Thursday, December 14, 2006

I had been pretty busy preparing the house for Randy's fourth visit . Both of us are too excited to see each other again after his last August visit.

This morning, Randy logged in late. His daughter told me on Skype Voice that he called and will be late an hour more since he will pass by to the store on his way home. When Randy arrived home, he told me that it took him couple of hours to do the equipment maintenance in front of a camera. His video footage will be used for teaching purposes.

This afternoon, while Randy and I were watching Medium via Skype webcam, I called Jun Mondejar of Equitable PCIBank after I received SMS from him. He informed me the feedback from ATM center that it might take us between 7 and 16 days tracking period to find out where my missing PhP10,000 went. Last Saturday, the said amount had been accidentally withdrawn from my Visa Electron Card after a failed transaction in Metrobank ATM in SM Supersale outlet. Inconveniences brought by this wired transaction error had been affected many depositors and clients this is why I prefer to pay cash than use my card to avoid double charges.

Meanwhile, Randy and I were both upset with the reactions posted by some players in the Blogshares Forum Gallery so I had thought to share this joke from Bilal Basit for a change:

"In the hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where their family member lay gravely ill.

Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and somber.

"I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news," he said as he surveyed the worried faces.

The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, very risky but it is the only hope. Insurance will cover the procedure, but you will have to pay for the brain yourselves..."

The family members sat silent as they absorbed the news. After a great length of time, someone asked, "Well, how much does a brain cost?"

The doctor quickly responded, "$5,000 for a male brain, and $200 for a female brain."

The moment turned awkward. Men in the room tried not to smile, avoiding eye contact with the women, but some actually smirked. A man unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question everyone wanted to ask,

"Why is the male brain so much more?"

The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and explained to the entire group, "It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the female brains, because they've actually been used." (End of Joke)

Well, many thanks to Bilal for this laugh.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Pursuant to Blogshares Rules, Section 6 - Community Behavior, Sub-Section A - Personal Messages, 3rd paragraph:

"If another player requests that you stop sending him/her personal messages for any reason, then you must do so or be in violation of the above harrasment clause. This does not include automated messages sent by the system for artefact actions."

I therefore reported this morning a violation against a BS nasty player, Amadeus, in the Blogshares forum. Between the months of June and July this year, this said player, along with PnP, posted nasty comments in this blog which forced me to close my blog's COMMENTS section.

Their nasty and defamatory comments caused me severe anxiety and I decided to file a complaint before it triggers again another anxiety that caused me so much sleepless nights, time, money, and inconveniences.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Pacette called up in the morning to tell me to get ready. I hurriedly logged online to inform Randy that I will do my X-Ray and have my blood sugar be tested.

When Pacette arrived, Pearl and I hurriedly went downstairs. We went to Quezon City General Hospital OPD. Papa assisted us and instructed Pacette to get me Out-Patient Information Sheet and Patient's Card.

When my name was called, I explained what has happened with me. The nurse took my BP (110/80) and pulse rate (80). Then, Papa showed me where I could have my blood sugar test. Normal blood sugar count is 100 but, mine was 111. They advised me to watch the food I will be eating since my father is diabetic.

I was then called by a young doctor, who gave me Serc (16 mg. tablet) prescription, to be taken 3 times a day for 5 days, for drowsiness. He also gave me X-Ray, CBC, and Ophtha requests. Papa then accompanied me to the X-Ray room and I had my Chest X-Ray taken, result will be released on Friday while Optha clinic was closed. I should be early tomorrow to be accomodated since they only accept 10 patients a day. Besides, fasting is necessary after 12 midnight tonight for my CBC test tomorrow morning.

As we arrived home, I was grasping my breathe. I had severe headache and been dizzy since I left the house. Randy was waiting for me online. I left all programs running so I can chat with him as soon as I arrived home. I told him how I was accomodated by the hospital staffs warmly unlike the ones from Capitol Medical Center.

He excitedly told me that since I left, until I came back, Blogshares site had been under maintenance and backed up the same time I arrived. I jokingly told him I didn't have a hand on it... At times like this, Randy and I realized that life will have no meaning if one of us won't be there around... we have waited all these years to find each other.

And, am hopeful, the result of chest x-ray on Friday will be negative for fluids in my lungs. Whether I lacked oxygen or not, the series of test will determine what's my possible illness... and, guess what? I snoore couple of times last night!

Friday, July 14, 2006

This blog had been an obsession of one (or two) hostile players in Blogshares posting nasty and offensive comments. Comments section had been turned off and on so my regular blog visitors may be able to access and leave comments and been set off while I was offline.

Necessary actions like IP Deny and blocking had been made but this said player, known as PnP, was mean enough to use anonymouse in order to cloak his IP and be able to leave three offensive comments to different entries. I find this man emotionally sick and urge my pious readers to please help me pray for him and may he will be back to normal state.

Meanwhile, I was invited by my JJLHS school mates and we met at Oyster Boy at Greenhills Shopping Center at around 7 pm. Pearl and Paul Denise accompanied me but they stayed in another table. They even won PhP 1400 from an electronic Bingo machine in a nearby shop after they had their dinner.

One of my high school mates had a promotion and we're happy to celebrate the achievements he recently received. Sharing past and new experiences made time flies so quickly that if not because of my children's presence, I wouldn't noticed it was almost midnight.

Also, Randy and I failed to recite the rosary but we had been exchanging chikka messages that I was still with my school mates having dinner.

We all had fun even though five among invited didn't show up due to family commitments.

Oooopppsssss! Sorry to Judge Malou for forgetting to record your QTV interview.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Rich Taylor told me about BlogShares Chances now LIVE and running:

Welcome to BlogShares Chances!

You might get shares in an old blog, ideas in a rare industry, an artefact you need, cash or chip jackpots, Pixels, Raffle tickets, or even a day, week, month, or year of B$ Premium!

Green Messages are prizes you win. Red Messages mean you didn't win a prize.

TAKE A CHANCE

10 chips per play.
You have 607467 chips remaining in your account.

Before logging out to bed, I had 606388 chips remaining and 1064 cheap blogs in my portfolio!

Meanwhile, Junjun received a call again from Lily c/o Level Up, and she confirmed that my son definitely won a free trip to South Korea. They are waiting for the visa transmittal. We're happy for my son!

Friday, July 07, 2006

I called up my counsel when I received a text message from her. She informed me that she received an invitation from my EX's counsel to clarify something.

Also, she asked me whether I want to hear what the other counsel wants to say but, we had thought it could probably be a trap and maybe someone would take video from afar and will use it against us.

With my permission, I agreed that she can meet the respondent's lawyer tomorrow to hear what the EX wants to say. I forgot to ask whether she will charge me for that coffee meeting.

Meanwhile, in BlogShares game, my founded {NSI} corporation declares ARTEFACTS HOLIDAY due to recent attacks received from different hostile players, until further notice.

{NSI} members can RETALIATE and may use all their artefacts without restrictions prior to BlogShares Rules Sub-Section C - Artefact Usage.

Just because we're playing neatly, others find an opportunity to harass our held shares in top blogs and test our patience. I play to relax my mind, not to find enemies. Some players out there were having fun hurting other players' investment and harassing them away from playing the game. I couldn't imagine a gaming community wherein only top richest players are somewhat monopolizing to play the top blogs.

Strategies? No, I called it greed. Artefacts holiday is appropriate for agrieved members of {NSI}.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

As of July 03, 2006 (BS Time), my Blogshares networth is now at 5 Trillion and currently rank 9 among the Top Richest Players:

Saturday, July 01, 2006

When Randy started playing in Blogshares Shares Market two months ago, I was encouraged to do the same. Of all areas in BlogShares other than the Forum, I avoided trading shares of top blogs ever since I had an argument with Randy on March 1st, 2004. That's more than two years ago... he hostile takeover shares I held in Persian blog and caused me so much loses. I accused him of dirty game play and in return, he gifted me some cheap shares from different blogs to cover up my loses. That's how we met. We became friends then until we turned best of friends!

The »-(¯*NEAT Strategies, Inc*¯)-», the fantasy corporation I founded on the 29th of May 2006 had been the target of controversies. When James T. , an Int'l Strategist of my {NSI} Corporation, mistakenly hostile take over a blog caused by slump artefact by others, I got couple of messages from a top richest player. When Randy saved the shares of flickr currently held by DJ SWA by hostile takeover, my portfolio had been attacked causing me loses in billions of B$ investments. I warned the said player but in return, I got the last (no first, second, nor third) warning through a PM by an admin without passing a due process. Then, here comes Amadeus and Sara Bear both questioning me for the individual strategy of Streetdogg, another Int'l Strategist of {NSI} corporation I founded.

And tonight, after selling Flicker shares and passed it on to Randy through a PP artefact, we found out that the yinengjing shares I passed on to Randy had been badly slumped and PRD by DJ SWA before RST. Too late to find out that Randy PRD Blog di Beppe Grillo which shares were held by DJ SWA. What's unfair there? The shares of Comics: Somethingpositive blog I held had been PRD 7 times by DJ SWA!

I had heated discussion with Randy. This is the second time that he did something without telling me first and what's surprising, I had been attacked by several players due to the individual actions of my corporate members. Why me? Maybe because I am still currently at rank 8th in the BlogShares Composite Leaderboard!

Anyway, here is my July 01, 2006 portfolio:

I am playing to release some stress. I find it so unfair when some players played nasty and caused misunderstandings between me and Randy... then, there had been quiet times between us, and, so I blogged...

