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Start Performing in Manila

January 6, 2015 Web Master

Thinking of turning Manila into your performing haven? You already have the talent. You then think about professionalizing your talent and start earning from it. But in this vein, how prepared are you when it comes to launching your singing career?

There are tips worth pondering over the moment you have decided go pro. It’s easy to say that you wanted to be a singer. The questions below need to be answered in order to test how ready are you.

1. Do you have a playlist or genre that you have gotten comfortable with?

No Top 40 favorites please? Unless you can manage to sound a little like Katy Perry or singers with the same vocal range as hers, then you can go with singing contemporary pop music. You don’t have to sound exactly like them though as you already have your own distinct voice. This is how you fit in a certain genre. No need to go strictly jazz or middle-of-the-road. But the way your singing voice sounds like should remind your audience of your genre too.

2. Have you checked any announcements looking for a band front man?

It’s how some rock icons start their careers – by fronting a band. At first it seems like just a jamming session with musicians that you get along with. Then you realize that some connections lead you to other singing gigs with a touring band, of course. It’s how you network with several musicians. Most of them needed someone to sing for them in a gig or an event. More exposure, more opportunities secured, more numbers to keep in your phonebook worth calling to bag your next gig.

3. Have you had voice lessons?

Voice lessons are important to achieve a certain sound. This is where you get better voice advice and better judgment when it comes to the right song to sing in gigs. You may be familiar with some coaches from The Voice (depending which franchise you’re watching) asking some contestants to sing a song different from the one they sang. The person who auditioned realizes too late then that he/she sang the wrong song. You don’t want that to happen on TV, right? So you better get sound advice from the professionals.

4. Do you plan on coming up with an image?

For the ladies, the lounge singer look would often be a black dress with an A-line skirt or, to be sultry, a little black dress. For men, it’s just a matter of choosing between the styles of Bruno Mars of Usher when it comes to that snappy attire to wear during performances. For rock star wannabes, the ideal peg would be Steven Tyler’s denim jeans and buttoned tops. You need to feel comfortable in whatever skin you’re in. But to attain performance levels, you better look your best.

5. Got some samples in SoundCloud?

If not for everyone with a need to send samples of their singing talent to auditions and tryouts, apps like SoundCloud and Audacity won’t be in demand. Whether you need to record a song in acapella or with a minus one, at least you can use technology to share your talents online. Samples make it easier for booking agents to decide whether to give you a job or not.

6. Got some videos on YouTube?

After the bookers have heard you, they wanted to know how you look like. The headshots are not enough. They need to learn as well if you’ve been into gigs before or what singing jobs have you been invited to. Putting them on video and uploading them on YouTube or other forms of social media would leverage your need to market your talent too.

7. Put up a website

While Facebook has adjusted itself well enough for businesses that need to plug online, it’s still different when you have a website. It makes you look professional. Looks good to put on your calling card too. This also meant having an email address within your domain like yourname@yourwebsite.com. It’s like being your own agency. It gives that idea as well that you are the direct contact. Having an agent is good but some companies appreciate it more once they realize that it’s you that they are directly in contact with.

8. Stage your own events

You can produce your own concert too the moment you got a nice deal with a venue. If it is your first time to put up a concert with you at the helm, booking it at iChill Theater Cafe would be a good idea. You can sell tickets then give a cut to iChill and record some excerpts to be uploaded on your website. If people interested to hire you saw that you can stage your own events too, they might hire you to be your own musical director at their planned events.

Manila is one of the best cities where you can start a singing career. Once you are set, the bookings will flow into your organizer. In due time, you will eventually hire your own booking agent so you can focus on practicing more. Best wishes to your singing career then. See you around.

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Why Filipinos Love Koreanovelas

January 6, 2015 Web Master

Filipinos love Korean pop culture, a fascinating realization when I got into the Philippines. From music to film to television, most observers pin the blame on Koreanovelas why the Latin American telenovelas’ popularity fizzled out.

It’s an interesting observation how, upon closer look, most of these K-Dramas (short for Korean dramas) have plots similar to local teleseries. If this would be the case, why most Filipinos are willing to turn their backs on local soap operas in favor of K-Dramas?

