Inspirational Qoutes

#ALDubEBTamangPanahon Breaks Record

ALDUB Tamang Panahon, the most awaited event for EAT BULAGA's KALYE SERYE EPISODE.

Lola Nidora, a fictional character brilliantly played by Wally Bayola finally gave her permition to Alden and YAYA DUB to finally meet, date, and start their courtship in person.

Lola Nidora invited ALDUB Fans at PHILIPPINE ARENA to watch the TAMANG PANAHON. PHILIPPINE ARENA seats 55,000 and ended their ticket sales to at least 14 Million Pesos which will go in their nationwide school library campaign (selected schools) and of course in helping the affected areas hit by typhoon Lando.

Fans from the arena and all over the world bring their excitement to twitter world and break the world cup record of 38 Million Tweets.

EAT BULAGA once again proves that they are the best and the longest running noon time show in the Philippines.

Beading a decoration

Over the week where I am super idles since I left my job. I noticed a destroyed table clock where it hasnt been used for a long time. So I decided to start creating my own masterpiece from a trash to something decorative.

I already started to add the beads but then I realized that I havent took a photo of the old table clock as a remembrance of how it looks like before recreating it to something that I can use.

After a painsticking adding all different kinds of beads. This is now how it looks like. An all new table decoration.

My next project is adding crystal beads on my curtain. So watch out for it.

Crystal Beaded Lampshade

Last year I bought a lampshade in Baclaran. Baclaran is where I buy some of my stuff as they are cheaper compared to its mall price. For my readers abroad, Baclaran is like a stretch of wet market, vendors sell their stuff in a store or at the street. This is where you can buy really cheaper things compared to its mall counter price. This are brandless stuff though and most are imitations.

So going back, I bought this cool chargeable lampshade which is very helpful during brownouts. Since i started beading I decided to add color and style to it so I covered it with crystal beads which are left overs when I started creating the full bead pouch.

Here's the end result of my FULL BEAD LAMPSHADE.

I am recreating a table clock. Stay tuned for the new creation.

Inspirational Qoutes

Inspirational Quotes

For this week, I would like to share another set of 5 inspirational quotes.

Some Friendly Tips to Overseas Filipino Workers

If you ask a Filipino who is working abroad why they are enduring the pain of moving away from their family. You'd definitely hear almost the same answer, "its for the betterment of my families economic situation". This I would say fire my countrymen to do better in whatever they do in their respective work abroad. However, I am sad to say this could also be a trap towards their economic freedom.

For every OFW, when they are aboard the plane going to their country destination they have full of hopes and aspiration and determination to provide a better living to their family. Must I would guess that the following list are either on their top priority or at least in their list of hundreds of priority these are: food on families table, gadgets for the kids, housing and house repairs and the list goes onh:

For me, there's no problem in achieving all that but what should an OFW so that they wont waste their time abroad and secure their family future.

1. FAMILY MEMBERS UNDERSTANDING ON EXPENSES

Before leaving the Philippines you should make sure that you present your plan on how you handle your finances with your family member. Explain to them in detail as to how you are going to handle your salary. It should be very specific and it would depend on you as to how you should break it down. Here is my example given that I will be working abroad:

Family Expenses - 20% of salary this will cover city services and food.

Education - 20% to 30% of salary (this would depend if your child is in grade school or college)

Savings - 30% of salary should be placed in savings.

Your Personal Expenses - 10% of salary

You can of course make your own divition of expenses. I am sure you would know your own salary before even leaving the Philippines so practically you would know how you would devide your salary and stick with the family goal.

2. SAVING ACCOUNTS AND INTERNET BANKING CAPABILITY

SAVINGS ACCOUNT - make sure you open a bank account in a reputable banks and that it has internet banking capabilities.

Having an internet banking capability would allow you to ensure that you can deposit deposit a fraction of your salary to a savings account. Also having the internet banking capability would allow you to monitor your own money.

3. FREE OFF FROM DEBTS

Make sure that during the family discussion you would also discuss to them how you can pay off your debts. Also, let them understand to stay away from debts as possible.

Stick to your goal. Ofcourse you wanted to work abroad not only because you want to provide for your families immediate need but also to make sure you are preparing for your future.

4. LEARN HOW TO SAY NO

The tendency of Filipinos working abroad is to give everything to their family member. When we say family member it means to them providing for thier immediate family and extended family.

Birthday parties and gadgets are not a priority in life. You have to understand also that working abroad is not permanent. Time will come and you will have to come back. Everyone that I know after their life abroad they come home broke and that is what you should avoid.

Its not your obligation to provide for everyone rather it is your obligation to provide your love ones a better life and not an extravagant life.

That is why it is important to draw a line upto when can you provide as to how much you can give to your immediate and extended family. Let them understand that you also want to come home and spend more time with your family let them know that you wanna come home and not worrying that you are unable to pay your own medicine and electric bill.