Monday, June 19, 2006

DJ SWA, the current richest player in Blogshares, had been a bone in the neck to most players in Blogshares. Several times he made hostile attacks against our investments and this evening, he was not contented running away with Randy's 4000 shares in Flicker and Sina, he also attacked 4000 shares I held in Political Animal and Michelle Malkin causing me lots of B$ loses.

I consider this harassment and I had thought to send him this warning.

From {NSI} Laila*
To The Undertaker aka DJ Swa
Date 10:59 18 Jun 2006

Stop attacking our investments. It's a shame you're the top richest player and you wouldn't give less richer players a chance to make some profit.

You're such a lazy player (not) to watch the blog until someone sells. You always attacked whenever you wanted at your own convenient time.

Please consider this a warning.

Laila*

And I got this message from DJ SWA:

RE: Hostile Attacks
From The Undertaker aka DJ Swa
To {NSI} Laila*
Date 11:11 18 Jun 2006

After this message from you:

I type this only once!!!

Never PM me again or I report you to the BSEC!

regards,

The lazy player

Some people were nasty enough to have his cake and eat it too. What am I going to do now, stop playing BlogShares just like what others did?

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Randy had been enduring a tooth problem since he was here in Manila. He even had dental treatment before he left to San Diego.

Finally, a stubborn tooth had been pulled today but, the medication he's taking made him a bit nervous and impatient. I had been hearing his moaning from pain because they didn't just pulled it, his dentist cut his gum to get all pieces of his molar tooth pulled out then made some stitches. He's on a soft diet to fill something in before taking his medication.

In the middle of his condition, I wanted to make him busy to keep his mind off from the pain but, something has happened while we're watching top blogs in Blogshares. We're in group chat with my {NSI} supporters guiding them how to make a neat buy when someone sold shares to the market. Both Randy and I spoiled the plan and that upset both of us before he logged out to sleep.

When he logged in back tonight, everything was okay except that he didn't sleep well. He sold his blogs under BB, SS, and DH folders and I bought the shares every 20 minutes until I bought all the 4000 shares for each blog. When he went to work, I had spent the rest of the evening reporting inactive blogs to earn some sigma points.

Randy told me he might have a sick leave for the day and will submit only some papers that his graduating class needed but, I think he teach his class even he's suffering from severe pain. Besides, the prescribed Vicodin caused him inconvenience of going to toilet more often.

I wish they already solved your tooth problem, Randy...

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Doing my morning routines with Randy had been easier and running smoothly since PLDT DSL has been restored. Passing on blogs' shares ownerships with my »-(¯`v* NEAT Strategies *v´¯)-» corporate members had been fun. It's nice to make profits without cheating and harming other's investments.

With Randy around, there's never a dull moment but, he had to go to bed at past 1:00 in the morning (San Diego time) since the kids and I were getting ready for the 5:00 o'clock afternoon mass.

At Lady of Hope Parish, we hurriedly took our seats because the mass had started. We're not lucky to sit in one row and I can barely see Rev. Fr. Alfredo A. Pascual Jr., who said the mass. Before our priest start his Homily, he greeted us all a Happy Birthday. He said that today was the Feast of the Pentecost and celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit. The Feast of Holy Pentecost is celebrated each year on the fiftieth day after the Great and Holy Feast of Pascha (Easter) and ten days after the Feast of the Ascension of Christ*. It was conincidence that Junjun and I wore red and so was the priest. The First Reading was Acts 2:1-11 and Second Reading was1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13.

After the mass, the kids, Tintin, and I went straight to SM North Bowling Center. I was planning to play to get rid of my headache but I decided to watch our belongings because there were many people playing as well. This time, Pearl and Tintin teamed up against Junjun and Paul Denise. As usual, Pearl's team won but, I didn't award them any prize for the strikes they made. I got headache that I let them play one round and I told them to follow me at Pancake House.

Pearl didn't like the food in Pancake House but, I insisted that Junjun should try also what Tintin used to order when we're eating out. Kids made their orders but were surprised that I asked for Clubhouse Sandwich, Potato Salad, and Beef Sabrina for myself. While waiting for the food to be served, Pearl noticed that majority of customers eating there were wearing red too. I just smiled and commented that they were probably celebrating their birthdays. And, with that statement, they greeted me a Happy Birthday in advanced. When the food was served, Tintin's Pork Vienna order wasn't included. After ten minutes, it was served but all of us were already full.

Although the kids were not satisfied with the kind of food they served, we all had fun. When we're going out of the building, Pearl asked me why I didn't liked to play Bowling. I told her I forgot to trim my long nails...

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Hatred is a sin but what can I do? There is nothing annoying than paying a PLDT DSL Subscription Plan myDSL XCEL with a promise of 2 mbps bandwidth speed upgrade and I didn't get it, and worse, since my account had been upgraded last 19th of this month, my agony with my DSL broadband internet started. Who will believe that my bandwidth speed was only 4 kbps most of the time, just enough to connect me to Yahoo chat? I cannot retrieve my mails nor browse pages without using PLDT VIBE dialup internet. PLDT DSL has been a nightmare to all its affected subscribers!

Meanwhile, due to bad internet connection, I was unable to collect my Neopets freebies and Neobank interests. Also, I failed to buy ideas in Blogshares and carry out my usual trading in the shares market. Hopelessly staring at the monitor screen hoping DSL bandwidth speed will restore its normal speed I paid for, I created »-(¯`v* NEAT Strategies *v´¯)-», a Blogshares corporation I founded to recruit BS players who wish to team up with good players who want nothing but a neat gaming strategies without hurting other players. Loading pages had been a painful task but, I managed to add it to the corporations founded by other BS players.

Am waiting for Randy to come online, and he will be upset again since we cannot use SKYPE to voice chat with each other. I missed watching Deal or No Deal this afternoon because PLDT DSL is a Deteriorated Subscriber Line.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Early in the morning, the technician from PLDT arrived and I explained well to him how my agony started and showed him the DSL packet received and sent, he realized that the problem wasn't on my side but from their Data Center. He said they are going to call me once they brought back their regular DSL internet.

When the kids were up, I had an accident when I was preparing breakfast for Mama and the kids. The harsh brown potatoes, hot dog, cheese omelette and ham were almost done when I accidentally burned myself. Due to shock, I threw the ham back to the pan and hot oil scattered around the burner caught fire until it reached to the pan. I calmly turned off the burner and washed my left arm with cold water. It hurts and I told Randy about it as I went back to our chat.

Randy was not happy about what's going on with my internet. Our chat dropped each time someone called my kids. I had to reconnect the PLDT VIBE again and again just to run the programs Randy and I were using. He's upset we couldn't watch our favorite TV shows together and I couldn't buy all the shares from him. He logged out early to give way for me to get ready.

Before the kids and I left for the Sunday mass, I created BLOGSHARES MISSION #871 - SHARES MARKET SABOTEURS. I will give 100 chips per entry for every one player's artefacts' transaction history they will submit and Randy will give ONE (1) BLOGSHARES PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP to the top submitter... click here to join!

Then, we left to Our Lady of Hope Parish, to hear the 5:00 pm mass. The kids and I were fortunate to be seated in the last row near the church's entrance. Today is the 6th Sunday of Easter and the Guest Priest from Malaysia said the mass. The First Reading was Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48, the Second Reading was 1 Jn 4:7-10 and the Gospel, Jn 15:9-17, Jesus said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love..."

In my heart, I was happy seeing my children attending Sunday mass with me. And, I wished that Randy's with us praying the Our Father. As the mass ended, we went straight to SM Bowling Center but, the kids decided to eat our dinner at Super Bowl of China where we had Fried Crispy Chicken, Kung Pao Chicken, Sliced Beef with Broccoli, Sweet and Sour Fish Fillet, Birthday Noodles, and 3 orders of Super Bowl Fried Rice. They served their dishes so yummy that we emptied all plates. We're too full to play Bowling so we cancelled it off our schedule. All we wanted was to go home and rest.

At home, the DSL internet upsets me again. I had to use PLDT VIBE dialup internet to chat with Randy before he left to work. There were some entries submitted in my mission but, I couldn't verify them yet because I had very, very, very poor internet speed.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

I found an exciting way to buy shares of top blogs when I turned ON alerts of top 150 blogs to watch. Each time someone sells or buys, I received an alert of the transaction and I can buy the shares by pressuring the public or restructure the shares (which I will pay three times of its value).

Both Randy and I had fun exchanging blog's shares ownerships after the 6 hour period is over. The game is so addicting we barely noticed the time.

As soon as he logged out and I became busy in the kitchen, I received a subpoena for Case III's Collusion Investigation on May 22 at 2:40 pm. I have a hearing to attend tomorrow and I hope I will finish these cases the earliest time possible.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

While RWO and I wish to see more players playing unlimited transactions by giving away more Blogshares premium memberships from time to time, I was disappointed recently seeing this gaming community has taken over by rude members who mean not to play this game but, to drive away other players from playing. They won't drop you a line, they will just buzzed up industries to increase PE or slump it to drop share's price. The action wasn't made by two players, more were involved. They won't let you gain any profits, in fact, they will drop prices to make you lose your investments.

Many thanks to those who spent their artefacts to buzz industries that caused my shares' PEs went up as much as 2k and made me impossible to sell my holdings. I was just wondering how many among these gang players have multiple accounts and how many players have stayed away from playing because of this group.

To DJ SWA whose account is currently suspended, I fully understand why you have been rude lately with those mean players... there's nothing like that in 2004 since I started playing in Blogshares. I want to play to relax from pressures which the three cases brought me, and yet, there were many unfriendly people out there.

