Category Archives: Memetag

Shern’s Mom tagged me to do 7 Weird Things About Me.

The rules are:

– Write 7 weird things about you
– Link back to the one who tagged you
– Tagged 7 others and inform them that they are tagged.

Weird Me (some things about me when I was a student) :

• I used to memorize the lessons/important concepts which are very useful when the teachers give tasks asking us to “Define the term…”
  I used to have scraps of paper where I re-write down my notes prior to tests. I carry these wherever I go.
• During high school, I had a tutor coming over to our house to teach me algebra and physics. Did that make a something of an expert? No, not at all! Those were not my good grades in college 😀
• In college, because my dorm bed was near a window, I used to study until the sky has darkened already and I haven’t turned on the light. That got my eyesight more blurred.
• Back in college, I had a run-in with a group mate for the thesis because I refused to write his name with ours (another classmate’s and I). Why? I felt he was not doing his best, nor contributed his share of the work. I even redid what he has done. Weird or perfectionist or just “plain rude”? He used to call me “dominante” or the dominant person.
• In grad school, we (my friends and I) always, with a certain professor, sat in the back of the classroom and enjoyed eating finger foods while the professor wasn’t looking. We didn’t like the “old ones” who sat in front and laughed so loud like there’s no tomorrow. Now I’m the same age as them and I think I laugh like how they used to laugh back then. Weird.
• During grad school I found it weird that almost all reports I had to make, almost all research topics given to me or even those I chose were almost always about communication disorders. (And ever since I started working as a special ed teacher, I have worked with speech-language therapists.) Weird coincidence or my “fate”?

I enjoyed looking back at how I was and what I did way, way before. Now i am tagging the following bloggers:

Era, Gelliane, Larawannabe, Sharon, Liza, Napaboaniya and Wirelessbliss.

If you have done this tag, my apologies 🙂

A memetag is a blog tag in a blog post that is comprised of tasks including answering random or associated questions. If a memetag asks the tagged bloggers, meaning the bloggers who were sent the tasks, to “Name your top five pet peeves” then that is what the blogger would do. After doing the task, the blogger would then recognize where the memetag came from by including the link of the blogger who tagged him/her.

It is important to include and recognize the blogger who invited the other blogger to participate in the task. It is also important to recognize the initial creator of the meme. Why? Because the initial creator of a particular memetag has a purpose in creating the meme and he/she should be able to track how the meme has grown and recognized, and how many players participated.

So how would the initial creator would be able to do that? By participants linking their posts back to the blogger who asked them to do the memetag and participants linking back to the blog of the initial creator.

Sadly, the initial creator somehow gets lost along the way because a lot of bloggers do not follow the particular rules included in the memetag.

These tips below are mostly what I have learned by doing several memetags. I try to do all these tips listed below but sometimes I get lost in number 4 especially when the memetag given to me has been revised already.

Some tips in doing memetags

1. Recognize the blogger who tagged you by linking to his blog or post url.
2. Recognize the initial creator of the link.
3. If modifications are deemed necessary by the tagged blogger, these should be in relation to the tasks of the memetag.
4. Follow the instructions.

Some examples of memetags, just click on the titles:

Five Things

Christmas Tree Blog Parade

Sunset/Sunrise Photo Meme

7 Things About Me

What Does Christmas Mean To Me (the instructions here were not followed, I have to say)