The world waited for it and it proved to be worth the wait.

Charice Pempengco and Celine Dion's duet earned positive reviews from critics worldwide. To many of them, it was an excellent performance.

In an interview with Oprah, Charice Pempengco shared that Celine Dion is her idol and that she had sung many of the latter's songs in the contests she had participated in before.

Charice Pempenco and Celine Dion sang Because You Love Me in Celine Dion's Taking Chances World Tour.

Fly high, Charice Pempengco!

IT'S AMAZINGLY good. I never thought that it would be successful. I expected that my money would be returned to PayPal. But no, I checked my bank account yesterday and the fund I transferred from PayPal was there!

I had a problem last time about withdrawing my PayPal funds because I can't use my credit card for some reasons. As a verified user, I can transfer funds into my bank account. (Take note, you have to be a verified user before you can withdraw through a Philippine bank. Being verified means you have added a card into your account. You also have to know the PayPal code for your bank. Google it, keyword: "paypal bank codes". Haha.)

It takes about 5-7 days to transfer fund into a bank account. That's about the same length of time in withdrawing via a debit or credit card (I think, it's about $3.00). However, withdrawal through card costs much. Meanwhile, bank withrawal only costs Php 50.00, that's less than a dollar for amounts less than Php 7,000.00. In cases where your funds have to be returned to PayPal, you have to pay an additional fee of Php 200.00.

I expected than there would be extra charges but there was none. It really made me glad. Next time, I would be withdrawing through my bank account again. Hurray to PayPal!

IF I were not a physics teacher, I would have been in the printing business--Brochure Printing, newsletters, tarpaulin, advertisement, leaflets, among others. I would also be publishing my own magazines and journals, with me as an editor.

But even if I'm a teacher now, I'm still contemplating on doing some Printing Services at home. This is becoming a hype in the town. Lots of businesses choose tarpaulin for their advertising because it is cheap. Of course, I would offer other printing services that are of better quality than others.

My advantage over other competitors would be my skill. I have seen many of their jobs and they don't look like works of skilled professionals. I'm confident than the ones I have made are way better than theirs. That is very important in business. The quality of the output should be better than others.

Another thing is price. Mine would be more affordable. I would offer Cheap Brochure Printing, newsletter layouting, and graphic designing.

I'm positive that my plans would prosper in the nearby future. I really think I can't live without being able to do what I really love doing.

IT'S ALL about fame. What is I were a famous personality? What kind of life would I be having?

Will I be like Michael Phelps who holds the record for most number of gold medals won in the olympics after bringing home eight medals in Beijing 2008? Wow, that's an amazing feat. Really amazing.

And there's our very own Charice Pempengco who is making waves in the international music scene. Imagine a young Filipina on famous talk shows and concerts!

How about Pokwang, whom after rising up as a popular comedienne, she'd been called Aswang by another comedian, a veteran at that, from another station? This quite a bad thing or shall I say humor in bad taste.

Well, as they always say, fame lasts for only fifteen minutes. You won't always be on top. So, I'd rather be a more subdued and more peaceful person.

Have a great day!

DO YOU have a PayPal account? Do you know that you can easily be victimized by phishers who would trick you for your important personal information that they could use to amass your money?

Learn how to protect yourself by reading my post about protecting your PayPal account from phishers on HomewardBound. You sure wouldn't want to lose the money you earned from blogging and other online activities, would you?

By the way, I'm reviving this blog and transforming this into an informative blog on techie stuff. Though not really an expert, I would like to share the lessons I've learned for having blogged for four years already.

Have a great day, everyone!

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ABS-CBN reporter and Bandila anchor Ces Oreña-Drilon, cameramen Jimmy Encarnacion, and Minadanao State University professor Octavio Dinampo were freed today after more than a week of miserable ordeal under the hands of her captors, the Abu Sayyaf Group.

They were abducted in Sulu on June 8 as Drilon was digging for information for a story she was working on.

One of the cameramen, Angelo Valderama was released earlier.

In her interviews, Drilon blames herself for what had happened to her team, admitting that she had been hard-headed and have not informed ABS-CBN, to a full extent, what story she was pursuing.

She apologized to everyone who had been troubled by this happening, especially to her family.

She also thanked Sen. Loren Legarda for negotiating their unconditional release.

Their captors reportedly damanded Php 15 million ransom, but Sen. Legarda says that no amount of money were discussed in the negotiations.