Category Archives: Interesting Topics

We Love Adele

Posted on February 14, 2012 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

What’s not to love about Adele?

She wows us with her performance sans muscled men, grand fireworks, and back-up dancers in exotic costumes: just pure vocal prowess that touch the heart strings.

That song, “Rolling in the Deep” had a lot of people relating to and the song “Someone Like You” had people cry and remember.

From young girls who strive to be like her, to wanna-be singers who are making ends meet pushing computer carts and waiting on tables and to people who just know good talent when they see one, people just love listening to her soulful voice.

Congratulations for winning Best Pop Solo Performance for “Someone Like You”, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Short Form Music

“Mum, girl did good!” You sure did girl, you sure did 🙂

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Do Your Earn Anything in Facebook?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

What have you earned when you clocked in 40 hours/month (give and take) when logged in Facebook? If you are logged in because you are a social media handler of a product or a company handling Facebook pages, then you are earning your keep. This will enable you to issue ach checks when needed.

But if you are just FB-ing to read updates, look at photos, watch videos and chat with your friends, you definitely are not earning a penny from it. As a blogger, I must say that I earn traffic when I share my posts/links in my FB page. Earning in this context means monetary benefits.

What is my gist? We spend a lot of time in FB which takes away time to be more productive, to do other tasks that need active physical participation. Logging out means we get to bond more with our loved ones rather than just saying we love spending time with them. Logging out means we get to spend quiet time with ourselves.

And by the way, we made some FB people millionaires.

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Pagmimina sa Pilipinas

Posted on January 19, 2012 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

Sa kabila ng pagsasabing “It’s more fun in the Philippines” dapat din bigyan ng pansin ang nakalulungkot na kalagayan ng ating kapiligiran bunga ng pagmimina.

Narito ang ilang mga larawang nagpapakita ng ilan lang mga lugar na mayroong pagmimina sa Pilipinas:

Surigao del Sur

Surigao del Sur

Rapu-rapu

Rapu-rapu

Benguet

Benguet

Walang watermark kasi ang mga ito ay larawan ng mga larawang kinunan ko mula sa isang diskusyon tungkol sa pagmimina sa Pilipinas, partikular sa Palawan.

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Milestones

Posted on January 18, 2012 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Last weekend, we went to a 65th birthday celebration of a family friend. She and her husband are one of our few pairs of husbands and wives pairs for our wedding’s principal sponsors.

Party

The children were at the party though it was strictly an adult party. The celebrant told my MIL, that they have to be there because she and the MIL have been good friends for a long time already and the grandchildren are also dear to her.

I love dress up parties even if it means I’ll probably have a hard time looking for the proper clothes for me. These words demotivate me at times: plus size dresses cheap. Not! these are mostly not that inexpensive. I’d probably put up with a little expense if only these don’t come in plus size. I know, I’m in denial.

I got a new realization during this particular celebration: that the golden girls can dance the night away, in dancing dresses and heels! Woot, woot!!!

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Environmental Risks

Posted on January 18, 2012 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

Mining

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