It’s been more than a year since we last updated our database of scams and potential scammers targeting Filipinos here and abroad so we really have to watch out for the new ones preying on our poor kababayans.
Time to identify some of the recently identified and suspected scams.
Huwag nang patagalin pa. Here they are: Continue reading ALERT! New Scams to Avoid (2014)
Many Filipinos have forgotten when and how the Philippines hooked up to the global internet. And a lot even do not know that the first Philippine link to the Internet happened at the first International E-mail conference in University of San Carlos in Cebu on March 29, 1994.
That was the same date when the Philippine Stock Exchange’s Stratus Trading System (STS) was linked with the MakTrade trading system to produce a One Price-One Market exchange. Something our young investors should at least remember. However, during these years, investing in the stock market would mean interacting with a broker either via the telephone and not online.
Fast forward 20 years, the internet has helped improve our investing journey by giving us the opportunity to buy our stocks and top up our funds by just logging online. It has also helped us establish and organize our financial literacy advocacy for Filipinos in the Philippines and abroad. For those who are not aware, the educational projects of Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy, together with its OFW UsapangPiso wing, are being run by Filipino volunteers from all over the world communicating mostly only via the internet and the social media. Continue reading Investing From Phoneline To Online – 20 Years of Philippine Internet
When I was a young student, I always get anxious in the morning before going to school. I worry that I’ll be scolded by my teacher if I did something wrong. I was also scared of my bully classmates who teased and hurt me whenever they had the opportunity to do so.
I was also a very emotional child and so much attached to my parents, grandparents, and aunts. I could not focus much on the lectures as I easily miss the company of my loved ones back home. It’s not that I depend too much on them but it’s more of the affection that a young child in me that I was longing for.
Apart from all these, here are some other reasons why this time around, I will never let my child’s happy moments be taken away by the old and traditional way of elementary schooling. Here’s an infographic to illustrate what I’m talking about. Continue reading Why We Look Forward to Homeschooling Our Child