IT Professional? How Much Salary Did One Earn?
In today's modern world the technology keeps on evolving as time goes by, one of the influencers behind this was an **IT Professional**. Information technology surely influenced our society, computers, databases, emails, smart TV, smartphones and a lot more that made our life very convenient. Millions of people around the globe were working in an IT Company, while others in different industries like mine who were in the Medical industry, others may say that we don't need IT but it's a no no no! It's hard to survive without IT in an organization. Since the technology was so advanced now we need people who have expertise in them, but the question is? How much did one earn per month? Since I was an IT professional, how much do I earn? Let's see and find out.
There's a lot of fields in IT and it does not focus only on one expertise which others know only the peak of an individual IT but it is not. Now there's a lot of factors that an employer looks at IT, your level of experience, what skills you possess, your knowledge and certificates were keys for better compensation in these fields. The regular distribution of expertise in IT normally split in two aspects, hardware & software. In this field there's other covers of support, network administration, telecommunications, computer assembly and computer systems. This is where roles and positions are defined for example: system analysts - the one that analyzes and can help solve problems as well as suggesting to have a create system in information technology, software programmers - creators of systems that are used in by the company itself or clients that need something to make your work efficient, computer support specialists - which suit me well that you can call all around, computer scientists, network and database administrators, and more.
**IT SALARIES (Position Based) - International**
Now here's the part where I would discuss how much one could earn if you're an IT professional. The one that I will provide were the regular rate of IT in abroad not in PH yet:
***IT Support Specialist - Month - $9,625 / Median - $57,750 / Yearly - $115,500***
***Hardware Analyst - Month - $13,041 / Median - $78,250 / Yearly - $156,492***
***Systems Administrator - Month - $15,000 / Median - $88,750 / Yearly - $190,000***
***Software Engineer - Month - $18,000 / Median - $95,000 / Yearly - $210,000***
***Database Administrator - Month - $20,000 / Median - $110,000 / Yearly - $250,000***
Not bad for an IT Professional right? What makes the salaries higher? As I said, one factor was the level of experience plus his/her skillset that is needed by a company, they will not give you a good compensation unless you're fitted to the position. The list I provided was just a standard or normal rate for an IT professional. I don't know how other employers provide these kinds of people but technically this is the standard, maybe there's another position that is higher than this or same position but higher compensation.
Compared to the local rate here (Philippines) I can say it had a lot of difference and the Philippines provided small compensation to be precise, you know how other companies do, not just in IT people but also to other professionals they were given minimum wages. Starting or a regular rate of an IT job here started with P20,000 pesos but to be honest when I got my first job I started at minimum with a rate before of P13,000. More or less some IT's here earn from P20,000 pesos up to P230,000 pesos. Now I cannot disclose how much I earned in a month but to give you a hint it starts with a 3 and ends with 0, overtime & incentive were included hehe.
In order for me to have better opportunities, either I work abroad or earn more certificates and experience and find a better employer than in the company that I am staying at the moment. I'm more than thankful for what I have right now but if the opportunities knock I'll grab it to have a better future. Now you know how much IT earn do you want to be one of us? Well it's up to you on whatever career you choose as long as you're happy with it. That's all for today if you have comments and opinions feel free to ask. Thank you for your time reading.
Can I Start Over Again?
At last! After so many months of not being here, here I am again to write articles on this wonderful platform. 6 months have passed before I post a new article which is the one I am writing right now. Being hiatus for so long let me think that a lot has changed, hasn't it? I know there's a lot of new users here in read.cash and probably they didn't know about me anymore at the same time the old users might forget about me. So the question is Can I start over again? Just rebooting and I'll let you know who I am.
Some of the old users here know me by my real identity but to start I'm introducing myself just as my username was, I am @Codex_04, others known me by my username in noise.cash which is Levi_04 and to people who known me in real life they call me Pat. The username I put was far from reality right? and not just that the two usernames from the two platforms were not sync at all, the reason was before the noise.cash establish, I thought the username that I will be put can be change since noise.cash was in Alpha Test but not so long and it became official and I don't want to create another account just to sync what I have in read.cash, to make the long story short I just go with the flow.
I started my journey here in read.cash wayback December 2020, I forgot when it was exactly but that's the time I joined this platform. Someone who was known here invited me to join and write some articles, at first I was hesitant and didn't want to write articles but soon as I joined, I enjoyed creating articles to share with you people and at the same time having interactions with other writers as well. By the way, the one I am talking about was Mary Jane Barerra also known as @Bmjc98, she was one of my virtual friends I met on another platform that introduced me here in read.cash. "Hello Madam MJ, Kiki days palang hehe. Thank you" - short quote for her.
Just like any other users I was very active here before, having a lot of interaction with other writers, creating 1 article per day to post, preparing some draft for tomorrow's content and a lot of stuff that you do at the same time. Unfortunately I became very busy with my work, at the same time I'm doing some small business to the point that I can't have proper time management anymore. That's why I cannot create more articles and have time to engage with you guys.
Now, what's the plan? What can I do? Just as my title implied: "Can I Start Over Again" meaning it's time to get back on track, time to write some articles again and time to have a new fresh beginning here in read.cash. The things I often did before was to check on other people's content and at the same time, leave some comments on what they have to be able to socialize with them. Though I can say to myself that I can't do articles everyday, I might do some drafts and of course time management was one of the keys here to do what I want to do.
So am I welcome here again? I think it will be a Yes! For I know that every writer in here was very kind and at the same time I can tell that you're all amazing. Folks get ready again for some anime content, figure related articles, stories about my life and more that I can share with you. Hoping that I get a lot of ideas and thoughts so I can write good articles again. That's all for today, may the rest of the day be a good one. Thank you for your time reading!
Anime Figure Collecting Can Be An Addiction?
It's been a long time without you my friend!! What a really really long hiatus I have here in read.cash, it took a month and weeks before I got back here to write new articles again. I know others may not know me because of not being so active but I'll try to have interaction again with you guys. I want to write more articles but my time cannot handle it anymore, I'm too busy at my work, and when I'm planning to write once I come home it's not applicable anymore because I'm too tired so I just rest instead of writing. I said last time that I will have time management but I cannot do it and it's really frustrating, sometimes it adds to my stress and gives pain in my head but despite this I'm really thankful that something helps me relieve stress and that is my anime figures. How does it help? Well I know others may say I'm a little bit childish but seeing my collection display in my room made me happy, not just that it also feels like I'm always young which is good and I know other collector's know the same feeling. Speaking of anime figures, it has something to do with my article today and that's what we're gonna talk about now. From my title itself, can anime figure collecting be an addiction? Let's find out.
The information you can get from my article was based on facts, experienced not just from me but also from other collectors that collect anime figures. I will answer the title once and for all, it's a BIG YES! But how can it be addicting? Come, read and explore the world of the toy community. Anime figures have no specific origin where it begins but the fact that different brands and manufacturers started to sprout that's the beginning of spreading anime figures. One of the former gaming companies that turns out now to be the biggest manufacturer of anime figures was "**Banpresto**", now a renowned Japanese toy company. Collecting was one of the most fun hobbies that an individual could do, it includes seeking hard to find items, locating very rare items, organizing from cheapest to expensive, displaying in an organized shelf/cabinet and more that catch the taste and interest of a collector. Every collector has a unique type of collection, whether it's about **KPOP**, **ANIME**, **VINYL**, **ANTIQUE**, **CURRENCY**, ETC and it comes with different items such as posters, albums, stickers, keychain, figures and more. Now let's go back to anime figure collecting, others may say collecting figures is for children only but it is a BIG NO NO! Almost all collectors were adults that were capable of buying and purchasing this kind of thing. Here's the catch: once you start it, it is hard to control not to purchase another one, it was like a chicken laying an egg once a day but multiplied the other day. It can trigger and start an addiction to anime figures just like what happened not just only to me but for other collectors as well, though it is still up to the person how he/she controls it.
It was a funny thing that I was hooked on collecting figures but I didn't regret it, it was really fun. I was able to get to know different people not just in my own country but also people from overseas (fellow collectors especially Japanese people). I started from fake/class A figures and now to an authentic one. This hobby is really an expensive one because a regular and standard prize figure could cost $16 USD up to $2,000 USD Resin figure. Pretty expensive right? Imagine you order the set of your favorite characters and you need to complete them, for example, the set of One Piece Straw Hat Crew, it was composed of 10 figures and not just that it depends on the brand, normally for the set it would cost $300 to $400 USD for a prize figure. For starters of course you would want to get the cheaper one's but as the time goes by and you badly want to get that specific figure it would cost you a lot but of course you still need to control it. I'm thankful that for now I can control my purchases but if the figure that was released were really the one that I've been looking for in line with my collection, that's the time I will make my decision.
Before entering this kind of hobby please make sure your wallet and pocket is full because I'm really sure once you started it, it is really hard not to spend for another one, it can be an addiction if you will never control it just like what I experienced before to the point that I had debt to the shops and also to my friends but since I managed myself properly and control it, it went smooth and still this thing was my hobby. Remember all excess things are bad. I'll end my article here, hope you like what I have for today. For comments and opinions you could leave down below, Thank you for your time reading!
Time Management? Can I make it?
It's been a long time without writing here in read.cash, I wonder how's everyone doing. Anyways, 18 days had passed before I was able to write a new article again but here I am again writing a new one. To be honest, thinking of a topic to share and to come up with is really hard, especially when you stop for too long. I know I'm not good at writing and I had very few readers probably because of not being so active and lack of interaction with other users because I was very busy in my adult life but it is not an excuse. Speaking of being busy I know others have things to do in their life but how can they manage to do everything despite hectic schedules? The answer to that was **'TIME MANAGEMENT".** Well that's the thing I lack as of the moment but if others can do it? How I cannot do it?
Each and everyone of us has things to do in our life, some were students, businessman/businesswoman, employee, housewife/husband and more. We do different things everyday but we have a thing called daily routine which a lot of us truth to be told get tired of it. We may often come to this point in our life but life goes on, that's why despite having a busy schedule we need to manage what we do from the moment that we wake up, up to the time we sleep, Time management is the key. I admit that I'm getting tired of what I do everyday, Imagine working 10-12 hours a day that I almost live at my work for 6 days (I do field 1-2 days) which is really tiring. I cannot do the things that I'm doing before and now it's really different. This is my scenario: waking up early in the morning, preparing for work, transport going to the office, working the whole day (includes eating lunch), transport going home, eating dinner then sleeping. So for 6 days straight that's what I am doing in my life, I have a social life but it's very minimal, I cannot play games (online games/consoles) for too long, I'll have lesser communication with my loved ones (special someone, friends, family) which is really alarming to myself right now and really want to change my lifestyle. My work is slowly eating me and I don't want that, so as early as now I want to prevent problems that will be hard in due time, as they say: "***prevention is better than cure***". It all started when 2 of my best buddies and colleagues left me, all the work and pressure, I shoulder it all now but soon I can breathe and break free from my current employer haha (gonna resign soon) and time management is really the solution to it.
Time flies so fast and it's already the month of September now, as others are thinking and planning ahead of time on what they will do, I set my time on things that I will do for that specific time and plan on things that I will do tomorrow/future. I take notes on what will I do for this specific day and specific time, like the following:
*Work Time*
Do All Task Given and pendings
Lessen overtimes
*Extra Curricular Activities (Sidelines)*
Having a time in read.cash
Creating drafts
Read other users' articles
Interact & Upvotes in the commmunity
Creating noise in noise.cash
Make some noise atleast once or twice
Interact to the community
Play Splinterlands & Other NFT Games
Daily Quest / Pick Good Cards and Rent
Grind and Invest on P2E Games
*Leisure Time*
Social Medias (FB, Youtube, IG)
Reading Manga
Watching Anime Series, Movies, Kdrama
Playing online games (ML, LOL, CODM, VALORANT, DOTA2)
*Others*
Trips, Visits, Excursions and more that I can do with my time.
