Archive | September, 2009

29 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

We raised over $6,000 with PhilippineAid.com – Status Update

The Good News
In our aggressive, social-media driven campaign that lasted less than 48 hours, Philippine Aid managed to generate a total of $6,647.51 in PayPal donations. You may have noticed that the ChipIn Event we used to monitor our progress has ended. This is due to the fact that PayPal has flagged our account and [...]

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27 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The Philippines Needs YOUR Help

At the time of writing, 73 people have died and over 300,000 people have been displaced by Tropical Storm Ketsana (local name “Ondoy”) that struck the Philippines with heavy, torrential rains on Saturday, September 26, 2009. (link)
Waters rose to as much as 5 meters high in some areas and the Philippines, seeing the worst flooding [...]

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21 September 2009 ~ 6 Comments

Maid Love

It finally happened. Earlier this month, my family went ahead and hired a stay in maid. Now, this is not the first time that my household had a maid and there was actually a point in time when we had three. Five years ago though, after my parents retired, we had to cut some corners [...]

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08 September 2009 ~ 8 Comments

Two things that could ruin my wedding

From what I have observed in myself over the course of me proposing to my girlfriend to now, there are two potentially devastating things about me that could turn my wedding, which is a mere three months away, into one gigantic clusterfuck.
Let me explain: preparing for a wedding isn’t exactly cheap–to put things into perspective, [...]

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