Am I Ready To Try Again?
Pandemic really hit us hard up until now, the Philippine economy is slowly falling again, the government always declaring lockdown, ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine), lot of positive cases every day, a lot of people unemployed and it’s frustrating that this were the news that you always hear every day. We struggle on our daily lives just to survive now this days, I am still thankful that even with all this problem I continue to survive, I can eat three times a day, I can supply our needs, I still have a job but despite all of this sometimes it is still lacking, the money that I earned at work are barely enough for the food but lacks on bills so I need to find other way in order to suffice that. What can I do? Or should I say what did I do?
This time I could say that I am barely surviving but since Metro Manila/NCR was still in strict quarantine the number of our working days were back in skeletal and I only report for 4 days, the days that I will not report don’t have any payment so it will be a financial problem again on my end because every month a lot of bills were waving. Now I am thinking what I will do in order to cover up the expenses, and something comes to my head, why not I sell figures again? As an anime figure collector I never expect myself that I would sell the things that I loved the most, I do collecting figures as a hobby but I didn’t expect that it comes to the point that I will sell even my own collection. It all started because of the CORONA Virus, the strain of virus really strikes last 2020, and I remember the time where the government implemented lockdown in different parts of the country and it last for almost 2 months. It started third week of March and the lockdown last long until May. For 2 months I don’t have a work, I am just staying at home, watching, eating, navigating my phone and it’s just a daily routine. It was really frustrating because at the same time I am thinking where would I get money to supply our needs? I don’t have a job, I don’t have an income, and maybe I will die with dilated eyes but that didn’t stop me I think of other way and you need to be wise in this time. I look at my toys and indicates a sign but my inner self saying don’t think of that it’s your own collection, on the other hand I think it’s for our own good. To make the long story short I made a decision and sell my other toys.
Since I was a member in a lot of different groups related to toy community, I observe other seller what’s there strategy and how they able to sell their toys. I only know how to collect and not selling. I choose the toys that I will sell because some of my toys have sentimental value. I posted the toys that I need to let go in order to have funds and thank God someone message me and made a deal of purchasing the toys. Fast forward I able to secure funds during pandemic and since it was a success I tried to be a consistent seller and started to sell figures with the capital of 10,000 Pesos. It was not easy being a seller because you need to secure your product well packed especially anime figures because it was fragile and a lot of collectors, wants there item in perfect condition. I sell figures for almost 8 months and I am thankful that because of it I survive in this pandemic.
Last December 2020 I was now lie low in figure selling because I’m back on my regular work and I cannot do both at the same time. It was fun being a seller though it was a little bit tiring I still enjoy it, but seriously when I am selling I still purchased toys haha but I saved for our needs of course. Now since my work schedule was cut again I think I’m up and ready to try again but what’s bothering me was the competence in the market, a lot of seller selling toys at a low price and some buyer really haggle for a low price. Not just that there’s a lot of scammer in the toy community and it’s becoming more toxic than before so I am a little afraid when I get back. Am I Ready If I Try Again? What do you think of it guys? All I can say was I need to have courage and did what I can in this whatever happens. In business of course there’s a lot of competition but still it’s up to you how can you stand among them all. I can say that I am ready to face this path again and I’m sure I’m on the right track and ready to face the toy community again. Hope you like my article, feel free to share your opinion, thank you for your time reading!
A Day Without Internet (Work Story)
It’s been three days since I am away here in read.cash because of many things, busy in work, having a special time with my beloved one, busy in anime figures and more other stuff but since I am here now get ready to witness another article that yet to discover unless you read it. Millions of people around the world use internet on day-to-day basis. It is a great way to connect ourselves with the world because internet had everything. We used internet to connect with other people like having a communication through app or email, sharing information that others may need, sharing of files in a company through network. Others used internet for entertainment such as watching video clips, playing online games, social medias such as Facebook or Twitter and many other things that could be beneficial to all of us but what if there’s no internet? Could you live without it? So, here’s a story that I will share base on my experience that just happened recently and it’s a big problem for me, so care to read my article? Come on, let’s begin my story.
If you read my articles before you will know what my profession was because I mentioned it a lot but if not, I will proud to say that I am an IT Professional working in a private company here in the Philippines. So now as I mention earlier what if there’s no internet? And I also said it’s a big problem for me, why is that? Because the internet usage was not just only for an individual person or home used it was the internet of the company and it’s not just the internet only that was missing, the server and the network had a problem also, it’s a big tragedy that I don’t want to happened again, now I will tell the full story.
This event happened last April 03, 2021, it was Saturday and not just that it was a holiday here in the Philippines (Holy Week). Our technicians have a work this time but IT Department don’t have so it was supposed to be a relaxing day but you know things happen. I plan to have a long rest during this time but unfortunately my boss called and said that I need to report in the office ASAP because there’s a problem in the office. I stand up immediately and fixed my bed, eat my breakfast, take a bath then went to my office. Now as I entered the office, I know it was a huge problem and I am the only one that can fix it, as I went to the IT Room, I opened my computer and checked what’s the problem, there’s no internet, I can’t access the server and I can’t ping all the networks, I just talked to myself and said (sh*t, patay tayo dyan) - Filipino Language. Internet was the one needed the most in our office because all of their transaction was online, even the system they used needed an internet that’s why they’re in turmoil and can’t work properly. The telephone started to ring I was liked “Okay, problem after problem”, I answered and said that I am currently checking it and will fix it as soon as possible, I think I got 5 calls one after another then after it I start to diagnose the problem. I turn off first all of the device, modems, routers, switch, server and hard drives to check if it just needs a reboot for 5 mins, then after that I opened everything again and start accessing if we have internet. I checked on my computer but still it has no connection, even the wifi so I decided to do a stand-alone setup (Internet modem to one computer) it has a connection, then I tried to connect it in our load balancer but after that no connection. I removed the cable connecting to the switch and test again If we can have connection, as I test it had a connection, so one problem solve it has connection from modem (ISP) to load balancer (router) the only problem left was the switch, the server just needed a restart to cooldown but the time was really fast and I am little bit annoyed on the telephone ringing.
The switch was only the problem left to fix the internet problem in the office same with the network connecting to the server because switch was the one that connects the internet from the computers in the whole office and since the server was connected to it, it cannot communicate in another unit unless the switch was okay. The troubleshoot that I did was removed all first the cable connected to the switch to know if it was choked and thanked God after I did that the connection on all the fourth floor went back but unfortunately the other floor still don’t have a connection. I go up and down to check if they have a connection or none and it was very tiring. It was past 2pm but still they don’t have a connection so I advised to my manager on what happened in the office. The main problem now was the cable connected to switch going to the access point of every floor which I think that the wires was cut. I don’t know anymore what to do because I don’t have a tracer to track which wires connected in every floor, the time was approaching fast and the only thing that I advised to my colleagues that there’s a deep problem that’s why we don’t have a connection. The only alternatives that I did to have a connection for the meantime was, I bought a 30-meter DLINK CAT5 wires then create a connection from switch up to Access point of every floor which I finished in 7:00 PM.
I didn’t able to fix the problem and probably it was hard for all of my colleagues because they don’t have a work to do during that time because of internet, I think others tried another way by using they’re mobile data just to create a report. Fast forward on it we able to fix the problem two days after and of course I cannot do it myself and I need accompany of my IT colleagues. Well, I know this story may have a lot of unidentified terms which is terminologies in IT but I hope that even this was a little boring you find it well. Thank you for your time reading!
Figure Showcasing To the Next Level
There’s a lot of topic I want to write here in read.cash but as much as possible I want to stick to a certain topic. I don’t know how many readers were hook by this topic of mine but I am glad that someone looked on it, I really appreciated you and you know who you are. Now the topic that I am talking about was figure collecting. I know I can’t write daily articles about it, number one because of my job and number two is I really thought what I want to write about figures and make sure that it was new in the sight of the readers. Now based on my title you have a hint what I want to share right? This article will feature another showcasing of figures and I will start whether you like it or not.
Few hours ago I edited a video of mine then I posted it on my youtube channel. Guess what’s the content of it? It’s about anime figure. This is one of the latest method that I am bringing up in order to showcase my anime figure. After I finished this article I will share the video below where you can watch my new content. I know others might not be interesting on it but I am gladly to share it with everyone. It was taken not so long ago and I decided to upload it now, the video runs for 3 minutes and 56 seconds that includes the intro and the whole content on what I want to show. I unboxed a Luffy figure, it was made by XZ Studio but the one that I have was a replica of it which was called a “KO”, it was a headbust of our favorite protagonist from One Piece and what’s more it has a LED on it. For the figure itself, all I can say that even it is a replica from the original, the details were almost the same and it was perfectly made, the quality of it is amazing.
The things that I told was a brief summary and details on the content that I have, I know others have already seen my collections on previous articles and some of my new figure were not open yet and still waiting to be unbox. Now since I want to move on the next level, youtube was one way on it, in my channel I only have 4 contents and it’s all about figures, the first three videos that I have was short clip showing my figures and now was the only time I created a real content. I get opinions on others as well as from my friends, I get a good feedback and suggestion on how can I improve my content and I’m very thankful with that. Since I have a lot of preordered figures I expect I can do a lot of unboxing and content to showcase them and how this hobby really means to me.
I don’t care how much I spent on them as long as I am happy that what matters but of course you need to know your limitation and I am aware with that. If you want to have a hobby like this make sure you know how to budget. The funds on my necessities was still my number one priority but anime figures has still a room on it. I am making sure that at least a month one or more figure can be secure to add in my collection. So far I have shared and showed my old and latest collection on you guys, the figures that I once have but I need to let go since I need funds, the one that I still keep and on display, the one that still on their box waiting to be open and more. I never thought I would be happier like this ever since I discovered figure collecting and to be honest it’s quite addicting, what I want to do now was to share this happiness that I felt by showcasing this figures not just in photo but also in videos. Figure collecting was truly amazing thing, it also lessen my stress and everytime I see them in display it brings smile to my face. This is another step on my figure journey can’t wait for more as I explore its path, I know my article was a little bit boring and not catchy but I hope you like it. Thank you for your time reading!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuyV3FbDttI
THIS IS MY VIDEO ENJOY!
Common Problems of Anime Figure
It’s good to be back here in read.cash to write articles again. I’ve been busy this past few day and it’s four days since I was not around, anyways what I want to talk about again was facts and information regarding figures. For others that were new here on my article I want to inform you that I am a figure collector, and I am focused collecting anime figures from famous animes. I want to make all of my latest articles regarding on figures as much as possible, but I know it will run out of topic regarding on this one but since I have one for today let’s talk about it. Ready or not let’s begin to talk about common problems of anime figure.
A lot of people here in read.cash preferred to read more on topics specifically on cryptocurrency, and we all know that read.cash spread more facts and information about bitcoin cash awareness which is one priority of this platform but I’m still thankful even I’m not knowledgeable in crypto I am able to share the hobby that I love which is figure collecting. Now back to the main topic that I want to talk about, we all know that nobody’s perfect right? that also applies in figures. There were some issues that a collector sometimes encounters in their figures. What are they? That’s we’re gonna find out.
1. PAINT CHIPS
One of the most common problem on figures was paint chips, this problem often found on bootleg figures but the authentic one’s was not an exception in here but based on my experience so far, I don’t have authentic figure that have paint chips and I’m thankful with that. Usually this can be found on some on the parts of figures, from the head up to the body up to the leg, of course clothes of the figures were included in the list. Some of my bootleg figures have a lot of paint chips on them that’s why I seek a friend to customized it and repaint for me. Manufacturer of authentic one’s were careful about the details of there product so it will be rare case for a figure that have this kind of issue so don’t you worry.
2. SCRATCHES
This is the most common problem on all figures especially the one’s that was minted only in plastic. In japan a lot of store of figures were selling this kind of product. And 5% of that figure had this minor issue, it is not that visible in our eyes especially when it was display in a glass cabinet so it will be a small problem but if you are a meticulous one you will not like this. For me it was not big issue and I’m not meticulous but not all collectors were the same so it’s better to add this one on the list.
