After browsing through my blog entries over the years, I feel really accomplished right now. From a lost little girl to a rebellious twenteen, a social butterfly turned solitary then to bouts of anger and depression and manic moments, all of these dramas and adventures make this blog my most treasured memoir. I highly encourage everyone to start a blog or write a private journal if you're the shy type. Trust me, after a decade it's going to be worth it!


📓 Thanks to @BDJBUZZ! To celebrate my 10th anniversary, a decade of blogging and online presence, let's prepare ourselves for 2014 with the queen of all planners, the #BelleDeJourPowerPlanner! 📖 

If you've known me since 2003 (or even before that), you know my blogging resulted when I decided to take my journals online. 📚 From Friendster and MySpace blogs to Xanga, LiveJournal, and eventually settled on Blogger, this is where you can best get to know me and even read about the most mundane details of my so-called life. ☺️ Not that they're all epic and fun all the time, you can skim through archives and read about my colorful puberty and how I kinda f*cked up my adolescence (didn't we all?) Tee hee. Now happily married with a doting @mrnoodleboy and a lively little @Noodlelito, I'm still living my life like an open book. 😊

For the FIRST ROUND of my 10th Anniversary Blog Giveaway, I'm raffling off one (1) highly coveted and best-selling BDJ 2014 Power Planner plus a Lifestyle Card. Why this? Because 2014 is going to be our year. We can do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING if we put our minds to it. It's all about planning. ;)

Photo from belledejourpowerplanner.com.

Want to win it? It's so easy, just join via RAFFLECOPTER below. Make sure to follow the instructions to qualify! I'll pick one random lucky winner on New Year's Day and announce it on all my main social media accounts! So be sure to follow me on FB, Twitter, and Instagram! I'll ship the prize for FREE as long as you have a Philippine address. That's it! Good luck!

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UDPATE 01/01/2014: And the winner is...

UPDATE: 01/15/2014 - NEW WINNER!!!

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My blog has evolved! It used to be all talk and verbal diarrhea. Now, it's all images and more images. I just realized it and kinda like how it had turned out actually--despite the fact that it doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination anymore. :(

Over the years, I've been writing (mostly to my heart's content) notwithstanding the fact that some people actually pay attention to what I have to say. I've been getting comments, suggestions, as well as violent reactions to the stuffs I've posted. Seriously, I didn't think anyone would give a rat's ass to my blogs. And now, even my mom is reading it! OMGWTFBBQ! Okay, *breathe*, so I guess I'll try to be "wholesome" now... LOL!

I was backreading some of the things I wrote in my Friendster/MySpace/Xanga blogs and I realized how different I am now. These blogs actually help me a lot. Not only do I get an outlet (through writing) and a record of how I've turned out to be, but now I'm actually part of something BIG! As in WWW kinda big, mostly thanks to link referrals and blog communities. Have you googled yourself lately? Maybe I should do blogging full-time. Hmmm.

But I love to write. If I had time, you guys know I'd write a book. However, that is not going to happen anytime soon as I am thinking of a career move. It's 2010! I need to make money and I know this year is going to be SOMETHING! I'm pretty sure of it, because I am going to make my own destiny. Sounds conceited enough? It's just positive thinking, you know. I just hope my viewers, readers, friends, and fans(?) would stick around long enough to witness that if one sets her heart on something, IT WILL HAPPEN. And you don't even have to ask how the hell it did!

So I'm cooking up a little something for my birthday this year. I know, I know. Isn't it too early? Well, nothing wrong with being prepared, right? So what's the plan?

Do you want to know? I bet you already do.

Okay, for those who are new to my blog, my birthdays over the recent years have been anything but ordinary. Take for example:

1. In 2007, I had a kiddie party... at 24! Just because there were too many kids in the neighborhood and MOST of my childhood friends already got kids of their own... so there.

   

   

   

2. In 2008, I spent it with the juvenile delinquents at the DSWD Holdings in the city. Plus, I gave them slippers!!! Yeah, flip-flops, baby!

   

   
   

3. In 2009, I was with the little rascals from Recla. I just wish I could give them scholarship grants when I become rich and famous. LOL. Wish ko lang!

   

   

See? I'm not all that vain and materialistic as I even claim to be. I have a soft spot, too. I'm generally a nice person. (Aren't we all?) Just don't get on my nerves and we're all good! ;)

So this year... what am I doing?

I'm not telling you yet.

You guys will have to stay tuned to find out.

But I'll give you a hint. Let's just say, it involves a contest and if that's the case... then there will be PRIZES. I'm still sorting things out but this is the plan. I need more sponsors and donors, so if you wanna help me out here, send me a message.

This will involve Twitter and Facebook, too. So you guys just might want to follow me (@MyMariaTV) for updates and add me up at FACEBOOK via this LINK or click the banner below.

MyMaria: Basta Igat, Sikat!

I will be updating those a lot in the coming weeks/months.

Celebrate with me... the gift of life, love, and everything under the sun. You could be a WINNER!

So be part of my birthday this year and let's make it happen, shall we?

xoxo,