“Adobong Baboy is one of my favorite pinoy recipes.” This post will tell you how I perfected my recipe, “Adobong Baboy”. I tried to prepare it before for several times when I was still staying with my aunts in Malitbog, Southern Leyte but I failed to perfect it (according to my taste preference).

Since the start of our stay here in our rented apartment unit (Maasin City), we haven’t yet cooked our food. We just went to carenderias (restaurant) and ordered the food we wanted to eat. But we couldn’t save money if we’ll continue doin it. We really need to cook our own food.

Early this morning while my wife was still sleeping, I went to the market and bought 1/2 kilogram of pork. I was planning to prepare my favorite “Adobong Baboy”. I also bought a liter of cane vinegar, garlic, black pepper, laurel, oil and a bottle of soy sauce. These are the ingredients which my wife had told me last night. She of course didn’t know that I was really planning to cook “Adobong Baboy” for her.

So much for a story….

I chopped the pork into cubes as you can see on the photo below:

Looking at them, I realized that the sizes of the pork cubes were too big. So I chooped them again into smaller sizes.

By the way, here’s what I did according to what my wife has told me last night.

1. Fry the pork cubes until it looks brown.
2. Add 1/2 cup vinegar, 1/4 cup soy souce, 2 to 5 leaves of laurel, chopped garlic and black pepper.
3. When the liquid is about to dry, add 1/4 or 1/2 cup of water and continue cooking for about a minute.



4. Serve it.

To summarize the ingredients:

• 1/2 kilogram pork
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 cup water
• 5 leaves of laurel
• 1 sachet (market retail) black pepper
• 1 garlic

And the result is the perfected “Adobong Baboy” (with perfect taste according to my own taste preference).

If only you’re here, I will let you eat my “Adobong Baboy”.

P.S.

By the way, have you seen a dog riding the Honda XRM motorcycle? I’ve seen one and I wrote a story about it at my “Motoristang Pinoy” blog entitled, “Dog Rider“.

Yesterday, my wife and I went to Toyota Cebu-Mandue to buy my ‘dream car‘.

The oil prices are soring high. Some car owners sold there luxury cars and bought smaller cars like multi-cab and similar cars just to save few PhP from the car’s fuel. However, there are would-be car owners who are not discouraged by continuous increase of oil prices and they are still eager to buy a car, not just a car, but their own dream car.

What’s my dream car?

Well, I am not that ambitious. I am not dreaming to own a very expensive gas-driven car. Iam not even thinking of buying a sports car. I am already contented with the Toyota Fortuner. Uhummm….

Toyota Fortuner is already considered a luxury SUV but it’s cheaper than other luxury vehicles. According to the Toyota Philippine website (click here), A toyota 4×2 Fortuner with G 2.4 Diesel Engine, Automatic Transmission is worth PhP 1.4M. The price of the Toyota 4×2 Fortuner with G2.7 Gas Engine, Automatic Transmission is PhP 1.3M. And the Toyota 4×4 Fortuner with V3.0 Diesel engine and Automatic Transmission is only worth PhP1.6M.

The features of the 3 Toyota fortuners mentioned above were almost the same. So, my wife and I decided to take the Toyota 4×4 Fortuner especially that the dealer’s showroom has it already. However, it would be better if there’s a Toyota 4×4 Fortuner with Authomatic Transmission but is already driven by a water (water powered cars). After few signing of documents and handing of the check (the money was supposed to be from my blogging income), we went home immediately here in Maasin City. The car will just be delivered to us by the Toyota-Cebu dealer for free.

However, just this morning, I realized that I couldn’t drive the purchased Toyota 4×4 Fortuner because the said car remains my dream car and what has happened yesterday was just in my dream.

I’m sorry but everything is just a dream.

Water can really be used as fuel for car engines. But lot of people don’t believe it based on their knowledge on Physics and Chemistry. …

Actually, I was still in elementary grade when I first heard about a Filipino inventor who invented a device that convert water into fuel for car. And I am always reminded about this invention everytime I refill my Honda XRM motorcycle with gasoline. I always wonder, when can I make my motorcycle run using water as fuel. But it’s Brother Macuha who told me through his post, “Daniel Dingle’s Water-Powered Car“, that this Filipino inventor is Daniel Dingle.

Actually, I was not interested to write about “water powered cars” even when I read Macuha’s post. Only the ad displayed at my Songs Lyrics blog urge me to write about it.

Water4Gas Technology

Water4Gas is the advertiser of that ad. It’s a technology that converts water to fuel that can drive cars and trucks without ruining our environment, and let everyone save money compared to when using fossil fuels. The processes, theories, or principles behind this are similar to the ones used by the Filipino inventor Daniel Dingle. The only difference is that Water4Gas Technology is under the “open source” policy, which means anyone can use it freely, make duplicate of the device, or even make money from it.

