A Review of 5linkers.com

5linkers is an effective traffic exchange site for bloggers. It is called 5linkers because as a member, you have to click 5 links to various blogs to be able to gain points. These points go to your 5linkers profile. You start losing those points every time another 5linkers user visits your blog. To retain your points, you have to keep on clicking the 5 links assigned to you; hence, it's a win-win situation for all 5linkers users insofar as having constant blog traffic is concerned.

5Linkers is an effective source of traffic for your blog or online articles

Aside from opening the 5 links, you may also rate the blogs or sites you visit (you can do this at the blog profiles found at 5linkers.com). Highest rating is 10. You may also leave a comment on the profile you visit. Another highlight of the site is its featured stories. A new blog entry can be submitted as a "story," hence, having the chance of being included on its popular list. The site rewards whoever clicks the most number of links through its Top 5linkers. The more links you click, the better chance for you to be seen by the other users. It also shows the 5 sites with the highest Web Rate Ranking and the new websites registered.

The downside of 5linkers?  You cannot choose the sites you would like to visit and read. For your visits to be counted as points to your profile, you have to do the 5links on your weblist which is shown in your control panel. In other words, 5linkers chooses the sites for you; hence, there’s a big chance that you’ll be reading the same set of blogs the whole time you’re using the site.

I submitted some of my Triond articles to this site and I noticed a dramatic increase in my traffic during the last two weeks. The site accepts only one entry from each Triond sub-site. Currently, these are the Triond sites listed at 5linkers on my profile — Webupon, Authspot, Bookstove, Writinghood, Trifter, Gomestic, Quazen, Picable, Socyberty, Purpleslinky, Cinemaroll, Newsflavor, Sportales, and Beyondjane.  Since I have not written any article for the other Triond sites, you may start submitting yours from  the sites not included on my list (assuming there are no other Triond writers at 5linkers.com).

Using 5linkers.com is like being in a no-strings-attached relationship: you click the link, stay there for 30 seconds, leave the site, and forget about it. You can do several 5links without really reading the entries in some of the blogs, especially those which are not regularly updated. 

Please remember that 5linkers is not for everyone. If you're using Google Adsense or Chitika on your blog, I wouldn't recommend this because your account might be banned from using these online advertising companies. However, if you're just starting with your blog and you want traffic to your site because you either want to collect those flags for your flag counter button or you just simply want to boost your traffic blog stat counter, this site is for you. 

MagWARAY kit! -- A Waray Language Tutorial -- What is Kalugaringon?

In my desire to be faithful to my URL's name, warayblogger, I am giving you this Waray language tutorial. I will start this series with the word kalugaringon. Why kalugaringon? It is because it's one of the Top or Most Searched Words on my Triond dashboard and I figured it's about time to devote one separate post for this word.

Lugaring, which means own (adj), is the root word of kalugaringon. Let me show you some sentences in Waray using the word lugaring before giving you kalugaringon. For easy understanding, I am highlighting the pronouns and their English counterparts.

1. Lugaring ko ini nga desisyon. -- This is my own decision.
2. Lugaring ko ini nga kinabuhi. -- This is my own life.
3. Lugaring namo ini nga balay. -- This is our (hers and mine) own house.
4. Lugaring nato ini nga pulong. -- This is our (yours and mine) own language.

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A new word is formed by adding the prefix "ka" and the suffix "on" to lugaring; hence, kalugaringon which means self. Take a look at these sentences:

1. Hinihigugma ko an ako kalugaringon. -- I love myself.
2. Ato irespeto an ato mga kalugaringon. -- Let us respect ourselves.
3. Kanya ginpalitan bag-o nga kalo an kanya kalugaringon. -- He/She bought himself/herself a new hat.
4. Tutdoi an imo kalugarigon. -- You teach yourself.

Kalugaringon as used in these sentences functions as a reflexive pronoun; hence, it always comes with a possessive determiner or possessive pronoun. The same word can be used as an intensive pronoun as in

Waray sa ak lain nga binulig. Ako la kalugaringon. (No one helped me. I did it myself)

Online Writing Idea # 1 -- Write About Your Hometown

The place where you came/come from can be your own vessel of writing ideas. You may start by writing about your growing-up years in your hometown or about other things close to your heart. The possibilities are endless -- you may write about your childhood friends or you may describe your town market, or probably you may even talk about the local politics in your area.

Sometimes, there are stories that are worth writing about, but the locals fail to recognize their potential. I found one story of this sort in San Roque, Northern Samar, my hometown. We have this plant called bagong or Amorphophallus paeoniifolius which we associate with the Christmas season. Bagong is San Roque's famous Christmas delicacy, yet no one from my place had written about it before my article, Amorphophallus paeoniifolius: A Famous Christmas Delicacy in San Roque, Northern Samar, Philippines, came out. I got the support -- I mean, I had instant readers -- of the residents of San Roque when said article was published online.

A bagong (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) farm in Barangay Bantayan, San Roque, Northern Samar, Philippines.

Meanwhile, if you are as lucky as Ima Vee, a Triond writer who hails from Dapitan City, you can do a lot of interesting articles related to your place. Dapitan was Jose Rizal's place of exile from 1892 to 1896 and being the Philippine National Hero, Rizal is one figure that interests every Filipino.

Relief Map of Mindanao. Rizal made this map in his attempt to show to his students and to the people of Dapitan the map of Mindanao. Photo by Ima Vee.

Ima Vee featured Dapitan's scenic spots in Tour to the Shrine City of the Philippines. One will see Dapitan beyond that particular Philippine history lesson -- that it was Rizal's place of exile -- after reading the article. Not everyone can go to Dapitan for a visit; hence, a write-up describing the place through words and photographs is a great alternative.

A younger Jose Rizal

The same article inspired Ima Vee to write 15 Interesting Things Most Filipinos Don't Know About Rizal. She capitalized on the idea that Rizal was formerly "a neighbor" and wrote about him.

So, what are you waiting for? Explore your hometown, go out for a walk, and talk to people in your place. You might find an inspiration for a topic somewhere. Remember, ideas abound everywhere. You just have to look around, be inspired, and write about it.

Introducing -- A Series of Online Writing Ideas

Since my site is called Online Writing Ideas, I will give you, my dear readers, a series that will feature articles on various topics. Writing may be a very messy and tedious process, but it can be fun at the same time. Witness how each writer attacks his/her subject.

Join me as I talk about these concepts which we usually ignore.Remember that ideas abound everywhere.We just have to look around, be inspired, and write about it.

Unclassified: The Jerk Factor

Why are some people jerks? What possesses someone to act like a jerk? Just how messed up in the head does someone have to be to derive some perverse sort of pleasure from being a jerk? I cannot understand the mind-set in such an individual. So why am I addressing this issue?

Yesterday I had to deal with a jerk -- a total jerk. I won't get into specifics, as we all have to contend with these lower life-forms from time to time. Are jerks born of jerks? Perhaps so. Look -- here's a jerk debouching from the mother jerk! Jerks live on the margins of politeness, circling the drain of total *sshole-ism, and are ultimately bound to plummet into its depths.

Venting? You bet I am!!! 

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When one is basically a happy person, as I consider myself to be, these jerks really stand out. Maybe that's what elicits their jerk-like behavior -- sensing happiness in others, a happiness that they themselves lack.

Did you ever hear of the Peter Principle? Jerks were certainly factored into the formulation of the Peter Principle. In fact the higher a monkey climbs a pole, the more his ass shows!!!

Don't mind me.

I'm stark raving calm.