More Awards and Tags

I appreciate every blog awards that I've received from my fellow bloggers. Now, I am posting and sharing the tag and the awards that I received a week ago.

Thanks to Rochelle of Femme Power for the One Word Tag and the Over the Top Award and to David of Basic Bloganomics also for the One Word Tag and the Spread The Love Award.

One Word Tag

Here’s how it works: Use only one word! It’s not as easy as you might think. Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to use only one-word answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? table
2. Your hair? colored
3. Your mother? powerful
4. Your father? smokes
5. Your favorite food? chocolates
6. Your dream last night? none
7. Your favorite drink? water
8. Your dream/goal? travel
9. What room are you in? bedroom
10. Your hobby? blogging
11. Your fear? loss
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something that you aren’t? harsh
15. Muffins? corn
16. Wish list item? house
17. Where did you grow up? Manila
18. Last thing you did? eat
19. What are you wearing? T-shirt
20. Your TV? on
21. Your pets? none
22. Friends? many!
23. Your life? beautiful
24. Your mood? grateful
25. Missing someone? grandpa
26. Car? parents
27. Something you’re not wearing? makeup
28. Your favorite store? SM
29. Your favorite color? red
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? months
32. Your best friend? hubby
33. One place that I go to over and over? mall
34. One person who emails me regularly? client
35. Favorite place to eat? Sbarro

I am sharing both awards and tag with my fellow bloggers :

Blog Appetite
It's a woman's world!
Mom from Manila
The Power of Housewife Word of Mouth
The Life of a Breadwinner
Everything Nice!
Grampy and You
Sale, Promos, Events
BitterSweet Life
It's not always about me...

Award Rules:
1. Copy the badge and put it on your blog.
2. Link back the person who passed you this award.
3. Spread the love to at least 10 or more bloggers.

Lovely Blog Award for A Woman Remembers

I've seen different blog awards being given and passed around the blogosphere. I have never realized how good it would it feel to receive a blog award until I received one from a mommy blogger, Crystal. Her blog site is really worth visiting! This is my indeed my first blog award and really appreciate this. I am deeply honored.

Lovely Blog Award Rules:
1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

I've seen a lot of blogs that are really lovely and I could have passed this on to every blog that I had visited, but I have to stick to the blog rules. So now I am passing this badge to my list of newly discovered blogs... and I'll be adding them in my blog links too!

Heart of Rachel
Straight From the Heart by Mommy Elv
Pinay Mom Blogs!
Sassy Mom's Corner
Bitz 'n Pieces of my Life
Chicken Heart
The Power of Housewife Word of Mouth
Femme Power
It's a Woman's World
Homebody.com
Mom's Place
Basic Bloganomics
From This Side
Life of a Filipina Blogger
JC in da House

It was May 11 when I received this blog award, and I should have posted this as soon as possible. Whew, I really need more time!

Plagiarism in the Blogosphere

Plagiarism also exist even in the blogosphere, maybe even more. I decided to grab this tag when I happen to pass by Mom's Place blog; followed where she got the tag and learned more about a situation regarding plagiarism on Basic Bloganomics of David Funk. These are the situations where I couldn't help but feel upset. I wonder why some people make use of another persons post or article and claim that it was theirs; more so, get paid and take credit for having it published. It is just right to give credit where it is due and let other people know the source of the article or material.

I also had my share of these experiences as well, with my words being copied and imitated. Never did I gave much thought to it, instead I have chosen to let it pass and think that I had just been an inspiration. Just recently, I've read an issue of a fellow mom who had a plagiarism issue with one of the magazine, Moms and Kids. It's the same magazine issue where my blog post got published too. Plagiarism is indeed a big issue!

What is Plagiarism?

According to Dictionary , Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.

To all Bloggers who exert effort to create noteworthy entries and who continue to maintain a Blog which is a reflection of who she / he is, ” Good job! ”
To those who have the desire to Blog but are merely scraping contents from other people‘ s materials, ”Whether you are monetizing your site to help you with your basic needs or to satisfy some of your wants, do it the proper way. Stop making money out of someone else’s work. Otherwise, you are nothing but a common thief! ”

Thank you!

Feel free to grab this tag and post this in your blog site as well.
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... which reminds me that I still have another blog tag to post and blog links to update.