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Make Money Online Seminar in the Philippines

Carlo Ople — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:35:56 +0000

Top Filipino internet mavens reveal their secrets in how they make money online in the upcoming Make Money 2.0 seminar scheduled on February 13, 2010 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Ortigas. This is a no nonsense seminar which really focuses on sharing effective and proven ways on how you can improve your monthly revenues through various online money making tools. I highly recommend this event not only because of the topics but also because of the proven track records and competence of all the speakers. It’s literally a bargain (P1,000 inclusive of food) and you guys really stand to learn a lot from this.

Here’s the official event description:

Make Money 2.0 is for everyone who wants to augment their income. Anyone can benefit from the seminar, especially if you’re serious in pursuing an online business or sideline. For a minimal investment, you can find out how other successful Filipinos have made a better lives for themselves by tapping the power of the internet!

Students – the perfect way to add to your allowance! It’s also a great chance to get experience early.

Employees – not satisfied with your monthly salary at work? Then take up an online sideline which may eventually even surpass your earnings from your full time job.

Freelancers – grow into a full blown entrepreneur by expanding your clientele globally!

Reserve a slot now and avail of the early bird rate of just P1,000! Remember, we only have limited slots for this event!

Here are the topics that will be discussed:

Talk 1: Make money by selling online, Janette Toral

Learn the ins and outs of putting up your own online store. Learn from several case studies as well as best practices from the pioneer of e-commerce in the Philippines, Janette Toral from DigitalFilipino.

Talk 2: Make money by blogging, Abe Olandres (Speaker TBC)

One of the first and most successful bloggers will share with you proven ways of how to make real money online through blogging. From advertising, leveraging communities, and affiliate sales, Abe will show you a whole new world of income generating ideas!

Talk 3: Make money through e-lancing, Kevin Codamon

Are you a web developer, graphic designer, writer or just someone who has a skill but you don’t know how to make money out of it? Kevin will reveal the success blueprint for freelancers who want to rake in clients from other countries.

Talk 4: Build your personal brand & career, Jayvee Fernandez

The most important resource is YOU. Build and protect your personal brand which will translate to better opportunities for your career. Jayvee’s case studies and insights will inspire and motivate you and you’ll never see Facebook the same way ever again.

To those who are interested, click here to go to the EVENT WEBSITE. Note that the early bird rate is only up to January 30 so REGISTER NOW and reserve your slots!

I’m Engaged!

Carlo Ople — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:18:03 +0000

As most of you have probably noticed, I’ve been on a pretty long blogging break. The reason behind this is I’ve been busy preparing for my wedding/engagement proposal to my girlfriend of almost 9 years. Last Sunday I finally proposed and it definitely was one of the most memorable and special moments in my life. I did it in public during our Sunday service at Victory Greenhills. Mich said yes and I’m now officially “engaged”! Fortunately a lot of people took pictures and videos and I wanted to share them with all of you now.

Here’s the complete proposal caught on video starting with our Pastor introducing me as a speaker to discuss the new Victory Greenhills website. After talking about the site, I showed a surprise video and then came out and popped the big question to Mich who was sitting in the audience.

In case you had a hard time watching the surprise video, here’s the complete vid which is now uploaded on Youtube:

And to answer why I decided to use “Falling Slowly” as the song, here’s a post that I made on Facebook. It also pretty much summarizes why I wanted to propose in the first place:

I wanted to write and publish this online because I didn’t get the chance to explain why we decided to use the song “Falling Slowly” during the proposal last Sunday. Personally the song has so much meaning for me and I’d like to share it with everyone.

The song wasn’t dedicated to Mich and it wasn’t even about me.

As most of you know, Mich and I have been together for almost 9 years. It’s been one emotional roller coaster ride for us. We’ve had so many ups and downs and we’ve almost called it quits on several occasions. However, the moment we finally accepted Christ and put God in our relationship, everything changed. When I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING.

I found out what it takes to be a real man – biblically and not culturally. This is the result of hours of talks with Bu and Atty. Ryan Tan and the rest of our men’s small group. Both of whom I consider my good friends, peers, and mentors in Victory.

I became conscious of my weight, and I wanted to make myself better for her. April and Alden provided me with so much motivation.

We found a way to settle our differences. It wasn’t anymore about if she’s right or I’m right, it’s about God’s standard. Having the small group with Pastor Dennis with the rest of the couples was such a huge blessing and inspiration for the both of us.

