StarTek Invests $10M in the Philippines

There's a new call center in town and with the economic pressures in the US and around the world its wonderful to hear that the Philippines seems oblivious to problems because investments like these are still coming. StarTek Inc. is putting up a 10 million dollar facility to seat about 1,000 people for their new call center which is the first facility outside of North America.

StarTek initially had only 400 seats and plan to expand by the end of the year with new branches within Metro Manila and nearby provinces. They are also eying Cebu City to be their branch number 2 since they needed to go out of Makati where manpower seems to be too high of a demand because they also have other call centers nearby. They should have at least tried Eastwood City first since there are some who are bankrupt but kept on operating under a different name. If you are from this place you know who I am referring to. They should pay off their debt and give separation pay to all their employees though before they seek another job elsewhere. Good thing StarTek doesn't have that much horror stories to tell. Good luck!

More Than the Usual

I've lived in the Philippines all my life and I wouldn't want to go into specifics because I'd rather have everybody speculate about my age. If you are talking about where to go and what to do, we do it here more than the usual.

Thousands of Filipinos live through tourism and with the 7,120 islands that our country has it is not surprising why this is so. If a person doesn't like one place here, you've got 7,119 more to choose from. Metro Manila which is my hometown would never make you run out of things to do. We've got the third largest mall in the world, the largest in Asia that would literally take you a couple of days to really get used to because of the thousands of shops you can go to. At night, the restaurants are packed with locals and expatriates that chose to live the easy going life in the Philippines. There's a travel blogging competition I'm planning to join and I would like to invite you too. Check out http://www.thebloggersguide.com/wbc as web masters around the world compete in telling people about their cities. Make sure you join this sponsored contest from http://www.hotels.com and be proud of your hometown. It's worth it!

Even so, Happy Birthday Rihanna!

Rihanna today is turning 21, but of course since this horrible event in her life happened it may not be so happy yet. Millions of people were appalled when they saw Rihanna's picture that was posted in TMZ's website. I too am figuring out how can a guy do this to such a god woman as Rihanna. I wish she still could get over this and find a way to put Chris Brown in jail. With bruises on her face and a bludgeoned mouth and nose, I still find it difficult to accept he's still roaming around the US when Rihanna suffered that and almost killed her. Good thing no internal bleeding happened with that severe trauma she got from that event.

Reports from her family say Rihanna remains strong and doing well. I hope they get to celebrate with the family. She deserves a huge rest and probably a consolation of getting Chris in jail for doing that. I am just worried like so many people because if this happened to her, then how about the millions of women in the world. Let me just wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIHANNA!

The Change I Need

I have never gone to church for a couple of years. Yeah I know how silly it looks like but I have not done my obligation of going to church. It's bad I know and there are a couple of consequences that have happened because of this and I'm willing to take a huge turn because my Mom also talked me out of it.

Good things happen to good people so I need to learn a lot from my religion. I have been a Roman Catholic since birth so I would really have a shot a coming back. I need to talk about it every once in a while so I could at least keep sane from my busy work schedule. I need to also make friends with the same group of people that could get me through living devotion. I owe God a lot of things like my graduation, my family and my life so giving it back is just rightful to do. If you need someone to talk to there are Free Catholic Chat Rooms you can go to. At http://www.catholicchatcity.com you would not be a stranger anymore. Make sure you pay them a visit so you can meet people of the same faith. Remember that God Loves You.