GreenBucks

WHAT: Adventurista, A Mother’s Day Celebration

WHERE: Taste Asia, Mall of Asia

WHEN: May 9, 2008 2 – 4pm

WHAT TO EXPECT:

1. Make-Over session (This is what I need, seriously)
2. Personality Development (Tips on how to control being annoyed by annoying people. Me! Me!)
3. Healthy Meals Cooking Demo (I can cook but I need tips on how-to healthy meals)

To join, just leave a comment with the following details: name, age, civil status, number of kids and their ages and your email address. Or you can email Aileen at her blog. Here is the link to her post:

http://aileenapolo.blogspot.com/2008/05/world-pyrolymics-2008-and-something-for.html

This event is open to Mommy/Women bloggers and non-bloggers with SM Advantage cards.  You can view the event flyer here.
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Too bad, I can’t join. We are off to visit my vacationing daughters in the province. Twas supposed to be on Thursday because hubby has a meeting there but it was moved to Friday. Tsk, tsk! Next time…

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GreenBucks was at the iBlog4 Summit held recently at the Malcolm Theater in UP Diliman.

Topics ranged from Blogging Basics for newbie bloggers, going problogger, PhotoBlogs, Blogging in time for the election, Mindanao bloggers and blogging for advocacy.

Could be more topics. Last year, topics about SEO, internet law and copyright issues, problogging, increasing site rank, blogging and the old media, blogging issues and internet issues in other Asian countries, and other technical stuff and other helpful stuff were discussed. I was sure these were helpful, I just didn’t know what these were before. Wouldn’t hurt if these were discussed again, sort of a continuation.

My 2 cents? Do what happened during the earlier iBlog summits, create subgroups where people can choose what they want to learn about.

Here are the other posts about iBlog4 which I got from Aileen‘s post “Lessons I Learned…” (thanks, I hope this is just 10% of your post, haha!)

• iBlog 4 and The 88db.com Blogger’s Night: Because I Felt The Need To Embarrass Myself More
• iBlog4 ramblings
• Snippets from the iBlog4 and 88db.com Bloggers Party
• Lost Money But Was Happy
• Being Offline is Fun
• iBlog4 and Morphxchange
• Avi Siwa at iBlog4
• iBlog4 experience
• Morph at iBlog4
• iBlog4 Summit
• iBlog4 Summit bloggers party with 88db.com
• iblog4 Summit
• iblog4 Blogging Summit and Meet Up
• Anger always come from frustrated expectations
• Umleo23.com at iBlog4 Summit???
• Unofficial Philippine Blogger Day
• So wassup?
• iBlog4, Altar Boyz Mosh Pit Party, Nick Weekend Carnival, & 88DB Bloggers Party
• iBlog4
• FilipinaImages.com in iBlog4 Summit
• iblog4 (old friends, new friends)
• Jester-in-Exile Goes to iBlog 4 and the 88DB.com Bloggers’ Party (or, the floppy hat has gone out of style boohoohoo)
• iBlog 4 and The 88db.com Blogger’s Night: Because I Felt The Need To Embarass Myself More
• iblog4 Philippine Blogging Summit
• Of a very long week
• iblog4: the day after
• iBlog4 Summit
• Chickens invade iBlog4
• iBlog4 summit and 88db.com party
• Blog events
• The 4th Philippine Blogging Summit iBlog4
• iBlog4 Experience

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It is not just the Philippines that suffer the rising price of rice (and just about all other commodities, be these edible or not).

Asian states have shortages citing extreme weather, rise in demand for food in fast growing places, price hike due to hoarding , low stockpile and  long term lack of agricultural investment.

The Egyptians are also suffering from price hike of food.

India, with over a billion in population is likely to suffer or has already been suffering food crisis.

Australia‘s drought means no food too.

What has been happening to the cost of food across the globe?

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I have heard one time over the radio about the possibility of issuing RICE COUPONS and FOOD STAMPS here in our country when the rice crisis gets worse. Unbelievable to think the government can shoulder these expenses. Maybe they will, but their kickbacks are bigger.I can’t believe I heard that. How can we, a poor third world country issue rice coupons and food stamps? This is not an answer, albeit temporarily that is, to the rice crisis  we currently have.

I don’t know what the answers are, nor will I ever offer one. What I feel we need to do is to work harder to be able to afford what we need to sustain our growing family.

Of course, no other course but to work doubly harder since everything is going up these days. Flour, rice, sugar, pork, electric bills,  fastfood prices, price of gasoline. Will there be no end in sight?

Sigh.

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Debt that the British had incurred for the last decade has been astonishing $2.8 trillion or 1.4 trillion pounds, according to that New York Times article.

Spending more than one can earn is not just dangerous, its very dangerous. Being in debt is not a good. How would one pay for those debts? With used designer shoes? With foreign holidays already consumed? With used designer clothes? I don’t think so. Such is not the case.

Children have their own cellphones. People can get the latest models in tech gadget, clothes, cars and every thingamajig that comes out in the market. These things are outdated every few weeks, months. For tech gadgets, these are outdated by the time they come out of the market.

So what? So what if people get these things for themselves? If these were purchased using the plastic, then I personally don’t think its a good investment, judging by the way things change so fast. Better purchase these things in cash to avoid being indebted to these big companies where in the long run, it is not just the purchased thing is being paid for but even one’s dignity.

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Texting or sending sms has changed the way people communicated with each other. No, not only that, it has changed the way family dynamics has evolved. No, not only that, texting has changed the way personal relationships, friendships, business partnerships, and whatever kind of relationship that needs constant communication.

As a matter of fact, the texting frenzy as well as the chat culture has in itself a whole new language that adults will surely have a hard time understanding.

Below are a few chat symbols that represent something else to the trained eye. Are you ready to take the challenge to guess what these are?

Let’s see if you can guess these three samples of commonly used smileys:

:’-( or :-} or %-D

Here are some love expressions cyber style:

:-X or [] or (:-….

Can you guess who these favorite characters are who have become smileys?

3:-) or *<:-) or =):-)

Meet new friends in cyber space:

Q:-) or B-) or 8=:-)

Too easy? Try this.

Here is a useful guide: Webopedia.
Read an interesting New York Times article.

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