3. BROKEN PEG (PART)
One of the most painful issue that a collector could encounter. A broken “peg” was term in toy community in simplified term “peg” was known as a part or joint of figure. Based on my experience this was usually occurred on international shipment ordered in another country, and the main problem on it was the third-party courier that carrying your figure. The one that I ordered was MISB (Mint in sealed with box) but I was shocked when I receive my parcel even it was full of bubble wrap and the seller made sure it was safe, it was devastated. As I open it, I found out that one part of my figures was broken, and I know probably it was because of mishandling. Other issue that you may find this one was because of factory defect and that was the last thing that I will discuss with you guys.
4. FACTORY DEFECT
All of the three issues that I have discuss will be fall on this one and it could be a factory defect. Figures created were produce in mass production and to be honest not all of it can be checked by one by one, so there’s a possibility on out of 100 figures that created 2 or 3 on them have minor issues such as paint chips, scratches and broken peg. I am unlucky with one of my latest hauls from Japan. The figure that I got had a scratches and dirt on her face, it was my SPM Nezuko, it was a first time on my authentic figures that I encounter this. The seller asks me that we can process this and report to the factory, but I hesitate, and it will be a long-term process and I am okay with it.
So far this was all the common problem that I encounter on anime figure if ever I found one I will gladly to share it with you guys. That’s all the knowledge that you need to know for now if you ever interested in figure collecting see the links below. Thank you for your time reading!
How to Begin Collecting https://read.cash/@Codex_04/how-to-begin-collecting-figure-c73c73fc
Figure Collection 101 https://read.cash/@Codex_04/figure-collections-101-e7b067c5
How Much Does A Figure Cost https://read.cash/@Codex_04/how-much-does-figure-cost-16797448
Would You Go for A Bootleg Figure?
The articles that I created so far were different topics either I stick on my personal life, my escapade trips, anime reviews, and topics regarding on my hobby that is figure collecting. I never thought myself that my articles regarding on figure collection would be recognized by other users, and I am thankful that I was also mentioned by@CryptoMaxin his article (kindly click this), it was flattering and because of that I want to make more articles regarding figures. Now there are things that I want to discuss with everyone, if you’ve been with me ever since I started my journey here in read.cash you would know that I am gladly sharing my collection and love on anime figures but if not, well now’s the time to join with me in this article. Here’s my question would you go for a bootleg figure?
I know others may hear this word for the first time, and may get confused what does Codex_04 talking about? Here’s my previous article if you want some guide in figure collecting (kindly click this to see article), but if you don’t have time to look on it, well “BOOTLEG” is a figure that does not have any proper licensing approval, imitation, low quality and in simplified term it’s “FAKE”. In common sense of course who would go with a fake? right? when you could go and buy an authentic/original one but even bootleg was fake it still has some good quality on it, some advantages and also downside so let’s find out more about it. https://read.cash/@CryptoMax/bitcoin-cash-is-evolving-its-happening-476573eb https://read.cash/@Codex_04/things-to-know-in-collecting-action-figure-6dd01e24
1. HOW DO YOU KNOW IF THE FIGURE YOU BOUGHT WAS BOOTLEG?
There’s a lot of difference in an authentic figure than a bootleg one, you would know that it was bootleg number one of course in quality, the paint jobs were not quite perfect, and you could see some paint chips in some parts of a bootleg figure. The details sometimes look ridiculous, if you compare the looks of the figure to the character where it was based you would be disappointed at some point. The texture and the materials where the figure was made is low quality. Another thing was the box of the figure itself; you could see that it has not licensed to the manufacturers plus the details on the box definitely duplicated on the original that was downgrade.
I know reading all the description I made can make you dislike a bootleg figure and definitely wouldn’t go on it but please bear with it until the end and it might change your mind.
2. BOOTLEG WAS CHEAPER AND MORE AFFORDABLE
This is one of the good sides and advantage of bootleg figures, since it was not licensed and imitation from the original one’s it was cheaper and could afford by anyone. Collecting figures was not just a simple hobby, it was an expensive one and I really mean it especially if your figures was all authentic. Ever since I collected, I think I spent more than P65,000 pesos and if I convert it in dollars if would be 1,340 USD and I am spending more up until now, if you ever decide to collect figures make sure your wallet had enough funds because being collector makes your wallet empty. That’s why sometimes I still collect bootleg figures.
3. IT’S NOT ABOUT AUTHENTIC OR BOOTLEG AS LONG AS YOUR HAPPY
There are collector’s out there that was very judgemental on bootleg figure, when they hear or see that the figure was bootleg if feels like there were very allergic on it and never want to have one, but for me bootleg was fine and okay. There’s a lot bootleg figure that has high quality and almost the same as the original. It’s not about authentic or bootleg figures it’s about your happiness, either it was authentic or bootleg as long as your happy with your collection that’s all that matters.
To be honest I started collecting figures without any knowledge on them, my first figures were actually bootleg, and I was happy having them but as soon as I learn more about figures, I stick more on authentic one’s because I could say it was my investment and I can afford it. I’m not being biased on bootleg but the quality of authentic was far more superior but at some point, I still purchase bootleg figures for the price was a lot cheaper and at the end of the day you still display them in your glass cabinet to enable to see their beauty.
If I would answer my question I would say yes and definitely give bootleg figure a shot, I know there were downside on it but that does not mean I can’t see its beauty, right? Everything in this world have an inner beauty you just have to appreciate them, be contented on it and your happiness matter the most. Would You Go for A Bootleg Figure? Hope you like it, thank you for your time reading!
My Anime Figure Journey
Everyone had unique things to do on their life and that includes your hobby, I never thought that I would be hook on to this and that’s collecting anime figures. I don’t know how, when, where I was attracted in figures, but I know this was a thing to me now. I know others might not be interested in this kind of thing, and others may say that I am bragging my luxury (for me) but all I can say was this brings me joy that’s why I want to share my figure journey. Ready or not bear with my article.
Who says that toys were only for children? Adults can still have toys for themselves and that includes me. Growing up does not have to mean growing old as well, this was one of the key recipes in order for you to have a good life, one thing I learned from “Michael V” a multitalented comedian/artist from the Philippines. The one thing that he said that left a mark in our hearts was “because we are growing old, we do not play anymore but the truth we grow old because we do not play anymore, do not be childish, but have the heart of a child.” This is true and I learned a lot from him.
I’ve been collecting figures for almost 2 and a half years, that journey was fun, hilarious, consumes a lot of money and more. I was influenced to collect figures because of my love in anime, I can call myself weeb sometimes but one thing for sure that I love anime so much. Anime brought happiness to me and I learned a lot from it, anyways getting back on my story I remember the first time I have a figure for myself. It started when I’m on my work, I was finished eating lunch after that I checked my phone and used the Shopee App (Online Shopping app) since it was sale that time, I browse on products that was offered in the app. I happened to encounter this certain figure that was offered for a cheap price which I immediately add to my cart then placed order, I didn’t know yet the difference between fake and authentic so it was okay for me as long the product will be safe and no damage. A week after I received my first ever figure, as I received my parcel, I was filled with excitement to open it and see for myself, I opened it and assemble the figure myself. I was really happy that time, I already expected that it would not be perfect but worth for its price. Later on, I just realized that the first figure that I had was “Bootleg” a terminology in toy community, in simplified term it was fake. It was my first time on figure but that didn’t stop me, I studied it on the internet and learned a lot of things regarding figures, my friend who was also collector help me to learn about this hobby because he happens to see my myday on my first figure and ask if I have an idea on what I bought.
Moving forward on my journey as I learned more about figures, I started to invest on authentic one’s than on fake but to be honest having a bootleg figure or KO figure was not bad, still after knowing how to check an authentic figure I bought five more bootleg figures because it was cheap and money wise but comparing to the details and quality than the authentic one it had a lot of difference. The price of bootleg figure that I bought was 400 to 500 pesos compared to my authentic figures that starts at 850 pesos up to 5,000 pesos, too much difference in price, right? Figure collecting was a hobby for someone who can afford it, I am not saying that others can make this a hobby but make sure you have the money to spend on your wants. Since I have a job having this kind of hobby was not a problem but to be honest it can empty your pockets especially when the figure that you’re looking for is for sale by shops/sellers online.
I have collected almost a hundred figures in this short span of time, I gave some on my friends, I display the others, while I sell my other figures when I really need funds. If you asked me how many figures that I bought in a month? I think I bought 3 to 5 figures depends what kind of figure it is, and it was included in the line of my collection. Right now, I am minimizing collecting for the meantime because we have pandemic and the money that I earned from my job was prioritize on needs. I can say that my figure journey was one hell of adventure, started from bootleg up to authentic and continue collecting up until know. As of now I have a lot of pre orders figures from Japan and waiting for them to received here in the Philippines. Collecting a figure was not a bad thing and it was really fun once you started it, you just have to control spending if you really want to start to collect. Figures help me lessen my stress and it made me happy everytime I see it, it was really fun and can’t wait to collect more. This is my figure journey and I am glad to share mine, thank you for your time reading!
One Person I’m Glad I Met, Thank you nanay Baby!
If there’s a beginning, there’s an ending. In life people come and go into our life either to help us or destroy us but you know we always glad that these people come into our life. It was a devastating day not just for me but all of the loved one’s of someone we know that we lost today. She was Baby Sitchon, even she was not related by blood to us I considered here as my secondary parent and it was very painful that we lost her, and she died this afternoon. The cause of death was pneumonia, complication to her kidney and she’s positive in corona virus.
It's hard to put into words how we feel about Nanay’s Baby passing, I don’t know what else I could feel except for pain, of course the natural emotions of loss and nostalgia are all over us, but we need to accept the reality that this happened. She was my mother’s best friend, a jolly person, a strange sense of frustration as I try to bring to my mind her facial expression, the smiling face, the voice that you thought was angry but was so nice in every way and most of all her personality, she was very kind, caring, loving and a God-fearing woman who was very faithful to God. Truly life was really short, we were just praying for her this afternoon to be better and survive this trial, but her body couldn’t take it anymore. I can’t help wondering why it happened in an instant especially to the family itself that devastated to their lost. The trip that was supposed to be a happy one become a tragedy; I will tell a brief story about what happened to nanay Baby. It happened on their trip on Subic, she suffered a mild stroke that was not expected, of course they panicked they decided the trip was cancelled and she need to brought to a hospital to have check but unfortunately almost all the hospital were not accepting non Covid patient to the point they don’t have a place to go, they went in almost 7 hospital, but she was not admitted on all that they visited, thank God after a long time finding a hospital she was able to admit in a hospital in Bulacan. Fast forward on the happenings she stayed in the hospital for a week until she get better, she was discharged and went home after that but after a few days, her body was suddenly failing and she had a hard time breathing, she was immediately brought in Chinese general hospital and admitted, she need to take Swab test to know if she’s a positive in Covid after a day the result came and it was positive, one problem after another, she also need to have tube and also she need be dialysis. We feel sorry on what happened and praying that they’re family could pass on this trial, then the news came this afternoon nanay’s Baby body couldn’t take it anymore and she died. She was there a moment ago, she was strong, and I see her smile, but we realized that this is the reality, my mother and my sister mourn and cried as soon as they hear the news and that includes me, despite I am strong on the outside, I am weak inside, we cried because the pain really hit us and a loved one suddenly saying goodbye.
When I think of nanay baby I can’t stop crying, I cannot forget her face, I always remember everytime I went to their house, she takes good care of us, she cooked for us, she wants us to feel that we are always welcome to their home, she treated me like I was her son. I gonna missed our heart-to-heart talk, her life teaching, her Christian life, her advices, her cooking, her reaction everytime we watched films, Korean drama, and anime, this is one of the things that I’m gonna miss the most. I gonna missed everything about her.