We both began to manage our finances much better – especially thanks to Randell and Pastor Chinkee. Mich even got a scholarship for RFP! Haha!

Our love for our own families were ignited again by seeing how the other families in church treated each other. This was a difficult challenge for me but I’m starting to finally get it.

Oh, I just have to say this but I don’t know if this sounds right, haha! Mich’s love for God right now is absolutely the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen in a woman. It’s the world’s greatest paradox. I’m madly in love with a woman who’s madly in love with another man (haha).

The song Falling Slowly is about how God courted me and Mich for the past 9 years. It’s about how he kept on making offers but we kept on ignoring him. It’s about how he’s been so faithful to us despite all of our misgivings and failures. It’s about how victorious we finally became when we accepted him into our lives and into our relationship.

I know that there will be more challenges along the way but God is bigger than any problem out there.

To all of you reading this, thank you so much for being such a blessing.

Just some other blogs on the proposal:

Dennis Sy: A wedding proposal to remember
Thamme Sy: the Proposal

And here’s a link for more pictures on my FB page:

Proposal Pictures 1
Proposal Pictures 2

Thanks to everyone for the support and the love! I’m actually thinking of coming up with a wedding site for me and Mich but that’s after we sort out the wedding details, haha. Stay tuned.

Korina Sanchez’s letter to RG Cruz

Carlo Ople — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:30:45 +0000

I don’t know if this letter is 100% true but it’s been circulating on Facebook for the past few hours. Apparently ABS CBN journalist RG Cruz has been saying negative things about his co-worker and senior: Korina Sanchez on Facebook. Korina picked up on this and wrote this letter in response because her friends were telling her about what RG was doing and saying. Based on the letter, RG Cruz called Korina Sanchez a “feeling First Lady” and he expressed that he was happy when he saw Mar announce his decision to slide down in favor of Noynoy. Thanks to Ding Gagelonia for sharing on FB and to Marichu Lambino for posting it on her blog. Hopefully we’ll hear from RG Cruz about this letter soon.

A LETTER TO MANAGEMENT AND TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE TOLD ME OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE FACEBOOK ATTACKS OF RG CRUZ AGAINST KORINA SANCHEZ

From Korina Sanchez

I thought, not too long but hard, about writing this letter about someone who I supposedly work with but hardly know — someone who, should I see along our company corridors, I probably wouldn’t even recognize. While some characters would sit back, relax and ignore the nuances and irritants of daily living, some characters such as mine are the types who would see and know, by experience if I may add, that evil prospers when good men do nothing. While there is wisdom in silence, there is nobility to be found in response and courage — as foolish as some might think these to be, given specific circumstances.

Such was my thought process when I decided to write this letter. As inconsequential to my universe as someone, whose opinion I do not care about at all, is — there is something to be said here and something to consider. It is for the greater good among us who, fortunately or unfortunately, have to work with each other in ABS-CBN for, precisely, the greater good.

I received the calls and texts to me from longtime co-workers and colleagues at the station recently. They say, “Ma’am, do you know what RG Cruz has been posting on his Facebook against you? Why is the company allowing this? How could he say such things? Do you have some war going on with him?”, the person at the other end of the line sounded so urgent. This is the 3rd person to tell me of the Facebook entries by an RG Cruz within a few days about a “First Lady wannabe …who would eventually be a bad spouse…a queen in her head without a crown… ” and some. We have copies of all of the RG Cruz entries on his Facebook. Suffice it to say that the tirades against who Cruz eventually admitted was Korina Sanchez were as creative as creativity can many times be

Borne of spite and utter, utter hatred. It reminds me of the creativity of serial killers from history. Jack the Ripper for instance — who kept the English police guessing and following and analyzing each way the pattern was kept alive with each of his dead, mangled victims.

I thought hard, “RG Cruz? RG Cruz…Oh…RG Cruz, oh that RG Cruz”. He always wears a long coat much like Keanu Reeves in the movie Matrix. I once thought it to be cute and fantasized my fiancé Mar in one of those wondering, “Hmmm, maybe this outfit would do it for him and give an extra 5 percentage points in the surveys”. Alas, we always have the same reaction to every idea — it is ability, track record, integrity, honesty, diligence, intelligence, compassion and vision that should bring an aspirant to his rightful place in history — stupid. Not long coats!

