Bad debts are bad debts because they are way past due and are difficult to collect. Understandably, the natural reaction of companies is to focus their collection efforts in collecting these kind of debts.

This is fine except that, usually, they end up spending resources not commensurate to the benefits, and will most likely be distracted in their efforts to collect their “good” accounts. Outsourcing becomes an option. It is a strategy that most multinational companies in the Philippines have long adopted. Read more at Pinoy Seminars.

The recent days have been busy – complete with exams and all sorts of academic requirements. But at last, it’s finally over – for this year at least.

Haven’t read local and national dailies since the start of the week, but the last thing I picked up falls under the category of good news: Arroyo backpedals on subversion law. Scriptorium discusses why the Anti-Subversion Law should NOT be revived.

In this context, respected political analyst Mon Casiple observes of the military’s new position as a powerful arbiter in the game that is Philippine politics.

Before this, it was the military intervening in politics or negotiating with civilian politicians for its own ends. It is now having illusions about its decisive role in regime change and becoming the nation’s leaders.

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Malu Fernandez, Britney Spears, 300, Mac vs. PC, and so much more…
12 Months of Youtube: My Favorites for 2007

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The WidgetBucks Blog has officially announced that they do not credit clicks that are coming from the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Egypt, and Romania. This means that you will not be paid if the clicks come from the countries that are mentioned above.

What are the non-paying countries or regions?

We are finding that advertisers are not willing to buy traffic from Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Egypt, and Romania.

It’s really important to mention this is an advertiser decision regarding the value of that traffic, NOT WidgetBucks’ decision. We repeat: this is an advertiser decision regarding the value of that traffic, NOT WidgetBucks’ decision. I emphasize this because publishers, for whatever reason, will undoubtedly and incorrectly draw the conclusion it is solely WidgetBucks’ decision.

Read more here.

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Business for a cause
Setting up a Botika ng Bayan

Read on from The Legally Inclined blog.

So here’s what I’ve learned so far about this new crew of people I work with these days. Most of them have been with the company for quite some time now (10+ years!) — and they still love working here. And despite the highly physical kind of work we do everyday, they are active on their off days as well. For instance, one teaches Kundalini yoga, another one rides horses, one gal just completed her first triathlon, and this other guy runs miles before and after his shifts (he’s an actor so he says he has to stay in impossibly terrific shape). And me? I sleep until past noon when I’m off because my body’s achy and sore after two or three consecutive work days.

Continue reading at GIGI GOES GAGA.

Having been exposed to the corporate world for a while, I have taken note of interesting match between jobs and people. Economic background, IMO, affects paradigm and job.

People who graduated from an A-list university and grew from a well off family tends to be good on property management (i.e. hotel, resort, shopping mall management) sales and marketing, and customer service management. The absence of financial need developed confidence in negotiations and limitless exposures on events. Likewise, living in an upscale environment have set the standard of elegance and understanding of superb service.

On the other hand, people who worked to support his studies, at the same time, and those who came from not so well off family tend to be good workers and good in people management. Understanding what it meant to be in need, these people can be happy with what they have (rather than having nothing), and tends to be more loyal to their jobs and company compare to their rich counterparts. These people, likewise, when given the opportunity to lead, can be good in managing people as they can easily sympathize and empathize with ordinary folks. They are also in the best position to inspire ordinary folks to gun for bigger things.

Continue Reading at Sonnie’s Porch 

Nora Aunor and Vilma Santos recorded their own versions of the Jackson 5 Christmas hit, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” Who knew the clips would become a huge cult hit on the Internet nearly 40 years later?

Listen to the clips and take your pick. Who’s got the better version, Ate Guy or Ate Vi? Vote nuh! (Finger pointing upwards.)

Audio clips, pictures and complete post here.

After the last Wowowee Scam a few months ago here’s another video to prove the cheating scam of the said game show “Wilyonaryo.” This video says it all and I hope that this is the last of scams Wowowee could ever produce. Watch and be amaze on how they practice the game show in private with music and fake expressions.

See the video after the Jump….

Somebody told me that one should write in the form that one loves to read. That makes sense, doesn’t it? Why grill steaks if you’re a vegetarian? (This also means I’ll never take my master’s degree as theses and dissertations are not exactly my kind of bedtime reading). Following that principle, people would probably deduce that my favorite literary forms to read would be the autobiography and personal essay as it is the form (not that literary though) that I most often write in, right? Wrong. I write personal essays and short autobiographies not because I like reading personal essays and short autobiographies but simply because I like talking about myself and myself is my favorite topic.