I have to say goodbye to a very important person in my life. Nanay baby you were such a kind soul and saying goodbye to you was really heartbreaking. I doubt that we cannot immediately move on and get over the pain of your death. Tears were just one way to express how we really miss you; you were so amazing, and I am glad that I met a person like you, you treated me like your own son, and I am glad that you loved me to the bottom of your heart. You left us with a broken heart, and it cannot be healed immediately but we know that you are in a better place, free from sickness free from pain, you’re with our creator, our Lord. As said in Philippians 1:21 – “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” We know how faithful you are in the Lord and seen how you served Him, truly that was amazing, and I know that you are happy now. We know that God is in control and we give all the worries and pain to Him, I am praying for her family to overcome this pain and trial in their life. Thank you and Goodbye nanay Baby! We will miss you!
Will Vaccine Really End It?
The world as we know it, was different from the world were living right now. It changes a lot because of pandemic and this Corona Virus really destroy everything, from our daily routine, life in our work, trips, and many more. The malls that we always visit with a lot of people, now you can count people in and out of malls, business establishments that are lively before now gradually closing, arcades that we've been visiting to enjoy now were closed, churches and gatherings were limit. This were just the few things that this pandemic brought to us and there's a lot more, but can it really end? If there's a problem of course there's a solution. Many scientist in the world try to discover a way to fight and end this virus and that's creating a vaccine on it. If you were updated on news you know that there's already vaccine but it's still on testing process, now I just want to share this now because I am one of the candidate to receive the vaccine but I refused, wanna know the whole story? Listen as I will tell how I was able to be in the list to be vaccinated and why I refuses it. Care to read my boring article? Feel free to read my fellow read.cash people.
If you have read my previous article you know that I'm almost infected by this virus but thank God I am safe, well and kicking. Now let's get to the part that I want to discuss and point on my article. As I said earlier I am one of the candidate to receive a vaccine for myself to protect against corona virus but I don't want to be vaccinated for now. We all know that the vaccine just recently endorsed to our country (Philippines) and compare to others that already have their own, ours was pretty late, the cases keeps increasing and increasing and it never ended, add and include the new variant, it was dissapointing. I was able to be included to be vaccinated because of my company, we were supporting the frontliners and our boss wants us to be protected but it was not mandatory that's why I immediately refused. Others may say it was free and it will help you and protect your family on virus, why you refused? I know myself it will be a big help but the one that was stopping me was the risk and side effect of this vaccine. There were a lot of news out there that the vaccine side effect was somehow harmful to others and it was a risk on their health. That was the number one thing that I want to prevent and I want to make sure myself if it's 100% effective. For now I will observe other people and my colleague that been vaccinated.
Now as my title implies and question to myself will vaccine really end it? The answer on it was not yet conclude, it was either a yes or no because the vaccine was not proven yet effective but atleast for now it can help the human race to fight the virus that wrecks us last year up until now. I forgot to mention that the vaccine that I was about to take if I agreed was "AstraZeneca Vaccine", based research it has an efficacy of 63.09% against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, but that doesn't mean you still cannot be infected that's why it's still on process.
For now, all I can say that we must strictly follow and maintain health protocol such as wearing mask, physical distancing, handwashing, respiratory and cough hygiene, avoiding crowds, ensuring good ventilation, taking of vitamins everyday and always bringing of alcohol. Remember all this things and be safe always, one of the most important things we will not forget was to pray always. Protect our family and together we fight and survive in this pandemic. Hope you like my article thank you for your time reading!
Sportfest Palooza, Mythical Five 🖐
Picture/Photo was one of the best memories an individual can have in his/her life, since I don’t go to work today, I am just resting, playing online games, watching clips and scrolling photo on my social media, then I happen to see this photo on my memories, and it brings so much nostalgia. Holy week was one of longest holiday during this time and there’s a lot of thing we can do. It includes having a sportfest. This event really brings good times and because of that I just want to share my experience on our Sportsfest.
It's been 2 years since our sportfest but when I look back on this picture feels like it was yesterday. I am proud to say that out of 5 teams we were the champions in our sportsfest. My team was green team. At first, I thought that I cannot played well with my teammates but as the game start, I totally ate what I said, my teammates were so good that it made me play well but it’s not just it, the opposing team were quite good at playing basketball. Here in the Philippines, I can say that basketball was the number one sport because almost all streets, barangays, city had a court. Half Court, Whole court, covered court that any Filipinos can play with but unfortunately due to COVID-19 it was not allowed for now. I can say that basketball was my sport, and it is a thing to me, so going back to event. Our sportfest was only 3 days and in that days, it was the battle of the strongest and it was the battle for survival in the court. Before the major event started, we had other sports to warm up in the game, of course other players that cannot participate in the whole game can participate in warm up game but for us were just hype and excited for the main event, so we rested for a while. Fast forward, the mini games and the warmup game ended, the main event that I've been waiting for was finally happening. The first team that battle on each other were the *Green Team* and the *Pink Team* and I am included in the green team. I am not included in the first five so I'm a substitute player, and so the game begins. After 3 mins of the game, I came in the court and sub as a substitute player on the one that we thought that can play well but he can’t be able to play since he was short in stamina. I am game on and heated playing ever since I came in the field and I accumulated five shots and earn our team a lead of 10 points. Moving forward the heat is on and were on lead in 1st Quarter but then during the 2nd Quarter they have a guy that was short but very fast and good at handling the ball, it was so hard for us that were unable to stop that little guy so I rested first and ask one my teammate to cover my position.
The 3rd quarter came up and it was so intense, both teams were not wavering and losing to each other to the point that the scores were tied both sides. Then the last quarter came, and everyone was so serious about, I came in the last quarter as first five and I feel so much excitement, I am very hype on what about to happen and what will be the result, in the end I made an awesome gameplay, I made an unstoppable 3-point shoot that amazed me, that I can do that thing and made our team won on the first game. Fast forwarding again on the event the other opposing team battle was awesome and fun to watch, I cannot tell the whole story for it will be so long but all I can say it was the other level, I'm sure that we cannot won to the other team especially on the blue team, but we will do our best once we will fight the blue team. The time had come, and we had to fight the blue team, we may lose confidence a little bit, but we cannot let ourselves lost in the battlefield. And then the game begun, the game was so intense that in the 1st quarter we cannot make a good offense and defence because the enemy were literally so good, but we cannot lose so we do some strategy to give them a beating. And that strategy works, one of my teammates was good at handling the ball and as for me I'm on the outside of the rear court. I'm a point guard also sometimes a rebounder and we cannot let ourselves lose from them, so we tried and do our best but sad to say in the end we lose to them.
It was a good game and definitely hard to forget, this game was an achievement and able me to have an award of being mythical five. It was a great accomplishment and definitely one of the best days of my life that I want to remember. For you guys out there do yourself a limit to what you can, and I know you can achieve something in your life. A simple yet hides a lot of good story, hope you like my article, thank you for your time reading.
What If, It’s Positive????
It’s been five days since I am able to write an article here in read.cash and I really miss it. My vacation took really long, vacation at home to be precised but really what happened? I want to write more articles about my other trip in different places, but this time will be different. I got an Amoebiasis, I don’t know where I got it, but I suspected it from the last food and drink that I ate before. Thankfully it was just this and it’s not COVID-19 virus but why I suspected it to be COVID? And why my title implies that what if it’s positive? Alright then I will tell the whole story about it. I know this a personal experience and life story of mine, I know this will be a boring one, but I just want to say to everyone that it will be a big help and bring awareness to us.
We all know that COVID-19 brought so much problem that the world never expected it turns out like this especially here in the Philippines, the COVID-19 cases keep rising everyday and the case of people getting infected everyday was not just a joke, it was nearly 10,000 cases pretty high right? That’s why the government declared a lockdown again and NCR Bubble plus to be in ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine). Being infected by the virus was not a joke, and it was really hard not just for you but also for your family. So why I am discussing this now? I am one of the few people that almost though I was infected by this virus and it’s really hard. I am working as an IT Personnel in a health care clinic that maintains network, internet and IT needs if you didn’t know, and I can say that I am also included in essential workers that was exposed everyday outside with different people that you don’t know if infected with virus or not. Riding public transportation from home to the clinic and visiting other branch for maintenance.
Now the part that I am gonna tell was where my worries began, it was this time when the head nurse told us that we gonna need to have an Antigen test because we were close contact to the one of the staff that was also close contact to a COVID Suspect which is the father of this staff. This staff was one of our buddies and we always eating food together, when asking for help on IT needs, I assisted him, since he was close contact, he need to undergo PCR Swab Test. For the rest of us who took the antigen, thank God it was negative. 2 days after the PCR Swab Test the result came for the staff who was close contact, and it was negative, but his father died because of COVID. Since my result was negative, I continue to come to work and continue my task on the clinic. A week after this case another problem came and this was more serious than the previous, usually when I go to our room, I just sit to my computer then start my work but this time when I came to my room, the head nurse immediately called me for Antigen Nose and Throat Swab Test which Iead to a question in my mind, why there’s another test again? Is someone got positive again? My mind was not wrong, and I was shocked that the one got positive was the marketing officer who shared room with me in the clinic and not just that I was literally exposed beside her while talking to her. My result came and thanked God I was negative but that was the start of my frustration, it’s okay for me to have the virus if I am not that careful but the one that I feared the most was the people around me, my mother and my grandmother who was leaving with me at home was at risk on virus at the same time I still have other relatives at home. I stop thinking negative thoughts instead I am making sure to be follow all the health protocols so that the virus can’t infect me, everytime I went outside I am bringing a 500 ml+ of alcohol plus double facemask and faceshield, taking 2 vitamins C everyday plus Revicon Forte and everytime I came home from work, all the clothes that I’ve worned was placed outside and I take a bath. Thank God my family was safe ever since the pandemic started.
Then this problem came, based on the studied and research by the expert the virus will not emerged immediately, and it will take days, last Monday I am eating a lot of food and I am still fine but when I am about to go home, my stomach was not that good not because of the food but something was wrong, my whole body feels burning and I am feeling like a shortness of breath. When I got home, I immediately isolated myself from everyone because I am feeling that this is different from what I’ve been experiencing before that what if? It’s COVID? What if the result was just lying and I am really positive? It will be a really big problem. For the whole day on Tuesday, I just rest at my room and never having a contact with any member of my family, my stomach stills acting up and I’ve taking up meds for it, I even don’t have an appetite to eat, I just rest for the rest of the day but even I am resting it feels like my body was burning. I just message my mom through messenger to bring a thermometer and water on my door to check my temperature and I was shocked it was 38 degress and it went up to 38.5. For the rest of the night, I just rest and take medicines, I take 3 biogesic just to make my fever down, take note it was not all at once, and after that I rested to recover. The next day came and I decided to have a check up to knows what’s happening to me and if it’s COVID I’ll need to have a PCR Swab Test, I was nervous and don’t know what’s happening to me but I believe it was not COVID, the Doctor meet me to tell that it was not COVID and it was different, it was Amoebiasis at fault why I experiencing this and even got a fever from it. That remove my worries immediately and I am able to breathe normally after that.
This experience of mine really taught me a lot to be careful and also you need to take care more of yourself, always follow health protocol and keep you and your family safe on this pandemic, hope you like my article even it was a little boring, thank you for your time reading!
From A Figure Collector to a Figure Seller
It’s been a long time since I write regarding on anime and figures here in read.cash, from the past days and previous article it was basically about my trip in different places locally here in the Philippines. Now what I want to talk about now was a story regarding on my journey on anime figure collecting. We all know that it’s been a year since the pandemic striked us and for all pinoy out there know’s especially from Metro Manila that experienced the lockdown that the government ordered to lessen the cases of COVID-19 spreading. What does figure collecting related to pandemic? I am anime figure collector for almost 3 years up to present, now this pandemic become a hindrance on my work and our company don’t have a choice but to halt all its operation due to COVID-19 and lockdown. From 3rd week of March up to May I don’t have a work and just staying at home with my family, my hobby collecting figures was stopped since I don’t have a source of income anymore and that’s when I decided I need to let go of some of my toys that I owned and that’s the start why I become a toy seller.
