The Network for Enterprising Women (NEW) is pleased to announce the staging of the 5th Annual Women Entrepreneurs Conference. The Conference is expecting 200 participants to include women from top corporations, entrepreneurs of small and medium sized businesses, teachers, students and graduates of entrepreneurship courses, officers, and middle managers of government agencies and local government units, overseas Filipino workers and their families and also gender advocates in NGO’s and government.
Network for Enterprising Women (NEW) is founded in 2006. Specifically, NEW is a group of women whose advocacy is to create an environment where there is an exchange of business ideas, sharing of experience, and opportunity to network.
For this year’s conference, it will include topics on: Continue reading →
The Sinulog festival is one of the tourism’s well-known highlights in the country. Its event is a month long celebration starting from the 3rd Sunday in the month of January (from 2 to 31,) a really great way to start your new years. The feast is done in honor of the child Sto. Nino, whom is paraded in thanks and blessings through a procession and Mardi gras in Cebu, the City of Culture according to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN.)
Actually, the dance presentations itself serve as prayers for devotees as well as creative galas for artists and designers. For this Sinulog 2012, Mayor Michael Rama even appealed its local communities to be “Be hospitable, be vigilant” in preparation for its Asian theme with a funding of up to Php 40 million. President Benigno Aquino III and Vice President Jejomar Binay will grace their presence, much to the city’s glee and delight.
From December 15, 2011, ticket sales have been on going until the first day of the event itself. You can buy from the Continue reading →
Read Filipiniana Books!
Buy Your Copies at the Filipinas Heritage Library Online Book Club
If you are a book lover, you should visit the newly improved Filipinas Heritage Library. They now have a generous list of Filipiniana books, journals, magazines, videos, music, and CD-ROMs (meaning the authors are Filipinos) sold online at their “Libros Filipinos” book club.
Its goal is to allow an extensive research place that is both available locally and internationally for the eyes and ears of kids or adults. Now, our fellow Filipinos, who are abroad and can’t go home in our country, can enjoy reading culture-based materials. From year 1996, the library has been a leading one-stop electronic library of Filipiniana books and other resources.
New projects on a widened commitment to reading beyond the functions of a traditional library have been started last year as part of its 15th year celebration. At “Filipiniana Online,” the price ranges from Php 80 to 11,100. Looking into the categories, you can see that a lot of these books are written under extraordinary and unique topics, anyone would absolutely die for!
Here are some of them: Continue reading →
Aim to dig-up the coolest finds, but low-cut gifts this season? Visit the Novel Discovery Bazaar now. Any budget would fit in with its really cheap and affordable products sold in kiosks, stalls and “tiangges.”
Here are some shopping tips from Ms. Aida Gregorio, the project manager herself:
- Start at the most convenient time possible. You should allow only two hours of shopping hours.
- Wear cool and comfortable clothes as well as limit wearing jewelries or accessories that can add to the hassle of carrying things that you have shopped for from stall to stall.
- Write down everything you want to buy and who will be given the gifts.
- There should be a definite budget for each gift to give.
- Bring shopping bags in reasonable numbers that you can use as well as Continue reading →
Were you shocked with the title of my post today? Don’t be.
It’s the time of year once more when many of us get loads of cash from year-end bonuses, at least for the working moms out there. And for those who are not in active working force anymore, well just ask for your husband’s bonuses. 
I’m pretty sure a lot of you can easily answer my question. Majority will answer ” spend, spend and spend!” Well, that’s my answer too… but I’m thinking on some other ways to put a part of it in savings. Not too big, but enough to start the ball rolling of savings for the future. My husband told me that If I want to keep my money, then I’ll just deposit it on a bank but If I want to make it grow then I need to invest it.
A badminton friend of mine told me that every end of the year, together with her husband, they pooled their money together and invest in stocks. Well, I don’t know anything about these kind of investments but I’ve been reading more and more online like the Timothy Sykes penny stocks.
Good thing another friend of mine, who is connected to a local life insurance and a mutual fund company, explained to me how stocks works. Since I’m not an active player in buying and selling stocks, she encouraged me instead to look into Continue reading →
As couples grow old, they will need a retirement community wherein choosing a good health care system is vital. As Pinay Moms, you and your husbands should now start investing on an effective health care system. You can search them among the Internet advertisements offering this kind of services.
