The 11th World Bazaar Festival 2011 will be having a screening day this July 15, 2011 at the East Wing Area of World Trade Center, this is for all interested sellers and businesses who want to have a booth to their Christmas bazaar fest happening on December 2-18,2011, it will be the longest holiday bazaar in the country and I just figure out that they are starting so early before the -Ber month hits our calendar. Its shopping time again!

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Booth participants and candidates must bring their DTI and business permits, profile and photos of products that you want to sell to their 17 day bazaar. The World Bazaar Festival are allowing exhibitors, importers, exporters, wholesalers, retailers, distributors of bath and body, books, car accessories, Christmas decors, fashion accessories, clothing and footwear, gift items (wrappers and boxes), handicrafts, home and office furnishing, houseware, kitchenware, leather goods, music products, novelties, office and school supplies, paper products, perfumes, plastic products, souvenir items, sporting goods, stationary, travel goods, telecom accessories and toys. This festival is organized by Worldbex Services International (WSI).

I visit this bazaar every year and I love shopping for shirts, gadgets, toys and also for weird items, I noticed that every year, the bazaar brings more new and cool items that you can only buy at the World Bazaar Festival, which makes the product more rare and a collectible for me. If you plan to expand your business and sell more items, then this bazaar is the best for you this Christmas season as this is visited by thousand of visitors everyday. Don't also forget that will have another gift giving partnership with ABS-CBN Foundation, as the festival's beneficiary.


All applications after July 15 would have to be made directly at the WSI main office. For details, call 531-6350, 531-6374 or e-mail info@worldbex.com. You may also check www.worldbex.com for more information.

(source: PR Asia)

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Here's an interesting event if you want to learn on having a business and also how to manage it, and be an entrepreneur. I saw that they have a free training for basic photography and basic hilot, I might try it if ever my schedule is flexy.

Our Development Week, DTI Sec. Gregory L. Domingo announced a free entrepreneurship training program to everyone on July 8-9, 2011 at the PTC or Philippine Traning Center. This program will drive to encourage our fellow pinoys to participate in the SME sector and call to action "Pinoy SME: Business Tayo!"

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The free training and program will consist of Business Development Briefing Sessions offered by DTI-Bureau of Micro, SME Dev. (BMSMED) as part of its mandate to provide start up enterprises with knowledge base on a wide range of topics relevant to SME dev.

Here are the schedules and topics

July 8, 2011
How to be an Entrepreneur
Barangay Micro Business Enterprise (BMBE) Law
Awareness on Product Standards Law
Consumer Rights and Protection
How to Acquire a BFAD Certificate
Integrated Business Licensing
Orientation on HALAL Certification
Orientation on the Cleaner Production for Small Business
Packaging Design and Labeling; Product Design Awareness
Orientation on Registering for Patents
Trademarks and Trade Names

PTC course offerings for July 8
Basic Hilot
E-marketing – Setting up a Webstore
How to Set up a Laundry Business; Perfume and Cologne Making
Exploring Business Opportunities in Kosher Markets
Herbal Soap Making; Meat Processing 1 & 2
Basic Beadworks; Laundry and Cleaning Aids
Gift-wrapping

July 9, 2011
Basic photography
Flip-flops Making; Managing a Money Changer Shop
Financing and Lending Programs
How to Start a Business
Food Safety
Siopao and Dimsum Making
No-bake Cakes
Polvoron and Pastillas Making
Buying a Franchise
Apartment/Commercial Stall Rental Business
Perfume and Cologne Making
Advanced Beadworks
Cleaning Aids 2
Flowers and Balloon Arrangement
Empanada
Pizza Rolls

Participants to the free entrepreneurship training programs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis, with registrations starting at 7:30AM. For more information, please call DTI-BMSMED at telephone numbers 897 1693 or 751 5076, and PTTC at telephone numbers 468 8962 to 70 or visit http://www.dti.gov.ph/uploads/DownloadableForms/SME_Bulletin_Final.pdf.