I am working as an inhouse IT Specialist in my company but unfortunately work from home setup was not applicable for us since we do support onsite. For almost 3 months I don’t know where to get funds for the expenses at home, in bills and food, it was a big problem but I’m still thankful that our company find ways so they compensate us that was good for a month. The city government also provides help in food but despite the help that we got from my company and city government it was still lacking. Pandemic really brought our survival instinct that’s why I think of other way on how to supply our needs, that’s where I began to be a seller in toy community.I didn’t expect that the time will come where I let go of my figure collection, I was hesitant at first but eventually I decided to sell my figures. I didn’t sell all of my figures I just choose some of my least favorite, then photoshoot them and posted it in social media. I joined a lot of toy community group where I can post, share and showcase the figures that I am selling. It was a funny thing despite we were encoutering pandemic my fellow collectors still continue to collect and hunt for toys that they want for their collection. My first post and my first try on posting was not that successful, other people told me that my price on that specific figure was too overpriced, others call it fake and others just bashing me for whatever reason and I don’t know why but that didn’t stop me, I continue posting until I get a customer, I’m still happy that there’s still a lot of collectors that defending me in this case.
A lot of customer were inquiring on the figures I posted but after that, they just left and seen my message. After a long time of patiently waiting and perseverance answering inquiries I got my first customer. I sold my Gear 4th Luffy to him that heights around 50 cm and weighs about 3-5 KG, at first I was unsure of this customer cause he wants to meet up, my condition was payment first then after payment we will book it with delivery courier and he can received it within the day but the customer insist that we could meet up for he is a sure buyer and also being careful that I might scammed him since it is payment first. The buyer was also being cautious about transacting online since a lot of scammer scattered online, so to be sure we both show our Valid ID with our selfie just in case our transaction was not legit. Lockdown was still implemented at this time but since I have a quarantine pass I was able to go outside to transact with my customer. Fast forward I meet up my customer and give the figures that he bought to me, I sell my figures for P4,300 pesos and I gain a profit of P400 pesos since the original price of that figure was P3,900. After my first transaction I still posted other figures that I can sell and luckily I got other customers and sold my figures.
I continue doing this until I get back to work, my other buyer advised to me that I should create a page so that other people that want to have a transaction and buy figures to me will easily reached me out. This small business of mine help me supply the needs that lacks during this pandemic, it’s just sad to let go of my other figures but there’s a saying, “when someone leaves someone will come that is much better” and now I have new figures and there’s a lot more coming. Since our work resume I was slowly lie low in this small business of mine because I cannot handle it anymore due to my work but if ever there’s an old customer or a new one I will still entertain them but will be transparent that they cannot get the figures immediately, they will just have to wait. From being a figure collector becomes a figure seller, I thought selling was not for me but this small business of mine gave me opportunity even for a short time. In some other time if I am not busy with work maybe I will continue this because I already started it. Hope you like my article, thank you for your time reading.
Laiya Batangas: White Cove Beach Resort Trip
It’s been two days since I write an article and now, I am not busy anymore so here I am writing a new one. My past articles were related to my travels to different places that I’ve been before, it is a great experience exploring a lot of places and it was so fun. Since summer is approaching really fast now is the time to relaxed and have a vacation in nature such as beach or if not go to a pool with your family or friends. I am craving and missing the beach so much but sad to say it is hard to go now because of pandemic. You need to have a health certificate, a travel pass and for others they also want a result of PCR Swab Test. So, for now since I don’t have a new trip, this was only a throwback and as you know for every picture there’s a story behind it, come on let’s explore my trip and story.
One of the best family trips I ever have, it was a memorable and exciting one when we had this trip. It was 5 years ago, last May 16, 2016 and I remember that this was the birthday of my uncle, as you can see the weather was totally in our favor and the sun shines so brightly it was a perfect day. There’s a lot of beautiful beach in Batangas and Laiya was definitely one of them. For other readers who didn’t know where Batangas is, it is located in my county “Philippines”, Region IV-A which is included in **CALABARZON**. This trip was supposedly exclusive only with the family of my uncle but since He was a “Balikbayan” he decided that you could treat us also and that’s how I was included in this trip. Luckily my college graduation was finished that’s why I can relaxed and join the trip. It was not only us that was included in the trip the family of my aunt in her side joined, actually it was okay, the more the merrier.
When we went to Laiya Batangas, we rode rent and rode a jeepney because it was more fun than car and the ride was more awesome, from Manila the trip consumed for more than 4 hours because the jeepney driver don’t know the exact location and the signal on our phone for maps was not that strong, a lot of us slept in the ride but me I was just sightseeing around, and it was very peaceful. I forgot to mention that we travel early in the morning around 3:00 AM and we came at Batangas around 7:30 AM and the sun shines so bright when we came to this place.
Obviously since it was still summertime during our visit there’s a lot of people that came to relaxed but we don’t mind since we have a place to stay, and it was not crowded on the one we choose. When we came here, I am amazed and stunned how beautiful the place was and the sand was smooth and white but compared to the white sand of Boracay nothing can beat it this time around but maybe if there’s other place that as beautiful as Boracay I will visit it some other time. Continuing on the story as I saw the place, I cannot let this view not to be seen by others, I immediately took my phone and take a shot on this wonderful place, after I take a few shots we went to our hotel rooms and drop our belongings then went back to the beach. I am not done yet on taking a photo that’s why I brought my phone and continue to photograph my surroundings, of course it would not be fun if I am not included in it right? So, I asked my elder sister to take a picture of me, and as you can see from the photos, I shared it was not just the surroundings that was beautiful, but it includes me and looking good right? Hahaha just joking! anyways after all the photoshoot I enjoyed the place. I swam until I get dark/tan because the sun shines brightly and soaking in the sea was one way to beat the heat, submerged ourselves in the sand, and one of the best in the trip was the food, it was not just only the food that we brought that we have eaten but also the one’s offered in the hotel. There’s also a big chess board here that we used to play and definitely it was awesome.
If there’s a beginning, there’s an ending, we stay there for 2 days and 1 night then our vacation ended. This was one of the best vacations I have during summertime and definitely Batangas was one of the best places to visit when going to beach, I know it is hard to go right now but sooner or later once this pandemic ended definitely for sure I will travel to more places than before to relaxed and leave all the stress here in Manila. So, this is the wonderful trip and the story that I have shared with you guys, do you have trips like this like mine? Feel free to share yours, thank you for your time reading!
Puerto Galera Escapade
Another story and throwback travel to the beautiful places that I’ve been visited before, I really missed having a vacation and relaxed to the nature but since we are in pandemic, travelling was hard than before and you need many documents such as health certificate, travel pass as well as you need to take a PCR Swabtest and the result needs to be negative so you can visit the place you want to go. For now, I’ll just tell my story behind this pictures that I will share.
This trip was so awesome, I can't forget my experience in Puerto Galera, it was totally fun and exciting. It was good day when we visit Puerto Galera, by the way Puerto Galera is located in my country "Philippines", in Visayas and particularly in Mindoro. I’ve been to this place twice and it was really a memorable one. It was around in 2014 and 2018. When we went to Puerto Galera, we came here from Metro Manila, in order to go to Puerto Galera, we need to ride a Bus to the Port, then when you’re in the port you need to ride a “RORO” (it is a small ship) to get on the Island and once finally on the Island you need to ride a vehicle either a jeepney or motorcycle. When we went to Mindoro, we rode a bus in a terminal in Gil Puyat Pasay. The ride usually takes about 4 hours before we reach our destination which is Batangas Port, and the ride was so long so we slept for a long time, but it was not a complete 4 hours because the Bus had a lot of stopovers so from the moment we arrived at the port, we immediately began to choose what type of Roro that we want to ride on. Of course, we would choose a cheaper one, but apparently the Roro that had a cheaper rate was already occupied so we don’t have a choice to choose another one which we rode later on.
Moving along I didn't specify how many are we in the outing, more or less we are over 40 people, so we covered almost half of the Roro plus our things, and it cannot accommodate us all so we choose a bigger one that can handle us all and no other passengers.
When we are in the port there are so many passengers, tourist, going home from Mindoro because as far as we know there were a lot of nature attraction that you can visit once you go in Mindoro. We already have our Roro ready, but we need to wait for it, the waiting time takes 1-2 hours before it came to the port. Then the boat came, and we ride on it, I am not used riding a Roro or a ship so when I went inside the Roro it causes me to seasick and to be honest, I vomit after a few minutes, funny right? at the same time ewww! I had to smell a "Katinko" a medicine I always used when I am having a headache or not feeling well, I used it for sickness motion and after that the Roro finally moved. It takes 3 hours before we can reach our destination, so I just slept to recover my motion sickness in Roro.
At last, the long ride and wait was over, we finally made in Puerto Galera ❤❤, when you see the nature and surrounding you can say, Wow! It was very beautiful, I was overhelmed and I was so amazed how beautiful that island is. Once you set foot on the place you can't wait what to do there, you can do many activities, play volleyball and of course number one thing to do is swimming in the sea, explore the place and other things in Puerto Galera. Finally, were on this Island, we do a lot of activities, Island Hopping to one another, playing chess also was a good time in beach, banana boat, watching the sun set. Catching sea urchin was one of the memorable things I did and also you need to eat it raw which was first time for me, and I was amazed how delicious it was. The food in there was also fantastic, I cannot say any bad thing about this place.
So far it was one of my best travel here in the Philippines. If ever travelling was not that strict anymore or if ever you plan to visit this place, I recommended Puerto Galera, because the joy, the memories that you can experience in this beautiful place, it can never be replace. This is truly a wonderful experience, I really wished I can go back easily just like we did before but definitely it will be harder now. Anyways hope you like my story and experience in Puerto Galera, thank you for your time reading!
Everyday Morning is A Blessing! #MANIWAYA
There are a lot of things to be thankful to our Lord not just the things that we have but also our life itself. One thing that I'm thankful the most was that every morning I'm able to wake up. Not all people in this world were given a chance to wake up because someone died from sleeping, natural disasters, different kind of diseases and many more. Be thankful for simple things like this because you may not know what lies ahead in your life tomorrow. This is one of the blessing that God gave to me, not just to me but to all of us that still breaths and live in the Earth. Many people die every day from various reasons but one thing for sure is that God has still plans for my life, I don't know if I still live by tomorrow but every morning I wake up, I know that God is in control and my life has a purpose. One picture can tell a lot of story and this is one of the reasons why I able to create an article like this one, ready to know what does **#MANIWAYA** means? Well come and join me as I tell what this all about.
Philippines is really known for its great beaches, reefs and rich culture. As far as I know my country has 7,107 Island but based on the recent report by the National Mapping and Resource Information (NAMRIA) they had discovered 534 more islands, so it increases the number of islands with the total of 7,641 and Maniwaya was one of that. Maniwaya Island is located in Marinduque, also known as the “heart island” though it is a very small Island this was surrounded by clean and clear waters. The island was maintained by its local people living here and they have a lot of resorts and it includes one of the resorts that we stayed in. This trip was wayback April 2018 when me and my college friends decided to a have a bond a year after our graduation and to catch up what’s happening to each and one of us. Before we went in this beautiful Island, we came from Manila riding a bus to the port then after that we ride a Ferry and lastly, we rode a boat to Dalahichan Port and we safely arrived at our destination. There's a lot of resort and hotel to stay in but of course we choose the cheaper because of our tight budget. The water was so clear and great we totally enjoy swimming in this beautiful Island, and it is really worth. We also tried to snorkelling and as the tip from our friend that came here from before he recommended that we bring our own snorkelling gears. After doing some swimming we do Island Hopping from one Island to another. We went first on Ungab Rock Formation where there's a unique rock formation. They said that this location was one of the most iconic places in the province. It’s not just a beautiful white sand and crystal-clear water what we’re looking for on this trip but we want to explore something new in our sight just like searching for sandbar, that is a bar of sand formed in a sea by the action of tides or currents. We were not disappointed and able to visit a sandbar in this Island, it was the Palad Sand Bar. This place has basically a bunch of sand in the middle of the sea and it creates an Island-like spot, but it was so small. The most wonderful thing about this place is that when it is in low tide, the sand is above the water while during the high tide, the sand is underwater. This is the last place that we visit before going back to Manila.
