I feel I'm getting too old.

I was having with my wife's classmate. He was an anime enthusiast like I was, and I was recruiting him to be a content writer in on of the blogs that manage. He's a great kid. We started talking about anime and all that cools stuff, then I told him my favorites live EVANGELION, MACROSS and BLEACH.. He's hear of bleach but was a bit clueless with Macross and Eva. I was surprised, because these two were supposed to be some of the most popular ones and are even legends in the anime industry having several sequels and remakes.

He then asked, "when were they shown?"

I thought for a bit and told him a rough estimate and told him sometime in the nineties..

His answer surprised me. "Maybe I was too young when it came out.."

I was shocked. It was just like yesterday when I started enjoying these shows. I then realizes it's already .2010. The kid was just 16 years old so he was probably in pre-school when those shows came out. I was like, Whoa!

I then came to the realization that the anime enthusiasts of today are being exposed to a different style of animation. I always thought anime was for all ages, but right there and then I suddenly felt a generation gap. Man I'm getting too old. There's a surplus of anime nowadays. An explosion of media that keeps piling up every season. Once in a while an anime with a good story will come up and will become the new craze like Macross and Eva was.

I bet this is what the fans of VoltesV and 80's anime felt like when they approached the 90's with Ghost Fighter and Flame of Recca. I'm going all nostalgic again.Hahaha!

A heart -warming Father's Day story.

A man came home from
work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old
son waiting for him at the door.
SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"

DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?"

SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"

DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"

SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "If you must know, I make $100 an hour."
SON: "Oh! (With his head down).
SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow $50?"

The father was furious.

DAD: "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior."

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $ 50 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.

DAD: "Are you asleep, son?"

SON: "No daddy, I'm awake".
DAD: "I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier. It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $50 you asked for."

The little boy sat straight up, smiling.
SON: "Oh, thank you daddy!"

Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

DAD: "Why do you want more money if you already have some?"

SON: "Because I didn't have enough, but now I do.

"Daddy, I have $100 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.

Selling Real Estate... Whoa Boy!

As anyone at work would know, I'm not the best seller around. Sometimes I don't even get to make a sale. But there comes a time when you have to realize that the only way to financial freedom is to be a better seller. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series may not be the BEST WRITTEN books but they're definitely the BEST SELLING books. Willie Revillame's personality and reputation (even his singing) may not be the best, but he sells himself to the crowd better than anyone else that's why he has such a large paycheck. Dell Computers may not be the best computers around (as anyone at my workplace would know) but the way Dell sells it's computers are the best in the US, even I will admit to that.

So now I've finally decided to start selling. Selling Real Estate seems like a great idea since I'm not really good with selling things people don't need. Everyone needs a home. A place to live. A quite peaceful place to retire or raise kids. I sure would like to have one. 

So if you're looking for a new home or a rental property you would like to invest in. Give me call. I might just have the perfect home you're looking for. I might even be able to help you find a way to afford it! 

Like boss Jed always says, "Don't be shy!" 

Making music with your face

How do you make music with your face? Here's one idea..

Blogging VS Network Marketing

A friend on Facebook recently shared with me a way with earning part-time

(You'll have to be logged in to Facebook to view this link:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=2065562&id=1158797942&ref=nf
I put a comment on his album, but he deleted it. I guess he didn't like what I had to say about network marketing. I guess he's just doing it for the money and not to help out people.)

Memories of past experiences trying to make it big with network marketing started flooding my mind.
I recall those times I tried to be successful in DXN, and First Quadrant... I learned selling was just not for me. Plus I didn't like how expensive the products were. It's hard to sell a product you wouldn't want to buy yourself.

You see, I'm not a very good sales man. I'm not a very good evangelist either. So selling and recruiting is just not part of my skill-set right now. This is how network marketing works. Lots of hard work and plenty of guilt on my part since I don't know a lot of rich people, (which are probably the only people who would buy these products.)

In the facebook link above, Global Fusion more or less works this way:

I guess you'll have to sell these:

so you can earn like this:

And the maximum you can earn is just Php1,200,000 per month?!  Very limiting it seems.

If you were a blogger and have Google adsense, You could earn as much as $300,000.00 per month. (That's in US Dollars! That's 13.2 Million pesos!) like these guys: http://bit.ly/N8DFP
That's per month! That's because we all know Google is no push-over company.

All you have to do is write your thoughts in a blog regularly. Some people get good traffic and earnings even by just updating their blogs once a month!

Another thing I don't like about network marketing is that you "need money to earn money." That's just the opposite of the principles in "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." With Google Adsense, you can use a free hosting blog and start make a living. All my blogs are free blogs. I just don't have the capital of PhP8,900 pesos for a "Starter Kit". Then I'll have to sell the products, oh my goodness. So I'm having more success now with Adsense than I did with my past Network Marketing endeavors.

Here's how I did it:
http://vdcaluya.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-i-got-my-first-100-by-blogging.html

What's good about blogging is that you are not asking people to pay you for a product. You are the one being paid by Google by the number of people who view your pages that has Adsense Ads on them. Just like a TV commercial. Your readers will gain something from reading your blog, and you will earn money simply by having ads on your site or blog that people can see along with your content.

A bit complicated? I know. It took me a month of research and I feel I've only touched the tip of the iceberg. But I assure you in the end, the juice is worth squeeze.

Rich dad, Poor dad (Book Review)

I just finished reading Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". I've been seeing this book in stores for quite a while. The title never really got me interested enough to buy it.

A few days ago got myself a copy of the book. I wasn't too busy these past few days so I said what the heck, I'll start reading it.

To make it short, I was hooked and I finished reading the book the same day I started reading it.

The book was about the author's principles in getting wealthy...