Anyway, Randy and I watched some of San Diego's local TV shows instead.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

As usual, we played in Blogshares but when Andika HTO the 4000 shares I held in IlBlog di Beppe Grillo, I stopped playing and watched Deal or No Deal and Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator instead with Randy. Chris Hansen noted in his live blog that:

"It is without a doubt the most elaborate undercover house we’re ever had. 13 hidden cameras record every move our visitors (sex predators) make, from the moment they drive down the street, until they come face to face with me (Hansen) and then, later are arrested by Ft. Myers police after leaving the house."

Wish the local TV network here in the country will do the same coverage to safeguard online teens from being victimized by perverts.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

I was upset last night because I had lost a lot when SubWolf did make one minor change to the general SQL query structure while I was buying some shares in over 500 blogs under Randy Sell folder. Because of what happened, I stayed away from buying shares and dedicated my time instead reviewing and reindexing blogs.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Randy and I were busy in the morning voting dead blogs to remove them off our portfolios when I received an urgent message from our counsel. My Affidavit should be signed at 3 pm today.

While waiting, I reindexed some blogs. Both Randy and I had fun buying ideas produced by industries after blogs were reindexed. The only thing we watched on TV (via Yahoo webcam and Skype) was Deal or No Deal. I was lazy to leave but, no one will do the signing in my behalf, as I have to do it myself.

Pearl accompanied me when I signed my Affidavit this afternoon. I was told it will be submitted prior to the scheduled Case I PRE-TRIAL Conference on Wednesday. Then, we did some grocery shopping first before going home. The boys were not around and we're forced to carry the goods upstairs. I still have a little knee sore and avoid lifting heavy things as much as possible to avoid further pains.

Anyway, I had an afternoon nap as soon as we arrived home. I had sleepless nights lately maybe because I was feeling bad about the previous lousy men in my life and also I worry a lot what stupidity EX will do on the scheduled PRE-TRIAL on May 10.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

I missed the early morning mass. I stayed up late clearing my Blogshares portfolio and exchanging blogs with Randy.

To keep blogs' shares down, I had to buy whatever Randy sells and after 6 hours, I can sell them back to him. But due to time differences and availability. we can do it only during weekend. On weekdays, we should be both online because he's working and does not have time to do the trading in the morning on his side.

Anyway, Mama and I attended the special 5:00 o'clock mass in a nearby Chapel. The theme was the Cross: The Way to Follow Jesus. The chapel was not as crowded as in morning mass. Maybe not too many people know that there's a special afternoon mass held today. FR. Raul Buen, a Filipino priest, said the mass. There's procession after the mass but, I had to do some grocery shopping with the kids. They closed the street and we walked a little bit to get a cab. The carousel carrying the statue of Mama Mary was approaching the church accompanied by a band while playing their musical instruments. I didn't see what happened next because we got a cab and left.

In Cyberzone, I paid Smart bill, and then went to Abenson to follow Junjun and Tintin. I was already inside the store when my right sandal's buckle gave up. It was embarassing to sit down with a broken sandal's strap. Junjun and Tintin had difficulty choosing the sandals that will fit me. Pearl forgot her cellphone and cannot find me so she went home instead. After 45 minutes of waiting, Junjun got me a new pair of brown sandals but I cancelled the shopping. I didn't like brown sandals and it was a bit smaller for me.

On our way home, the procession passed us. Near the building where we live, some Barangay tanod didn't allow us to enter the area they blocked for the Feast celebration. I got off from the cab and blah blah blah to them. They let us pass while the rest of the cars rerouted. My alibi? I had sore feet from my new sandals and I couldn't walk any further...

We had a better view of the feast celebration from the balcony. They fired up series of firecrackers. I didn't watch the rest of the program because Randy is already online...

HAPPY FEAST DAY!

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Now that Randy is actively trading stocks in Blogshares again, I was motivated to do the clearing of blogs off my folder. Unfortunately, I just couldn't sell shares I held without reindexing those blogs which I purchased way back in 2004! Most of them were dead blogs.

We're too damn busy to watch TV shows other than Deal or No Deal. Both Randy and I gained some sigma points when we reported dead or spam blogs. He then ranks 21st while I am the top 3 player in Blogshares' Overall Composite Score. We're not the top wealthiest players now and I still do not understand how they do the scoring other than they noted that players are ranked in each category, and awarded points based on the formula: points = 101 - $rank.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

As usual, I had oatmeal for breakfast and Randy had Lasagna after we recited the rosary.

We did some Neopets and Blogshares update until we run Yahoo webcam. We watched House's Euphoria, part 2, Dr. Foreman faces death and they put him in a coma to ease the pain. Dr. House discovered contaminated water outside patient's home (who earlier died of unknown disease) as the source of the infection. It wasn't clear what happened with Foreman as he's still paralyzed when the episode ended. Well, we watched Criminal Minds and Law and Order, too, before watching NBC's late night evening news.

When Randy logged out, I received a text message from Atty. R. Case II Hearing Schedule is on May 22nd at 2:40 pm for Collusion Investigation.

In the evening as I was watching the GMA 7's 24 Oras evening news, I heard that three separate fires damaged properties in Metro Manila today. That reminds me about my discussion with Randy before he went to bed, we were discussing about Mina (a.k.a. Shelly), a well-loved index manager in BlogShares. In her blog, a friend noted that, "In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 30th, a massive fire broke out in the family home. Her sons were not in the home, as they were visiting their father. Shelly was home alone, asleep at the time."

We posted earlier a candle in Sage's Mission: Mina where I made a mistake posting my BS profile under that mission. Gladly, Island Dave was online and he removed immediately my profile off the mission page. It was embarassing though but, I had too many windows and tabs open that time and I got distracted which form I pasted my profile. Anyway, I hope Shelley will overcome the difficulties and trials she's having lately... may God bless us all!

So far, am happy that the three cases I filed last February will have it's respective hearings scheduled this month.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Today is the Ides of March and I'd like to take this opportunity to inform the regular readers of this blog that my online game buddy and best friend, Randy, is my man and soul mate too!

Randy and I met each other on March 1st 2004 in an unusual dispute over stocks in BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market. This kind-hearted man impressed me with his gaming strategies until we played as a team not only in BlogShares but, also in Neopets! We've done many things together as a team like being the top 5 BlogShares Richest players in 2005, held successful eBay auctions, supported Save-A-Child charity, made some million neopoints from Neopets' World Challenge games, NeoStocks, Neoquests, Plushie Tycoon and Black Pawkeet slots. Lately, when his wife filed a divorce in August 2005, he slowed down from playing our favorite games and even was hospitalized last year from overdose. That time, I was preparing myself to work abroad and renewed my passport. When his wife decided to spend the Christmas somewhere else, we decided to meet in person to celebrate 2005 Christmas before I leave the country for work! And that's how we turned as lovers and prefer to go further as soul mates now that he's a free man from his previous marriage. He didn't like me to work abroad and he wanted instead to correct the mess in my life from previous relationships. While it's amazing that married women in the USA profited from their divorces by getting half of their men's networth, the women in my country normally get nothing but misery and burden of supporting kids. Anyway, Randy is my best friend and hopefully, the best man in my life, too!

And since we met in BlogShares, we held a mission to express our appreciation to BlogShares Community and we want this to be a very remarkable day in BlogShares history by awarding these BS Mission #788's prizes to:

• Peach
• Joe White
• Joe Elam

Thank you for your BS Mission #788 participation and looking forward to future missions Randy and I will offer. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestions.

Congratulations to the winners! And, more power to Island Dave for supporting this mission!

Today I had a brief History Quiz on Beware The Ides Of March! The answers are here but, you won't see them if you don't look very closely...

1. Today is commonly known as the the Ides of March. Who first warned us about this day? Answer: William Shakespeare
2. What important event used to take place in the U.S. on March 15th? Answer: Income Tax Deadline
3. Traditionally, residents of Hinckley, Ohio always know when it's March 15th because these birds return: Answer: Buzzards
4. In 44 B.C., this Roman emperor had an attempt made on his life: Answer: Julius Caesar
5. In 1945, "Billboard" began listing the #1 album on its charts. What artist got the first top ranking? Answer: Nat King Cole
6. In 1937, the first of these was established, in Chicago. Answer: Blood bank

Your final score is 6 out of 6 questions!

From dictionary.com newsletter: Word of the Day for Wednesday March 15, 2006: Ides \YDZ\, plural noun: In the ancient Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. Ides comes from Latin idus, probably from an Etruscan word meaning "division" of a month.

Wow! I hit B$ 1 Trillion networth after BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market had a Black Friday incident in November 2005: From the hard earned B$ 2.499 Quadrillion networth, it was devalued at B$ 249 billion!

Here is my March 14 2006 portfolio:

Meanwhile, BS Mission #788 is ending soon. Please join our contest. Randy and I will be giving away three (3) BlogShares Premium Membership, 5000 chips plus B$ 5 Billion as Anniversary Promo of knowing each other for two years now as game buddies!

Thursday, March 02, 2006

We understood that many among BlogShares players want to join our BS contest but, didn't know well what to do. Randy explained it on his blog and you can visit archived BlogShares category in my blog, too, to get more idea.

Randy and I used to be on the top 5 Richest BS players before the November 2005 devaluation of all players holdings. Your entry should contain previous game play we made (since two years ago) as well as how we ranked, the addiction we dedicated to the game, the auctions that benefitted me, and the cooperative game strategies that made me one of the BS Elites, based on Mars' recommendation!

May the above tips guide you through. Good luck!!!

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

BlogShares Mission #788 - The Dynamic Duo - has been launched today:

WE, Laila* and Randy (a.k.a. RWO), want to offer THREE (3) BlogShares Premium Memberships PLUS 5000 chips each to old and new players. This contest is in celebration of knowing each other here on BlogShares two years ago today.

