Leyte Blog Network - Everything and anything about the southern Philippine province of Leyte

Don't be alarmed! The MMOsh Pit is my latest blog and its joining the Leyte Blog Network comes at a very critical time as my contract with international blog network b5media has just expired.Now armed with the free time I didn't have while I was writing for b5media's MMOtaku blog and a company that specializes in search engine optimization, I am confident that I would be able to bring Leyte Blog Network and all its attached blogs to new...

In my latest posting on the blog Pinoy Journeylist, I talk about my struggle with insomnia and what I do to either cope with it or ride it out. Are you also experiencing insomnia? What do you do whenever you find yourself rolling around on the bed for hours on end?The posting entitled Sleepless In Leyte enumerates the different ways a person can alleviate the stress of sleeplessness or simply stay awake and away from boredom until exhaustion...

If you've visited this blog before, I'm sure you are now noticing the sudden change in its theme. The transformation, from Falcon Hive's Blogger adaptation of the Wordpress theme Magasin Cuatro to the Monezine Blogger Template designed by Jinsona Design and coded by CahayaBiru, is actually still ongoing as I make adjustments to the new theme to accommodate the old content.The new theme, otherwise known as Zinmag Monezine, is a brown stylist template suitable for the money-making blog niche. Equipped with 728-pixel width ad spaces,...

I've been having this daily discussions with my mother-in-law, a head teacher at the Sagkahan National High School in Tacloban City, about the readiness of Leyte province for the May 2010 automated elections in the Philippines, and the conclusion is almost always the same—that we will just have to make do with whatever we have.Being a teacher, dear old MommyLa, known to friends and family as Imelda, Mel or Imee, she is bound by law to help...

If your answer to the above question is "Yes," you should not take the first symptom of infection for granted, says the blog Ceskypooh's World.Here's an excerpt from the latest posting on Ceskypooh's World:When we checked Cesky's temperature with our trusty mercury thermometer, we found out that her fever wasn't common as it had already hit 40 degrees Celsius. Adding to our worry was the fact that she had been coughing the entire morning and that she claimed she felt pain in her head.Although some of the symptoms pointed at...

Now here's a bit of news that Leyteños can be proud of: Two of the Top 10 passers of the November 2009 licensure examination for nurses are from Region 8, one of whom is from Dulag, Leyte.Mary Kristine Teraza Labanta of Dulag, Leyte, a graduate of St. Scholastica's College - Tacloban, placed 10th in the nursing board exams, while Samareño Dickson Arasa Laude of Talolora placed 3rd.According to Dr. Antonio Lim, dean of the St. Scholastica's...

The blog Pinoy Journeylist has just been updated. The latest posting tackles, albeit superficially, the topic of social networking and its importance to websites and blogs in today's world.Here's an excerpt from the blog post:I have discovered that most news sites that carry information about Leyte, even those owned and managed by large media organizations or the Philippine government, do not present ways on how to share content. What gives?In today's fast-paced, information-driven world, websites and blogs should be equipped...