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Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3 preregistration is now open!

The Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3 is obviously the third blow of the annual Mindanao Bloggers Summit.

The first Mindanao Bloggers Summit was held at Davao City last 2007 hosted by The Usual Suspects. The second summit was held last year on my hometown, General Santos City hosted by Soccsksargen Bloggers. This year’s summit will be held on no less than Cagayan de Oro City to be hosted by CDOBloggers.

I’m really looking forward to this annual event. I hope that it will fall on the semestral break of the revised school calendar so that I can fly to Mindanao in time for the event. I can’t afford to miss it!

So far, I have attended the two summits and even had the chance to have a super informal shout-out on one of them.

Mindanao Bloggers, see you there!

Hey guys.

Several few hours ago, I delivered a shout-out during the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit held at Family Country Hotel and Restaurant in General Santos City.

The slides I used for my presentation is available here. Please don’t expect a lot from it since I made it on-the-spot, like 3 hours before my shout-out.

Hey guys!

The 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit is less than a week away. The organizers and volunteers (including me) are starting to get busy, really busy. Kuya Avel and company is brewing something big, bigger than the tuna in GenSan.

Aside from the post-summit events (tour, Sashimi night, among others), there is certainly more reason to attend the said event. I will be speaking for the shout-out in the afternoon — will rant about my blog, my blog life (blogger’s events, etc) and life as a student blogger.

I, too, am very excited for my shout-out. In fact, I’m now starting to outline what I’ll be saying. For parties interested on getting the outline, I’ll post them on my blog right after my shout-out (yes, there’s free wireless Internet connection in the area powered by 802.11a/b/g technology).

Weeeee, exciting! See you there!

Waaaaa, I’m third place! Thanks to kuya Winston and kuya Jehz for convincing me to review their PRC Board Exam Results Website [link to review]. By the time I was making the review, I forgot about the YGB! contest. It was only after I published the review when kuya Winston told me to submit it to the said contest.

Yey, that’s an additional $50.00 on my PayPal account!

My EON card came just in time. Now, I have a lot of dollar$ to brag. I’m now an official dollar earner! Hahaha.

Too bad the peso’s going strong, but let’s be happy with that bitter fact (bitter for dollar earners like me)!

My plans for my accumulated PayPal money (approx. $10.00 right now + $50.00 cash prize + expected $10.00 on January):

• cellphone
• another domain name
• savings

Yey. Happy blogging to me!

Oooops, before I forget, congrats kuya Winston and kuya Jehz. Just remembered that the party reviewed also gets the same prize!

[UPDATE] Thanks to the Digital Filipino Club, the contest’s sponsor

ovr1971: hey mikko
BUZZ!!!
miKkO: hello
miKkO: sorry, late reply
ovr1971: np
ovr1971: re ur prize
ovr1971: let’s do it na
miKkO: ok
ovr1971: u won a 1-year hosting acct w/ jun macarambon
miKkO: yehey!!
miKkO:
ovr1971: i will email him (cc sa iyo) regarding this
ovr1971: and then kayo na mag-usap after ok?
ovr1971: no domain ito ha?
miKkO: sure
miKkO: okay lang po
miKkO: ;D
ovr1971: ok that’s it
ovr1971: congrats!
miKkO: thank you

ovr1971 is Kuya Blogie Robillo. Yeah, I won a one year hosting account with Kuya Jun Macarambon! Thank you very much The Usual Suspects and Kuya Jun.

Galing ng drama ng conversation namin (laughs)! Again, thank you very much and hope to see you guys (Kuya Jun, Kuya Blogie, Ate Ria, Kuya Migs, Kuya Andrew, Kuya Winston, Kuya Ayel, Kuya Aethen, Kuya Bryan (thanks a lot for my bag), Kuya Richard, Kuya Charles, Ate Gwing (:p, sorry no link), Ate Hunee (oops, ano nga po uli URL mo?), Ate Dulce Negosyante ;D, Kuya Jayvee, Kuya Marc, Kuya Abe, Kuya Bob, The Usual Suspects na nakalimutan (sorry for that) and the other participants), on the next Mindanao Bloggers Summit.

Hi. Sorry for my bad style of writing, I’m awake for 37 hours now! MINDANAO BLOGGER’S SUMMIT IS THE BEST! Hahaha, stayed with Kuya Blogie, Kuya Bryan, Kuya Richard, Kuya Ayel, Kuya Aethen and Kuya Jayvee (A Bugged Life) till about 3 in the morning. We spent some time at the FwendsDiner, gimik till dawn. MINDANAO BLOGGERS SUMMIT ULIT IS THE BEST.

Before I jump out of the topic, I want to jump in back to it (hahaha). So DabawPinoy blogged about the summit, and I have a special part on his post. Hahaha.

