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I am speechless...almost.

THUNK! is the sound that my jaw made when it dropped to the floor after reading Bobby's e-mail. I never expected to be honored with Bestest Blog of the Day, what with all the great blogs listed at his site (The Bestest Blog of All Time). So please accept my heartfelt thanks, Bobby. It pleases me that you deem my weblog worthy of your award.

My main reasons for blogging are simple: to let off some steam and get things off my chest by writing about things that are on my mind at any given moment. As the patient visitors to this site have seen, these thoughts can range from the ridiculous to the depressing. I'm very fortunate to have come across many other bloggers who, like-minded or not, appreciate my posts enough to come back regularly -- to tolerate my mental diarrhea, as it were.

This very savory thought now leads me to my next expressions of gratitude, which go out to…(drum roll)

Justin Mahida!

Tainted Female!

Rhys Postlewaight!

(standing ovation) (rah rah rah!)

Justin himself is a recipient of the Bestest Blog of the Day award, and I give him major credit for introducing me to a host of fantastic blogs out there -- and for introducing them to moi.

I came across Tainted Female's blog (and other wonderful blogs as well) through Expat Interviews, a Web site that my dear friend Vic created. It was through Tainted's site that I got to know about other great UAE-based bloggers.

Rhys runs A World of Bloggers, where he kindly let me have the Philippines slot. My blog is hardly representative of what goes on in my country, but I do try to relate at least some aspect of Filipino life in some of my posts to what went on/is going on in some other part(s) of the world. After all, the world has indeed become smaller, yet even more larger-than-life somewhat, because of the Web.

These four people (including Bobby) can be likened to cyber pimps, come to think of it. :-D And I do mean that as a compliment, since they've played major roles in enriching my blogging experience by leading me to all sorts of wonderful weblogs.

Also, I'm a blog stalker, for those of you who don't know. I skulk around other people's blogs a lot. So please don't be alarmed if I appear repeatedly in your stats monitors. It just means that I really like your blog and that I'm anticipating each new entry. :-)

Maraming, maraming salamat po (many, many thanks) to my newfound blogosphere buddies. My undying gratitude to my offline friends (especially LAR). Much love to my wonderful Genius for my Maggot Brain. Now I have one hell of an excuse to imbibe tonight, lol. Cheers, everyone!