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#806
Some things never change. The way we feel about our children, the smile we get when first we smell the earthy aroma after the rain. These feelings rarely change, nor do some core principles of what it means to be human and to be alive. Here are 19 things we should never forget, because they have always been true
#808
Please pray for Sri Lanka and all persecuted Christians!
#824
9. Be brave, even if you're not pretend to be. No one can tell the difference
#825
8. Always accept an outstretched hand
#826
7, Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday
#827
6. keep secrets
#828
SORRY Boss Mike. na double click . please erase this one. thanks.
#829
   We all have to make sacrifices for the ones we love. Material things and beauty won't last forever. True love will.
#830

     A very poor man had a beautiful wife. His wife had luscious and beautiful long hair that she loved and adored. One day her hair clips broke and she wanted a new one to take care of her hair. "Honey, can you please bring me a new hair clip?" Said the wife. "I'm sorry honey. I can't even afford to get my broken watch fixed." He said with a heavy heart. As he was walking to work, he saw a watch shop. He suddenly thought of something. "Why don't I just sell my broken watch for a little money to get my wife her hair clips." So he sold the broken watch for a small fee and bought his wife new hair clips. As he got home he was shocked to see his wife with shorter hair. "Honey, I sold my long hair to the salon and bought you a new watch." She said with a smile on her face. Tears started rolling down her husband's eyes as he gave her the hair clips he got for her.
#831
General Topic / A very poor man had a beautiful wife
April 28, 2019, 07:47:48 PM
  A very poor man had a beautiful wife. His wife had luscious and beautiful long hair that she loved and adored. One day her hair clips broke and she wanted a new one to take care of her hair. "Honey, can you please bring me a new hair clip?" Said the wife. "I'm sorry honey. I can't even afford to get my broken watch fixed." He said with a heavy heart. As he was walking to work, he saw a watch shop. He suddenly thought of something. "Why don't I just sell my broken watch for a little money to get my wife her hair clips." So he sold the broken watch for a small fee and bought his wife new hair clips. As he got home he was shocked to see his wife with shorter hair. "Honey, I sold my long hair to the salon and bought you a new watch." She said with a smile on her face. Tears started rolling down her husband's eyes as he gave her the hair clips he got for her.
#832
5. If in a fight, hit 1st & hit hard.
#833
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 28, 2019, 12:23:36 AM
#834
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 27, 2019, 08:02:34 PM
#835
4. Own a great stereo system
#836
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 27, 2019, 07:40:52 PM
#837
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 27, 2019, 07:40:23 PM
#838
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 27, 2019, 07:39:50 PM
#839
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 27, 2019, 07:39:18 PM
#840
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 27, 2019, 07:38:28 PM
Quote from: balong on April 13, 2019, 09:43:39 PM
naa koy pagumangkon tua sa lapulapu city nag start ug private school last year. started with 14 pupils and 4 teachers

#841
Jobless Migrant Family Of 10 Demands Mansion, Council Has Perfect Response
The father of a migrant family of 10, who not only refuses to work for his $147,000 benefits per year but is a full-time student on the taxpayer's dime, recently refused a free 5-bedroom house to demand a mansion for his growing family. However, after the councilman heard of the family's entitlement, he reneged on the offer and instead gave the perfect 7-word response.Arnold and Jeanne Sube fled Cameroon as asylum seekers in search of a better life, which they quickly found in France. Unfortunately, France's benefits didn't live up to the Subes' standards, so they headed to Britain, where they finally began living the welfare lifestyle of which many impoverished taxpayers and homeless veterans dream.