1. The plots are simpler.

Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They separate. Girl gets amnesia and they meet again. Boy is disheartened that his lady love can’t recognize him. Boy has a clingy admirer who acts as if she’s the girlfriend. Girl has a clingy admirer too. The only thing lacking are guns, goons and gold. And this is the plot of “Stairway to Heaven”.

Why Filipinos Love Koreanovelas — Stairway to Heaven cast; Image by Wikipedia

Switch the roles where it’s the boy who gets amnesia and girl is disheartened that he doesn’t recognize her. Same clingy baggage though. Same result – they still end up falling in love and the amnesiac ends up remembering everything. Still, no guns, goons and gold. And that’s the plot of “Winter Sonata”.

The closest thing that a K-Drama could get to a goon would be found in a different soap, “All About Eve”. Other goons are found in large numbers in sageuk dramas, the Korean equivalent of period dramas. In typical romance dramas like the 2 dramas mentioned as examples, if ever there is violence, it would be either the clingy girl or the clingy guy that would provide the action. No backup needed as either villain is already psycho.

2. It can get surreal without going too surreal.

Dead characters come back to life, new identities forged, babies switched and vengeance plotted. Just remove the baby-switching act and you have the gist for the hit K-Drama “Temptation of Wife”. Put back the baby-switching act and you get a nice summary of “East of Eden”. Both dramas are not fantasies.

It’s like having the mind-blowing plots of Melrose Place in a Korean setting, just remove the sex and skimpy clothing. Staged death scenes, cat fights and identity theft all in the course of presenting a story that’s beyond your imagination. It’s crazy but the kind of crazy where you can get some believable acting. In fact, some scenes are filled with restraint that it can get you thinking that no matter how stunned and shocked the characters are, the restraint is still there. Also, less guns, goons and gold for the same reason how psycho the villains already are. The only way the lead characters can possibly outplay the villain is by going crazier.

3. Familiar plots get tweaked

Usually, the adopted daughter is poor and her biological parents are rich. In “Autumn in my Heart”, it’s the rich girl who ends up adopted and the social climber classmate who hates her is the biological daughter. K-Drama doesn’t hesitate putting depressive spin on plots that we are already familiar with.

Also, “Temptation of Wife” is more like the classic Tagalog film “Babangon Ako’t Dudurugin Kita” (I Will Rise Up and Crush You). The man dumps his wife for a prettier and richer woman. Wife gets lost and finds fortune in her new household. She then uses her vast resources to avenge herself against her estranged husband and the woman who took him away from her. Again, no guns, goons and gold since all that is left for the estranged wife to do is watch the competition break down by itself. Also, she ends up falling for her knight-in-shining armor. At least she didn’t return to her husband after accomplishing the revenge plan.

4. Gender benders

While Japanese drama (or J-Drama) is already rich with gender-bending plots from manga. K-Drama has a way of making some remakes their own. It’s easy to see anyway how male Korean actors are so beautiful, they already look like androgynous models. So when “1st Shop of the Coffee Prince” (released in the Philippines as “Coffee Prince”) soared to the top of the ratings, you could tell how the market is ready for gender bender soaps.

The coffee shop owner wanted to avoid the dates that his grandmother keeps setting for him. So he asks his barista (that he mistook for a guy) to pretend to be his gay lover. The barista accepts the deal since she needs the money. Of course they fall in love which begs the question – if the barista is a guy for real, would the coffee shop owner still love him?

It’s the same conundrum that occurred in the K-Drama “You’re Beautiful”. A girl was asked to pretend to be his twin brother after the latter’s cosmetic surgery operation got botched. It was an ill-timed incident as he fronts a K-Pop band with a career ready to launch. The girl agreed since she thought she is helping her brother this way. She ends up getting too close with a band mate and you can see how effed up it could get.

Even the sageuk genre is not spared from the gender bender type of stories even just partly. The largely fictional version of the life of the Hermit Kingdom’s first ever female head of state, Queen Seon Deok, featured the young Deokman (the Queen’s nickname) as a street urchin who got into the palace and got passed off as a young boy. She entered the military and only discovered her true identity as the next in line to the throne. Of course her fellow private end up falling for her which really got him confused as to his sexuality. It must have been a big relief the moment he discovered the person he fell in love with is a woman after all.

