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Facial Regimen

Posted on August 24, 2008 by greenbucks| 23 Comments

I have blogged about my Power Peel experience at the Belo Medical Clinic’s bloggers invite last Saturday night in this post.

I have seen lots of wrinkles, wrinkled skin and things that are wrinkled in my Photo Hunt entry entitled Wrinkled.

Now I want to ask this 14th Weekly Question:

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What are your facial or beauty regimens that you do before you go to sleep?

You can also write about what you do to keep your skin soft and smooth.

My answer:

I seldom put anything on my face before going to sleep. I just wash my face with Dove Moisturizing White Beauty Bar. No cream applications, moisturizers nor other facial creams.

I know with my age, I should be doing more than this but I don’t. Not yet, maybe I will.

Any suggestions?

Posted in blogging101, Thought Bubbles, Urban Living, Weekly Questions

Dreaming for Others

Posted on August 17, 2008 by greenbucks| 20 Comments

As I go through this phase of my life, I feel I have accomplished some things that are very significant for me. I may be just over-estimating my measure of success but still, I owe myself that for working hard after all these years.

Dine has commented in a recent post I wrote about me making an advocacy in helping those who need help regarding getting or giving services to the families of children with special needs who cannot afford the exorbitant sky-high fees that the therapy centers (and therapists) charge.

Truth is, there are a lot of families with children who are in need of these services and they do not even know that these services exist. If they do, they probably wouldn’t be able to afford these anyway.

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The Weekly Question #13 for this week will focus on dreams: the dream for others.

We may not be as rich as other people, nor can we even have resources like others have, but we can dream for others, can we? I know we do, even if sometimes we feel we also need help but in some ways, we are more fortunate than others. The fact that we are online and blogging about our thoughts tell us that it is so.

We dream of setting our sights to an advocacy or perhaps getting involved or maybe even putting up a foundation to help those people who have touched our hearts and moved us to tears.

We may not have realized this yet but deep within us, we care and we want to do something about it. This may not be the time for it yet but we will know when it is the right time.

Weekly Question #13

If you were to decide what advocacy would you like to campaign for as an advocate or being involved in a foundation, what sector of the society would you like to serve?

My answer:

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Posted in blogging101, Interesting Topics, social consciousness, Thought Bubbles, Weekly Questions

Tara Na! Pasyal Tayo

Posted on August 14, 2008 by greenbucks| 46 Comments

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Sundays are family days. Families usually take this free day to bond by doing different things for fun or for other purposes.

Ang araw ng Linggo ay para sa pamilya. Ang mga pamilya ay ginagamit ang araw ng Linggo para magsama-sama at maging masaya o kaya naman para sa ibang dahilan.

We usually stay in during Sundays for this is the time we just stay in the house and relax with the kids. They don’t want to go anywhere so we just hear mass in the afternoon and have dinner somewhere.

Kadalasan, nasa bahay lang kami kapag Linggo upang makapag-pahinga kasama ng mga bata. Ayaw din nila umalis, magsisimba lang kami sa hapon at kakain sa labas.

Sometimes we go out and when we do, we usually go to the nearby UP Diliman for nature walks and biking and for a plate of Rodic’s tapsilog.

Kung minsan umaalis kami pero kadalasan, dito kami sa UP Diliman pumupunta para maglakad-lakad at magbisikleta at siyempre, kakain ng tapsilog sa Rodic’s.

Going to UP feels incomplete for the kids without a cup of taho and some sweets.

Parang hindi kumpleto ang pasyal dun sa mga bata kung hindi sila bibili ng taho at ng mga pagkaing matamis.

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Pssst! Kuya, pabili ng taho!

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Siguro, may magsasabi, “Ang sarap naman niyan…”

Posted in blogging101, Environment, family, Litratong Pinoy, Philippines, Photos

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If You Were an Olympian…

Posted on August 10, 2008 by greenbucks| 20 Comments

The Olympics has been opened and the games are under way. Did you watch the opening? I was not able to do so, I am sure it was grand.

Months before the Olympics, I had doubts, like what I have written here and here not because I doubt China’s ability to host the event but because of pollution situation and of the different events happening leading to the big event itself.

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The Weekly Question #12 would be in relation to the Olympics:

If you were an Olympian, what sport would you be participating in?

My Answer:

If I were an Olympian, I would like to imagine myself as a gymnast, specifically doing the floor exercise.

I know, this dream is really way off and this even sounds weird to me. I have not even experienced being a gymnast but had it been possible when I was younger, I would have loved to be one (long hours training and all included).

But seriously, gymnastics is one of the major sport events that I love watching in the Olympics.

I love to look at the gymnasts doing their moves: turning, tumbling, doing acrobatic poses to the beat of music that will make the audience wish they could do whatever it is they are doing. That audience includes me since I am not a gymnast 😀

What about you? If you were an Olympian, what would be your sport?

 

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Ako? Ako ba ikamo?

Posted on August 5, 2008 by greenbucks| 33 Comments

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The theme for Litratong Pinoy this Tuesday (yes, its a tad earlier because Ms Litratong Pinay, errr, Pinoy herself will be coming for a visit) is ME or a part of myself.

Ang tema para sa Litratong Pinoy ngayong Martes (opo, napa-aga kasi uuwi dito sa Pilipinas si Bb. Litratong Pinay, este, Pinoy) ay AKO o parte ko.

I was able to make a similar post in another photo meme that I participate in every Saturday in my other other blog here.

Nakagawa na din ako ng ganyang post dito para sa isa pang photo meme na sinasalihan ko tuwing Sabado.

And because I have already made a post, I will be using the same photo in this post, warts, imperfections and all 😀 To my Plurk friends, this is also the photo in my Plurk profile.

At dahil nakagawa na ako ng ganun, yun ulit ang larawang ilalagay ko,kahit pakitang-kita ang aking mga butlig sa mukha 😀 Sa mga kaibigan ko sa Plurk, ito din ang aking larawan sa aking Plurk profile.

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Kahlil Gibran wrote: “Our appearance, our words, our actions are never greater than ourselves. For the soul is our house, our eyes its windows, and our words its messengers.”

Sabi nga ni Kahlil Gibran…

naku, yun na yun sa taas, ang hirap i-translate eh 😀

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