Last week:

I bought a new phone.  It was a 5310 China Music Express phone.  Me and my sister paid  2.5k worth of 100 peso bills.  What made the experience hilarious was that it was a bit warm on the top floor of Farmers and my sister made a fan of the bills.  She was helping me haggle like some rich matron flapping a bunch of crisp bills to her face.  The middle-aged saleslady kept looking at her and was smiling.  Maybe crispy bills brought a little luck?  I wouldn’t know. :p

The phone itself sucked.  The keys were too crisp and it took me an hour make it into something I could use.  I took the advice of a friend to go back to the store and sell it.  They slashed 500 pesos off of the price. (the cheaters… Wasn’t it illegal to have a no return no exchange policy?)  I gave up and had them reduce the price for a 6300 Nokia Phone which was around 5k.  I was happy with the upgrade and I considered it my basic phone.  Although it was a bit of a rip-off because the micro SD card didn’t work, I don’t really mind.  It will be my basic phone I guess as nobody really sends messages to my sun sim anymore save for one person. (himitsu-desu!)

I opened up a checking account with BPI.  I turned over my personal stash of 10 peso coins worth 4.5k.  I took a picture of it but my cable isn’t cooperating lately so you’ll just have to wait and see how 4.5k worth of 10 peso coins looks like.  It was a minimum of 10,200 pesos with the 200 pesos as the checkbook fee.  Heavy as hell I tell you. Two weeks later; I have 500 pesos worth of 10 peso coins again.  Hyuk hyuk.  Happy hoarding. :p

I watched Transformers 2 finally.  The movie was pure eye-candy and it did nothing for the old hasbro cartoon canon but I still enjoyed it nonetheless.  The two huckleberry redneck autobots were funny as hell. (i love rednecks, don’t you?)  Jetfire was reduced to an old and rotting SR-71 Blackbird.  I thought he would look cool or something but he was an old geezer in the film.  Still nostalgic I guess… the magic of names and wondering how they would look in the film was enough to keep me interested.  The best part of the film was the fight scene of optimus versus Starscream and Megatron and one other decepticon.  Cool as hell.  I even wondered if Robot Jox was as cool. (memories of some movies are still overly exagerrated especially if you haven’t seen the film again, believe me.) Optimus towards the end of the film suddenly looked like the GP02A Gundam when he absorbed Jetfire’s parts.  Awesome, a little bulky and still cool to boot.

I am suddenly wondering why I crammed all of these in one article.  They all suddenly looked clunky and disorganized to me.

That’s me for ya.

:p  I’ll post the pictures later on. (And all the other pics I promised various people that I would print/scan/post.)

Life is beautiful. :D

I wish i could see the sun disappear in to the ocean.
It’s been years since I last smelled the salty sea.
It’s been months since I’ve seen a clear sky of stars.
I may have been spending my days waiting
for the Moon, ever since I let go of that Sun.
Goodbye, beautiful you are, as you fade…
The moon is not the one that does the chasing,
as it surrounds itself with stars.

I used to feel like I didn’t have the courage to charge head-first in to something risky. Let alone for things outside the world I’m comfortable with. During the past few weeks, I have found solace in the comfort of friends and family. I have ‘met’ friends I have known for quite awhile now but have never seen their faces. I have found that the important things in life for me have been neglected for so long.

The self can be selfless sometimes… that is the unhealthy part of relationships. You give and you give and you give some more. You let go of things that have been with you for so long just to avoid an argument. It left me empty and alone, but it gave me the chance to start over.

I found myself talking to a mirror and I realized that it is finally time to move on. Life is beautiful. It used to be like the sky. I know it’s there and it’s beautiful but I never gave myself the chance to step out and enjoy it. Not this time. I’m taking my life back and I am no longer afraid to take risks.

The past may have done a good number on me and it had instilled a deep fear on things unknown. Everything has risks involved. You have the risk of betrayal from new friends. YOu have the risk of failure from new business ventures.

I will begin my journey now. Headlong, in a world of calculated risks and lesser evils. I am no longer put off by the thought that things will be hard… or will take too long. I can wait, but it will not stand in the way of my happiness.

I read the other entries here and it really made me think:

Life really is beautiful. Keep moving.