Predictability is good. But simplifying them because you have a story to tell instead of trying to improve an already interesting story is way better when it comes to presenting these KDramas. Luckily for the local productions though, the popularity of KDramas is already waning. It can be either saturation point or even Korean producers run out of tricks. Either way, most Filipinos today would still settle for the KDramas than what is offered at the moment on primetime TV because some story-tellers knew better how to present their productions. Could this be a new breed of colonial mentality?

Analyzing the difference between local soaps and K-Dramas helps learn about the market that it is catering too. It turned out to be more interesting than initially predicted. It must have been the final pointer that really set off the interesting factoids. I enjoyed scanning through the comparisons as much as you do. Just don’t forget to like my official Facebook page, Kuya Manzano FanClub. Gracias.

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How to be a Good Actor

January 6, 2015 Web Master

Please read the title again as I would like to make myself clear – I am offering advice on how to be a good actor, not how to be a major superstar. Before even aspiring for that lead role in your dream teleserie, ask yourself first if you have the talent. Be serious when you ask yourself that.

Know the difference between a celebrity and an actor. A celebrity does not always mean “actor” as this would often be defined by the media coverage you attract. An actor does not always mean “celebrity” as some of the most talented actors don’t even get the media mileage they deserve. In this vein, you should be aware that having the talent and the looks are not enough to make it big in Tinseltown.

If you see yourself acting professionally for the long term, you need to prepare yourself for failure. Besides, a long-term career as an actor is not always a guarantee. Even winning talent search competitions like StarStruck can’t guarantee the starring roles in soaps and meaty roles worth the awards. It even happened that some of the runners-up end up having better acting careers than the “grand winners”. And it all boils down to attitude.

You are never too good to skip workshops and training sessions. Sure, acting the part has an element of faking the emotions but that doesn’t mean you will just let it look fake. If you want to go the method acting route, go. But Anthony Hopkins mentioned the side effects of this routine that you can read here. If you’re willing to go miserable and grumpy for the sake of getting a role right, then suit yourself.

Then again, that’s where the workshops come in handy. You are not limited to only one role. If ever, you get to explore all kinds of roles by just letting it all out there. Versatility is good especially if you plan to overcome all objections and silence your critics to kingdom come. Who knows if you end up discovering your type of role?

Headshots are good since you need some photos to send to agencies. But a portfolio to back up the headshot attached in the email would be more than helpful. Experienced actors, even if an agency just saw your email, would be interested to screen you after you give them an idea of what you can do. First impressions come from the kind of headshots that are attached to your portfolio. But that doesn’t mean you’d ignore spicing up your portfolio too. Make it interesting. If ever, adjust it in a way that would get the agencies interested in hiring you by matching it to the vacant roles that they are trying to fill. Once an interview and screening is scheduled, you know you did your part well.

Opportunities don’t fall from trees. You find them. There are events that you can attend either for work or for leisure where you meet people within the same industry. It was mentioned in this article “Marketing Your Play: Questions That Shape The Vision”.

Events where you are plugging your project give you an opportunity to meet more people. Some might need actors for commercials, for short films or for feature films. Agents looking for someone to cast in a soap or a variety show might be there too apart from the press who knew someone somewhere somehow. A friend of a friend of a friend goes a long way and the next thing you know, you belong to the inner circle of the industry.

It’s mostly a social media thing. Some netizens, even if they meant just constructive criticism, still resort to creating dummy accounts so that their feedback will not be taken personally. On the other hand, some self-imposed critics lash out at certain actors for allegedly not having enough acting chops to dish out at a certain role. What if the role required restraint? What if there is no need for histrionics to come up with a believable performance?

Not everyone with a negative feedback meant ill intentions. Feedback is the best way where you can tell if you did a certain role right or if the acting is believable. Believability as opposed to exaggerated theatrics still wins the day. Learning to differentiate the honest comments from comments that just wanted to ruin your day is the clue when it comes to finding ways to improve your craft. There will always be negative feedback, ill intentions and dementors (to borrow that term from Harry Potter) that will eat your happiness. But in the middle of all that crap, genuine feedback still exists. That’s where you start to view your craft artistically then.

There was a manager who was blunt enough to tell her ward “Let’s be honest here. You don’t look nice. You look like a brat with nothing good to do. Accept villain roles and see yourself getting employed constantly”. It risked getting the actress typecast into villain roles in teleseries but she eventually learned the type of roles that suited her. While as an actor, you will not always be stuck in a certain kind of role, much of your repertoire will lean towards it simply because of the way that you look and the skill that back up the look.