This is the kind of time management I barely need to be productive and my lifestyle would be changed for the better though it's not everything and some were just samples, I can see that my day becomes significant, it just doesn't revolve in one cycle that becomes my daily routine but truly becomes a meaningful one. One thing's for sure is that I can do time management and sooner or later once I read this article of mine again, I can say that "I DID IT!!!" Time to end this article of mine, hope you like it, if ever you had suggestions and comments feel free to comment down below. Thank you for your time reading!
If I Hadn't Found, Where Would I Be Now?
It's good to be back here, writing new articles to share and tell to you. It's been a lazy Saturday, others may be resting now at their homes while I'm working at the office and doing my article at the same time (multitasking at it's finest). Since it's weekend today the workforce and manpower in the office is not the same as it was during weekdays and I'm not loaded at work, that's why I decided to write an article. Earlier when I'm on my way to the office I noticed some street children sleeping outside in a close establishment and something triggered my mind, I thought and said to myself, ``If I hadn't seen before, where would I be and what's my life now?" Reminder this article may bore you because this is based on my life experience but if you still stay until the end I appreciate it so without further ado let's get started.
When I was 6 years old there's an incident in my life where my family thought they would never see me again. It was the time I lost in a big mall. I used to remember small details on it but it is very vague because I was young at that time. I happened to know about this because my mom told me what happened. It was a fine day as my mom told me, we went to the mall in Monumento, which is the "**Grand Central'' -** (it was closed years ago because it was incinerated by unknown people). When I was child I was very naughty at the same time I was very hyper. We visit the mall very often but this incident changed everything. I got lost from them around 5:00 pm in the afternoon as my mom told me about it and she was really worried where I would go. I used to remember the reason I got lost was because I was busy looking at the toys back then - (maybe it's the reason I'm addicted to figures now) I'm checking the Power Rangers Robot, can't recall if it's Mighty Morphin or Wild Force but as far as I remember it was Power Rangers then suddenly I didn't see my mom and my older sister but in fact they were just covered with clothes and they can still see me. As a child I thought they left me so I ran away to find them, my mother was just unaware for a short period of time then poof I was gone. My mom really worried back then and she was uneasy that I might go outside the mall and she was right, I really went out of the mall.
I was running in circles around the mall but I couldn't find my mom and my sister, so I tried to remember where we went in and I'm trying to remember my way home. I thought I knew where I was going and to my surprise I was able to cross the roads though I was running, Thank God I'm safe and sound during that time. As I'm running on my way home, a group of older people grabbed me and asked where I was going, they knew I was lost so I didn't resist. The people that got me were homeless people but they were clean and really kind people. My mom told me that these people were really kind and exerted effort to report to the police and barangay, in case someone would not get me, these homeless people will take care of me. My mom never stopped finding me to the point the mall closed, even my grandfather went where my mom was located just to find me. 5 hours had passed, at exactly 10:00 pm I was reunited with my family and my mom cried when she saw me. So everytime we plan to go to the mall my grandfather needs to be with me, If he is around cannot come.
I wonder if they didn't find me, how's my life now? I think it still would be a happy life because the people that got me were really kind and really love each other, they may have no home and wealth but they have love. My mom sees the goodness in these people, I wonder how they are right now? If I hadn't found, where would I be? I think I'm still living and have a happy life though I cannot tell if my achievements would be the same but one thing's for sure was, everything has a purpose and I'm still here alive and kicking. What can you say about my story, do you have the same experience? Feel free to share your opinion and comments below, Thank you for your time reading!
NFT Games, Is it worth to invest on it?
4 days have passed since my last article but It's good to be back, writing new articles and exploring the world of read.cash again. In today's modern life phones and the internet can be called a necessity of an individual, even children of young age know how to navigate a phone, we used it for communication, work and most of us for entertainment. Entertainment includes social media, films/series & games. Whether we admit it or not, many are obsessed with playing either online or offline games, especially Filipino people and I admit I am one of those. Here in the Philippines ***"Mobile Legends"*** was one of most popular games that was played by people of different ages, a kid, a teenager, an adult, and even older people (50+ & up). Now I am telling this because it is related to my article today, it's about games but it's not just an ordinary game, it's **"*****NFT Games*****."**
**NFT's** was one of the hot topics everywhere you go, especially in the world of crypto, now just recently there's a game that is creating a name everywhere especially here in the Philippines and for sure a lot of users heard about it, and that's **"AXIE INFINITY".**
It is an online cryptocurrency game in which you can earn crypto tokens which is ***Axie Infinity (AXS)*** & ***Small Love Potion (SLP)***.
This game was like my childhood game Pokemon but here you can only have 3 monsters instead of 6, the gameplay of battle was also similar but instead of 4 attacks namely in your pokemon, in Axie you use cards for attacks in a battle.The catch in here was you will earn while playing Axie but before you can start you need to invest for buying pets which is the ***"Axies"*** (Note: Each Axies have different type so try to check first) in order to start earning in the game. I want to invest in this game but the capital to start on this was pretty high as of the moment, I let my girlfriend first to take the risk hahaha so let's see. Some may say why not apply as a scholar? The answer was I can't because I'm too busy at my work but if you would ask if **AXIE Infinity** is worth the risk better ***DYOR (Do your own research)*** I might not be able tell all the details on Axie infinity because I have a little knowledge on it but I could say it's worth it if you have extra money and budget but if you don't have, better apply for a scholar because you might have a large debt in the future if you want to invest in this.
Another NFT Game that getting it's name to be heard and currently taking the number one spot on Binance Smart Chain, and that's **"CRYPTOBLADES"**
It is another online cryptocurrency game in which you can earn crypto token which is *Crytoblades* ***(SKILL).*** This game is like a battle simulator where you can earn skills through combat battling computer but with no effect as of the moment, it's like pokemon deluge if you ever encountered it or play it before. You can earn ***Skill*** here not just in combat but also in selling character & weapons. You can start here with just one character unlike in Axie that you need to have three pets but in Cryptoblades for every transaction it has a gas fee which will be deducted in your binance token on your metamask wallet. You can have a maximum of 4 characters here in which every character has their unique element, in Axie combination of different types was okay but in Cryptoblades I suggest you go for the same element to save expenses on weapons that will be used in battle. This time I invested here because the capital is cheaper compared to **AXIE** also the time that I will spend here was very short. In Axie you need to spend at least 2-3 hours in playing while here it's just only 10 to 20 minutes depending on how many accounts you have. Although I didn't get my ***ROI (Return of investment)*** yet I'm trusting this game and it's developers. Soon I will take profit on it and that's maybe in the near future hehe.
There's still a lot of NFT Games that you could see and check on the internet, ***My DeFi Pet, CryptooZOON,*** and more. So far these two games ("Cryptoblades & Axie Infinity) piqued my interest but soon in the future maybe I'll try other NFT games. There's another game I'm playing right now it's ***Dragonary,*** I'm still observing it but maybe if I had a good news might as I well I create an article on it. For me, I could say it's worth to invest on NFT Games that you would know you will benefited on it but if not better think twice and as I said always remember to ***DYOR*** Cryptocurrency is volatile it will **PUMP** and it will **DUMP**, the decision is still into you. Well that's the end of my article, hope you enjoy reading, if you have comments, opinions feel free to write it below. Thank you for your time reading.
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7 Months Of???
7 months of what??? Well it's been a long time ever since I wrote again here in read.cash, the last article I wrote was posted on July 23, 2021 and 13 days have past but here I am again! alive and kicking. The 7 Months that I've talking about here was my journey here in read.cash and in noise.cash. Time flies so fast and I've never thought that I already spent 7 months on this platform. The reason I came up with this was because of what I saw yesterday in noise.cash, as I'm posting my content I accidentally clicked my profile, then saw the months when I joined the platform, while here in read.cash you can see it below your username and bio on your profile. What was the benefit of my stay here for 7 months? Did it help me? Or did I just waste my time?
All of us spend a lot of time on many things that include our work, leisures, entertainment, business, hobbies and other things that we do in our life, it's either can be beneficial to you or not. The question I asked earlier is if my stay here in read.cash for a long time if it's beneficial or not, the answer is: **"A BIG YES!!"** you heard it right, it's not just only me who spent a long time here but also there's a lot of users who've been with read.cash for a year and more ever since it was established. Let's find out what read.cash and noise.cash benefited me for the time staying here. 7 months of stay was like a month after you got regularized at work, the 6 months you spent was the provisional stage if you will be regular or not, well I congratulated myself and others who stayed here and became regular at read.cash.
**1. REWARDS / COMPENSATION**
- Let's be honest about this, the number one thing and the main reason why we stayed here for long, creating a lot of articles and engaging to other users was because of the rewards that we could get and earn on these two platforms (read.cash & noise.cash). I'm not denying the fact that this is one of the reasons why I'm still here but it's not just the only reason, I will state my other opinion as I continue my article. Think about this, you work in a day but you don't get paid will you continue? Of course you would stop, but here in read.cash you don't need to be cocky/hasty in getting rewards you need patience. The key figure and the one who provided rewards was ***TheRandomRewarder*** or A.K.A ****"Rusty"**** before he would notice you need to create articles that could get his attention and once he notice you that's the start you get rewards, including the upvotes of other users. I didn't reach the time where read.cash was a pointing system before and Rusty did not exist that time so let's be thankful that He was with us up until now. On the other hand just by making noise and creating good content you can get rewards, though it's not as big as you can get in read.cash, a small amount can be big when you combine them together. The rewards/compensation I got were spent wisely on a lot of things, appliances, food, and a lot to my hobby (figures) xD.
**2. KNOWLEDGE**
- Another thing that I benefited from staying here in read.cash was I got a lot of knowledge in a lot of things. Cryptocurrency was the apple of the eye and the hot subject here in read.cash, me entering here that had a little knowledge gained more in a spam of 7 months at the same time learn about more BCH. Aside from this topic there were other things that you could learn, places to visit, stories of other people, and many more things to discover as you stay and explore this platform.
**3. DISCOVER PEOPLE / FRIENDS**
- One thing I love the most whenever I joined another platform, I met and engaged different people at the same time some of them even became my friends and it's really fun to discover new people.
For me, these were the things that I benefited from 7 months of staying and hoping to know more as time goes by. I'm not a great writer and I know that my engagement with other users was very minimal because I was very busy at work and I'm very sorry for that. Though I'm not active as long as I have extra time I will continue to write and stay because it's really fun and I'm happy on this platform. Whether I got small or big rewards it's okay my happiness matters the most. Well this is the thing that I could say based on my experience and opinion. If you can add more and want to give your comments, feel free to write below. Thank you for your time reading!
Ternate Cavite: Bucana Beach Resort
Finally after three thousand years I was able to feel the vibes and breeze of the sea again, just kidding though it's been a long time ever since I was able to have a trip like this, I savor the moment. I have past articles that were related to my travels to different places I've been before, and now finally I explore a new one again. Ever since the pandemic came the people were always at home due to the fear of getting infected by the virus at the same time it is really not safe because you don't know you might get the virus anytime. The government implemented a lot of restrictions, that's why going on trips to places with beaches, resorts & falls were restricted and it's really impossible. Now, at the present time thank God the cases of Covid-19 are slowly decreasing because a lot of people are getting vaccinated,also good news for travelers that some of the beaches, resorts, and tourist spots were open with low restrictions, so I took advantage of that and went on a trip last Tuesday. Care to listen to my story? Let's explore and join me on my trip story.
July 20, 2021 was the date of our trip and it was set at that date because it was a holiday in the Philippines (Eid al-Adha). My churchmates were the one who planned and set this trip to unwind and relax, and also one of my close friends who was 6 years older than me was moving on from his recent heartbreak that's why we have this trip. Our call time for the meetup was July 19 at 7pm so we had time to buy ingredients in the market to prepare our food that we brought on our trip. I thought the trip would not continue because of the bad weather but my churchmates said the trip will continue and trust the weather will be good tomorrow. We were able to buy ingredients for the food and were all ready at the meeting place where my close friend lived.
