tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55572776648693804882024-03-19T16:49:36.654+08:00Coffeetable BlogSee What's Brewingtoguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-32671423937139228522010-05-18T09:04:00.010+08:002010-05-18T18:17:07.860+08:00Free Audiobook Downloads for May from ChristianaudioFor this month, Christianaudio offers two audiobook downloads, absolutely free.The first one is E. M. Bounds: A Man of Prayer by Lyle Dorsett. The author wrote this account of Bounds' life from information provided by Bounds' family, with the intention of increasing awareness and knowledge of his life's works.The coupon code for this download is MAYPRAY.The next free audiobook is The Hole in toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-65474502224686851522010-04-05T17:16:00.003+08:002010-04-05T17:28:44.067+08:00Stuff Christians Like: Free Audiobook Download of the Month Christianaudio's free download for the month is Jonathan Acuff's Stuff Christians Like.Sometimes the stuff that comes with faith is funny. That's the tagline for this book, and although I haven't read it yet (still have to download it tonight), it actually got me interested (and excited, I have to say).There's always something about being counter-mainstream that gets me high and going. I don't toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-22819043080526820342010-03-03T10:48:00.008+08:002010-03-03T14:58:06.309+08:00A Different Kind of IPODNote: Got this hereAccording to the Philippine Renal Disease Registry, 5,000 Filipinos who develop end-stage renal (kidney-related) disease are suitable kidney transplants. But only a handful of them ever get a transplant, and many die while waiting for a donor (source here). One of the reasons pointed out is that organ donation mostly came from living individuals. Very few actually gave consent toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-24682396940769638622010-03-02T13:12:00.006+08:002010-03-02T13:39:34.263+08:00Two Free Audiobook Downloads from Christianaudio.comAs part of the Easter celebration, Christianaudio.com is giving away two audiobook downloads for the month of March. The first book is The Cost of Discipleship by Deitrich Bonhoeffer. Based on the background information, the focus of the book is the differentiation of cheap grace and costly faith. Quite a relevant topic in modern-day Christianity. You may want to check out Wikipedia as well toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-53523835491078912592010-02-04T09:28:00.006+08:002010-02-04T12:53:48.724+08:00Religion Saves - Free Audiobook of the MonthChristianaudio.com's free audiobook for the month of February 2010 is Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions by Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church. The book is the result of a poll that the church did on what people consider as the biggest issues and questions that they seek answers for. The top 9 questions are the ones that are being discussed in the book.To get your free copy, click on toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-64079100241167682372010-01-08T13:07:00.003+08:002010-01-08T13:07:00.078+08:00Jesus Calling: Free Audiobook Download of the MonthChristianaudio.com is giving away complimentary download copies of Jesus Calling by Sarah Young for the whole month of January 2010. The complimentary copy is actually worth $14.98. Read the description of the book from Christianaudio site itself:"Jesus Calling is a devotional filled with uniquely inspired treasures from heaven for every day of the year. After many years of writing in her prayertoguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-43775284997879016882010-01-01T05:16:00.000+08:002010-01-01T05:16:00.370+08:00Avatar: Enjoy the ViewIf projections are accurate, Avatar is now on its way to making up to $1B in ticket sales. And by all means it is a very beautiful and meticulously created movie. That's as far as the cinematics and graphics are concerned, in my opinion. Otherwise, I and some of the people around me would have to say that the storyline is barely passable, and the all-too-obvious attempts to convey social and toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-46623692391664984252009-12-19T19:00:00.005+08:002009-12-19T19:41:56.854+08:00Update on Paypal's Wishlist promoJust a quick update on the promo, particularly on the Terms and Conditions (meaning, how you can get paid):1. You and the person you invited both have to be in the eligible countries (India, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia or Singapore) to be paid or to get credit for your invites. The Terms and Conditions state:"If you reside outside of the Eligible Countries, you toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-35759466195295531812009-12-17T09:09:00.005+08:002009-12-17T09:43:41.957+08:00Christmas Gift from Paypal (up to $100!) Everybody could use some extra cash, whether it's Christmas time or not. And even though you won't be able to enjoy the cash that you can get from Paypal's promo until after the Christmas season, it's still spending money of up to $100. With hardly any additional effort. Here's the mechanics:1. You should have a Facebook account. If you don't have one, go make one and get at least 99 of your toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-74887551270633122622009-11-01T10:10:00.001+08:002009-11-01T10:10:00.452+08:00This is another Facebook game similar to other farm-tending games like Farmville, Farmtown and Country Story. I just thought of checking it out after seeing a friend's post about it. The very first thing that came to mind was that it looks and feels a lot like Ranch Rush of Yahoo!, although there isn't any character that you order around to do jobs. Games like these are already so common in toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-5067300584632300712009-10-29T11:23:00.001+08:002009-10-29T11:23:00.630+08:00Einstein No BrainerYahoo! Shine recently featured the product refund in the US for Baby Einstein videos primarily because they (quoting the article) "...did not, as promised, turn babies into wunderkinds." You can read the full article by clicking on the pic at the left.As a parent of young kids, I am sure I have a couple of such videos at home, along with other kid staples like Barney, Sesame Street, Backyardiganstoguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-72752321880574169442009-10-26T23:29:00.000+08:002009-10-27T00:18:18.635+08:00All These Lemons!Been reading about lemons on the Net lately, after that night when I thought of throwing a slice of lemon on my glass of water. The rest of what you will read below is a recollection of what I've come across so far, as far my recall goes.A simple Google search led me to a couple of sites about Master Cleanse, which is a detox/weight reduction approach using primarily lemons and not much else. toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-88746536213351034142009-10-23T23:15:00.000+08:002009-10-23T23:15:00.484+08:00The