Some actors start out as “character actors”. A few of them transcend into becoming lead actors themselves despite less change in facial features or very minor tweaks in the way that they act. In other words, actors like Jeremy Renner still end up getting badass roles despite getting catapulted into lead roles. You may have noticed that in “The Avengers”. Whether he’s on Loki’s side or on The Avengers’ side, his role did not wimp out or go “lamya” mode.

On the other hand, some character actors don’t succeed when trying to go the lead role route. Remember that villain on the film version of “The Count of Monte Cristo”? That’s Guy Pearce, the same actor that bagged the lead role for the underrated sci-fi film “Lockout”. While his strong features meant more villain roles (because he eventually bagged the villain role for “Iron Man 3), he didn’t get typecast in them. He was also on “The Adventures of Priscilla” playing the role of Felicia. Did he end up finding his type of role? Yes. Let’s just say he’s more memorable in baddie roles. The fact that he accepts them meant that he has acknowledged the kind of roles that suited him.

Acting is such a complicated profession. You practice the art of faking your emotions while looking genuine in them. Nevertheless it is a craft worth preserving and harnessing if you plan to do this professionally. I hope I helped you get an idea about acting as a passion. And while you’re at it, please click “Like” on my official Facebook page, Kuya Manzano FanClub. See you around.

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How to be a Good Singer

January 6, 2015 Web Master

Learning how to be a good singer is better than just learning how to belt out the high notes. If you plan to take a professional career when it comes to singing, the tips below would be very helpful to guide you on that journey.

The last kind of inconvenience you need is a dry throat. If non-performers would need plenty of water to keep themselves hydrated, what more for singers with a budding career? It would be difficult to dish out the needed notes in a song when you’re struggling with a dry throat. A dry throat is often a precursor to difficulty in the air passages due to lack of moisture. Keeping it moist would extend the moisture to the mouth and help a superfluous flow of air and voice – both elements that are crucial in delivering a credible or at least a decent performance.

And in saying water, it means not coffee or alcohol prior to a performance. You may have heard about some performers that can’t perform much when not drunk. Confidence has to be natural, not reliant on substances like alcohol. So might as well go with water. Make it at least 2 liters a day.

Dairy products like cheese in sandwiches and ice cream. No chocolate either. You can have that chocolate candy bar another day like the day after a performance. Before that, it would cause excess mucus secretion on the throat linings. It irritates the throat enough to make you cough or have some “paos” moments in the middle of the song. It happens in some occasions and the performer realizes it too late. But you can avoid such incidents from happening in your own event if you could avoid the confectionery at least 24 hours prior to that performance.

After an advice on how to avoid irritating your throat, the next sensible body part that you need to take care of is your pair of lungs. You may have read about chest resonance as an important skill that you need to harness within your body. It’s hard to achieve appropriate chest resonance when you’re damaging your own lungs.

Some singers managed to get away with smoking onstage in the middle of a performance. But the long-term effects became evident years after they did it. Shortness of breath, tightness in the chest and other negative effects of smoking that transcended into the vocal chords can be heard in how some of them sing their songs. If you would like to have a raspy voice to go with your rock repertoire, then stick to a rock repertoire. Just be reminded though that not everyone that smokes achieves the desired quality of a rock-ready raspy voice.

Breathing exercises are not limited to meditation sessions. Such rituals exist for performers too especially those who are reliant on their vocal chords for a credible performance. To test yourself if you have breathed well enough, try sitting upright – the stomach-in-chest-out type of posture. Then breathe in within 2 seconds. Exhale the next 2 seconds. Try counting the seconds from one to four when trying to breath in and out – 2 seconds to inhale and 2 seconds to exhale. And breathe through your nose instead of your mouth. Collecting oxygen for your lungs would be better that way.

Stomach resonance, chest resonance and head resonance – all these factors get fixed after constant breathing practice. Better air flow right from the bottom of your diaphragm to your nose and mouth conditions the upper body for a performance. Once breathing gets smoother. better vocal power is harnessed. This would mean less incidents of shortness of breath in congruence with keeping your throat hydrated for the next performance.

