The Dead Sea

I am a frustrated showbiz person. So, I made my own first video and launched it in YouTube. I hope my video will inspire people to visit Jordan and experience floating at the Dead Sea.

Beware of Fake Doctors!

Having a title of an Engineer is an honor that I got from finishing a 5-year engineering course and passing the engineering licensure exam. And being one of the top 20 passers of the 3,000 examinees is considered one of my achievements that I should be proud of since I studied hard to get it.

Any name titles such as doctors (be it MD or PhD) should also be given to those people who really have finished the required courses, passed licensure exams, and have the right knowledge and expertise to practice such titles. It's so sad nowadays, that there are some people who falsified their diplomas/certificates just to have the title of a doctor and fool others. These fake doctors will certainly cause irrepairable damages to others.

A fake medical doctor will make a wrong diagnose of the patients' sickness and thereby give wrong prescriptions of the medicines which will lead to worsening of the patients' condition and perhaps will result to death -- an irrepairable damage to the victims.

A fake PhD holder professor will give wrong knowledge to the students which will infiltrate stupidity to the students' mind. In effect, the students will have a hard time getting a job and will look stupid to the hiring companies. These fake professors causes the life of the students miserable -- another irrepairable damage to others' lives.

These fake medical doctors and fake PhD holder professors should be stopped and be treated like criminals since they make people's life miserable.

There are ways how to check fake medical doctors and fake PhD holder professors. The most effective one is to check their names in the website of the school or company where they have claimed to have graduated or worked before. You can also search for their publications in the internet. If you can't find their names, then you are sure that those people are FAKE.

So if you don't want to look stupid, then don't be a victim of these fake people.

I am Googleable!

I am into e-commerce and I tend to follow the fengshui thing just like most chinese businessmen do. There are several methods in practicing fengshui and one of them is about using lucky numbers. The numbers 8, 18, and 28 are considered lucky days in the calendar. So whenever I do business or special activities, I would consider those calendar dates.

Today is May 8. So, it's a lucky day. And I've decided to check the google ranking of my personal website, http://www.roydomingo.com/, and see if there's an improvement. I typed "roy domingo" in the google search and my ranking remained number 1. This rank is the most important thing since there are a lot of Roy Domingo in the world.

The next thing I typed in the google search is "filipino engineer". To my surprise I am now number 6 in the ranking. Wow! That's really a milestone for my website and a sign of improvement of my skills in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I am now googleable!

OFWs are not yet heroes

Today is labor day in the Philippines and I would like to write something about Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). As an OFW, I have felt what is to work far from home. Loneliness, homesickness, cultural adjustments, and sacrifices are just some of the daily emotional feelings of an OFW is facing. To stay long in work, one should be immune to those feelings. Afterall, at the end of the month, there's money to send home in the Philippines. And that's what matter most to OFWs.


But are OFWs really heroes or "bagong bayani"? Is giving remittances be considered heroic act? I strongly disagree. Heroes are people who made significant events that uplift the lives of the people and the country to the next level.

Years of giving remittances change nothing to the situation in the Philippines. It's still the same. Most of the Filipinos are still poor and corruption in the government becomes a hobby.

OFWs still need to discover its power -- the power far greater than EDSA I or II. The birth of this power will only begin if the OFWs will be united and impose the "No Improvements No Remittances" policy to the government. This powerful policy will pressure the people in the government to minimize corruption and thereby create better services, which, in the end, will uplift the lives of the Filipinos. Thus, to exercise this power is a clear heroic act and failure to realize this power will remain OFWs as the not yet heroes.