Awesome Bum 3.0

November is always very special month for me. Yup, it's my birthday last month and I'ts been a very busy week since then. Me and my family (relatives and girlfriend included ;)) were together on a trip to Tagaytay to have an ultimate bonding experience and I'm very lucky that my birthday falls near a long Halloween Vacation. Anyway, I've turned 30 this year and I'm kind of sad and happy at the same time. I'm happy because everything is almost...

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The End

It's 12/21/12!! According to a popular belief, the world is supposed to end today. Well it's still too early to tell, its exactly 2:18 PM (GMT +8) at this time of writing so its still not Dec.21 in other countries. Anyway, I researched about the origin about the "Mayan Prophecy" regarding the end of the world and I found out that it all starts a long time ago.  via NASA.gov  "The story started with claims that Nibiru, a...

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6th MAFBEX 2012

It's been two months already after my last post and there's so many crazy things that happened in that sixty to seventy days. Let's start with the day after ToyCon 2012. It was June 17, 2012 it's sunday morning and I was online, browsing my facebook when I noticed a facebook update by Entrepreneur Philippines. There is a food expo happening on that day and it was the last day of the event. I've attended several food expos in the past but not a MAFBEX...

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The Awesome Toy Convention 2012

For many years, I’ve wanted to go to a ToyCon. But unfortunately because of different factors like a six days working schedule, heavy traffic, laziness, and many other made up reasons I wasn’t able to go at least once. Yup, that was a sad fact for me who was always a fan of cartoons(be it from anime, Marvel, DC or Disney). For starters, Toy Convention aka ToyCon is like the holy grail for collectors, hobbyist or fans of cartoons, movies and comics....

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Seven steps to achieve financial freedom

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." - Benjamin Franklin Step One: Change your mindset. Since I was a kid my parents told me to work hard if I want to buy something I like. They also trained me to work and study hard so that I can get good grades and get a good job later. This pattern of work-earn-buy is how many of us were raised. I remember back when I was in college, I get an allowance of Php 200...

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How financially educated are you?

“The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them” -  Laing Hancock Two weeks ago, the news that 80% of Filipinos don’t have a savings account caught my attention. The reason is that majority of Filipinos can’t afford the 5,000 peso maintaining balance of set by banks. Personally, if one would really want to open a savings account they’ll just need to find banks like BPI that offers as low as 1,000 pesos maintaining balance to...

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Investments that work for you

When I was in college, I've been given the opportunity to work for the Marketing head of our school as a on-the-job-trainee. My boss who eventually became my mentor was so passionate about investing that everyday he keeps insisting that I should read a very good book that he's reading.  That book was "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. It was the first book that I've read about investing and little did I know that it will change the...

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Awesome Bum's Top 10 Greatest Anime of All Time

When I was a kid, my grandfather and I were very close that we always watched different cartoons everyday together (both American and Japanese), in the morning and  afternoon. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry, Felix the cat, Little women 2, Zenki, B'TX, etc. As I grew up, different anime masterpiece was shown in national TV that I was so inspired that I can't help myself but to dedicate this blog post to honor them. Ten: Gensomaden Saiyuki Gensomaden...

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