Anyway… to all hostees:

I didn’t receive your e-mails. Please contact me through zcdccool@yahoo.com and NOT my other e-mail. Thanks.

I’m hoping to learn more about web designing this year (Flash, etc…) so hopefully, I won’t be too lazy to add something new here.

Well, that’s it for now. I’ve still got a ton of things to do. Ta-ta!

Anyway, I just thought I’d drop by to say a big “hello” to you all.

Now on to me and my life. Yeah, lately, I’ve been into movies and stuff. I watched Toy Story 3 on the opening weekend and LOVED it! It reminded me so much of the time I first watched the first two Toy Story movies. What did you guys think of it?

Also, I’ve been REALLY wanting to watch “The Last Airbender”. I heard it pretty much sucked but I don’t really care. I’m a HUGE fan of the series and I’ve been waiting for over two years for this movie to come out. You can even check out my fansite online.

Well, unfortunately, I gotta go! I still got some homework to cram. See ya guys soon! Feel free to contact me though zcdccool@yahoo.com" target="_blank">THIS e-mail.

Oh, and one more important thing: ALL 4w4 HOSTEES WILL BE REMOVED on July 17, 2010. Please e-mail me zcdccool@yahoo.com" target="_blank">HERE for more details. So sorry for the inconvenience.

Well, first of all, my family and I moved to a new house. It was pretty hard moving since I have lived in my old house ever since I was little. But oh, yeah, until now, we haven’t transferred all of our stuff to our new house yet.

Second, my parents got hospitalized because of some 2^nd degree burns due to a problem with our stove. I don’t want to go into detail but they’ve already had a couple of operations and they’re fine now. Until now, they’re still in the hospital (it’s almost their 3^rd week) but they’re better now.

Well, okay, that’s it. Just wanted to make everything clear. No updates for today. Sorry.

And please don’t send me any affiliation, ads, rotation, etc. applications for now. I’m still pretty busy. Thanks!

Some big changes in my life happened recently. Some good, some bad. I don’t really want to reveal anything as of now (and I’m still not sure if I will reveal them in the future though). Don’t worry, I’m fine though and don’t worry, this has NOTHING to do with web designing or this site. I might be pretty these upcoming days so unfortunately, I believe you won’t be seeing any new updates until weeks from now (but if I find the time to, I may add new brushes).

And yes, ALL APPLICATIONS IN THIS SITE ARE STILL CLOSED.

Thanks once again for all your support and wonderful comments. I REALLY REALLY appreciate them.

Okay, so anyway, here are to NEW brush sets for you guys! Clicking one of the two below will lead you to the brushes page where you can download the imagepack. Click HERE to check out the new brushes! They’re the two brush sets at the bottommost.

I’d appreciate it if you let me know what you think of the brushes or if you use them for anything.

Well, that’s it… But oh, before I forget, guys, please remember that…

ALL APPLICATIONS (Affiliation, Ads, Hosting, Rotation, 4w4 Studio, etc…) ARE ALL CLOSED AS OF NOW.

When I checked my message inbox, I was surprised to see loads of messages (and spam) about applications, etc. Sorry guys, but as I mentioned in one of my past updates that I closed them now because I don’t have any time to add you guys. Sorry, once again. I’ll inform you when I open all applications again.

[EDIT:] Oh, feel free to ask me ANYTHING you want to through my Formspring.

Also, I know there are a few broken links around the site. This is due to some host-related stuff that happened in late December. I do promise to fix everything when I get the chance to.

I love this site to bits and I wouldn’t want anything to happen to this since after all, this is my first domain, but I can’t really add anything new now.

And don’t forget to leave comments.

Okay, anyway, if you are a 4w4.org Hostee please read this important message below:

ATTENTION ALL HOSTEES

I’m very sorry to say that I have run out of disk space so I will NO LONGER be hosting any websites. But please don’t freak out yet! I WILL still keep your website (and your e-mail account) if you are interested. Here’s one condition though: you will have to update it every week (unless you contact me for a special hiatus). Does that sound fair enough?

Please let me know by posting a reply HERE in this blog entry. Deadline is on January 18, 2010. No extensions. Please don’t send me an e-mail. My e-mail address is NOT working.

All those who don’t let me know if they want to keep their accounts will have all their files (including e-mail address) deleted.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Well, anyway, back to website business. Since it’s the new year, I’m planning on making a new layout (if I have time though) and possibly REVAMP the site. Yes, yes, yes. I keep promising to make a new layout but I never fulfill it. This time, I’ll try to do it.

