Don’t get me wrong. I sooo love Ice. But the combination of pink and technology simply makes me.. kilig. (You know, tingling all over, butterflies in the stomach, eyes twinkling with sheer excitement, weak in the knees, you get the drift.) I’m in love. ♥

So here’s another addition to my ever-growing wishlist.

A Blush Pink Sony Vaio

Can you read the marketing pitch from the image above? It says:

“Celebrate youth and femininity with Blush Pink. Like a yummy confection, it puts a smile on your face. A bright pink accent line, cool Hexa edges, and a dimpled palm rest enhance the fun. Wear matching pink lipstick and nail polish for the ultimate spirited mobility! Make the passionate choice — Blush Pink VAIO C25G/P.” (Emphases mine.)

I never thought I’d see the word “yummy” and “dimpled” in a marketing collateral of a LAPTOP. Oh, and what about that wearing a matching pink lipstick and nail polish for the ultimate in free-spirited mobility thing they’re talking about? Does the laptop become faster or more high-tech when you’re wearing pink lipstick and nail polish? I think they went overboard there but whatdaheck, which girl, in her right mind, wouldn’t want a pink laptop like this?

Fine. I shall not generalize lest some people start raising their eyebrows on me. So I’m only speaking for myself. I think pink is love. And pink laptops is obssession. Haha! I’d love to get one of these.

The Blush Pink Sony Vaio comes with an Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology, Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 80GB HD, DVD±RW/±R DL/RAM Drive, among others. Yeah, I knooow, Vista again. But like I said in one of my posts over there, I don’t mind going through the whole process of degrading the OS to XP again, if it would mean getting the pink laptop to work with Globe Visibility. But that’s another story. Let’s not talk about that right now and try to dwell in the pinkness of things instead.

Now for those who cringe at the sight of pink, you might be interested to know that this Sony Vaio also comes in other prettyful eyecandy colors.

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Blog hopping brought me to this site, where I found this interesting blogger job opening.

Wanted: Wordpress Blogger

Bedzine Inc., a start-up online media and e-commerce company, is looking for blogger who can blog about the latest trends on the following topics:

• Bedzine.com - beds
• Sleepzine.com - sleep
• Mattresszine.com - mattress
• Keetsa.com - Eco-friendly and Green
• sfblogg.com - San Francisco and Bay Area

We’re looking for an experienced BLOGGER, who:

• has been blogging on their own site for at least 6 months
• has a positive and fun personality
• can write at least 10 original entries per day, with pictures, links, and tags
• has an interest in one or more of the topics listed above
• We are looking for someone who can find interesting things fast and also blog fast.

I had to blink a couple of times to make sure I was seeing it right. 10 posts a day? This clearly isn’t just any freelance blogging stint. IMO, ten posts a day is just too much if you have an 8am-5pm job. I once did freelance writing which required me at least 2000 words a day on top of my dayjob, and I’m telling you, it’s not easy at all. Barely three months into it, I realized I had to stop and get a life. I swear I can still remember those sleepless nights…. but okay, let’s not go there. Hehe.

What caught my attention in this particular blogger opening, however, aside from having to blog 10 posts a day about beds and mattresses, is the amount the job is worth.

Compensation is $1000 a month.

Yay. Must be why they require at least 10 posts a day. Hehe! $1000 a month may not be much, but in Philippine currency, $1000 (about 47,000 php) is just about the average compensation of a managerial position in a local company. But inasmuch as I’d welcome any blogging stint (I don’t care if I’ll have to write about beds, or paper clips, or pedestrian lanes), I seriously cannot imagine 10 blog posts a day.

If only I was more of a risk-taker, I’d probably resign from my full-time job, apply for this blogger position, and blog about beds and mattresses my whole life. Then I won’t have to worry about the rent, and gas allowance, and credit card bills. I’ll just stay home and blog. But I’m not a risk-taker. And I still kindof love my job. So I’m not going to let the $$$ blind me.

But of course that’s just me. If you’re looking for a challenging and lucrative blogging job, and you can do it on a part-time basis, then maybe you can do this one. What do you say, Rico?

I was just ranting about my sucky Globe Visibility connection about a few weeks ago. That time, however, I was still considering the possibility that maybe it was just me. Like, maybe our place in Caloocan just happened to have bad signal reception. Or maybe it’s just my laptop that’s got a problem. Lame stuff like that. After all, benefit of the doubt is often a rule in my game.

Until you reach a point when the noise is too loud already, and you know for sure that you’re not being given a fair play. Better than 3G, you say? No one’s paying 2K pesos (plus VAT!) a month for a measly GPRS connection. And what about that “promise” that a plugin that will allow Globe Visibility to work with Vista is underway? Until when are they going to make Vista users wait?

I recently said:

Really now. I can just imagine how many bloggers (and IT professionals) are subscribed to Globe Visibility. Aren’t they aware of what angry bloggers can do?

