Category: Mind-Setting

“If Only A Tricycle Can Drive Me Home This Christmas….”

This Christmas Eve, over a couple of million Filipinos work overseas defying the extreme biting weather, racial discrimination, abuse, violence, and loneliness. What makes it more difficult for most of these OFW’s is that they have to (not) celebrate the Christmas season away from home.

I could imagine a mother working as a domestic helper in the Middle East sobbing like a child as she misses her young kids. She’s dying to embrace their little bodies as she washes off the bodies of children she’s not even related to. How she wish she could prepare and serve the Noche Buena for them. But 12 midnight is her work’s rush hour, thousands of miles away from home.

Or an engineer father in Africa who has never been home for more than 2 years and has never even witnessed the birth of his first and only child. He only wishes to spend one day with his child and wife. Just today. Just for tonight. Continue reading “If Only A Tricycle Can Drive Me Home This Christmas….”

What’s The Best Business for OFW’s?

I have been receiving inquiries from overseas Filipino workers asking whether there’s a particular good business that they can start in the Philippines while they are out of the country.

First of all, I believe that any kind of endeavor and project that a person desires to enter into requires physical presence and hands-on management.

In the same manner, starting  a business in your home country while you are working overseas means you have to take the risk of entrusting your hard-earned money to a close relative, a friend, or to a hired qualified professional.

So before I give my personal suggestions on what specific business can be run while out of the Philippines, let me ask back the inquirers these 10 questions first: Continue reading What’s The Best Business for OFW’s?

Our Frugal Yet Elegant Wedding

December is one of the favorite months for getting married. It’s also one of the most expensive months because of Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations.

My wife and I dreamed of having an elegant yet simple church wedding. But after praying over and realizing the importance of a life-long marriage than focusing on having an extravagant wedding, we decided to have a pretty frugal one but can still be described as great and unforgettable. Continue reading Our Frugal Yet Elegant Wedding