After we finished preparing the food for the day before our trip, others slept while me on the other hand stayed awake until 4am in the morning on the day of July 20. The vehicle that we used was a Toyota Hi-Ace and the people who joined the trip were 17 people. When we were all on the van I was seated on the end of the right side in the 2nd seat and it was a little a bit cramped to the point that only half of my butt was seated haha. It's a little hard to sleep but since I was sleepy I just lean on the window and feel asleep. After 3 hours of departure from my close friend's house we came to Ternate Cavite, Bucana Beach Resort at exactly 7am in the morning.
As I saw the sea, I was like I was freed from being confined for a long time to the point that I wanted to hug the sand and immediately dive to the water hahaha. We drop our things first in the cottage before going into the sea to enjoy the water. The clouds were shady and the breeze was cold, also the weather was not that good but thank God we arrived safely in the place. I immediately changed my clothes, take a shower then went to the sea and start swimming I said to myself in ***Filipino Language:*** **("dagat na dagat na ko, lulusong na ko at di pwede sayangin oras papakasarap tayo haha")** During the time we swim in the sea we notice that it's high tide and the wave current was strong instead of stopping we go with the flow and enjoy the time we had in there. Good thing that the weather was in our favor to us and the sky was clear until afternoon but after that it rained really hard and it was so cold that's why I stopped swimming for a while and ate snacks and lunch in our cottage. After I ate some food I still cannot swim and I'm a little bit drowsy, that's why I slept for a while then when I woke up I jumped again to the sea and enjoyed the rest of the day.
Everything has an end and our trip reached its conclusion. We packed up and went home at 5pm, everyone was tired but I'm sure this trip brought a smile to everyone's face. Even though I got some bruises in my legs and feet because of the big rocks in Bucana, I definitely enjoyed this trip. We all went home safely and definitely there's a second batch on this trip, can't wait for it soon. So that's the end of our trip, hope you like it, if you have comments and opinions feel free to write it below. Thank you for your time reading!
Left Behind, Last Man Standing!
Another day, another story to share. Today's weather is really bad probably because of orange rainfall warning, it rained heavily (at dawn) and it made my sleep deeper and comfortable to the point that I don't wanna wake up and come to work, but I need to wake up and so I came on the office now, still after holiday sickness strikes again! Speaking of work, have you read my article before regarding my career? If I will stay at my current work or find a new one, well if not and you have extra time you can see it here (New Career? Or Will I Stay) Spoiler Alert!, at the end of that article I said to myself that I will stay at my company for now but I'm looking and targeting other companies that help me build the growth that I am looking for. Now the reason why I am stating this and telling it to you guys was because it was related to my article I'm writing now, basically it was related to my career but as you can see my title "***Left Behind, Last Man Standing***!" Yes, you read it right, it implies that I'm the only one left, all alone in my department and the last man standing here in my branch. https://read.cash/@Codex_04/new-career-or-will-i-stay-8c5364e2
I thought I was the first one to leave my current company but I didn't expect that two of my colleagues would go ahead first and get a new career in another company. I'm feeling really sad right now that I parted ways with these people, they became my best buddies when the pandemic started and the time I was transferred here in Sta.Mesa branch. My two colleagues were named ***"Pao"*** and ***"Jerome",*** these two IT personnel were great and I learned a lot from them. I know them by names when I joined the IT department but not by personality and how they work because I was assigned in the Makati branch while they were in Sta.Mesa branch, it was the time when the pandemic didn't start yet. Pandemic came and our company advised us that in order to report at work you need your own transportation, that's why my manager assigned me to the nearest branch to me which is Sta.Mesa and that's the start where I met these two people. I didn't meet these two at the same time because our workforce was skeletal so the first one available during that time was Pao then days after that I worked with Jerome.
We knew each other by names so we tried to check how we work and how we moved and later on after for a short period of time we became buddies. We call each other ***"Tito" or "Boss"*** then the name, for example ***Boss Je or Tito Pao,*** then sometimes just ***"Tits"***. I cannot say something about how these two people work, they were both great in their line of work and really finished the task smoothly. They toured me at the branch and introduced me to people and at the same time taught me the things that needed to be done everyday. Pao specialized in network and in hardware while Jerome was in software development and programming, although every IT in our team were all around these two excel in these fields.
Knowing these two people helped me excel more and have in-depth knowledge in the said field, basically before my knowledge in network was more on basic setup on the internet, routers, ip's and servers but now I can say I can manage to setup a whole server with load balancer, switch, routers even set different access point for every rooms in one branch while in programming I can say that it takes more time to get back on track and create a system myself, for now it's just only maintenance for me. Sad to say after I became close with my colleagues we parted ways, the two of them already resigned, Pao left the company last March but Jerome was still rendering now and his last day will be in August first week. It's sad because I'm the only one left and last one standing among the three of us, if you have watched ***"Start Up"*** we were like Samsan tech but they left me now huhu. I'm happy for their new career, I also said to them that I will be the first to leave but I didn't expect that they would be ahead of me. They joke and say that I will inherit the building and reign in here but to be honest I want to leave my company.
I'm the last man standing along the trio in my current branch, just like Levi who was left alone by survey corps really suits my username in noise.cash. I'm happy working with Pao and Jerome and I cannot say anything bad about them because they were awesome and a good company to me. For now I'm still working here in my company and the management also talked to me personally, they were alarmed about what happened to their people. I guess it will be good news and I'm still waiting for it but if nothing happens to me before the year ends, 2022 will be the new path to start a new beginning. There's an end to everything and my buddies end their career at my work, though I was left behind and I'm the last man standing for sure there's a bright side of my career soon. I'm ending my article here, hope you had a wonderful time reading my article, if you have comments or opinions feel free to write it below, Thank you for your time reading!
Wake Up! Mr.Codex! Time to Continue Your Exploration
Ohhhh my! I didn't notice that it's been a week since I wrote my last article featuring my career whether I continue or not but it's not the one that we will talk about today, it's a totally different one so bear with me. Reminder to readers I know some of the things you will read here were really nonsense and just wrote what came up from my mind probably a lot will be boring but if you will finish this until the end, a big salute and appreciation to you.
Time flies very fast, I didn't notice that I was already 6 months on this platform and sure it's been quite a journey. A lot of articles have been made with different topics and different stories that have been shared and posted on this platform. Few catches attention on it while it was unknown to others but I'm not mad or sullen on it, if someone reads my article, thank you, if they pass by still thank you no hard feelings on it. I read other users' articles whenever I have extra time but to be honest I can do it often and not frequently but I'm doing my best to be as active as I can. To be honest I don't know where I can classify this article I am writing now but this is what comes to my mind at the moment. I can't totally focus on writing a good article because I'm doing it while I'm at work, multitasking at it's finest haha, others may say why not do it when you come home? The answer was I want to but I can't anymore, my body is totally worn out from work and I'm physically tired whenever I get home, I just want to rest, that's why I can't come up with a good article.
I surely remember my first article was all about anime review, I definitely don't know what to write, what to share especially this platform were more about in crypto world which I have a small knowledge on it but I'm wrong this is a platform where they can express themselves, write what they want and share what they have in their life. That's what I did, I wrote articles about my life, about my career and also about my hobby which caught the attention of many, it was about the anime action figures. I created a lot of articles from it but I know I don't have any new articles related to it which is my fault, maybe because others may say I'm redundant to this topic or others may be bored but I know I can create one again soon. It's fun writing articles and I really enjoy it, I remember back when I'm starting here I wrote one article per day but now seriously what happened? It's like I am in a deep sleep and not waking up. You can count on your fingers how many times I wrote an article and it's once in a blue moon when I visit my read.cash account.
Could someone wake me up? No! No! it's myself that could wake me up in my deep sleep. I'm the one who definitely doesn't want to get up and just do my normal life. Now's the time to get up, Mr.Codex! be motivated and manage your time, your exploration cannot stop here, you need to write more, read more and spend more time here cause it's fun and it's really enjoyable. Now is the time I'll try to be more committed in writing and also be active in exploration & socializing on this wonderful platform. I can't say if this really an article you can spend time reading, it's just a long rant from another user on this platform, which is me, so if you really read until the end, "Grabe natiis mo yung mema ko! Salamat troops, Haha" I wrote it in my language so if you want to know what it means, you can translate it. That's all folks I will end it here, if you have anything to say feel free to leave your comment below! Thank you for your time reading!
New Career? Or Will I Stay?
Is there a point in your life that you are lazy about everything? It's like you don't want to move and just lie down in your bed or sit in your chair looking into the thin air? I asked this question because lately at my work it feels like I want to do nothing and want to become lazy the whole day but I didn't do that, It's just what I feel. It's like I'm not happy anymore with what's happening in my career. Maybe this is really the starting point where they say that you are gradually becoming unhappy at your working environment, then you start getting tired of what you are doing and it comes to the point that you feel lazy just what's happening to me right now. Have you experienced this? Or is it just me? Is this the right time to change career and change company or will I stay? These questions pop up in my mind especially when I'm thinking about it, I'm still confused and don't know what to do but at the end of the day the final decision is up to me.
I know every individual chooses what they want to do in their life especially in their careers, either they become a businessman/businesswoman, professional in their desired profession, bystanders and more. Before we reached what we have of course we all went through the learning process in school & university, from Elementary to College and now I know some of us were professionals including me, while others chose a different path. Me? After I graduated I immediately looked for a job and thanked God I had my first job but unfortunately after a year I lost my job and became unemployed because the contract between the company I'm working and the agency that hired me ended so we laid off from our agency and looked for another job. I'm unemployed for almost 2 months then after applying from different companies I finally hit the spot and got a job where I'm working right now. I've been working in my company for almost 3 years and beyond and I can say it was definitely an awesome experience because I really learned a lot but today I can see myself that I'm not growing in my career anymore and the feeling that I've said in my introduction maybe it's a part of it, though there's still something that's bothering me.
It's not just my country (Philippines) that experienced this pandemic but almost the whole world and a lot of business establishments closed because of it. Many people lost their jobs and the unemployment rate truly rose up. I am still thankful to my company that despite what's happening in the world we survive and I still have a job that helps me in this pandemic. This is the thing that's bothering me, I am really indebted to my company and to my boss, that's why I can't decide yet if I will stay or change my career. They did not just provide help in financial assistance but also we received goods and one of that was the sack of rice. I'm very thankful for their help but I think I really need to explore more, it's not just the salary I'm thinking but it's the career ahead of me. I'm earning enough and able to provide the needs of my family but still something was missing that's why I'm finding it now.
I didn't resign yet but I'm already planning in transferring in another company, I will just update my resume then afterwards will start apply on my target companies. I'll stay for the meantime but I already decided to find where I belong and get the growth that I am looking for. I know this article is technically about myself but hope you like it. Thank you for your time reading!
Skinny Today, Skinny Tomorrow and Skinny Forever???
Did I get your attention on my title? If not, for sure I know my article is a little bit boring, probably this about myself and what can you get from it right? Anyway, I might as well get along and start doing my article before ranting. You read it right, "SKINNY" what implies you when you see or hear this word? Of course obviously it means thin, fitted, lacking sufficient flesh and more, so technically this ***SKINNY*** thingy was related to myself. Warning! This story is about my personal life so if you find it not interesting in this introduction thank you in advance! Hehe, care to hear what's this all about? So let's get rolling and get this story of mine.
I know there are very few people here that know me but not personally, they meet me on other platforms, become friends and see some of my photos, while others, I just recently met them here in read.cash. So I'm telling this because it's about my physical appearance, they have seen what I look like and what I am in real life. 24 years of age, height was around 5'5" and the weight was always 50kg. Imagine that I'm already 24 but I'm just weighing 50 kilos, what the hell happened? Well let's continue and talk about that. This is the problem that I always ask myself, why am I like this? Almost everyone that I knew gained weight and had some changes in their physical look from my classmates in highschool, childhood friends, churchmates but here I am looking the same as before.