Oh, and another thing, I had problems with my e-mail and stuff in the past months so I couldn’t reply to all your messages. It’s back and working now but you will need to send me your e-mails again. But for now, ALL APPLICATIONS (ADS, ROTATION, STUDIO ORDERS, AFFILIATION, ETC…) ARE CLOSED. I still have to get everything back together as I am still having minor problems with the website.

Okay, so yeah. See ya!

PS. I’ve only played Sims 2 with my brother recently (as in January 2, 2010) but I’m hooked! lol… Any Sims 2 fans out here?

Well, now, I just want to ask if anyone has seen “A Christmas Carol”. Is it a good movie?

Also yesterday (or shall I say two days ago) my grandmother treated the whole family to dinner in honor to celebrate my cousin’s Sweet Sixteen (which is technically today since it’s past 12 am). After an early dinner we headed to Starbucks and after that, we went around the mall. My cousin even got a new pair of Ecko Red shoes (I’m SOOOOO JEALOUS!!!!) for her birthday.

Well, anyway, that’s it for now. Thanks so much for the comments! I REALLY appreciate them.

1.) Do you already have a Christmas wish list?
2.) What thing do you really want for Christmas the most?

I’ve been pretty preoccupied lately ever since my dad bought me a new graphic tablet and new books. Yeah, that’s what kept me busy the past couple of days.

Anyway, Halloween is coming up! On Saturday, my family and I are planning to have a little dinner just at my house with my grandma and my cousin. Hopefully, everyone will be in the mood to wear a costume or something.

Okay, since I said I’m not in the mood right now, I’ll just end this blog since I’m actually in the middle of writing something right now.

But ohhhh…. before I forget, I would just like to announce that Shadow (the mother cat) passed away a few days ago along with one of her kittens, Charcoal. I think they got sick from the floods or something. Now, Shadow only two kittens left and they are now motherless.

RIP Shadow and Charcoal

Okay, question time…

1.) What are you planning to do for Halloween?
2.) What/who are you dressing up as?

Just last September 26 (my mom’s birthday), there was a storm that came here and it caused MASSIVE floods in my area. Our first floor was literally under water. Until now, we are still recovering. But don’t worry, everything’s fine. Truth is, the floods kinda made us realize how materialistic we are. Thanks to the floods, we got to get rid of lots of unimportant stuff that’s taking up so much space.

Sitewise, as you may see, I haven’t added anything new yet. Yeah, I apologize for that once again. I haven’t had the time to do anything online. Until now, we still don’t have a proper internet connection. Hope you understand.

Well, I guess that’s it. This update was just to show that this site hasn’t been abandoned.

Oh, and I will try to reply to your comments and e-mails as soon as I can! So feel free to post some more comments!

Anyway, wow. I can’t believe it’s September already! Time flies so fast! In just a few months it’s gonna be Christmas (my fave holiday ever) already! I actually find it pretty strange that they already play a bunch of Christmas music in malls. It’s as if it was only December 2008 a few months ago.

Okay, now I shall talk about what has happened in my life lately. Sometime two weeks ago, my cat, Shadow gave birth to four wonderful kittens! They’re still really small now so she doesn’t let them out yet but I can’t wait when they do. =^-^= Also, around two weeks ago, my family and I watched Disney Pixar’s “Up”. I know, I know. It sucks they only showed it now! I’ve been dying to watch it for months but hey, I guess it was pretty worth the wait. It’s a REALLY good movie and you should watch it if you haven’t! Anyway, here’s another thing that has happened in my life lately. Just around last Sunday, my family and I got to watch this family musical about Noah’s Ark (tickets courtesy of my aunt). It was pretty good but I admit, I’ve seen better musicals.

Sitewise, guess what? Because of some confidential reasons, I am going to offer all types of advertising for 100% FREE. The only catch? You have to link me back for the same time you’re advertised before applying. It’s a pretty good deal so apply now before I change my mind!

As for your e-mails, keep ‘em coming. I know, I’m always online but I’ve been responding to e-mails pretty slow lately (I apologize for that) but I am not a robot and I do read every single message despite my busy life. And as for the blog comments, do keep them coming because I will still return them.

Oh, and before you go, be sure to join the So Pink Forum which is owned by my lovely host, Olivia. I am so far pretty active there.

Now, it’s question time!

1.) Can you believe it’s almost Christmas already?
2.) Have you watched Disney Pixar’s movie, Up?
3.) Any ideas for tutorials?