Hi, I was recently cornered for a product demonstration with an MLM company.  Normally, I’m weary when it comes to Multi-Level Marketing things.  Look at my GT Trends… I only use it for discounts now. It ended up being more like a $20 a month membership fee for flight discounts and free hotel upgrades.  Although, I might think of getting back to it mainly because I have over 200 downlines underneath it and I just need two more people to join.  $600 to make it work.  I’ll get back to that once I have free money to spend.

Anyway, related to the last post in making money I have to get back to that.

Crazy shit.  Even the product demonstrators thought it was crazy; but after the math it suddenly became a low-risk investment opportunity for a meager price of 105K. (life threatening cough)

Even my Mom thought I was going bat-shit-crazy.

Read on:

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The Third Option:  MLM 15 account injection.

What you need:

105K (the 100k loan of mine plus 5k)

That’s pretty much it.

Ok, I will try to explain as simply as I can.  105K will pretty much create my own network with 14 people underneath me immediately. I will have 4 accounts in total under my name so I will have 4 checks waiting for me to pick up. The rest of the 11 people will be people I will be handpicking (only if willing).

This injection will bring me back approximately 30K in one week. The two accounts under me will get about 8K each.  The next line which involves around 4 people will get around half of that.   The last line, which is good for about 8 people will have to do some legwork.

For the 3rd line: (Which is good for about 4 people) Before you agree, I have only one thing to ask: Since a slot costs about 7K, the only thing I will require from the people that I will help is that I will own your first few checks until it reaches 7K. (Just so I get my investment back) The rest of what you will earn from this grand scheme will be yours.  No Money coming out, just money coming in.  You get to have an established downline network and easy money per week.

Next part of the plan after establishing my network is to look for people who are willing to earn (bottom 8) and offer the idea to them.  They will work for their sponsored 7k startup fee.  Just sell the product and keep giving me 50% of the proceeds until you pay off the 7k at no interest.  The prize I will be giving for those who have paid off the 7k is that I will sponsor 2 more people under them and the cycle runs anew.

The funny thing about this scheme is, as I go deeper in to the network is that my 3 top accounts will be earning money.  The 4th account under my name I will be injecting another 15 accounts when I can afford it.  All in all, the recycled money will bring me back my ROI plus more AND it will give those I’ve helped some decent income as I keep going further down.  I can continue option 1 and 2 once I get my investment back so I will have three plans working simultaneously.

The Good: ROI Comes back real quick and I don’t have to do a thing.  Risk is comparatively lower than the two previous options and I can just sit of my arse watching my money grow.  Plus, I get to help people who want my help.  My upline is gonna be filthy rich without lifting a finger.  Although I will leave it up to her to do all the talking and once she gets her first million from me she will have to give me a car.  (I’m going to be greedy for once and guess what? She agreed.)

The Bad: I will end up talking to a lot of people for this and they will get the notion that I really AM bat-shit-crazy.

I will post whatever happens to these ideas of mine and I’ll tell you all which is the fastest.

Cheers!

Life is beautiful.

It has been a whole month and five days now of freedom.  Compared to back when it just happened, I seem to be a lot better now.  I have pretty much gotten sick of doing of nothing but enjoy new-found freedom and have decided to start making those baby steps toward self-improvement. 

I haven’t saved much and whatever savings I have accumulated during that free time is still pretty much in the five-digit range.  I am thanking God they didn’t have anything nice in the stores recently, as I might have ended up splurging on things I don’t really need.

I told myself that I will give myself a month to sort whatever feelings I might still have (or no longer have) and the “Love Thyself” mindset.  Back to business mode.  I am currently applying for a loan worth 100K to speed up the process of a personal business venture that I can look in to on my spare time.

I have decided on the buying and selling of automobiles because I found it hard to get by without one.  During the first two weeks I had been really considering to get myself another Honda Jazz or that pretty VR-4 Galant. This loan will help me out a lot I’m sure, but I haven’t called about the small particular details to be able to formulate a plan that will help dampen the 56% interest rate for three years.

