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Translation software: Uniting the blogosphere

by reynz on December 29, 2009

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Imagine the millions of blogs sprouting on the internet. I’m sure there’s a lot more talents out there which we have not discovered for they must have been written in some language we don’t understand. Imagine the so many languages converging on the internet.
Internet essentially created or at least was supposed to create a community [...]

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U.S. jobless rate passed 10% mark

by reynz on November 7, 2009

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Another truly sad day in America. An sama na nga nang balita from Fort Hood, Texas tapos eto pa. It seemed like, for one bit of good news, buburahin sya nang nakaka-shock na reality.
Just where are the jobs? Where are they hiring?
True, recession might be ending because the last quarter of this year will probably [...]

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Sagpang gurl!

by reynz on October 20, 2009

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Image by avlxyz via Flickr
Windows 7 teamed up with Burger King in Japan hoping to get a fraction of McDonald’s commanding market share lead in Japan. Watch.
Embedded video from CNN Video
Anak nang leche?! Kaya mo yon?!
No, no! I mean, kaya mong mag-post nang enty dated 10/20 taz ung video eh 10/23?! hahaha!

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FV’s dysfunctional blogging at its finest

by reynz on May 15, 2009

After all the bloody jakol, masterbeyshun and ajaxkoleyshun entries on FV, now here comes one very trying hard entry on economic chorvalais hehehe! Birds of the same feathers sila mga kunichiwa! This is FV’s dysfunctional blogging at it’s finest! It’s a safe assumption na ubos na ang pretentious topic na ma-iblog nang mga to. Worse, [...]

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The Philippines is a newly industrialized country

by reynz on March 24, 2009

Huh?! Really?!
~*kamu-ulo*~ (naiwanan ata ako nang balita!) ~*bewildered to the max*~
Hindi na tayo turd world?! First class na tayo?! Paki-lecture nga ako kung anetch ang Newly Industrialized Country? Kasi ung Singapore nung naging NIC, hindi ganetch ang itsura sa Flippines! Ang knowing ko matiwasay ang pamumuhay nang mga people nila. I know swanky ang Global [...]

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Umutang para pambayad sa utang

February 7, 2009

Interesting news
There’s quite a pile of interesting items karon mga kunichiwa. Por ejemplo:
Dried fish? Nope. It’s Dyed fish. Por dyos por santo! Nilalagyan na nang dyobus ang mga isda sa Navotas! I wonder kung yong dinuguan na niluto nyo eh galing naman sa pinigang crepe paper. Tugma di ba?

Eto namang next item is just a [...]

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Understanding the economic stimulus plan

February 4, 2009

YOUR ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN
In the Philippines, there is also a planned P100-billion economic stimulus package. P12-billion of which will come from SSS contributions, one which will bail-out the pre-need industry na bumagsak kasama na Legacy Banks and Pacific Plans. So, here is Reyna’s attempt to help you people understand the Economic Stimulus Plan using a [...]

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Malas ng OFW, swerte ng pulitiko

February 1, 2009

Pagpupugay sa OFW
Hindi mayaman ang OFW – Akala ng marami sa ating kapag OFW o nasa abroad ay mayaman na. Hindi totoo yun. A regular OFW might earn from P50K-P300K per month depende sa lokasyon. Yung mga taga-Saudi or US siguro ay mas malaki ang sweldo, ngunit para sabihin na mayaman sila ay maling-mali.
Mahirap maging [...]

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$819 billion economic stimulus passes the House

January 29, 2009

What’s the buzz?
With the really, really bad economic situation in the United States, you only have two things to do. Either you do something or you do nothing. So today, they did something. The Democratic-controlled House approved the $819 billion stimulus package. Expectedly, the Republicans were unanimous in opposition.
DO NOTHING
For the do nothing, the [...]

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Iceland: from 1st world to 3rd world? What the Philippines can learn

January 27, 2009

Iceland: Bankrupt and in political turmoil
I was following this news on Iceland, especially when this whole subprime crisis exploded in the United States. In October 2008, Forbes Magazine ran an article about Iceland Teeters On Bankruptcy. Today, the story got worse. Iceland’s government is toppled amid the financial mess. They’re in a political turmoil. It’s [...]