Here are the mechanics:

• Blog about our game strategies here on BlogShares by reading our blogs: A Journey Through Life and Retired Warrant Officer, with title "The Dynamic Duo".
• Submit your entry's link here on or before 1200 HRS BS Local Time, March 15th 2006, to qualify.
• Winners will be announced immediately after the contest.
• We somehow love to give surprises at times if you are able to impress us with your blogging skill.
• Good luck to all participants.

Sponsored by: Laila*
Entry cost: 10 chips
Total pot: 15000 - Pot remaining: 15000
Status: running - Mission ends: 2006-03-15 12:00:00

Join Mission #788 NOW!

To Randy, thank you very much for being my best friend and a wonderful person. Happy 730th day of knowing each other online!

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Randy and I attended the BlogShares Math Summit to be updated on what's going on with the said online game we had been addicted to play for about two years now!

I am still hopeful the BlogShares Game Commissioners will do some coding that will make Blogshares be an interesting online game again. After the November 7 2005 market crash, two years of game play had been devalued from 2.499 Quadrillion down to 249 billion networth. What I did recently in the game was collecting artefacts only and reading forum messages.

Anyway, this is the transcript of our mIRC summit. Enjoy!

Saturday, November 26, 2005

As I woke up this morning, shocking BlogShares News made me fully awake!

All players' holdings and cash balances were devalued by 1/10,000 ratio in an attempt to balance the market. See inluential BS players' comments!

My networth yesterday was B$ 2.49 Quadrillion and it went down to B$ 249 Billion after BlogShares Game crashes! I had over B$ 200 Billion Networth on the first two months of playing the said fantasy stock market. Barely two years of my efforts playing BlogShares had been reset overnight. However, new players will be given more opportunity to catch up with old time players because stocks and ideas prices are more affordable now than it was 20 hours ago!

I survived last year's crash and BLOGSHARES remain my favorite game in spite of it's major crash!

Monday, October 31, 2005

Ladylaila.net is looking for two generous sponsors among BS players. If you are interested, please read on.

To sponsor my blog, please follow these simple steps:

1. Click here to send money via Xoom OR send US$100.00 to Andrew Hicks (aka RWO).
2. Send via e-mail your transaction number along with your sell order link (in the amount of B$ 75 Trillion).
3. Once verified, you will receive 10,000 chips from me as my appreciation for your sponsorhip of my blog.
4. Your blog or BS profile link will be added to my blog as my blog's valued sponsors.

Please contact me if you want to send more... :-)

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

I would like to thank all BlogShares players/promo participants for making us a part of their blog. All their blogs are great but, we have Ten (10) Premium Membership upgrade only to give away plus one bonus premium upgrade courtesy of Seth so, all in all, congratulations to the eleven (11) winners of the BlogShares Premium Membership upgrade.

Sponsored by RWO:

• 23409: Entry to Ten (10) Premium Memberships upgrade FREE by tildemark
• 29754: A Journey Through Life by Denis Briel
• 27798: Blogging Elite From BlogShares by Brian San
• 26905: Blog Review (A Journey Through Life) by Solace Cai
• 29821: Blogshares ho, I is by Lady Calliah

Sponsored by PnP:

• 21655: BlogShared: Mission by Rantz
• 28971: B$ Mission #250 by [ID] Ramskie
• 27221: Never Ending Generosity by [ID] Andika Triwidada
• 17810: Laila's Journey Through Life: A Review by hodgepodger sun
• 30525: A Journey Through Life by Orkid Emaad Shamsi

Sponsored by Seth Dillingham:

• 28645: Happy Birthday! by [ID] Arie

Congratulations to the following for winning B$ 1 Trillion plus 5,000 chips each:

• 13665: Review of Retired Warrant officer by Chiraag Suchak
• 21043: Review of Laila* 's weblog by Steverino
• 27898: Review: A Journey Through Life by davidteoh
• 28593: Money isn't everything... or NOT ? by Ehol DeSucius
• 30686: BlogShares Contest by Liane Chan
• 27782: Laila by Sugeng Widodo
• 29816: Layla's Weblog - A Journey Through Life by veronika berchtold
• 27445: Premium Membership by [ID] !Secandri Securities
• 29074: Junk Food News by [ID] Doddi Sudartha

Awarding of prizes is still in progress. Here is the summary of your entries.

BTW, I hit B$ 1 quadrillion today...

Sunday, May 29, 2005

In celebration of my forthcoming birthday in June, we will be offering Ten (10) Premium Memberships upgrade FREE to both old and new BlogShares players as I'm nearly at Quadrillion networth. To qualify, all you have to do is review A Journey Through Life or Retired Warrant Officer blog: Blog about us and your impressions how we're doing as top BlogShares players and please submit your entry on or before June 6, 2005.

In the event more than ten players have submitted their entries, the best 10 entries will get premium membership and the rest will receive B$1T plus 5000 chips as consolation bonus.

Please take note that I am now accepting offers from BS players with PayPal account who are willing to sponsor BS premium upgrade in exchange for B$ Trillions. Please PM me your bid.

HOW TO QUALIFY:

To all who wants to qualify for BLOGSHARES PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP UPGRADE, your entry should be published in your blog and then submit your entry's URL to BlogShares Mission no. 250 and not here.

Please read my BLOGSHARES category here to know how we became BlogShares trillionaires. Be resourceful.

Thank you.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

A Forum Admin believes 18000 chips was a borderline extortion against my initiative when I upgraded player 27964's account to BLOGSHARES PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP and paid US$15.00 through PnP's Paypal account. I advised 27964 to pay 18000 chips to PnP (after 30 days) which is currently valued at B$450B at B$25M per chip exchange rate and has eBay auction value of less than US$3.00. To my surprise, 27964 refused to accept to 'work off 18000 chips' and many find an opportunity to make things worse instead of educating the newbie that it was the usual on-going rate to help a newbie have a premium account.

The worst, I was humiliated once again in the IRC. I want nothing from player 27964. If he wants to pay 18000 chips to PnP or not, we could have given the membership for free but, not to such an ungrateful soul. Anyway, many thanks to Jay, the BlogShares owner, for extending my premium account until 11 March 2007 and to Just James in protecting my interest.

I was just wondering why do some people cannot appreciate the spirit of kindness and generosity?

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

BlogShares Mission #85 has ended. Congratulations to the following winners:

First Place: B$ 1T, PREMIUM UPGRADE, MISSION POT plus Gold Trophy
07 Andy Skelton: Favor For Laila - A Review of A Journey Through Life

Second Place: B$ 1T, 5000 chips plus Silver Trophy
12 Jasmeet Bhatia: Blog Mission: To Review Lady Laila's Blog!

Third Place: B$ 750B, 2500 chips plus Bronze Trophy
08 Nathaniel Hansen: Laila's Weblog - A Journey Through Life

B$ 500 Billion Consolation Prizes:
01 nameless one: I am doing this for B$500 billion....?
02 Scott Anthony Rodriguez : A Journey Through Life (403 Forbidden)
03 tedsta : A
Journey Through Life - Review Mission
04 Rantzalot (Sir): BlogShares Mission
05 Praneet Keni : Blog and review: A Journey Through Life
06 Alan McGourlay: A review of a Blog called “A Journey through Life”
09 Paul V : Lady Laila
10 CntryBleu : Laila's Weblog - A Journey Through Life
11 Adelaine Yeo: Blog and Review: A Journey Through Life
13 Family Man : Blog
Review: Laila's Weblog - A Journey Through Life
14 Marcelle Fabie: A Review: A Journey Through Life, by Laila

Please check out the summary of your review here and kindly display your respective awards on the side bar of your blog under Awards won and link back to this mission #85 page.

Many thanks to all who submitted their entries. Kindly place your respective sell orders of 1 share of any blogs and PM me the link. You are welcome to participate again in my next contest.

My appreciation goes to Ehsany for the trophy image, that won First place in RWO's previous contest.

Saturday, March 05, 2005

#85 - Blog and Review: A Journey Through Life (CONTEST)

Goodluck to the following entries:

• Andy Skelton :   Favor For Laila - A Review of A Journey Through Life
• Alan McGourlay :  A review of a Blog called "A Journey through Life"
• Praneet Keni :  #85 - Blog and review: A Journey Through Life
• Rantzalot (Sir) :  BlogShares Mission
• tedsta :  A Journey Through Life - Review Mission
• Scott Anthony Rodriguez :  A Journey Through Life
• nameless one :  I am doing this for B$500 billion....?

Please take note that those who wish to join this contest may submit your entry's link here until midnight, March 15th. Thank you.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Congratulations to the B$15T eBay Auction winners:

• dingobill99 for winning B$5T, Item number: 5166070585, US $65.01
• npsantos_pt for winning B$5T, Item number: 5166071021, US $50.00
• dingobill99 for winning B$5T, Item number: 5166071489, US $79.00

B$ 16T and 10K chips had been transferred to RWO to pay the above generous bidders and the rest as Randy's incentives for being supportive all the way. Here is my current portfolio after the auction:

Proceeds of the US $194.01 (less eBay and e-transfer fees) will be used for Nasser's iodine treatment on Tuesday. May God bless those who bid in our auction a thousand-fold in return and my greatest appreciation goes to Randy and his family for being supportive.

Thank you, BlogShares!

Thursday, February 17, 2005

FIRST PRIZE: B$1 Trillion, PREMIUM UPGRADE/RENEWAL (or chips equivalent) PLUS MISSION POT

CONSOLATION PRIZE: B$ 500 Billion per entry

MECHANICS:
Review my blog and post them in your legitimate blog on or before Wednesday, 15th of March 2005.