Seeing myself like this made me a little bit of frustrated, every time I saw a new friend or an old friend or a classmate they will say like this, "Ohhh Aga kamusta ka na ganun pa rin ahh di nagbabago payat ka pa rin kelan ka tataba?" - (Filipino language, you can translate it), and this is one good example of what others may say about me. I know my eating habits and seriously I ate a lot but my problem was why am I not gaining weight? Why are fats afraid to sprout in my body? I was totally confused and consulted a doctor about this, luckily I had a health card that's why all of the expenses in the hospital were free. I had a physical exam, asked if my family had a health history issue, even got a blood test and after all the treatment done I was normal and didn't have a problem but still why am I like this as I asked the doctor. The doctor provides me with a supplement and a weight gain drink, and also gives a food guideline on what I will eat. Have you heard or know about Appeton Weight gain? It is a milk drink that has a high protein formula which is clinically proven to increase weight of one's individual. I purchased one that is 900g, it was effective and really heavy in your stomach, the only problem was the maintenance and it was expensive that's why I stopped it. I tried to follow the alternatives that the doctor suggested to me which is to workout at the gym, I tried it once but I can't manage it properly, I only went to gym once but cannot do a follow up, that's why I'm still like this.
I can only blame myself why I'm still like this, I worked overtime almost everyday and went from one place to another, that's why my body was worn out and didn't have the time to gain hehe. Others advised me don't overwork and also tried going to the gym to workout, it might be the best solution for my skinny problem. I want to try but I can't manage, but maybe sooner or later because it will be the last option for me and I will try to change my lifestyle. The only advantage I got from this was I'm still looking young but at the same time others thought of me as teen which was kind of annoying sometimes.
I may be skinny today, skinny tomorrow but skinny forever? it's a big no no no, I'll try to help myself if I want changes and also follow what the doctor had to say to me, I'm healthy which is good but still I want to gain more weight and fats if possible. Next time I had an Annual Physical Examination my BMI would not be underweight anymore, I wish hehe. This ends my article for today, even though it's boring, I hope you finished it by the end, if you have suggestions or any comments feel free to drop by! Thank you for your time reading!
Are You A Wise Spender?
Money is one of the most important things we need in our daily life, whether we admit it or not, that's the reality especially if you're living in the city. There's something in my mind that's bothering me that's why I came up with this article and I know others may relate to this, also I based this on my experiences. Are you a spender or a saver? Me? I cannot tell myself where I am on these two but I can say I'm more of a spender, well to completely start up my article this question includes myself, are you a wise spender? I really miss writing articles and really want to be active here in read.cash @Ruffa san always says "Pakasipag ka na Patty kun" but unfortunately I'm very busy with other stuff especially with my work. I don't know how others live their everyday life but for me there's not a single day I didn't spend any amount of money even when I'm home, I'm quite the spender right? Well let's just say I can spend 1000 to 3000 in a day but what do I get with that money? truth to be told that spending was related to figures as well as the food that I'm eating but even with that kind of spending I can say I am wise because I still can save money. How smart are you when it comes to spending? the expenses I told earlier, I just did it once or twice because I know the importance of funds. know a lot of people undergo financial struggles due to not having enough money earning for themself, on the other hand, others get enough money but the problem is not spending wisely, just like I did before, Is it only the time I did? I don't think so I will discuss how I overcame it and was able to be a wise spender.
Before when I was a student I'm able to save a lot because I didn't spend a lot but ever since I got a job that's the time I became a spender and I was like a one day millionaire, buy here, buy there, place order here and more. I'm not aware how much I'm totally spending, if I have the money in my pocket in a few minutes it instantly disappears and I end up spending so much on practically nothing in a short period of time. I just noticed it when something came up and got a problem financially. That's the time I woke up in reality and asked myself what I did? It feels like I am working for nothing, earning now and spending it later. I control myself in everything that I will buy and take notes on what's priority and what's not. I still spent but I can call myself that I become wise.
Some people cannot control themselves in spending especially when you have a job. When receiving their salary on the 15th or the month end, some people don't even plan their expenses, they just spend and spend and spend until there is no more left and that's just like me before but now I learned. Once you start spending on one thing to another it can be difficult to stop, so one important thing to remember is to have control on spending.
I can say I can earn enough in my work but it doesn't mean the money that I'm earning will last long of course there's a lot of expenses, billing, and debt waiting for you to notice so when you spent on something make sure always be wise and don't consume your blessings too much, same as the saying in Filipino language: "Wag ka ubos biyaya bukas nakatunganga". Now the only thing I used my money to spend was of course on our daily needs and second was one of my hobbies that I cannot let go, it's collecting figures. It's the time I spend almost 3,000 pesos in one day but still even with that I can control my spending and even save when I learned how to be wise.
I know my whole article was definitely based on my experience but there's still a fact that others experience the same as me before, I still lack other facts and information but hopefully you like my article. Feel free to comment below, Thank you for your time reading!
Time For A Restart
It's been a week ever since I was able to get back on this platform but unfortunately after I got back that's the time I was sick and fighting the side effects of the second dose I've taken last June 16, 2021. Before I got vaccinated I thought of it carefully because once the medicine and needle will be pierced/injected to you there's no going back, as I finished my 2nd dose last week I thought it's only the dizziness that I could feel but I'm wrong. I felt a lot of pain in my whole body and also had a fever for almost 3 days. My body feels so heavy, I'm not sweating, I had a sore throat,coughing a lot, I also lost my sense of taste and it feels like I had a Covid during that time. The only thing that I did was eat then sleep to recover and have strength during that time. I kinda lost some appetite that's why I think I lost some weight too. I was thinking this time that my body was weak, what if I'm not vaccinated and got the virus from other people? I don't think I can handle it, I'm still thankful that these things that happened to me were the side effects of the vaccine.
Since I'm recovering I didn't report to the office for a week and I know it's a little bit unfair to my other colleague because they cover for me at the same time they took all my tasks. During that time I feel that I'm a burden to the team because I couldn't do anything at the same time I had no participation in the projects they were currently finishing at that time. I'm lucky that my boss was really kind and gave me all the consideration he can give to me, he even exerts effort to coordinate with our HR Manager just to approve the days that I did not report being converted into paid leaves. My boss was really that kind, imagine you're not reporting at work yet you still get paid? How great was that? The only thing I promised to my boss was to recover soon and help with all the needs and tasks to finish at the office.
Weeks have passed but I feel there's not a single thing I accomplished, I'm the type of guy who wants to do something where I can be productive, but this week I just eat and rest, other than that I play some online games too, I feel like I can do more than this even though I'm recovering, like I can write more articles at the same time I can still support, even help branches through remote but I didn't laziness win through me which is disappointing. That's why I think it's time for myself to restart and press my reboot button. Time is gold which is why now that I am totally recovered, time to do everything again back to square one. Don't be so lazy as you've been the last week, instead change your mindset and do what you can do.
It's just today I'm back working at the office, I listed all my pendings and tried to finish it one by one so that my boss will be happy and I'm not an embarassment to the team to the point they will not say I'm just living a life in the office. Also I want to be as productive as ever because it will be good practice for myself. It's okay that I fall behind for a short time but of course I need to compensate and need to do what I can to give back to the kindness my boss gave to me as well this will be my growth as an individual.
It's okay to be lazy sometimes, it's okay to do nothing when you feel you cannot do it, but always remember it will reflect on yourself and at some point you will blame yourself afterwards better to press your restart button to remember what you want and what you will do to your life.I know article was typically some rants and things that happened in my life, I know a lot of words were boring but hope you like it. Thank you for your time reading!
Fully Vaccinated! 2nd Dose Done
It's been a week and days since I've been able to write here again, I really miss making articles but finally the long wait was over. I was very busy in a lot of things especially in my work to the point that I almost worked overtime everyday and approximately 10 to14 hours a day how was that? 3 weeks ago I write an article regarding on my vaccination which is my first dose and today I am fully vaccinated and got my 2nd dose of vaccine.
The world as we know really changed a lot ever since the pandemic came and messed up everything that we used to do. Malls were not that crowded anymore, capacity in public vehicles were limited, attractions or tourist spot that have a lot of people now only few are allowed and you need a Swab Test Result and health certificate and a lot of restrictions, and everyone needs to wear face mask and face shield as it is the new normal that everyone knows. My job exposed me everyday in different places I'm not only placed in one office but going to one place to another. I worked in a private sector but it's related in health that's why I am classified as frontliner. Everytime I go outside I protected myself by following protocols and disinfecting myself with alcohol but still you don't know when the virus will hit you. I'm not scary myself getting the virus but what I am worrying about was my family getting the virus, that's why I do always the protocol to keepsafe and stay healthy, as they said prevention is better than cure.
Right now the spreading of virus were getting controlled because specialist around the world discover a vaccine and it had a lot of brands. A lot were afraid of getting it and had a trust issues on it side effects, some cannot take it because they were contraindicated and some just don't care and don't really believe in virus. Before I was one of the people who have a trust issues and afraid of the side effects of vaccines, I don't really trust it, truth to be told it was created very fast right? But still it's our choice to take it or not, the experts were explaining what will be it's side effects and how can it be benefitted to us. Since I was classified as frontliner, we were in the priority list of getting the available vaccines but I didn't register yet because I said myself I will observe other first before taking it. Fast forward as I have seen it's effects and it had a good result and outcome to others I made a decision and decided to get vaccinated.
As I shared my first dose vaccination experience before, now's the time to share my 2nd dose and how was it to be fully vaccinated. On my first dose we were the one who choose what site to be vaccinated but now there's a specific site designated where you get your second dose. I was registered in Manila City even I am residence of Caloocan but because of my work I was able to register in Manila. The day before my second dose the Manila CoVax texted me on the information where to go and what to bring when going into the vaccination site. Me and my one colleague were scheduled at the same time that's why we went together in the vaccination site. Before as I get to vaccination site the number they gave to me at the entrance was 513 and it has a long line, I waited for 512 people before I get my turn to get the vaccine. It was quite long before on first dose because of the screening of every person to get the vaccine but I was surprised now when getting the second dose when we went inside the site we didn't fall in line anymore, they gave a number but it's just for a cut-off, then they just get our temperature, show our QR Code and then inject the vaccine to us. It happen quickly and we were just recovering before we get home.
As per advised by personnel in the site rest for 15mins, feel yourself if you're okay or not. As I got my first dose before I feel heavy on the part where I was injected and it was still the same on second dose but it was different, I know it was stronger to the point that I felt my arm to my hand was getting numb. Before I get home something was different compared to my first dose, my whole body feels heavy and my head really hurts so when I get home I just rest to recover and now here I am and doing fine that's why I'm able to write here.
Being fully vaccinated doesn't mean I cannot get the virus anymore but it's an additional protection for myself and for my family. I will still follow the protocols and make sure myself that I am always protected. Here's my story for today hope you like it and if you have comments feel free to comment below! Thank you for your time reading!
From Being A Street Vendor Now A Professional
Life is like a wheel. Sometimes you’re in the top and sometimes you’re in the bottom. We faced a lot of problems and trials but life goes on and this is one proof that we are alive. Last Sunday I watched an episode of “KMJS” where they featured a story of a 10 year old boy that at a young age he already learned how to work for his family. Many of the viewers were touched by his story including me and I’m happy that after his story got featured he received a lot of help from other people. Now, why am I telling his story? Is it because I remember from him that at a very young age we were able to work for our family.
Before I became a professional and reached what I have now, I remember everything that I went through, it’s like a roller coaster ride but I had fun on this ride. I can't say I'm rich and I'm successful in life now but I'm happy with what I've achieved and what I will achieve in the future. I had a solo parent who is my mother and I have one elder sister. My mom did everything she could for us to survive in everyday life, work here, work there, sell stuff, if she could make the night a day just to earn money though it’s impossible I’m amazed how great my mom was. My father died in a car accident when I was 1 years old and it feels that heaven and earth had fallen in my mom’s life but she doesn’t give up in life instead she strengthens her faith in God and continues to live for us. As I grew up I came to realize that I need to do something to help my mom and give back what she did for us. My mom stopped working in a private company when I was in highschool but it doesn’t mean she will not do anything instead she will find another way and become a street vendor. I was 12 or 13 years old at that time and I accompanied my mom every time I got home from school. She was selling “Ice Candy” near the elementary school and it’s not hard work for my mom so I felt relieved, though my mom knows that her earnings in the office were bigger than this, she chose being a vendor to take care of us more than her previous job.
