PhilHealth

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, or PhilHealth, will be increasing it's premium from 100PHP a month to 200 PHP a month. I called PhilHealth this morning, the increase will be effective July 1. Here's a news article about this from The Philippine Star:

Higher premiums for individual members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) will take effect on July 1.
PhilHealth president and chief executive officer Eduardo Banzon said the premium of members under the individually paying program (IPP) will increase from P1,200 to P2,400 per year.

The person who spoke to me about this told me that I could pre-pay my premiums for 1 year up to 2 years, I would be paying 1200 to 2400 for those years. Not bad.

Deadline for this is June 30.

Chat Girls

I've seen the ad on craigslist a few times before. I did a bit of research and I think there is a market for this. Japanese men have always been wanting different kinds of entertainment so I wouldn't be surprised with this one:

Welcome at Live Video Chat registration in Japan Online
Chat Girls Wanted!

 We are currently looking for chat girls.

 Become a chat girl and earn money from home.

 Japanese Learners? Earn money by chatting and practicing with Japanese members. (You don't need to be Japanese Learners to start this job.)


Benefits

 Earn money from the comfort of your home

 You set your own hours

 Choose Platonic chat or Adult chat

 Earn money every minute you chat (No free chat for you to waste your time)

 Learn Japanese by earning money
(Japanese is not required)

 Can chat with up to 100 people simultaneously.
Be a star and get Centuple (100) pay 

There is no need to get naked and do "stuff" unless the chat operator wants to. I wonder if there are girls out there who are interested....

Writing Jobs

I was able to collect some sites that are looking for writers:

Quality Gal

WriterBay

iWriter

Homebased Freelancers: A New Breed of Filipino Workers

Interesting read. I am not working for oDesk but I do work for US/Canadian clients. Homebased freelance work is the growing trend everywhere, especially here in the Philippines. Yes, I turn night into day and day into night just to make a living but it's all worth it. 


I'm glad the writer of the blog recognizes how good most Filipino homebased workers are.

So, why do we care that Philippines is awake all the time? The immediate benefit is that getting a team in Philippines can ensure the availability of labor for handling real-time tasks. If you have a human-powered application, you do not want to have any dead periods of time, where the application is slowing down or becomes completely unresponsive. However, by hiring people from Philippines, it is possible to have a "private crowd" available around the clock, by simply asking the Philippines contractors to "show up" at different points during the day/week.

Philippines: The country that never sleeps (or, When is the world working? The oDesk Edition)