Read more in Toe’s Kurokuroatbp.

Sometimes, you may want to “compact” all your post in your Wordpress web blog by making the post title the only visible for all your posts. That is, the content will not be shown in the main page - only the title. See sample . Read More >>

Caroling is a part of the Filipino Christmas tradition. Once the Dawn Mass known as “Misa de Gallo” or “Simbang Gabi ” starts, carolers will be on their feet singing Christmas carols from house to house spreading the spirit of the season through songs.

Children like to form groups and enjoy hopping from one house to another every night singing Jingle Bells, Silent Night and traditional Filipino Christmas songs like Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit, Pasko Na Naman, at Namamasko.

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Christmas Caroling in the Philippines

This is a story about a fish named Agoodidea, who is swimming with mutant sharks and gators in today’s mass media aquarium. Will he survive the chaos of living in murky waters? What should we do to help him survive?

Read the whole story at AlterNation101.

2008 Demands Creative Minds

While I was trying to create some sample teasers for our up coming Christmas bash, I then asked myself if I could really produce a really good out put knowing that I haven’t done these stuffs for couple of months now. Worst, I haven’t undergone any training on CS3 Photoshop though I can manage to outline some figures and throw some colors on it but I doubt if you’ll call that an art. But mind you, way back when I used to get enthused I tend to paint stuffs on a canvass. I wonder where those paintings are today…

Anyway, I wonder what the demands are for 2008. Would it still demand for an average employee with less competencies and skills for you to compete in the global arena? Or would it demand knowledge workers packed with innovativeness and creativity to be able to survive. My fellow Human Resource colleagues, what’s your pick? And why such a demand is inevitable? Below is a space for your inputs. Next entry would be a compilation of your random thoughts. Just stick with the format I’m providing below for your thoughts to be recognized.

What’s your pick here!

Its Christmas time around the world and people exchange gifts and wishes in this special time of the year. Good will wishes are expressed in many different languages during this joyous time.

You may want to add a special greeting in your Christmas cards, gift tags or in your e-cards this year to wish your friends, neighbors, colleagues, chat friends “Merry Christmas” in other languages. Or if you are spending Christmas abroad this year, here is one resource that will help you communicate the greetings for the season

Continue reading: How to say ” Merry Christmas” in differrent languages.

Back home, when we were still kids, we called this game “pik”, probably the Visayan way of saying “pick”. The game is played by two players first holding hands and then, on the count of three, releasing the hold to do a gesture of a “bato”, “papel”, or “gunting”. The rule is simple: Bato wins over gunting. Papel wins over bato. Gunting wins over papel.

And guess what? I have just learned from the Thinking Blog that there is actually a professional competition for the game complete with an annual world championship at that. This was held last October 13 in Toronto, Canada with a total of $10,000 in prize money. In the championship, a woman bested a man to become the first ever woman world champion. Read more at Pinoy Seminars.

wala ng tatalo sa pasko ng pinas.
ang pasko ang tinaguriang pista ng mga pista na hindi natin pinagsasawaang abangan taon taon para ipagdiwang. ito ang araw na kung saan maaari tayong makagawa ng mabuti para sa iba. ang araw na maaari tayong makapagbigay ng kung ano ang nararapat para sa isa. lahat ng tao, aligaga sa pagbibigay ng konting makakayanan. lahat ng tao, abala sa pagbili ng maaaring mairegalo.

ayaw kong nakakatanggap ng regalo
pero hindi ako nagsasalita ng tapos.

bigyan ng regalo si XienahGirl sa Chiksilog

I work for a company that employs people from around the world. Because of that, I had the opportunity to immerse myself in the different cultures of the people I worked with. I got to know Americans, Italians, Brits, Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Indians and many more.

Because of this diversity, very interesting conversations materialize during lunch or coffee breaks. One such discussion was about arranged marriages and divorce. You see back then, I had a colleague who had requested for a month long PTO (personal time off). When we asked, he revealed that he was going to meet his future wife and her family for the first time.

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Looking at my historical Cost per Click for both ‘Adsense for Content’ and ‘Adsense for Search’, I’m amused to observe a significant increase of CPC that started on 2nd Quarter of 2007 until now. Read More >>

I don’t know if Google would like this, but it is, definitely, not a hack. This is just teaching you how to copy the files that Google temporarily saved in your computer before showing it to you through internet browser. Read More >>