Additional B$ 500B will be given to those who can design me a new background image (I prefer the same background color with flowers and butterfly) and/or suggest a better layout and category.

All entries should link to my blog and submit the link of your entries here to qualify.

This contest is open to all BlogShares players. Good luck.

Sunday, January 02, 2005

IT'S OFFICIAL! I had been obviously addicted playing BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market for a year now! From the original Five Hundred Blogshares dollars (B$500.00) play money, my networth is now at B$ 272,881,253,516,563.57 with 231,712,570 ideas in 1182 industries, built 234 artefacts, have 6,276 karma which I earned from voting/moderating blogs into industries and 329,996 chips for textads impressions. Here is my December 2004 portfolio:

Meanwhile, congratulations to the B$15T eBay Auction winners:

• jim_carson for winning B$5T, Item number: 5945932170, US $52.00
• betteremail for winning B$5T, Item number: 5945932242, US $51.00
• mst_thomas for winning B$5T, Item number: 5945932281, US $58.55

Bidder ianclay67 received his B$100B Holiday gift while we are still waiting for rcorbitt to send us his sell order for B$100B.

Just in case you do not know what BlogShares is, please CLICK HERE.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

The month of November was a very remarkable experience since I started playing BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market on 31 Dec 2003. Most of us were actually surprised with the generosity of Alvino for bidding a total of US$802.56 and winning B$ 15 Trillion in the recently held eBay auction on November 22nd.

Meanwhile, many thanks to my BS Forum critics. I considered their criticism a challenge to play more aggressively. So, here is my November Portfolio:

If you do not know what BlogShares is, please CLICK HERE.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

We barely finish the second week of November but some BlogShares players are now speculating and asking who will be the number one richest player by the end of this month. Will it be Mars or Laila* (that's me)???

The forum message thread started yesterday by Fireblazt under Playground, entitled "number 1 next month"... Raymond thinks it will be Mars, which was supported by Tom's assessment.

As far as I know, Mars will be able to keep the top 1 position. Who wants to guess?

LET'S REVIEW OUR PROFILES

Surprise gifts will be given to those who can GUESS who will be the top 1 player next month. Make a guess and leave your profile name and ID, in case your guess is correct, I'll inform you of your prize winnings!

Saturday, November 06, 2004

Temporarily removed upon receiving James' comments...

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

October wasn't a good month when it comes to communication with fellow BS players. It made me feel real bad when few players abused industry voting rights either with the use of a bot or indiscrimately made blind voting to collect karma and chips. Although I formally made my complaint, it appeared I was just a laughing stock for democratically airing my observation. And because I feel there's discrimination in the forum, I avoided the forum and dedicated instead most of my time trading. It helps, though, because I am now at rank 2. MLT, who was at rank 2 last month, was too kind to offer me 20T from his holdings since he's not playing like he used to but, I told him to keep his B$ until he will find time again to play like before...

So here is the summary of my portfolio for the month of October 2004:

Through Macky's (top 1 richest player) recommendations, I was added on the 23rd of October to the noteworthy personalities on BlogShares' Who's Who, being third player on BS Elite list. And, by the way, congratulations to my dear buddy, Randy a.k.a RWO, for being at top 4 on Richest 100 Players List.

Sunday, October 31, 2004

Alan Dean of Math Team provided interesting graphs of top players' TRADING patterns prior to BSEC Case 42 Deliberation involving Stan Dandyliver.

Whether or not Stan Dandyliver is guilty of the charges relating to Abuse of system in contravention of [BSEC Rule XIV] Scripts and Bots, I was happy to see my transaction history in a graph. And, the way I analyze the graphs, looks like I traded ideas faster than Raymond, who posted in the forum: "One every three seconds eh? I could maybe give you some pointers on how to speed that up?"

THE GRAPHS: Stan Dandyliver AGAINST BlogShares Richest Players

• mars/iris Securities
• Laila*
• MLT
• RWO
• demonsurfer
• Jim Wright
• Jack A$$
• Larry Fulton
• Gunnar Langemark
• Alan Dean
• Ziggy Stardust
• Island Dave
• jaolx
• jenett
• David Rutt
• DJ Swa Music Productions
• Raymond
• Right Nut
• King Gucci Armani II
• Herbert
• MrPilot
• Just James

Related BS Forum Discussions:
[BSEC Case 42] Stan Dandyliver
The Art of Catching Bots
You accuse me of using a bot??

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Upon Mars/Iris Securities recommendation to BlogShares Admins, I am now informally added to the Who's Who BlogShares page.

Thank you, Macky, that's a very sweet surprise! And special thanks to the BlogShares Admins, for the inclusion of my name to BlogShare's notable personalities!

Sunday, October 03, 2004

Randy a.k.a. RWO, informed me that he already selected a child to support in the Philippines through Save the Children Organizations. Due to his excitement, he has forgotten to save the URL and informations about Cherry but fortunately, an e-card has been sent to him, with Cherry's photo! Let's welcome Cherry, the recipient of US$28.00 monthly BlogShares for Charity sponsorship, in behalf of fellow BlogShares players!

Click photo to view Cherry's File photo
OR, view the eCard

We already received from fellow generous BlogShares players US$ cash and, pledges in chips, B$ and ideas will be auctioned on November 1 on eBay to support Cherry's education monthly. If things run favorably, we're planning to sponsor another child, preferably a boy in New York.

We are still discussing whether to put up a separate blog for our BlogShares sponsored children. Save the Children is an exerted effort to put our BlogShares winnings to a worthwhile cause. So, please... wish us all the luck!

Friday, October 01, 2004

Randy and I have been discussing how we can use the massive wealth that we made in BlogShares. It must actually count for something: Why not support a BlogShares child, or two, or three?

We can sell the profits we make on eBay and turn the real cash into a charity!

So starting this month we are accepting donations. They can be B$, chips, ideas or anything else. At the end of the month we will take all that we have collected and auction it off on eBay. We will then use the money to sponsor chidren under the 'Save the Children' fund.

Since we announced it, we have already gained enough money to sponsor two children due to the generosity of one of the fellow BlogShares players. We will post the person's name after Randy ask him if it is ok to publish his name, as some folks like to remain anonymous.

We had thought this is an excellent way to donate to a charity and help some underprivileged folks. We will post on both of our blogs any correspondences we get from our sponsored kids.

Randy will also post his paypal statements after blacking out his personal informations for transparency purposes.

We have placed a PayPal button on our sites if you would like to donate some real cash. We will be adopting these children as part of the BlogShares community, not in our names or anything. It has cost us nothing but, our premium membership to get where we are, why not take some of the game wealth and put it to good use?

Thanks for any support you may give.

Randy and Laila*

Last month's performance was indeed remarkable due to the new pricing algorithm implementation by BlogShares Admin based on Alan Dean's proposal. Fortunately, the bonds sold to RWO placed me at Rank no. 3 among the BlogShares Richest Players, one level up from previous Rank no. 4! With a little dedication on voting blogs into their industries, I finally get the first position in Best Karma with 6,206 points, and currently holding 318,292 chips, next to Anders!

So here is the summary of my portfolio for the month of September 2004:

We wish to support a BlogShares child effective this month and hopefully, we could turn our B$ and chips into a better cause!

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Today, Randy paid US$15.00 to Jay Campbell, owner of BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market, for my BlogShares bandwidth usage. Earlier, Jay gifted me a premium membership and that's how I easily reached BlogShares' 4th Richest Player.

To Jay and Randy, thank you very much!

Monday, September 13, 2004

RWO and I would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the following bidders at RWO's recently held eBay auction:

beralvis - US $22.62
jaolx - US $20.50
overlord_q - US $16.50
pdgweb - US $23.65

for which we received the total amount of US $83.27 for items:
B$ 1T + 40K chips + 400K artefact ideas + 4 GMail invites

RWO will donate US $15.00 to Jay Campbell for my bandwidth usage since I already have premium membership given to me by Jay earlier this year.

Many thanks to those bidders who participated but unable to win any of the above items.  Looking forward to providing you more items next time with our fast and quality service.

Lastly, we are planning to donate some chips and have it auctioned at eBay to benefit less fortunate children. Kindly wait for further announcement as we are still looking for a child to support.

RWO and Laila*

(NOTE:) This message was posted at BlogShares Forum on September 13, 2004, 09:20:40 pm

Sunday, September 05, 2004

I posted this in Blogshares Forum, time stamped on September 04, 2004, 08:18:36 am:

I received a PM from one of the players whose fast enough to buy rare ideas which I patiently waited would appear at Ideas Market. And this was the content of his message:

"Just checked out some people's transactions as I was getting bored with looking at a blank ideas screen, and guess what I found:"

"User: Laila*, 44 ideas transactions between 08:04:23 and 08:06:46. I think that's roughly one every three seconds."

"I guess you're a really fast typist, huh?"

In case you're also monitoring my profile, or simply just want to know what I told him, please PM me. I couldn't post my trade secret in public but, willing to share to those who are interested.

Humans are definitely better than bots...

After barely 30 minutes of submitted post, I received PM from BlogShares moderators, Alan Dean and Just James and I told them my trade secrets. After probably exchange of talks between the two, Alan Dean posted this message, forum time stamped on September 04, 2004, 11:19:14 am:

"We've had a look at Laila's account and seen no cause for concern. The trading on this account has the hallmarks of a normal, aggressive player."

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Last July 2004, I was at rank no. 8th on BlogShares' Top 100 Richest Player and my addiction to this game placed me at 4th place beginning the month of September! I am currently the top chips holder with 364,657 chips and second best on karma with 5643 points!