Another thing I would like to apologize for is the answering of e-mails. I have replied to MOST e-mails already though. But if you didn’t receive a reply, it’s either because I haven’t received your e-mail yet, you typed your e-mail address wrong therefore I have NO way of replying to you, or in any of your applications, you included a Freewebs website. So what does Freewebs have to do with this? No, I don’t hate Freewebs or you people who use it. It’s just that, for some reason, my internet has been pretty slow lately and it takes such a long time to load many websites (which includes most Freewebs sites). So, I’m sorry if it’s been a little over a week since you sent your application but I can’t reply to your message unless I see your site. No, don’t think that this is your fault. If there’s anything or anyone to blame, it’s my internet. So, I do hope you understand.

Anyway, you might be wondering, “What’s Nikana up to? Why doesn’t she update everyday like she used to? “. Okay, well, I’ll answer that for you, my dear beloved visitors. I simply don’t update because I’ve been busy working on an upcoming website. I do go online everyday and I do check on this website everyday but I unfortunately, I haven’t been having enough time to add new stuff. I know I’ve promised to revamp this site soon like a billion times but that will have to hold until I open my upcoming site/s. So, if you’re sick of the pink layout, go look for the Skin Switcher in the sidebar and use the brown one instead. Simple as that.

If you want to know, what’s up with me lately, follow me on Twitter.

Ahh… well… Okay, enough of all that. Today, I added a new brush set to the Brushes section of the site! I do deeply apologize though because I’ve had the brush set saved somewhere in the site since last week but I haven’t bothered to show it until today but anyway, if you’re still interested, here it is:

[EDIT:]
Okay, apparently, I think it’s just me but the image preview of the brush won’t show up here in my blog. So, if you want to see my new brush set, please exit this page and proceed to the Brushes section of the site.

Fancy, isn’t it? Anyway before I proceed to the questions you have to answer, here’s one important reminder to those of you who send me studio orders and hosting, affiliate, and advertisement applications; please, just please type in your e-mail address correctly. No, I’m not mad, don’t worry. It’s just that it really is very stressful on my part trying to figure out what your correct e-mail address is. It takes up so much of my time and most of the time, I am not able to figure out your e-mail in the end and therefore, I don’t respond to your e-mail.

Okay, anyway here are the questions.

1.) Do your friends know you own a website? If so, do they know the URL and do they visit it?
2.) Have you ever tried opening a fanlisting or a fansite?
3.) Any suggestions for me to keep in mind when I get the chance to revamp 4w4.Org?

Okay, for those who are curious about what happened during my little Paintball fun last Saturday, well, here’s what happened. A couple of minutes after arriving at the venue, we headed to the Paintball area to be given a brief preview on safety and how to make our paintball markers (aka guns) work. After that, my 12-year old brother and four of his friends (including one of my female cousins) teamed up together while four of my brother’s female friends and classmates (including my sister) teamed up with me and my other brother. So, well, we expected the battle to be longer but it actually ended in just 10 minutes with the opposing team (my 12-year old brother’s team) capturing my team’s flag and winning. Well, the main reason my team lost was that our best player got too excited and wasted all his bullets (We were only given 50 bullets. That may seem a lot but when you’re there, trust me, it isn’t.) in just a few minutes after the game started. But oh well, it was a great experience. But oh, I did get hit on my right arm (but the ball didn’t “splat”) and it really hurt!

Also, two days ago, my dad, mom, and I watched this very touching movie called “Gran Torino” (directed, produced, and starring Clint Eastwood). It’s a pretty good movie and I guess I’d recommend anyone to watch it.

Oh, another thing. I accidentally did something with my Inbox and it’s pretty messed up so it’s hard to read my e-mails. But don’t worry, I will still get your message so feel free to send in some more applications or just messages.

Nothing new on the site today since I haven’t had any time to do anything for the site. But here are some questions for you to answer anyway.

1.) Would you try paintball if you had the chance?
2.) How often do you add stuff to your site?
3.) What good movie would you recommend to anyone ?

Whadya think? They’re called “Phranz—Pherocious” and to see much detailed photos of them, click here. Coincidentally, they’re like the shoes Vanessa Hudgens wore in this commercial only hers was gold (I saw a gold pair in the shoe sale and I really wanted to have it even before I found out Vanessa modeled it but sadly, they didn’t have my size).

Anyway, sitewise, I added a new Photoshop Action since based on my stats, the PS Actions page was one of the most viewed pages in my website. Yeah, I know it’s only one but I love its effect on some images I tested it with.

