Bolod Beach in Panglao, Bohol, Philippines

I spend my holy week in Bohol, Philippines, my home province to meet my sisters and have some quality time together.  The three days was spent doing Catholic rituals like going to 7 churches or Visita Iglesia, hearing the 7 last words and doing procession.  And on Easter Sunday we decided to have some fun in the beach. We decided to leave early, around 6 am in the morning and arrived at the beach before 7 o'clock.  Our planned beach resort should be Dumaluan but we are unlucky because the cottages where all fully booked.  The guard referred us to Bolod Beach Resort just beside Dumaluan but we have to go to another road.

Well, we arrived in Bolod Beach Resort and got our cottage at 300 pesos. The kids immediately ran to the beach after we put our food at the table.  The water was a little colder at 7 am but still so nice.  The heat of the sun is very okay at this time.  Around 10 am we decided to go home to attend to my nephews birthday party. 

Here are some of my pictures in the resort.

Dauis bridge

Dauis bridge

Bolod Beach Resort cottage

Bolod Beach Resort cottages

Bolod Beach Resort cottage

the beach

the beach

the beach

the water

jetski

How I Start My Investment in the Philippine Stock Market

I am one of the ordinary citizens of this country.  I have a  job and my income is enough for me and my son.  During good days I can save a little money.  Sometimes I have sidelines to have some extra cash in my pocket.  I have been working for almost a decade now and honestly I don't have a good savings, emergency fund and for my child's future.  So last year I made a promise that I'm going to save.  Every pay day I spare 500 pesos out from my salary.  And luckily I made it until November.  So by November I have 11 thousand pesos in my savings.  11 thousand is already a huge amount for a savings and I told myself that my one year of effort should not be wasted, I must put it a good place.  Luckily I have an officemate who introduced me to COL or Citisec Online.  She showed me how she growed her money.  Making it grow for almost double for almost two years.  She even showed me her portfolio.  Convinced I joined.  I applied last December 2012 and got approved a few days after I mailed my requirements.  After two months from buying stocks from the market the percentage increase is already more than 10% from the two stocks that I bought. 

So for those who wanted to know how I applied in online investing here are the steps:
1) What is COL?
COL is the no. 1 online stockbroker in the Philippine Stock Exchange.  Their site have an update for the current prices of the stocks in our country.  Here you can buy and sell the  stocks of your choice.  For a detailed information about this site here is the link

Click this to go to COL website

Main page of COL

I choose this site because they are online though I'm from the Visayas region I get the latest update every few seconds of the stock market prices. 

2) After choosing a stock broker.  In my case COL.  I follow the instruction from their site. 
a) I must have atleast 5 thounsand pesos.
b) I fill out the forms they provided.
c) I gather all their requirements, including valid ID's and billing statement.
d) After the requirements are completed I send it via LBC to

COL Financial Business Center
2403B East Tower, Philippine Stock Exchange Center, Exchange Rd. Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1605 Philippines

3) After 2 days I received a call from COL staff saying my application is already okay and they will send my account number via email.  And the account number will be used in funding my account.  You can deposit in BDO, Metrobank or BPI.

4) When my fund shows in my COL account I started buying the stocks I like.  As a first timer I read a lot of articles from the internet and from my officemate.  So my first  stocks were suggested from my officemate. 


I pray and hope that my investments will helped me in my long term goal. 

Underground river among new 7 wonders

Wow Philippines' underground river in Palawan is formally announced as one of the 7 new wonders. 

GENEVA—The Philippines’ Puerto Princesa Underground River, the Amazon rainforest, Vietnam’s Halong Bay and Argentina’s Iguazu Falls were named among the world’s new seven wonders of nature, according to organizers of a global poll.
The other three crowned the world’s natural wonders are South Korea’s Jeju Island, Indonesia’s Komodo and South Africa’s Table Mountain, said the New7Wonders foundation, citing provisional results.
Final results will be announced early 2012, said the Swiss foundation, warning however that there may yet be changes between the provisional winners and the final list.
Sites which have failed to make the cut include Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, the Dead Sea and the US Grand Canyon.
The poll organised by Swiss foundation New7Wonders has attracted great interest, mobilizing celebrities including Argentinian football star Lionel Messi calling on fans to pick his home country’s Iguazu Falls.
The results come after a long consultation process lasting from December 2007 to July 2009, when world citizens were asked to put forward sites which they deemed were natural wonders.
More than a million votes were cast to trim the list of more than 440 contenders in over 220 countries down to a shortlist of 77.
The group was then further cut to the 28 finalists by a panel of experts.
Anyone in the world was then able to vote for the final seven via telephone, text messages or Internet social networks.
The Philippine government vigorously campaigned for the Palawan subterranean river in a bid to boost a sagging tourism industry.
Founded in 2001 by filmmaker Bernard Weber in Zurich, the foundation New7Wonders is based on the same principle on which the seven ancient wonders of the world were established. That list of seven wonders was attributed to Philon of Byzantium in ancient Greece.
New7Wonders said its aim is to create a global memory by garnering participation worldwide.
But even as the natural wonders poll came to a close, the New7Wonders foundation has set its eyes on a new survey — the top seven cities of the world. Participating cities will be announced on January 1, 2012.


 Source: Underground river among new 7 wonders