The Filipino Entrepreneur

I’m not sure if this is the first time that I hear and see on television that the government will give money directly to Filipinos. What I only know is government gives livelihood projects and financial aids to government bodies and then dissipate it to the poor. Maybe giving money directly to the people is better because at least corruption will be minimized provided that each Filipinos will really receive such blessings and not be blocked and pocketed again.

According to the news “The “lifeline aid” programme, limited to about four million poor households, will see families receive a one-off payment of 500 pesos (13 dollars) to help meet rising electricity costs, Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral told reporters.” ( Source: Yahoo Asia News )

Although this move is short term and only a remedy, not a cure, at least it’s better than nothing. You can read the whole story here: Yahoo Asia News

Ahem…I was just kidding about the new computer table in my post title, since it was just a remake from an old antique office desk. For more than a week I painstakingly build my own design using those hardwood parts from the old table.

I also use AutoCAD making the design to speed up the designing process but since I lack woodworker tools like an electric saw, a plane and electric sander to make a more professional look on my creation, I spent more time making it but still the end result is not bad at all. I have a portable compressor and a spray gun for applying the varnish but decided to use a paint brush instead because it was messy.

The only electric powered gadget I have is an electric drill. The rest are done manually. If you like to get the drawing plan in AutoCAD format, just visit my other blog http://www.cadblog.net and I’ll make another post about the details. So without much ado, just see the photo below:

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Sorry for not creating new posts. I’ve been busy converting my father’s office desk into a computer table. I don’t know why I still have to make it myself although just buying a computer table will save me time and I’ve seen a cheap computer table in Sta. Lucia and SM hypermart.

I think the reason is the table have a sentimental value to me because it was my father’s office desk since I’m a little child. It was mostly made of hardwood, Narra to be exact and almost 35 years old if I’m not mistaken.

I’ve wanted to convert it a long time ago because it was very bulky, 5 feet by 3 feet on the table top and 31 inches in height. It weights more than 40 kilos. Look at the photo below. I tried to sell it on eBay but it wasn’t sold because really, selling antique furnitures requires a lot of time and I don’t have the luxury of it. Me and my family are relocating to another apartment soon so I need to make the table smaller. So till then, I’ll tell you and show the computer on my next post.

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The Career and Entrepreneurship Fair is the perfect venue where top companies from different industries can converge with thousands of qualified, motivated and proactive individuals who are searching for the right job.

This year, the CEF series will extend its reach to other parts of the country namely Cebu and Davao. As a kick-off to this year’s series, The Career and Entrepreneurship Fair will open its doors on May 21 and 22 t the World Trade Center, Pasay City. The Career and Entrepreneurship Fair will continue to utilize the latest technology, the JobsDB Career Card, a more efficient, cost-effective way to streamline the recruitment process.

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I don’t know what to say if I will be happy for him or just say he is totally insane after winning the lottery and still going back to work as a burger flipper in Mc Donalds. Maybe he really do love his work or maybe he is just not ready to be an entrepreneur. Just watch the video after this jump……..

This Chinese new year many people anticipate having good luck in their side. Many of those who want to change their luck or just to be lucky bought lucky charms and follow those Chinese traditions for attracting wealth and prosperity, good health and peace. But just to be honest with you I don’t rely much or depend too much on those things even if I have Chinese blood, (hope you don’t mind telling you this) but sometimes I do. For example I follow some advice from Chinese astrology and wear lucky charms. There is even a website in Chinese astrology I found that tells about what is your lucky element from the five elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth). It is said that based on the five elements, the weakest element you have is your lucky element which you can get depending on your birthday ( try it here: find your lucky element ). So if you know your lucky element you should wear or have things made from that element. For example, if metal is your lucky element, you should wear objects made from metal like jewelries or sleep on a bed made from metal. Then how about if fire is your lucky element? maybe it’s ridiculous if you will wear fire or burn yourself.

It is also said that Year 2008 is a Chinese Brown Earth (Soil) Rat Year. Why did the Chinese name the year 2008 as the Brown Earth Rat Year? Chinese calendar used the Stem-Branch system to count the days, months and years. There are 10 Stems and 12 Branches in this system. Stems are named by the Yin-Yang and Five Elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth). The Stem sequence order is Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, Yang Earth, Yin Earth, Yang Metal, Yin Metal, Yang Water and Yin Water. Branches use the animal names.

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News about the acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft is all over the internet and they say that this is due to Bill Gates wanting to compete with Google in online domination. And it will be purchased for US$44 billion dollars approximately. But just looking at the situation, the reason why Yahoo! is shrinking is due to the fact that more than 3/4 of search engine market was already dominated by Google (see Fig 1 below). And even if they merge it will have not much impact on Google. Yes Microsoft dominates the software industry but internet is a different thing. Although Internet explorer is the most popular browser in the world, still, it’s really the people themselves who will decide which search engine to use unless IE browsers have a built in blocking plug-in that will block anything that comes from Google. But that idea will tarnish Microsoft’s reputation and Google will be in a win-win situation.

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The billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates (the whole world knows Microsoft is equivalent to Bill Gates) donates 19.9 Million US dollars to IRRI. This is the headline of a well known newspaper here. I guess not everybody knows where the IRRI is. It’s based in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines and it’s “a non-profit research and training center established to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of the farmers and consumers , and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.” ( quoting from their website)

Gates announce the donation in Davos, Switzerland in the World Economic Forum. It will come from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of a package of agricultural development grants. It’s nice to know billionaires like Bill Gates share part of their riches to the poor specially to farmers where we get out food. Farming in a tropical country like Philippines and most of the time not fully equipped with modern machinery is really hard. I can still see rice farmers use water buffalo (or carabao) and plowshare to till the soil and plant the seedlings by hand in hectares and hectares of land. I don’t want to point a finger on who should be responsible for supporting those poor farmers and I guess you already know.

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It’s obvious that the weakening US economy have an impact worldwide. The rest of the world is not isolated to the plunging of US stock market. Take for example here in the Philippines, just recently the news 7-day slide wipes out P528B in stock value

The news said “The Philippine equities market Tuesday officially entered a “bear market” phase after the stock exchange index fell through the floor amid fears of a US recession-induced global economic slowdown.”

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I’ve just upgraded my Wordpress software just to be safe. Just recently one of the famous blogs, Shoemaker posted a blog about upgrading Wordpress and he also mentioned that he have been hacked 1 time (I don’t know when). He have learned his lesson and I don’t want to experience that too. I’m lazy in upgrading my Wordpress too but come to think of it, it’s worth the downtime. It’s better than not knowing you’re blog isn’t working anymore without your knowledge and sometime you cannot login in the admin control panel.

I’m still lucky because I’m not famous as those bloggers and very few hackers will have interest on my blog. So to those who haven’t upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.2, you better do it soon. It will only take 30 minutes or less than an hour depending on your internet connection speed.