You don’t have to sing daily on an hourly basis. And it’s not because “Practice makes perfect; nobody’s perfect so don’t practice”. It’s because, to quote Placido Domingo in his episode at HBO’s Masterclass “We live with the instrument”. When you are a performer, your voice is not just a voice anymore. It’s an instrument that you use to entertain people. Whether you take care of it or not, wear-and-tear issues will set in. Of course, the wear-and-tear issues will surface earlier if you don’t take care of your vocal chords well enough. It’s also the quickest way to develop lymph nodes. Some opera singers still have a career to come back to but they don’t always sound the same as prior to the operation. That should serve as a cautionary tale to everyone who is fond of over-singing.

Glad to be of help to everyone in need of singing tips. Don’t forget to like my official Facebook page, Kuya Manzano FanClub, for constant updates. See you next article.

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Loading business oportunity for all networks in the Philippines for just 500php

January 2, 2015 Kuya

Start a new life with extra income from the first day.

Have your own business for just 500php, fantastic!

I was at home thinking of how to help the most number of Filipinos who really have what it takes to move forward and do something for themselves. This is the type of people that I want to help.

We live in a third world country and at the same time the fastest growing economy of Asia. So who is getting out of poverty and moving forward, those who will do something for themselves no doubt.

So here it is.

I have been living in the Philippines for a few years now. And since the beginning I’m spending on prepaid phone load, paying high electric bills, buying the services of internet service providers…

And guess what? Last year I discovered this business and I’m saving in my bills every month. So that already makes it worth. And that’s not it. I earn even more than what I save for myself, because I end up selling load to my friends and relatives and get a cut from it EACH TIME!

So with just my regular cellphone in my bag, I’m carrying my business all over the country, always with me. My store is always open and I sell regularly aside from saving every month.

My philosophy in business is to promote the win-win situation always. And I believe in paying forward (help others and that good deed shall come back to you somehow). It’s about karma if you believe in that.

How much can you earn?

Depends on you. You save for yourself every month and you sell load for phones, for videogames (which is super IN in the Philippines), for electric bills, for internet connections…

The commissions go from 0.70% to 15% depending on which product.

For example on my normal bills. One month you spend 1.000php on phone, 1.000php on electricity, 1.000php on internet. That’s 3.000php and you’ll have a rebate of around 100php I would say to be conservative. So I earned 100php. After 5 months I made my money back from this small investment and I start earning every month already.

Also in a regular month I do the favor to my friends and relatives reloading their phones. I reload regularly to my girlfriend and to my titos and some friend. More or less I load another 3.000php a month to other people. So that makes it already 200php a month I make by doing practically nothing. Just texting.

So in 2 or 3 months you already made more than 500php in this case scenario.

Depends on you. This is just an example. Actually I do pretty much more because I sell load at our Coffee shop business and we’re also going to pay the high electric bills there. So we’ll be saving a lot monthly.

How to get it right now?

Deposit thru BDO 620262680 to Luis Antonio M Dominguez 500php. And then send a photo of your receipt in a Private Message to https://www.facebook.com/kuyafanclub indicating your cellphone number to be activated as a retailer and your email.

We will activate your account, and send you the instructions, guides and will assist you so you start earning immediately.

I’m Kuya Manzano: businessman, actor, singer, director, writer, producer. And this is a good chance to improve starting today. I’m here to help you grow! Empowering Filipinos who are willing to move their butts!

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Benefits of Meditation

December 2, 2014 Kuya

Benefits of meditation are well know by people all over the world way above their religions and cultural upbringing.

Some people go do Yoga, some are Budhists… some like the Raelian International Movements medidate sincronized together all over the world!

