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99 Red Balloons on my Ukulele

  By Greg | July 5, 2011 - 12:21 am | Ukulele 1 Comment

This is a wikijam project if you would like to add to or remix this song in any way :)

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Kiva Micro Finance

  By Greg | June 29, 2010 - 9:41 pm | Health, Philosophy, politics 5 Comments

Yesterday I had a very conversation with my doctor. She had just finished a masters in politics and I didn’t have anything wrong with me so we ended up talking about global issues. She introduced me to Kiva, a micro finance organisation which links people with too much money to people with not enough money.

Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.

While studying on Gov Love (Centrelink calls it youth allowance) my income was in the top 10% in the world. That wage was enough for me to live comfortably. Currently I am working full time and I just invested $250 in a ukulele (plus a bit more on a case). If I can spend $250 on myself I think I can invest a little in a stranger by lending them a bit of cash to improve their lives.

You can see where I’ve chosen to invest my money here. Ideally I would like to target my loans towards education and health projects but there aren’t many options in those fields, I suppose everyone wants to support those fields. If you find something especially worthy of support please let me know so I can help out :)

FYI This is an F chord on a Ukulele :) but I still don’t have a mic :(

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Ukulele it is

  By Greg | June 26, 2010 - 5:43 pm | Music Leave a comment

The Ukulele had two votes to every one for the Banjo and Guitar (not including mine). Over 60 votes are recorded on the poll but 56 of them were computer generated to make me feel better about people actually caring what instrument I play :)

The search took the best part of the day but Allans Music sorted me out. When I entered there was a gentleman with his son playing the Ukuleles so I pressed him for advice and after 15 minutes I felt confident to start dealing with the sales persons. My new friend suggested paying at least $100 to get a good sound which he demonstrated by playing one of the $29 China jobs. I have no idea if I got a good deal but apparently it was end of year sales so my new toy, a KA-KC Kaia concert Hawaiian Koa Ukulele set me back $250 (reduced from $335). An electronic tuner set me back $10 but my card didn’t have enough money for a microphone, which is fine because I don’t think my playing is yet recording worthy :)

Ukulele

Cairns here I come!

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Sting instrument

  By Greg | June 21, 2010 - 8:25 pm | Music, poll 3 Comments

Being able to make music would be pretty cool so I’ve decided to buy a string instrument. Please help me decide, the choices I’m putting forward are;



5 string banjo

Acoustic guitar

Ukulele

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If you have any other options that you feel are missing from this poll, please comment and I’ll put them in :)

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