Back to RG Cruz. Yes, I remember now. RG is the cute little young guy who I actually kind of like. I thought from his outfit and from watching one anchoring job he did in ANC that this guy has character. We would often walk by each other going different directions in company corridors late at night when I anchor Bandila. Many of those times I try to catch his glimpse to smile but, for some reason, he always has his head down or he would look some other direction. Half of that time maybe it was I looking down and at other directions. In short, and as astonishing as it apparently is, I don’t really know nor have interacted or worked, nor do I ever remember having had conversation with Mr. RG Cruz. And I do not know where his concentrated anger targeted towards me is coming from.

Skin off my nose. He doesn’t count. But here is where we learn some things, yes, even in instances that should seem not matter. Sad as it is, it is not surprising that, in my experience of more than 20 years of work in the company, there may always be someone like RG Cruz who will just be the way they are without rhyme or reason. There have been many batches before RG that I have seen, suffered and survived. I guess he represents his batch. My advice is, ignore. And then, when you feel it has become too much, report to our superiors. If the regulations and the law warrants, push for management action, even a sanction, even a lawsuit.

Logic dictates that, just as we are all bound by regulations and ethics regarding how we relate and treat each other within the company, these parameters encompass treatment of each other that is public, evident, attestable. Facebook, designed as it may be for “friends”, is essentially public. Slanderous comments are, arguably, considered published. “Blind item” lawsuits have been won in Philippine courts as well. As long as more than a certain number of people can identify, without a doubt, the unnamed victim of slander and character assassination, the offense is actionable.

I, by the way, do not understand why Mr. Cruz would bother to not mention my cherished name in his attacks against me when he outright named another company talent, Mr. Willie Revillame, and attacked him as well.

In the interest of sound policy covering such misdemeanors to protect its employees and talents and maintain the civility required of us all to achieve company goals — as painlessly as humanly possibly — I have inquired with management and have urged them to take a closer look at the cyberworld as public domain and which is a potent instrument for destruction and unwarranted personal aggravation of its victims, especially in the hands of co-employees.

Lastly, but most importantly. It has been almost 6 days since Sen. Mar Roxas’ abdication of position of standard bearer of the Liberal Party of the Philippines to endorse Sen. Noynoy Aquino as party candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. I’ve seen it and felt it for myself: it is the easiest thing to have an ambition, calculate and run for office. It is the most difficult to want to serve, calculate, invest and then give way. Until you see and be, it would be a task for any jaded journalist to imagine.

The overwhelming outpour of love, grief, disagreement with the decision, admiration and emulation which followed Sen. Roxas’ example has carved a niche for his good name in Philippine history books this early in his life in public service and governance. I would like to thank many of you who have called to say how they’ve admired Mar’s sacrifice. To those who challenge the integrity of Mar’s sacrifice and may dismiss it as expediency I invite you to a chat as I might enlighten you on things you might not be fully informed about or aware of. I give special thanks to Ted Failon, Julius and Tintin Babao, the people of DZMM News, Joelet Reyes, the other staff of Bandila, Ging Reyes and Charie Villa, Ms. Cory Vidanes and our President Charo S. Concio for their kind and generous words.

Many of us in the news business have often thought, felt that we are as big or powerful as those we cover. Our indifference and sarcasm say so. And too many times I have, myself, dismissed acts of greatness and sacrifice as just “one of those things”. Having taken this long a leave of absence from my years of work in broadcast for the first time and finding myself participant in something so important to this country, its people and its future I now see even more clearly how small and insignificant each of us is in the much bigger picture affecting 90 million lives. That is, until we think, act, speak and, most of all, do something to become the difference, make a difference for the good and become … bigger. Or do something or nothing to make us even smaller, more insignificant. We might as well just disappear.

So to you, RG Cruz, I say, I hope that — as your Facebook entry narrated — as you were “eating chocolate” and indulging your gastronomical cravings while events at Club Filipino on the 2nd of September 2009 were unfolding and all you could think of and delight in, as written in your Facebook, are your cruel attacks, pettiness, inanities and insensitivities to the sacrifice of others and, horror of horrors, make these public — you will, henceforth, attempt to save yourself from the very real prospect of disappearing, leaving this world without a trace, no better and even worse than when you found it.

By the way, did you know that Jack the Ripper loved chocolates, too? Look it up.

KORINA

Source: Marichu Lambino

RG, would love to hear your side bro. It would also be good if someone from Ms. Korina Sanchez’s camp would confirm or deny this letter. I’ll hold my usual analysis and commentary since I respect and know both parties involved.