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I'm also part of this project to help and save our forest, but schedule of this event was changed after the typhoon and then it hit my birthday celebration, but I'm glad our bloggers were there to help and join with our IBMers to support and save the La Mesa Watershed. I'll post a coverage news soon here after I get photos and report from my sister who went there with some bloggers. Congratulations and happy 100th anniversary to IBM.

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Quezon City, July 4, 2011 – IBM in the Philippines supported the second phase of the “Save the La Mesa Watershed Project” of Bantay Kalikasan, ABS CBN Foundation’s environmental arm by adopting 800 trees last Saturday (July 2), wherein thousands of IBMers participated in an environmental awareness briefing and ‘eco – amazing race’ activity to better understand, protect and maintain the La Mesa Watershed.

The La Mesa Watershed is the last remaining forest in Metro Manila. It is the site of the reservoir that supplies water to millions of Filipinos in the metropolis. Bantay Kalikasan is in charge of the rehabilitation and protection of the La Mesa Watershed mainly through reforestation (phase one) and protection & maintenance (phase two) of what was established the last seven years. IBM supports Bantay Kalikasan in its commitment to look after the environment by rehabilitating and protecting one of the country’s most critical watersheds.

The activity is part of IBM’s Celebration of Service, a program designed for employees, retirees and business partners, to donate their time and expertise during the company’s Centennial year. IBMers in the Philippines and around the world are volunteering in their local communities, helping with civic challenges and societal needs. In Cebu, IBM employees in cooperation with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) Visayas Regional Office recently worked on a Mangrove Reforestation Project in Olango Island.

IBM is using its Centennial to engage with the business leaders, academia, clients and local communities in the 170 countries the company does business through a year-long initiative.

"IBM has survived and thrived for 100 years by staying relevant, sustaining a culture of working for a higher purpose, while being ready to take big and bold bets as necessary. This has allowed us to transform technology, business and society, and we believe it will enable us to achieve our objective of making the world even better in our second century," said James Velasquez, Country General Manager, IBM Philippines.

“In order to succeed for the long term, you must manage for the long term. This is the key lesson IBM has learned over 100 years,” he added.

Since January 2011, IBMers, retirees and their families, have donated more than 2.5 million hours of service to communities worldwide. Similarly, over 300,000 employees, close to three quarters of its global workforce are volunteering this Centennial year in more than 5,000 projects in 120 countries, meeting civic challenges and societal challenges serving millions in need.

For more information on the IBM Centennial, visit: www.ibm100.com

(photo above: Photo Shows (L-R): Candy Soto, Philippines Delivery Leader, IBM Global Process Services (HR, Finance, Procurement, Customer Relationship Management Services), Dod Peralta, Philippines Director, IBM Global Delivery Center (Application Management Services), President and Country General Manager, IBM Philippines and Johnny Guevara, President and General Manager, IBM Solutions Delivery (IT Services), Inc. getting ready to plant trees for the Save the La Mesa Watershed Project. )

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Anyone here uses their credit card ?

Using your credit card is hassle free and its very convenient to use when shopping or going around the city. No longer do you need to stuff your man wallet with bills (like old folks do), all we need is a “swipe” or for my wife, she calls it “magical cards”, Because it contains money that we can borrow from a bank and use it to pay some bills of the food we eat in a restaurant, treat our friends in a meal, buy clothes from a store, book a hotel and even buy an airplane ticket. I’ve seen some horrors before about the problems of some people who use their cards in purchasing and buy some items, and the horror starts when they see the bank's statement and the amount of money that they should pay back. Others don't have any knowledge about credit cards and all I can hear is that they were automatically registered by their bank.. that's a weird gimik.

But in my case, I’m a little allergic to credit cards (and also to banks), I don’t even use one and I’m happy to use my on hand cash every time I go out, but I only use my BDO ATM and also got this China Trust debit card, but managing it with my bank is kinda hassle for my side with my busy schedules for my work (and I hate standing in a long line). But Then I realized that I needed one already due to that I’m going to travel outside the country and I’m sure credit cards are helpful and good companion when I’m away from my country and from my bank, I can use it in case of emergency and use it if ever I want to purchase something on the other side of the world. My sister will help me get that HSBC credit card, its a some sort of extension and I’ll just let her fix it and wait for some papers for me to sign in, it will be a brand new world for me if ever I own a credit card and reserve a time for me to pay a visit to my bank just to pay the credit card bills.

