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Are You a Cry Baby?

Posted on September 7, 2008 by greenbucks| 14 Comments

I remember this song back when I was younger: “I sing because I’m happy. I sing because I’m free. His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.”

Click here to listen to the song and its lyrics.

No, the Weekly Question is not about singing. Yet.

It’s about crying. Why crying? Because this song, with its wonderful lyrics, makes me want to cry. And so does a lot of other things.

So here goes the Weekly Question Number 16:

What makes you cry?

My answer:

There are a lot of things that make me cry:

  • When one of my children is hurt, I cry.
  • When I hear sad love songs and watch a sad movie, I cry.
  • When I watch something sentimental, even a television commercial, this makes me cry.
  • When I hear wonderful comments for me and not-so wonderful comments, I cry.
  • Even emails with heart-wrenching lessons and life stories make me cry.
  • I  cry usually when I am frustrated like when I lost all my photos during the WordCamp Philippines 2008 event yesterday. All photos of the lectures I attended were there. I just didn’t have the opportunity to do that because there were a lot of people.
  • Pretty much a lot of things make me cry. I will not deny this. I don’t want to watch some TV shows because these make me cry.

I cry silent tears.

I sniffle.

What about you? What makes you cry?

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Blogging for Advocacy

Posted on August 31, 2008 by greenbucks| 13 Comments

Two weeks ago, we discussed about the advocacy or the cause that we might want to support.

I have been very happy about the different causes that we would like to give our support to, in our own grand and small ways should the right time comes for us to fulfill these dream for others.

Being a blogger, I have come to realize that through blogging, we can start this advocacy that we have dreaming of.

How?

By blogging about the things we are passionate about.

Yes, we can start blogging about these advocacies. Taking the first step is probably the best thing we can do and I do not mean creating a new blog for that topic, even a category for that particular topic.

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With these different answers, the Weekly Question #15 is about niche blogging:

If you are to start a new blog focusing mainly on a particular topic or niche, what would your niche blogging be all about?

My answer:

Since I already have my Special Education blog, which is primarily a blog about Special Education topics, I know another niche blog would be in the making.

Read more »

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I Love Your Blog

Posted on August 28, 2008 by greenbucks| 2 Comments

I love your blog. Wow. Thank you Maiylah and Sasha for giving me this I Love Your Blog award.

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Blogging has made me new friends. It has also made me connect with old friends.

I have virtually met Maiylah through Photo Hunters and I have admired her wonderful photos.

Sasha, well, we almost met during the iBlog3 conference last year. We have communicated through sms and she helped answer a lot of my questions about blogging.

This award coming from both is very special to me and here is why:

Both lady bloggers are a part of my small and intimate circle of blogging friends who answer my Weekly Questions which incidentally, our focus last week was about our Facial Regimen. It was fun reading about what they do before they go to sleep and what could probably be the best acne treatment we can have to be able to have smooth skin. As I have discovered through their answers, we have the same nightly rituals.

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Ayaw Ko!

Posted on August 28, 2008 by greenbucks| 30 Comments

Maricel Soriano couldn’t have said it better when she said in her movie, “I don’t like dirt (or is it mud?)! I don’t like cramped places! I don’t like people belittling me!”

(Sorry ha, pangit ang translation ko, mas maganda talaga ito sa ating wikang Pambansa)

Sabi nga ni Maricel Soriano dati sa pelikula nya, “Ayaw ko ng putik! Ayaw ko ng masikip! Ayaw ko ng tinatapakan ako!” sa anong pelikula na nga ba yun?

For me, I don’t like people who abuse the environment. I don’t like noisy neighbors. I don’t like people with one-track minds (not, not Abby Lee). I don’t like people who are too dependent on others. I don’t like bullies. I don’t like people who are too opinionated (wait, is that what I am turning to be?) Come to think of it, all these people combined would pretty much sum up a lot of people, including me 😀

Ako, ayoko ng mga taong umaabuso sa kalikasan. Ayaw ko din ng mga maiingay na kapitbahay. Ayaw ko din ng mga taong makitid ang isip. Ayaw ko din ng mga taong tamad at dumedepende sa ibang tao. Ayaw ko din ng mga maton. Ayaw ko din ng mga nagpapakalandakan ng kanilang mga opininyon (teka, parang ganito ang dating ng post ko ah). Kung tutuusin, aba, eh napakaraming tao na nitong ayaw ko, at kasama na din ako diyan 😀

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Ok then, one thing I am not really fond of: heavy rains. Why? Because it brings about so much destruction: floods, landslides and diseases.

Sige na nga, isang bagay na talagang ayaw ko ay ang malakas na ulan. Bakit nga ba? Kasi marami itong pinsalang dala: baha, pagguho ng lupa at mga sakit.

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New Theme

Posted on August 25, 2008 by greenbucks| 11 Comments

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Second day of our three-day weekend break.

We just stayed in. We were supposed to go to a car show but the children preferred to stay home. We were supposed to go to church late in the afternoon but hubby has slept and we didn’t wake him up.

After dinner, hubby changed my blog theme:

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A refreshing new theme for Greenbucks.Info which I think I will have for now.

He also changed the other GreenBucks blog’s theme. There was a lot of tweaking here and there for this other one.

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I hope everyone feels refreshed after the weekend. This Monday is a holiday today and we will enjoy this day by going to a children’s party in the afternoon. After I work with two of my students.

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