How can you say if it is the right choice for you? One should cover programs catered especially for needs on prevention of diseases and illness as well as the promotion healthy lifestyles for the both of you, endowment of the newest health technologies and guiding 
materials containing the most novel health and medical products, with particular treatments using special products for the prevention, health discovery and treatment of disease.
Life says that a good health is the heart of an investment. Every hale and hearty person can complete activities that make it meaningful to be alive. As you and you husband get old, so does your happiness level. Thus, exhausting more energy than you can think of. Incorporating a health care system in your routines is 1 way of sustaining and enhancing Continue reading →
Collecting is a wonderful hobby all ages can like. It is always fun to have your own set of to show friends and others. Owning a set of collectibles is a form fulfillment for anybody. You don’t have to buy the really expensive ones. Instead, think of things that can also be gathered and preserved in beauty. These collectibles can be your own creation or something irresistible to own that is sold in the market.
image from http://loyalkng.com
The forthcoming Guinness World Records, 2012 showcases these really famous collections today for avid fans to see and explore (or perhaps imitate):
- The largest collection of “Charlie’s Angels” memorabilia by Jack Condon of U.S.A. was awarded its title last September 2011. It currently bears 5,569 collectibles that were gathered way back in 1976 as love mementos for the said movie. The collectors first bought item is the “T.V. Guide” magazine’s cover feature of the 3 Angels.
- The largest collection of film projectors by Christos Psathas was Continue reading →
Crocodiles are one of the most beautiful reptiles living on Earth today. With scale colors of light green to dark green, they gracefully used their skin for camouflaged while basking at land or floating in water. It has two types the crocodylus porosus and crocodylus mindorensis (endangered.) The first one is commonly known as saltwater crocs and the largest species of its kind, according to the “National Geographic.” These are the ones available for sightseeing at the new “Crocodile Park Manila,” a city version of its Davao branch. Owned by the Philip S. Dizon or “PSD Group of Companies,” it belongs as one of their highest tourist attractions with only Php 200 as entrance fee.
With its common size of 5 meters and weight of 450 kilograms in males, swimming is not a problem for these reptile animals on the waters of Australia, India and some parts of Asia. Don’t worry saltwater crocs are Continue reading →
Funny pictures about real profile are circulating in Facebook. They may be true or perhaps “Photoshopped” by some talented designer who has all the time in the world to create this work of art to entertain us. Don’t quote me on this but I just saw these pictures on my friend’s link status.
I admit that I’ve found the pictures funny and sometimes hilarious too. See the samples here:
The question that is really bothering me is how true are the Facebook member’s profile. I guess our friend’s profile are absolutely for real but what about other people who are completely strangers to you but wanted to be your friend. How do you deal with them?
Prior to Facebook era and even before any social networking site were developed, there were already a lot of sites in the internet where you can meet and be friends with somebody who is totally stranger to you. Yahoo Messenger, ICQ and MSN are just some of the popular tools for online chatting. Of course there are also forums, and specific sites to meet the boy or the girl of your dream such as singles chat and other match making site out there. I even saw some sites that cater to divorce people and widows as well.Some are free Continue reading →
This November 27, 2011, bring your family and friends to the “McHappy Day Fun Run 2011!” With a second time in a row, McDonald’s has again opened the event for the benefit of “Bright Minds Read” project in charity help. The Department of Education (DepEd) co-partners in making it successful. The organizer is the Eventking Corp. Together they make dreams of reading books and magazines for grade 1 students in the Philippines public schools possible.
The race venue and assembly is at the Mc Kinley Hills, Taguig City with levels of tracks in 1Km for kids with age 3-5 and 3K
m for kids with age 6-12, 3Km for families in packs of 4 (though this ones already closed in registration,) and the 5Km for ages over 3 years old and 10Km open for ages 15 years old and above. The joining price for the race in 1Km for kids is Php 375, 3Km for kids is Php 425, 3Km for families in packs of 4 is Php 1,000, 5Km is Php 525 and 10Km is Php 725. You can register at Continue reading →
