My good friend Gyutae of WinningTheWeb is running an awesome contest and is giving away a $400 ReviewMe from John Chow. The value of that prize is a big amount of money and will certainly drive your site a lot of traffic!

Basically, the contest will run for the next 2 weeks, WinningTheWeb will display a phrase or words, adding a letter at a time in 11 next posts. These letters of course will only appear in the feed reader, so you need to subscribe to his RSS feed.

Once all the 11 letters unscrambled, you can guess the secret words/phrase, and if you are the first to guess the correct answer, you win the awesome ReviewMe.

Contest Summary:

• Letters will be added to the scrambled message in random upcoming posts on Winning the Web. You must subscribe to the RSS feed to view it.
• To take a guess at the unscrambled word/phrase, you must comment on this post.
• You can guess what the word/phrase is at any time in the process, but only 1 entry per person (by website & ip address).
• You must enter the web site you want reviewed when commenting on the post.
• Winner will be announced Friday, December 21, 2007.

I’m very much excited to this contest. I’ve been subscribed to Gyutae’s feeds for some time now, and this contest is just an added bonus. I’m also hoping that one of my readers can win this contest. That would be an added treat.

My Domain was mentioned in John Chow’s Front Page

I’d like to extend my thanks my good friend Charles of Nierva for giving me the heads up on this. Apparently, my domain was mentioned in John Chow’s post through Gyutae’s blog audit. And currently, I’m getting a boost of my blog’s traffic coming from all sources.

Thanks again you guys. I hope to see more of you here.

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This has got to be the biggest birthday bash ever. If you still haven’t heard, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger is going to give away $54,000 worth of prizes for his Birthday bash celebration.

Check out these two 20″ LG USB Monitors to be given away as part of the birthday bash.

I know this will work well for Darren! Cheers.

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Lets face it, everybody loves coupons. Why? Because you get discounts, a whole lot of discounts. But what’s better than discounts? It’s getting the item 100% Free!

The good news is Everybody Loves Coupons is sponsoring a contest and is giving away a brand new Wii, complete with nunchuks and a brand new Mario Party 8 game. Don’t be fooled by the wierd name, this gaming console packs hundred hours of fun. Unlike the ps3 and xbox360, this game is selling like hot cakes not because they will be resold at ebay, but to be actually played.

How do I enter? Easy! Just write about the contest and link to Ultimate Coupons. Check out the details here.

What You Win:
A brand-new Nintendo Wii which includes:

* Wii system
* Wii Sports game
* 1 Wii remote
* 1 Wii nunchuk
* 1 brand-new Mario Party 8 game

Special thanks to Everybody Loves Coupons for sponsoring the contest. The contest ends October 31, 2007 at 11:59pm ET, so better get your entries in before that time. Good luck to everyone. For those who can’t wait for the raffle draw, please do check out UltimateCoupons for coupon codes and discounts. I’m sure you’ll love it.

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It’s been a while since I have posted on this website. Actually I have been very busy with a lot of new web development projects (I am a freelance web developer and flash artist) that my update on this site has been slower. But once in a while I post new articles especially those that I personally believe in.

What’s with the 100 bucks for 5 minutes of your time? Well, Angel is giving away 100 bucks in exchange of writing a short paragraph of his promotion and linking to his blog. Aside from the 100 dollars that you will be receiving, you will also get a full blog review and a permanent link in Angel’s sidebar. Cool right?

So that’s:
50+ words about this contest in one of your posts with a link to this post.
Stumble: http://worldofangel.com/
Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Another thing I found rest assuring was his post about “Not doing an Ashwin”. Ashwin was a blogger who has scammed a lot of people with his Win a $2500 blog promotion. After a lot of people joined the contest, he announced a brand new blog with only 2 posts as the winner of the $2500. Clearly, the winning blog was made by him or a close friend as not to pay the $2500 to the people who joined the contest.