Truly this trip is a wonderful one, I able to create this article because of noise cash, I am finding what photos to share on it but I as I saw this one it reminds me how beautiful this place is, the story behind it and how bless I am, that I able to wake up and relax in this wonderful place, I can't ask for more because this is enough. I know a lot of us forget to thank God in our life but let's always be thankful to our Lord even with just simple things like this. I’m not in the right place to say this but when you wake up in the morning, give a minute just to pray and thank God for a new day that been given to you, it’s not that hard right? because everything you have, all of your wealth, and your life came from Him. I wish I can come back to this place again to unwind but as of now it is currently impossible due to pandemic. I am hoping and praying that this pandemic will end so that we could go back to our normal lives just like before though I know it would be different, I know there’s a brighter tomorrow ahead of us. Every Morning is A Blessing!
I Heart ❤ Boracay
This story is about my adventure on a wonderful Island in Boracay. This is my first article I created regarding my trip on one of the beautiful places I’ve been to before. This story was about the Island that I’ve come to love but let me tell you why I love this Island and what’s the reason about it. Are you guys ready? Let’s roll now and told my adventure on Boracay.
Ohhhh what a beautiful place, a place where you could see a lot of tourist and a lot of fellowmen. It is a place located in beloved country Philippines, at the Visayas Region and exactly at Aklan. It is a small island known for its white sand and not just that, it is an Island full of resorts, beaches, bars, and many more. You will see how beautiful this Island once you get to visit in here. What I love in this Island? Hmmm. There are a lot of things to be loved in this Island, but I will tell you what happened when I visit this beautiful Island. It happened this past 2 months and exactly dated from July 29 to July 31 year 2019. It was an outing shouldered by our company and it was a once in a lifetime experience for free. Wow, all I can say just wow because to be honest my flight going to Boracay was also my first flight, it was thrilling, exciting and so thankful that I got to experience this. I prepare all of the things that I need and I’m ready to go in Boracay, it was 3am in the morning on July 29 and were prepared and went to airport so we will never miss our flight. Were on the airport and waiting for the time of our departure but the flight was delayed due to bad weather during the day of our departure, but we still need to continue our trip, no one can stop us, so we just rested in the airport and waited our flight to be announced and then after a few hours, our plane finally came, and we get to ride on our plane. The weather suddenly in our favored and we fly safely to Boracay and then we came at this beautiful place that a lot of people talked about, and it was all true.
When we came to Island, we saw how beautiful Boracay was and how the sand was pure white, it just took an hour from plane from our location to Boracay, so we just rested for a short time. Then we were guided in our hotel so we can just rest before we start our trip and teambuilding. Out of excitement we roamed around the Island and so we can see how beautiful it is and we were not disappointed on what we saw. Our hunger strikes so we decided to eat first at a near restaurant and also the food was so good that we ate a lot. The fun just started there after we ate food, we went back to our hotel to prepare for our teambuilding. Then our event begun, we do a lot of things, enjoy the activities and enjoy our beautiful surroundings. After the event of our first day we were free to roam around the night and do what we want to do, me and my colleagues just went to the beach and enjoy watching the waves as we had a late night talked to each other that night, it was fun and we were enjoying ourselves not just only because of the good surroundings but also with the good people surrounding you that night, it made me realized that it is not only just the nature that I’ve come to love but also the people I am with. The day after tomorrow was the continuation of our event and we start to have a buffet on our breakfast, and it was a blast that all of the food were so great, and it made us stuffed. We had a short seminar before we back to our activities after the short span of time we were free to swim and do what we want. To make the long story short, we do a lot of activites and take a lot of selfies and buy our remembrance at that wonderful Island. It was indeed a memorable trip and worth to remember, it’s not just the beautiful surroundings that’s why I loved this Island but also, I loved the people that I’m with that it made my trip in this place so memorable, I will surely miss these days and miss the people that I’m with till the day that I’m old.
Though this trip was 2 years ago it was still fresh on my memory and definitely will go back again on this wonderful place but for now since were still in pandemic I can’t visit this place for there’s a lot of documents needed and also you need to undergo PCR Swab Test. For now, it just only a throwback but soon I will get back again on Boracay. Thank you for your time reading!
Hey! It’s Time for You to Move On
If there’s not a chance for you and the person you like to be a couple up to the end well maybe it’s the time for you to move on. Remember that the world doesn't just revolve around him/her, and for sure you can find someone better. The world is big, and I’m sure among all the people that living here on earth there is someone that just waiting for you to come into their life. I just wanna make things clear that this I article I created was not related to myself, but it is about my friend. My friend is still not getting over on her ex-boyfriend and I want her to move on, but her heart was still attached on her past.
I am advising her everytime but still it is hard for her to move on. I know it’s hard to move on but if you still trapping yourself on the memories of the person that you once loved, you can never move on your life. There’s a saying that you can find the one for you if you stop chasing the person that was not meant for you.
Moving on? I once experienced that and just like the other people say, it is easier to say than done. It’s just like dieting, it is easy to say to other people that you can diet but it is hard to do so, and sometimes it is even hard to begin it. All things in this world were either hard or easy but you can accomplish things like moving on if you give your full attention on it. You are just afraid to face it and even don’t want to start it.
There’s a lot of way on how an individual can move on in his/her lovelife, well I am able to make this article because of you “MANGGE” I know you’re not here, but this were the things that I already told to you and I know this article may help others as well. Here are some ways for you to move on:
1. YOU CAN HAVE AMNESIA
One of the things that happened only in drama, if you happen to watch Meteor Garden 2 you know that Dao Ming Su had an amnesia and forget about the love of her life San Chai, but don’t ever try to do this this is just a joke of mine unless you wanna hit your head on the wall really hard to forget about him/her. Your heart was already in pain, don’t ever include your head on this hehe. One more thing hurting yourself was not the answer in moving on, we all know that a lot of people try to hurt themselves that it comes to a point that they will end their own life but it’s a no! no! don’t ever do that it's fun to live and enjoy it to the fullest. Be kind to yourself and have a self-love.
2. TRAVEL DIFFERENT PLACES AND DO SOUL SEARCHING
I know this kind of thing was not applicable for now because we all know that we were facing pandemic and there’s a lot of travel ban but this is one of the answers before that help an individual move on their heart breaks. This way of moving on was expensive but this process was very effective. Sometimes it will be easier for the scars on your heart to recover if your attention will divert on other things. Go the places you’ve never been to before. Explore the world, you’ll never know the places that you will visit will you find your future partner. When you are travelling seek for yourself first before finding someone, try to find the things that you lost, I know this kind of activity will be the key of our self-realization that you could go back to the time that you are happy and positive even you don’t have special someone in your life.
3. FIND SOMEONE BETTER
When someone leaves, there is someone better, one of the most effective things in moving on but one of the hardest things to do. Keep in mind that when I say “FIND” you shouldn’t take it literally finding an individual one for you, what I want to imply on saying find someone better was to be open and socialized with other people. Go out with your friends and have fun. Go out with the people that love you, they were better than the one who hurted your feelings. There’s a bigger possibility for you to truly find someone better instead of shutting yourself on the four corners of your house, and the better now I am talking on was that special someone that will pick up the broken pieces of your heart and the one who might bring back the colors into your life.
Moving on is truly hard but I know you can overcome this, and you will be better than before. This were just some ways for an individual to move on, I know I am not a best adviser but hopefully it helps the individual that experiencing this kind of thing right now especially my friend. Hope you like my article, thank you for your time reading!
The Story Behind The Mask
What is mask for? What was the used of it? A mask was use for covering the face of the person that worn as disguise or sometimes use in an event or party as a costume. The mask was either to amuse or to terrify others. Then what does this mask behind and what this is for? For every life there was a story behind, what was the reason why I have this orange mask in the first place. Is it for an event? or there was a valid reason for this. Yes, there is a valid reason why I have this mask, it was for a stage play portraying the evil. The story was about how the good one's able to defeat the evil but what was the reason why the color of mask was orange instead of red? Usually red color symbolizes evil, strong emotion such as anger, rage and negative emotion that's why the enemy always symbolize red but the reason why mine was orange was because it will be a shadow dance play. It was a fundraising event for our church and the funds that we will get on this event will be used for the renovation of our church, because everytime the weather was bad there’s a lot of leak in the roof of our church and you can see multiple holes on it, plus it is a little bit old. This is one of the reasons why we decided to hold an event and do something about it.
The summary of story tells about the creation and destruction, the white mask symbolizes all the good things, and it was showed to create things and show the beauty of everything. It was then the guy who was wearing white mask was living in a very peaceful place where there are no things to be seem and its only darkness, so the guy wearing the white mask decide to make things that will made this very peaceful place to a lively place, he created light so this darkness will be wipe out, together with nature, animals and every living creature that could made a wonderful place. The wonderful things were already set and the white guy who was wearing mask was living his life but then chaos fell, somebody disturb the silence it was the guy who was wearing an orange mask, he came to destroy everything and never leave a trace behind. So it was then a war begun between the two individuals and it was an never ending battle, a lot of beautiful things created by the good guy (white mask) destroyed by the evil one (orange mask) it was so chaotic that the place became the a battlefield , the good guy felt sad because of what happens and the evil guy still continue on what he is doing , he will be satisfied if the good guy will die but it never happened and always the good side wins. The battle came to an end and the good guy defeated the evil and distinguish its presence, later on the white guy created a world where peace and harmony rise. The story was based on the story of creation in the Bible. The two masks represent good and evil, and it also represents God & Devil. It was a fascinating story that made alive in play. In reality this world has still good and evil but the message of this was the good will always win and evil will never ever victorious on good.
This event and play happened two years ago, I happened to see it in my memories on facebook and it brings a lot of good nostalgic memories. I remember that after my work I’ll went to our church just to practice shadow dancing and to be honest it’s not that easy, we practice for almost a month for this event, we were so thankful and blessed that it was successful. The effort and time we gave was all worth it, the funniest thing about this was we were only just beginners and totally clueless how to make a good setup on shadow dancing, prepare props, where can we get this light, learn from the videos and clips on youtube and etc, but because of teamwork and cooperation of everyone the event was successful, and it was a blast. I don’t know if someone from my churchmate video our performance but the only thing I saw on my memories was my photo that I uploaded.
I am happy to tell that because of this event we able to help our church to fix the roof and up until now it was okay. This mask is small, yet it carries a lot of good story behind it, hope you like my story and what’s the reason behind it.
I Wonder Why…..
I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told be about the blue, blue sky, wait hold up! It’s not the song that I am about to make but it’s about something that bothers me, I know each and everyone of us sometimes wonder why these things happen in your life, why you and why not others, out of all people out there? Do you ever wonder why things happen the way they do and sometimes looking up in the sky and ask God these questions? Me? I am guilty to ever wonder this kind of questions. I tend to question everything that’s happening in my life, like questioning, “What do I do to deserve this?”, I know your plan was better than my plan but why we have to go through with this. There’s a time that I am like that, but I am thankful that I am stronger than before. I want to talk about this because something has been bothering me, I’m not frustrated but I want to share something that could be a life lesson to others.
I am wondering why there are people that have bad attitude and don’t have consideration at all, this is related on our neighbors that still doing inhumane things, you know the feeling that because they have money and capable, they’re taking advantage in everything in our place. It started when my grandfather died, they started to get the land in our place and force our home to be in half because they have someone know in the cityhall, when we tried upgrading our home, they started an argument and up until now they are causing problem after problem. That’s one thing I ever wonder why they need to do that? Because of this I promise myself to save more and earn extra income for in the future we can leave our place and have a peaceful life.
I say this because I know this is included and part of our life and this is according to God’s Plan. As I grow older my perspective in life was clearer, as I encounter a lot of people the things that I wonder became more visible, I am meeting different people every day, and it made my eyes wide open and realized that this is one of God’s way to communicate to me through them. People and trials made my faith grow stronger and not just that it made my relationship to the Lord better that’s why I know his plan was greater than others.