However, instead of gratitude for draining the taxpayers and refusing to contribute anything in return except more children, Arnold and Jeanne, both 33, demanded a larger house because their free 3-bedroom home is "too cramped." Hearing their plea, the Luton council decided that offering 2 extra bedrooms wouldn't be too far beyond the city's budget to suit the whining migrants. To their surprise, the family not only turned down the offer but had yet another demand.The Express reports that the Sube family responded to the council's generous offer of a free 5-bedroom home by insisting on being given a mansion with at least 6 double bedrooms. Shocked at their entitlement, a Luton Borough Council spokesman told them that since they're going to continue to demand without contributing, "We will offer the property to another family" and they will remain in their 3-bedroom house.
#842
3. Sing in the shower
#843
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 26, 2019, 08:59:37 PM
On Gratitude
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."
#844
2. Look people in the eye
#845
1. Have a firm handshake
#846
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 26, 2019, 02:07:19 AM
#847
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 24, 2019, 11:46:42 PM
#848
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 24, 2019, 03:59:50 AM
#849
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 24, 2019, 03:58:30 AM
#850
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 23, 2019, 09:23:55 AM
#851
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 23, 2019, 08:51:00 AM
#852
General Topic / Re: The Sayings of the Buddha
April 23, 2019, 08:49:45 AM
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama in Sanskrit or Siddhattha Gotama in Pali, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk, mendicant, sage, philosopher, teacher and religious leader on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
Born: Lumbini, Nepal
Died: Kushinagar, India
Full name: Siddhartha Gautama
Parents: Śuddhodana, Maya
#853
General Topic / The Sayings of the Buddha
April 23, 2019, 08:47:39 AM
#854
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 23, 2019, 08:44:26 AM
up up up ;D ;D ;D
#855
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 18, 2019, 09:38:54 PM
#856
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 18, 2019, 09:37:28 PM
10 – Stop comparing yourself with others

Most people are miserable not because of what they don't have. It is simply because they are comparing themselves with someone else. You are driving a motorbike, you see somebody in a Mercedes and you make yourself miserable. For someone on a bicycle, he sees you on a motorbike and that is a limousine for him. Somebody walking on the street looks at the bicycle and thinks, "Wow, if I just had that, what I would have done with my life!" It is a foolish game and it is just going on.

All those people who depend on external situations to be happy will never know true joy in their lives. It is definitely time we look inward and see how to create personal wellbeing. From your own experience of life you can clearly see that true wellbeing will come to you only if your interiority changes. If you depend on the outside to bring joy to you, you need to understand, the outside never happens 100% the way you want it. When this is the reality, at least this one person – you – must happen the way you want it to be. If you did happen the way you want yourself to be, the very natural choice is joy. That is not something that you have to pursue. If you fall back into your original nature, joyfulness is the only way you will be.
#857
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 18, 2019, 09:35:54 PM
#858
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 17, 2019, 10:16:36 PM
9 – Transform what's within

At present, the quality of your life is not determined by the clothes that you wear, the educational qualifications that you carry, the family background that you come from or the bank balances that you hold. Rather, the quality of your life depends upon how peaceful and joyous you are within yourself.

Definitely, somebody who does not have food and who is deprived of the basic needs for survival can be physically miserable. That needs to addressed. For such people, we must take care of those things first. But for most others, their needs are an endless list. You think the man who is driving the car is happier than the man who is walking on the street? No. It is not decided by what you have. It depends on how they are that moment.

10 – Stop comparing yourself with others
#859
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 17, 2019, 05:12:05 AM
8 – Remind yourself to smile!

For many people, it just takes an hour to forget all this and pretty soon their reptilian brain wants to bite someone. So give yourself a dose once an hour – a reminder of the value of life. If you are very insensitive, remind yourself every half-an-hour. If you are horribly insensitive, remind yourself every five minutes. It takes only ten seconds to remind yourself. You could do it in just two seconds too – "I'm alive, you're alive. What more?"
#860
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 16, 2019, 07:58:57 PM
7 – Smile!
When you get up in the morning, the first thing you should do is smile. At whom? No one. Because just the fact that you woke up is not a small thing. So many millions of people who slept last night did not wake up today, but you and me woke up. Isn't it great that you woke up? So smile because you woke up. Then look around and if there is someone, smile at them. For so many people, someone dear to them did not wake up today morning. Everyone who is dear to you woke up – Wow! It's a great day, isn't it? Then go out and take a look at the trees. They didn't die last night either.

