Millionaire Tycoon: Tips and Secrets

I'm being addicted to Millionaire Tycoon. I'm now on the Paris level and I just stopped for a while to write this post. Basically, Millionaire Tycoon is a board game on iPhone/iPod Touch. Its goal is to eliminate the computer players by making them go bankrupt. Like in Monopoly, you have to toss the dice, walk the necessary number of steps and you can purchase land and upgrade buildings. Each time another player lands on your property, you get paid...

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The Wordpress Design Quest

I'm on a quest to learning Wordpress Design and it ain't that easy for me who is a PHP and CSS idiot. I think I'm learning the whole concept of PHP and CSS. I just need to understand the structure now. I followed the Wordpress Tutorial I found, but the result was with little success. I got the essential parts right - basically you just need to understand what the codes are all about and copy-paste the given codes to the appropriate files and other places. I guess, if you understand the concept and is not so much of a coding beginner like me, it's going to be so much easier. After reading some other tutorials and studying other templates,...

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My Journey to Online Part Time Jobs

Although a lot of my fantasies include going back time and changing everything since I was in first grade, I obviously cannot do that. So I'm kinda moving on. Back when I was in highschool, I got so interested in HTML and making websites that I actually self-studied how to code HTML. I never got to study it in school and regrettably, in college, but I'm still very interested in it. I've never forgotten the basics and now I'm using some of my knowledge in some of my work. I believe that if I really want to learn something, I can self-study it and not spend fortunes going to special classes. Now that I'm looking for some new skills to aid me...

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Things My Mama Told Me: Choose your Friends!

Sometimes, just how mothers talk to us, right? With an exclamation point. There is one point in our life when our mothers would usually yell at us, no matter what they’re saying. Anyway, there you go. Choose your friends. And I hated this before because my mother never really liked any of my friends. She only liked those who were at the top of the class. If they weren’t she’d be skeptical about them and how were they going to contribute to my life. Yes, I didn’t listen to my mom. Although those kids who were at the top of my class were my buddies when we started, slowly I was left behind. Maybe it was a bit of rebellion that I experienced when...

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Things My Mama Told Me Series

It's really weird that now that I'm turning 25, I realize a lot of things that my mama told me when I was a lot youngerthings that I didn't really follow things I followed only because I had to then stopped when she's not around things that I thought was totally pointless because a lot of people have been doing them so why couldn't I things that I didn't do only because I wanted to have my own way and all those things she said I didn't do but I wish I had So I will be making a "Things My Mama Told Me" series because I think that most of what she told me are really cliche for mothers. Many sons and daughters must ignore those things because, right,...

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5 Really Important Things to Do Before Turning 25

In less than 20 days from now, I’ll be turning 25. For the past years of my life, I really paid little attention to my birthday. I was never really excited and never really anticipated anything. Recently, I thought that it’s really sad that I’m almost apathetic to my birthday while others celebrate, party hard or can hardly sleep thinking of surprises and presents from loved ones. It’s a little inevitable though during birthdays that one is taken...

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How to Stay Focused on One Task

Employees and students alike are easily overwhelmed by the load of work and tasks that are needed to be done every single day. It becomes difficult to focus when the sole thought of the whole burden freezes the mind on “I can’t do it” mode. The tasks pile even more and the harder it is to finish. When this happens, here are some tips that you can follow to relax your mind and be able to finish your work without the extra and unnecessary stress. Write a list of all the tasks that are needed to be done. Looking at the list could be overwhelming at first but it will help you to organize and not forget anything. List by priority. Write...

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Full-Glass-Empty

Is the glass half-full or half-empty? When I was in fourth grade, I chose half-full - only because my seatmate gave away the secret behind the psychological question. Even after I raised my hand with those who chose to be positive, I still kept thinking, is it really half-full or half empty? God knows I spent a few minutes staring at the glass drawing on the chalkboard until the teacher erased it. If the glass is full to its brim, then what if it...

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A Killer Tip to Get the Job You Want

I was watching How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Episode 14 (spoilers ahead) and it's mostly about Robin trying to get a job in 7 days or she will be deported out of the country. Robin had been jobless for months during that episode and she had already been to countless auditions to get a job in the news industry. Every time she auditions, she comes home complaining about how other auditionees got more experience than her or how they come from bigger companies or higher positions in other parts of the country. Even though she was anchor at the local news channel, she found that she couldn’t compete with many others in the same field. ...