We are all wondering why these things happen to us, how many times do God try to reach and talk to us? In good times? In difficult times? God was always there for us and just you know that he has a plan, that everything that happens in our life happened for a reason. Your plan may fail today, everything happens in your life was ruined, and it feels like heaven and earth fall on you but don’t give up and remember that despite on all things that happened you have God that can turn nothing into something, you just have to trust his timing. You just have to believe him more and trust everything that will be better. Before I used think and always wonder why all this things happen and why my life was like this, I am immature, I used to think more on problem than the solution, I let my emotion eat me to the point that I am stressing out even small problems but despite all of this, I was changed, I am better and now the things that I am wondering was turn into trust in God for I know that his plans were better than my plans. With this realization it feels like God gave me and us another chance in life to be better and be something for it would be for our future to stand in the world. The things that I told earlier was one of the things I am wondering before but know since I have a strong faith and better self me I know that sooner or later my life would be the best, that from the life that I live before than to my life now it has a huge difference and I was blessed more than ever.
I wonder why I used to think like that before but now I know that I can accomplished everything, I can have a better future, I can reach all my goals and someday I can share my secret to others why I success in my life. I am wondering now why I am like this? It is because of God, it is because of the things he taught me, to trust HIM more, to have STRONG FAITH on HIM, and believed that HE has a good plan not just only for me but for ALL of us. Let’s us TRUST GOD and have more FAITH to HIM so you will not wonder more and wonder why these things happen in your life. Our life may have ups and down and we may come to a point that you don’t want to live anymore, but your story isn’t over yet, know that there is God we can rely on our lowest point and He has a plan for you.
What If Figures Could Talk?
We all move through different stages of our life from being a child, becoming a teen, then a young adult, adulthood and elder person. As amazing as life can be, being an adult is not that easy we sometimes tend to think that we should be a kid always but it’s not. If you always read my articles, you would know that I am collecting figures of anime but if not, I am glad to share with you that I am a collector. Why am I saying this to you? Because figures and toys are not only for kid but also for adult like me, my collections were toys for the Big Boys. Anyways, what I want to tackle about now was what if figures could talk? I know this topic was kinda similar from essay of some elementary schoolers but still I want to talk about it because I love my figures to the part that I want them to be alive hehe.
There’s a lot of things to expect if the figures could talk, regarding on this topic, a follow up question could pop up and that is if they could talk to you would you treat them the same way? My answer would be a big YES! Having figures that can talk was the coolest thing that could ever happen. Imagine when you come home or during your day off you could play or look at them and don’t care about what’s happening on the outside world. I know this would be a little childish but being a kid is not that bad, you just want to play and don’t think about what’s gonna happen tomorrow and feels like you don’t have a problem at all. I bet you have watched Toy Story before yourself or with your kid, it’s a movie about toys and what they are doing if they are alive. Let’s back to the figures that I am talking about, if they are talking, I would love that because imagine a figure from your favorite anime would talk if feels like the fictional character that we love was right there talking to us but it’s impossible and it would be only in our imagination.
If ever there’s a possibility or time even it’s just a dream that figures could talk, I would never miss that chance to bond with them and be their friends. Imagine going home from work there are figures waiting for you at home just like a pet hehe, I know this may be a little creepy, but this is just a “WHAT IF” scenario. Right now, I have more than 50 figures at home and imagine if they could all talk, that would be a disaster. Some figures will say “Hey Pal we miss you come home early and let’s have some fun”, or my first figure will say “I miss the feeling that I am the only figure you have”, this would be a normal conversation if this comes to a realization.
I know other readers may say that I am a weird one, but it is hard to come up other topics regarding figures and this might be good I think so far. Figures were still a toy and other may say that your big now and still you get a toy for yourself? It’s for your future child not yours, hmpph I don’t care what others may say it’s my life and it’s my rule. Figures were really a great help to me because it lessens my stress and help me often to be okay. Everytime I see them display in the cabinet and their boxes, it brings smile to my faces and it could brighten my dark day.
My answer to What if figures could talk? It would be so much awesome and great, feels like my family becomes so big. Just as I take care to my friends in real life that would be the same to the figures I own. I could also watch them doing their thing in live action. I have a lot of friends in real life and this kind of things was sometimes wish by other people or children that often feels alone and don’t have someone to accompany them that’s why they wish that toys/figures could talk.
The main purpose of figures was for display and would not be there if they can talk because they were just only created by us people for the benefits of entertainment and advertisement for the certain anime. As I said earlier this topic and article may be weird, but I hope you get my point on **“WHAT IF”** this thing would not be happen, but I am grateful to come up with this idea. This is just the only start on my what if article, I will try to write more on other time, hope you like it. Thank you for your time reading.!
Top Tier Anime Figures That A Collector Wants
I never thought that collecting figures will be one of the things that I loved in my life. There are many hobbies that I can do but I don’t know why I caught up in this kind of hobby. I’ve been collecting for more than 2 years but all I can say is that I’m not even close yet to other collectors that have more collection than mine, I don’t have rare figures and limited edition in my list, but I know I will come on that part, for now I am enjoying in collecting figures whether it is an authentic one or fake. I want to showcase the latest collection that I ordered but for now I am just waiting for the release of it because it is pre-order.
There’s a lot of good line of figures that I want to have but to be honest I can’t afford it yet for it is expensive and pricey, anyway since I brought up a topic regarding figures let’s find out what are the top tier figures that a collector likes to have for themselves and often it was called **“LASON”** or Poison in English that was a slang and jargon in toy community.
**POP MAXIMUM FIGURES**
As all figure collectors know, POP Maximum figures was one of most expensive from a normal scale figure. The prize of a regular POP Maximum figures of a certain character usually starts at around P8,500 PHP (Philippines Peso) up to P25,000 Pesos and it could match the price of a one resin figure. The price varies also from rarity, the more it is hard to find its value increase more, one good example of it was POP Maximum Luffy Boundman V1 the price of it when it was released was around 8,500 Pesos but now since it cannot be found easily in stores or figure sellers and if you were lucky that you able to secure one you could sell it for around 18,000 pesos up to 25,000. Its price keeps increasing as time goes by. I cannot collect figures like this for now because instead of spending it on this I will use it on our necessity, be a responsible collector, always keep in mind that needs vs wants. Another reason why POP Maximum were hype in toy community it was because the quality of the figures itself and every bit of details were perfectly made, Megahouse truly knows what they’re capable of.
**JacksDo ONE PIECE FIGURES**
This is one of the most top tiers studio of resin that released awesome One Piece figures. Collectors in other country often target this one, if one got lucky and found someone who sells JacksDo figure even it is expensive the collector will surely get it for the resin and figures itself were truly worth. From the box, up to the figure, all you can on it was – “Cool, Awesome, The Best, Quality, Perfect” and you cannot say anything bad about it, also the weight of it was so heavy because of the materials used when creating it. Besides on the photo that I attached you can search in youtube an unboxing and review done by other collector to know what I am talking about. For the pricing of one figure from JacksDo usually starts around P40,000 pesos and it could increase more.
**F3 AND LAST SLEEP FIGURES**
There were so many good studios of resin figures but this two were also included in top tiers figures that a collector truly wants. Almost all of their figures release were immediately sold out and take note that every figure released had a count for the quantity. One good example was the photo I attached, it is made by F3 Studio Gear 3rd Wano Luffy Statue, its quantity was around 100/100 all over the world I don’t know if they reissue this one but there’s a lot of recast you can find in the marketplace but always make sure you find the genuine one, for this is hot in the eye of collectors. For last sleep figures there’s an incoming one that named “Luffy on The Throne” I featured it before on one of my articles, but you can I see that I attached it again if you are new in reading and seeing my article.
If only I could afford one of these figures it would made me happier but as I said and a friendly tip as a collector, be wise and be a responsible in collecting, this kind of hobby was wants and never be a necessity you just have to learn and know your priorities. For people out there that wants to collect this is included in top tiers list and it can only afford by people with a lot of budget for us that have a tight one be contented in small scale authentic or bootleg figure if you want to save. Well that’s it for now, hope you learned something from this. Thanks!
KO Statue: Gear 4th Luffy Kong Gun Ground Punch
I didn’t know that uploading a Youtube video here in read.cash is allowed not until I happened to encounter one of the article of my virtual friend @bbyblacksheep that she shared with us a week ago. This is my first article about presenting my channel so I don’t know if others may like it but even with that I am still glad that I can show it to everyone.
This is one of the latest video that I have uploaded on my channel because before I have a lot videos but technically it was not mine, my channel was just used by my uncle to upload their videos in the amateur dance contest that they joined but I decided to delete it all and transfer it to other account so I could use it for myself. I am just using youtube and the number thing was for leisure, second was searching for a solution on problems such as troubleshooting software and hardware issues and lastly for other stuffs such as business and more. I didn’t think that I would be using this now to post content which I find interesting. My channel was created 2 years ago but now was the time I decided to post original content such as this one.
If you had seen my other articles probably you would know that I am figure collector and that’s the content of my channel. I plan to showcase my figures, unboxing it and have a review on it but since I am newbie in youtube I experimented and uploaded this video. This is a raw video where I am just showing the figure itself with no caption, audio and speaking regarding on the toy itself. I forgot to mention that this is my first ever statue that I used to have ever since I start collecting figures. The video was taken directly at the warehouse where I picked it up and check if it’s good condition.
Introducing my figure, its name was called **“Gear 4th Luffy Kong Gun Ground Punch”**, wherein it take the form of Luffy to Gear 4th who was the main character of the famous anime ‘One Piece’. It was based on the arc on dressrosa where Luffy battling Doflamingo and take this form. I never thought that I would have this kind of figure, it was big and heavy for a figure, its height was 50cm and weighing almost 6kg. Since it was a knockoff it was fair for its price and it cost around 4,500 Philippine Peso (PHP). Sad to say I need to sell it because I need funds for emergency purposes and I don’t know where to place it anymore at home but maybe in the future I will bought one again.
I immediately informed my family and friends about this and had a lot of good feedbacks on it also there were the first one to support me in the things that I did, they also suggest things that I need to improve in order to make it more attractive. They were happy on the outcome and supported me all the way. They expect for my toys to unbox and expect some real reviews on other videos to upload on future.
If you have a free time and anime lover you can watch the video. I know my contents were regarding on figures and anime but if you have any ideas and suggestions, let me know about it. Hope you like my article and enjoy this short clip of my figure. Arigatou!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_BB8yaG1s
Reinvent Yourself? Change for The Better
In our life there are times we feel stuck and need to learn something, sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves. What does reinvent mean? Based on the information I saw on the internet it’s to change (something) to appear as a new one, other word you could relate on it was remake. When does usually an individual decide to reinvent? This occur usually when someone move to a different place, changing of career, leaving a relationship and losing love one’s in your life. This particular event had a major role and changed your life, you may find yourself to be better and find ways to do more things in your life.
I know a lot of people tried to leave their old self, unhappy lives and by reinventing themselves it enables them to pursue their goals and find renewal in their life to become better. A lot of people success and made things to happen because of reinventing themselves that’s why I happen to take this topic for us to discuss today. I may not be a best writer, but I will try my best to help others by providing information and some tips on how to reinvent ourselves. So, let’s start and talk about it.
Before we reinvent ourselves of course we need to know and prepared on all the things that life has to offer, you need to be **resilience** because we all know that problems were all there and it is part of our life, there are times that these problems made us suffer a lot but within these difficulties you never lose hope and always moving forward whatever happens, that’s why being resilience is one thing to take note. Another thing to look is we are humans we tend to give up on ourselves that’s why we need **support** on other people that will be there with us in all times. One of the most important things before reinventing yourself was **taking care of yourself**, this process will be able to you to withstand whatever trials you will face, you need to rely on yourself and have a healthy mind and a healthy body if you cannot take care of yourself then you cannot reinvent and make your life better.
**HOW CAN YOU NOW REINVENT YOURSELF?**
Knowing the things, you need in order for you to reinvent now you need to prepare a guide on how you can reinvent. This are my own guidelines hope it will you as well.
1. **HAVE A PLAN**
The number one thing to do whenever you want to do something of course you need a plan, look at all aspect of your life that you will change, your physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological and others that you need to develop in order to be better. Making plans can help you in the near future not just yourself but also the people around you.
