• Went snowboarding and was pretty decent
• Started the now defunct Blogivation, where I interview one of my favorite bloggers Kelly Sutton.
• Had an awesome birthday weekend in San Francisco with three of my best friends.
• Discovered the wonder of Pho
• Started a Tea Blog
• Enjoyed a 23 year old Pu-erh tea.
• Started two books
• Became a Customer Service Rep for Verizon Wireless.
• Went a month  and a half of skipping lecture for my Microbiology  class (because of new job) and still passed the class with an A.
• Went to my first concert– Alien Ant Farm
• Started working on a minimalistic lifestyle.

2010 was a great year, I learned a lot about myself  and met some of my goals. Here are some of my goals for 2011:

• Post more: On both here and on Tyro’s
• Travel: Was able to make a trip to San Francisco. This year I want atleast go back to Frisco, make a trip to LA, and do an out of state trip.
• Write more: further my three books.
• Take more pictures: Did some pretty good things this past year but don’t have many pictures of my adventures.
• Video Blogs: Now that I have my hands on a flip  cam, I am wanting to get on screen and show my ugly mug.
• Shed some: Lost a little weight this year, kinda want to loose a little more.
• Build more courage: Jordan needs to get his groove back.
• Read More: Clearly I have a list of book I need to check off. Starting with The Book of Tea and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I am grateful to everyone who has supported me this year, laughed with me, drank tea with me, or just stumbled on and read a few post. I really appreciate it.

1. Been looking at e-readers and tablets lately, hands down the Kindle 3 ($139) is my choice of just straight e-ink e-readers.

2. As for tablets I am leaning toward android based tablets. Since I am a poor college student I chose Plexon (148.49). This item comes with the most updated and most compatible for the device. It has 256MB ram to handle multiple apps. You may use the device vertically or horizontally and it is perfect for viewing movies, reading e-books, listening to music, etc. Standby times is 3-4 days and usage time is about 3-6 hours depending on type of usage.

4.Ever since my sling pack’s zipper broke I have been in the market for a new pack. Recently I have been looking at messenger packs and rucksacks. I have recently fallen in love with this Full German Style Alpine Rucksack. (24.99)

5. I am in the market for a tea kettle, and I love the Adagio UltiliTEA Kettle(49). Nice, Eletric, easy to use, and will be a nice thing to take with me when I head off to school in the fall.

6. I do a lot of writing, whether it’s blog post ideas, class notes, and words of wisdom. I’ve become a fan of the Moleskin Pocket Note Books (Ruled) (10.95).

7. Of coarse with note books you need pens, my favorite pen to doodle and write with is the Zebra f-302 Bold. (17.38)

8.  As much as I love tea, I have yet to get a tea pot. This tea pot is awesome, and is my favorite color. Amsterdam 3 Cup Teapot (10.99).

9. Power Friending (16.47) I am a nerd when it come so social media/networking. Power Friending is the first book by Amber Mac (Co-host of Net at night).

10. Amazon Cards — the Net superstar

Who are you?

Leah Abucayan: hellaLEAH A.K.A. tapeBEAST

I’m just your average nerdy kid with a tumblr

I’m passionate about art&design&imagination

I have a small personal business where I make&design wallets of duct tape, it’s basically my only job

I wake up each morning to a lovely family & a little doggy named Ziggy

I find inspiration practically everything & I’d like to make the world smile.

What blogs do you do?

HellaLEAH – Personal Blog

tapeBeast

What is the meaning behind/How did you come up with the name of you blogs?

hellaLEAH is simply just my AIM sn, since i’m from Northern Cali, Ithought “hella” was appropriate, and in my computer class there was a couple times we’d go over something in class that is very…well, quite random so my friends would always go, “that’s hella Leah right there” so it was kind of inside joke.

tapeBEAST came about from a graphic design class I took at Academy of Art. We were assigned to create a business along with logos and other forms of design that businesses need. I used my newly growing business/hobby as an example for that class & the name just stuck.

What motivations drove you to start blogging/vlogging?

Actually the reason I started blogging was because my brother Leejay had a tumblr for quite awhile and always told me about it, but I took no intrest, but one day he just walked over when I was on my laptop and made me an account. From then on, I didn’t really know what to do with a tumblr, so I just posted the randomest things that I found was interesting & I used it as storage space for pictures so I didn’t have to keep saving things on my computer, but I got really good feedback from what I was posting so I continued.

What motivations keep you bloggingg today?

There so many inspiring things to find on tumblr, you don’t even have to think, you just reblog. it’s something do to on days with nothing or a great procrastination during school haha & I kept blogging because I realized the great responses I receive from almost I post.

What future projects are you workings on?

Just tapeBEAST for now, tumblrs helped a lot getting the word out about tapeBEAST so I have quite a few wallets to take care of.

Name one thing that you have learned from blogging?

That the simplest thing can inspire someone & there are so many talented people that need to be discovered

What randomness would you like to share with the world?

My plan is to have everything on my resume relate to Disney in some say because that’s where I want to work in the future. I have a plan.

I’m terrified of Ronald McDonald & Thomas the Train

I’m currently learning to ride a unicycle

I find that if you put bacon or mustaches on anything…people like it

I’m not one with the words…that’s why I just draw pictures.

WORD.

Stever Robbins also known as The Get it Done Guy (not getter-dun) is a podcaster, entrepreneur ,and productivity expert, and now author of Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More. In his new book Stever shares with us nine steps to buid a foundation for streamlining how you can get what you want out of work and life.

Just wanted to drop a post sharing with you what’s coming up and to also share with you some information on this book. If you are interested in Stever’s book please visit http://getitdoneguynews.com for more information.