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High Salary but Really Bad Working Conditions: To Quit or Not to Quit

Okay, here's the situation: You got loans for an expensive house, you have mountain-high credit card debts and some other loans to pay plus of course, daily expenses including a few luxuries like going out on dates or purchasing new clothes.  You got all of these financial woes when suddenly, you got offered a really high-paying job that you don't really like but you know you can tolerate.  You decided to accept the job because it would really help your finances and it did! You go to work then receive a lot of pay. You can easily pay for you loans and mortgage (which at your rate will be finished in 10 years) and you can also afford...

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"I Love Living Life. I Am Happy." - Nick Vujicic

This is one the best testimonies I've seen in my life so far. He is so amazing. Nick's happiness is genuine and is I could feel that it's overflowing despite his disability. It's truly a shame for those people who have complete limbs, yet spends every single day moping around, worrying and feeling so much self-pity. Yes, of course, each of us have unique problems of our own - and FACT #1: that's life! The important thing is to continue to stand up and be strong. Be more thankful of what we have than what we don't have because FACT #2: we can't have everything. There will always and always be something that others have and you don't have. So...

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The Beginning of Oprah Winfrey

“As you can see from my first day on ‘AM Chicago’ on WLS, I had no publicist… no stylist, there was no hair and makeup team. Just a Jheri curl and a bad fur coat.”    — OPRAH WINFREY, looking back on the days before she hit it big, during the finale of The Oprah Winfrey Sho...

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Never Stop Learning

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Math 55

MATH 55 “At that pt. the equation of the tangent line…Class, there are many solutions to this problemHowever, there is but one answer.” At what point does this line end?It seems that forever have I waitedto at least be tangentto you. I lost you in a circlewhere I’ll never knowif we’ll ever converge… That no matter how much hardI tryto prove a connection,(A continuity that will bind us)the output would always bejust an assumption. How can I fighta limit thatDoes Not Exist? Hoping that discontinuitywould somehow be removable Fighting the odds ofzeroes and infinity I shall reside in this imaginary line.Contenting myself in themeantime,with this...

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How to Become a Math-Genius: How are the Chinese Good at Math

Many are wondering, is there a secret pill that I need to take to become an instant math-genius - even just for the day of our final exam?! I know… I wished one for myself when I was a student especially in my Trigonometry finals in high school. That was the only time in my life when I absolutely had no idea on an exam. I wished for some kind of math magic to be bestowed upon me even for just 20 minutes. I’ve mentioned in my previous post that...

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Why Students Fail at Math: The Math-is-Difficult Traps

This post is for all the students out there who hate Math and for incoming students who haven’t really studied Math but already loathe it due to the influence of popular culture. Math is a basic subject in school that teaches how to count and make basic computations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Of course mathematics has a deeper sense, meaning and use to the world than basic computation but to avoid math anxiety...

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Plunging into a Job of My Weakness

I was never good in oral communication skills. I palpitated and broke into cold sweat whenever I had to stand for less than 10 second to recite in class. So I didn’t like class recitation and oral exams. I always whispered the answer to my seatmate and he/she got to answer the teacher’s question. I didn’t like small talk. I didn’t like speaking in front of a crowd. English is my second language and while my school tried to make us practice...

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The Next Part of Resume Writing that Had Me Scratching my Head.

Because I was just getting out of college, I didn’t have any work experience to write. Instead, I had to include my extra-curricular activities and/or seminars attended. And boy, I heard the crickets.I didn’t have any significant extra-curricular activity. The one org I joined in college was good enough but I must admit that I never became an active member (excuse: conflicting class schedules). I scrambled through my records for any sign of...

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Staring at my Resume: Lesson #1

RESUME TIPSYour name and contact details must be prominent. Do not include unnecessary personal details. Resume should only be a page. Max of 2 pages. Dated info (i.e educational background) must be written from most recent down to past records. Glam up on achievements! The first important thing in one’s career that I learned dawned on me when I was staring at my resume template - it gave me a blank stare while I sit in front of my computer monitor. I thought, “I should have seen what a resume looks like when I was 10 years old!” I was about to graduate at that time and because I wanted to be...

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I, Bedazzled

So here I am again, attempting to yet again begin another blog. Why I have stopped blogging, I'm not sure. I thought it was ceasing to write my thoughts because suddenly, I became afraid of my words. Not that they're bad, they just suddenly became frightening. And when you are frightened with words, there is a certain level of constraint - the feeling of being in prison in some way.Then another is that... there was/is difficulty for me to stay in a niche. When a blog has no niche nowadays, it just floats somewhere in the middle of millions of blogs and websites on the web now. It's like a light pole on a crowded street - it brings light, alright,...

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