It will relieve your stress:

Meditation prevents stress from getting into the system
Meditation releases accumulated stress that is in the system

On a physical level, contemplation:

Brings down hypertension
Brings down the levels of blood lactate, decreasing tension assaults
Diminishes any pressure related torment, for example, strain cerebral pains, ulcers, a sleeping disorder, muscle and joint issues
Expands serotonin creation that enhances disposition and conduct
Enhances the resistant framework
Expands the vitality level, as you increase an inward wellspring of vitality

Mental Benefits of Meditation

Contemplation brings the brainwave design into an Alpha express that advances mending. The brain gets to be new, fragile and delightful. With normal practice of contemplation:

Uneasiness diminishes
Enthusiastic steadiness makes strides
Imagination increments
Satisfaction increments
Instinct creates
Pick up clarity and genuine feelings of serenity
Issues get to be littler
Reflection hones the psyche by picking up center and stretches through unwinding
A sharp personality without development causes strain, annoyance and dissatisfaction
An extended cognizance without sharpness can prompt absence of activity/advancement
The offset of a sharp personality and a stretched cognizance brings flawlessness
Contemplation makes you mindful – that your inward demeanor decides your bliss.

Different Benefits of Meditation

Passionate consistent quality and congruity: it washes down and feeds you from inside and cools you, at whatever point you feel overpowered, insecure, or candidly close down.
Contemplation accumulates concordance creation: when you ruminate, you are in the space of unfathomability, serenity and bliss and this is the thing that you discharge into the nature’s domain, bringing amicability to the Creation/planet.
Awareness advances: with the absorption of contemplation into day by day life, your cognizance develops and in time, has the capacity encounter the higher and refined conditions of cognizance.
At the point when your awareness advances and stretches, the aggravations throughout your life get to be unimportant. Displeasure and frustrations get to be transient feelings that happen immediately and afterward vanish. You begin living in ‘the minute’ and let go of ‘the past’.
Individual Transformation: reflection can achieve a genuine individual change. As you take in more about yourself, you’ll commonly need to find all the more about the puzzle of life, this universe, and so on. At that point the inquiries that emerge in the brain are – What is the significance of Life? What is its motivation? What is this world, what is affection, what is knowledge…?
When these inquiries emerge, realize that you are extremely blessed. These inquiries need to be comprehended; you can’t discover the answers in books. As you survive noting them you’ll witness that life change to a wealthier level.
Universe sized cognizance first lights in you
With the osmosis of reflection into day by day life, the fifth condition of consciousness*, called vast awareness, sunrises. Astronomical awareness – is to see the entire universe as a major aspect of oneself.
When you see the world as an issue of yourself, adoration streams firmly between the world and you. This affection engages you to shoulder the contradicting powers and the aggravations throughout your life. Resentment and frustrations get to be brief feelings that happen directly and afterward vanish. You begin living in ‘the minute’ and let go of ‘the past’.
The juncture of learning, comprehension and practice makes life complete. When you develop into higher conditions of awareness, you get to be excellent yet solid – a delicate, fragile and delightful bloom fit for pleasing distinctive values in existence without any conditions.

The most effective method to get the profits

To experience the profits of contemplation, normal practice is important. It takes just a couple of minutes consistently. Once guzzled into the day by day schedule, contemplation turns into the best piece of your day!
Contemplation is similar to a seed. When you develop a seed with adoration, the more it blooms. Likewise, the sapling of awareness is inside you. It needs to be sustained with basic contemplation strategies. Some palm trees yield in three years, some in ten years. Also those that aren’t sustained – never yield! They just exist.
Occupied individuals from all foundations are appreciative to stop and appreciate an invigorating few minutes of contemplation every day. Jump profound into yourself and enhance your life.

Join us next Sunday for free at iChill Theater Cafe https://www.facebook.com/events/385232568310139/

This is a one time event to be repeated if succesful.

Thank you and May the Force be with You!

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20 Oct 2014: random production is also production

October 21, 2014 Kuya

I wish and I will focus some day, but in the meantime… achievements of the day

Studying new song for pop-rock music contest

Figured out and completed the new Goverment forms for taxes for the business iChill

Starting a new phase for my Spanish artistic company, now it will be a portal for Show business.

Uploaded new fun videos for updates at the iChill FB page

Done some social media marketing in my Soundcloud account

Conclusion is it’s good to have a diary to see I’m productive and to force myself to be productive so you see I am. Does that make sense?

Yes. I discovered I need to be accountable in order to do things. So far I won’t do things if it’s only to please myself. Sad but so far that¡s my reality.

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Started paying our investors back. Hurray! 19 Sept 2014

September 19, 2014 Kuya

Typhoon day. So all stay at home coz it’s a National Calamity Day. Work cancelled outdoors…

So aside from being online chatting for hours, what can I do?