Fun TheoryHow would you like to take the stairs rather than the escalator or the elevator? Would you pick up your trash if you missed shooting it in the garbage bin? Maybe you would, but it won't be something that you would look forward to, right? But what if tasks like these that are obviously good for us can be fun to do, encouraging us to even go out of our way to be able to do it? That is the fun toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-41448995088658286182009-10-20T22:27:00.000+08:002009-10-20T22:27:00.825+08:00GForce: Nobody Is OrdinaryIt's quite encouraging to find movies that both kids and adults can enjoy, with each one getting the point of the movie in somewhat different ways. I don't think my 4-year-old son understood it when one of the rodents said something about rising to the occasion and becoming great because somebody believed in you, regardless of where you started. But I do think he got the fact that even a rodenttoguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-35771461164870724392009-10-18T22:23:00.000+08:002009-10-18T22:23:00.369+08:00Cafe World: Some ExperiencesJust a quick follow up on what I've been learning about Cafe World. These include friend visits, renovations, and use of friend gifts.Friendship Has Its Limits I mentioned before that friend visits will allow you to earn xp points and coins at least once a day. But I thought back then that the xp and coins you will earn will depend on the level of your friend. Turns out it's a random thing. toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-63588399947408997152009-10-17T20:52:00.005+08:002009-10-17T21:35:11.468+08:00Rai Rai Ken @ Mall of Asia: A Real Self-Service RestaurantForgive this rant, I just have to get it out of my chest. Hopefully, something good can still come out of this. I just got back to Manila from my trip to Cebu a few days back (see my post), and was really looking forward to a nice dinner with my family who picked me up at the airport. We headed for Mall of Asia, and we were already inside World of Chicken when we noticed the place is already toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-62238594768280121152009-10-14T09:57:00.000+08:002009-10-14T09:57:00.297+08:0015 Minutes Of Good Financial Education and moreI am in Cebu City today, as part of a group from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) or the Central Bank of the Philippines. Tomorrow, I will be one of the resource speakers on BSP's Public Information Campaign, which is part of the continuing activities of BSP's Economic and Financial Learning Center. My role is to discuss the topic of electronic money, which has been my exposure for about atoguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-3919038164538117452009-10-11T18:39:00.002+08:002009-10-11T18:39:00.328+08:00KFC vs. Jollibee : Nobody But You ShowdownJust a little spontaneous event from my everyday surroundings...Enjoy!So, which one dance better? Let me see your votes.Have a nice day!toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-85446151612969192832009-10-09T01:58:00.002+08:002009-10-31T23:15:36.459+08:00Cafe World on FacebookZynga recently launched Cafe World, it's very own game to match the other restaurant games in Facebook. The game has the same look and feel as Restaurant City. And perhaps that's really the intention, because they are the only ones in the same category among cafe/ restaurant game types in Facebook. However, it has some significant differences from each other.I have just started in the game, but toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-76087780412304456942009-10-03T13:38:00.007+08:002009-10-04T10:27:26.339+08:00How To Make Money Online: Simple Ad PlacementAs I am building my list of How To Make Money Online, let me start off on the simplest way to do it for bloggers: hosting ads. This method simply requires that you put an HTML code somewhere in your blog, which would allow ad hosting sites like those above to show ads of advertisers that they have a partnership with. With the availability of widget programs, placing the code is simply as toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-69110911548743380722009-09-25T10:28:00.006+08:002009-09-25T13:54:21.770+08:00Spanking and The Good BookLately, it's a rare week when I hardly come across some news through one mass media or another about the "evils" of spanking a child. So-called "experts" upon "experts" laud the benefits of alternative discipline approaches such as time-outs, reasoning, etc. This is well and good except that this campaign for alternative approaches is also coupled with a barrage of images and reports of toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-2954429894003285852009-09-22T21:25:00.000+08:002009-09-22T21:37:10.279+08:00Exposure: A Photo Workshop book by Jeff WignallOnce in a while you come across a book that explains a topic so well, it gives you that boost of enthusiasm to pursue something that you've started but has been laying on the wayside for quite some time already. Jeff Wignall explained the topic of exposure so well and in a way where I can pick up my camera and start shooting with purpose. The topics are discussed with an eye for practicality, toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-6470354424114214522009-09-20T17:08:00.009+08:002009-10-04T10:31:10.752+08:00How To Make Money With Your Blog: The ListThe following is a list of sites that offer some ways for you to make money through your blog. Some of these do not require that you do anything more other than setting it up in your blog. Others require some daily activity to be performed from your end to make it work. There are those that pay directly in cash, while others are a way for you to earn in an indirect manner, usually through an toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-1041618280589361342009-09-18T17:21:00.011+08:002009-09-19T17:05:36.382+08:00The Other Side of CompoundingIf you've read my post about compounding here, I hope it inspired you to start saving a portion of the money that pass your way starting TODAY, since time is probably the best friend of your money if you can find a place to park it with interest. However, it's expected that such a simple (yet powerful) concept is also not lost on other people. So, before you even start setting aside some cash totoguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557277664869380488.post-76190486042133815282009-09-16T08:59:00.009+08:002009-09-16T13:39:13.074+08:00Of McDonald's and Ford Everest"Ahh...you were ahhh...speeding...ahhh Sir. Can I..ahhh...can I, ....can I get your ....ahhh license please?" Imagine being flagged down by a cop for speeding and when he goes over to you he stammers and falters, feeling so shy that he has to check on you. Well, that's how it's gonna be if you have one of the newest toy from Ford, the all-new Ford Everest. At least that's how it's being marketed toguintshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666815185497779148noreply@blogger.com0