Category Archives: family

Let’s Watch

Posted on March 7, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I have heard a lot of good things about Samsung HDTV and we are keeping our eye on one at the same time hoping the budget will make us to get it soon.

This would be a great tool to watch some of my favorite tv series, plus the kids’ favorite movies too. I have new favorite shows now and I get to watch them DVD or through online links. I am not satisfied though with the latter even if my laptop has great audio (not unlike hubby’s netbook, 😀 )

Now bring on the popcorn and the drinks! 🙂 We still have a lot of unwatched files waiting to be played.

Posted in family, Visualizations

Tagged DVD, movies, Samsung HDTV, TV, tv series

The Couch Needs Some Help

Posted on February 25, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I was looking at some pics when I noticed several tears on the living room couch. Hmmm… to think we don’t even sit there.

Whenever we go to our favorite department store, the kids and I enjoy looking at the furniture there. The couches always attract the most attention from us. Perhaps we know that our current couch needed some improvements to be done. New slipcovers perhaps or side tables?

I know that secretly we wish we could get a new couch but that is not even in the list of priorities.

Perhaps this is the perfect time to shop for a good slipcover cloth design. While there I can perhaps see what would be good for curtains and bedsheets.

What a nice excuse to go to the bargain stores! 😀

Posted in family, Me, Money Watch

Tagged couch, family, finances, home, lifestyle, living room, slipcovers

Bookstore Behavior

Posted on February 16, 2010 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

The kids love going to Power Books in TriNoma. Not only do they get to choose a book from a variety of choices but they get to read books there as well.

Having gone to that place, I noticed several things in the children’s books section that I feel I have to discuss with the children.

A child gets a book, looks at it and just drops it on the floor but parents/caregivers do not tell the child to pick it up and put it back where she/he got it from. Tsk, tsk.
There are children who will open up a sealed book and will just scan the pages and just leave the book where ever they want to.
There are small children who tend to make noise or just run around the place but are not told to stop.
Some moms/caregivers talk very loud with their children like they own the place and that there are no other people there. (I have a video of an incident where the mom was so angry at her daughter for misplacing their Power Books card. She was berating her daughter and the nannies, telling them they are @#$%^& for losing the card. Ugh!)

So with these things, I have taught the children some guidelines:

They can only read the books that have been already opened and NOT open those that are still sealed.
They can talk in a soft voice because others are reading and consider this place as a “library”. (Yeah, never mind if one of the people there is just reading about eczema treatment while sitting comfortably on the carpeted floor of the children’s books section)
Put back the books where they got it from, just like what they do at home.
Guard their space in case someone tries to sit while one got up to get/return a book 😀
Be courteous.

Posted in family, Interesting Topics, social consciousness, Urban Living

Tagged books, family, family bonding, lifestyle, Philippines, Power Books TriNoma, reading, social consciousness

View From the Second Floor Patio

Posted on February 13, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I enjoy going up the second floor patio of my MIL’s home.

There, while I sit on the stairs going to the third floor, I can see a whole lot of things like treetops, lovely sunset skies, the shell lamps hanging on the trellis, flowers below the trellis, flying birds and occasionally, big planes.

Yes, the space needs new patio furniture which is the reason why I sit on the stairs.