Category: Family

It’s My Blog’s Anniversary Today!

I’ve been blogging for over a decade already starting out with my online/email newsletter called “BURN! Express” back in 1999-2002. It was actually an unofficial fun/entertainment newsletter which I headed for the then current and former employees of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Philippines (C.L. Manabat/Navarro, Amper & Co currently).

By 2003, I started using Friendster and LiveJournal alternately in writing my thoughts and opinion about politics, religion, trekking, sports, personal advocacies, music, UFO’s, and relationships. I was also contributing articles to newspapers, reflection guides, and youth-oriented magazines and the experience was simply overwhelming. Continue reading It’s My Blog’s Anniversary Today!

How Scholarship Grants Can Jumpstart Your Bright Future

When I finished high school I never expected to go to college in spite of passing the entrance exams of some of the top universities in Manila. Imagine a reed-thin high-schooler in me joining his classmates in exploring the hot, filthy, smoggy city of Manila taking chances of passing entrance exams even though there was no guarantee that I could enroll come the next school year.

I was already setting my sights to becoming either a security guard, a soldier, a janitor, a priest, an insurance salesman, an MLM scammer, a not-so-macho dancer, etc. since my father was sick and jobless and we just could not ask for help all the time from our relatives abroad. Not that they don’t want to help us, but it’s just not in my father’s vocabulary to ask for help from them. He always reminded us to work on our own to achieve what we want and to strive hard in order to get what we need. Continue reading How Scholarship Grants Can Jumpstart Your Bright Future

The Most Hilarious Stock Market Terms (And Everything Else)

If you have noticed, I have not been writing more often in the past few weeks. I just kept on sharing old articles in social sites just to keep the financial literacy awareness going.

It’s because I have been involved in more financial literacy projects in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, UAE (Dubai), Singapore, and elsewhere around the world through the help of so many kababayans who are more than willing to volunteer in educating our fellowmen on how to achieve financial independence.

But before I mention a couple of those projects, here’s a dose of stock market investment jokes to perk up your middle of the week as an investor. This has been circulating around the internet community for sometime but it feels great (and crazy) sharing it to my readers. 😀 Continue reading The Most Hilarious Stock Market Terms (And Everything Else)