Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, well, the short answer is I’ve been writing at Filipinovoices.com:
Reciprocity
My wife, a travel agent, got fuming mad at a “friend” last weekend. Her “friend” inquired regarding passport renewal application with a caveat: “friend’s” birth certificate has some problems, preventing her from obtaining one from the NSO. My wife [...]

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Recently I’ve come across some commercials on Youtube from the US that illustrate the risk of posting personal information and photos in the internet. This is particularly relevant in there where sexual predation via the internet had become a real problem in the late 90s, early 2000s.
I had the same quandary when my wife put [...]

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Bo Sanchez, in his book “8 Secrets of the Truly Rich”, talked about how one fateful night, he was fueled by so much passion and excitement that he wrote down a 15 page Word document containing his dreams in so much detail. He said that it was important to be able to do this, that [...]

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Around a month ago Sidney Snoeck (who maintains the excellent photo blog My Sari Sari Store) posed a challenge to my blog entry Mariannet Amper and the Gospel of Hopelessness.
In that blog entry, I posited that the “the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer” mantra was part of a “gospel of hopelessness” [...]

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A wondrous Happy New Year to all!
One of the new year’s resolutions that I’ve been wanting to make is to be able to post more regularly to this blog. To say that this is difficult is by itself an understatement — my work schedule only allows me a few blocks of genuinely free time, which [...]

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Earlier this year a lot of us received forwarded images of a Ferrari F430 on fire. It was later posted as a video by a guy who’s part of the Ferrari’s convoy:

While seeing a car burn to the ground is shocking enough for most people, a Ferrari F430 is worth a staggering 12 million pesos, [...]

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The Doing Business 2008 report, an annual study conducted by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, states that the Philippines ranked 133rd out of 178 economies surveyed in terms of ease of putting up and doing business in the country:
Regulations affecting 10 stages of a business life are measured from the perspective of the [...]

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Replace the “S” with an “F” on the title and you’ll know how I really feel.
Our phone line died last Tuesday. People could hear the number ringing but there’s no dial tone at our end of the line. We immediately reported it to PLDT’s 173, but as usual they give all kinds of excuses for [...]

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The title says (or rather, asks) it all: does a blog without AdSense, or other forms of ads, make sense?
I was struck once when a blogger friend and colleague asked me once why I don’t have AdSense on my blog. My blog has been around for three years, two of them in its own domain, [...]

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In Cashflow 101, an advanced Monopoly-like board game created by Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki to teach the ins-and-outs of financial independence, there are tiles that say “Opportunity”, wherein when you land there, you have to take an “Opportunity Card”, read it aloud — it describes the opportunity, its cost, and its effect [...]

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