Lanes Memoir

Win a Trip to Boracay for FREE - Option 4!

2010-09-19T06:39:00.001-07:00

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3 Days / 2 Nights - Palm Breeze Boracay Villa

Enjoy this luxury resort in Boracay located just above Bulabog beach, where you will enjoy the Boracay Kiteboarding and Boracay Windsurfing. Palm Breeze Villa Boracay resort, specializing in pampering their guest with beautiful rooms, delicious food, and excellent service from their professional staff.

Flights to Boracay - Manila to Kalibo Airport via Philippine Airlines

No true vacation package is complete without having the air-fare included. WOW Philippines Travel Agency, Inc. will be including ROUNDTRIP AIR-FARE from Manila to Kalibo and back to Manila. Once you arrive at the Kalibo airport you will be greeted by SOUTHWEST Travel & Tours, and transported to Boracay Island via a tour bus.

Boracay Island Transfers - Kalibo Airport to Boracay (roundtrip)

SOUTHWEST Travel & Tours is the OFFICIAL transport company of WOW Philippines Travel Agency, Inc. SouthWest Travel & Tours has been in business for over 15 years, and is considered one of the safest carriers in the Philippines.

Daily Breakfast – Buffet Style

The winners to this Free Boracay Package will also have included a daily breakfast, served on the deck overlooking the ocean and Bulabog beach.

Boracay Activities - Island Hopping Tour

For one full day our winners will enjoy a tour around Boracay Island that includes snorkeling, as-well as visiting surrounding beaches.(does not include entrance fee into Crystal Cove)

Win a Trip to Boracay for FREE - Option 3!

2010-09-19T06:37:00.001-07:00

3 Days / 2 Nights - Le Soleil de Boracay Hotel

Enjoy this staying at this luxury resort in Boracay located in station 2 where all of the party action is. Le Soleil de Boracay hotel specializing in pampering their guest with beautiful rooms, delicious food, and excellent service from their professional staff.

Flights to Boracay - Manila to Kalibo Airport via Philippine Airlines

Boracay Island Transfers - Kalibo Airport to Boracay (roundtrip)

Daily Breakfast – Buffet Style

The winners to this Free Boracay Package will also have included a daily breakfast, served buffet style at the beachfront restaurant of Le Soleil de Boracay resort.

Boracay Activities - Island Hopping Tour

For one full day our winners will enjoy a tour around Boracay Island that includes snorkeling, as-well as visiting surrounding beaches.(does not include entrance fee into Crystal Cove)

Win a Trip to Boracay for FREE - Option 2!

2010-09-19T06:35:00.001-07:00

3 Days / 2 Nights - Bamboo Boracay Beach Resort

Enjoy this beachfront resort in Boracay located in station 3, set just a few meter from the beautiful Boracay beach, where you will enjoy beautiful Boracay sunsets and music. The Bamboo Boracay Beach Resort specializing in pampering their guest with beautiful rooms, delicious food, and excellent service from their professional staff.

Flights to Boracay - Manila to Kalibo Airport via Philippine Airlines

Boracay Island Transfers - Kalibo Airport to Boracay (roundtrip)

Daily Breakfast – Buffet Style

The winners to this Free Boracay Package will also have included a daily breakfast, a set breakfast will be served at the Bamboo Boracay Restaurant.

Boracay Activities - Island Hopping Tour

For one full day our winners will enjoy a tour around Boracay Island that includes snorkeling, as-well as visiting surrounding beaches.(does not include entrance fee into Crystal Cove)

Win a Trip to Boracay for FREE

2010-09-19T06:19:00.001-07:00

3 Days / 2 Nights - Asya Boracay Premier Suites

Enjoy this luxury resort in Boracay located in station 3, and set just above Boracay beach, where you will enjoy beautiful Boracay sunsets. Asya Boracay Premier Suites is truly a RESORT, specializing in pampering their guest with beautiful rooms, delicious food, and excellent service from their professional staff.

Flights to Boracay - Manila to Kalibo Airport via Philippine Airlines

Boracay Island Transfers - Kalibo Airport to Boracay (roundtrip)

Daily Breakfast – Buffet Style

The winners to this Free Boracay Package will also have included a daily breakfast, served buffet style at the PALAY RESTAURANT, located at the beachfront of Asya Boracay Premier Suites.

Boracay Activities - Island Hopping Tour

For one full day our winners will enjoy a tour around Boracay Island that includes snorkeling, as-well as visiting surrounding beaches.(does not include entrance fee into Crystal Cove)

What is Lanes Memoir?

