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The first convention was indeed very successful in Thailand. Philippine will be hosting the 2nd ANCE (Asian Networkers Convention and Expo). Let us expect to be more fun.

Ms. Universe 3rd runner up Shamcey Supsup at Richmond Hotel hosted the press conference last 28th of May 2014. Representatives from various MLM and direct selling company are present. The media from different station are there too.

It is good to see companies at the same industry gathering together to elevate by educating and helping each other.

Asian Networkers Conventions and Expo OVERVIEW

The very first prestigious Asian Networkers Convention concluded last December 11, 2013 at Bangkok, Thailand. This 3 days convention brought together leaders, trainers, motivational speakers, researchers, educators and distributors from around the world who are engaged in Direct Sales and MLM. The Convention focuses on leadership skills, and market expansion along with networking.

Philippines, the home of thousand leaders and passionate networkers, is ready to welcome 7000 delegates across Asia for the 2nd ANNUAL ASIAN NETWORKERS CONVENTION 2014.

Movers and shakers in field of direct selling and MLM industry, together with the trainers, motivational speakers, researchers, educators and distributors from around the world will once again gather in this prestigious event.

They are the 9 top-notched speakers for ANCE 2014 event, 7 more legends of Direct-selling and MLM industry will complete this speakers list.

The 3-day Convention is exclusive for learning, sharing and mentoring. No recruitment allowed at the Convention.

Venue: The World Trade Center
Date: 18-20 August 2014
Duration: 3 days
Target Crowd: thousands of delegates across Asia
Entrance fee: 3 day pass USD350
Gala Dinner VIP USD 250 (Regular) USD125 (Early Bird Promo)
Expo Fee – FREE (open to public)

The ANCE Gala Dinner and Awards Night

This will be done on August 20, 2014 with the following awards:
APRIL 1 – JULY 15, 2014 Nominations are open and can be submitted from our website or at [email protected]
MAY 15, 2014 Start of Online Poll
JULY 15, 2014 Deadline of submission of entry and supporting materials
August 15, 2014 Announcement of Finalist
August 20, 2014 Winners are announced at the ANCE Gala and Awards Night

Solo Category
Best Leader of the Year Award
Young Entrepreneur Award
Most Inspiring Story of the Year Award
People’s Choice Award for Leadership
Asian Business Leader of the Year Award
Visionary Leader of the Year Award
People’s Choice Award for Best Speaker
Lifetime Achievement Award

Company Category
Vision Excellence Award
Best New Company of the Year Award
Social Entrepreneur Award
Digital Champion
Most Innovative Company of the Year Award
Best MLM Consultant Award
People’s Choice Award for Best Company

This was my first summer class in my life time. Just like before the last school year in college, I always miss the first day of the class and get lost going to the classroom. I missed the first day because I enrolled late. I am a bit lost as the surrounding changed. I stop going to school last June 2001 and return as old returning students.

Summer Class Returning Students

I need my clearance to be signed and approved from different office to grant my summer class. It’s easy but time consuming because you need to queue in line day by day. To cut the story, I shift my course from BS Electronics and Communication Engineering to Computer Science and enrolled late.

Summer Class New Teachers

I have to practice my GLLA, “good learning and listening attitude.” Getting new lessons from my teachers is fun. Sometimes I don’t understand them all, the only thing that make me able to catch up is by having the same reference.

My Economic Teachers is cool.

I like the way she deliver her lessons and share her experience when it is related to the topic. She likes to ask opinions and what we can say about. Learning from sharing is the thing that I can easily digest and understand. I can feel her compassion to help student to pass on here class with kind ways to remind students having trouble on getting good grades.

My Political Science Teacher is a Rock star.

I love rock music and I feel good about it. Good music can be easy to understand that is why I call him a rock star. He discusses lessons and repeat important words to remember. He gives example to make you understand more. Everything is easy to remember and well understood.

My Sociology Teacher in the news.

I watch TV nowadays accidentally and only if someone ask me. Its crazy to have teachers in the news sharing everything she watched from TV, radio and newspaper. This is how she relates the lessons to the class. I have a poor relationship on watching TV, at leas I have a common sense to understand.

New Classmates and Friends

To my classmates who remember my name, it is my pleasure to know you more because it is a great sign of friendship. I love making friends with same vision and goals. I hope that I can inspire you too along the way we walk together by friendship. Spending my time with you at the campus is a good experience.

Having Fun

The most important lesson is having fun and it’s a good source of learning. Being cheerful is having all of your senses in good mood and being happy is always easy to remember. Have fun going to school, give a good smile at the security guards, entering the room with good mood, eating together with classmates and saying goodbye for the day as if you were excited to see them the next day.