You may think this is ridiculous, but you will know the reality of it when someone dear to you doesn't wake up. Don't wait till then to realize the value of it. It is not something ridiculous, this is the most valuable thing – that you are alive and everything that matters to you is alive. When on this disastrous night so many people did not wake up and the loved ones of so many others did not wake up, you and your loved ones woke up. Isn't it a fantastic event? Appreciate it and smile at least. Learn to look at a few people lovingly.
#861
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 15, 2019, 07:55:58 PM
6 – Stop pursuing, start expressing

Today we are seeking happiness so vigorously that the very life of the planet is being threatened. Don't be in pursuit of happiness. Know how to express your happiness in the world. If you look back at your life and see, the most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

What you save will never be your quality. What you dispense will be your quality. If you save your joy, at the end of your life no one will take account, "She saved every bit of joy in her; she's the most joyfully dead." They will say, "This horrible creature never even smiled in her life." But if every day you dispensed your joy and love, people would say, "Oh she was a joyful and loving being."
#862
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 14, 2019, 11:46:36 PM
5 – Move from psychological to existential

When we talk about a spiritual process, we are talking about shifting from psychological to existential. Life is about the creation that is here, knowing it absolutely and experiencing it the way it is; not distorting it the way you want. If you want to move into existential reality, to put it very simply, you just have to see that what you think is not important, what you feel is not important. What you think has nothing to do with reality. It has no great relevance to life. The mind is just chattering away with nonsense that you have gathered from somewhere else. If you think it is important, you will never look beyond that.

Your attention naturally flows in the direction of whatever you hold as important. If your thought and your emotion is important, naturally your whole attention will be right there. But that is a psychological reality. That has nothing to do with the existential. Suffering is not showered upon us, it is manufactured. And the manufacturing unit is in your mind. It is time to shut down the manufacturing unit.
#863
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 14, 2019, 07:31:26 AM
4 – See the mind for what it is
What you call as "my mind" is not yours actually. You don't have a mind of your own. Please look at it carefully. What you call as "my mind" is just society's garbage bin. Anyone and everyone who passes by you stuffs something into your head. You really have no choice about whom to receive from and whom not to receive from. If you say, "I don't like this person," you will receive a lot more from that person than anyone else. You really don't have a choice. If you know how to process and use it, this garbage is useful. This accumulation of impressions and information that you have gathered is only useful for survival in the world. It has got nothing to do with who you are.
#864
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 14, 2019, 07:27:51 AM
Ponciano F. Ramasola Senior High School is a Department of Education managed public senior high school located in Barangay Calatrava, Carmen, Bohol

high school diay. dili elementary
#865
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 13, 2019, 09:54:25 PM
Suffering is happening essentially because most human beings have lost perspective as to what this life is about. Their psychological process has become far larger than the existential process, or to put it bluntly, you've made your petty creation far more important than the Creator's creation. That is the fundamental source of all suffering. We have missed the complete sense of what it means to be alive here. A thought in your head or an emotion within you determines the nature of your experience right now. And your thought and emotion may have nothing to do even with the limited reality of your life. The whole creation is happening wonderfully well but just one thought or emotion can destroy everything.
#866
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 13, 2019, 09:45:39 PM
ang ramasola family nga orig from maribojoc naa poy ponciano ramasola elementary school somewhere in bohol
#867
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 13, 2019, 09:43:39 PM
naa koy pagumangkon tua sa lapulapu city nag start ug private school last year. started with 14 pupils and 4 teachers
#868
General Topic / Re: Balong Elementary School
April 13, 2019, 09:42:23 PM
i wish
#869
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 13, 2019, 09:41:44 PM
3 – Put things in perspective