Rest assured folks, I will not be pulling an Ashwin. There is $100 sitting in my Paypal account waiting to be won. It couldn’t be easier to enter, so get involved.

So what are you waiting for? Deadline is Sunday, September 30. Enter Angel’s contest now and get a chance to win the $100. What do you think? Is it easy enough?

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As some of you might know, McDonald’s Philippines launched the Mac Tonight Mad Dash Event last July 24 in line with their 24 hour marketing campaign. Luckily, me and my classmate, Ralph, got to join the awesome event. Hotel accommodations, airplane fare and food were all sponsored by McDonalds. Not to mention our allowance. It was great.

July 21, 2007
I got a call on my cellphone saying we were the contestants for the said event representing Cebu and our plane was already reserved the next day. It was both shocking and surprising. I called my classmate Ralph and prepared everything we needed for the trip.

July 22, 2007
We finally arrived Ninoy Aquino International Airport and thus our awesome experience began. We took the taxi to Great Eastern Hotel in Makati City where we were reserved by Mam Riclets, the person in charge for our trip. It has been years since we last visited manila so we were not familiar with the roads and places.

Since we took the early flight, we got to the hotel earlier than the reserved time and we got to do some sight-seeing. Cool! We went to Greenbelt and just enjoyed our first day.

Afternoon came and we were required to meet up at the hotel at 4pm sharp. When we met up at the hotel, the room was full of people we didn’t know. They were the other teams, it was very intimidating at first since they were all strangers to us. They took us to a Tower in Makati City for the registrations of the finalists and also for medical check-up, so as to make sure that everyone of us are physically fit to join the race. Pictorials for the event was also done. The registration and medical took time because there were 24 teams with 2 persons each.

In the evening, we had dinner and the press con of the Mac Tonight Mad Dash began. It was spearheaded by the Extra Challenge superstar Paolo Bediones himself. The details of the race, rules and guidelines were thoroughly discussed. Some of the country’s big name celebrities were also present like Tim Yap and Aubrey Miles. Pinoy Big Brother Celebrities Saicy and Robert were also present.

July 23, 2007
The main race event was drawing near and we still can’t find our way through the busy streets of Manila. So we decided to simulate the race with our new found friends. We planned our route in the hotel and did some brainstorming. The simulation was very exciting, we traveled to Las Pinas, then to Alabang, next to Guadalupe and reached The Fort. It was both fun and tiresome. We stayed up all night traveling from one place to another. Thank God for 7/11 Stores.

Brainstorming our game plan.

Third (Yes that’s his name) plotting our route on the map.

Goofing around at a McDonald’s branch in Alabang.

Because the official race begins at exactly 12 midnight. We were required to meet up at 6pm sharp at the hotel and ride the bus to the starting place of the race. We met up the hotel excited for the race to begin while some of us were still goofing off. haha

Me with PBB celebrity Saicy at the hotel.

Goofing around at the room while waiting for the bus.

July 24, 2007
The main event! We went to McDonald’s Las Pinas where the starting line of the race was held. We were given official race jerseys, official McDonald’s cap and sponsored Coca-Cola bags to be used for the race. The rules and regulations were also reviewed. We also had the opportunity to get close with the stars.

Me with Paolo Bediones. Wow! He’s tall!

Goofing around with PBB’s Saicy and Robert.

Me, Mam Ines, Margie, Ralph, Third and Daryl.

Wow! That’s a lot of food!

Ralph and Me doing a challenge with Host, Tim Yap.

Group Picture with the official teams of Mac Tonight Mad Dash 07.

July 25, 2007
The event was over and it was goodbye for most. But actually it was only the beginning for us, the beginning of new friendships. We had a lot of fun and it was really an unforgettable experience.

Joking around with my teammate Ralph.

Last goodbye pic with McDonald’s Trademark Pose.

What do you think of the experience? Would you join the contest if ever there was another Mac Tonight Mad Dash next year? One thing’s for sure, our experience could be summed up with three words. “Love ko toh”

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