…there’s color everywhere

This is the best thing I can come up with to get this blog (somehow) updated. This will contain bits and pieces of what has happened to me the past few days.

No, I won’t be posting the lyrics of some local love song, if that is what you had in mind when you read the title. I just thought it would be fun to use colors when I tell tales. I have talked to people who thought my life is dull. This one should give them a hint that it is, actually, colorful. (Yes, I am trying to sound creative. It would be understandable if you thought it isn’t creative sounding at all. I am writing this with an unsound creative mind.)

So, on with the colors.

Black. My college arts professor was the first person who told me that black is not a color and so are white and gray. I am including it just because. A box of crayons isn’t complete without the black crayon on it after all. The account would be incomplete if I do not include this.

This is Harry. I got him two weeks ago.

And this is the black bag that is intended to contain Harry while I am out and about. I know I still will be using it without Harry on it though. I got this one today.

White. I’ve already said it. This is not a color. This is so lame but I can still tell you about the box of crayons.

Mushu is now extra fun to be with. He’s a sweet, sweet dog and he sure got me through the sickness I had last week.

Pink and orange.

These are the very things that have kept me alive (pink: erithromycin, orange: biogesic). The swollen tonsils began effecting annoyance on me in the evening of June 10. Later that night, I was already having chills. I decided to go to bed hoping that it would all go away in the morning. I dreamed that I was really, really sick and when I woke up, my temperature has gone really, really high. I stayed in bed the whole day Thursday and Friday. I was only able to get out of the house on Saturday evening. I was not able to attend the leaders’ meeting and planning and was not able to sing with the team on Sunday too. The only thing I got to do was to push through with the cell group meeting I scheduled earlier in the week.

Purple and blue.

I bought a new devotional notebook/journal yesterday and it matches my Bible. Also, I use a blue pen to write on it and a purple marker to highlight important verses on my Bible.

That would be all for now. The other colors will have to come later. I still have some work to do.

Obscurity

Distorted realities.

Unlikely realizations.

Broken trusts.

Relationships examined.

Lines drawn.

Bridges crossed.

And some bridges,

they will have to be burned.

The Art of Bluffing

A writer can make good content when he or she is given enough time to get familiar with what to write about. But when you are a writer and you happen to work for someone who thinks you have an article spinning chip inserted somewhere in your brain, then you definitely would have to master the art of bluffing.

With blogging seen as one of the most effective ways to creating links and excellent content writing considered to be one way of making your website more search engine friendly, companies who have made their products and services available via the Internet are now up and about having articles and blog posts made and site content optimized enough to make their corporate presence in the World Wide Web better felt.

So, how exactly do you write something that you know nothing about? Well yes, you research about it but in order for it to get done immediately (especially when the client is unbelievably demanding) you mostly bluff your way around.

When you bluff, remember to:

1. Sound as credible as possible. See to it that you sound so much like an expert, you know anybody who knows you won’t believe it was you who wrote the article.

2. Refer to as many sources as possible (without taking too long, of course). Get snippets of everything you need. Put them all together. An expert would have to know everything. If you want to sound like one, get familiar with bits and pieces of everything and then stuff it into the write-up you are on.

3. Write something else when you feel like you’ve lost the ability to bluff. (Now you are given an idea why i was able to come up with this.)

The key to making unbelievably believable copies is made up of a combination of patience, persistence, and ingenuity. You will be needing the first for dealing with grumpy goofs, the second for getting copies completed, and the third for getting excellent copies done.

For Starters

It has been an hour since I got here. The Monday jitters are already about to be gone. Perhaps the reading of several articles and news has gotten the brain cells to work now.

If this blog is my child, I would be guilty of irresponsible parenting by now. Haven’t written something in ages, that I know. The past days, I was too busy bluffing rather than blogging. When you are tasked to write something about protein powder for body-building and you don’t know exactly what it is about, you have no choice but to write (sound) like a pro. After all, they (your readers) wouldn’t know what is in your mind the moment you were writing the article.

I’m off to more writing now and thank God I no longer am writing about protein powder. The write-up I am about to do has become overly familiar to me now, I sometimes get to the point of having a hard time generating new ideas, but this sure is way simpler than writing for body-building supplements of which I practically know nothing about.

I might (most probably) change the appearance of this blog today. That might get the readers (if there are any) to think that I actually do care about this baby.

Fried and Frozen

I got my brain cells all fried up the past few days and today, they’re all frozen.

And so I resort to free writing although I know it is not always the best thing to do when you’re in this kind of state. In my case, I do this because I can no longer squeeze out anything from my thinking mechanism that has, as of the moment, decided to be dysfunctional. And as I am already doing the third sentence of the second paragraph for this post, I would like to believe that I have succeeded in forcing myself to continue to tap on the computer keys even though what I am doing is not something that would increase my productivity level for today. I do this with much optimism, hoping that by the time I get to the end of whatever this is that I am writing, the writer’s block would just go away. Man, do I hope that would happen right now. I am in the middle of a writing task and I feel terrible ‘coz it just isn’t turning out to be something great. Honestly, I don’t even think it would come close to something that would make some sense.