Today morning, did you see that the sun came up wonderfully well? The flowers blossomed, no stars fell down, the galaxies are functioning very well. Everything is in order. The whole cosmos is happening wonderfully well today but just a worm of a thought worming through your head makes you believe it is a bad day today.
#870
General Topic / Re: 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 12, 2019, 10:05:16 PM
2 – Realize that joy is your original nature

It does not matter what you are pursuing in your life, whether it is business, power, education or service, you are doing so because somewhere deep inside you is a feeling that this will bring you happiness. Every single action that we perform on this planet springs from an aspiration to be happy because it is the original nature. When you were a child you were simply happy. That is your nature. The source of joy is within you; you can take charge of it.
#871
Technology / Re: Dynamic Semiotics
April 12, 2019, 07:51:21 AM
mora pod ni ug artificial intelligence
#872
General Topic / 10 Tools Towards a Happy Life
April 12, 2019, 03:54:02 AM
10 Tools Towards a Happy Life

1 – See that being joyful is your fundamental responsibility

The first and most fundamental responsibility for a human being is to become a joyous being. To be happy is not the ultimate aspect of life. It is the fundamental aspect of life. If you are not happy, what else can you do with your life? Only if you are happy, can other great possibilities open up.

Whatever you do, it is only your inner quality that you are going to spread. Whether you like it or not, that is the reality. Unless something of true value happens within you, you cannot do anything of tremendous value to the world. So, if you are concerned about the world, the first thing you must do is transform yourself into a joyous being.
#873
conserve water. drink beer
#874
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
October 05, 2018, 09:10:57 AM
dia pa ko sa big apple BIG BOSS MIKE. soroy soroy sa new york new york. oct. 30 pa ang flight to pinas. new york to manila to davao. istambay kariyot sa digos before going home to maribojoc. salida na pod. gara gara.  bisan logos na ka dagan, duwa gihapon. special CHRISTmas presentation BALONG and BOKATCH half time show. with prizes for the audience like dollars, rice maayo na lang pinaskohan para sa lucky audience. 35 sacks ra gud bahin bahinon ug tag 3 ka kilo. 8 is my lucky no. 3 plus 5 equals 8. hihihi
#875
Talk of the Town / Re: 10 commandments 4 senior citizens
September 30, 2018, 12:56:59 AM
i am old. and i hope to get older hihihihi
#876
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
September 30, 2018, 12:55:09 AM
all my bags are packed i'm ready to go.   next week, tuesday larga para sa new york
#877
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
September 28, 2018, 03:39:56 PM
 Topic: Dear Mike  (Read 88 times)

8 is my lucky no. jud. on dec. 23, mag thanksgiving mass ko para sa ahong parents nga dugay nang mi bija sa kalibots. mag ihaw ug 80 kilos nga baboy ug mag pa lechon ug 8 para inig ka human sa misa, naay paniudto ang manimbahay
#878
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
September 28, 2018, 03:35:30 PM
sunod semana mo larga na ko para sa new york. istambay ug kadiyot, enjoy the sights and sounds of the big apple. and then here i come, my beloved philippines. maka istambay na ko ug dugay sa pinas kay nag sugod na sa college ang akong mga alaga. nag abang sila ug balay sa orlando para ma duol sa university of central florida. my babies, gina and ian are beginning a great adventure. getting a college education.