Also, I’ve gotten back to the e-mails I’ve had so far; still have to return the comments though. But not right now. I gotta go! It’s 1:30 am now and I still have to wake up early tomorrow because it’s my brother’s 12^th birthday party (his b-day was on Aug. 1^st) and we’re gonna do paintball! Yeah! Hopefully it doesn’t rain!

Questions for today:

1.) When was the last time you bought a pair of shoes?
2.) Are you brand-conscious when it comes to clothes and shoes?
3.) Have you ever tried Paintball?

Anyway, here are the actions I made! Check ‘em out and feel free to use ‘em for your photos and graphics! Just remember to give credit.

Okay, sorry for the short update. Just wanted to show everyone that I’m not dead. I know I haven’t been working on the site that much but I’ve been doing loads of stuff lately. I hope you understand. After, I do all these things, I’ll be sure to revamp 4w4. So stay tuned for that!

I’ve also gotten back to most e-mails and some comments just to let you know. I’ll continue on with this soon.

Questions for today:

1.) Do you go online everyday?
2.) How long do you go online each day?
3.) How many sites do you own?

Okay, correction on the title, it’s been ONE YEAR and ONE DAY since I went to my first concert. Time flies SO FAST! And based on the picture of the poster I posted, it’s obvious that it was a Simple Plan one! Well yeah, it was a Simple Plan one but it was also a Jamie Scott and the Town and New Found Glory one (but I’m not a fan of either- only Simple Plan!).

I actually don’t wanna go into details anymore on what happened during that wonderful beloved day. All I have to say is if I could just bring back August 4,2008, I definitely would love to- no question about it! Yes, first concerts are very memorable- I’ve heard many people say this and I definitely agree to it. There’s just something about that moment when you see your favorite band/singer step onto the stage for the first time in your life. It’s an incredible feeling. But what’s more incredible is when the band starts playing and music fills the air.

Okay, well that’s it! lol… I’m sorry. I’m just not in the mood to blog. Heck, I know this is gonna sound ridiculous but I was lazy to go online awhile ago (so I watched “Cheaper by the Dozen 2″ with my siblings). Yep. I was planning to add something today but I was just too lazy. Don’t worry, once I un-lazify myself, you’ll get to see new stuff. Promise!

For now, please answer these questions:

1.) Have you ever been to a concert before? If so, who’s concert?
2.) Who would you like to see live on concert that you haven’t yet?
3.) What was the last CD you bought/song you downloaded?
4.) Do you have a Twitter or a Facebook? (sorry for the random question!)

And yes, I’ll try to get back to those comments asap!

The day started out pretty bad but eventually turned out to be a great one. At around 1:30 pm, my family and I left the house to bring my mom and I to the Doctor. Yes, I know I haven’t been blogging about it but I’ve had some cough and colds for the past 3 weeks just like my mom. This trip to the doctor’s was kinda “special” or rather, “different” since I haven’t been to the doctor in years. Also, this was my first time to go to an alternative doctor. Anyway, from the doctor, I found out that I sorta have “pneumonia” just like my mom which is why I have to take some antibiotics. Yeah… being sick sucks…

So after the trip to the doctor’s, my dad picked my mom and I up and we went to the mall along with my siblings and we bought some Star Wars stuff (fan confession…lol). Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that August 1^st was my brother’s 12^th birthday so my parents allowed him to buy loads of Star Wars stuff! Afterwards, we also decided to buy some DVDs so we got “Cheaper By the Dozen” (haven’t watched this in ages!) and “Cheaper by the Dozen 2″ (Buy one, Take one promo baby!). Also, I decided to buy some books in one of the bookstores there. And then, my parents brought us home while they left to go bond and drink some wine with my uncles and aunts while we kids watched “Cheaper by the Dozen” at home. Okay, that’s it. And yes, I didn’t use the computer for a whole day! This whole day made me realize how much I miss the “good ol’ days” of my offline life.

Oh, and I’ll get back to the comments and e-mails when I have time! I’ve just been off the computer enjoying my offline life or I’ve just been too lazy or busy with orders (I get like LOADS of glitter requests- around 3 or more a day).

But anyway, okay, here are some random questions for you guys!

1.) When was the last time you went to the doctor?
2.) What was the last DVD you bought?
3.) What’s your current fave song?
4.) Do you blog a lot?
5.) Do you spend most of your time in front of the computer or do you mostly enjoy your offline life too?