If I Could Turn Back Time

Posted on October 10, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress


Scrap Credits: Ronna Penner’s Express Yourself from Scrapadelic.com

I didn’t really like that Cher song actually but the melody just came to me when I started writing this post. Now I will be inundated with it for the rest of the day. Sigh. I wish I could turn back time 5 minutes ago when that song didn’t come to my mind. Haha… Nah, just kidding.

Well, anyway, this tag came from Huisia, who wanted to know that if I had Hiro Nakamura’s powers, which age would I choose to return to, and why?

Hands down, definitely I will choose to return to the time when I was a little girl, probably at age 4 or 5. That’s when I had no worries at all in the world, and lived only to play and sleep and eat. No deadlines to meet and nobody bugging me on the completion date of tasks. No need to wake up early for meetings, dragging my weary self to work feeling like a zombie. No need to worry about car loans and house mortgages. No need to make important decisions like which life insurance policy to take, or which unit trust fund to invest in. The most important decision I had to make was probably to choose if I wanted to wear my own dress shoes or my Mom’s platform shoes. Ah yes. I was a little vainpot even back then.

And now I bequeath the powers of time travelling to:

Little Miss May

Rinnah

Simple American

Wuching

EastCoastLife

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Instructions:
Title: The Age That I Wish To Go Back To
Requirement: Write about the one age that you wish to go back to and why?
Tag Mode: 5 bloggers
1st – You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below.
2nd – Let the blogger you want to tag know they been tagged by comment in their blog or etc.

The Age that they Wish to Go Back to:
Amidrin wish to go back to age 22 to correct back some mistakes in life.
Lemonjude wish to go back to age 6 to enjoy kid’s life.
Hui Sia wish to go back to age 16 to meet her first lover again.
Giddy Tiger wishes to go back to a childhood life with no worries in the world.
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My Postie Decision

Posted on October 10, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

Getting hooked on blogging has been one of the best decisions I have made.  Okay, maybe the decision I made was to start blogging, but getting hooked became part and parcel of the entire thing.  I am more observant about my surroundings and how it affects me and I now find ways and means of creating interesting posts to make a dreary topic bearable…well, sometimes.  Of course, together with blogging, I made another great decision, which was to become a postie.  I consider myself still a newbie to PayPerPost because I have only been a member for slightly over six months, whereas I know of friends who have been members for goodness knows how long!

My experience with PPP has been one rollercoaster of excitement and frustration. Together with my gal pal Rinnah, we constantly shared information on PPP news and announcements including blog advertising, not to mention clueing each other in on the good posts to grab, and also lamenting the fact that “There’s nothing good today!” So yes, PPP has certainly created friendships, at least for me.  Being a postie has trained me to write better too.  I have to look at different angles of each post in order to make it appeal to my discerning reader.  And since I love writing, this is an excellent avenue for me.  I have no regrets at all!

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What a Breast Cancer Patient needs

Posted on October 9, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

I’m going Pink for October and the following post is published in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month. The following information is strictly my opinion based on articles I have come across and read and also from past experiences of my own.

If you know someone with breast cancer, it can be difficult to talk to them. Most people do not know what to say, for fear of making the patient miserable. We are constantly afraid that words which we think are comforting can sometimes be misconstrued as being too cliché, so much so that the essence of it is lost to begin with. On the other hand, when we don’t say anything and keep silent, the patient might be left to feel as a recluse, not knowing what we feel or think.However, here are a few things I think we should keep in mind when we are with a breast cancer patient:

  1. Never tell them “You should not have done this” or “You should not have done that”. It is hardly ever their fault that they have cancer to begin with.
  2. Support them and their choice. If a patient chooses to have mastectomy done instead of just a removal of the breast tumor, don’t undermine their decision.
  3. Too many suggestions for cancer remedies can overwhelm the patient at times. Some cancer patients smile and take in this information out of courtesy, but try not to force these *tried and tested methods on them.
  4. Give them a hug and a smile. Sometimes your presence is all the support they need.
  5. Sometime all they need to hear are things other than cancer. So tell them stories about what you have been up to, and if you have the ability to tell a good joke, go ahead.
  6. Offer to pray with the patient. Knowing that God is with them, keeping a watch over them is very comforting.
  7. Just listen. And believe that that your loved one will get well.

More reading material here:

What to say to someone with Cancer

What do you say to someone with Cancer?

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Build me a Link

Posted on October 9, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

Lately, there has been a surge in the number and variety of tags or memes being passed around the blogosphere. I too, have been on the receiving end of some of these tags, and even as we speak, I have several pending ones staring at me from my to-do list.

These tags are purely entertaining in nature but underneath the workings of each, is an attempt to boost a website’s link popularity. I am convinced that each completed tag contributes towards link building in an exponential manner, especially if the post contains a deeper link within it. I find it interesting to note how these tags work, if you really think about it.

Well, tags are not the only manner a blog or website can have its popularity boosted. Many sites nowadays utilize natural search engine optimization tools to ensure their sites are listed at least in the first page of a search query when a search portal is used. When this happens, it is a no-brainer that chances of people clicking on your link and visiting your site is much higher, resulting in, of course, a more popular blog.

However, I still maintain that a site consisting of only good search-engine-optimized terms is meaningless unless the contents of the site appeal to the readers at large. So a balanced of content and popular topics is essential to maintain an interested audience, yes?

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Taking a Breather…

Posted on October 8, 2007 by The Giddy Tigress

I was on the phone with a total stranger this morning (don’t ask). Anyway, after exchanging the usual pleasantries, she asked, “Why do you sound so sad?”
You know, short of us hearing our voice recording, we never know what we sound like on the phone. So we have to rely on the other party to tell us what we sound like. So well, I told her my sad tone was because it is Monday today. The beginning of a week, with a ton of work glaring back at me, all needing to be completed before the long Raya holiday break this coming weekend. The upside is that THAT is something to look forward to.

I do have a small favor to ask though. Can you make me feel a tad happier today by updating your links for my RSS feed? Last week, I finally got down to burning my feeds using feedburner, in a quest to find out how many people *care* about what I wrote everytime I waxed lyrical about something. Right now, the number of subscribers for my feed is showing up as a big fat ZERO. So could you please just update it? Thanks a bunch!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bury my head in my work…


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