Angry bloggers -> bad reviews -> bad publicity -> indelible mark (in the form of pages and pages of cached information) to their company brand.

Something has to be done about this.

I know my voice was just too weak to reach the high heavens. But when big names like Bryanboy and Marc Macalua start saying something, and when forum threads start growing in protest of a bad service, be very warned. You better start strategizing your next move to salvage whatever’s left of your image online. Better yet, you better start improving your service and make your subscribers get what they’re worth. And the time is NOW.

So I’m joining these Globe Visibility lobbyists and making my voice count. I’ll update this post as often as I can. If you’re an unsatisfied Globe Visibility subscriber, speak up! Let’s dominate the Google SERPs with pleas for change and improvement. Maybe then, they’ll start noticing.

Www sightings on Globe Visibility:

• Globe Visibility Tipping Point (by Macalua.Com)
• Hold on Visibility (by Mobilityph)
• Invisible Globe Visibility (by Intsik Online)
• Globe Visibility: Customer Service, Third World Style (by Bryanboy)
• Globe Feedback Thread (Tsikot.Com)
• Globe Visibility Support Thread (Tipidpc.Com Forums)
• Why Globe Visibility is not Holding Up to its Promise (by Wifely Steps)
• Continuing Saga with Globe Visibility (by Intsik Online)

Last update: May 26, 2007.

So there. I’ll be clicking the publish button now. Let’s see how many seconds, minutes, before this one gets posted.

Being a girl in a man’s world (there goes that tagline again), I’ve always been an advocate of girl power — of women being exceptional at what they do and excelling in their own fields and in their own rights.

Precisely why pinkseo happened, back when the realization dawned on me that SEO Philippines, an organization of the best and thriving Filipino SEO gurus, needs a touch of pink somewhere in that testosterone-infested world. Hehe. Hence, this site’s participation in the ituloy angsulong keyword ranking contest. Apparently, I wasn’t the only female participant who stepped up, proved a point, and finished the race with flying colors. It was a lovely experience getting to know some of the best female SEOs in the country. (See there? No man would dare use “lovely” to describe an SEO experience haha).

Which is perhaps why female SEOs still never fail to inspire me. And why it thrilled me to find out that Hewlett Packard’s In-House SEO happens to be a woman too. In an interview made by Search Engine Journal, HP’s global In-House SEO Tanya Vaughan was put on the spot.

HP has a few in-house SEOs within various divisions, one is a full-time SEO, but most do SEO as portion of their role, and Tanya is HP’s central SEO hub. Tanya is the dream find for an in-house position; she had been working with HP for several years and knew about SEO, but more importantly was passionate about its integral role in the company’s web presence. Having already been with the company, she was ahead of the game when it came to what I call “the human side of SEO” – she already knew how to navigate through the personalities and corporate politics to get things done at HP. Tanya started dabbling in SEO as a content manager for HP.com, knowing that she wanted her content to be found. She’s a self-taught SEO that successfully works with all the HP divisions across the globe.

Oh wow, and she started out as a Content Manager. Yay! *hint,hint* Maybe I have a future in SEO after all. Haha.

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Who says LA Robe Slip Cases are for MACbooks only? Last Friday, I got one for my Acer Travelmate.

I was contemplating on buying a laptop bag for Ice as I’ve been using ordinary bags to carry her around since I got her. Although I love it that way coz I usually just ride a jeep from The Office to The Apartment, and carrying a black standard laptop case is just too attractive to robbers, I cannot avoid naman her getting all these ugly scratches on her surface as the bags I use to carry her don’t have protective paddings inside.

So I went windowshopping for the perfect laptop bag and found this one instead. Made specifically for MAC notebooks, the LA Robe Slip Case comes in different eyecandy colors, and “is made in a soft, shape-memory material, ideal to dress your notebook in an original fashion while protecting it from mobile life worries.”

When I saw the pink one, I immediately knew it was destiny that brought me there. Teehee.

And who says you can’t use an LA Robe Slip Case for your Acer laptop?

I didn’t bring Ice with me that time, but I’m glad that I followed my gut feel and got a pink one designed for 15″ macbooks even when my Acer Travelmate is only 14″. It fits just right. Now I get to protect Ice from all those ugly scratches, and I can still carry it with style, and with whatever bag I want.

Destiny, definitely.

Key Features:

• Low Resilience Polyurethane (LRPu) Technology
• Robe protection Thickness 5MM
• Trendy, Unique Design
• Inner Lip for maximum protection
• Stand alone or in your bag
• No more Scratchs for your Notebooks

Buy LA Robe Slip Cases HERE. Or, if you’re in Manila, Philippines, there’s this lil stall at Megamall’s Cyberzone that sells all sorts of LA Robe goodies. I got mine there for only P1,900.00! But wait! There’s more!

Nah. No more.