Abby Ongyanco-Lim

I am amazed at how I was able to keep in touch with my long high school and college friends via Friendster. Imagine I have no contact numbers or whatsoever with them but I found them at Friendster. All I did was just type in their name at Friendster search box then viola, found most of them. As for the other people, I was able to get in touch with them by browsing the network of my friends.

After Friendster, there’s a lot of social networking sites e.g. multiply.com, facebook.com, linkedin.com and so much more. In fact, I tried to keep up by creating account with the several social networking sites to no avail I still prefer Friendster as most of my friends are already there.

I heard Friendster initially was for a dating site. But, the founders re-modeled the business of Friendster by making it the way it was now.

I am grateful to Friendster that up till now I was able to keep in touch with my friends. Hmm, I’d like to add that I found not only my friends at Friendster, but I was able to network with my cousins who are all over the world. It was indeed fun and sticky.

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I saw a very interesting SEO campaign for a real estate website. It was a SEO campaign for Singapore HDB Property.

I find the way the SEO consultant tagged the keywords interesting and engaging. The author unlike other SEO campaign was simply storytelling about his broker friend who serviced him before. And, he liked the way he was served by the broker so in return the author is doing this SEO campaign for HDB Property. HDB is in the business of real estate in Singapore. So for expat or Singaporean, you might want to check out the HDB site for your property requirements.

With this, I have come up with a few set of guidelines for myself. For my future write-ups, I will list down the keywords and construct paragraph around it. Of course, the keyword will be a link to a website to which I want the keyword be associated with.
It seems SEO is a mind-blowing activity. And, one need to have a clear mind map to be able to construct a paragraph with necessary keywords and not being obvious about the SEO objective.

I really admire the author at Futuregen who wrote that article for HDB it was a well constructed SEO campaign. Keep up the good work!

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Lately, I’m having dreams about my first boyfriend. I don’t know why he kept on appearing on my dreams. It’s like all memories are coming back to me. I am happily married now. But, I am now wondering what my dreams meant.

It’s like a tour from my memory lane. The dream even includes a tour of our old house at Ortega Street in San Juan. I think our old house appears in my dream since it’s where I and my ex spent most of our time. I dream about the time when we become group mates in some IT projects in our freshmen and spent numerous nights in study room. After several weeks of working late, we suddenly find ourselves liking each other. I dream about joyous moments in different parts of that old house, the swimming pool where we spent most of our Saturday afternoons. I dream about the kitchen where I cooked food for him. I dream about the music room where I played the piano for him. I dream about our video room where we did spent a lot time watching movies.

Our relationship lasted for about a year. But it ended up in a bad way. I dream about him telling me after an All Saints Day vacation that he no longer interested in me. Just like that, I dream about those hurting words he hurled at me. The reason why he wants to break up was too much to take. I ended up being obsess. I dream about the outrageous things that I did to him to get even.

I don’t know why I’m dreaming about this stuff but I’m curious to find out why. So, I did a quick search on Google. And, amazingly here’s what I gathered.

1. from Dreamdoctor.com - (http://www.dreamdoctor.com/dictionary/exlover.shtml)

Ex-lovers often appear if a relationship ended abruptly, without emotional closure. Do you still wonder if it could have worked out differently? Do you miss qualities that your ex-lover possessed?

2. from thecuriousdreamer.com - (http://www.thecuriousdreamer.com/symbols/308/)

You have unfinished business with this person

3. from dreamloverinc.com - (http://www.dreamloverinc.com/e.htm#Ex-boy/girlfriend)

You will continue to dream about your ex-girlfriend or boyfriend until you “let go” of them on a very important level, or until you learned your lessons from that relationship. Either way, dreaming about your ex-romance does not predict future involvement. It may be wish-fulfillment, reliving memories, or working out old issues.

Well, I guess my dreams are telling me about my need for a closure. True enough, I can feel the meaning of my dream. I hope that someday I and my ex can have a closure and go on with our lives. Wherever you are, I just like to say Happy New Year 2008!

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