It is my first-time step on the surfing board over the waves at Sabang, Baler, Quezon province.  I don’t want to put much time swimming because I use to live near the beach in Batangas. Surfing changes my mind when I try this for the first time. I like to learn more and more but we only had a limited time since were going back to Manila after lunch.

We are lucky to have a coach with championship experience.

I need to try surfing to say and proved that it is easy or hard for me.  My first attempt was a failure and it becomes my learning point to adjust what to do next. I did not know that our coach Mr. Joel Faraon is the champion of the 8th Aurora Surfing Challenge 2014  for Men’s Open Division. We are all first-timer and we learn so fast with his coaching. Many thanks brother for coaching me and the rest of my colleague.

The basic things I did when I start learning how to surf.

• Safety first – at least you know how to swim.
• Wait for the waves and get to the flows – patiently wait for the good wave that can push you to surf towards the shore.
• Get your feet on the board and keep your balance – it’s easy to balance when you are in motion or the board starts moving with you.
• Enjoy surfing and ride in the waves – once you get your balance steady, focus and feel how awesome it is.
• Don’t forget to say thank you – If you cannot afford to pay at least you can give thanks. What I really wanted to say when saying thanks is giving recognition to what you accomplished and appreciation for the blessing you’ve received.

How much is the budget for learning how to surf in Sabang, Baler?

The instructor talent fee would range from PHP350-500 per hour plus surfing board. Our instructor is trying to waive his talent free for free. Thank you for the generosity but keep this for our token of appreciation.

Photo from Dlysen and Leah’s camera.

Thank you Marie Dizon for taking photos of us while we are busy learning how to surf.

 

When Starmobile OCTA Octa Core was introduce to market, I feel that I am going to buy that phone. I bought it with the help of my sponsors. Thank you so much Advance Idea Enterprise.

I like to use quad core smart phone for the love of speed and multi-tasking. Starmobile introduce the first Octa Core Adroid Smartphone in the Philippines and its good to know that its benchmark performance in terms of speed is good. I use AnTuTu Benchmark X Mar,2014 to check and compare the specs from other brand. Starmobile Octa benchmark for CPU and RAM really beat the well know brand as of now and second for overall performance.

My Octa is like Digital SLR on my pocket. I appreciate the 18MP back camera and 8MP front camera. I love the auto focus wide-angle lens that I can use “barkada selfie.” It has BSI-CMOS high image quality and fast autofocus that you can enjoy.

OCTA wireless charging can protect your battery from over charging. It will automatically stop charging when the battery is full. The charging pad use NFC technology and it has a built in Bluetooth speaks for entertainment. Since the body of Octa is fixed and you have to bring it to service center just incase the batter spoils.

The protective cover case or other accessories is not yet available because the dimension and size is different. It’s nice to know that Starmobile OCTA has Scratch Resist Asahi Glass, One Glass Solution (OGS). It will keep your screen away from scratch.

The OCTA price P16,990.00 is good for having almost the same performance with high end smart phone.

I recommend that you have to check everything is working on your phone before your live that shop. I got my Starmobile OCTA on March 23, 2014 but I found out that my unit has a bug. The display black out when you call and you have to restart the phone again by pressing up volume and power button. The customer service gives new unit replacement with new IMEI. I still have the old IME number on my receipt.

PS: I love using my Starmobile Octa on selfie. its nice to capture the moment and opportunity.

 

This is my first time visit to Palawan. I grabbed the opportunity to join with my friend’s journey to El Nido Palawan. It is hard for me to plan a travel trip on my own that is why I feel good when someone planned it for me. My budget and time availability is quite manageable so even if I am not so prepared, I joined.

What Happen On Thursday?

I hang out with my friends Yanda, Leah and Janine from 1am to 3am at McDonalds somewhere it Fairview. My things are not yet packed up and ready when I got home. I slept for an hour and woke up 6:30am to insert few important things on my Swiss Polo Travel bag. I went to the internet shop to print my booking ticket and headed to Terminal 4.

I met April Gonzales at Domestic Terminal 4 as my travel buddy. I thought April is female but he’s not. We arrived at Puerto Princesa and stay at Big Brother Condotel. We took our Garlic Pepper Beef lunch at the nearby Jollibee together with Criselda Lapitan who arrived one day ahead. We are still waiting for Janice Cabuyao and spend the night together. Tomorrow we are heading to El Nido.

We had our dinner at TIKI Restobar and experienced Sizzling Crocodile for the first time in my life. Then after I bought some fruits “banana and grapes” to bring on our journey to El Nido.

I am worried about my work because I wasn’t able to get good internet connection. All of my tasked were done offline and few hours online.

