Twenty years of teaching

Rolly

A blog is a journal where I can keep what my thoughts are on certain issues. I have always thought about doing a journal before and have actually started doing one on several notebooks but always, I abandoned these out of my own laziness to write. My handwriting began to get really messy when I learned to use the computer. When I discovered blogs, I found an avenue to keep a record of my thoughts and never stopped ever since.

I have posted my reason for blogging several times before. This is so that I can impart to my four kids the lessons I learned in life hoping that these would learn from these. I hope that my experiences would touch their lives, understand how and why I react to certain situations and get to know how to deal with other people in a more appropriate manner.

Writing my thoughts would make them know how I felt about something and give them more time to ponder and analyze my course of action. I am not one to give long sermons to my kids for I don't like those either when I was a young boy. They wouldn't listen if they don't want to anyway.

Furthermore, my writing could even extend to my children's children, and theirs, and so on. This way, I am assured that I would have left a legacy somehow or another to those who would have not known me personally. I am not a rich man so I can not leave them with anything material. At least, the lessons in life I teach would/could help them cope up with life that could sometimes be harsh, if one doesn't know how to deal with it.

What I did not expect was that I would have started something serendipitous. Other people began discovering my blog and had left comments of their own thoughts as well and that is neat. I got to be friends with a lot of my readers and commenter.

Unfortunately, I don't blog now as often as I used to. I get my topics from anything and everything that cross my path; a news report; an event that happened in my life; a book I read - anything that sparks an idea.

A blog template creates the identity of the blog. It gives your blog a face just like labels do with products. I have not used any promotion tool as I have not promoted my blog. I guess some people got to go my blog when I left comments with a link with mine in other blogs that I visited and read. From the day I started, I have been a regular at kwentong tambay, the Sassy Lawyer's Journal. Lately, I've added the following to my daily dose of blogs: knowread/knowrite, Under the Canopy and Blogging Bugs. There are a lot others which are linked in my blog and I have learned from them tremendously.

One of my cherished moments in my blogging life would have to be when I met in person the bloggers I have learned to admire. Batjay, Sassy Lawyer, Doc Emer. This meeting would be repeated again and again as they have become personal friends of mine. We have actually started a group of blogger friends called the Blogkadahan and we're still going strong to date.

Lastly, I have several posts that really mean to me a lot. These would be bonding moments I had with my family and friends, or posts that generated more thoughts and comments from readers.

I joined adsense before. I was about to earn my very first cash when I received a note from them that they suspect I have several illegal clicks or whatever the term is. I have been pondering over it and came to the conclusion that since I am a teacher and students in my school are probably reading my blog, they may have clicked the ads using the computers in school. Since all these computers are linked to only two servers, these clicks could have probably sent out the same IP address. So much for generating income eh?
 

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