THE SECRET AFFIRMATIONS

Life’s source of inner strength, excitement and abundance is The Secret Affirmations. Thoughts are magnets… What you think about will bring about .. Guaranteed.

My personal experience about these affirmations happened enumerable times. Eight years ago I was burned out with the corporate worked I thought about travelling Malaysia. True enough two weeks after I was in West Malaysia travelling Borneo passing through Bongao, Tawi-Tawi to Sandakan, West Malaysia then I cross the borders of Kota Kinabalu of Borneo ,West Malaysia.

After that, I said to myself I want to travel Singapore. Few weeks after I was there.. my company send us there for the invitation of HBO/CINEMAX/CNN channels.

Amazing ! From then on, I started thinking about positive things to attract positive and exciting events.

Arelle & Luzette-Kalayaan Statue-Baguio City

Baguio City is the Philippine’s summer capital. During my city tour my knees were shaking like I was inside a refrigerator. But inspite of that, I manage to move around the city for some adventure. Arelle & I pass by this Kalayaan statue and felt so amazed to take some souvenir photo.

This statue symbolized Freedom and independence from the bondage of the conquerors. Defending once freedom is the message of the Ita’s the nomad of this great and spectacular place figting and depending their land using their bare hands. Their bravery is such a good character trait Filipinos should always portray.

CONTACT LENSES

Few years ago it’s difficult to read when your eyes are deffective. You need eye glasses that are heavy and big. It’s so destructive to move around wearing eyes glasses.It makes you look old and ugly. Now, things change and life becomes easier. You can use contact lenses and enjoy excellent vision while under certain eye problem.It’s now easier to go swimming and diving using your contact lenses.

More optical shops are offering low vision aids for you to enjoy the beaches playing volleyball and swimming.Life is fun when you have contact lenses.Things are easy and more relaxing.No pressure and stress while reading or watching your favorite TV show.

Some people even use contact lenses as a fashion statement. A new trend to attract people with their green or blue eyes. So it’s no longer a necessity but a way to enhance beauty and style.

BORACAY ESCAPADE

Boracay Island, Philippines is one of the best escapades in the world. A great hideaway. Life’s gateway for complete freedom, privacy, luxury lifestyle and simplicity.

I was truly amazed to notice a lot of stunning celebrities moving around freely enjoying the powdery white sand beach playing kite boarding, banana ride, island hopping and jet ski in the crystal blue sea. What an escapade? Full packed tourists love to relocate here. Developers flocked to share a part of its economic progress. Condotels and resorts compete to attract investors at their pre-selling stage.

Moreover, I saw a lot of tourists in their golden years with their laptops all around enjoying wi-fi internet access. Highly urbanized and technically equipped island with its five internet providers competing.With two cable service providers to update tourist of the world events. Amazing! Like the Metropolis in the Philippines five internet providers are accessible in Boracay island. These includes; Kalibo Cable TV, Paradise Cable TV network whose main hub and cable headend is in the island providing fast, high bandwidth, Smart Communications, Pantelco and Globe Telecom.

These internet service providers guarantee a solid economic infrastructure as well as easy lifestyle that allows anyone to enjoy a luxury urban life whille relaxing in the beach.That is through playing online casino with their laptops. Wealthy businessmen can now enjoy their favorite game online anytime.

HEALTH IS WEALTH

Our parents nurture us with great love and care even when we are inside the womb of our mother.As we grow old we are lectured endlessly that Health is Wealth. We need to take care of our health otherwise all our efforts will be useless when we are sick. Sleep well , take enough rest, eat a balance diet.

In my experience,I agree that extreme pressure and stress is deadly.Personally,stressful life caused me to suffer almost a year of health problems.It paralyzed everything. I can’t even moved around.That was the time I realized my parent’s teaching that Health is Wealth.Everything in life is useless once our health is collapsing.All is useless when we are in the edge of death. We will then be empty down to the drain with the tiring hospitalization cycle

A year ago , February 15, 2007 is my miracle day.God gave me a new lease of life. That time I really thought that my journey is over.Yet ,I’m thankful that God is merciful He gave me the second chance to live again.

Life is great when we are healthy and strong. Thus, just like people suffering from cerebral palsy their life is incomplete.Though they live simply and happily their type of condition is pitiful. Cerebral palsy is the disability resulting from the damage of the brain before during or shortly after birth and outwardly manifested by muscular incoordination and speech disturbances.

Definitely,cerebral palsy is a neurological disorders characterized by paralysis resulting from abnormal development of or damage to the brain either before birth or during the first years of life.

Base from Encyclopaedia Britannica there are four types of cerebral palsy symptoms as follows; spastic, athetoid, ataxic and mixed. In spastic type there is a severe paralysis of voluntary movements with spastic contractions of extremities.Sounds pitiful and scary but the bottomline is, the mother failed to take care of the child while inside the womb.Still, it goes back to the line health is wealth.

BORACAY TOURISM

Boracay tourists from all over the world came in groups to capture the best view,the cool and tranquility of Boracay island,Philippines.The Department of Tourism reported that an increasing number of tourists are expected to flood the island this summer up to June.An approximate of 800,000 tourists in 2007 enjoyed the powdery white beach making Boracay island, Philippines top seven among the world’s top ten beaches according to yahoo.The only beach in Asia which is frequently visited.

In my surprised I saw all people alike the pretty sex bomb walking freely and comfortably with their two piece bikini, the hunks with their swimming trunks enjoying the kiteboarding or jet ski, the sporty middle age relaxing in the golf course,some sickly moving around with their wheel chairs ,there are elderly couples too,a lot of new couple on their honeymoon,some group of families with their restless kids and teenagers running and playing around.