So here goes the plan:

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Option 1 (the safest, but it takes longer to reap)

Target time: 6-10 months
Needed:  
1 Checking Account.
1 Time Deposit Account (set up to automatically deposit the gains to the checking account)  (You can also try government bonds, but i don’t know how it works)
A loan @ 100K at 56% for three years is about 4,300 PhP a month approximately. 
All your bonuses and incentives. (yes, you still get to keep your gross salary intact)

An easy figure if you think about it, mainly because I have a job that I intend to keep.

One way of easing off on the interest is to put the whole amount first in time deposit and you earn about 2525 a month (which accrues interest of course and it adds up.)  I was thinking of not spending the 100k at all and put all my bonuses in it while keeping it there.  I will have to put up a checking account for the loan since there is no collateral required (pre-dated check payments) on it so in the long run; after a few sleeply mornings in front of the calculator, I figured that to earn more than the monthly rate of PhP4,300 a month you have to practically double the amount to earn from this particular scheme.  Since I have a job that pays… well enough,  The last 3 months of the quarter will be crucial in making it work.  I am waiting for my KPI Incentive (bi-yearly), 13th month pay and leave credit conversions.  That’s approximately about 50-60k in additional income but salary and taxes aren’t added yet to the calculation.  After putting all my eggs on the time deposit, I would have about 200k (give or take) which will yield about 5k a month approximately.  Viola!  You have a loan that pays for itself.

The Yield:

After you hit the 200k mark, you practically leave it alone and stop yourself from touching it.  You still can but you must never go down the 4,300 a month mark in gains.  You get to keep your salary from there on and live normally.  The only difference is, you have money in the bank that is growing steadily.  I plan to continue putting all my bonuses on the time deposit until it reaches around 300k, which I can use to play around with for more income.  I will keep 200k on time deposit and play with the 100k.

*note: 500k in time deposit yields 5 digits!

The Good:  It is something you can leave alone without thinking about it.  Slowly but surely.  Less risks.
The Bad:  You have a lot of money and you will be tempted to spend some of it.  (just a little… please!?)  Once you do, you’ll have a hard time again building up momentum.
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Option 2(risky, but yields faster)

Target time: Depends on Luck or skill.
Needed:
Time, lots of it.
Persistence.
Patience.
Something to spend on for buying/selling.

I am thinking of buying and selling automobiles.  The 100k Loan I plan to get will be the starting money you will need to purchase a second hand car.  Reason for this is: you can buy and haggle to get the lowest price, and then sell for the highest reasonable price.  I plan to buy the first car at the 70-80k range.  You’ll get a crappy car, I know but there are a lot of cars out there that either runs bad but looks good on the outside, or still runs well and looks crappy in the outside.  It will be choosing between the lesser evils.  I would suggest getting a decent exterior and put a little money to fix whatever is under the hood.  Watch out for sacrifice sales, they tend to be blinded by front money and you can haggle even less than what you can normally go for.

The problem with this set up is that you will have to sacrifice time to scout around for prospective targets. Once you have your target, you will have to advertise and wait for offers.  Once offers are made, you will have to entertain them (even if they are just looking and not planning to buy). Eats up a lot of your time and you still have to go to work to earn so that you can pay for the amortization.

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That’s it for today.  :)

Life is beautiful.

Takes little to break.

Right now; I am broken blade of grass,
that floating cotton thing you wish on when caught.
A castle from a deck of cards. Give me an eddy. 
I’m swept; it takes little to be blown away.

the load that i bear is lightened

I am a loose compound of loose molecules with
uneven atomic charges that won’t hold. When
stuffed  to a beaker of sorts.  Turn on the heat
and watch.  It takes little to break me down.

defences are compromised

Later on; I am a jumper on a ledge. A stopped
car on green.  Opposites in heat, on a bed come
night time.  At thumbtack on styro.  All it
takes is a little push, to go all the way.

a little nudge that is all…

I am wheel.  A cabbie flagged on the wrong side.
A car on a one way street.  The prodigal son
refused. A lover denied access.  Major’s blowing
the whistle.  It won’t take much to turn around.

though I still try to resist

Don’t be nice, it’s not much to be mean. Lesser
still to frown… and it’s easier to be angry.
I’d rather you do all those things I hate.
Since right now; or later on, I’m easy to break.