Category Archives: Weekly Questions

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.

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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?

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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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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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Population Explosion in the Philippines

Posted on August 3, 2008 by greenbucks| 32 Comments

The Philippines is the world’s 12th most populous country, with a population of over 90 million as of 2008. This is according to this article.

This is not surprising, given the stance of the Catholic Church on birth control method. Click here for the official Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines statement on Contraceptive Mentality.

The way the government seem to agree with the church regarding the issue is also a factor which contributed to the fact that the population boom is escalating and there are really clear actions how to stop the numbers from escalating.

The USAID has been supporting The Philippine Family Program for years and the objectives that they have outlined are agreeable with me. Click here to read the Factsheet.

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The WQ#11 was inspired by the answer of Lovelyn to WQ#10 regarding the Little Girl and I want to know your opinion on this very important and controversial topic of Family Planning Issues and the ballooning population of the country:

Should people heed the call of the Catholic Church to not use artificial means of contraception/reproductive health products and services OR should they go ahead, talk to their doctors and plan for how they want to practice family planning?

My answer:

I believe in the stance of the church that people should not contradict the “fruitfulness of human reproductive capacities given by the Creator and hence are morally wrong”. But on second thought, the church should not pass judgment on people regarding their stance on the use of artificial contraception as morally wrong.

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