The Water4Gas company is not paying me to write this. I just want to inform you that you can really convert your own car into water-fueled one or just let your mechanics do it for you. What you need to have is the knowledge on how to work for it. For now, you can try the books from the Water4Gas or visit their website (click here). But before buying their books, investigate first if this company is not scam. I haven’t tried buying their books so I am not sure if they’re legitimate.

Bloggers who realized already the importance of the search engines on getting valuable traffic for their blogs really work hard to learn how to get the top position of the Google Search Engine Results. Macuha, Jezhlau and their followers do the so-called keyword hacking. Some still do the link exchange scheme or link train type of harvesting links. These things are few of the ways used by bloggers and other webmasters in trying to get the top position of the Google SER.

I learn few SEO technique. But since Google and other search engines’ algo changes from time to time, then some of these techniques are already obsolete and considered spamming. So, I also need to update my SEO knowledge by reading websites and blogs related to SEO, or read books released in prints.

Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings — and Stay There

Last month, a new book that will tell us some secrets on how to get to the top of Google SER was released at the Amazon Online Stores.

Book review by the Publisher

Search Expert, David Viney, provides his top 5 tips to improve the search ranking of your business.

Court the Crawl

Don’t bother with paid search engine submission services; they’re now obsolete. If you have at least one link from another website, the search engine spiders will list you eventually. 90% of the market is controlled by the big 4 (Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask.com).

More important today is that all your pages carry the right weight (on Google, called “PageRank”). Make your site structure like a tree; the home page is the trunk, your categories the branches and the pages the leaves. Make your tree (a) symmetrical rather than lopsided, and (b) don’t have too many branch levels before you reach the leaves. Less is more!

Find Phrases the Pay

What do you want to be top on Google for? Don’t limit your ambitions to being top for the name of your business, but target instead searchers looking generally for services you offer.

The key is to research the popularity and competition for each search phrase. As an example, did you know that people search for “rugs” four times more often than “carpets”, but that carpets features on twice as many pages? There are a number of keyword analysis tools on the web that help you find these “phrases that pay”.

Target the Long Tail

Some phrases, like “mp3 player” are very competitive! Try targeting the longer phrases, as demand for these falls more slowly than supply!

For example, ranking well for “ski chalet Chamonix child care” is likely to be easier than “ski accommodation France” (and get more conversions)Prime your Page

The best-known part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is SEO copywriting, the art of writing content that both humans and search engines love.

Realize every part of the page is read by the spider, including the full URL (or page address).

The most important page elements are the page title, the full URL and the page headings.

Remember 3 rules; (a) prominence, (b) proximity and (c) density. Put your keywords nearer the front of a text block, keep them together and make sure they appear often.

Landing the Links

The Google algorithm gets tweaked often but retains a simple principle; sites that get mentioned often by others (on a topic) will rank better on that topic! You need links from other sites in (a) quantity, (b) quality and (c) containing the keywords or phrases that you want to be top for.

If you write great content, others will naturally find it and link to it over time, but you can speed this along through listing on directories, forum participation, article submission, online press release publication, and exchanging links with other webmasters. KEY FACTS Do not doubt the size of the prize on offer; It has never been as vital to top the search engines as it is today! 40% The U-Switch forecast for the percentage of all sales online by 2020. 90% Percentage of site visits that originate from the top four search engines 80% The Market Share of Google on most industry measures 84% Of users never go beyond the bottom of page two of the Google results 65% The percentage of users who never click on sponsored (or paid) ads

From the Back Cover

The vast majority of searchers never make it past page two of Google or click on sponsored listings, so being at the top of the standard search results can literally transform your business. Having your site in the top 10 is like having a store near the entrance of the largest shopping mall in history, while if you’re outside the top 20 you could experience the frustration of an empty shop with few visitors and poor conversion rates.

Search engine optimization (or SEO for short) involves making it easy for search engines to find your website and boosting your position in their rankings. Get to the Top on Google is the first book to address all aspects of search engine marketing comprehensively through a simple, seven-step methodology, tried and tested with clients small and large, including Amazon and Microsoft. Designed to be accessible for the beginner but comprehensive enough for the skilled marketer, the book is illustrated with global case studies and covers emerging ideas in Web 2.0, local search optimization and the future of search itself.

Discover how to attract searchers with the phrases that pay, how to court the crawl of the Google spiders, tips for copywriting and link building, how to target the long tail, and techniques for tracking and fine-tuning your campaign to make more money online. This book could be the best investment you ever make in your website and your business.

Great Tip

But there’s no other tips that can be better than the tips given by the Google Guy because he knows everything about Google and its search engine’s algo. Listen to an interview made:

Found this video from Gl3nnx. Also published at Matt Cutts blogs.

Matt Cutts (the Google Guy) emphasized that his tips on this video are for the beginners not for the advanced marketers. But it is still useful to advanced marketers who are still practicing old and rejected ways of SEO.

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