Since I always accompanying my mom why not I try to sell for myself, I asked my Mom if I could sell “Ice Candy” after my school, she refused at first because she doesn’t want me to get tired but I really want to help her so she finally agreed but only for a short time and it’s okay with me. Since I observed how she did it I easily managed to sell properly at the same time it was not hard giving changes to customers. The summer break came and since the children had no school my mom thought of other ways on how to earn during this time, she came up with an idea to sell small rugs but where? My uncle was a street vendor on the highway, where he sells a small mineral water to the vehicles that passed by on the highway, my mom asked my uncle if she could sell there, she can but it’s pretty dangerous because there’s a lot of vehicles including big trucks. My mom told my uncle that she will only sell on the side of the road so they agreed and as always I accompanied my mom. I saw the situation on the highway and it’s really dangerous, I told my mom not to go in the middle of the road because my uncle and the other vendors really walked in the middle road just to clarify things. They only walk and sell their stuff when the red signal on the stoplight is on. I just rested and stood by the sidewalk where our things were placed . Then something happened, the “pahinante” on the truck called me and asked “Tubig ba yan boy? Bili ako limang piraso”, I was shocked but I said yes and gave five bottles of mineral water then the driver gave the payment with tip and I was really happy. I give the earnings to my uncle then it gives me an idea if I can sell water too. I can help with expenses at home and I can help my mom. It was hard convincing my mom that I will become a vendor and I was very young, it really took time before she agreed but to make the long story short I became a street vendor and I sell mineral water.
If you’re familiar with people that get on the bus carrying a bucket with water, or people that sell in the middle of the street or highway, that's what I did ever since I started highschool until I graduated. I am a street vendor. Imagine walking in the street back and forth where the vehicles are passing by, the sun shines brightly and it’s really hot, smoke coming from different vehicles, dust in the road, I faced it all just to help my mom. When I started selling water I didn’t go in the middle of the road but when I learned and had a loyal customer or “Suki” in Tagalog I could compete with other sellers including my uncle. On a regular day I can earn 250 to 300 pesos a day selling water but when the water is in demand on the street I can earn up to 1000 a day and it really helped us a lot. I am also thanking the Lord for 4 years of being a street vendor. I am well, doing good & fine for protecting me and giving me strength when I am selling. When I entered college I stopped being a vendor for the meantime and tried to apply as service crew and luckily I was hired but when the medical comes I didn't went to medical center because I think I cannot manage both my studies and my work if ever. What I did in order to gain income, I work sidelines fixing computer issues and still sell water even once or twice a month.
Now I got a regular job, good compensation and I can return all the things that my mom did to us. Once a street vendor, now a professional. I can bought whatever food my mom wants and anything that she request. It feels good that I can do everything for my mom and life really gives experience & struggles in life, though it's hard it's not forever for there comes a time that everything you do will paid off. Salute to all vendors out there and I believe someday your life will changed just don't give up and keep striving in your life. Hope others inspired in this story of mine, if you have comments feel free to share it below. Thank you for your time reading!
Twice Lowkey Fanboy
Nowadays many people are entertained by various things, such as online games, music, movies, social media and a lot of stuff especially the new and young generations who are hooked by these kinds of stuff. During our times just playing outside made us happy but unlike today there’s a lot of distractions, including technologies and if you’re unfamiliar with it and don’t keep up on trend for sure others may say you’re not in this society but not everyone. One of the most obsessions by today’s generation was KPOP, it is a musical genre originated in south korea where a combination of dance and singing were done and made by idols. There’s a lot of popular KPOP groups that dominate not just in South Korea but a lot of countries in the world including mine which is the Philippines. BTS, EXO, BLACKPINK, NCT, BIG BANG, GOT7, REDVELVET, ITZY, TWICE were the big names in this industry and there’s a lot more. Truth to be told, I was attracted and hooked by their music and looks even though I cannot understand their language, but there’s one group that dominates in my heart the most which is “TWICE”.
I don’t know why I fell in love with the KPOP group TWICE but one thing for sure was,I really like them. It started when I heard and watched their music video “Cheer Up”. In my family, my elder sister and my mom loved to watch Kdrama and it’s not just only the drama but the KPOP industry they loved them both, while me it’s just only anime, online games and figure stuffs. Since I was the one who has more knowledge in computers, they always request me to download new korean dramas, KPOP MV’s (Music Videos) and songs which I don’t have a choice but to download. I tend to watch Kdrama with them when I like what they are watching and it became our family bonding sometimes, then one time my sister asked me to download specific M/V ‘s and “Cheer Up” from Twice was included in this. When I heard it, it was okay, the beat was good, but when I saw the music video that changed the situation, I saw 9 lovely ladies and they were all attractive, cute and they were all good in that music video. I started to take a look at each of them and I think I watched "Cheer Up'' three times just to remember the faces of them and that’s all where it began.
Since I don’t know their names yet, I started to search information on the internet and with just a click on the web their information pop up and it’s the beginning to know them all, their faces which before I mistaken Sana & Momo, their age which some of them were younger to me and then after that I checked all their other music videos. Little I didn’t know that I spent a lot of time with them. I didn't realize that I really fell in love with this group. I watched all their music videos and everytime they launch a new one for sure I’m waiting for their comeback. All of their videos were cuteness overload and brought music to my ear, everytime I watched their videos it felt like I was a child who got noticed by my crush “Kinikilig ako”. Their music also became my soundtrip when I feel sad or happy, sometimes when I’m in the office and in earphone mode I search youtube and play a playlist of twice the song and hits.
When you follow a KPOP group others say that you need to have a bias, in simplified terms your favorite among them. For me the lady that I like the most in Twice is “Sana Minatozaki” not just because she was beautiful and stunning but for me she is the cutest among them all and I can’t help falling in love with her, I love them all but Sana was exception for she has the most loved on the group hehe. Twice fandom was called “ONCE” and I could say to myself I’m on it. I cannot say myself that I am a diehard fan but all I know was, I love Twice and I will support them. Sometimes it’s not just toys that I want to collect but I also want to collect some merchandise but my girlfriend doesn’t allow it and sometimes she’s jealous of them. I remember the time when me and my girlfriend had a fight. I changed my phone wallpaper from our photo to Sana Minatozaki, hahaha funny thing right?
My elder sister had influenced me a really big time on KPOP and this was the result though I’m happy about it because I got to know Twice, on the other hand she’s really into EXO and guess what she’s been into 2 or 3 concerts I think. I hope their KPOP group will be stronger and wait for other music videos that soon to be released in the future. I know others may laugh at me right now on this but who cares I just really loved them, if ever I don’t have a girlfriend and given a chance to have a date with these 9 lovely ladies it will be one of the best days of my life. This is my story. I hope you like it, if you have opinions and comments feel free to message below. Thank you for your time reading.
Is Money Really The Root Of All Evil?
There are lot of things we need in this world before we can live and survive.That includes the basic needs which is food, water and shelter, but it’s not just only that, others may say this was also included especially in this times of pandemic and it’s a fact and what is that? The one I’m talking about was “Money”. Money was classified as part between basic needs and psychological needs that is under our safety needs. Money was the one we need in order to buy food, the one we need to buy or build a shelter, the one we need to make payment in all of transaction either it’s bill, expenses and etc. Now my question to myself and to others is money the root of all evil? I cannot answer that for now but let’s find about it as I will discussed about it in my article.
It’s been a while since I able to write articles here in read.cash, I want to write articles daily but unfortunately my schedule can’t take it that’s why whenever I’m free for a long time that’s the time I decide to write again. Why this topic came out of my head? Recently there’s someone I know who argues and fight verbally in social media to the point that they revealed all their bad side plus reproaching on each other which I found toxic and the reason behind this was money. Another one happened in our place, it was few months ago, my neighbors had an enemy to the other side of the road and guess what happened, they fight and argued to the point that they almost killed each other because of the debt that was not paid. Based on this events and happenings I can say that money is truly the root of all evil because it’s the one that cause all this, right? But let’s check other facts before we conclude it’s the root of all evil. Biblically speaking based on the bible as said in the books of 1 Timothy 6:10 “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil”. The bible does not say that money is evil, neither it’s the cause of all bad things but the love of money is the one that will root all the evil. This is one of the most commonly quoted verses in the Bible and a lot of us really confused about it. To be honest money isn’t evil on it’s own because it can’t do anything because it’s lifeless, no lifeless object is evil on it’s own. Objects can only become evil through our intentions.
I know a lot of people whose life had been ruined in the love of money, they want to earn money so badly to the point they want an easy income and guess what happened they entered in the world of drugs and sell “shabu”, it’s true, 2 of them were my childhood friends that I used to play before but now their life were wasted because of love of money, they entered the dark path just to make money. If that isn’t love, what is it? Logically speaking in these times we need money to survive ,that unlike before even it’s just nature we barely survive in our surroundings. Money is not truly evil but let’s make sure our intentions were only in good things and let’s cast aside the negative & bad things which were not healthy to us. If someone has a debt to you, let her/him voluntarily pay you, I know this is one of the hard things that we cannot do sometimes but it’s one way to prevent arguments and fighting to other people.Don’t envied others because they have a lot of money, the time will also come when you will have that be patience and learn how to wait.
I conclude that money is not the root of all evil but it’s our intentions and love on it that created evil things in life. I know other’s may have their explanation and have their point of view and herei’s mine that I shared with you, hope you understand and like my article,if you have comments and opinions don’t hesisate to comment down below. Thank you for your time reading!
A Noise.Cash A Day Keeps The Stress Away
Admit it or not social media has become a part of our daily life. We used it to share our daily lifes, thoughts, rants, opinions, past time, communication, a lot has been using it also for business, while others were for entertainment and more. Before we didn't pay attention on it but know everywhere you look, people from young age, adults even senior citizen were aware and using social medias. There's a lot of social media out there that you can use and one of the leading social media out there was "**Facebook**". I remember the time when facebook was not yet launched I used an app called friendster and I know others were familiar to it too but nowadays I was toxic on using this social media, fake news, scandals, crime, and many more that can be seen online. It's hard to be in this platform if it's going be like this but not all social media was the same as facebook and there's one platform that's exemption to toxicity and the people here in read.cash knows what was that, it's Noise.Cash.
Noise.Cash was one of the new social media that I begun to love ever since it was launched last December. It's not being bias because it was created by the same developers of read.cash but totally it was on a different perspective and level than facebook. I'm not totally using and opening my facebook account everyday but with noise.cash every hour and everyday I can spend my time using this platform. Unlike with facebook everytime I see a post that I didn't want/like it gaves me stress and I really hate it but on noise cash it keeps my stress away and everything that I am seeing here was awesome, though there were still other users that spamming and not following the rules the noise.cash admin really made an effort to make the platform clean and as good as possible. I know it's not perfect yet but it keeps improving and going to the next level.
There's a lot of quality contents that I am seeing everyday in noise.cash and it feels great having interaction with other users, what's more was the other users were friendly and I met a lot of virtual friends here as the time goes by. The most unique and wonderful about noise.cash was the bonus that they given to every users who truly deserved it, the Bitcoin Cash that came from their own funds. Imagine staying in a social media for a short period of time and creating quality contents, you will be rewarded on it and it's only available on Noise.cash. Facebook didn't able to do that, I can say that facebook just started the race early than noise cash who attempt and rise to the top on the race.