What's the catch? Some smart players auctioned BlogShares Dollars (B$) and BlogShares Chips for real money at eBay! It's not a rumor, it's for real! Instead of spending time building up wealth, anyone can be an instant trillionaire with instant chips and B$ cash to play the game - no sweat and kiss those red eyes goodbye...

Find out what made most of us addicted to this game. Try BlogShares now!

TOP CHIPS HOLDERS:

1. 364657 Laila* (5643 karma) [User Profile]
2. 361515 Borland Rocks! (951 karma) [User Profile]
3. 117315 Jay Campbell (1003 karma) [User Profile]
4. 107855 Aine MacDermot (2975 karma) [User Profile]
5. 74126 MLT (2809 karma) [User Profile]
6. 60149 Island Dave (3547 karma) [User Profile]
7. 59455 mars/iris Securities (2437 karma) [User Profile]
8. 57890 RWO (2246 karma) [User Profile]
9. 56415 Proud to be considered eccentric ! (2247 karma) [User Profile]
10. 50965 Cupid Stunt (4726 karma) [User Profile]
11. 39030 V4NY (2586 karma) [User Profile]
12. 35473 Wryen Luveau (1827 karma) [User Profile]
13. 31110 Seyed Razavi (1243 karma) [User Profile]
14. 26210 Nexy (1052 karma) [User Profile]
15. 25671 kucinichworldpeace (1698 karma) [User Profile]
16. 25625 King Gucci Armani (662 karma) [User Profile]
17. 24125 Mad Trollie (1116 karma) [User Profile]
18. 23305 Gijsbrecht (Dodo) van Teysterbant (10 karma) [User Profile]
19. 22646 Alan Dean (569 karma) [User Profile]
20. 21345 Herbert (922 karma) [User Profile]

Total held by top 20: 1584882

PLAYERS WITH BEST KARMA:

1. 6052: skh.
2. 5643: Laila*
3. 4726: Cupid Stunt
4. 3830: Semidi Securities PLC
5. 3547: Island Dave
6. 3012: Linn Skinner
7. 2975: Aine MacDermot
8. 2809: MLT
9. 2586: V4NY
10. 2455: Jacco Spinhoven

Monday, August 23, 2004

Late this afternoon, I received an e-mail with subject line: SAVE ME, from Malaysia. The 'boy' said that I must help him with the amount of US$ 7,000,000.00 because his parents were fighting all the time and he needs help. If nothing is done with his problems at home, he's going to commit suicide. The e-mail did not eleborate what is the money for but, he said he's visiting my site regularly and that I have some money recently. He said, what am I going to do with my wealth if someone will commit suicide should I turn him down.

Prank e-mail or not, I was trying to look for that mail today but, I couldn't find it. My mail option was set to empty trash folder upon exit of Mozilla mail client. I want to advise this 'boy' to join BlogShares and enjoy fantasy money than thinking of commiting suicide.

I'd thought that he might have seen my BlogShares portfolio located at the right side navigation on this page for which I have over B$ 13 Trillion networth. Well, earlier, BlogShares offers fantasy money only but with the introduction of chips recently, some players auctioned those chips at e-Bay for real money.

Chips as BlogShares defines, "Chips are the 'social currency' of BlogShares. Unlike B$ dollars and their wildly varying value, chips are based on time spent by our members."

BlogShares chips can be used for Text Ads on BlogShares main page, buy rare or artefact ideas on special arrangements with fellow players; can be used to join in BlogShares raffles and other contests. Current value of 1 chip is more or less B$ 25 Million while 10k chips is worth US$13.50 at eBay.

At present, I ranked 2nd on BlogShares Top Chip Holders and Rank 2nd, too, on BlogShares' Best Karma. 25 chips are given for every 1 karma adjustment by a player as incentive either by voting a blog into correct industries or by moderating a vote made by a player for voting a blog. I suggest you visit BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market to know more about it.

To know how auction is done with BlogShares chips, visit Randy's auctions at eBay:

• Item number: 5916949322
• Item number: 5916949773

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

The above title was the message thread in BlogShares Forum which I had a dispute with a player and a moderator. I finally resolved it and hopefully, other players will be guided accordingly to plan their bond issuance well to avoid further misunderstanding with quick players hunting for rare or artefact ideas bonds.

Here is the CC I submitted to the Forum...

Before anything else, I was determined not to reply on this message thread but, somehow, after further "research", I find it necessary to say something. Personally, I won't do this initiative at all but, for the sake of those players that might encounter the same experience like mine, READ ON:

Quote from: Aine on August 16, 2004, 08:56:23 pm
Whether you post your intentions to sell something to a specific player in these forums or not, or you message someone in private or not, all salable items in this game are placed in Public markets, open to all, available to any player who has the funds to make such purchases... regardless of your (or anybody else's) wishes to the contrary. If players choose not to play by "your rules" they are well within their rights to do so.

I called my friend who is a manager of a bank today. I asked her about bonds and after telling her "my story", she told me that once I offered a bond to the public, anyone can take it. Although I didn't liked what I heard, I must say, newbies and pioneers alike have to practice all precautions and care when entering into bond transaction because the likes of Mr Pilot or Bear can take it from us without due considerations and will still be a legal play.

Although I didn't like to see a dog-eat-dog play, somehow, as members of this community, it is within ourselves whether we wish to return what is meant for someone else.

Quote from: Gunnar Langemark on August 15, 2004, 11:12:15 pm
Laila don't get me wrong. I think that you are the most excellent addition to this game in the time between my last "stint" in Blogshares and now.
But I fail to see what wrong anybody has done you.

Gunnar

Gunnar, that's the sweetest comment I ever received so far here on BlogShares. Thank You for the sweet compliments... I must admit, since I started playing here on BlogShares, I have learned a lot of things while playing here and although I have learned it the tough way from Mr Pilot, I believe I'm a better Bond Issuer now than few days ago.

Quote from: MrPilot on August 15, 2004, 10:21:29 pm
Believe what you want. What I explained is exactly what I did, and why.

Yeah, I still believe that you're mean. Although what you did was within rules, I believe you have set a bad example. This is my personal opinion and I am entitled to it. (period)

Quote from: Aine on August 16, 2004, 08:56:23 pm
Have a little more class than that.

I do.

If you know me, you will have a second thought, Aine.. but, anyway, thanks for the time you have spent on this message thread. And, by the way, did you know that I pronounced your name as 'Ayn-e'?

Quote from: bear on August 15, 2004, 06:27:08 pm
Just because I didn't take up your origional offer doesn't mean I was trying to get back at you or do anything malicious. I don't have any bad will towards you, honestly.

Bear, I believe you served as an instrument and a victim of circumstance. And, I want to correct something: I didn't originally offered you, you have sent me a private message on 22:14 09 Aug 2004, remember?

Quote from: RWO on August 16, 2004, 09:34:37 pm
Is this the example we want to give to the new players that have just entered the forum? Get to the top 25 so you can call each other names, degrade thier play, and accuse them of cheating.

We are above this folks. If you have a problem with someone don't do it in the forums. Do it in private with the PM. After all that's what it is for.

Sorry, Randy, if you were around, these things will not gonna happen in the first place..

The purpose of this message is to let all players play the game well and never be emotional on sensitive issues. Price your precious ideas in billions and never complain if someone poaches (ooppsss!) your ideas bond. Set my experience a weird example.

By the way, have you noticed? There are more moderators in the Forum than players? Anyway, I will appreciate if everyone will give me a chance to rest this case and let's give Bear a chance to sell his rare ideas...

Every life has a story.
And every experience, there's something to be learned.
Be glad that you became part of that experience...
regardless, whether you're a student or a teacher!

Mabuhay and regards from the Philippines,

Laila*

Monday, August 16, 2004

For those who are reading this, BlogShares is not only a gaming community, but, a community of bloggers. It's a fantasy stock market where weblogs are the companies. Players invest fictional dollars on shares in blogs. Blogs are valued by their incoming links and add value to other blogs by linking to them. Prices can go up or down based on trading and the underlying value of the blog.

When is wrong right, or when is right wrong? In this lifetime, I normally raised issues based on what I feel is right, even no one supported the things that I believe in. So what if the world turns against me? If they believe what they have done is within the rules, so be it!

But, in my sensitive nature, no matter what happens, no one can put a good person down. Maybe I won't get people support my stand because who will care about my feelings, anyway, except myself? I had my part in the game, I openly said what I was supposed to say and if they didn't liked it, don't cross my path! I believe it's just a matter of time, that each individual be victimized by the same rules, by then... just by then... they will have 'no class' too, as they had thought I was...

Following Bear's 'accusations' on his message thread that, "Just because I didn't take up your origional offer doesn't mean I was trying to get back at you or do anything malicious."

Excuse me? I beg your pardon? Who made the offer? Was it me or you? Here is the copy of private message of Bear to me:

trade ?
From Bear
To Laila*
Date 22:14 09 Aug 2004

Laila,

I would be interested in trading you 735 chips for 2100 tourism ideas and 2000 golf ideas. Interested?

Few months ago, I had a fight with Bear, too, thru private messages when he dropped the prices of stocks I just newly bought. Both Bear and Jessica themselves were sending me private messages while at the same time, in BlogShares Forum, they were under fire for transactions on top blogs. They had completed the PRD, Restructure, Hyping and Sell Order in less than two hours, etc. People just easily forget. Why there are new rules about limited amount of shares to gift was because both players involved made questionable transactions before... and also, because of these two players, I avoided playing on BlogShares Top Blogs' shares!

