Maxed Out, a documentary about credit card debt

Short Synopsis (from the website):
Maxed Out takes viewers on a journey deep inside the American style of debt, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. With coverage that spans from small American towns all the way to the White House, the film shows how the [...]

AlJazeera English: Abuse of Indonesian Maids

Source: Wikipedia
AlJazeera English: Maids in a living hell
Thousands of Asian women leave their homes each year to seek better jobs abroad as domestic workers. Many of them are treated well, but some – subjected to physical and mental abuse – endure a living hell.

Krispy Kreme SM Mega Mall

Source: Wikipedia

This is my first post under the Mystery Shopping category.
I visited the SM Mega Mall branch of Krispy Kreme last Saturday at about 10:30 AM. I was to meet a close friend that day and needed a place to wait. I could have stayed at any of the two branches of Starbucks [...]

Strawberries and Blueberries

I was at Rustan’s Supermarket last Satuday afternoon and saw that Rustan’s now sells imported strawberries and blueberries from the USA.

Pet Peeve: Annoying Message Board Threads

I must confess, one of my pet peeves are stupid posts on internet message boards. Posting questions which are obviously answerable by doing a Google search on the web, reading the instructions or FAQs of a website or asking the institution directly.
I am not being mean here. Some things can be answered by [...]

New Zealand Film Festival

The film festival is collective of several film festivals that will happen in major New Zealand cities such as Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland and Dunedin.
This year the Filipino film, Tuli of Auraeus Solito (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros) will be shown to New Zealand audiences. 

Latest New Zealand Immigration Headlines

NZ Herald: Migration policies are bad for the economy, says academic (5:00AM Tuesday July 10, 2007 By Angela Gregory)
New Zealand’s immigration policies attract far fewer skilled migrants than suggested and while good at building new suburbs are bad for the economy, says a Massey University academic.

NZ Herald: Migrant reduction puzzles business (12:00PM Friday July [...]

Does Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) Work?

What is DCA?
Dollar cost averaging is an investing technique intended to reduce exposure to risk associated with making a single large purchase. The idea is simple: spend a fixed dollar amount at regular intervals (e.g., monthly) on a particular investment or portfolio/part of a portfolio, regardless of the share price. In this way, more shares [...]

Maraka - A Dora Spoof

New Phone

Last Saturday, June 30, I bought a new mobile phone.  It is a Nokia 6300.  The price was about PHP12,500 or around USD275.
I had to buy a new phone because my old one, the Nokia 3230 is nearing the end of its life.  I kid you not, my old phone goes loco every Saturday.  [...]