Noise.cash became one of my comfort zone, I can post my rants, show my hobbies, share the food that I ate everyday, share the memories that I have with photo & caption, my travels, daily life and many more that I keep sharing with everyone in the platform. I'm happy that I discovered this platform at the same time it helps me to meet new & wonderful people that became my friends and the bonus reward was really a big thing that helps me not just only on my needs but also on some of my expenses. Running for just only five months with a lot of good features it never failed to amazed me on every updates that they created. From a simple text, caption features only know there's a picture, a channel, a search button, renoise and many more in the future that we can expect to see as it grows, I can't wait for that to be happen. I know that noise.cash will be up for a long time because they begin with a lot of suprises and for sure it will be well known to other people in due time and just like in facebook it can accumulate more users and the community will keep getting bigger and bigger.
Truly noise.cash became part of my life and one of my daily routine that I cannot left behind even for just a short period of time. What can you say about noise? Me? I told everything as you can read in this article, you can check my profile in noise.cash and here's my link, feel free to leave your comments below. Thank you for your time reading! https://noise.cash/u/Levi_04
Perks of Being Vaccinated
The world as we know it really changed a lot because of the Corona virus that came and brought disaster to the world. It does not only bring harm to our health, worst case scenario it will be the cause of death of many, also it destroys our economies that's why many country suffers that includes mine (Philippines). Right now it's a good thing that we can now fight this virus by the vaccine created by scientist from different countries. I am glad to share that I'm vaccinated, I told the whole story and my experiences on it on my previous article. Now what I want to tell was the perks of being vaccinated. For me I can say this were my perks, care to listen to my story? Stay tune and read my full article.
We all know that getting the vaccine was a big risk for the one that will take it, why? Because many people were afraid of it's side effects to our body. Some won't believe it even it was test in laboratories and approved by WHO, at the same time others said that it was created for just only a year and yet they made a cure immediately? Which was truly hard to believe that's why you cannot blame others for that and I was the one who disagree before on getting the vaccine. The 3rd week to 4th week of march was the started rollout of vaccine and by that time, our company was securing slot for us since we were included on frontliners. Our boss and Ceo himself talked to us and explained that the vaccine could be a big help to us to protect ourselves and our family getting the virus but of course it's not compulsary so our boss still trying to convinced us. More than 300+ employees from our company made an appointment and schedule for vaccination and I'm not included in that batch yet because I don't want to and I'm afraid from the side effects.
The month of April came and the 300+ employees that scheduled for vaccination were vaccinated one by one and that's the time I observed them. As usual and based on the research there will be some side effects from the vaccine. The side effects my colleague experience were almost all the same, fatigue, headaches, muscle pain, swelling on the part that was injected, fever and other than this, all of it was a minor case. I think at that time and said myself might as well I'll try it for myself as early as possible because the vaccine might not be free anymore if it was retailed in the market, so I seize the oppurtunity to take myself, for my safety as well as for my family.
I made a decision and as you know if you have seen my previous article I got my first dose. Now here's where the perks comes in. Before I would tell the good thing about getting vaccinated I will tell first the side effects that I encountered in the first 3 days. Number one thing that I felt from my body on the first day up until now was the muscle pain from the part where I was injected but it was not that painful as it is during the first day. Second was, there's a time where my body feels heavy even I didn't do anything, I have little headaches also and I even got a fever that's why I need to take paracetamol, I am relieved that they were only the only things that I experienced and I know these side effects were normal.
Going back to the perks let me tell you what are the good things that I've experienced and what will be the other result. Number one since I am already vaccinated my body will create an antibodies from the Corona Virus but it doesn't mean I cannot be infected but the risk was reduced and the chances getting the virus will be very low. Since I was vaccinated and my immunity system was very low, I was advised not to report on work and the number one perks that I got was I am resting and recovering at the same time all the days that I'm not reporting it was paid, how good was that haha, it's my 3rd day not reporting on work. Since I am resting at home I can do anything I want and another perks that I got was to eat everything, food at home, food delivery it was so good but I'm not abusing cause it can make me glutton. Last perks was since my friends know that I got vaccinated they volunteer that they would help me in my toy collection sideline and they will be the one to take care of everything, finding buyer, packaging, and shipment. All I could say was "Wow" and "Thank you", their kind but they said they will have a big percentage on it 😂 and makes my perks into disaster but their just kidding.
I could say myself that I'm fine now but I know there's still be some side effects from the vaccine. These were my perks of getting vaccinated hope you like it, feel free to ask if you have question and comments below. Thank you for your time reading.
Vaccinated (1st Dose)
It's been a week since I able to write here again in read.cash, I've been busy the whole week and don't have the time write articles anymore but today was different and here I am writing to you. Have you seen my last article entitled "Have you been vaccinated?" And I've talk about there that my colleagues and other people that I know got vaccinated. That time I was a little frustrated and don't have my final decision, as I said I will not get the vaccine but now based on my title it implies that I Got Vaccinated, Yes I am vaccinated by Covid Vaccine. Let me share my experience and what happened during the time I've taken it.
Last May 18, 2021 the HR asked me and called me if I will get the vaccine, I didn't answer yet and said that there's a possibility that I will register for it. The HR said it was okay and not compulsary at the same it's still your own decision to get the vaccine, so the HR just give me a link in case I will register. In our department Me, our senior programmer and my manager were the only one's left that didn't get vaccinated. As I observed on my colleagues at the same time the other people that I know that get the vaccine they were fined and okay, they even completed the vaccine and there's no worst health issues or side effect on their body. That time I think that I should get the vaccine since everyone was fine, the only reason why I refused was because of it's side effects but knowing the results make me think twice.
I called my manager and consult about this, what I didn't know was my manager just taken the vaccine that day and informed us after he was injected by the vaccine. He told me that the final decision was still on me, getting the vaccine was not mandatory and he is not against our choice, whether I get it or not lies within me the only thing he advised to me was make a decision that you will not regret. I was thankful that my manager was so kind so after our conversation I made my decision, I'm gonna take the vaccine. I immediately registered myself and since I was classified as a frontliner I'm a priority.
I was registered in Manila City and I'm finding the nearest vaccination site near our office and after browsing the net for minutes I found Jacinto Zamora Elementary School will be held as vaccination site for May 19, 2021. I told my other colleague that registered here that this will be the location for tomorrow so get ready.
Yesterday, May 19, 2021, the day of vaccination finally come. I still reported at the office since the said time at vaccination site was 6am until 8pm so we have a lot of time. I'm still working at the office then one of my colleagues told me that there's a cutoff in vaccination site. I called the school around 1pm and they told me that we should go right away so we will not reach by the cutoff. We went right away and reach the vaccination site around 2pm. I am patient 513 and waiting on my turn to get the vaccine. There were so many people but I was amazed because it was organized well and the people were sitted in a chair alignment before they can get their turn. Before you will vaccinated there's a screening first, the Doctor's with volunteers will asked some information about your health and if you really agreed to get the vaccine. Since I am classified as frontliner I was in priority list and don't have any problem. I waited in line for almost 2 hours in screening and fall in line again in the injection site. I was vaccinated around 4:35 pm by Sinovac Vaccine and need to wait 15 mins till I can go home. After injected by the vaccine I feel numbness on the part where the vaccine was injected and it feels like my left arm was stroked but as time goes by it slowly becoming okay till I get home.
It happened yesterday and now I am resting at home while writing this, for the first 24 hours I didn't felt any side effects yet but right now as I am writing this my body feels heavy and I think I am gonna get a fever. I already take paracetamol so that I can be okay, this side effects was normal and hope I will be okay later. This is my first dose of sinovac vaccine experience, have you been vaccinated? Feel free to leave your opinion below, Thank you for your time reading.
Sidelines
I know a lot of us have different struggles in our life, family problem, health problem and the most common problem that we encountered a lot of times was financial problem. Even you have a job there’s a lot of time that the money you earned from it still lacks, because of all the bills that you need to pay at the same time the food that you will consume every day and other expenses that we have. Nowadays it’s really difficult to earn more money because of the pandemic that the world experience and you need to be wise & resourceful in everything you do. And this is the part where the sidelines enters and why I am doing it.
We all know that IT was one of the most indemand profession in today’s modern time and we expect that an IT get paid with high salary either he/she works in public or private company but that’s not the case here in the Philippines also it does not applied with me. To be honest my salary was not enough on the bills and expenses at home, I cannot say how much I earned for a month but it’s very low for my profession. I am working for three years now in my company but sad to say they only increase my salary once and now it’s fixed as it is, not just that I have a big deduction from government benefits and from my healthcard so what can you expect on how much do I earned? It’s really frustrating thinking about it and there’s a lot of time I want to resigned but right now is not the right time because ever since this pandemic starts a lot of establishment and business closed and the unemployement suddenly rose, I’m still thankful I have a job and had an income to provide on our needs. In order to cover up on the funds that lacks I think of other way to earn money and that’s where my sidelines come in.
Online selling was one of the most popular business nowadays and that’s the first thing I think I can do but what do I sell? Since my personal hobby was related in collecting figures and at the same time, I really love anime I started to sell some of my figures and other anime merchandise. I started doing this last May 2020 and it was the time when Metro Manila was in strict quarantine which is MECQ. I was able to go out of our home because I had a quarantine pass whenever I had to take my orders to the third-party courier which is LBC or JRS. The first product that I sell were some of my personal collections that I need to let go in order to gain a capital from the business that I will start. I sold all my figures with the total of 5,000 pesos but still it’s not enough capital when you start sell anime figures so I need to risk on this even selling is not my forte, I get another 5,000 pesos on my savings so the total of the capital I have was 10,000 pesos which for sure can stock products that I can sell later on. I was lucky when I started this business because I have a lot of known sellers and suppliers and that’s where I get my products that I was able to sold to other people. At first, I find it hard to sell figures because actually it’s my first time doing it and at the same time, I was always a buyer. Before I able to sell my first product you need to market it and keep posting in a lot of groups just to notice it by buyers and that’s what I did, I thought it will never be bought because it’s been almost a week a but no one get it. I only get inquiries and after I answered, some of them just seen my message or make promises that cannot fulfilled. Starting this kind of business even it’s a sideline is no joke, you need to have a lot of patience and hardworking in order to success on this, you need to market your products time to time, make your name be known in toy community, packed well, make sure the box and the figures itself has no dents/damages, and have a good customer service. I was able to doubled my capital at the same time earned some decent money in this sideline but I stopped because I cannot do both (my job and this business) and it takes a lot of time. I still sell figures now but only on my friends and the people I know. Besides this I am accepting computer related problems such as PC assembly, Installation of Applications, Formatting, and more. I just accept this sideline from my friends, people know by my friends, relatives and others but it rarely happened.
Since I stopped selling figures, at the same time computer related problem was unusual, I still find other sideline that was not time consuming at the same time I can do it whenever I want. That’s the start where I discovered Read.Cash. Before joining in this platform, I read the **about us** link that they provide on the website and learn what it offers to the users. We can publish contents with photos and videos, create articles of different topics and the bonus part was you can earn **Bitcoin Cash** and it was served as your reward by other users once they like your article. I don’t know myself if others will like my article because I know that I am not a good writer but I give it a shot and make my first article. I was happy that other users notice and the same time I didn’t expect that they even rewarded me from it and up until now here I am writing to each and one of you. I don't consider read.cash a sideline because it became my comfort zone and I really enjoy it, the rewards and the BCH I got were just a bonus. Whenever I’m free and want to write articles I’m thinking what topic to share before I posted it in the platform.
Right now I am really busy with my work since I worked for 6 days at the same time my friends don’t find figures always that I can sell to them. The only thing that I can do for a short time was writing articles such as this, I hope one day I will not think of the expenses and bills that I always encounter and became rich, I know it’s hard but someday I know I can fulfill it. I will work more, save more, and do sidelines that can help me in my life. Though I know I’m not a good writer hope you like the article that I created today, feel free to comment your opinion below. Thank you for your time reading!
Have You Been Vaccinated?
