The Metro Diary

Okay, over the past year, I've been gathering feedback and suggestions about my blog. One of the biggest "problems" with my blog is that the blog author/owner was too inconsistent on scheduling posts. In fact, I didn't have a schedule at all. Whenever I had time to write, or something to write about, I would go on Blogger and make a post. The people I've talked to (my friends, teachers, and others) told me that I should make a schedule about when to release posts on 2015—and so I did. So, the schedule is that I will publish 3 post per week, one on the start of the week (which is Monday for me), one at the middle of the week (Thursday), and one at the end of the week (Sunday). Also, after hearing some feedback, I decided to bring back the "dearly missed" post series called " The Weekly Potato " with a new agenda and new objective in mind. I can't tell you yet, but the series will be revamped and "modernized" for this year, and I...

My blog back then. My blog now. I don't have a screenshot of my very first blog layout, sorry. Anyway, happy birthday, The Metro Diary! My blog's actual "birthday" was on October 8th, to be honest. I kinda got pushed back because of my laptop's old hard drive failing, me just being lazy, and other reasons. Sooo..yeah, it's been quite a ride, actually. I started out with nothing and here I still am, with nothing xD Well, I have a blog and a few readers, that's gotta be something, right? Back then, I started out with only a few people visiting my blog, now I got more people, I won't specify how much, visiting my blog. I would like to thank the SONEs who have visited my blog in search for links to Tiffany's Xanga blogs and for everyone else who helped me out looking for Tiffany's old Xanga blogs. To celebrate, here's that picture of that ever-so-perfect  chocolate cake: Hopefully, when my blog turns 2, I wil...

Okay, after asking some of my friends, I've noticed that my blog looks so different on Google Chrome 64-bit . After visiting my blog using Google Chrome, I've realized that it did look different. (Well, the fonts for post titles did.) I didn't know that it looked different because I often used Internet Explorer. Because I use Internet Explorer often (well, Internet Explorer 11 for Windows desktop, to be exact), I designed my blog for IE. (Sure, I added a scrollbar for Google Chrome users, but I didn't really need that in IE and it's just eye candy for some.) [Update 1] This is how my blog is supposed to look like now: Here's a screenshot of how my blog is supposed to look like: Because I designed this blog specifically for Internet Explorer 11, you will see this blog in a much more better quality when visiting this blog using Internet Explorer. In the following screenshots, I will show you how my blog looks like from 3 differen...

This post is part of a series about the things that happened in Apex 2014. What is Apex? It is a 9-day long "meeting" similar to a Summit meeting . It is a time where I gather my thoughts and look back at the things I've done in the past and find out where I went wrong. During this period, I also make several plans and agendas for the things I will do in the near future. About the event Apex starts on the first day of August, August 1, and ends on the 9th of August. On these days, I will be making critical adjustments to my current life, lifestyle, relationships with friends, and so on. Goal My goal is simple: Look back at my life and correct the mistakes I have made so that I will not repeat the same mistakes over again. Welp, it's official. I've finally made a blog on Tumblr! (: Sure, it's got a basic design and it almost exactly looks like this blog. Oh, and I'm not leaving Blogger/Blogspot, I'm just making another blog for no pa...

College. Ah yes, college. Since I'm a high school senior now, I guess I have to focus more on my chances in applying for a great college, not good, but a great college. This means I have to "ramp down" MOST of my Internet-based activities like instant messaging, sending emails, online gaming, download, playing games, and a lot of other stuff. Blogging is an exception, of course, and so is reading news and articles about Windows, Microsoft, Nokia and the latest advances in technology. I'm seriously going to dedicate over 9000 of my strength to purse my dream of becoming...a good programmer/website designer/graphics designer or whatever job I want to be in. My blog also helped me hone in my skills in webpage designing, even though I was mostly using the Blogger theme editor, it's still a start. Not only that, this blog has also helped improved my fluency in the English language. Even though it's not perfect or "semi-perfect", it'l...

I'll make this quick 'cause I don't feel like making a long post now :P It was all of the sudden, I know. I was supposed to launch this theme/design next week but then I thought, "Why not launch this theme now? I don't see anything wrong with it. It worked fine in Adobe Dreamweaver and it's fully compatible with Internet Explorer , Google Chrome , Mozilla Firefox , Opera and Tor Browser , what are we waiting for?" So, yeah, I decided to apply this theme. I just actually made a second revision of the background picture. I "fixed" and added a few "enhancements" to the picture to make it look...good, I guess. And.....welp....that's it. Seeya! [UPDATE] Just out of boredom, I decided to redesign Elaine's other blogs too! I had nothing to do so I switched the templates of her blog, that's why Elaine's main blog has a library-like theme and her other blog (that she doesn't use much) has my Mr Mr theme :D H...

