December 3, 2008

Binisita kami ng aking ina noong isang taon at dumating siya isang araw makalipas ang Pasko.  Tandang-tanda ko pa na nang siya’y aming sunduin sa paliparan.  Natutulog noon si Abby habang karga ng kaniyang ama at sa kaniyang paggising, ang mukha ng kaniyang Mimi ang una niyang nakita.  Agad na napangiti si Abby sabay ang masayang pagsambit ng “Mimi!”.  Hindi kasi namin sinabi sa kaniya na ang kaniyang Mimi ang aming susunduin.

Kapuwa eksayted at sabik para sa isa’t isa ang aking ina at si Abby.  Kitang-kita naman sa ngiti nilang dalawa.

Kahit nang kami’y magtanghalian, sila ang magkatabi.

Pag dating sa bahay, hindi hiniwalayan ni Abby ang kaniyang Mimi.

Mas pinili pa nilang mahiga na lang sa living room kaysa umakyat sa kuwarto para magpahinga.

Hindi pa namin alam kung kailan ang eksaktong petsa ng aming muling pagkikita ng aking ina.  Ngunit nakakasiguro akong sa isang taon iyon.  Kung ipapahintulot ng Diyos ay hindi lang isang beses.  Iniisip ko pa lamang ay eksayted na ako, para sa aking sarili at para sa aming lahat.

Isa pang lahok para sa Litratong Pinoy: Eksayted sa Disneyland

Mabuhay tayong lahat!

Are you a freelance writer?  You’d be pleased to know that through Dragon Naturally Speaking, you’ll have the great opportunity to earn more!  Watch this video and you’ll find out how.

This is an excerpt from a white paper discussing how bloggers can earn more money through several different monetization and freelance writing services. It shows that bloggers that utilize Dragon Naturally Speaking can earn more money through these various services and how fast these extra earnings will pay for the software itself.

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with TextBroker.com Earnings

I would like to walk you through several different scenarios to help all of us understand better what our words are worth.
I would like to start first by talking about a company that pays people to write. They pay them to write based on the number of words that are written. The company is called text broker.com and they are out of Germany and relatively new. I’m starting with TextBroker.com because the business model is very simple. The models will get more complex as I go through some of the other popular blog revenue sources.

Text broker.com will pay a person approximately 7/10 of a cent for a single word. They charge their customers approximately 1 penny per word. And they sell this service at increments starting at 100 words and go up from there.
That’s what they do; now let’s see how Dragon Naturally Speaking can pay for itself!
So, I’d really like to talk about how much you can earn from them based on how fast you type.
If you type 35 words per minute, and you typed for 50 minutes straight, you could theoretically type 1750 words.
Now at seven tenths of a penny per word, that work would be $12.25 per hour assuming that you take a ten minute break every hour. If you work four hours a day doing this, that would be forty-nine dollars per day.
If you could type 105 words per minute, that would be 5250 words in a fifty minute period of time. At that rate, you would earn $36.75 per hour assuming the same ten minute breaks every hour.

Obviously you can earn more if you can type faster.
If you could type 150 words per minute, then under this formula you could earn $52.50 per hour. That’s almost 5 times more than you can earn if you type thirty-five words per hour.
So in this example there is definitely a value in typing faster!
There is a cost associated with being able to type as fast as well. You could go and take a typing class and learn how to type 150 words per minute. That might take you many months of school, and many years of practice.
It’s also possible, that you may never be able to achieve that speed with your fingers.
Alternatively, you could buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking and be able to do it before the night was out. Dragon NaturallySpeaking costs $99 for the basic version and $199 for the preferred version.
As I write this, there are coupon code or discount code offers that you can use to save more money off that price. The coupon codes vary from $25-$50 off the price. Typically a bigger discount is offered for the preferred version, which I use myself.
Now in our example, if you bought Dragon NaturallySpeaking for ninety-nine dollars, and you did not use the coupon code to save twenty-five dollars, you would be able type 150 words per minute, and if you could previously type 35 words per minute, then based on the extra money that you could earn by typing faster, you would be able to pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking in less than three hours of work using textbroker.com.
It kind of seems like a no-brainer. In many ways, it is a no-brainer with one exception. Not everybody writes for textbroker.com.
If you consider how much additional money you might earn by using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and consider how much more work you could do by being able to type at 150 words per minute, then you might be able to figure out how long it will take you to pay off the software with your earnings.
I will cover a number of other situations, which will highlight this using other examples where people that typically write a great deal, could benefit from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
If you have an example that you would like to share, please let me know, and I will be more than happy to share it with everyone.

The full white paper is available here.

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Around this time last year, Abby met Santa during a mall-sponsored activity for the kids, “Breakfast with Santa”.  Santa table-hopped for photo opp with the kids who woke up early on a Saturday just to be with him.  We were at the mall by 9am!

Looking at these photos, I realized yet again how much Abby has grown.  What a big difference a year makes!  We’ll be meeting Santa again in a couple of days.  Abby has decided she wants to sit on his lap and have a picture of the two of them together taken.

Believe me, Abby’s not as scared as she looks.  It’s just an awkward smile moment.  Hee hee.

We were surprised to see that little boys and girls were dressed to the nines for their photo with santa.  This year, we’ll be better prepared.

There are at least three things that MOST girls my daughter’s age (4 years old)) have in common.  One is the love for the color pink.  Another is the love for pretend play…pretending to be princesses in particular!  And third, they have their parents wrapped around their little fingers.   My daughter’s got me under a magical spell. *sigh*

I’d love for her to rub elbows with Disney princesses again, like she did during our July visit to Disneyland.  She had loads of fun then.  Perhaps when we go on one of those Orlando vacations, we can go to Disney World next. *cross fingers*