5. INVESTMENTS

House is not an investment. Worry about beautifying or buying a house at a later date. When you are free of debts start building your mutual funds, start buying your health insurance, start investing in money making but not pyramiding or any other networking. I dont have againts it but better make sure that you have enough money in your mutual funds and that you have made sure you are invested for any health insurance. Then if you have extra then you can reconsider other stuff.

6. GIVE EACH FAMILY MEMBER A ROLE

For married OFW, encourage your spouse to help you in generating money. Example, paying of electric bills and everyday food. This way everyone has a role in building financial stability within the family.  Make sure your children understand and practice saving. In this way you can alot more money in preparing for your children's education.

If you are single, it is far way easier for you to build your own financial stability. All you need to worry is your parents well fair. If you have siblings that is still in college then you can help them but you also have to make it clear upto when can you provide.

Inspirational Qoutes

I also would like to fill my life with positivity and best way for me to be positive is to be inspired. For this week, I have five inspirational quotes that can positively impact on how I see things.

My Memento with my Previous Job

When there is hello definitely there will always be goodbye. This time around I am saddened and at the same time happy because I am moving to the next phase of my professional career. So I have captured some comments and farewell messages to make sure I have something to look back whenever I need encouragement.

I am very grateful with the set of client I have during these past few years appreciative as they are and very down to earth! I will surely miss them all.

Start the Month with Bible Verses

So over the week, I had been contemplating on things that draws people to negativity and bad attitude. I realize that a person full of anger, fear and hate has a different outlook in life and exudes untoward attitude hated by many.

So for the whole month of October I shall learn to understand things and try not to be angry. I will do the best I can to be more understanding towards different personality as this will make me  better not by others but better of me than yesterday.

I will try to be more understanding because even the bible God has spoken about loving and hating. Hate will drag us to our grave full of grief.

I hope that one day, I will be an inspiration to others.

Here are some bible verses talking about hate.

(All of the pictures below are my tweets for ALDUB sharing it to my blog to share to everyone)

On Hatred and Love

People live because they are meant to live either by love and hatred. But why do everyone's life revolve around love and hatred? Were these the only option people has to live by?

While I am resting my back as it extravagantly ache due to a bad fall, I was watching a Korean Drama as I normally do. From the outside of my door I see pitch dark as it is midnight, I hear the rain splatter from the rooftop adorn with the beautiful sound of criket and a croaking frogs. Its like an orchestra producing beautiful sounds the rain, the crickets, the frog sounds that I hate produces the sound music to my ear.

I remember a childs story when I was interviewing him for my college article. He questions life revolving around love and hatred and money.

In my conversation with him I vividly remember the tears that rolls down his cheek while he remembers how he grew up seeing how love binds people together and how hatred shatters them.

For him, it is the amount of love that you see will lead you to a persona you would develop when as you grow. The same way with hatred, it will make you have that strong persona that would either be loved or hated by people around you.

People suffer because of these two powerfull words that would define their personality. The words that can turn people to hide and create personalities that is in return either loved or hated by people.

I peek outside and there'd still be no shadow that would appear, I still hear the orchestra.

That's how we ended the conversation. I wonder how that boy might have turned into after eleven years. I wonder if he was successful finding the answer. I wonder if he ended up having a good life.

In reflection to that beautiful conversation; I may agree that love and or hatred could be a foundation of how someone elses personality may develop through the years but is this also the foundation of how we percieve and either love or hate the person?

Love and hate can make up a huge percentage on how people reacts on certain things. That is how they live their life through the years. However, the developed personality people wont be the fundamentals of our judgement to either liking or creatively persecuting others.

Are these simply parts of cultural norms deeply rooted from the biggest lies of structural society or it is simply the way of life.

Whatever it is... it is a fact of life that somehow may not need to be solved or answered. It is what it is...

Goodbye is not Forever

There will be a time when we say "Hello" but there will also be the time to say "GOODBYE". When we say goodbye it only means moving on leaving all the past behind and moving forward to what the future will hold.

When we say "Hello" definitely it is the best time and as time goes by we gain surprises, learning new things, discovering what we can do and what we cannot and definitely we will be put in a challenges to make the relationship better or break it as it is not meant to be.

For me I had my own Hello. It was such a beautiful five years and six months. Years of pondering my own strength. It was such a great time of learning, laughing and creating opportunities. Years of beautiful memories and meeting good people along the way. I will always remember the good times and make each bad times an inspiration to be better.

The last five years is the birth of Project Mountain Alphabet. I will take this with me and I hope you would continue being part of this project.

Here's the story of the project:

It Started with a Giraffe 
Project Mountain Alphabet: Building Library from a Kindness of a Stranger

"Goodbye is not Forever" rather I will say "see you on the crossroads!" 

I wish each in everyone success!

Over the years, I have gained friends that I will cherish as I move forward to my professional quest. There were people who inspired me to become better. For this is the moment for me to leave the bad mornings behind and continue my the journey, my quest in discover what the future holds.

As Walt Disney said, "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

To move forward is to grow as I am curious as to what would my future holds and offer. New obstacle to conquer and new challenges to nail down.