and i will start a great adventure for myself. ha ha ha. mag samok samok ko ug duwa sa Maribojoc CHRISTmas Basketball League w/c opens on dec. 1. he he he. wa jud palandonga. i am the only senior citizen playing. he he he. will be posting pics soon kay 3 ka team ahong gi finance
#879
Talk of the Town / 10 commandments 4 senior citizens
September 28, 2018, 03:24:38 PM
#880
Jokes and Humor / Re: Platoon
September 26, 2018, 10:13:56 PM
#881
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
September 26, 2018, 06:09:24 AM


p.s.  hapit na pasko. mga ulit nga tawo, kong wala moy ika palit ug pinaskohan sa uyab. prenda lang inyong relo, kwentas ug uban pa sa PALAWAN PAWNSHOP
#882
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
September 26, 2018, 06:03:33 AM
i am already 67 yrs. old, mo duwa lang gihapon ko. sa NBA abot ka ug 40 retire na. i can still run and play w/ the young ones. pamawi lang ning aho. kay sa bata pa ko, wala may mo kuha naho nga makaduwa sa liga. unsaon banga man ko. okey lang unta ug banga basta datu, naay daghang team mo kuha nimo. malas lang naho banga ko pobre pa jud kay gipanganak man ko sa pobreng 0-10. so karong tiguwang na mo duwa ko pamawi bawi for the time i lost when i was young. mag tulo ahong laway tanaw sa parade of athletes in their uniforms.

to be continued
#883
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
September 26, 2018, 05:51:48 AM
#884
Sports and Fitness / Re: Dear Mike
September 26, 2018, 05:48:44 AM
#885
Sports and Fitness / Dear Mike
September 26, 2018, 05:46:04 AM
BIG Boss Mike,

i am coming home for a vacation. bakasyon grande kay almost 3 months. will be home oct. 31. back to new york on jan. 10 . super excited kay mo duwa ko sa Maribojoc Christmas Basketball league. 3 ka teams ahong gi finance. para sa inter barangay. BOKATCH [exaltacion] BALONG [kahayag] ug DIPATLONG.
sa atong salida nga exhibition game sa tubagbohol.com, nang hatag ta ug tshirts. but that was only 1 game. daghang games ning ahong duwaan. and as usual mag gara gara na pod ko. during the BALONG and BOKATCH half time show, mangora ko ug coins. ang maka ilog ug 1 cent tagaan ug $1. 5 cents = $5 ug 10 cents = $10. gibuhat ni naho sauna. sa diha pay kampanaryo sa maribojoc wala pa ma guba ang simbahan, gisugo naho ang pagumangkon nga mag pa lupad ug dollar ug peso gikan sa kampanaryo. didto lang ko sa ubos ga tan-aw nang lupad ang kwarta. inilogay mga bata ug tiguwang. pastilang biboha. mao nga karong wala nay kampanaryo, sa maribojoc gym na lang ko mangora ug coins.....hihihihihi
#886
Philippine Government / Re: Senator Trillanes Arrested
September 25, 2018, 10:25:47 PM
unsaon man gud ni si trillanes pareha man ni balong. sobrang pasikat. abi nija ug makaya si digong. gi unsa man nija pag balanse. senator vs. president. mag dulog na lang sila ni de lima sa prisohan
#887
no reaction   ;D ;D ;D
#888
Help & Support / Re: Tubag Bohol Is Back
September 18, 2018, 09:05:13 PM
               


                                  WELCOME BACK   BIG BOSS MIKE
#889
Forwarded message:

Duna koy nadawat nga message gikan sa akong classmate.
Iyang sister naa ga work sa PSG ni DUTERTE. Nakadawat sila ug intel report this noon time nga naay 4 ka babaye from Basilan nga nagplano mag suicide bombings sa mga malls sa Cebu ug Bohol.Please inform atong mga relatives and friends to stay away from the malls in the meantime nga dili pa ni ma clear nga intel.
Very high alert ang mega malls diri sa Bohol. Sa di ka pa maka park,  inspection sa imong sakyanan. ingna mga paryente nato.ayaw ni ibutang sa FB.private or personal message lang.
#890
Photos Unlimited / the door to NOWHERE
August 21, 2018, 09:13:19 PM
#891
Being Parked On a Back Road Is No Time For Secrets


A guy and his date were parked on a back road some distance from town, doing what guys and girls do on back roads some distance from town.