Our Big Brother Condotel Booking
Address:  3rd Floor, Carlos Building, Rizal Avenue Puerto Princesa City 5300 Palawan, Philippines
Website: www.bigbrotherhotel.com
Rate: PHP 1200.00 – Studio / PHP 1500 – Directors
Pax: 4 person
WiFi: SSID – condotel, Password: 1111111111

What Happen on Friday?

I woke up 5am and took a bath. I accidentally prepared cold coffee since I thought the water in the cup is hot. We check out from the Big Brothers Condotel and arrived at Bus Terminal Station going to El Nido. The bus fare is 280 pesos and departing on 7:00am, we arrived at El Nido market around 1:00pm. We manage to travel for 6 hours since the normal travel time is 6-9 hours as it said by the locals. From the market, we hired the tricycle driver to bring us to the town where we can eat our lunch because we are so starving. It’s so funny that the name of the eatery is FASFOOD without T. I only notice it on the second look. The tricycle driver manages to look for a room to stay in “BlueAsure Cottages” at very affordable rate 1200 pesos for two nights. It’s sounds like a fun room. It is only a fan room, “I mean electric fan ventilation only.” After we put all our bags and other stuff inside the room, we headed to queen beach for less than hour travel.

We went to twin beach at Nacpan facing the Island the of Congressman Manny Pacquiao bought. The travel time took us in less than an hour averaging 45 minutes from town. The sand is tiny and smooth while the water is very clear. The waves are good and I think it enough to surf if you have surfing board. The sunset is lovely over the island. We are glad to avail the tricycle fare at 800 PHP only going back and forth from “BlueAsure Cottages.”

I had a little chat with Judy Punay, the caretaker of the pension house and ask some information about the nice thing to do and visit at the cheapest rate.

We had our dinner back again at the eatery after and look for a boat ride for Island hopping. The usual rate is 1200 pesos per head for a group tour and the private tour with the minimum of four 4 persons is also 1200 per person. The package includes food and drinks. It’s the same information that I got from Judy and the only difference is he has an offer of 1000 pesos per person.

We hope that tomorrow will be a good day as the storm Basyang is heading toward this place. The weather forecast storm signal number 1 enough to postponed boat ride for Island hopping.

What happen on Saturday?

I woke up asking for a hot water and four cups to have coffee on the hut. The electricity is scheduled to off at 6am – 2pm daily.

The storm had arrived with the strength signal number one. As predicted the boat ride for Island hopping is all canceled.

We stayed together in the Nipa-hut type pension house all and day. It seems we all don’t want to get out and no interest of eating. I mean that we already forgot to eat because sleeping all day and bed hopping is fun. We have our coffee, toasted bread and cup noodles around 7am and have our lunch around 4pm. The barbecue is so nice and good for only 10 pesos each and rice too. We got some dinner around 8pm and we ate Chicken Curry, Kalderetang Baka and some leftover barbecue. They continue to sleep while I do Advance Review System for Nursing.

I had a short chat again with the caretaker name “Judy Punay” and he gave me some tips that I wanted to share.

If you are in a short budget and you want to stay long, look for boarding house instead of pension house, or hotel accommodation. A boarding house will cost only for 1500 – 5000 pesos per month. It is usually far away from the town center but still you can enjoy the place.

You can save money on Island hopping if you know local that own a boat because you will only pay half the price. Knowing someone who has a boat will cut the booking fee from the agent. Basically, the price is 1200 – 1500 per head including meal and tour guide and an additional fee for Tourism Fee of more or less 500 pesos. If you know someone then you can place a budget of 600-700 pesos plus Tourism Fee. Tour for island hopping is at least four members in a group.

The local tour guide said that it becomes natural for them to see foreigner wearing two-piece but not on the local pinay girl. The attraction and supper seeing is hundred times head-turner than foreigner. And yes it is, this only means we are awesome people.

After a night walks with them Judy Punay with his friend Bokyo not his real name, I went back to our room and have a good night sleep.

We are going home on Sunday and Attend Worship Service

Time to go home and time to seek for worship service.  The worship service schedule at 6am and 10am and we are not able to attend the worship service at El Nido because we also need to consider the bus schedule. We attended the worship service at the local of Puerto Princesa Palawan on 4:00 pm.

We still have some few hours to buy souvenirs items and I found Arnis and Tsako for self-defense is good to buy.

Farewell to Puerto Princesa as the plane took us back to Manila. I asked for car service to pick us at the terminal for going home.

 What Awesome People Do?

It is good to travel with friends and others even though you’re meeting them for the first time.

My Estimated Budget Summary

Air Fare: 5000
Tricycle: 20
Hotels: 1200
Tricycle: 30
Bus: 280
Tricycle: 15
Hotel: (1200 x 2 nights) / 4
Tricycle: 800 / 4
Food: 500
Souvenirs and gift items: 700