My name is terry and my username is 
I joined steem organically via the search engines in my journey to surpassinggoogle. I joined steemit, the second time that i found it organically via google search. The name 'surpassinggoogle' has grand significance. It involves removing 'all barriers to entry' from everything good, so that everything good becomes available to every(any)one. It involves abating half-humanism and hand-to-mouthism and fixing the rarity in the 'great men' industry.
When i arrived on steem thus, it became about 'surpassinggoogle with steem'.
What I Have Done For Steem?
I will make use of bullet points in this segment to keep it short. To lay the basis, i will like to quickly say that i have been on steem for more than 3 years, i have stayed and i have loved it till date. Too, i joined steem organically via the search engines and started out as a novice to cryptocurrency and tech-related stuff. Among other things, steem has constituted to me, a CCTV into the truest state of the world and i have done my 'most learning' here on steem. Steem has been in much of my stories and histories and core paradigm on 'surpassinggoogle' is 'steem growth'.
This being said, here are some of the things that i have done here on steem to help it grow:
- I have helped with many communities affairs and i have created many communities.
- I have a discord community of steemians with more than 5000 steemians.
- I have done a lot of curation.
- I have helped many to join and love steem.
- I have started several successful tags. A more recent tag called #ulog has been used by 5700 steemians and emanated more than 20k posts and 179k comments in its first 4 months. The latest stat can be found here!
- I have instigated several steemit meetups and participated.
- I have created several successful tags and contests. The first edition of the #untalented contest had more than 1000 posts entries and the announcement post had more than 1000 comments. #steemgigs is among the oldest tag related to the now steem interface called 'steemgigs.org'.
- I have helped inspire a large population from the Philippines and other nations/locations to love steem. There are thousands of steemians from the Philippines.
- I have ran the 'steemgigs' witness for more than a year, whether bulls or bears and used to offer an RPC public node for steem.
- I have created several down-to-earth innovations that all steem-based. Due to my limitations when it comes to tech and funding, 'development' have been slow but i have kept pushing and have most of them at an 'alpha stage'. Then, i was able to create an enterprise called macrohard, that intends to create a programming language that everyone can code in and helps non-dev project owners better built projects. Some of my projects that are in motion are ulogs.org, marlians.com, steemgigs.org, teardrops.network
- I created an SMT called 'Teardrops', that will reward 'proof of tears' (a 'mining the human' reward model).
- To inspire many, i have stayed on steem, whether bulls or bears. I have been on steem for more than 3 years and my very first power-down started after 2 years, after my mum died and i started to live with my dad who has several illnesses. I witnessed steem at 8USD and till it got to 1USD without powering down, in a bid to inspire other to measure steem success in terms of humans as oppose to bulls or bears.
- etc.
Why I Want To Go To Steemfest4?
I am on the list of speakers at STEEMFEST4.
Steem is special to me. I have been on it, stayed on it, seen its stories and histories and 'i am surpassing google with steem'.
I have been on steem for more than 3-years. My affection towards steem is the same as it was on the first day; my affection towards steem is ginormous!
I have seen what steem represents, where it can head and how i can help and i have become also about these things.
Among other amazing things, to me, steem constituted 'a CCTV in the truest state of the world' and upon it, i accomplished my 'most learning'. I sat on it and paid attention to 'life and humans', evolving the 'vision within the dream (surpassing google)' into levels of spanlessness
I have seen many of steem's forks. I have been present its 'ups and downs'. I have been a part of steem. I really love steem.
From a lowly writer, i progressed towards starting the 'steemgigs' witness, offering a 'full public RPC node' to steem (in the past), overseeing many communities and emanating a number of 'down-to-earth innovations', some of which are enlisted below:
- marlians.com (SCOT-tribe)
- ulogs.org
- steemgigs.org
- teardrops.network
- macrohard.pro
- legit-illiteracy (a school that every(any)one can school in)
Yes, before i found steem, i knew nothing about the cryptosphere, tokeneconomics or technology. Till date, i am a 'legit-illiterate'.
One of my down-to-earth innovations, '#ulog', has been used so far by '5700 steemians'.
Thus, one other valuable reason behind my desire to attend 'STEEMFEST4' is to expand my learning, make connections that can enable my steem-based projects to attain 'full-realization' and to create awareness to the importance of emanating down-to-earth innovations on the steem blockchain.
Many STEEMFEST(s) have gone by me! I didn't attempt to attend SF1 because i was new to steem at the time. I had relished the opportunity of attending SF2 but notice of its location deterred me a bit as i was worried about a visa-denial and overall, i wasn't very-ready at the time.
When i eventually attempted to attend at SF3, i also got news that my mum was dying. After being away from her for 5 years and alone in the Philippines, with the sole intention of bring her 'her first whisper of good news', i got news that she had Leukemia. (We eventually saw for 16-days only and she passed).
If i had succeeded in going to STEEMFEST3, among other things, it would have constituted a 'small healing' but i was denied a visa. After a 30-mins interview, the woman said 'NO'.
Before then i had applied to attend a STEEM-event in USA and i was denied a visa too.
Now, STEEMFEST is in SE-Asia, nearby and visa-free; should i miss it too? If i attended this time, it will be my 'very first rest in life'. Yes, i haven't slept in years!
Besides, all the many steem-related things that i do, i stay at home now with my dad '24/7', who is ill. I live in the Philippines but i rarely see sunlight.
Upon his relocation here, to live with me in the Philippines (after my mum died), he arrived with many illnesses. Shatters me! It shatters me each day as i watch him suffer.
On the day that i heard that STEEMFEST4 was in Thailand, i gave way to un-fell tears. The news was some sort of 'breakthrough' on its own. Months before this venue was established, i had reached out to the STEEMFEST-operations via a chat to push for SF4 to come to the Philippines. Thailand thus, is a win!
This is a very valuable chance to be at STEEMFEST4 and one more reason that i want to go to STEEMFEST.
Being in STEEMFEST4 will help me heal a bit. I have had excruciating pains 'all body long' for years now, lost all ability to relax and i haven't slept for three years. In Thailand, i will seek my 'first two weeks of rest'.
There is more....
There are many steemians that i long to see. Besides Ned himself (if he is present), i will love to meet with a lenghty list of steemians, many of whom i have interacted with over the course of my steemit journey, something that would have been so far-fetched assuming STEEMFEST4 was to be in Europe etc and involving of a visa-application.
All this aside, here is why you may want to help fund my trip...
My first power-down on steem came after more than 2 years of being on steem. It was depressing. Steem wasn't money to me. It represented way more!
Since then my 'STEEM' has exhausted very rapidly. Besides, all the expenses for servers, the 'steemgigs' witness, projects-development, sustenance etc, there has been the 'daily-medicine expenses for my dad and other hospital expenses' and coupled with 'low steem price', my 'valued steem' exhausts so rapidly.
'
My expenses will not abate any time soon and the date for STEEMFEST4 is still faraway. Recently, i started the marlians.com SCOT-tribe and my expenses related to 'steem growth' continues. (Speaking of 'steem growth', that is one major paradigm of all my aforementioned projects).
There is no doubt that regardless of a 'financial disability', i will push hard to make it to STEEMFEST4 and 'not miss this valuable chance', especially considering that i am among the speakers and that it is in THAILAND but to increase my chances of being present at the event, i have decided to participate in this '#roadtosteemfest' contests.
I am 'your boy Terry and i have highlighted some of the reasons behind 'why I want to go to SteemFest4 and why you may want to support the me'.
Your Boy Terry
RE: 2019 Steemfest ticket contest