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Job creation by sending Filipinos out of the nation

January 26, 2009

Job creation is hard, family separations are harder
More family separations. That’s what I see from the current headlines. True, job creation is one truly difficult task, especially when the problem is confidence and trust. You need venture capitalists. You need entrepreneurs. You need liquidity. You need fresh loans pumped into the economy. You need hard [...]

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History of “The Malas Nation”

January 25, 2009

QUESTION:
MALAS NGA BA TALAGA ANG PILIPINAS?
If change could come to America, why can’t CHANGE come to my Las Islas Filipinas? It’s hard to imagine. Very hard and quite frustrating. 400 sum’tin sum’tin years, yet, we’re still stuck to what our poor relatives got stuck 400 years ago. Rulers and managers haved changed, yet if you [...]

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Royal Blog Santacruzan 01/24/2009 Presents: Recession

January 24, 2009

Blog roundup detour
What a week that was, huh? Most of us have witnessed an amazing history in front of our TV and computers. Total technological wonders. Then, it’s back to reality. And so, my usual blog round-up takes a detour to give you a roundup of what people doesn’t want to talk about. Why? It’s [...]

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Ay! Leche!

January 21, 2009

Calm down!
Alright peeps! Calm down! Trust me, you don’t want me to give you some pagkahigpit-higpit na hugs and kisses! This blog is not owned by azucarera leche flan de filipinas. I don’t have any chocolates for you kundi blunt asphalt cookies. But these are the news that I am reading aujourd’hui. Karon. Right now. [...]

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I was blog-hijacked by a marketing company and a social networking site and I am not happy.

January 19, 2009

What’s the buzz?
I was blog-hijacked by both the marketing company and a social networking site with a blatantly bad business social climbing strategy. And I am not happy. The organizer of that networking site and the business owner has to explain to me why they lied about their true business intent. I am not their [...]

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Bloggers will soon be treated as journalists?!

January 10, 2009

Economic president on the internet

In Korea, there is this blogger only known as “Park” who is known as the economic president on the internet, who started making some economic predictions. Well, some of his predictions were correct, like the collapse of the Lehman Brothers. He is now charged with “spreading false economic information on the [...]

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President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill

January 10, 2009

What’s the buzz?
President-elect Barack Obama wants a stimulus bill on his desk by mid-February, putting negotiations on a fast track. But the economic recovery plan are facing a barrage of criticism from some Senate Democrats. Key measures like the plan’s tax breaks were a return to “trickledown” economics. Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa [...]

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In Moscow, Igor Panarin’s Forecasts Are All the Rage; America ‘Disintegrates’ in 2010

January 6, 2009

What’s the buzz?
Igor Panarin has been predicting the United States will fall apart in 2010. He has been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. He presented his theory at a recent roundtable discussion at the Foreign Ministry. The country’s top international relations school has hosted him as a keynote speaker. During [...]

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Unemployed Philippines: Bahala na

January 3, 2009

11 million Filipinos will be out of work
Former Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said that millions of Filipinos would either go unemployed or be underemployed as the export sector would continue to slow down. The number? 11 million. That’s almost the entire population of Metropolitan Manila.

Electronics: Layoffs planned
The electronics sector currently employs about 420,000 workers, the [...]

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2008: reyna elena dot com: year in review

December 29, 2008

(L-R [Jing, Pusa, Reynz, Malen, Mitchie])

What can I say, it’s been one crazy year of blogging. Yet, no doubt, despite all the flames that burned on the internet, this was were I met the best bloggers around through some never ending social climbing! Yes, this is a virtual world, but make no mistake, the feelings [...]

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I need help on a hotel business plan project

December 20, 2008

Update
Saturday 12/20/2008 3:00pm
As as have said, I am moving this entry up on top of the warning chorva. Many, many thanks to the comments below. I hope I get more feedbacks. I finished the 1st Income Statement Draft. I’m just waiting for the comments back from my boss.

Business School
When I did my MBA, we were [...]

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Momma mia, my bank was padlocked!

December 15, 2008

No. Nut really. Charing lang!

