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Senyth — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:42:24 +0000

Weeee! As of today, August 17, 2010, my domain, Rawrbie,, turns one! :P I don’t have much to celebrate today since the contest has been moved to a later date and I’m too preoccupied with Midterms. Gawd, these exams are chasing me. Someone please kill them!

I’m brining some updates though. :P I would have wanted to finish the icon tutorial I’ve been writing since last year(LOL), but I’ll just finish it some other time. :3 Anyway, I made 2 new textures, bokeh or otherwise known as light textures, and lens flare. I’m a lens flare and bokeh lover myself, so making them was actually very fun and interesting.

I recently discovered how to make patterns, so I made a set too, which is assorted by the way. It’s not really a jaw dropping one, since it looks pretty basic to me. LOL. But still, I wanna share them with you.

That’s about it for the updates. I hope you guys wish Rawrbie a happy birthday. :P

The contest is still ongoing so check it out!

This is sort of just a short update so I’ll go back to studying for my oh so long exams, which consist of 1 chapter for TQM, 4 chapters for Ethics for the IT Profession and another booming 4 chapters for Principles of Economics with Agrarian References, which I find really boring. Urgh! So good night, guys!

Jump Then Fall

Senyth — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:49:10 +0000

I’ve been blogging at my other site more often than here lately, so I guess it’s time I should at least introduce my not so newly adopted domain. :D It houses my typography. Well, not the complex typography that uses letters in order to form something. The typography I’m talking about is those typical ones you see often at Tumblr.

Speaking of Tumblr, I used to reblog posts there and barely make mine. But when I do, it’s just those what they call word arts. XD So I collect them at Ginger-Skies and post a little thought about the picture. :P Yes, that’s the domain I’m talking about. Olivia gave me the chance to adopt it last May, though it barely has any content. :O

I haven’t listed all the sites I own, so maybe I’d do that after posting this entry. :P

I hoe you guys know about the contest I’m holding. It would start this Tuesday, but I’ve moved it due to time constraints. I realized a little too late that this week is our Midterms week and you know what it’s like. I’ll be a student dying, bombarded with exams, with lots of chapters to read and understand. Studying is so boring.

See the contest post, guys. I’ve made some smaller banners since some of you said that it looks quite big. Haha. Don’t forget to join! You have at most three weeks from now to do it. :D

I’m supposed to be studying, but look what I’m doing. TTFN! :p

Pixels, Pages, And Oh, Prizes

Senyth — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:09:18 +0000

Edit: I’ve extended the contest since I’ll be busy during the entire week I’m supposed to do it. It’ll be a belated celebration for the domain. You guys can still join until September 5!

Yup, I’m holding a little contest right here to celebrte my soon-to-be one year old domain. :P

Mechanics:

On September 6, 2010 at 9 PM GMT +8, I will post 10 images around the site which would link to certain pages. All you have to do is e-mail me the names of the pixels and its corresponding content. I will accept entries until Sept. 10 at 11 PM GMT +8 so you have four days to do it.

If you’re one of the first three who got all ten correctly, then you win one of the 3 major prizes including a .info domain with a name of your choice, which can be pushed to your Namecheap account if you wish to. The remaining correct entries who didn’t get into the first three will be drawn randomly by name with the help of Random.org.

Prizes

1^st prize: .info domain, a WordPress theme made by me, and a domain hosting by Marina
2^nd prize: .info domain and a WordPress theme made by Erin, and spotlight position in my site for two months
3^rd .info domain and a non-Wordpress theme made by Erin

Consolation Prizes

1^st: .info domain by Erin
2^nd: hosting by Jana and 2 weeks plug in my site

All sponsors will have a place in my Spotlight for 2 months as well. If you want to sponsor this contest, just send me an email to contest[@]rawrbie[dot]com with the subject “Contest Sponsor”.

I will announce the winners on Sept. 11 at 10 PM GMT +8, through this blog and through e-mail.

Simple, right? ^.^

On Joining:

1. Link to this post in your site on every page, using one of the images below. It doesn’t matter where as long as it’s visible.

2. Follow me on Twitter(@senyth) and tweet this entry. Just make sure you @reply me so I could see it easily.

3. Comment on this entry saying you want to join, along with your e-mail address, website and twitter username.

4. I will send you a confirmation e-mail telling you that you’re officially one of the participants of this contest.

On Submitting:

1. E-mail me at contest@rawrbie.com with the subject Contest Entry.

2. Format of the body should be: Name of the image/pixel – Content. E.g., you found a strawberry pixel on a certain page here, and when you clicked the link, it led to a page saying “Senyth loves strawberries”. Your submission would look like: Strawberry – Senyth loves strawberries. Don’t forget to post all 10 of them.

To wrap everything up, I will only accept participants until September 5 at 11 PM GMT +8. And on September 6, the contest will officially start and you can start e-mailing me your entries. Contest will end on September 10 and I’ll announce the winners the next day.

You are, of course, free to express your opinions and suggestions. Don’t hesitate to ask me if you’ve got some questions as I might have missed some points.

Sponsors

Jana

Erin

Marina

Please do visit.

Participants

Katarina

Julia

Pauline

Simone

Erin Nicole

Qi Wen

Khay

Emilie

Kaitlin

For My Baby

Senyth — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:20:23 +0000

Oh, my gosh! I have a baby! Are you guys surprised?

I’m even more surprised that she’ll turn 1 year old this August 17, 2010. Time flies really fast and to think that I haven’t even taken good care of her makes me sad. Sometimes, I’m too busy to attend to her. Other times when I’m not busy, I’m being hostaged by my laziness or procrastination. I’m really sorry, my baby.

