A Sure Investment

The country’s economy the past few years is anything but stable proof is the massive unemployment and the inevitable closing down of multinational and big companies. This situation can be seen and heard over media news all over the world.

Personally I have some friends working abroad who were sent home from their job because the company is slowly decreasing employees, they schedule the mass layoff by batch. They have no choice but to go home unemployed with just the separation pay as their money to start with. See it’s not only local but international as well. Even stock market business is affected; nothing can be defined as stable anymore.

Some of the friends I knew who has been separated from their work abroad are looking for good investment for their money. Of course they want a lucrative business to invest so they can be assured of a good profit. Most of them invest also on properties and jewelries. One good investment I found online is the purchase of gold bullion bars which many of us know are real assets. Gold are tangible element that never depreciates in value and investment of these are offered by Monex Deposit Company. You can purchase gold from them or secure the storage of these precious metals. Through gold investment opportunity of gaining profit is very high in expectation unlike other investment.

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:Food Friday - See's Candies

This is the See's Famous Old Time Candies which was brought to us by my niece Heidi and her hubby Lister, it's actually a pasalubong from one of Lister's Aunt in US. They were hoping to hand it personally to Josh but when they arrived he was asleep already. Gave it to him in the morning and because he's also a chocolate love like me he love it! Truth is we all liked it :-) though some are really very sweet! I like choco with a slight bitter taste, not too sweet but very chocolatey! This one by the way has lots of nuts in it!

This entry is very early as we'll be going to Pansol later around 4am.

Happy Food Friday to all, enjoy your weekend!

Food-Friday

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:WW - Bonding

Bonding moments for my friend Win and his daughter Kezia Ammiel taken in the beautiful beach in Brgy. Buenasuerte in Nabas, Aklan their hometown. You can see the scenic beauty of the beach and the waves rolling over, it's the same sea enjoyed by the vacationers in Boracay. The place is near the famous Boracay Island but you won't believe it, it's free. Beautiful gift from nature created by God for us to enjoy without spending!

See the cute baby walk in the sand by the beach in Moments of My Life!

More WW entries -> here.

Wordless Wednesday

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Wireless Network

My sis Redge and I were both blogging and we decided to have a wireless network at home so we can use the internet at the same time. I’ve done some canvassing and searching and finally chose the Linksys router to accommodate our two personal computers and laptops if ever my brother is there to visit us. We chose the wireless one because we’re also planning to have laptop or notebook. That way we could easily go around the house and still use our laptops without worrying if we could have an access online. I’m still saving for an HP laptop.

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Sharing My Thoughts For 2 Years Now!

I’m very happy yesterday as I've reached my second year in blogging. It’s been two years now since I’ve started sharing my thoughts. my life, my family, my work and all that happens in my life. It has given me some thoughts before I started out because in having your personal blog it’s like having the whole world read your life. I decided to give it a try as I also want to share God’s word, His blessings and all the wonderful things He can do for us.

Race Corner is my first blog in which I write my thoughts and my family. I opened another site which I focused on our church activities and spiritual thoughts that can enlighten people to realizing that living a life with God as the center is indeed ‘A Beautiful Life’. Now I have two other blogs – this blog and Moments of My Life which became my main sites and redirected them to domain sites as I feel really good having my own domain. Through all these sites I continue to share my life’s journey with my friends and visitors.

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Easy Way To Search College Textbooks

When I was in college I’ve had difficulty in finding some textbooks for my major subjects in computer. I was taking up Computer Engineering and most of our textbooks then in computer architecture and design were hard to find in local bookstores. Sometimes I had half of the computer design book photocopied just to have my own copy. Now I saw online some sites offering college subject textbook search for those who want to search, compare and order/shop online for their needed books in their course of study.

Really technology has brought so much convenience and comfort even in searching books for our college education. Now you can compare, find and choose your specific required textbook in the comfort of your home, no need to walk through malls and bookstores just to find your needed books. It will help me a lot also as I have three kids who are studying now and when they reached college I will just browse online for their textbooks and I can shop online too. This is really good for mothers like me.