While I do not question the existing rule, everyone focused on the rule of the game. But, no one have noticed that Mr Pilot, had intentionally played against me to upset me, which no other player, would do the same with me, especially in a stubborn way!

Well? This is life! If you cannot beat them, join them! Alan Dean said also in the forum:

Point Of Order

For the avoidance of doubt (in case any newbies are reading this thread):

The Bonds market is entirely public. There is no means of making an 'agreed player-to-player' deal. There is no etiquette that requires a player to abide by posted intentions in the forums. It is a free-for-all, dog-eat-dog market with no friendly rules.

Put simply, the fastest click wins.

I'm still pondering though... Hey, Alan! I am not a dog! [Grin] Anyway, even I argued with people because of indifferences, after some time, they returned back to me, only to say, I was right in the first place. Sometimes, it takes days, months, and years. But, one thing is for sure, I just want to be fair...

Sunday, August 15, 2004

As Macky (Mars/Iris Securities) posted Chips for Missing Industries on August 13, 2004, 07:52:47 pm at BlogShares Forum, I offered him 100+ industries for 1.5 chips or 15 chips per 10 rare ideas for the industries Macky doesn't have yet.

Today, while I bonded 116 industries in sets of twelves to transfer the ideas, Bear interrupted our transactions by poaching 4 industries, which in return, Macky complained of invalid bonds. I was certain that I have issued the ideas properly as bonds until I found out that Bear took it. I sent couple of messages on his Rare idea bonds for sale message thread. The BlogShares Global Moderator, Mr Pilot, instead of settling the dispute, he added flame and interruption with my bond transactions with Macky by poaching one of the bonds Bear rebonded to returnn those industries he purchased in the bonds market.

After I finished with Macky's bonds and he got 1160 ideas from me, I found out later that interruptions made by Bear and Mr Pilot made me lose the opportunity to sell my 10,272,408 Farsi ideas on time at B$ 54,343.40 or a total loss in the amount of B$ 558,237,576,907.20 at 23:14 system time!!!

I didn't know why this guy is picking on me but, one thing is certain, I didn't liked his style...

Sunday, August 01, 2004

Spending more time playing, voting, and moderating blogs at BlogShares kept me busy from blogging. Actually, last month was the busiest month for most active players who participated in voting and moderating blog's industries (categories). My karma points showed how much dedication I had given in adding blogs under its correct categories (industries). As Jay introduced CHIPS as incentives to players who voted/moderated blog's industries correctly, we earned 25 chips for every 1 karma, from 58,000 blogs that need (vote) moderation, it's now down to less than 2,500 blogs!

Anyway, from rank no. 15th on BlogShares Top 100 Richest Player last month, I am now at 8th place beginning the month of August.

At BlogShares, it's fun to play, trade, and interact with fellow players at the Forum.

Friday, July 16, 2004

Conratulations to the winners of Philippine Current Political Situation Blogging Contest (BlogShares). And, the winners are:

• First Prize: RWO (B$ 500,000,000,000.00 + GMail Invitation)
• Second Prize: Robertbrigham (B$ 300,000,000,000.00 + GMail Invitation)
• Third Prize: KyrahJade (B$ 150,000,000,000.00 + GMail Invitation)
• J. LeRoy, SpeedRacr, Charlie, Jmekosh, and Hotchook shall receive consolation price of B$ 100,000,000,000.00 each.

The above participants shall receive 10K Philippine Ideas, courtesy of this blog, along with Early Bird artefact bonus of:

• Charlie, Weblogs ideas
• Hotchook, 10K Australia ideas
• jmekosh, 10K Japan ideas
• SpeedRacr, 10K Weblogs ideas

To know their winning post, visit more than Quotes' Entries on Philippine Politics Blogging Contest.

Thursday, July 15, 2004

Eight BlogShares players have submitted their URL for their entry to my Philippines Current Political Situation Blogging Contest. As I have mentioned here and at BS Forum, one trillion is at stake:

• First Prize Winner will receive B$ 500 B
• Second Prize Winner will receive B$ 300 B
• Third Prize Winner will receive B$ 150 B

Top 3 winners shall receive GMail invitation from jmekosh, as Afonso had Gmail problem recently. And, the difference of B$ 50 B shall be divided equally among remaining players as their consolation prizes for joining.

• Charlie, with bonus of 10K Life ideas
• Hotchook, with bonus of 10K Australia ideas
• jmekosh, with bonus of 10K Japan ideas
• SpeedRacr, is entitled to 10 K artefact ideas
• KyrahJade
• J. LeRoy
• RWO
• Robertbrigham

Lucky winners will be announced later on July 16th, BlogShares system time. Those who would like to join are still welcome before midnight of July 15th.... Good luck to the above players!!!

Monday, July 05, 2004

I have posted this at BlogShares Forum today:

Due to a special request by Afonso to share more of my B$ wealth, I am confirming today that B$ 200 Billion prize for my contest is now adjusted to B$ 1 Trillion! He even suggested that I give 5 Trillion away but, I have B$ 3 Trillion cash available today. Anyway, I might offer another contest after this one so, please be advised that these will be the new order of prizes for Philippine Current Political Situation Blog Contest:

Best well-written entry gets B$ 500 B
Second well-written entry gets B$ 300 B
Third good entry gets B$ 150 B

And consolation prize of B$ 2 B for those who join in this contest.

Congratulations to Charlie who first posted his entry. You will receive 10K weblogs ideas to build an artefact (as requested). FREE artefact for early birds is until July 7th only.

Afonso might give GMAIL invitation as incentive to three lucky winners. Watch out for its confirmation!

Everyone is invited to join, show your blogging skills!

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Looking for online games? If you love numbers and would like to understand what the details below is all about, TRY BLOGSHARES!

Beware: Playing BlogShares fantasy share market is a habit-forming. I was buying ideas like crazy and have collected about 228 million ideas in 818 industries! Many thanks to Jay Campbell for extending my premium membership from January 2005 to March 2005!

Saturday, June 26, 2004

This article was issued as a (NEWS) PRESS RELEASE with BlogShares but, unfortunately, it failed to show at http://blogshares.com/news.php. Anyway, I hope this article will be read by BS newbies and pioneers alike:

Five (5) months after I received B$ 200,000,000,000.00 (B$ 200 B) cash prize from Afonso in a Blogging Contest about Portugal, my wealth is nearly B$ 4 T at present. It's about time that I share this B$ 200,000,000,000.00 to you.

Mechanics: Write something about the Philippines current political situation in your blog. Give me the link and I will review your article. The best accurate blog about the Philippines will receive B$ 100,000,000,000.00 (First Prize), B$ 50,000,000,000.00 (Second Prize) goes to second best, and B$ 25,000,000,000.00 (Third Prize) to third best article. Consolation prize of B$ 1,000,000,000.00 will be given to all who will join.

Tips: You can find Philippine links in my own blog. But, please do not copy and paste articles. Creativity is expected in your blogging style.

This contest is now open and will run until the 15th of July and prize winners will be known immediately the next day, July 16, 2004!

Good luck...

This is in response with Rutty's message thread, Competition for July 2004.

Monday, May 31, 2004

Because of my limited online presence due to relocation, I am losing my 10th position among the top 100 richest BS players. As of May 31, 2004, here is my BlogShares General Portfolio:

Even MLT who used to be the top 1 player ranks now at 2nd place among the richest players on BlogShares. What has happened during my online absence, I still cannot figure out why there are many new instant trillionaires this time...

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

It's been ten days since the last time I blogged. Life is great with us and many thanks to those who were so concerned about my welfare. Believe me, whatever the stage I am going through is considered one of the best stage in my life since I joined online community...

Due to relocation, I still cannot blog just like before, as we are awaiting approval for my new telephone line application with PLDT. Too many positive things had happened recently and I will tell all my news a bit later, so hang on and keep on checking this blog from time to time for my latest news...

With full of excitement, I logged in on blogshares but, I feel it was not the Blogshares gaming community I left a week ago, there are no stocks available in the Ideas Market, perhaps, Randy or Arvind would like to help explain to me what's going on?

I was too busy with life offline. It was nice to be away from fantasy and face the real world with full of hopes that everything will gonna be all right, for me, and for the kids. If not because of knoxland's yahoo message to me, I wouldn't remember about my mails. Guess my incoming mails are now bouncing back to the sender so I had thought of going online using my sister's computer and dialup connection...

Although I have gained some weight, my aura seems better these days. Please pray for me that I will soon get a telephone line in my new habitat so that I can blog about the latest happenings in my life...

Thank you once again for those who care... may God bless us all!

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

After selling bonds to MLT and RWO for over B$ 100 billion and, Germany for B$ 230,299,762,623.86 , my BS net worth is now at B$1,093,163,460,291.40 and I am temporarily at rank no. 11 among BlogShares Richest Players!

Well, I'm glad there is BlogShares. Playing this game keep my mind away from feeling depressed and worrying so much...

Friday, April 02, 2004

As of March 31, 2004, here is my BlogShares General Portfolio:

I am back again at Rank 29 and my networth fluctuates depending on market price of Ideas I currently held...

Monday, March 29, 2004

Discovery of multiple accounts of some BlogShares players (and industry moguls) were very disappointing. I'd thought those female players who sent me messages were real, only to find out later that a man disguised himself and managed to control many BS accounts to gain a profitable advantage in HTO of top blogs and Ideas trading.

This case is still under BSEC investigation but, I felt betrayed by a man who disguised himself as "Aggie", "Lulu" and "Patti"...

