Blogtober Challenge 31: Passing It On

Welcome to the LAST post of the Blogtober Challenge!!!!!

Finally, whoo. That was the most exhilirating month ever!
May I celebrate now? Yeah? I can? Realy!? YAY!
*Party poppers burst*
* Fireworks blaze*
*Flash mob dances*
*A feast is served*

So, yeah, just a small celebration.

For my final Blogtober post, I want to share the Blogtober legacy. The last challenge is that I give some blog post ideas. Let me do some tweaking.

I will share with you a new monthly challenge that you can try yourself.

I call it the Slambook Challenge.

Here is how it goes.
You know those little answer books that we used to force our friends to fill up? It contains details of their likes, dislikes, beliefs and a message to the owner of the book at the end. In the Philippines, we call it a slambook or an autograph book.

The point of the Slambook Challenge is that a slambook question will be posted. Based on the question, the challenger will post a minimum of 500-word entry for that day. There is an option for a daily challenge for a month. There is an option for a yearlong challenge wherein there will be 12 challenges per month and four posts must be done for that specific challenge month.

For example, the question is “What is your favorite color?” Now, based on that question, you have to post a 500-word entry. The challenge is to think out of the box because how can you say that blue is your favorite color in a minimum of 500 words?
If you are a lifestyle blogger, then you can expand the post by writing about the psychology of color and its relevance to a person’s mood.
If you are a fashion blogger, then you can post your fashion items in a specific color or the trendy colors for the season.
If you are a cooking blogger, then you can post recipes using oranges or a specific color group.
If you are a mom blogger then maybe you can post about the color swashes that you use on your kids annd how they react to them.
If you are a review blogger then you can post a review for a title with a color in it (Orange Is The New Black, The Colour Purple, Yellow, R.E.D)
If you are a health blog then you can post the significance of color in different medical situations.

These are merely suggestions on how you can fulfill that 500-word entry. Of course, if you can explain your favorite color in 500 words then  that works too.

The 31 Slambook Monthly Challenge Questions

1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your gender?
4. When is your birthday?
5. Where do you live?
6. How many siblings do you have?
7. How did we meet?
8. Who are your friends?
9. What is your favourite color?
10. What is your favourite food/drink?
11. What is your favourite movie?
12. What is your favourite song/singer?
13. What is your favourite book?
14. What is your favourite quote?
15. What is your favourite school subject?
16. What is your favourite fashion item?
17. What is your favourite holiday?
18. Who is your favourite celebrity?
19. What are your hobbies?
20. What are your interests?
21. What are your fears?
22. Share a memorable experience.
23. Who is your crush?
24. Define love.
25. Define life.
26. What is your dream job?
27. What is your superpower?
28. What is your life-long dream?
29. If given all the opportunities, where do you want to go for a vacation/migration?
30. Are you happy?
31. Dedication

The 12 Yearlong Slambook Challenge Questions

1. What is your name?
2. When is your birthday?
3. Who are your friends?
4. What is your favourite color?
5. What is your favourite movie?
6. Who is your favourite celebrity?
7. What is your favourite school subject?
8. What are your fears?
9. Define love.
10. What is your life-long dream?
11. Are you happy?
12. Dedication.

That is it.

The Slambook Challenge

This is my last post for the Blogtober Challenge. This is me giving an opportunity for other bloggers to experience the same love, support, pride, frustration, stress, happiness, and fulfillment that I experienced while doing this challenge.

Thank you for supporting me. I invite you to try this challenge, or the one that I had just created, or just a challenge. Will you?

Blogtober Challenge 19: How To Make Scrambled Eggs

I don’t know how to cook. But, I love breakfast food. I could eat breakfast all day. (Yeap, take down notes, boys)

I can cook breakfast food. That is because the recipes can be found behind the box of flour or whatever and as long as you make that then whatever you add to it is still acceptable. Breakfast food is very open to interpretation and adaptation.

So, for today, I am tasked by Blogtober to share my favorite recipe. This is the only one that I have mastered (only recently). Let me put on my imaginary chef’s hat and I will teach you how to make scrambled eggs.

