Pala-isip

Must watch for OFWs and potential OFWs. This is in Singapore but it happens everywhere. She operated an illegal employment agency and coaxed a Filipino to be her runner. Watch how officers from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Clementi Police Division spring to action to uncover and arrest the elusive suspect, responsible for a series of employment scams.

MANILA, Philippines -- Families of overseas Filipino workers must always prepare for the day that remittances from their loved ones would stop coming so they can better manage their finances, international personal finance advisor Suze Orman said. Orman, who hosts her own show on CNBC and is a favorite resource person at Oprah, said that families who are dependent on remittances must always think that the money will not flow forever because their loved ones can lose their jobs abroad, can get sick, if not die. “Anything can happen at any time and the problem that is going on out there [abroad] when one person from over there stops sending money in here, you’ve not only affected one person there but also four, five or six people over here. Then that starts the very dangerous possibility of things going wrong,” Orman said during a briefing on Monday hosted by the Bank of the Philippine Islands. OFW-dependent families have to understand where that money comes from in order for them ...

This Christmas, where will happiness strike next? A tearjerker ad from Coca-cola from their Happiness ad campaign.

Filipino maids gather and socialize around Ion Orchard Mall every Sunday in Singapore. Some mall employees and shoppers are complaining that their presence lessen the prestige of the mall. Here's a video report about the situation. What are you thoughts?