(Reyna’s Banco de Reyna naubusan nang salapi!)
Not-for-profit companies profiting from other companies
Dahil Kontador Publico nga ako, I was once an auditress in my previous life. I’ve audited for-profit companies and no-for-profit companies who profit from other companies! Hahaha! Charing!!! Hehehe! But, I love the job! It was fun when you get [...]

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Managing people according to Reyna Elena

December 12, 2008

Job losses
See this? It’s unbelievable the number of jobs lost in the United States. Milions. And it is going to even increase further with the bad news in the auto industry. Lucky you if you still have a job. And these headlines brought me back to when I was still working. Managing people.

My Italian boss
Besides [...]

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The world is never short of dumb people

December 9, 2008

The world is never short of dumb people. I’m sorry for my rants. But, am fine. I maybe out of work, but the only stress I get is from blogging! I know, I know, kanya-kanya tayong dumbassness Hahaha!

(Photo Credits: Robert LZ)
As you all know, my full-time job right now, is to look for a job. [...]

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Unbelievably low gas prices!

December 6, 2008

Plunging gas prices!
If in Manila, they’re rolling back jeepney and bus fares, which is good, I also can’t help but be happy with gas prices in Philadelphia. But this is almost scary! That’s the oil price plunging in world market! We all complained when gas prices went over a hundred dollars per barrell. But I [...]

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Philippines Tourism Partners With MTV

November 18, 2008

For all my hada years here in the United States, the only tourism ads that I see on TV were the ones from Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Hongkong and Indonesia (Bali). I have always wondered, nasaan ang Pilipinas? In the 90’s, I’ve read newspaper articles that John F. Kennedy Jr. went to some [...]

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Que pasa la economia del america?

November 13, 2008

FORECLOSURES
Dios mio perdon mi amigos! Tienes bunduk mejores de problema ici Amerika por dios por santo! Por ejemplo, karon foreclosures es muy grabe que you will habla punyeta por que estan venchingko porciento (25%) up from last year that estamos more than 279,500 U.S. casas recebanditas una noticia foreclosure santisima. Y more than 84,000 casas [...]

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Unemployed America

November 8, 2008

Gano katindi ang unemployment problem sa Amerika? Titigan nyo ang lola. Di pa ako nag-sisimula sa punyetang trabaho ko sa Chicago, na-fire kaagad ako! Puta naman! Grrr! 10 million jobless people. I can’t believe kasali ako! The most in a quarter-century. Pasko pa naman. Ang masakit nito: It’s only going to get worse. At ang [...]

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What I expect from an Obama Presidency

November 5, 2008

I?m very excited with Barack Obama. America?s first black chorvalais. Can you imagine? Product ka nang leche-leche slavery, persecuted through the years, tapos rise up and be the President of the most powerful country in the world? I wanna be like him. Rise up sa blogosphere at maging hermana mayor. Sa persecution nang isang angel [...]

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One Scary Look at RA 9510, Credit Information Act

November 3, 2008

For commerce to grow, free flow of goods and services is key. There won’t be any flow if there are no infrastructure. Worse, there won’t be any flow if capital flow is hindered.
In a market economy where you have so many players in the field, especially in a credit-driven economy, there?s a mechanism to screen [...]

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I’m ready to vote Obama as the next President of the United States

October 29, 2008

Aside from a lot of job employment rejection letters na dine-deretso ko na sa shredding basura machine, here’s one piece of mail na excited ever ang lola. Besides, why do I feel na tinamaan talaga ako nang hayup na problema sa Wall Street?! Ba’t kaya nang-ga-galaiti ako sa current administration sa patakbo nila nang ekonomiya [...]

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The formula of success is inside you

October 13, 2008

My entry today is still dedicated to pobreng_obrero and to the rest of Pinoys who look at OFW’s in a very negative way. Ako, is one of the so many Overseas Pinoy’s na gusto nang umuwi sa Pinas. Kaya nga ako buy nang bahay kubo there to get started. Kaso, di pa panahon. Kelangan [...]

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In defense of OFW’s: “Walang ganyan sa States”

October 12, 2008

My entry today is in response to a comment left by a certain ?pobreng_obrero? which irked me, over at Salve?s Money Smarts Blog, incidentally on the very feature of my blog article. Here?s what ?pobreng_obrero? has to say: (please click the thumbnail)

Now, I will highlight the comments to OFW?s which I will clear up [...]

