Category Archives: Me

How to Fight the Bulge

Posted on February 23, 2011 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

Am smiling like crazy reading this article about the 4 Mistakes People Make in Fighting Ab Flab.

1. Parking in front of the TV. GUILTY! I love watching my favorite TV series in internet TV. Sometimes even if I have to read tons of articles like health conditions, diet pill reviews and the current fitness program for an online work, my attention is diverted to my favorite TV series or online movies.

2. Stressing out. GUILTY but am NOT GUILTY eating the munchies when I’m stressed. Really.

3. Diving into that bread basket. GUILTY depending on what kind of bread there is. Warm bread is pretty much a favorite and with cream cheese, I’m a happy camper.

4. Munching late at night. ME? I don’t think so. Oh, hubby, can you please not eat all those garlic peanuts and save some for me? 😀

Oops, were not having peanuts tonight, that was last night, we are having flaxseed crackers now. And two mugs of coffee shared between us. Argh!

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The End of Blogging is at Hand

Posted on February 21, 2011 by greenbucks| 3 Comments

Is it the end of blogging as Social Media and Microblogging sites gain momentous popularity?

Let me rephrase that, is blogging so 2006, said with emphasis on soooo and with rolling eyes? (this was the year I started blogging, LOL). Did people lose their passion for blogging?

Should I get my tumblr account then? I already have a Facebook page for my teacher blog and am thinking of doing another Facebook page for my other blogs. Nah, probably not yet but if blog traffic don’t improve, I might do that soon, if only it drives traffic to the blogs. Real traffic and not spam comments.

Years ago, when bloggers were still a source of honest-to-goodness-unbiased-and-not-given-freebies-and-tokens-to-create-buzz-marketing reviews of everything from restaurants, products, resorts, colon cleansing, spa, hotels and products and services, blogs were revered.

Now, people are more discerning and can sniff a real review from a not-so-real one. I’ve got people asking me about this because they’ve read the same contents in blog posts from one blog to another.

Netizens, especially the younger generation have too little attention span to read or write blogs so they love the 140 character status updates of Twitter -> to please follow me there: TeacherJulie (why, they even make this as a public announcement for friends to avoid spending on sms, 😀 ), the status update in Facebook and the reblogging and copy-pasting in Tumblr.

I’d stick to blogging. For now.

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Tummy Fillers

Posted on February 20, 2011 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Just recently I launched a food blog called Plateful of Fun Tummy Fillers.

This is not updated regularly since I don’t have much food photos, either food I cooked or food we had when we dine out. We don’t really have fancy meals cooked at home. The children love to have hot meals with lots of flavorful soup so we usually have stews, the regular “Filipino” viand.

I don’t usually cook oily food because I want the children not to get used to oily food. Who doesn’t enjoy grease every now and then, I do but if I do this regularly, I’d be needing slimquick and/or hypertension meds or I’d end up very sick. So, there, no thanks.

For variety, once or twice a week, we have pasta for dinner which the children absolutely love.

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The Mechanic Movie Review

Posted on February 14, 2011 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

The hubby and I watched the movie “The Mechanic” last night at SM North EDSA.

The movie was good though the cinema experience was another story, hmph.

I am not really a fan of action movies because the sound of punches, kicks and head butts on another body makes me cringe. The Mechanic had all those and then some. To my surprise, though I tend to get hyped up with the action scenes, I enjoyed the movie.

Imagine glasses shattering, furniture being destroyed, cars blowing up, fire power on display, going down buildings while being shot at and a platoon of bodyguards for the mean man in the movie. I missed car chases showing gadgets like gps or best radar detector 2010 on the dashboard scenes though.  The movie has these and more.

I can’t really put a finger on how and why I did but thinking about it made me realize that:

  • Jason Statham is a convincing “mechanic” because he is methodical, low-profile and quiet.
  • Ben Foster, as his apprentice who is incidentally the son of the mentor he killed is one who likes to put on a show during jobs he needs to get done. I wanted to say out loud, “don’t get him involved, grrr!” LOL

Though the ending was something I anticipated, the way it was executed came as a surprise to me.

I Googled the movie and found out there was an earlier movie like this with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent. Hmmm… I hope we would be able to find this and watch it too 😀

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Giving Gifts to a Godchild

Posted on February 10, 2011 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

This photo of a candle was taken by my son when we attended the baptismal rites of a godson. Together with momblogger friends I met on the web, we made up the list of godmothers.

Candles

What is the perfect gift for godchildren during baptism rites? Clothes? Books? Toys? XBox gadget with xbox 360 controller (hmmm…)? Stroller? Gift certificates?

Whatever the gift is, it is important that it came from the heart, no matter if it is inexpensive or otherwise.

One more thing, this gift that came from the heart should not be a re-gift (which I don’t see as a problem as long as one is not compromised) or switched with a bigger one during reception 😀

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