As seen on his post, this is the order of the pictures:

1. The mob of bloggers who attended the Summit.
2. Davao City Councilor Peter Laviña.
3. Guest speaker Marc Macalua of Macalua.com and the founder of SEO Philippines.
4. Guest speaker Jayvee Fernandez, owner of A Bugged Life. Works on b5media.
5. Kuya Blogie Robillo, Kuya Bob Martin of Mindanao.com who lived in GenSan before (GO GENSAN!!) and his wife.
6. Conrad Miguel E. Gozalo, that’s me. I’m the youngest blogger in the SUMMIT, and the only blogger from GENERAL SANTOS! Go GenSan!
7. The guests, Abe Olandres of Yugatech, Andrew dela Serna of Alleba Blog, Marc Macalua of SEO Philippines, and Moslemen Macarambon Jr. + one girl.
8. The organizers, THE USUAL SUSPECTS. Wooh, pinsan ni ate Ria crush ko!
9. Dabaw Pinoy’s seatmates ate Chikai and Ody.
10. Migs, the event emcee.
11. Kuya Winston of BatangYagit.com.
12. Registration volunteers, Ryan and ate Jenny who keeps her URL private. Siya siguro si Davao’s Food Huntress.

I’m the sixth picture, plus it’s a solo pic! Ang galing! You have to view his post and comment. Hehehe. I hope I’d still be the youngest blogger next summit.

Also, I would like to thank the USUAL SUSPECTS and the SPONSORS for the event. Hindi pa ako nakakaget-over sa event. Ang saya talaga. You should quote this The Usual Suspects. Ganito ako kasaya. Pinasaya niyo po talaga ako and it’s worth remembering. Kitakits sa next summit, hopefully! -Conrad Miguel E. Gozalo

Yesterday was the first ever Bloggers Summit in the Philippines, the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 1 held at 4th Floor NCCC Mall, Davao organized by the Usual Suspects. Thank you very much for that, it was very very very successful. Thank you for the prizes, I got an IBM Notebook and a web hosting plan.

I arrived the mall at about 10:30pm. I went directly to the 4th Floor, checked the summit area and saw a lot of adults there. I was already in front of the registration desk, still feeling the anxiety (takot na hindi makarelate). I heard the voice of kuya Migs from outside and they were about to sing the National Anthem. I backed out on my first attempt, went back down. (more…)

Yesterday was my domain’s first month but I was not able to post. I’ve been very busy yesterday, promise.

So how’s my domain’s first month?

It was indeed a busy day. Our research group had our panel defense in the morning, I missed two classes anyway lucky enough it was considered excused absence. Then in the afternoon we had to revise it and submit it back to our research adviser. We submitted it before 5pm, then our adviser returned it about 5:30pm for another revision. We had to revise it again so me and one other groupmate had to stay late on the internet cafe. The revision took us hours, so that means little sleep for me again. Then this morning, we submitted the revised copy. Our research adviser adviced us to have another minor revision, so we revised it again.

How’s that? Three revisions in less than 36 hours! Yeah, that’s for the love of Regional Intel Science and Engineering Fair.

A little trivia: Since the start of the week, the earliest time I went to bed was 1am and the latest was 3am. Hahaha. I’m a little stressed now.

Also yesterday, I backed out for the Physics Quiz Bee. Why? Uhm, the Science Fair Congress was simultaenous with the Quiz Bee and only the team leader can speak during the Congress. I want to be the team leader so I sacrificed my Physics career. Anyway, I know our research study more than any PHYSICS concept. In fact, I can construct our circuit without the schematic diagrams and assembly programs!

I’m bragging again and no one can stop me. ;D

Mindanao Blogger’s Summit 1

I’m attending the Blogger’s Summit tomorrow. I was supposed to go home to GenSan today as most of the GenSan dormers did but I preferred to stay for the Summit.

I am pretty anxious now. I don’t know who to go with during the summit. I’m afraid to end up in front of the registration without registering! You know that feeling of anxiousness, you don’t even know if you’ll go or not on the last minute.

I’m also afraid I’ll be the youngest in the Summit and be left behind their mature conversations. Waaa, help me please.

I’ve read Batang Yagit’s article on Preparing for the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 1. Read it before you go.

Another trivia: I’ll be staying here in Davao till Sunday morning. I only have PhP474.00 in my pocket. So here’s my budget:

• PhP 20.00 for my Netopia bill (I’m currently blogging here at Netopia).
• PhP 20.00 for my fare back to the dorm.
• PhP 20.00 for my fare to NCCC tomorrow for the summit.
• PhP 100.00 for my haircut. (I’ll have my haircut before the Summit starts)
• PhP 70.00 for my lunch (skipping breakfast)
• PhP 50.00 for my dinner (small dinner)
• PhP 20.00 for my fare to my grandfather’s house (sleeping there tomorrow)
• PhP 10.00 for my fare to the Davao City Overland Transport Terminal
• PhP 165.00 for my bus fare back to GenSan.

I’m so poor now. Waaaa!

Yes, I’m attending the 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit.

Earlier this month, I posted that I can’t attend the summit. But now, I’ve decided to cancel my e-competition registration at GenSan just to attend the summit.

Kuya Abe Olandres of Yugatech will be there. I’m a regular reader of his blog and I’m looking forward on seeing him in person.

I’ve already posted the required post for registration on my old blog, right here.

That’s all for now and see you guys!

Hi everyone. Still not sure if I can attend the 1st Mindanao Blogger’s Summit, but I really want to.

I have already asked permission from my parents, they eventually agreed. But my number 1 problem is the conflicting schedule with the e-Business Week e-competitions at General Santos.

I’m joining the e-Competitions together with some of my Davao batchmates (plus another fellow GenSan batchmate). They’re joining the 3D AutoCad contest. Three of us will form a team for the Java/C++ programming challenge, and I’m also going for subprofessional speed typing and web page development. (more…)