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Money Smarts features: Kengkay of Germany

October 9, 2008

Last week, Salve Duplito of Money Smarts, interviewed via email Filipinos working all over the world to find out how the US global financial crunch is affecting one of the major sources of the country?s liquidity?the OFWs. She is publishing this week in installments the full version of their emails. Head over to this site [...]

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What made you decide to work abroad and where?

October 8, 2008

Considering that I am now swamped as ever with new Overseas Pinoys, I thought I would bring to top an entry I made last year which will hit you if you are an OFW. Especially now that things seems to be not looking good on the horizon. Sana naman wag sumama nang todo ang ekonomiya [...]

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Bomba star na ang lola nyo!

October 6, 2008

Malaya, Ellen Tordesillas Section, Monday Edition, 10/06/2008
One of the entries I wrote about subprime and the US housing market became such a hot property that it ended up in a lot of financial forums in Singapore, the Middle East and the US. I’m glad it was a big help to a lot of non-financial people. [...]

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Electoral College is not a school

October 6, 2008

Let me take you to the 2004 Presidential Elections. The red are Republicans and the blue, Democrats. This was how the electoral map looked like when George W. Bush won the election.

My entry today discusses the Electoral College. It’s not a school sweetheart. They are the ones who will decide who is going to be [...]

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Ukay-ukay Cover Gurl

October 4, 2008

What financial crisis?! Makinig guys n gurls! You can still dress high society ala Gucci Gang with some imbudo vintage jeans na cheappanga lang. Ukay-ukay shopping truly makes a lot of financial sense, that’s why this is categorized under Business and Economics.

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I predict an Obama landslide

October 3, 2008

The only US Vice-Presidential debate just finished a few minutes ago. In fairness, “drill, baby, drill” Gov. Sarah Palin was not a disaster tonight. But against Senator Joe Biden? I think she still came up empty. There was no match. She tried many times to “debate” Obama and has many times put Obama on [...]

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OFW and the current global financial crisis

September 30, 2008

I received an email from our BFF, Salve Duplito, The Inquirer’s financial whiz, editor of Money Smarts. I am inviting my very, very close Overseas Pinoy friends (yeap, alam nila sekreto ni Victorino) to help her out. They are the following:

) Roni (Sands of Time) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

) Mogli of Sweden
) [...]

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The search is over! World Peace!

September 30, 2008

You?ve seen my car, right? Kapit nang todo. Mahangin dito. Here it is again.

Wanna see it close? Here.

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4th & final job interview in Chicago and the Presidential debate

September 29, 2008

“Message to blogfriend who’s doing MBA at a univ in QC, I finished the EVA/ROA, but your email kept bouncing. I hope you read this. Please email me at ofwcenter@gmail.com! Reynz”

9/26, Friday at 4:30 pm, I was stucked at Chicago?s Midway Airport. This was my last leg of several job interviews that started in Boston, [...]

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Where to start on stock investing

September 23, 2008

My entry today is dedicated to reyna readers from Hongkong, Singapore, the Middle East and a number of stock trading wannabes in Manila pati na tong mga blogfriends kong handa na ata akong umbagin because I have not posted nothing about this in a year. Yeah, I lurked in all of your forums and read [...]

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Palin’s fire is goner while Obama sizzles back and on fire!

September 21, 2008

World globalization ekek world power chorva, kaya kahit wala kang kinalaman sa mga kalechehan sa Wall Street bigla na lang nayanig ang tangke nang gasul mo sa Pasig. Wa tau choice, whoever wins this election will decide pretty much kung hanggang kelan merong WORLD PEACE. Kaya, punyeta ever, gusto kong maglakwatsa nakatutok ako sa lecheng [...]

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What should I do with this $5,000?

September 20, 2008

What do you do when you have $5,000 at your disposal? Right now? To me, I see a lotttta of boylets mga kunichiwa! Small, medium, big, tall and very wide boys! So, let’s do some conversion in pesos. Tadanng!

Who’s giving me access to this anda when according to Wall Street, credit is tightening ever??? I [...]

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