It's quite obvious, my blog has a new face.  And I want to thank nielz for doing such a great job in fixing my blog's template, html and all.  There's no such thing as free lunch, they say, so nielz is now excited for the next payday to come because I promised a movie and a starbucks coffee treat for him hehe!.

Anyway,  yeah! New face-lift, new way of writing stuff, same old home.  I've been using tabulas for 5 years now. And it still surprises me that people (friends and cyber strangers) have time to read and even quote some lines from my poems.  It's both scary and exciting at the same time.  Ok so let me give you a run down of my blog's new look...

1. ENGLISH.  After several attempts, including this one, I really hope i will be able to maintain a blog in English. Don't get me wrong.  I love Filipino.  I will always and forever be in love with our national language.  I still advocate Filipino poetry and will still continue writing and posting Filipino poems.  Now, changing my blog's primary language aims at two objectives; a. as nielz' say it, I need to make my blog "foreigner friendly".  I need to consider that almost a third of my friends are not Filipino.  b. I need to practise writing in English.  I am not perfect (no one's perfect right?) so if you see grammar errors here, just let me know.  I'll edit them and will thank you for taking part on my quest to be fluent in English.  I now work for a communications firm, so it's just fitting that I must be able to write, if not perfect, error free compositions.

2. CARDS.  A lot of times, people would ask me what's KWAHO? So I thought a littlle visual will do. It has always been my goal to change my wallpaper but as I have confessed, I am not really good in tweaking and experimenting templates and htmls. 

3. FACEBOOK. Yeah, there's a facebook like link in each post.  Liking my poems or my entries will be a lot easier now plus you get to share them on your facebook account.  Cool ey!?

4. TITLE BANNER.  again thanks to nielz for the design hehehe.  yeah! now you know that my blog's title is Kwaho: Life's a gamble.  'nuff said!

5. THEME.  Though since inception, my blog has a theme.  But I think with the new banner and wallpaper, it had strongly established its theme and it's all about gambling.  Kwaho is a card game my  mom used to play when we were kids.  It's the same suit of cards used in "saklaans" - an infamous betting game being played in poor Filipino funerals to raise funds to help grieving families with their funeral expenses. The theme is still very Pinoy and close to my heart.  It reflects not only my life, but the very Filipino way of thriving a life that depends on luck and faith.

So there you go! An exciting new chapter of this old blog of mine.  I will be posting more poems and more stories from an aspiring poet and gambler.

Let me know what you think.  Will appreciate your thoughts, comments and suggestions.  If you think I am not doing it write drop me a message or better yet, email me at edzpadillo@gmail.com. You can also leave a message on the message box at the right side of this blog. 

Again, thanks to nielz.  I really hope I will be able to maintain and update this blog as promised. 

Mood :: excited

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