– Video editing of the Broadway Nights concert. Check my Tagalog singing here

– Financial reports for iChill theater Cafe. Already giving back money to the investors. This is a major Plot Point!

– House chores while listening to financial lectures. Today it was Jim Rohn on success tips.

– 1 hour walk for partial daily exercise.

– Fixing my real estate business in Spain thru writting letters…

So the major point of the day is starting the give back to our investors who believed in me. It’s such an achievement for me and I’m so so happy for it.

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Upgrading daily – 18 Sept 2014

September 19, 2014 Kuya

Here trying to keep track of what I do daily to better my life and my assets. Challenge you to do the same!

Woke up early coz lots of things to do at home during the day time.

– House upgrade. They are waterproofing the aircon area finally after I followed up 100 times. This is not the final step yet, but it’s a good progress. So hopefully no more humidity in that area caused by a bad drainage system in the building-.

– House maintenance. Having it cleaned more or less weekly finally also, thanks so much Susana.

– Social networks marketing. With 22 new followers today in Twitter.

– Promotion. Editing and publishing videos of last Broadway concert. Check the Fanclub https://www.facebook.com/kuyafanclub

– Planting seeds. Posted some auditions in Spain for web Audiciones.net, my Spanish artists web project.

– Finance. Bank transfers to less some debt in Spain.

– Mind food. Reading the Raelian Bible.

– Business. Preparing the payroll for iChill Theater Cafe.

– Ballet lesson at night to better my body and mind and dancing skills of course.

– Financial improvement reading finally.

Complete day hu! How productive was yours?

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Send money to your accounts abroad easy and cheap

September 16, 2014 Kuya

I found a way to send money from the Philippines to Spain easy and fast from my computer.

Pay Pal

It was a big hassle to have to bring cash to the closest Money sender and wait for long and get charged big fees. And after that my relative in Spain would have to travel to the Money sender and get the cash and deposit to my bank, etc. All costing time and money.

So I knew I had to find a way, that it could be possible in an easier way, and found it.

First create a PayPal account from the country you live in. Has to be created where you live and never access it from another part of the world. Why? Coz for security matters your account will get blocked if you access to it from a different country.

So if you travel a lot and want to use PayPal for your payments and to receive money, you need to do a PayPal account in each country you pretend to operate from.

And the second thing you need is a credit card or a debit card you can buy in the internet with. So you must know not all debit cards in the Philippines allow you to buy online. I got my thru Union Bank. It’s called the EON card.

So you apply for it online and you pick it up in a branch near you in just 5 days or less!

So now you can buy stuff online very easily.

So once you have your PayPal account in the country you live in, you link it to your bank account in the country you want to send money to. So I have a Philippine PayPal from which I can deposit to my Spanish real bank accounts.

So the process now is require a payment from PayPal to any email account you have. Then press the link to pay, and just pay with your card in the country you live in from your computer.

Now the money is in your PayPal account and you just transfer it to your real account in the country abroad. It will take 1 or 2 banking days to get there.

The commission of PayPal is smaller than official money transfer companies. And you need not to bother anyone abroad. Once in your account abroad you can just transfer it to them with the regular electronic banking transfers.

Well. I hope I just helped you save money, time, hassle and control everything from the comfort of your home.

Let me know how it worked for you.

May the Force be with You.

Start a new life with extra income from the first day.

Have your own business for just 500php, fantastic!

Benefits of meditation are well know by people all over the world way above their religions and cultural upbringing.

Some people go do Yoga, some are Budhists… some like the Raelian International Movements medidate sincronized together all over the world!

Typhoon day. So all stay at home coz it’s a National Calamity Day. Work cancelled outdoors…

So the major point of the day is starting the give back to our investors who believed in me. It’s such an achievement for me and I’m so so happy for it.

Here trying to keep track of what I do daily to better my life and my assets. Challenge you to do the same!

Complete day hu! How productive was yours?

I found a way to send money from the Philippines to Spain easy and fast from my computer.

It was a big hassle to have to bring cash to the closest Money sender and wait for long and get charged big fees. And after that my relative in Spain would have to travel to the Money sender and get the cash and deposit to my bank, etc. All costing time and money.

So now you can buy stuff online very easily.

Well. I hope I just helped you save money, time, hassle and control everything from the comfort of your home.

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