If you’re a constant reader of this blog and are wondering why I haven’t talked about her since I got her, well, you’re wrong. I talked about her here, actually and as far as I remember, it was my first post on this site.

Surprised? No, I’m not talking about a real baby, I’m talking about Rawrbie. I actually had just renewed her a few minutes ago just in case I forget and it might expire. I don’t want to lose this domain! Somehow, I’ve held on to this one like a precious child.

I don’t have ideas on how to celebrate it turning one though. I was thinking of a contest and giving a WordPress theme to the winner, but that seems I have to dedicate my time and stop being a lazy ass. Do you guys think I can do it? Or do you have other brilliant ideas to run a contest? Suggestions are indeed more than welcome.

It Took Me Half A Year!

Senyth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:53:55 +0000

After six months of seeing the same layout worn by the site, I finally got sick of it and decided that it needed a new one. I was planning on having a scrapbook-like theme, but for some reasons, I wasn’t satisfied with the PSD site build and it looks really complicated. I might finish it if procrastination don’t win. XD This took me the whole afternoon to make this. The weird thing is I was just randomly downloading patterns and trying it with Photoshop. And hola, this layout was born. LMAO!

What took me long in this one is the navigation. I sort of promised to myself that I would learn or try something new whenever I make a new layout or something. This is the first time I used jQuery and it’s the navigation that took long in making the theme. Well, I’m loving it. BTW, I was finally able to make Coppermine Gallery themes, which I’ve been dying to do ever since I heard of it. Those two are what I’ve accomplished for 2010 in terms of Web Design, and I still wanna learn more. I’ve been planning on learning Drupal or Joomla but I keep procrastinating. Haha.

It’ll be Monday tomorrow, we’re going to have a very long exam tomorrow and I haven’t even scanned my notebook yet. My mom is not yet back from Bohol, which means that my cousin and I will be having turns on the “mom” role. Brrr. Have to wake up at 5 AM so my brothers won’t be late. Good luck to me.

Hey, I Wanna Be A Rockstar!

Senyth — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:26:25 +0000

Whoops! I finally changed the layout. Yay! This took me half a day to finish and I was lucky for my siblings are out playing Computer games at some internet cafe. Haha. Thankfully, I have WordPress installed on my localhost so it made my work faster. I hope the color combination isn’t too mismatched as I really suck at coming up with a good combination. I’d probably have this layout up for a month, which is quite short for me, because the site would look crazy if I still have a Christmas layout even if it’s already February. XD How do you find the layout? Please comment and critique.

Coding the structure of the layout was pretty easy, but changing the styles for the heading, comments and other tags is difficult for me. I know the content is quite small, but I made it so that people with a 800 x 600 resolution could see the whole layout and I don’t like seeing the scrollbars when viewing a site. I have been doing div container layouts for a while and I feel the want to try something new. Do you guys can suggest something aside from using containers?

Anyway, the hearing we went to was pretty boring and disappointing. I was expecting that there’d be a debate between the two parties, but there wasn’t any. And some important persons were absent so there was only one witness who testified. It was only yesterday that I knew that in one hearing, there could be more than one criminal cases to be held. Quite surprising, really. And what annoyed me is that there is this one woman who kept roaming around with a cheesy smile on her face. She was really distracting us and we were already straining our ears because the Judge’s and the lawyers’ voices were so little that only their butts can hear them. _<' class='wp-smiley' />

All of the cases we attended were about possession of drugs, and robbery, which is not a surprise. One of my classmates was really afraid when she saw that there were prisoners in the room. I wasn’t afraid though because I know that they wouldn’t do a stupid thing that would make their sentence even worse. I was appalled and felt pity at the same time at the only aged-woman there. I wasn’t able to make what her case was about, though because I got tired of trying to hear what they were saying, and they were saying things so fast. Brrr.

We didn’t have classes yesterday and I thought today is Sunday, when it’s not. Haha. I can watch Anime and Kdramas today and tomorrow.

Rawrbie Is Launched!

Senyth — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:09:30 +0000

Well, guys! Guess what? This is the domain that I won from Kat’s giveaway and at the same time, my dream domain name. ^.^ This is the reason why I haven’t blogged lately; I’ve been primping this one and preparing it for its glamorous entrance of the WWW. Is it? LOL.

I consider this week my lucky week as we don’t have classes for the entire week, though we’re required to go to school tomorrow and the day after it. That’s why the site is up earlier than I expected. Yay! I’m really lazy in going to school, but I think I should for it’s our Foundation Week, meaning there are lots of activities to join and see, and I missed some of them in the last two days.

It’s this time that I realized how hard it is to move sites and start a new one. Switching hosts also is the same thing, so you can tell that I’m not moving. I’m satsified with Kya’s hosting, and I could not ask for more.

One thing that bugged me while making this was Coppermine Photo Gallery. It wouldn’t let me upload pictures so I eventually gave up. I don’t why what’s wrong with it, but I’ll figure it out later. _<' class='wp-smiley' /> So for now, what you can see here are my icons. If you guys can suggest a gallery for me, I'd be really thankful. :D

I will notify my affiliates regarding the site(Well, if you are one and reading this, you have been informed, right? ^.^) after posting this blog. Teehee. I will REALLY delete the inactive ones who haven't kept in touch with me for the past month this time. I truly appreciate Olivia who recently had undergone a surgery and still would talk to me. I hope her ankle would be fine now.

I have babbled long enough so off I go with the e-mails! Have I bored you much? ;=