Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Payday Loans Are the Last Charity

There isn't enough day to day charity in the world. It's not often that it gets said but there is a lack of even basic charity for fellow men. I'm not sure if anyone takes time out of their day to help others the way they should be helped.

Here's the thing: everyone thinks charity is about big companies and organizations. They believe that if it's on some grand stage then there is more meaning behind it. If I give $50 to the Susan G. Coleman Foundation for breast cancer research or if I give someone on the street the help they need changing a tire, aren't they the same? Maybe, just maybe that $50 is the last money needed to help find a cure for a horrible disease which benefits millions. Maybe that flat tire only helps that one guy who, in turn, won't do that for anyone else.

Still, isn't the point of charity to do as you see needed? How many people would get out of their car to help, even if helping at that moment might actually make them feel better? The idea behind charity is to be kind to others, not just to do what everyone else is.

Charity always seems to be put in a box but it should be free to be done anywhere. It seems to be OK when the purpose is greater. Whatever happened to picking up someone's tab at a restaurant? What happened to paying for someone's gas? What happened to making the most of the day by helping someone else?

The closest thing we have to a charity these days is payday loans because they are always willing to help out whenever. But it takes more than a loan place to make the world better. It takes effort everyone. Until people make charity a choice it will continue to be a cold world.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Gold Coin in Weddings

We were so happy when my Dad, who’s working in the Middle East, volunteered to shoulder the cost of our weddings rings five years ago.  Middle East is known as the region where gold jewelries are sold the cheapest because of abundant gold sources there. We preferred a white gold one so what we did was we sent them our finger ring sizes as well as a sample picture of the design we wanted. When my dad arrived, I was so amazed to see the rings he bought because it looked exactly the same as that of the picture we sent him. We even had an extra bonus.  He said that a gold coin, a dozen of it, makes a good arrhae.  So we also had an instant, symbolic and precious arrhae!  Speaking of gold, there’s a wide variety of precious metals that are available at US Gold Bureau.  It’s one of the American trusted gold dealers and has been an industry setter for a long time.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Blemish-Free Faces (naks!)

We were invited to attend Joy’s daughters’ double celebration of baptism and birthday party last week.  Joy is an online friend but we discovered later on that she and dear husband are second degree cousins.  Hubby’s maternal grandmother and Joy’s paternal grandmother are sisters.  So one blood runs through their veins and yes, it is indeed a small world after all.

Most of our Twitter Bebot friends were also there.  We loved the TGI Friday’s food.  The kids had a great time.  Twitter Bebot Moms had a grand time chatting, camwhoring, and thanking Kelly for her sample vitamins (LOL). 

Party

Stunning eh?  Kudos to the photographer, Jojo, (fellow Twitter Bebot Alpha’s husband).  He really did a great job capturing this photo.  Do take special notice of our skin.  It appears that the best acne treatment cream isn’t needed at all because of our blemish-free faces.  Thank you, Jojo, for that wonderful magic. Hehe!

Could It Be Lappy’s Wifi?

I don’t know what’s exactly wrong but I noticed that I have been experiencing intermittent internet connection at random times of the day since last week. Sometimes, it’ll just last for about 30 secs (the connection icon on the taskbar would suddenly display a yellow exclamation mark). Other times, it lasts for about 3 minutes or longer. The weird part is that I can browse at my iTouch while my lappy experiences that so that means there’s nothing wrong with the internet connection itself. Hmmm, could there be something wrong with my laptop’s wifi? Geez, hope there’s none. I’m entirely dependent on my laptop for my online life and work. I surely wouldn’t need those herbal weight loss pills as I would really lose weight and be problematic if something will go wrong with my lappy. Here’s wishing that everything’s just okay or else…. double whammy! :(

Gold Coin Collection

Our neighbors owning the 6th unit finally moved in two weeks ago.  I haven’t gotten inside but I saw the lavish home wall decors that they have.  I noticed that they have a huge frame of a coin collection.  When I got to talk to the wife of the owner, she said that the coins are from various countries with different values and wide array of colors from gold to silver to copper. From afar, I noticed that she has gold coins the most.  There is a number of silver and platinum coins as well but not as much as the gold. She got most of them from her travels abroad. She mentioned about United States Gold Bureau..I think it's from there that she got her latest addition to the collection. She said that more than a hobby, she's having it as an investment since rare coins and precious metals make good fortune if traded wisely.