A lot of tourists enjoy the sun bath reading their books while lying in the powdery white sand.Very relaxing,no pressure, no traffic to think about , no pollution and no rush.In Boracay you’re excited to walk along the 4 kilometers long white beach. What a place ? A great escapade and beautiful sight. There’s freedom and fun in here.A real paradise of freedom and peace.

HEALTH & WELLNESS INDUSTRY

Paul Zane Pilzer, the world’s prestigious economist, entrepreneur and professor believe that towards 2010-2015 the health, beauty and wellness industry will become a trillion dollar industry. More people all throughout the world are health & beauty conscious. Many people will become end users of any food supplement products.

The changing lifestyle and the type of processed products we eat everyday reduce the lifespan of people. High amount of preservatives are disastrous to our health. More people are aware of the vitamins and food supplements required to support their high stress level. Entrepreneurs in the health & wellness industry‘s net worth would be US $ 10,000,000.00 a whopping ten million dollars. Imagine in US dollars? That’s a lot of opportunities. Millions of people from all over the world can be millionaires.

Thus, a vast amount of wealth need to be explored. More millionaires can be created over the next ten years. Meaning greater entrepreneurial opportunities in the wellness evolution will emerged. Many food supplements will be introduced in the market to support the high demand of products. Expect entrepreneurs from all over the world to travel across the globe to educate people about health & wellness. Marketing their inventions to saturate the market .Hence, a travel health insurance policy is needed everytime we navigate to be assured of health protection.

POLITICIAN’S CAR

When I was a kid I admire politician’s in our province of Mindanao, Philippines owning various luxury cars. Everytime these cars pass by our house we call these luxury cars as politician’s car. Meaning a certain political leader owned the car.It motivates me then to work and study harder to become a politician as well. Owning a luxury car known as politician’s car is a sense of pride and political power . It guarantees a luxurious lifestyle and extravagant living in the Phiilippines’ setting.

Moreover, fully arm bodyguards like that of a James Bond movie and top of the line cars are impressive. Infact, its exciting to live in such an extravagant life. But in my opinion , it’s the taxes who pay the price. Thus, it’s not fair to suffer paying the high government taxes and experience rough roads, uncemented ones, unequipped classrooms, insufficient water and electricity in the province. It’s not really fair enough to know that the taxes we’re paying were used to satisfy the extravagant lifestyle of politicians in the country.

Consequently , it’s not helping the economy when leaders are taking advantage of their influence and political power. I may respect these leaders if the cars they’re using are from car donation. But when it’s taken from government fund it’s a cycle of corruption and abuse.

MINI CALL CENTER

In 2004, I made a feasibility study about a Mini call Center Concept using VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol. It’s a commercial outbound calls for public use. The birth of my idea came when I was blessed with my previous work in the cable industry to travel to remote areas all over Mindanao. In my personal experience it’s so expensive to call at 27.00, 35.00 pesos per minute or 56.00 to 75 pesos per minute for international calls. It did surprised me to spend almost a thousand for a call to my Manila office.

Definitely, it’s so disgusting to experience big players in the telecommunication industry taking advantage to the helpless poor people in the remote areas. This encouraged me to do a feasibility study about the mini call center catering outbound and inbound calls abroad. I’ve done the testing for three months and it was helpful to majority of Filipinos whose family members are working abroad.

The concept and Return of Investment is excellent. It could generate six times your investment in a year because telecommunication business is a trillion dollar industry. One of the best venture , in fact more people in the remote areas and hinterlands of Mindanao were happy about it but business funding is limited. My capital was not enough to sustain so I decided to discontinue for the meantime. My priority now is to save money to support the business. I plan to put up mini call centers all over the archipelago should I save enough capital to continue the mini call center project.

HOT CARS

August 16, 2007 hot cars, claimed to be smuggled to Subic Bay Freeport, Philippines were crushed by Backhoes. About 18 brandnew luxury cars were destroyed to resolved the country’s car smuggling crisis. Main goal is to stop smuggling of cars that has deprived the nation of billions of pesos in tax revenues.

Retired Lt. General Jose Calimlim , Senior deputy Administrator for operations at Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority or SBMA,in the Philippines claimed that every year 60,000 hot cars & heavy equipment were imported through the Freeport and only 3,000 cars were without import permits. He said that, he could not pinpoint who the culprits are and if he knew he could not reveal their names because threats of life are terrible. Publish in the Philippine Daily Inquirer September 10, 2007.

In my opinion, the decision of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo of destroying 18 hot luxury cars are senseless. It’s a waste of opportunity to a lot of Filipinos starving in the streets with no homes and no food to eat. A lot of people suffered and died starving. What a waste of approximate more than 3 million dollars when we could sell it at least 2 million dollars and donate the money to the starving and homeless Aetas, Negritos, Badjaos or Itas in Boracay Island. Even the street children in Metro Manila needs immediate assistance. The flood and fire victims in the country needs help what happen to the Department of Social Welfare and Development or DSWD? What are doing? Are they blind? Are they not aware of the increasing number of beggars and streetchildren?

Personally, I really wonder what lesson the smugglers would learn from the luxury hot cars destroyed like toys. Some country donate car to charity while we Filipinos destroy hot cars for nothing. Pride could be devastating. Instead of destroying those luxury hot cars we could have just sold it and use the money to help the poor and the starving Filipinos begging in the streets.

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