As things really started getting hot, the girl stopped the guy and said, "I really should have mentioned this earlier, but I'm actually a hooker and I charge $20 for sex."

The guy reluctantly paid her, and they went on with their business.



After they finished, the guy lit up a cigarette, sat back in the driver's seat and stared out the window.

"Why aren't we going anywhere?" asked the girl.

"Well, I should have mentioned this before, but I'm actually a taxi driver, and the fare back to town is $25."









#892
Cars and Automotive / Re: UBERloaded
August 06, 2018, 01:25:27 PM
#893
Cars and Automotive / UBERloaded
August 06, 2018, 01:23:53 PM
#894
Bill Gates has doubled down on his goal to depopulate the planet, using deceitful Orwellian doublespeak in a new video to bamboozle his naive followers into believing that "by making people healthier, we can reduce the world's population".
Make no mistake, when Gates talks about "making people healthier" what he is really talking about is enforcing the mandatory roll out of his range of experimental vaccinations. The same vaccines that have already caused mass sterilization and death on multiple continents.

The second-richest man on the planet is a committed globalist and eugenicist working towards the New World Order goal of depopulation. Lest anyone forget these facts, Bill Gates regularly goes out of his way to remind us of them.

Bill Gates and his foundation have consistently come under fire for their goal of depopulation, and now the same man who admitted in a TED talk that his goal is to eliminate a billion humans from the face of the Earth has now taken to Facebook to lecture us about why being eradicated is in our own interests.



The irony of Bill Gates' faux concern for the human race is almost laughable. India, however, may not find it so funny.
Last year, India's National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization announced that it would be banning the Gates Foundation from operating in the country after it was revealed that the vaccines the foundation had been promoting "to make people healthier" were actually doing irreparable harm to young girls, and that the Gates Foundation "campaigns" were actually "experimental trials of the vaccines".
Mainstream investigators have found that these vaccine trials in India led to thousands of injuries and deaths of young women.
The "philanthropist" has also funded secretive sterilization programs, and says we should form death panels to differentiate between those who are worthy of life and those who "have no benefit whatsoever" to society. This cold, skewed psychopathic "logic" is terrifying and brings to mind the worst excesses of the 20th century's most evil regimes.

Now we are starting to see the horrific results of Gates' depopulation agenda playing out around the world.

Kenya doesn't find Gates' fake concern for the human race amusing either. In September of 2017 it was reported that at least 500,000 young Kenyan girls and women have been made sterile, following a tetanus vaccine administered by the government, and pushed by the international organizations in Bill Gates' back pocket. "Today, we can confirm to the country that the Catholic Church was right. Hundreds of thousands of our girls and women, aged between 14 and 49, from the fastest growing populations in the country will not have children, because of the state-sponsored sterilization that was sold to the country as tetanus vaccination" Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga declared.

Gates, who has $23m of shares in Monsanto, is responsible for widespread vaccination programs which have been linked to outbreaks of disease in South America and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. GMOs and vaccinations have both been linked to human illness and death, even though Big Pharma and Big Agriculture continue to deny the undeniable correlations.

Let's ask ourselves this: If Gates is focused on his goal of reducing the number of people on our planet, why would he then fund vaccination programs to save lives?
None of this makes any sense, unless the vaccinations are not meant to save lives at all.

#895
karon pa ko kita aning video. pero di ko ka antigo mo kopya.

youtube.com/strangethingschannel
#896
true love never ends
#897

Does someone as wealthy as Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos help support their whole extended family e.g. aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.?


Not in any major way. They do not share even a single percentage with their extended family, while nuclear family (mostly kids) get to enjoy in the wealth — but for people like Gates, he states he will only leave his children with something like $50M each.

Larry Ellison of Oracle is one of the richest, and also one of the individuals famously not on The Giving Pledge. Jeff Bezos is also missing. Ellison collects a lot of Japanese historical artifacts, sometimes displaying them for limited times at art museums — he is able to fill entire sections, and also collects property — domestic and international.

