Life Hacks for Polymaths

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Welcome polymaths !

Ever get the feeling that you seem to don't know what to do with your life because there are just so many things that you want to do ? I know, I've been there, so welcome to the club.

My name is Zigfred Diaz and I am a polymath. After more than 6 years of bloging about almost anything under the sun and having sort of a "blogging identity crisis." I've finally embraced who I am and decided to turn my main blog into some sort of guide for people with so much interest. Feel free to poke around.

Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez free youtube video and free live streaming

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Let’s get ready to rumble ! Can’t wait to hear once again Michael Buffer’s famous line this coming November 12, 201.The Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez may be well considered the fight of the year 2011. The fight which is simply dubbed as “Pacquiao vs Marquez 3“ will take place at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada. As almost all of Pacquiao’s fight are, this fight will be Sunday that time in the Philippines. This fight is kind of special for Pacquiao because according to news reports he considers this “personal” due to the fact that this is their third encounter. Both boxers want to prove who really is the best between both of them. If you can remember the first fight in 2004 ended in a draw. The second fight which took place in 2008 ended with Pacquiao winning the match. But in this fight, Pacquiao won over Marquez through a controversial split decision. Because of this, Marquez is insisting and is very vocal about it that he won those two fights. He is in fact asking … [Read more...]

Asia’s next generation attempt to tackle its greatest challenge

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Last year, I joined an essay writing contest sponsored by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public policy of the National University of Singapore and Time’s Magazine. The theme of the essay contest was “Asia Challenge 2020.” The objective of the contest is to find out the thoughts of Asians as to what is the most important challenge facing Asia over the next decade? Why? What should be done about it? I along with other Asian essayist submitted essays of 3,000 words or less in response to these questions. My essay was entitled “Solving  Asia's Poverty Problem” where I made an argument that the greatest challenge that Asia will face in the next decade is poverty. Unfortunately I did not win the contest. But I’m glad that they turned our entries into a book. I was just informed this week that the book is out, the title of the book is “Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia's Next Generation” The book is described in the Amazon website as follows “What will Asia look like ten … [Read more...]

Who says that playing online games is useless?

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All work with no play makes John a dumb boy, all play no work makes John dumber. This is what our parents and their parents taught them and all throughout the decades and centuries, the traditional view of playing games is that its childish, useless and done just for fun and that nothing good will ever come out of it except that it is done by children as part of growing up. Enter the 20th and 21st century with the advent of the internet, personal computers, mobile devices and gaming consoles, playing games has now evolved online. Parents frequently lament that their children are addicted to video games online and majority of psychologist say that it is not healthy for a child to play video games for long periods of time. Just recently there was a news item that a teenager died because of playing on a game console for more than 20 hours straight. So is playing games, especially sitting whole day on a hickory furniture and playing online games completely useless? If this is the … [Read more...]

Learn to make money online through blogging attend this blogging seminar in Cebu

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I taught at my alma mater, Cebu Institute of Tehcnology University, College of Industrial Engineering. Being a blogger for several years, in my classes I always presented the idea of making money online through blogging. Every semester, I hammered this idea into their heads. I’ve always believed that the internet is the future and a goldmine. We live in very exciting times and the internet is fast changing our society. I’ve encouraged students to be more active in exploring and exploiting opportunities online, especially in the field of blogging and social media which is a current hot trend and will continue to be a trend in the next few years. I expected some students to respond to my call, but I didn’t expect one of them to do this full time. Vernon Joseph Go, one of my students is now one of Cebu’s best known professional bloggers and Social media strategist. He will be conducting seminars on blogging and will teach you how to make money online. His blogging workshop will … [Read more...]

The most influential and most powerful law firm in the Philippines

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I had an interesting conversation with a veteran lawyer one day. (Read – Veteran not senior citizen hehehehe, lest he become angry with me)  :-) Our conversation first started about the Supreme Court deciding that San Miguel shares were really Danding Cojuangco owned and that it was not ill gotten. Because the decision was so preposterous and even referred to as the “joke of the century” by one of the justices that wrote a dissenting opinion on it, I asked him his personal opinion as to whether there was some sort of “maneuvering” (And by that you know what I mean) He answered me frankly and said, knowing the players involved; the possibility is not that remote. We went on to discuss the corruption in the judicial system. According to his own opinion about 60 to 70 % of those involved in the system are corrupt and there are only a few or a handful that really stand for integrity, honesty and justice. Everybody in the system knows this and this is an open secret among lawyers. He then … [Read more...]