welcomed by a South Park-like, self-made caricature at the header that obliviously says “Me?” like any poor child would when confronted. Entertaining more of the blog’s visitors are the drolly lines that spell, Ang serye ng mga kagilagilalas na pakikipagsapalaran ng isang batang walang magawa sa buhay (A series of spectacular encounters of a child who has nothing to do with life), and the page layout itself is non-irritant to the eyes. Instead, it soothes them. Perhaps it’s the author’s way of compelling readers to stay longer than they would normally spend there.

Not less than the header, each and every post is more than just a brain-teaser and an eye-candy. The narrative is laid out in a manner that doesn’t compromise both the postings’ readership and essence. They entertain as well as inform, amuse more than delight and present mundane everydayness all the more. It’s one lovable blog, lingering on my head as though it were a sticky memory.

He might either be a genius or simply, interestingly mad, the author. Winston surely knows how to distinguish the head from the tickle-sensitive part of you and also knows too well how to blend these two without engendering confusion. Whether a genius or a madman, I don’t care; I just wish he continues to post more articles that a mundane person as I usually crave for. If not, then I would have just settled with envying his name’s ambigraphic presentation and hope he would be too kind to make the same for me.

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