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I have been a SUN user of almost three years, but I have very rarely bought their deals because of some very bad experiences I had in availing them.  I would often buy regular loads of 150 and stretch it out for two weeks because I don't trust the deals of SUN.  You see, I once availed of the CTU100 in order to call someone who is residing in Cebu.  Now, the CTU100 has the following features (see below):  It really is not a great deal.  Come to think of it,   The CTU30 has better features because we can call other networks.     So I bought the CTU100 once, but when I tried calling my mother, my regular load was subtracted.  That was a wake up call for me.   I complained about it in one of the small outlets of SUN in the outskirts of Manila, the manager of the said outlet said it's difficult to follow up and check because it's been three weeks already.  The  confirmation is still in my phone though.  I...

Don't be a victim like Rosita (not her real name)  I heard of her story while I was also going to send money to a retailer in Mindanao because I was purchasing something.  Rosita is 70 years old and like people her age, doesn't pay attention much to details especially that she has been sending money through this popular courier a hundred times already and was satisfied of their service, until that fateful day of June.   She sent the amount of P2000 to her grandson as a fiesta present, so that he can buy something new to wear or spend while watching the festivities.    Her grandson   was so excited to get the cash but he was denied the first time he came.  He requested that the control number be sent again, to be sure, so Rosita sent it and again, he was denied.  He was made to return several  times in order to speak with the cashier, but he was denied again and again.  Until somebody said that the money was already claimed by a...

My experiment paid off!  I am not one who easily buys too-good-to-be-true promos, but somehow this earninghabit.com sounded sensible though it still could not explain how they are able to pay their members thousands of dollars a day, assuming that what they are claiming is true.   So upon clicking the site, I was asked to register.  Thank God I have an email I use for these kinds of purposes, just in case.  Without any difficulty, I was given an account and an initial earning of, would you believe, $25 and will easily become $300 once you let others register.  So I promoted the link to all social media that I have, Twitter, Facebook (2 accounts), Google+,  I posted it many times.  Why did I do that? They promised me a pay off when my account reaches $300.  So I monitored my account and true enough after 55 invites, I was able to earn $365.  Wow. I was so excited to get my $365.  I was already making plans to spend it over the ...

I thought my faith in Citibank will finally be restored when they granted my application for a credit card after over ten years that I did not avail any of their products because of a traumatizing experience.  I'm sure all of us have heard 'horror stories' of Citibank's  violations of human rights in countries like Indonesia, etc.  where they send "T-H-U-G-S" to pressure card holders to pay up.  For a supposedly large and global financial institution, it's  surprising that they still employ barbaric methods in this computer age.   I was minding my own business in one of the malls in the metro when I was approached by a Citibank credit card agent offering me their products and dangled the fake bait which is zero annual fee for life.  Little did I know that this agent omitted a big factor.  While I acknowledge that it is my fault for biting the bait, I still think that Citibank should not mislead anyone and prey on human weakness.  A...

After an exciting and breathtaking 5-setter Game 2 for the Finals of the UAAP Volleyball Games, the De La Salle Lady Spikers emerged victorious and proved to be the more powerful team over its opponent, the Ateneo Lady Eagles.    Game 2 started rather slow for the Lady Spikers as the first set was taken by the ALE, whose attacks and floor defense got better compared to their first encounter.  During the second set,  the multi-awarded setter-captain of the DLSU, Kim Fajardo, threw 9 service aces at the ALE and it became an uphill climb from there. The ALE never outscored the Spikers and the Spikers ran away with the second set in a 14-25 result.   The 3rd set swung back to the ALE's favor again, as their floor and net defense worked to their advantage and the score registered at 19-25, giving the second win for this game to the ALEs.

I have always been using LBC ever since LBC started servicing the country, but sometimes, they can be frustrating.   My sister asked me one time to send a cell phone and a piece of jewelry to a friend in one province up north.  

Banking in the Philippines is a horror story.  It is a horror story because it would seem like you lost in the casino whenever your bank would charge you fees for their service.  Talk about point blank robbery.  Case #1:  I admit that I would have senior moments occasionally, and at one time, I forgot my PIN totally.  So in order to access my account, which i hadn't done for almost 6 months, I had to also secure another card.  To secure a new card, I had to go to the bank, sign anew and wait for 5 days, of course, you guess it right, I had to pay a service fee of P150.00.  Isn't that great?  Now, the horror story does not end there, since I want to withdraw some funds from my account, I had to withdraw over the counter.   And, why was I not surprised:  To withdraw my money at the bank where I am a depositor, I had to pay another P100.   Wait, there is more,  which is curious to me.  In this bank of mine,  I would be ...

Taxi scams are just one of the things that we always hear over the radio, television, social media.  Almost anywhere and in whatever season, taxi scams often happen.  There are horror stories of taxi drivers who spray sleep-inducing chemicals to make the passenger fall asleep, only God knows what could happen to the passenger upon losing consciousness.  Taxis are now becoming unsafe, no wonder app-based transport services like Uber are becoming popular.  They seem to be a better alternative to taxis, especially that reputations of car owners are spread by comments from those who availed of their services. I have always been a cautious rider, locking doors securely upon entering a taxi.  It has been my practice ever since one taxi that I took was victimized by 'hamog boys' along Guadalupe Bridge.  But I got victimized again.  I have to admit that I did not see it coming.  It was subtlely done and up to now, I am still fuming about it. ...