Its a great habit for credit card users to pay their credit card bill on time, because if we skipped paying the credit card bills, the amount of the finance charges/interest will be added and it will continue to increase. This is the time when credit cards become a financial burden. I also learned that from other people, I got scared in using a credit card, but I’m glad that there are tips online and blogs to read about how to save money and organize ourselves and how to use credit cards properly.

From the online networks I have and blogs to surf, I stumbled this cool credit card finance charge simulator and generator online, check : http://theextracharge.com/ .

I learned from this site about paying my bills on time, I think I’m ready to own a credit card now.
After trying the site, Its funny, that you can calculate how much money you spent and a computation on the finance charge being given by our local banks, its kinda weird that I want to know a finance charge given by the bank that holds our card, but the bank is not listed. You can try it for free and see what's behind those magical cards and the extra charges given after the swipe. But for others just dont care about these finance charges, but I do know that we have this automatically updated on our bills whenever we use our credit cards.

what are your thoughts about credit cards? any sci fi story that you can share (or a horror story LOL) about these magical cards?

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Here’s my photo coverage from the event launching of PLDT Check Out. Its a fun event filled with lots of gaming booths, entertainment and they gave us play money to use it in purchasing items in their retail booths and also we experience there the power of the PLDT Check Out online inventory system.

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Here’s a panoramic view after the big unveiling of PLDT Check Out

Panoramic view behind the stage area


Here’s another view

As I enter NBC Tent, we were greeted by people at the registration table and told us that we should register and claim our play money for their booth


Saw some guy explaining the power of the PLDT Check Out / R. Lapid’s booth, and ohh I met the R.Lapid owner here…named R.Lapid ehhehe.cool!


More food booths


Yummy Pancit Malabon!


More food booths


ohh here’s my fave.Binalot


Toby’s and Belo booth


more booths! non food hehehe


All are on special prices just for us


Here’s my play money / Spit is now on stage


PLDT SME Nation / program just started


Live stage flash mob dance


pin buttons!


Gabe Mercado and Amy Perez hosting the event


Gabe: “check out the dancers!”


Tarannnnn!


dance..dance..


I didn’t know that Manny V. Pangilinan is here…awesome!


PLDT bosses raises the big check….to symbolizes more sales to all SMEs who will use PLDT Check Out


the party just started here..


Me covered by lots of confetti / poi dancers on stage


After the big launch, they opened now the booths to accept play money and here I am got my 1st loot


Bugong..


Bugong boxes and there’s my loot food bag


The crowd starts to fall in line in each booths


The super crowded booth of Toby’s / trying some games like this human sticker


Here I am checking out the POS machine / spin a win wheel….and win more play money or PLDT shirts


The booth babe here invited me to try the spin a win wheel….I didn’t won any play money..but I took home 2 shirts hehehe.


There’s my shirt / here we see Gabe roams around the booths and interviews each business owners


Surf sumilation is the coolest game booths! but no prizes being given afterwards / here’s my blogger friends Adrian, Ana and Jhong!


my crush back from the early 90’s is here…Vina Morales…



its my 1st time to see her perform live on stage….she’s awesome! great performer and singer…



Also she’s the fastest singer performer who can change clothes so fast…in just 2 sec.

She sang some medleys..and later on did a Lady Gaga “Born this Way” performance


”Baby..we were born this way!”

Vina : “im so high today…with lots of energy”


rawr!!!


More Vina Morales pics..



One last song.


Here’s a real time chart from the PLDT Check Out report, all booths uses their own PLDT Check Out and the monitor shows us the top seller of the night, which is Toby’s , then they won the grand prize of P100,000 from PLDT for being the top seller of the night, earning P50,000 of play money from us audiences.

Here at the event, we experienced first hand on how the PLDT Check Out works and its cool to see a real time data and automated process of computation of all sales.

To know more about PLDT Check Out, visit my blog feature here at PLDT launches online inventory systems for SMEs

for more info, pls visit http://www.pldtcheckout.com.ph

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