Thanks Stever and company in advance for the opportunity review book. I look forward to reading.

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It’s not fair, but it’s reality.

So what you’re telling me, Jordan is that I should distant myself form people who lessen my rep? I think it depends. If you are rolling around with hoodlums then maybe you need to evaluate certain things. However I think it’s more beneficial to not worry what other people think and simply prove them wrong by your own actions.

Controlling how people perceive you can be done, but along the way you may have to make choices that isn’t worth the false perceptions you have set up. Reputation is important, but not at all cost.

See ya Wednesday,

“The canvas of Neatorama captures random and diverse nature of posts with a

common thread: They’re things that interest blog authors and considering their weighted readership, it is obvious that their interest matches readers’ taste.”

Paper.li

An awesome little site that brings all your tweep’s (twitter friends) links together and put’s it into an online newspaper.

See you Friday

Six months after Katrina hit, my senior class decided to spend our last big trip of our high school life cleaning up Waveland, MI and New Orleans, LA.

Now before I go on, I am not sharing this story to brag what I have done, or how I made impact stuff like that. I share you this story to share with you a man who had an impact in my life.

Chester Walker, a 9th ward resident, worked as a butcher. With the voice of Louis Armstrong, and the looks of Sammy Davis Jr. he was born and raised in New Orleans.

I met Mr. Walker the day we went to gut out two houses (strip everything in the house down to its frame) in New Orleans. Unlike many of the victims of Katrina we met, he was right there along with us gutting everything. Not trying to put those other victims down, but we understood why they wouldn’t want to help. All the things that they had owned, their lives, even the simple photo that stirred up memories, had been lost. Why on earth would you want to be throwing it out let alone do/watching strangers treat all that like trash?

Puzzled by all this, a lot of my classmates felt the same way… Why? We could never be in that situation and just toss everything we held precious away or watch high school kids do it.

So I finally straight up ask him, he replied..

“Jordan, this is just stuff… It’s nothing to fret over, it’s just material things.What I need to do is store up my treasure in Heaven”.

Storing up treasure’s in Heaven, that was something I heard over and over again being raised in a Christian home. Yet this time it was different, I saw a man who had literally nothing saying that to me. I began to look at things in a new light, cherishing more moments with family and friends. Those words still impact my life today, and it has been a component with what I want to do with my life.

So for this weeks Monday thought, I ask you … What impact do you want to leave on the world? or in someones life? I encourage you make an impact, it may change a person’s life.

See ya Wednesday

showcased bloggers from all walks of life asking them what made them blog.  Sense then I have ported everthing over to my personal blog, just because it was easier to deal with the more relyable WordPress.com then Blogetery.com and all its problems.

The following are a litst of my top ten favorite post from Blogiviation, in no particular order.

Kelly Sutton

“Blogging is one of the purest forms of self-expression and personality, whether you write about lifehacking for college students or personal stuff. Developing the ability to shape an idea into 400 words on a regular basis is an extremely valuable skill to have.”  (Read More)

Julie Daniel

“So a few us of started tumblr blogs and followed each other to keep up with what was going on in each other’s lives. It was easy enough, posting quips about your day, anything you found interesting or thought someone else might. ” (Read More)

Jennifer Sauer

“I bring to my blog all of the skills I developed over the years as a media person…to share information, guidance and inspiration from tea masters, farmers, chefs, and other authors and merchants, with those who love tea.” (Read More)

Joseph Sanchez

“As a punk high school student, all my original blogs were almost nothing more than ranting and bad grammar, but going back and reading through them I can see how my blogger’s “voice” was beginning to take hold of my writing.” (Read More)

Linda Andersson

“but once I got started, I realized some of my experiences and findings also appealed to people beyond my network of friends and family and it became a hobby that is very dear to me.” (Read More)

Leo Babauta

” I wanted to share what I was learning, in hopes that it would help others. Blogging also became a way for me to reflect on my life.” (Read More)

Wes Murdock

“The origin of my blog life started circa 2004 when a friend of mine convinced me to start a blog. It was an exercise in futility as my blog was garbage. Not only did I disregard rules of the English language and all rules of proper spelling, there was a general lack of complex thought.” (Read More)

Cordiva Raven

“I started blogging because I had a desire to do something and didn’t know what to do. I had co-administrated a few message boards. I ran a few livejournal communities and I shared a lot of the tech tips I came across within these personal and private communities. It just seemed best to take it further.” (Read More)

Angelina “Lina” Gonzalez

“One of the best things about blogging is that you are able to meet many interesting & talented people from around the world… The blog has transformed since then into a place where I share things that I like, have giveaways, show any crafts I have made, & more.” (Read More)

Andrea Sanchez

“I really liked the idea of managing a knitting blog because that was something that I was actually interested in. I knew I would be more likely to post if I was talking about my everyday interests (and yes, I’m knitting every day).” (Read More)

See you Monday

I stumbled upon this week.

The Undead Report.

Ok, we all know how the world’s going to end, and it’s not that 2010 stuff, it’s Zombies. The Undead Report brings you real news that may foreshadow a Zombie Apocalypse.  This site goes as far as pinpointing on a map were these stories come from so that you how close you are from the outbreak lol. Be sure to visit the site shop for all your Zombie Survival gear.

Wee Places

If you use Foursquare you may like WeePlaces as well. With this web app you can visualize your movements across towns, regions, or nationally thourgh video timeline maps. Share where you’ve been with others, and record and organize your data.

Supports : Facebook Places, and Foursquare (soon – twitter,flickr,and gowalla).

That is for this week’s WwWednesday, see you on Friday.