Ellison resides in Woodside, close to work in Northern California. His Woodside home is a feudal Japanese-styled property which sports a Zen garden and a surrounding moat that cost $200M to construct. He has something like 30–40 mansions in Southern California alone. He just bought his 12th Malibu oceanfront property from Joel Silver for $38M in cash this month (July 2018). He also invested enough money into his daughter's enterprise, ANNAPURNA PICTURES, for it to be successful. Under Megan Ellison's lead, they have produced films such as Lawless, Killing Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, and American Hustle. However, dropping $300M on Hawaiian islands like the one he bought in 2012, called Lanai, doesn't exactly lend much credo regarding his generosity to extended family, or strangers for that matter.

Warren Buffett, "Oracle of Omaha," still lives in the same ranch farmhouse he has had since he started out. He had only ever indulged on one or two private jets. In a documentary about wealth by Jamie Johnson of the S.C. Johnson & Johnson family legacy, a direct heir who inherited $600M on his 18th birthday, Buffett's granddaughter was interviewed. She was living in a city apartment, sporting a more casual hippie look. She told Jamie that even though her grandfather is the second richest person in the world, she had never received one cent. Buffett, when he learned of the interview, disowned her immediately.

Statistics reportedly show that people who make the least and fall within the definitions of poverty usually contribute larger portions of their salaries to charities or helping others directly. The wealthy donate far less percentage-wise, and the largesse of these contributions usually benefit museums, hospitals, and universities.

For some reason, wealthy people actually don't like to share their money, or talk about it. Regarding me, I am perhaps too much of an open book. And I have helped with numerous people's retirement accounts directly, from Genentech to Google (for free!). I could care less about how much you make or how many homes you have. It's whether or not you are able to share and learn, so that you can be in a better position tomorrow than today.



Sean Chou, Business Intelligence Consultant & small business owner;ENTJ
#898
ngano kahang kasagarang mga datu hakog sa ilang extended family or paryente. maka donate ug milyon milyong dolyar sa mga charities, philantrophies and museums. pasikat ra diay ang ilang gihimo. na unsa ba intawon oi.

ako ganahan mang hatag. malipay nga mo gasto para sa ubang tawo. dili mawala nang pasikat but i genuinely feel happy when i can help someone in need. kay mao man nay sugo sa atong GINOO
#899
Photos Unlimited / Re: karaang uyab ni balong
August 03, 2018, 12:00:49 AM
ug nag dajon pa mi aning bayhana, tua ko pojo sa leyte karon. uban ni gina. dili ni maoy tinood niyang ngan. hinganlan lang nato siya ug gina. in honor of one of my daughters whose name is regina. di jud nato hibaw-an ang swerte . gi padpad ko sa kapalaran dere sa america. naa gihapon ahong pangandoy nga mo poyo sa pilipinas. dugay na kaajo nahong pojo dinhi sa states. gusto na jud kong mo uli sa pinas pero unsaon nga di na man ko ka ibot. maayo naman ahong kahimtang dinhi sa states. naa koy balay, mga sakyanan, ginagmay nga investment sa stock market. ano pang hanapin mo.

ang di lang naho angayan dere kay mingaw. wa koy mga barkada. perme lang naa sa balay. naa ra atubang sa computer. mag trade sa stocks. usahay maka ganansya ug pila ka libong dolyar sa usa ka adlaw. usahay arkanse pod. ug dili mag trade ug stocks mangita ug ka chat sa facebook. hahay pagka la-ay. unsaon nga nag inusara man lang ko sa balay. nag bulag na man mi si mrs. tua na siya poyo sa new york ug ako nia sa florida.

sumpayan pa
#900
Photos Unlimited / Re: karaang uyab ni balong
August 02, 2018, 11:44:22 PM