The Birth and Death of a New Blog

After a very long hiatus from my blogging, I guess I owe everyone of my dear readers and followers in the blogosphere an explanation for my very sudden disappearance.

Let's just say that I was buy preparing for the birth of a new blog but certain complications such as having major difficulties in finding a great blog layout and confusions in deciding whether I needed a hosting company in the first place.

But after all the preparations and sudden leaps that I have done like buying a new domain and subscribing to a 3-year hosting plan, I've decided to kill my new blog before it becomes too hard to handle. You may compare it to abortion but at least this is not a crime against God and the law.

Anyway I've learned some pretty important blogging lessons from these past few days, very expensive experiences I might add! I've wasted $32 but this is something I can earn again with my blogging.

So before I go with the lessons that I have learned, I just want to explain why I wanted to make a new blog. I wanted to make a new blog because I want a domain name that is shorter than my current domain name and I wanted a .ca extension as compared to the .com extension to show-off my Canadian pride. I also wanted to find another hosting company from my current hosting company that offers greater services at a cheaper or more reasonable price which I did! I highly recommend justhost.com for your hosting needs! And in fairness to JustHost, I really appreciate their Money Back Guarantee so I get a full refund but less $20 for the domain name purchase expenses.

So here are the things I've learned that I think are very valuable to all bloggers out there:

1. 1. If you're like me who can't even update one blog daily, don't ever think that you can handle two or more blogs.
2. 2. When purchasing a domain name make sure that it isn't too long and that it is easy to remember. Decide whether the domain name or blog name, suits your content.
   
3. 3. Think twice whether you need a hosting plan or not. If you're just like me who uses Blogger to blog, then you probably won't need a hosting plan because Blogger hosts your blog for free and all you need is a Domain Registrar for your own custom domain name
4. 4. Don't just import your blog to a new domain. Think twice or even thrice because you will lose your PageRank or worst your readers and followers.
5. 5. Read the fine print in every contract you sign up for.

I know that there are more blogging tips and tricks out there but these are just a few things I've learned through the process of buying a new domain.

Link Exchange

Hi there! If you are interested in a LINK EXCHANGE please do follow these steps:

1. Please place a link on your blog or website with the title "Angel in the Sickroom".
2. Please send me an e-mail at me@edgarvincentbautista.com with the subject "LINK EXCHANGE" and send me your URL address and the title of the link that you would like me to place on my blog list.
3. Please bare in mind that I won't link to a blog that features nudity, obscenity, or anything that is not PG-13 LOL! But seriously none of that stuff. I reserve the right to reject any link that are inappropriate.

Thank you!

And for those guys that I have already have links with, I've updated my links and placed it at the right most corner of my blog.

Who Am I?

Who am I?

My name is Edgar Vincent Bautista. My parents and childhood friends call me Vincent but my present friends and acquaintances know me as Edgar. But I think I'd rather be called Vincent as both my brother and father also have an Edgar in their first name.

I'm 21 years old, single (and available, Lol), a Filipino-Canadian, and I am a student nurse. Well I was in third year college taking up Bachelor of Science in Nursing when I was back in the Philippines but now I'm just chilling while I wait to start my studies this Winter Term at Grant MacEwan as a 1st Year Nursing Student, AGAIN!

The Blogger

As you may have guessed, the Internet is my backyard and I simply love blogging. It is through blogging that I find a release from my day to day stress and it's a way to express myself.

I have been a blogger since August 8, 2004 and I have never stopped. My first post was at my first blog, Grim Angel. I also have a second blog, My Nurses Notes. I had already abandoned both blogs because having many blogs is difficult to maintain and update frequently... what can I say? I'm one lazy person.


A Dreamer

I have a lot of dreams and I want to be more than who I am today so I don't allow anyone to tell me that I can't do anything because no one has the right to trample on my dreams (or anyone else's dream for that matter).

I am an introvert and generally kind and well mannered but if anyone crosses the line and tries to degrade my humanity, I will not think twice and fight back.

If you want to know more about me please visit my profiles at the left panel.

Please feel free to look around. Thanks for coming and you're very welcome to come back ^_^

Happiness

I really love the metaphor used in this little quote and I somehow agree. Sure you must not dedicate all your time and effort in finding happiness because you will just be too tired in your pursuit. And sometimes what we think is happiness is something that is just an illusion or worst something wrong for us.

But I applaud those shiny sunshine people who I get to meet every once in a while because their happy personalities tend to be infectious in a good way. I love how they get to appreciate life and how they find happiness in simple things like the blooming of the spring flowers or a rainbow after the rainstorm.

Although everything that I have planned went all wrong I still think that I will still be able to be happy somehow. Because happiness is after all a state of mind. And we as human beings are capable of altering our state of minds making things better than they really are.

You Just Got to Love Sales!

Don't tell anyone but I'm a shop-a-holic! So you may call this a confession but I'm actually proud of it rather than ashamed because I'm not the kind of person that exceeds my credit card limit every month because I shop too much. I'm actually more thrifty and a very wise shopper. So although I'm a frequent online shopper I always make sure that my purchases are well worth the money even if they tend to be very pricey. I always read reviews of a certain product before I finally decide to buy something plus I always use instant cash off discount coupons or free shipping coupons from bestonlinecoupons.com.

In fact I've saved around $200 when I bought my beloved Dell Studio XPS 13 by using Dell Coupon codes! My brand new laptop is one of my very major purchases online and I never regret spending over $1000 because I've saved so much more by using the coupins from bestonlinecoupons.com.

But I'm not the only one who uses online coupons. The old lady next door happens to be as smart as me as she recently told me that she saves tons of money on Petsmart.com free shipping coupon. She has several pet cats (I don't know why this is a trend with old ladies living alone) and she rarely goes out her home because she's a bit old and she uses a wheelchair so she just buys stuff online.

There are so many hot deals and so many great savings right now in their Hot Online Coupons section and I must say that I am really tempted to go shopping right now but I think I have to pass online shopping right now. Besides, I'm sure that there will still be better deals and coupons to come.