Corona Virus sure brought a lot of damage not just in one or two country but all over the world. This pandemic really made the world upside down, changing the way we lived and we can’t go back to our simple and normal life just like before. If you are watching the news we all know what happened in India, a lot of people died, there’s a lot of covid cases every day, the hospitals are crowded, the frontliners were giving up and it’s breaking my heart seeing this people struggle but what we can do? The virus spreads like a wildfire that you cannot predict when you or the people around you can have. For every problem there’s a solution, a lot of scientist tried to make a vaccine just to fight the virus. After a lot of trial and error they able to create a solution and now there’s a vaccine against COVID-19. Different COVID-19 Vaccines where named, **SINOVAC, PFIZER, MODERNA, ASTRAZENICA & MORE**. We all know here in the Philippines the cases already reached millions and it’s hard to believe why it happened, now the government already had vaccines here which is the SINOVAC but it is only limited and not given to all. If you ever have a chance now and candidate to be vaccinated would you take it now?
I know others will want to be vaccinated by now but since the government had a priority listing it’s nearly impossible at the moment. I am a candidate to be vaccinated but I refused because I’m not convinced yet and undecided because of the possible long term side effect on my body. In priority list of DOH (Department of Health) I was included in Priority Eligible A which is A4: (Frontline personnel in essential sectors, including uniformed personnel) but I say NO on the vaccine for now. Our Big Boss and the CEO itself of our company wants us all to be vaccinated but since it’s not mandatory we still have our choice. Out of 400+ employees in our company only one half got vaccinated, others were undecided, others refused to get vaccinated and others were contraindicated to take the vaccine.
As the expert says the vaccine introduces inactivated form of virus into our body so our immune system will produce antibodies to defend on it so once the person that was vaccinated got the real active virus it will recognized by our defense system thus it protects us and eliminate it immediately. But why I still refused? It’s not just about it though I want to protect myself on the virus I’m still the one who carrying my own body. I know if it’s the right thing to do or not. I observed my colleague that take the vaccine some of them encounter this side effects, a lot of them experience pain on the arm and muscle that get injected at the same time, some of them get sleepy a lot, others have short breath experience and lastly almost all of them got fever for 1-2 to days. Based on the side effect I saw on my colleague I think some of it were proof that it’s not my time yet to be vaccinated because I also know how my body works and I think if I will get vaccinated my body might get weak but still depends I’m the one who decides for myself.
Out of 8 Personnel in IT Department 3 of us refused to be vaccinated, me, our senior programmer and my manager. We still want to see for ourselves what will be the possible effect to others and if it’s proven to be effective 100% we might change our mind and get vaccinated right away. Others might say that I need to be thankful because I’m in the priority list and at the same time candidate to be vaccinated but wasted because of my reasons. You cannot blame me because there’s someone I know that was close to me that almost died because of vaccine, I cannot told all the details but I can say it was one of the more reason why I still refused. I’m not afraid totally of COVID-19 but it’s hard to have one also what concerns me the most was the people around me and I don’t want them to be infected because of me.
Right now in order to protect myself from Covid-19, I always take 1000mg of Vitamins C at the same time eating healthy food. I always follow the health protocol such as wearing face mask, face shield and sanitizing myself with alcohol sometimes I can say that I am taking a bath of alcohol all over my body. Whenever I go outside to work, to other place, once I get home I sanitized my clothes, undress it outside our house and take a bath once I go home, as they said prevention is better than cure and the most important thing I did everyday was to pray to God for guidance and protection not just me but for my whole family. If you were in my place? Will you get vaccinated? It’s up to what you will choose and what you decide, my final question was have you been vaccinated? Feel free to leave your comment below and hope you like my article. Thank you for your time reading!
Read.Cash & Bitcoin Cash Journey: From Nothing to Something
It’s been four months ever since I found and joined in read.cash. I don’t know what to write before and I don’t know myself If I can still write a good one because I’m only writing articles during my school days from elementary to college, and a few in another platform. Read.cash brings back my spirit in writing, as far as other users know or have seen my topics it was more about my figures while other articles were about my myself, travel, anime review and another topic that pop up and comes on my mind. Now as I explored read.cash I learned other stuff especially knowing about Bitcoin Cash. One goal of read.cash was to spread BCH awareness to different people all over the world and that includes me, they don’t just post your article in public buti it comes with a bonus reward that push to write more. They used Bitcoin cash as funds in here and that’s how I met BCH. Basically I don’t have any knowledge at all in cryptocurrency but read.cash taught me about it. There’s a lot of talented writer in here that share they idea and a lot related in BCH; I don’t have enough time because I was busy in the outside world but it’s a good thing, I learn something new. I cannot say that I am expert in it and just know basic trading but still thankful that got a knowledge in BCH.
From yesterday up today we all got the news and were all happy about it, it’s the pumping of BCH and it’s really flying to the moon from $1200 US Dollars reaching up to $1400 USD was really awesome. I know a lot of users hodl BCH and that includes me also but I cannot say that it’s much because there’s a lot of time, I converted it to PESO and for what? Here’s the real content of my bitcoin cash journey from nothing to something. Before joining read.cash I have a little idea about BCH but that it doesn’t bother me much. The time BCH was created in 2017 that’s the time where I started working, and at my first job I’m not earning much so I find an earning app that could give me extra funds. I find Free Bitcoin Cash app in the playstore and I installed it. Before I can proceed using the account, I need to input a wallet address which I don’t have any idea where I could get, I search on youtube and that’s how I met coins.ph. Fast forward I able to use the app, and earn some satoshi by spinning on the roulette but I find that it was so slow to earn in here that’s why I stop and didn’t able to learn that much on BCH.
Now in present time here I am writing to you guys and thankful to both read.cash & noise.cash because I was able to secure funds for myself whenever I need it. Before knowing this platform I was hesitant going back in writing again, I’ve been to a lot of earning apps before I’ve found read.cash. I’ve been in Kiki, to Bluefire, to TSU and now I found this. Thanks to continues invites of @bmjc98 and now were enjoying this platform at the same time the bonus rewards which is the BCH. For staying here for months, I think I already accumulate to almost 1 BCH but since I didn’t hodl and used it for other purposes maybe it will take a little longer. I’ve already used two wallets because I’ve encounter problems which at my first wallet when I import it in different browser the funds was always zero, the second one was I cannot upvote other users at the same time I cannot transfer to other wallets and now I have my third wallet.
I’m a little bit disappointed on myself because I didn’t hodl much and BCH really already reaching the top as they said it’s better late than never, right? but still thankful at the same time because the money I converted came in handy in trouble times though some of it went to my wants which were my figure collection.
My Bitcoin Cash Journey is not yet finish and I’m still on track planning to reach my goal, though I’m far away from other users that reached some of their goals I can catch to you guys soon. Just like I said in one of my post in noise.cash, “don’t be discourage if you have a few now, keep hodling and save little by little because once you combine it all it will be big, every cents counts.” I was inspired and amazed to the people that got their goals in BCH if you have nothing now don’t envy them, I know you can do it also, maybe not today but soon just do actions and claim it. This is my read.cash & bitcoin cash journey, still continuing to walk on my path. I start from nothing, now to something. Hope you like my article, thank you for your time reading!
Noise.Cash Updates For The Better
It's been five months ever since the platform “Noise.cash” was launched and able to used by a lot of users all over the world. I witnessed how it begins and how the platform keeps improving and evolving as the time goes by. Read.cash was the first one to share this to us as their new project and we saw it at the top of the website and of course we give it a try ourselves.
Now recently noise.cash surprises us with a new features and a new update. The new updates feature an algorithm where the users could get more tip from the heart function or simplified as like and they gradually decreasing giving out free tips to all users. When this update was up the users have mixed reaction about it. Some were dissapointed because the Free Tips were decreasing (one possible reason was the percentage for themselves I think?) and some even conclude that it may be gone soon, on the other hand some users were really happy about the update that by just giving a heart you can give a tip to that specific user.
Now I know all of us have their opinion about this so here's what I can say regarding on it. An application, platform, website or system update not just because they want it but it was for the better and beneficiary of it, also they did it to make it more efficient and a wonderful platform that everyone would love. I’ve been managing systems in our company for almost a year, I’m the system admin but I am not the one who programmed it. For every update that the management wants I tested it first to know if will be for the better or it could not be useful to add into the system. So it was the same as the noise.cash team doing on their platform.
Noise.cash was indeed an awesome platform, I’m amazed and greatful to the team behind it because they did a great job making this platform. From the time it begins where the users were able to post any captions, either gibberish, quotes, thoughts that they want and and just giving tips to the one that they want. Post were only captions, users can be identified in their usernames with avatars that was based on read.cash, no profile picture, no uploading of photos yet, and you cannot event search users or post before, you will just go to explore tab and find the one you are looking for by scrolling down or waiting for their new post. One way I’ve been doing before to the find the other users just to give them my free tips was I go to the url, edit it and add this one (/u/(username of the user you want to find)) - this is the example I did before “noise.cash/u/Levi_04”. Also before this was the time the platform was abused through fraudaulent activities by creating multiple accounts because giving of free tips back then were given fair and square to everyone. Noise.cash team noticed it and was stopped immediately for they want a clean platform; they keep updating for the benefit of all. The platform went to the next level and improved, now you need email confirmation, as well as they implement site rules that you must follow. The app keeps updating for the better, uploading image was implemented, chambers created, search function was now enabled, you how they able to make this as splendid as ever? All I can say was just WOW! One more thing that impressed me by noise.cash was the way they handled their users, imagine the server capacity, the users keep increasing and getting bigger so they need to upgrade server and this is for us. Spammers also have been restricted and limiting their action by implementing updates but there’s still some that able to slipped and stay in noise.cash.
Of all the things that I say about noise.cash, it’s been a great privilege to able to use this platform, I am greatful to be the one of its users and continuing using this platform. I appreciate all the efforts and things what noise.cash did for us, let’s continue supporting them and I know the platform will be more better, stronger than it was before and one of its major goal was to spread BCH awareness to everyone around the globe. May the team behind this platform will always be healthy and continue to have more ideas. It’s not just the noise.cash team that I would like to thank but also read.cash team, the platform that started it all. Thank you Noise.cash & Read.Cash, and if you have any comments and opinion about my article feel free to share it, hope you like my article, Thank you for you time reading!
Chick Figures Coming Right Up
I really miss writing topics regarding figures but since the information and things about it were very limited I cannot cope up to write another one but luckily right now I got something new to share to my readers and other users here in read.cash. As time goes by my figure collection really grows so fast but sad to say everytime I need funds for emergency purposes there’s no other option, but I need to let go of my other collection. Now as I discover about read.cash and a little bit about cryptocurrency I have secured funds so next time I need it for emergency, I will not let go of my figures anymore. So far, all the figures that I have shown here was more on my ***“One Piece Collection”*** since it was my top tier anime and my favorite anime among all but that doesn’t mean I don’t collect other figures. I have set of collection from **Demon Slayer**, **That Time I Reincarnated As Slime** and the new figures that hooked my heart by now was Chick Figures from different animes.
My goal as a figure collector was to complete and build a shrine of my favorite characters but as the time goes by the manufacturer and the company that created figures were releasing new products every month that you cannot ignore anymore if you are a collector. Before all I want for my collection was only **“One Piece”** anime but when I buy one from other anime it cannot be stop until I want to complete others too. Recently my friend collector as well as my supplier asked me if I would want this particular figure, I said to them that I only want figures from One Piece, KNY and from Tensura but I as I saw the figure myself it feels like I was being magnet by that figure and told it to me, “buy me now”. I can say it was a little bit creepy, but I didn’t buy it. My friend asked me if I have seen this anime, I told him that I have seen it and it was a good one, then he suddenly shows me a picture of his collection which is Chicks figures. My eyes popped up as I have seen it was so beautiful and perfect to display, I said to my friend that it’s just his marketing strategy so I would buy Chick Figures, but he said it was not his intention, he said that before he was same as me that was hesitant to get a chicks figure but when he got one it feels like he wants more for his collection until he got that many that he showed to me. I was convinced and lost to him, so I bought a Chicks figure. I can say that I have chicks figure before and it was the **Grandista** Nami that I post in my noise.cash account but I cannot say it was official since it was for my completion on my **Grandista** Line figures. The chick figures that I bought was **Ruka Sarashina** from **“Rent A Girlfriend”**, and as I open the figure and display it, I could say it was beautiful and perfect, but she looks so sad since she was alone, and this was the thing that my friend told me that you want more, and it was really true.