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Many thanks to the generosity of Dodo van Teysterbant for buying 13 out of 20 Industries I issued as BS BONDS. He was completing his artefacts and posted his offer to pay B$10 billion for every 10K Ideas he does not have yet.

As of today, I have 97.74% growth in networth. From Rank 32, I am now at Rank 25th, but this might go up or down depending market price of 682 Industries I currently held:

Saturday, March 13, 2004

Due to my recent disappointment with BS rude players and I kept losing my investments on top blogs, I decided to make use of my existing artefacts, RAID A BLOG, to steal 20-100% of the idea commodities produced by a blog in the artefact's industry. Each artefact can be use once every 24 hours time limited and gives a maximum 500 ideas.

Artefact restricted, however, it cannot be used in a blog with zero available balance in the Ideas Market.

Raiding patiently a blog gives me between B$2 and B$2.5 billion profit everyday which is better than risking of restructuring or taking over top blogs. That's approximately about B$67.5 billion average profit in a month. Earlier, when I didn't know how to use this artefact function, I used about 5-7 artefacts to make a profit of B$8 million in a particular blog.

Well, many thanks to Randy, a.k.a. RWO (Retired Warrant Officer) for explaining to me the artefacts functions. RWO and I had a blog dispute because he rudelessly taken a blog I newly restructured making me lose my investments. But, his generous heart prompted him to correct his rudeness by gifting me blogs's shares he owned. Since then, I respected this guy...

While some BS pioneers can make as much as a B$ hundred billion in just a day's transactions, these rude players kept making BlogShares game dirty. I know it's just a game but your actions toward other players reflected a part of you. I don't think it's fun to be in the top 20 by way of cheating, group conspiracy, and manipulating the game. Most players know who you are and no matter what you say, you cannot change the impression we had about you, guys...

Friday, March 12, 2004

A bug had been discovered by the richest player at Blogshares (BS). Far from reading the said message thread at BS Forum, I have posted a message also due to disappointment from two players who destroyed my investments with two BS top blogs, Persian and Slashdot. Here's one of the message I have submitted, Reply #29 on: March 12, 2004, 12:26:09 pm:

I have openly expressed my opinion and if my message thread will be locked again, this would be the third time.

Maybe some players would secretly agree with me. Things would go on endlessly unless someone will come forward and express their opinion about the practice of HTO and PRD. While it's true that I did some PRD and HTO myself, I find them very offensive and didn't find any fun doing more of it. I informed the offending person about the manner how they treated "my investments" through PM, others accepted it, others were arrogant but the fact that I was dismayed had been known and whether they honor my opinion or not is no longer my problem...

Anyone can check my portfolio history. Also, if my thoughts are not welcome here and will always be moderated, this forum somewhat discriminates and not fair to all.

I have no reason to attack the three sitting BSEC and no need for the three to protect other players. Let the person responsible for these messages to come forward and explain...

Just in case this will be my last message, I would like to congratulate Suburban Wolf for all the efforts and made BlogShares work for all of us. I have gained a hundred billion since it was restored...Thank you and I salute you!!!

To Jay, thank you for your generosity!!!

I am hopeful Public Relations here on BS will improve someday and those currently in authority will respect views and opinions AND will not use the forum as a passport to insult lowly members...

Hey, Afonso, I was playing at BS for barely three months but, I think I do understand the reason now why you left BS...

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

The following data was posted by SuburbanWolf under Idea Production Schedule message thread at BlogShares (BS) Forum:

It's very surprising that I was included at 8th place! I didn't know I already collected about 602 Industries...

Monday, March 01, 2004

From Rank 31st among BlogShares Richest Players in February, I slipped to Rank 32nd in BlogShares, with 23% Growth Rate, B$231,084,719,639.52 Total Value and Cash Balance beginning March 1 of B$225,072,223,073.20 and 84 artefacts.

I had lost about B$40 billion to mad trollie and RWO when I restructured/LBO Persian Blog without even watching if share's price was overpriced or not. This time, I am a bit careful now. Also, glad BlogShares generates ideas more often this time.

More power to Suburban Wolf, C, Jay Campbell and all people behind reconstituted BlogShares!

Sunday, February 01, 2004

For a week now since I have added my BlogShares details in all my templates by using David Raynes' latest MTBlogShares v0.6 movable type plugin, I had difficulty rebuilding new pages and templates.

Abe upgraded MT to version 2.661, yet, it didn't helped me resolve rebuilding my pages problem. I submitted couple of messages with MT support forums but only one replied to my query but did not mention any alternative solution that might give me an idea what's going on.

Although I didn't like to remove my BlogShares tags from my templates, I have to do so, so that I can post new entries in my blog. But, since I am addicted to BS now, I did not remove the BS tags off my index page. If you are planning to add BS in your template, never ever add the link in your Individual Entry Archive or you will suffer the same experience of no rebuild page.

Index template still takes time to rebuild but, what can I do? I love to keep my BS details in my blog. And, in fairness with David, I know connection to BlogShares to get my details was the major reason for slow rebuilding of my page and templates. But, I hope David will soon find a way to make it possible to add BS tags in all my templates without having difficulty rebuilding my pages!

Guess I need to install MT Plugin Manager to manage well future plugin files to make blogging more enjoyable and fun... more power to all people behind MT!

Sunday, January 25, 2004

Many thanks to David Raynes for the new MTBlogShares v0.6 tag changes which I have been looking for since ten days ago. I have added my BS details on this blog, check them on this page's sidelinks!

Good luck to you, David, and more power!

Monday, January 12, 2004

You would definitely not believe this! After winning B$200 billion from Afonso for blogging about Portugal here and receiving FREE BlogShares PREMIUM membership from Jay Campbell, I am now the NO. 1 BEST PLAYER for January 2004 and rank no. 29 among BlogShares RICHEST 100 PLAYER as of today, next to Afonso who gave me half of his BlogShares' fortunes.

It would be nicer if these things are real but, the challenge that BlogShares offer, including the opportunity to get acquainted with BlogShares' best players online AND visit the best blogs written by fellow bloggers are mentally stimulating.

BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links. I still do not know how to play this game but, will learn in the next few days. Slow connection on my side and congested BlogShares' server are two common factors for delayed transactions...

Sunday, January 11, 2004

I received e-mail from support @ blogshares.com this afternoon which says:

Your account has been upgraded to Premium Membership until 10 Jan 2005 . This entitles you to:

• Unlimited transactions per day
• Unlimited custom search lists
• Watch Lists
• Access to advanced blog and user profile pages
• Press releases for your blogs
• Upload logos for your blogs

Many thanks to Afonso Almeida and Jay Campbell for the BlogShares Premium Membership! I will now enjoy unlimited transactions with BlogShares!

I am feeling lucky. This is great, really, as I received B$200 Billion prize from Afonso today also!

Once again, many thanks to both of you!!!

Friday, January 09, 2004

On BlogShares News' Press Release made by Afonso on behalf of Mar Português:

Please don't write more posts about Portugal. Aggie and Laila are the lucky winners and will both get 200 billion. I know I said 400 billion, but after some googling I decided this was the best decision.

I have read Aggie's Macau blog, Arvind's Under The Weather, and, Berry's A Portuguese Twist and I believe we all did our best and it would be fair enough if we would divide the B$400 billion equally...

I had mixed emotions when Afonso told me that the B$400 billion is mine. But, I told him to give more time to other bloggers to blog about Portugal. Afterall, I am currently contented with the B$4 million which I am using to buy shares of newcomers' weblogs. It's nice to be an instant billionaire, especially if that happens in real life, BUT, once I received his billions it would mean ONE THING: he's leaving Blogshares! Whether it's true that he just want some time off from BlogShares, I am saddened about his early vacation plans...

Although I was surprised with Afonso's initiative, I was deeply touched with his kindness when he included in his press release about sponsorship of my BlogShares membership. It is very unfortunate that we do not have PayPal yet in the Philippines and my only chance to enjoy unlimited transactions is when BlogShares include me once they give away FREE PREMIUM MEMBERSHIPS again to selected members.

By all means, I am wishing you goodluck, Afonso...

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

Since I registered with BlogShares - a fantasy stock market for weblogs 7 days ago, it had a 143962.25% growth in net worth. Started with B$500 investment plus 1,750 Slashdot.org shares given by Afonso, some shares were sold to mars/iris Securities and The Geek using different artefacts (like Reality Distortion Field, Tux, Master Hacker, Improbability Drive, Glasses, Experiment, Network Engineer, Killer app, Oxford Dictionary and Scoop) during Hostile takeover and Restructure of Slashdot.org.

I still do not understand well what's going on but I will blog the figures here later to save time opening my BlogShares Records. In the meantime, I'm off for lunch now...

If you haven't play yet on BlogShares, give it a try. I still haven't figure out all these but willing to explore what other bloggers are doing with it...

Friday, January 02, 2004

Two nights ago, I discovered that my ladylaila.blogspot.com blog was added on BlogShares list and I was puzzled how did it happened. BlogShares defines itself as a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Out of curiosity, I registered myself with a purpose in mind, to claim my weblog, whoever is in control of it (Shame! I sound like a newbie!).

Today, I received notification mail from BlogShares, Afonso gifted me 750 shares in SlashDot.Org. His website is written in Portuguese and so confused, I didn't know how he got cash balance of B$438,343,036,674.37 while mine is only B$246.40! Afonso ranks 85th in overall standing with total portfolio of B$427,920,131.52 in 99 blogs and net worth of B$447,820,057,891.52.

Added on 04:14 21 Dec 2003, duly registered on 31 Dec 2003 with BlogShares, and currently available to trade, this stock is underpriced. You are free to buy anytime, just click here.