SCRAMBLED EGGS, yes, you read right.

Oh but these are not just any kind of scrambled eggs. You can’t physically eat them. But, it will satisfy you nonetheless..

Blogtober Challenge 12: Too Early To Tell

This is the 12th Blogtober Challenge. The awkward thing about this is it that it gives the task that I share how I have been since I started to blog.

As it was emphasized every now and then, this is a new blog. This blog is so new that I wished that this task was scheduled for the end of Blogtober. But, I guess, that is the challenge to that.

In a span of less than a month, I did see a change.

1. I became busier. As if six hours of sleep is enough. Let me try three hours.

2. I learned to be more patient with unfortunate occurrences.

3. I was socializing again. A shootout to all of my new friends.

4. My mind is imagination-hyperdrive. It is consistently finding something blogworthy. With Blogtober, it is always thinking of how I could successfully fulfill each challenge.

5. I learned to be critical. I learned to think of my own opinion on different issues.

Apparently, my mind and body is pushing itself to get more involved with life ever since the first blog post. I am frighteningly excited about how much I can change if I continue on to blog?

How did blogging change you? Have you experienced a major adjustment in your life and fins yourself overwhelmed at how much you can give yourself to it? Share your thoughts.

Blogtober Challenge 9: Sending In The Welcoming Committee

I am already nine days into the challenge. Can you believe it???? Nine days!!! I almost lost my streak too!

With much love and support, I pursue on and today’s task is about creating an introduction post to new readers.

There are things that I decided upon as I was making this post.

1. I decided to turn the post into a permanent page on the site.

2. I started writing as a roleplayer on Kik and Instagram. So, I felt it appropriate to start the new readers by engaging them in something that I know that I am good at. That is to create roleplay starters. Besides, I started as a roleplayer then I might as well introduce the blog via roleplay too.

3. I used a dog as a representation of myself in the roleplay. This maintains the anonymity and the flexibility of my identity as the author of this blog. Also, this serves as homage to Barney, our first family dog. He was a white shih tzu with brown spots. He died a few months ago after almost five years of being with us.

Now, I present to you my introduction post.

Hope you like it. Tell me what you think!

Blogtober Challenge 7: Struggling to Name My Blog

Who would have thought that I could continue on my Blogtober Challenge streak? This is considering that I was on layover on Melbourne for the past five days. This meant that I had early morning wake-up calls and late-night arrivals at the hotel. I have to admit that I have written the last two Blogtober Challenges while my eyes were half-closed and my brain half-asleep. Forgive me for its poor execution.

Well, now that I am back in the Philippines, I am alive, alert, awake, and enthusiastic. Yeap, that’s an old nursery rhyme. And yeah, I’m also convincing myself that I have already recovered from the lack of sleep.

For today’s challenge, I was to share about how the name of my blog came to be. This is the story of Struggling To Be A Human Being.

Blogtober Challenge 4: Tick tock, Life Runs Out

Who would have know that I can survive four days of this blogging challenge. The question for today is “What is left on your bucket list?”

Lucky for me, I just had written an official bucket list of mine a few months ago. I always thought that lists like that and New Year resolutions are something that should not only be put in paper. I had no plans of making any bucket lists. That was before the time that I could see that I will not accomplish anything “bucket list” worthy. My perception started to change when I was already on my first job. Funny how the feeling of working hard, earning money, and providing for the family can change a person. Next that I knew, I had this feeling that I could accomplish anything. I had received this hope that I could actually amount to something. This is my hope of living a life well-spent. So, I decided to write my initial bucket list a few months back. Who knows? I might add some more. I thought that it was about time.

Blogtober Challenge 3: White Girl Scout Cookies

My white go-to essentials

Hello to the third day of my Blogtober Challenge.
Today, I am tasked to share my everyday essentials.

I technically do not have any everyday essentials. What I do have are things that are essential to me based on where I use them. (Art, photography, going out, writing)