Sorry if I've been "off the radar" for a while, I was busy with school-related stuff and activities and I was just "immersed" in planning and preparing my senior year. I'm graduating this year so there's a lot more pressure and a lot more I need to do to get to a good college university. I'm, uh, actually planning to redesign this blog once again with a black theme, the usual. I've also been working on a playlist called "Reading" and I'm planning to add that playlist in this blog soon. This blog still has room for improvement and I'm hoping that I can be able to dedicate more of my time to this blog for repairs, fixes, the whole set. As for my plans in school, I've already laid them out back then in summer. I've been thinking of my best options and the best "route" to take in my senior year. The first part of my plan was to join the school newspaper and become an editor there. (An opportunity that +Glacier...

Heya! I was "surfing around" different Xanga profiles/blogs and I've found a questionnaire that I found a little interesting. I got this questionnaire from BaByxBiAtChSta , one of the girls who has subscribed to Tiffany's Xanga blog. Once again, I did not find this in Tiffany's Xanga blog, I got it from the Xanga blog from one of her subscribers. Why am I doing this? Well, I just want to ummm...answer a few (all) of the questions here because I want to see what Tiffany used to do, what she felt when she was using Xanga and whatnot. Welp, here goes nothing. By the way, if I have the same answer as this girl, I'll leave the original answer unchanged and continue with the next question. GOT DIS SURVEY FRUM HELENZ PAYGE:: B A S I C Q U E S T I O N S [my name is]: Everyone here knows me as Lance Anderson . [in the morning i am]: Either online watching movies or I am sleeping [all i need is]: MUH LAPTOP [if i could see on...

I did it. I really did it. I FUCKING DID IT. I REALLY FUCKING UPLOADED TIFFANY'S XANGA BLOG TO BLOGGER! If you don't understand what I'm talking about, please check out the screenshot below or to go my other blog,  http://bbyxinnocenz.blogspot.com/ to see for yourself: I've just uploaded the Tiffany's Xanga blog and edited it a little to comply with blogger standards and whatnot. I'm not yet done restoring it to its "original state" and I've haven't fully recovered Tiffany's Xanga archives so I'm not yet sure when I'll be able to fully restore Tiffany's Xanga blog. Oh well, I'll keep trying to recover her archives. Anyway, you can just visit  http://bbyxinnocenz.blogspot.com/  and see the blog yourself. [UPDATE] By the way, if you visit the blog using Internet Explorer 11, you'll get a snowfall of the letter "X" in black boxes. The good news is, you'll still get the colored sc...

Soooooo…..did y'all like the new design layout or not? (: It was somewhat unexpected, right? Hahahaha xD Actually, I wanted to surprise y'all for my new blog design. I even had to set the whole blog to “Private” so that you peeps cannot see what I'm doing; sorry for that, by the way. You people wanted a white theme; I gave you one. Are you people happy now? I sure do hope so; it took me all night to make, design, test, and finalize the template of this blog. To be honest, it was not easy nor was it fun since my internet kept powering down for no apparent reason whatsoever. Oh well, that'll be another story for another day. Welp, there you go. Now if you excuse me, I'll be fixing my laptop (I accidentally dropped it; long story) now, bye-bye!

I've been browsing blogs on Blogger lately and I found out that most of the blogs I've visited were abandoned, dead, but happy blogs. Most (Well, all) of the blogs I've visited are about their respective families, careers and some of them even contain happy memories. It's saddens me to see such blogs being abandoned like that, maybe people just became too busy. Anyways, most of the blogs I've visited were filled with story, they were filled with humor, happiness, joy and other things like that. I envied them, the people who took beautiful pictures and those who had a nice life. I just wish I could write happy or joyful memories in my blog. I could post a few awesome pictures or my surroundings. Tell wonderful stories. Share beautiful moments. Stuff like that. It's too bad though. I see other people writing about how their day was going out so happily, or they got married and there were fireflies in the night, fancy-looking houses, awesome travels to...

Hi guys! It's me again. I've been talking to Sir James this whole afternoon and stuff. He told me that I should improve my blog and add a little "razzle dazzle" and some "fashion" into my blog. He was right! I do need this "fashion" that everyone's been looking for. Don't worry, guys, I'll put more "fashion" into my posts to make it look great! Thanks, Sir James! Anyway, I've added the Characters page in my blog. It's for those new readers who wants to get to know more of the people who inspire me and help me in my daily life. You guys really should check out the new pages I've been making. I'm constantly trying to improve them as we speak (well, in reality, as you read). Hmmm.. Nothing much happened today, no new stuff, no drama, nothing new and I didn't talk to Jean or Elaine today. I've mostly been busy on this blog and I've been looking for new techniques on how to improve...