2. **TRY OTHER THINGS**
Sometimes all you need to do was to get outside your comfort zone, you don’t need to be always serious in your life, try to work other things that you didn’t do in your life. There’s a saying in our life that we only live once so better live life to the fullest, don’t regret experimenting things because life has a lot to offer don’t be afraid and I know your life will be more be better by this. You will enjoy life more because of this and you can reach your goal in no time.
3. **FIND YOUR STRENGTH**
One good step in reinventing yourself was finding your strength, if before you cannot do on your own, finding your strength would be a good thing that enables you to be better and change yourself. You can manage yourself way better than before because you able to find your strength and it is a good thing.
4. **LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES**
Experience was the best teacher, if you didn’t experience of course you will not know what it is, having mistake is normal, try to learn from it and be better than you used to before and you will be realized that a lot changed after that.
Reinventing yourself have a lot of step just like the things I said and discuss on this article, but I am sure that this is for the better and you will see the outcome once you try it. I may not be a best adviser or a best writer but hope this article able to help you even in a small way. Thank you for your time reading.
Can We Live Without Technology?
Technology todays helps us in many different ways. From communication, means of transportation, leisure, makes our work easier, entertainment of course and many more. Since technology has taken an important place in our society can we live without it? Truth to be told a lot of us would say no because we are used to it in our everyday life but before technology came we used to live by ourselves, now let’s find out if truly we can live without technology.
We all know that in our modern world today computers were one of the biggest technology that almost all people in the world used in office, stores, business and other stuff where we need it. For me it is needed in today’s time but even without it I can still live. Now one of the most important that computers do were communication to others, in social media, emails and other websites that used that have communication so it is one good reason why some can’t live without it, now let’s try to include other technology that definitely needed by each and one of us. It is the Cellphone/Smartphones. For me this is one of the technology that I think I cannot live without it, as I said earlier I still can live without technology but cellphone/smartphone have a big major role that was needed by every individual today. As computer was used for communication what’s more cellphone has to offer, its number one and major role was having communication to other people not just in one place but to whole world. Since cellphone/smartphones were hand carry, you can bring it anywhere that unlike computers that you cannot brought anywhere. Without cellphone/smartphones, I don't know how I would be able to communicate in work well, my family abroad, come in contact with friends and love ones. With technology evolving communicating in phones were much easier of course with the use of application such as messenger, social Medias, emails like Gmail and yahoo mail and more. This is one thing to consider in the usage of technology.
Another thing that we might find easily in technology today were entertainment, either in computer or smartphones we easily entertain ourselves with games and streaming. We all know that it is easy to stream clips and movies in smartphones or computer today, with just a click you can find what movie or videos you want to watch or stream either it is online or offline, same with games that a lot was hooked in playing in smartphones considering MOBA games like Mobile Legends or Wild Rift or FPS games like COD, ROS, or PUBG. I know a lot of teens and children today cannot live without playing in phones that’s why traditional filipino games were not known by other young people today unlike in our generation we used to play a lot outside since technology was not that grown yet unlike today.
One more thing that technology brought to us was research. Can you imagine going back to the inconvenience of a life without Google to find information you needed? Like searching for information through a lot of books you find in library and searching for hours trying to find a small piece of details unlike with google and internet where you could have all the information and facts you need with just the click of a mouse.
Technically speaking we can live without technology but since the world is evolving so with the technology. Without having a technology that helps us easily to find information when we need it, communicating with others with just a few tap and click in phone or computers. Truly technology made our life easier and not complicated. With technology, almost any problem you have can be solved just by pressing a few buttons. I now almost all of us rely on this technologies but also let’s remember ourselves that we don’t need rely always on technology. For me even without technology I can still live without it but there’s a fact that I admit that all the things I’m doing right now was easier and efficient because of the technology we have right now. Hope this article of mine reached you and understand my point on this. My question to you is, can you live without technology?
All is Set! Trust the Process
Up until now I remembered all the things that I’ve been through in my life. There’s a lot of time in my life that I almost give up and I cannot do it anymore because I am tired of everything. But I able to stand firm despite of everything. I never thought that I would reach this far truly if you continued to fight, stand firm and trust the process the plan that was set in your life will worked perfectly. We often hear a lot of times in others the term trust the process, also there’s a lot of preaching in church the preacher says it many times but do you really know what it really mean? Many people nowadays were always excited about the result and don’t tend to wait for the process, whether it is related in one’s career, business, relationship or other stuff we sometimes conclude and believed on the things that aren’t happening that’s why in the end it turns badly to us. I am not a good writer nor a good advicer but hope this article will reach you and help you even in small way why trusting the process is important.
Our life was basically depending on us on what will happen and what we will do to it, I know each and everyone of us have a goal in our life but often our plans in life were not followed and we tend to be disappointed in it but don’t worry and know that God is in Control, your plans was not his plan, trust Him and trust the process because it was already set. When I say that trust the process it means go with the flow and have faith that things will work out, if you are familiar with the Book of Romans in the Bible, try to check Chapter 8 and Verse 28 and it tells us that all the things that happened in our life were already set we just need to have faith and let God be in control. When you do this kind of thing, I’m sure you’ll get on track and you will not pressure yourself on what’s gonna be the result.
This is proven and it worked on my life, I never expected what lies ahead and gonna happen in my life, I just put my trust and faith in the process. I learned that by having this kind of attitude a lot of changes happened to me I didn’t know if others knew this but in my case here’s what happen to me. My patience in things grew a lot, I never thought that I will be more patient, my character improves a lot and it also affect my attitude, I’ve been calmer and able to assess my problems in life perfectly. My inner peace was increased, and it feels like my life was more relaxed than before. One more good thing that happened to me was I am more confident, and I know that I can rely on myself more than others, I know that If I cannot succeed now there’s tomorrow and just wait on the right time.
I am grateful that I learn this kind of thing it not just that affect every aspect in my life but also build my character and attitude well, it also led me to have more purpose that it’s not the end yet, you just need to have faith, trust that you’ll get there eventually and know that just as the Lord said all things work together for Good, the things that happened to you now is not the end, even your plan fails now, there’s tomorrow and know that God has more good plans to your life. Trust that everything will work eventually and sooner or later you realize that the goals or your plans that failed before was in the palm of your hand. I am not the one that holds your life but let’s have a mindset like this and be mature in a lot of way, I know I am not like this before but thankful that I learned this in my life and now here I am living a great life with no regrets, lesser problem and I able to reach my goals one step at a time, I’m not there yet but soon I will reach it all. I hope this article reach you and will help you in your life, thank you for your time reading!
Goodbye Kurama
Naruto was one of best anime that been part of our childhood and the series finally reached it’s end last March 23, 2017 and now even the series ended a new one was born, it was the story of Naruto’s son entitled **“Boruto”.** 2 Days ago, the entire Naruto fandom shocked on what happened on the latest chapter of Boruto, Naruto’s Partner, Kurama, the nine tailed fox inside him died. The reason Kurama died was because of the chakra exhaustion, Naruto used Baryon mode which enables Naruto to use the full potential of the Bijuu inside him which may cost the death of Naruto instead Kurama lied and he is the one who will vanished and died in the manga. Even though I’m not updated and not reading Boruto this chapter made me read it and it made my heart breaks as I checked all the latest chapter.
I don’t know what happened to previous chapters but chapter 55 which is the latest chapter started with Naruto and Kurama having a conversation while in subconscious state. Naruto thinks it’s his time and died after using Baryon mode, but it was opposite, Kurama lied and said, “The Baryon mode is the price of my life, Not yours Naruto”. Even I know what’s gonna happen because of spoilers in social media the feels still hit me, and it was so sad that the partner of our favorite ninja will be gone. As I continue reading, I knew the reason why Kurama lied to Naruto, this is the first time that Kurama lied to Naruto, Kurama knew that if he tells Naruto that he would sacrifice himself Naruto will hesitate to use Baryon mode and if that happens Naruto, Sasuke, Boruto, Kawaki and everyone wouldn’t survive against the Isshiki Otsutsuki.
I don’t know what will happen in the series anymore basically I don’t care because I don’t want to read it again it just that this happens, and it was really sudden and heartbreaking. The aftermath will have an impact on Naruto’s power he will not be able to use Kyubi mode, Six Path sage mode and because of this he will not the strongest shinobi anymore. I read a lot of bad comments and not convinced on what’s happening in the manga, but we cannot control them because some were definitely saying the truth, also I lot of fans saying that Naruto and Sasuke nerfed, if you don’t know the meaning of nerfed it means that they became weak and ineffective.
A lot of fans argued that Kurama will not able to come to life anymore because on what happen in the latest chapter it is chakra exhaustion, basically the bijuu/tailed beasts are pure chakra, they were link in a jinchuriki and if they jinchuriki died the tailed beast will be reborn, in years, century or millennial if that’s the case also they cannot be killed but on this scenario on what happened that Kurama, it would implied that he may not comeback to life anymore and it is one of the hardest thing that fans cannot accept.
Fans all over the world were shocked, disappointed, sad and mixed emotions because of this, a lot of fans express most of their grief in twitter. Kurama the Fox that once hate by every shinobi in the Hidden Leaf Village and Konoha, the one that always been with Naruto ever since he was born, the one that knows all of Naruto, the beast that become best friend of our favorite ninja, his partner, you will always be remembered in our hearts, our childhood completes because of you and Naruto, you will be missed, Arigatou and Sayonara our beloved Fox.
A Day in My Life as an IT Professional
Every day in your life we have a lot of things to be done, it’s either our work, business, trips, leisures or other stuff that will complete your day. Well as you know I am not a good writer and my content was always regarding on anime or figures, but I have something a bit of different for today. I want you guys to take a glimpse and know about my life being an IT personnel. I was quite hook on other people’s life on how they do and what their routines or doing in their life so I thought sharing my day being an IT would be an interesting one.
Just want to inform you readers that this is just my typical day of being an IT professional, nothing special. I thought this could be fun to talk and share with you guys, anyways this might be boring to others but hope you find it interesting!
I am an IT Professional working in private company, my days of work was from Monday to Saturday. Every morning I woke up at exactly 6:00 AM with alarm and I cannot wake up just by myself because I want to sleep more, my office time was 8:30 so I have 2 ½ hours to prepare before going to work. After getting up to bed I go straight to the bathroom to wash my face, gargle then prepare my breakfast. Every morning I don’t have anymore time to cook that’s why I will buy “Pandesal” - a Filipino bread with a glass of milk, I cannot drink coffee because I might get palpitate, when I finishes my breakfast, I’ll go back to the bathroom to take a bath then dress so I can go now to my office. Since it’s pandemic our office advice it’s better to have your own vehicle or ride the company shuttle, I want to ride in shuttle but since my place was so far the shuttle could not pick me up, so my only choice was cycling since I owned a bicycle. I’m biking 20km everyday it’s back & forth so 10km each, at first it was tiring but now I’m used to it and it was fun actually at the same time healthy living.
I usually arrive at work at exactly 8am, which only takes an hour cycling because I know shortcuts to make it easy to go to office. I’ll time in our biometrics then change my clothes before going to IT Room. My work as an IT Professional finally starts, basically all of the IT related in the company were the things that needs to be done. What are those IT related things? I will list down from major to minor task:
1. Maintaining the network and all of the connection of all computers.
The server rack & all of the internet service provider was in the IT Room, we need to make sure that all of the computers were connected to the network properly so our colleague wouldn’t have a problem in their files and connection to the internet.
2. Programming and Development of System
This is one of the crucial tasks that was assigned to me, we develop at the same time maintaining systems that our company needs, I have done a certain project which is successful and currently using right now by my colleague, the project was done by our team and it was great having brainstorming with fellow developers.
3. IT Support
This is one of the things I often do every day, a typical day of an IT giving support to co-workers, problem regarding the system, computer software and hardware, problem on other technologies like X-ray, projectors, monitors and more. Field related works which I often do to check other branches as well which is the most tiring to do because you need to go to a certain branch to fix the issue and sometimes purchases IT Equipments that will be need in the office.