2010-07-28T09:23:00.000-07:00

Journalism is in my blood maybe that’s why I am here

          Lanes Memoir is basically a combination of my nickname plus the word “memoir” or journal. In short, this is a blog that aims to scribe everything that catches my interests like shopping (Girl’s favorite hobby!), gossips in Hollywood, chart-topping music, cartoons, anime, movie reviews, personal stuffs, health and wellness and absolutely anything under the sun. This might be based on my personal experiences or a narrative report about an event, happenings or any interesting topic I might want to share. Journalism is in my blood maybe that’s why I am here.

          I aim to write the interests that might interest you as well; I hope to make Lanes Memoir, a blog site for everyone where they can get useful information, fun-facts, trivia and current happenings around the globe.

The Birth of Lanes Memoir
Maybe, that’s why most novice bloggers fail. They don’t mind about what they write

Realization

         I woke up one morning with a realization of how boring my whole office routine have become. I am a programmer, a programmer who does 25% programming-related work and 75% doing operations support. I am one of the hundreds of fresh graduates in 2008 who had luckily been accepted in a well-known global IT company who have a habit of doing massive hiring of newbie. At first I felt like I had won $1 million dollars in a lottery, I felt like I am very lucky to have a job that is inline with my course, B.S in Information Technology plus in a well recognized company.

           As they say, if you already have what you wanted, there would be a time that you would seek for something else. Change is inevitable, people change may it be physically or mentally. While surfing the net one day of April 14, 2010 (Personal Trivia: #14 happened to be an important number for me for some reason, I’ll write another topic for this), out of boredom, I opened by Google Chrome browser and type Google.com on the Address bar (Tips: Did you know that in Google Chrome, you can use its Address bar as a search bar. Google is really amazing) I tried searching “part time” work; it only takes 0.17 seconds as the results were displayed. I take a quick scan of the topics, I found Wikipedia ranking one on the search results, followed by the different Job search engines. While checking out on each links, I happened to stumble upon a really new word called “AdSense”.

AdSense and me

          AdSense as described in Wikipedia, is an ad serving application run by Google. Owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and video advertisements on their websites. In short, AdSense is a way to earn money by allowing companies to put Ads in your site. You earn without doing anything, you get paid for every click made by your visitor. Now, who wouldn’t want to have some additional income especially if it’s that easy? Learning about AdSense made me excited, really really excited! I planned my day accordingly. First to be able to enjoy AdSense I must create a Blog site. Then a lot of other things followed, what will be the design of my site, what will be the contents, how can I attract visitors, whew! That’s a bountiful of things to do and think about. I am aiming to be approved of my AdSense application. In less than a week, I managed to complete all the to-dos on my checklist.
I applied and then wait if I get approved, while waiting I tried to pressure myself to just writ
e anything just to add up on the number of blogs I have written. After a month,
my application was denied. Ouch, now that hurts.

I am the bug

          Since I am a programmer my first thing to do is analyze. Analyze what went wrong. After much analysis and debugging (in programmer’s term), I was able to find the bug and that bug is me. It was me; I was coming from the wrong direction. I built Lanes Memoir on the wrong purpose. I made a blog site for AdSense, for me to earn the easy way. I write a bunch of crap that doesn’t really help nor tell something about me or my interests. Maybe, that’s why most novice bloggers fail. They don’t mind about what they write, they don’t think about the relevancy of the topic or the quality of their article as long as they would be able to put in links to this or to that. That in the end will just confuse their readers and mislead them into wrong sites or links. I went into a three-month hiatus; I clear up my mind about AdSense, about my blog and about writing.

The Rebirth
One of the bloggers, Bryan Boy was only 21 yet he had already been invited to several fashion shows by well-known designers such as Marc Jacobs.

          While surfing the net last July 25, 2010, I happened to read an article about some successful bloggers in http://www.vanityclinic.com/2010/02/21/michelle-phan-and-bryanboy-on-vogue-march-2010/. They had become really famous by blogging their interest which is fashion may it be couture or street fashion they have all the latest information. As a mark on their success, they were featured in Vogue magazine, the world’s most influential magazine. One of the bloggers, Bryan Boy was only 21 yet he had already been invited to several fashion shows by well-known designers such as Marc Jacobs. Marc Jacobs even named a bag after him.

          With such inspiring stories, I find myself typing the URL of my blog site which I haven’t visited for the last three months; I slowly type http://lanesmemoir.blogspot.com/ making sure I didn’t misspelled it. Funny but I think I have an early signs of Alzheimer due to my tendency to really forget things. I picked up the pieces then try to start again but this time my goal is different. I will blog to share, I will blog to inspire, I will blog to inform, I will blog to educate, I will blog to help and if there would be blessings along the way then maybe that would just be a bonus.