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Summer Camp Day 2–Our Last Day

Day 2 brought us more blessings spiritually starting from day dawn service at 5am among the ministers. They successfully held ‘Disciples Prayers’ which made them all feel very close to each other and to God. We all know that the distance to God is just a prayer away so prayer is really that powerful. All burdens unloaded, personal problems solved and worries gone. They prayed for the whole church and for each other’s ministry.

Morning service was flooded by testimonies from youth, elders, ministers and mothers like me. Some brought tears and most brought more encouragement to trust our life to God. I had my own testimony that happened just before the service.

Pastor asked to go to Mrs. Dominga to give the full payment for the hall that we rented. Before I even approached her she was smiling to me as she excitedly told me that it’s their first time to have 4 customers all at the same time who are all born-again Christians. She even asked me if I promoted her place to my website because there’s one customer that told her that he found the place in a website and been encouraged to rent it for fellowship service. Glad my sis Redge and my site were able to help her in our own way but the truth is God has helped them because her villa has been used as fellowship place to glorify His name.

We felt that two days fellowship service is kinda short for us. After the afternoon service we felt like we should have made this a 3-day affair and planned to make it longer next time. We’ve made reservations for December 2009 camp meeting fellowship and we’ll make sure it will be a longer period of camp meeting fellowship. We arrived home safe and very blessed. God is so good….

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Benefits of Attending Training

During my 16 years of stay in my present employer. I’ve attended various training mostly in the latter part of my employment starting in the mid of 2000. Being an Admin/HR officer required me to search for training agency that will execute seminars and training modules to our employees especially those assigned in one of the major international banks in the country in Asian Development Bank. We’re a service provider and contractor there and our contract necessitates us to conduct training for our employees regularly on a yearly interval, of course I’m responsible in assisting the project manager and trainors on the corporate training.

It was always a good experience for me every time we held seminars because it gives me a chance to attend too. On the following seminars preceding the first we received various offers from other companies wanting to conduct seminars on us, some are popular and others are just the regular freelancer. Most of them just emailed their proposals. I’ve received one offer about corporate training video production and we’ve yet to discuss if the owner will choose that one. It would be nice to have it of course for a change!

Generally all these seminars added to my portfolio and being one of the attendees I had the opportunity to experience and learn many facets of work related seminars such as team management, personality development, handling staff, work etiquette, telephone etiquette, speech development and motivating minds. I know all of these will help me a lot to be more productive and goal-oriented in my work.

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Summer Camp Day1 – Communion and Feet Washing

After the morning and afternoon service we had our communion followed by feet washing. Ed led the first part of the service continued by the relevant message from our Pastor discussing vital importance of having communion and what the Christians would do before entering communion. That is – we should finish all misunderstandings with your loved ones and friends. We should have a light heart devoid of ill-feeling, hatred, worries and other thoughts and things that would make our heart heavy with burdens.

Feet washing on the other hand displays the person’s humility as washing your brethren’s feet and praying for each other can only be done if you have a humble heart.

We felt God’s presence during that special service and everyone felt renewed and light-hearted.

Bonfire and grilling barbeque followed after.

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Dealing With Taxes

My work primarily deals with finances and administration and though the company is just a small telecommunications corporation still confidentiality regarding finance is of utmost importance especially with me as I handle all collections and settlements. I’m handling the supervision of our accounting department and that requires me to oversee payroll, accounts payables, benefits, incentives and other accounting areas.

But if you’ll ask me I’m not really a graduate of accountancy but have finished a degree in computer engineering, an accounting associate close friend of mine just thought me a lot when the company was just starting and when she left I was left to take over her job. It’s alright for me to do these things except tax matter so I let our bookkeeper and auditor take charge of our corporate and individual employees’ taxes. Our auditor advises us to be careful about deadlines and due dates as we wouldn’t want the company to have penalty charges.

I’ve heard some cases of artists with the BIR regarding their taxes and I’m wondering why such cases happen as they have their own accountant to plan their property and professional taxes. They should have hired a competent person to do the job accurately like San Diego California tax law attorney who are well versed in property tax and all other kinds of taxes, just what everyone needs to satisfy their legal and finance requirements. It’s very important to hire someone who has the capabilities to fix all your financial and tax problems, it somehow put your mind at rest that no government tax agency will charge you of anything. It’s better to pay all our dues to them to prevent future humiliation and distress just like what happened to some artists who had to endure bad news and court case.

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