I told my friend why he dragged me into this I cannot escape their attraction to the point that I will want more for myself which really happened now. I already pre orders some chick figures from my other suppliers and plan to complete the set of Rent A Girlfriend figure, I already got Mizuhara Chizuru & Mami Nanabi but I am just waiting for them since they’re on hold on customs. You can say that this could be a quite addiction, but I always remind myself that before I buy another one, I am making sure that I saved money so when the time I need funds it will never be hard. I don’t have much chick’s figure for now since I am waiting for their arrival but as for my latest haul of chicks figure I got Erina Nakiri from Food Wars. I was surprised that it was very big, it heights around 18 inches and the details were quality and superb, the only problem now was where can I put them? For the meantime my next goal for myself was to get a big house for my family which I know I could do soon, and once I reach that goal for sure I have more toys to come at that time.
Well, I think that’s the end of my article for now, though this story that I created was a little bit boring since it’s about my hobby, hope you find it interesting. Thank you for your time reading!
What Makes You Busy on Your Day Off?
Are you a student? An employee? Or a business owner? Each and one of us have different lives, some were students studying in order to get a bachelor’s degree, some were working in a public/private sector in order to provide the needs of their family and some were business owners that markets their products and earn for a living. Despite all of this of course there’s a time were not a student, were not employee and were not a business owners, it’s what we called “Day Off”. No matter when or how it occurs, it’s really nice to have a day off. Right now I am really thinking of this one because my work was back in 6 days in a week, where I am working as an IT Personnel in a private sector, I said last time we have a skeletal schedule but unfortunately since my colleague was diagnosed and positive in Corona Virus I don’t have a choice but to cover for his absences. There were so many things we can do to make our time off feel special, and make it unique from your usual day-to-day routine but as we all know because of the pandemic a lot had changed and the options we can have are far more limited.
Normally before pandemic strikes when we are in day off, we usually spend our time for trip, party or activity depends on what we want but now it is really hard to do so because we want to avoid gatherings as much as possible for it can cause a big trouble if someone was infected and it will transmit to a lot of people. Now for me if I have a day off what are the things that I will do? Or I can recommend in this times? Let’s talk about it.
One way to have an enjoyable day off during this time was by making a plan or a schedule. Just like when creating a system there’s a step by step process and a plan ahead in order to make it work and smooth for users. Also by making schedule on what things you will do you can manage properly your time and at the same time your day off was a lot more fun. Normally when I have day off before I spent my time going out with my friends or loved one’s anywhere we want but now we cannot all do this, the only thing we can do sometimes was playing online games or binge watch anime series and movies which to be honest always happen to me when I don’t have a schedule or plan before. I happen to see in the internet before that there’s three main categories for day-off activities or things you can do when you have day off, the three are relaxation, productivity, and pleasure. I can say that the things that I did before during my day off was included in pleasure but now as much as possible I want my day off to be productive at the same time I can relax. Now since it come to this I will list down the things that I know that will fall on this category although it’s my own list you can based something on this to make your plan and schedule on your day off.
Let’s start with the first category which is “**RELAXATION”**, when you heard the word relaxation it is where you focus solely on things that could make you relax either you will sleep or take yourself to a spa and take a massage here’s what I can provide that I know that was relaxing
· Rest or Sleep (You can sleep long in the morning at the same time sleep again in the afternoon).
· Have a massage therapy but now it’s not very recommended since its pandemic.
· Listen to a sound that was soothing to your ear while eating at the same time.
There’s a lot of other relaxation thing that fall on this category but so far this was one of the thing that I listed and I’m doing when I’m on my off.
Second category would be “**PRODUCTIVITY”,** when you heard of this word it means a lot of work to do, and normally it’s a task or something that can be achievement or you can say that your productive on your off.
· Cleaning your house and fixing your things, one of the most common activity that you could say productive during your off.
· Laundry time, we all do our laundry of course always on our off and it’s one of the productive things we did during our breaks.
· Gardening, one of the productive thing that adults often do, watering the plants, taking care of all it, in the Philippines there’s a lot of “Plantito” & “Plantita” which was a very productive thing to do.
· Cleaning other stuffs like what I did to my collection, when I’m on my break I clean all of my figures at the same time dusting their cabinets.
There’s a lot of other stuff which you would call productive but technically this was based on my opinion of course. And now let’s proceed on the final category.
The final category would be the “**PLEASURE”** when you hear this kind of words it is a way to satisfy yourself with something that you would do like I said earlier like playing or watching films or series in phones, computer or TV.
· Playing online games or other stuff, it would fall on pleasure category.
· Binge watching was one of pleasure that often we do when we have a day off.
· Reading books could be also fall on pleasure
· Making meals and eat a lot would be fall on pleasure because it will satisfy our tummy.
· Going to a trip and vacation also fall on this one but since pandemic and COVID-19 still lies everywhere of course safety first and don’t forget healthy precautions
I have mention the things that I know so far that normally a regular person would do when he/she have a day off, I know that the things that I said was not everything but basically it was the things that you can do especially when you have your day off. So what categories does the things make you busy when you have a day off? Feel free to leave your opinion down below. Thank you for your time reading!
Bitcoin Cash Wallet Error
Does any of you experience something that irritates you to the point that you want to delete it if it’s an application, throw it if it’s a thing, beat it if it’s a person (not serious about this) and a lot of other stuff that destroy our day. Today for me is literally not a good day and I’m easily irritated at the the things that I encounter on the day. The mobile data that I am using for the internet ate entirely my load and I spent 200 pesos on load but still the usage was in maximum output, the mobile hotspot and tethering ate almost 5GB of in mobile data. Since it’s Sunday and I’m on a restday I expected no one from work will call but unfortunately one of the branch that I handled was open today pestering me to assist on the problem and since I don’t have a choice I assisted them. There are not the only problem I have but one of the things that really irritates me the most was the problem and error on Bitcoin.com wallet. What’s that problem that I encountered? Well let me tell you about it as I discussed it here in my article.
I’ve been here in read.cash for three months and it’s quite a journey. As a newbie before I tried to login my account in different browser on different devices that’s why I have a lot of wallets in my account but then when I learned about the recovery phrase, I stick to one wallet where all of my funds go. I have zero knowledge in cryptocurrency to be honest, I just joined here in read.cash to write because that’s one of my thing and my passion but as the time goes by I learned a little about cryptocurrency especially on Bitcoin cash and it gives me awareness on it because it’s the currency that they used here in read.cash. Now let us go the main problem that I encounter and why it irritates me. We all know that read.cash had already a wallet bound to it once you created an account and few months ago, noise.cash was developed and introduced to us, before we can get our BCH Coins there that was given by other users through free tips, we need to have a bitcoincash wallet address so what I did was I installed bitcoin.com application in my smartphone and create a new wallet there so that I can put it in my noise.cash account.
Now here’s my problem:
1. I can’t transfer my funds to another external wallet (I tried to transfer it to Coins.ph), I tried to send all my funds but everytime I did that bitcoin.com wallet says transaction failed.
2. I cannot upvote any article on read.cash, everytime I see interesting article that catch my attention I tried upvote their article but this message prompt was the only thing that I get once I upvote. Take note: even comments cannot be upvote.
My question was why I got this error? And what did I do about it? My problem has already been solved today but I just want to share this to others that might get the same problem. After I got this kind of error I immediately emailed the read.cash team to know what’s the reason behind it, at the same time I post it on my noise.cash account to know if I’m the only one that got this problem. Luckily after a few minutes I received comments from the noise.cash admin at the same time I got a reply on email but I didn’t do it immediately that’s why as you can see it in the image below it was 1 week ago, I didn’t take any action if I didn’t encounter my number one problem (Galing no? HAHA).
The reason why I cannot upvote in read.cash was because of the “COINTS” that explained by noise.cash admin, my mistake was I changed my wallet address on noise.cash and placed my read.cash wallet address thinking that one wallet is convenient and I know that I am the one at fault here. Now the only problem left was number 1 that I mentioned above, I only solved it by sending my funds little by little until I’m able to send it all. I got 4 transaction sending my BCH to another wallet and spent a fee of 1.40 USD. I follow the guide of @Telesfor on his article and here’s the link, I created a new wallet, import it on my read.cash and now I tried to upvote one article as you can see in the image below, finally it worked and my problem was solved. https://read.cash/@Telesfor/how-to-integrate-readcash-wallet-into-bitcoincom-wallet-3220bf7e
As I said earlier, I’m not that expert in cryptocurrency and I’m learning it little by little in this platform, I do not know if I can focus in cryptocurrency because there’s a lot of things, I do in real life but who knows maybe someday I can be like others in here. Hope you like my article, Thank you for your time reading!
Adventure Time Amidst This Pandemic
Are you staying at home? Or your works requires to travel in different places? Well going to one place to another was one part of my job. We all know that Covid-19 Virus strikes around the world and the cause of this pandemic. A lot of company decided to protect their employee and implement work from home setup to less exposure outside with different people that they may encounter. I’m not saying that my company didn’t protect me but my work really needs to be onsite. To be honest I was afraid that I might be exposed to a Covid Suspect but just to make sure I always sanitized, follow protocols, take vitamins and of course praying for protection.
We all know that catching this virus is scary, of course not just for yourself but to your family as well that you might infect. Cases in Philippines is no joke it keeps increasing everyday even the quarantine was strictly implemented because there’s still a lot of Filipino out there who were not following protocols. Now despite all of this that’s happening in my country here I am happily roaming around in different places and not afraid of Corona Virus, No! No! No! Of course I have doubts and fear going outside because of this virus but since this part of my job and I really need it for the bills haha, I don’t have a choice to do my part.
It’s not every day I do visit different places and other branch it depends on the problem that our sister company or other branch needed. Ever since my work resume a lot of problems occurred in our branches, some have major issues and some have minor issue. We prioritize of course the one with major issues then we do the one that got minor issues. I went to different places going to Taguig to Makati, Makati to Quezon City, Quezon City to Manila and other places that explored, sometimes I compare myself to “Dora The Explorer” going somewhere everywhere, and just like Dora I had backpack carrying my things all that’s missing was the map 😂. In my expedition on Taguig few months ago I happen to saw one of the user here in read.cash that’s also my friend @firenze, who were there accompanying her friend. My team have a certain project finishing there that’s why I was assigned there for a few days, since @firenze was there, we decided to see each other for a short time and the reason was she just want to tease and bully me.
Travelling to other branch was really tiring, imagine riding different vehicles everytime I went outside and it feels like I am attracting myself to CORONA VIRUS, come at me CORONA Virus I’m strong and I’m exposed to a lot of people you cannot infect me, I just think this sometimes. Today I visit another branch and I just get back this afternoon on our main office. My expedition and adventure on this day was really fun I even documented it and shared it to my noise.cash account. I visited one of the famous college university here in PH which is UP (University of the Philippines) Diliman campus in Quezon City, I went here to fix the laptop of my boss friend and after it I explored the place. The weather was perfectly fined and the sun shines brightly, as I explored the place it was very beautiful you can see a lot of trees around, the surroundings were very clean, there were very few people because of pandemic and it was very refreshing. Visiting other places was not that bad but of course I’m gonna be extra careful especially in this times, I always equipped myself with double facemask, faceshield and sanitizing myself with alcohol everytime to keep myself protected from virus.
Can I call myself explorer because of this? Just kidding anyways I know it’s hard to roam and go anywhere especially in this time of pandemic, you might catch the virus from the person you meet so you gotta be extra careful and much better to stay home if necessary but for me since this was part of my job I need to protect myself and 3x more careful so that I can’t have the virus. This story of mine was just a brief of my adventure when I am doing a field work, hope you like my story, and feel free to leave your opinion down below, Thank you for your time reading!
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