I work from 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM and all of the things I have told were the task I am working almost every day. I have a lot of job to be done and our work was often loaded but when I finish all my task I just relax and surf the internet, I even play games when I have spare time but of course before doing that I am making sure that all my task were finished. Even my time out was 5:30 PM I always choose to work overtime because it’s hard to go home when it’s traffic.
Usually I get home around 8:00 PM, I just wash my face and body when I get home then eat my dinner. There’s still time for other things to do before sleeping, either I play online games or watch an anime series which help me relax and lessen my tiredness from work. Then after all these things were done, will go to sleep and face another day tomorrow. This is what my life as an IT professional, now that I shared mine would you share yours?
What’s Your Inspiration?
Everyone in this world have a set a goal in their life, it’s either career, love, family, health and more but the question is why you are setting a goal in the first place and how can you do it? The answer was because you want to live life to fullest and the way you can do it is by having an **INSPIRATION.**
**What Is Inspiration?**
Inspiration is something that makes an individual wanting to do something, either your inspired in a person, place or experiences in life. A lot of people success in life because of their inspiration, they were inspired by a lot of aspect and because of that they were able influenced others. Then what was your inspiration in your life? Basically what I want to know if this inspiration help you in a lot of way? For me I had a lot of inspiration in my life that enables me to do more and reach my goals little by little, I’m gladly to tell what my inspiration are and how does it help me.
**FAMILY**
Number 1 thing that I know everyone would include in their life was family. Familly were the one who guides you in every aspect of life that you will face as you grow up, this one of the reason why an individual inspired through their family because of the past experience they been through, like education, achievements, work ethics that they often teach to the younger one’s so that they could be inspired. One good example was a younger child inspired to be in top students in the class, because his/her parents were achievers when they were a student, it inspired the younger generation to be like their parents that able to have this kind of achievement. For me family was one of my inspiration in my life, I was inspired by the life of my uncle who success in his life now and living in other country, he did everything he can to reach his goals, hard work, perseverance and being strategic in life. This is one of the things why my family served as my inspiration.
**LOVE**
One of the most common inspiration of everyone was love. There’s a saying that love conquers all with this being in love made you feel inspired and, it gives you motivation to do a lot of things, anything as long it is for your love one you can do it. You are always positive in everything you and no one can stop you once you are on track. Love is a great inspiration of an individual because with this it can help you go beyond the limit and do extra mile in your life. Imagine this before when you don’t have love and don’t have special someone in your life, you are lazy, you didn’t know how to cook, didn’t know how to do this but when love came, you inspired to do work, you become hardworking, you learn how to cook and a lot of more things. It is great being in love it does not simply changed you but also help you grow as individual and inspired to do more in your life.
**GOD**
One of the most important inspiration that an individual would possess was having an inspiration on God. What do I mean in this? Being inspired to God means be someone that Christ a like in Bible. Your inspired to always speak the truth just like Jesus, you value people around you even it is your enemy, you have compassion, your inspired to be kind, forgiving, caring and all the good qualities that Jesus possessed. You inspired by the Lord for everything that He did and what the Bible told to us how to live. We all know that we are not perfect but God taught us everything we need to know in our life while living in Earth. Being inspired with God can make your faith stronger and I know your life will be better. This is proven and why I am telling this because I am inspired by the Lord in a lot of ways, be kind, spread love, and always be Christ like this is one of the things that inspires me.
Having inspiration can make your life better, you can focus and getting closer to your goals in no time and being inspired motivate you to do more, rise to the top and improve yourself more than anybody. I know others have more inspiration on themselves, this is just basically the major inspiration of every individual including myself, so I will ask again what’s your inspiration?
Figure Showcase
Collecting figures was one of the new hobby that I loved ever since I discovered it, it was fun and quite addicting. I started collecting two years ago and I never knew that my figures would grow into not just one but a lot of figures, I didn’t able to count them anymore but I if I will add the one, I have plus the toys that I sold probably it would be hundreds, but there is one thing I know for sure, it was when I want the figures even it is expensive I will get it. Why am I telling this to you? Because it is not just only collecting that I did I also showcase them and captured good image of figures that I have.
Lately I discovered that it’s not just collecting was the new thing that added in my life but also, I learned other stuff, it is capturing a good shot of my figures and showcasing them just like this as you can see the picture above. Since I am in IT Industry I know a lot of stuff in technical devices and of course that includes camera, I am also the one that bought and coordinate to camera supplier for the needs of our company but even that’s the case I am bad at taking pictures I can take normal shots but it is pretty normal, I don’t know how to get a good shot on people, on nature or others things I cannot take a perfect angle and when is the right time to have a shot but I’m thankful to this hobby of mine I learn how to take a good photo. I have a friend and also a colleague of mine who loves to collect figures too, he is the one who taught me how to photograph properly and showcase my figures. One time during at work we talked about our hobby collecting then he just said this one while were having a conversation, “why don’t you experiment and take a photo of your figures? of course I know you can photograph but with this you will learn how to capture well at the same time if the result were fine you can showcase your figures to other, why don’t give it a shot it is fun actually and that’s how I learn too”, he said.
From the time I heard it from him I immediately tried at home but since I only have camera on my phone that’s the only thing that I used to capture photo. The result was uhmm what can I say it was plain normal shot, nothing changes, the photo that I captured was ordinary but that didn’t stop there I tried to take a shot when I have spare time then everytime I experiment I choose different angles; I didn’t notice that my shot was getting good and my friend said really works. I show it to him, and he said to me that it is slowly progressing then he advice some techniques to me and one more thing he said was it is good thing to have a better camera for better quality, but since I don’t have time to bought high quality camera, I am good with my phone.
Fast forward, the question is how do I get this kind shot if still I’m using my phone’s camera? How can I able to showcase such a good and wonderful shot of my figures? The answer was pretty simple, it is not a phone camera but a shot from DSLR Camera. I did learn it from the office when I have spare time, I borrowed the camera from the clinic, and I brought some of my figures to test how to they look like and it capable enough to showcase to others. Time and effort really pay off, the picture you see on the above was the result of taking picture everyday on the phone, the more the good your camera is the more you can showcase your figures.
I never thought that it’s not just collecting that the things I learned but also become a photographer in some point. I able to showcase the figure more by doing this, I shared it with my friends and also with my fellow collectors and getting a complement on what I have done, I cannot do showcasing my figures without the help of my friend, he is the one who help me and push me to do this that’s why I am thanking him always. For the photos that I shared all of them were captured using CANON EOS 80D Camera and if I want to enhance more the image, I used photoshop for sharpness only, but I didn’t edit quite much to the point I am filtering it much, more on the bare image from the DSLR camera itself and show it is natural beauty. How do you like my figure showcasing? Do I elaborate it? or did I just tell how I it all started? Hahaha, I know this is quite boring but the for the photos I’m sure it is good. Thank you for your time reading.
BCH: A Very Helpful Funds
The world we were living today changed a lot ever since COVID-19 came and this pandemic that the world experiencing is a no joke. A lot of business establishment were bankrupt and closed for good, restaurant, parlor, computer shops, clubs and more, because of this a lot individual lost their jobs and don’t know where to get money for bills, expenses and food for their family. Philippine economy was one of the most affected last 2020 due to COVID-19, the Philippine government declared lockdown before and it was hard because you don’t have work and don’t know where to get funds, still thankful to SSS one of the government agency that provide us help and since I don’t have anything to do I search other way to earn more and that’s how BCH introduced to me. Since I don’t have money to invest and trade during that time I research some application that I can get free BCH and luckily found some. Why I am telling this? And how it is related to my article? Well let’s find out and dig more facts why I told that BCH was a very helpful fund.
BCH was not fully known yet by everyone but as the time goes by it is getting introduced little by little, and Read.Cash was one of the platform that introduced it very well, a lot of awesome writers shared information and bring awareness on what is BCH is and I am one that was hooked to join in this platform to know more about BCH. Going back on pandemic as I discover BCH I’m finding other way to get more, and luckily I get to save a little but not that much. The BCH that I saved that time was enough to pay small bills, cellphone loads and other stuff, which saved me a lot really but after that I stop and went back to work. I thought that time it was the end for me and BCH because all of the BCH I saved was spent on our needs and can’t get anymore because the platform I’m using suddenly gone and I didn’t invest it and that’s my negligence. A friend of mine introduced Read.Cash to me way back October 2020 but since I’m focused on other stuff I snobbed it, then after a few months my friend still introducing it to me and said that it can help you, also BCH was one of the spotlight in this platform, so being said that I try and give it a shot and BCH welcome me back with a warm hug and here I am now writing this article of mine to share with you.
Now I am happy to tell you guys that BCH become very helpful in a lot of aspects, the funds that I got in here were spent wisely in bills, food, materials need in our home, of course at least once I spent it in stuff that I want and the lastly one of the important things that I’m doing right now was HODLING BCH. BCH was truly a helpful that I can rely on whenever I need extra money, just like how I started my IPON Challenge (BCH Savings) it will come in handy sooner or later. My friend persistence in inviting me paid off and this help me a lot that’s why I have a big gratitude to her. I know others may say that I am here because of the money that I will earn, truth to be told that’s one reality that I’m not denying but there’s also a part of me that I want to learn more about BCH and write articles that I want to be publish like this one and I just wanna brag how I feel about BCH and how it really helps me in a lot of way.
BCH is flying to the moon as of the moment and I know it will be boomed sooner or later like BTC, let’s continue to spread BCH and just like my friend who never gives up in inviting me here in Read.Cash let’s share it and may others experience what I am experiencing right now. Well that’s all what I have to say hope you like and understand the message of my article, thank you for your time reading.
Priorities Checked ✓
How’s life? How do you live it? We all live in this world and it’s up to us how we lived and make our life meaningful and that includes our priorities. In a day we all know that there are only number of hours, in a week it is the same and only number of days, also with month that contains number of days and in a year that compose of number of months. I know every individual have their priorities but if you don’t have a clear one it’s difficult to manage your own time and it is hard to achieve your goals in life. Why do I want to discuss this and choose this topic? Because I know a lot of us is struggling in choosing priorities like you feel that everything is important right? I’m not a good adviser nor a good writer but I know this article of mine might help you in even not that much, so without further ado I will start.
1. FAMILY
One of the most common priorities of every individual was family of course. Family are the one who were always there with you, in good times and tough times they are the one who was always with you, treasure every moments you have shared with them and they should be always a top priority. Give what all they need before yourself and seeing them fine will bring ease to your life. Biological family or not always consider the one you called Family in your **PRIORITY.**
2. SPIRITUALITY
Of course this will never be least but always one of the top priority, being spirituality doesn’t mean you will be like Pastor, Pope, Priest but it means to have communication always with your Creator, build your relationship with the Lord just like the one you build on your family, special someone, friends and others. Spirituality was a communication to the Lord and it is also a priority to strengthen your faith.
3. RELATIONSHIP
One of the priority that an individual need to focus was relationship, this relationship was not only for special someone, but it includes friendship, family, and other relationship you build with others. If you’re not prioritizing your relationship with others. The main focus of relationship was of course **LOVE,** you better nurture it, protect it and of course don’t forget that this will be in the list of your priority.
4. CAREER
One of the priority that others choose than friendship, family, relationship. Some may say that relationship will be easy than career because Love and family was always there unlike career that hard to find but still depends on you. Career will be open once you work hard for it. This where also your income fall and it will be the one that help you to provide your needs.
5. HEALTH
Health is as important as your relationship and your family, if you don’t prioritize your health without it you’ll have nothing at all. You can’t work, you can’t show affection with your love ones and your other priorities will be null if your health was not good. So better prioritize your health and be healthy, take care of yourself so you can take care properly of others and the rest of your priorities in your life.
6. HAPPINESS
The one that the others forget because they always priorities others, make sure you enjoy your life and living to the fullest don’t let other things take your happiness, don’t forget to smile and laugh on everything that’s happening in your life. Don’t forget to be happy because if you’re happy the rest will follow.
These are the priorities that I set and have been following in my life up until now although there are still other priorities that can be included in this list, this might be the common things that an individual prioritizes. I know others may not agree on what I have told or it is lacking on other facts but this is I can say for now, I know this sounds boring but if someone really read this, I appreciate it and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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