St. Augustine Parish

Here are the photos and some of the videos I covered for the St. Augustine Parish here in San Cristobal, Parian Calamba City.

Celebrating the Holy Eucharist at St. Augustine Parish.

Zoomed view of  St. Augustine Parish while celebrating the mass

View from the back end of the St. Augustine Parish.
This seat is very distracting because you can hear the noise of the vehicles passing outside the church

The unfinished construction site

Inner wall

Back wall

Unfinished pillars

Left-most pillar

Left pillar

Left side wall

Unfinished flooring and pillars

Here's some video clips to better appreciate my shots.

Entrance to the parish

St. Augustine Unfinished construction Video 1

St. Augustine Unfinished construction Video 2

St. Augustine View at the center

St. Augustine Parish Altar

St. Augustine Parish Altar 2

In case you want to donate : You may deposit them on this account. 

BPI Savings Account 008453-0522-74 St. Augustine Parish.

Comments on tag line are highly appreciated.

Day 47 : I’m starting to like greeting everyone good morning!

For the past couple of days, I’m sending everyone a good morning message. It felt so good seeing them reply to my message. Some of them are sending back quotes that inspire me. Some of them are replying with a “how are you message?” These replies really felt good.

In fact, what made me feel better is we will be having a date with one person that replied to my short message. We scheduled it this coming Wednesday. We’ll have a little chit chat on what’s going on with each other’s life. So I’m looking forward to it.

I also encountered no response (in fact most of them) but hey that’s okay. As long as my message was received and my message made them feel that someone remembers them. That’s fine with me. No response should not stop me from doing the right thing right?

So tomorrow, I’ll do this again!

See yah on tomorrow’s post!

eLviN

By the way, before I forgot. I’ll be interviewing the parish priest tomorrow. I have my camera to take more photos of the place to fix the site.

Day 45 : Contemplating with Questions

After contemplating on the project for the St. Augustine Parish I asked myself the following questions. Also, I’ll ask these questions to the parish priest as well for us to align with our goals and objectives. Well, I guess this can also help other people to ask the right questions to get the right answers before jumping to any conclusion. By the way, these are random questions running through my head so please bear with me if these are not arranged in a beautiful manner.

• How do we define success?
• If we accomplished our goals of raising this fund, would that make us successful people?
• Why do we want to change?
• What benefits do we receive after changing?
• Why do other people want to help/buy from us?
• What do we offer that other competitors do not?
• What is our story?
• Why do we need to raise that much?
• What do we gain or lose after achieving our goals?
• What are the available resources that we can use?
• When can we complete this?
• Why are we doing this?
• What can be used as our leverage?
• How can we attract the right people that can help us achieve our goal?
• How badly do I want to achieve this?

I believe that aligning with our goals is the first step this includes the creation of our big emotional why. The emotional why would help us move forward in reaching our goals. With the questions I listed above, I’m hitting the big reason why I want to do this. Honestly, right now I’m having a hard time contemplating the answers to my own questions. I guess I’ll give it a day to think about it.

Contemplating,

eLviN

Day 44 : Sickness and 27 Million Pesos

Today I didn’t come to work due to coughs and colds.

Anyway, it was a good opportunity for me to rest. So I slept. I ate food to my heart’s content. I drank medicine and I watched movie in my PC.

I also sent a SMS to my friends to keep me sane from my isolation. I don’t want my family members to have colds too.

I sent Fr. Louie a message that I can go to his parish today. To give you a background, Fr. Louie is the parish priest of St. Augustine Parish here in Parian Calamba Laguna.

So at 8PM, my family went to the church to meet Fr Louie.

We talked to him and discussing to him why I’m doing this. I told him that I’m part of 1 million in 90-day challenge.

Then I asked him, how much does it cost to renovate the parish?

He said a whopping 27 million pesos.

Wow. I never expect that this would cost this much.

Then he showed me the artist perspective. Here's the artist perspective of the church. I’ll also post the current photo of the church.

I know I can do this. 

Believing,

eLviN

Day 43 : Results Oriented Business

I talked to Tito Tony and I realized that I really missed talking to him. I missed his empowerment for a couple of days of no communication or whatsoever. We’re both very busy in our businesses.

Anyway, I’m glad that I talked to him once again. I got his empowerment. I got his wisdom once again. Hooray!

I was amazed how Tito Tony and the group in Cebu manage to help businesses. He develops satisfied customers. Here’s how they’re doing it.

By the way, Tito Tony’s strength is his network and his Marketing Ideas. So he uses this one as leverage.

They attract businesses by giving them new marketing ideas. They create website for them and not charge them until they meet their goals (in the form of sales, number of customers etc). In short, the business ventures they’re entering are win-win situation both in Tito Tony and their business partners.

This scenario enlightened me last night.

Why?

Accepting a client and having a domain for him (for free) would really push me (or my team) to the reach that extra mile for me to have a breakeven. Well the charge for the website is limited but the experience I’m getting on these kinds of ventures is priceless.

Now, I’ll be shifting my mindset from a website developer into a results oriented marketer. Good thing I got to talk to Tito Tony before talking to people I’m going to help.

Pursuing great customer service,

eLviN

Day 42 : I get used to it and I can’t stop

I just developed a habit. For almost 43 days, I’m been writing my thoughts down on this blog. I could not believe that I could not go to sleep without visiting my MS Word to type in my thoughts that occurred for me for that day.

Anyway, just like any addictions, I can’t stop writing my thoughts down. Even though I’m sick, sleepy, tired or bored – I just can’t help myself but to right my thoughts down.

This is one accomplishment that I don’t think I can do before. It is happening right in front of my eyes. I’m writing one article per day, imagine that.

Anyway, there’s another thing I want to become part of my daily routine just like what I’m doing. It is constantly exercising and building my muscles to the next level. I’ll exercise daily. I’ll do my sit-ups, push-ups and breathing exercises every morning as I wake up. I planned this before but it didn’t materialize after a couple of days.

My goal here is to build a strong and healthy body because I know I have a strong mind already.

If I was able to write on this blog daily), I can exercise everyday as well.

Why am I doing this?

After the series of events that occurred for the past couple of days, I really need to step up and to be strong. I want to be a good protector of my loved ones. And I’m claiming that.

I’ll get used to it and I will not stop.

eLviN

Day 41 : Meeting with the Parish Priest

Supposedly, I’m scheduled to meet the parish priest in Parian to discuss a fund raising activity for their parish. To give you a little background of the story, it goes something like this.

There’s a small parish near our place. From the outside, you’ll never expect that it’s a parish. It looks like an abandoned warehouse from the outside. When you get inside, it really looks like an abandoned warehouse. I guess, you’ll appreciate it if you saw the place. Don’t worry I’ll post some photos in the near future.

There was a plan by a political person that will renovate the parish. However, since he didn’t win the election, it didn’t materialize.

I heard this story from my father so it gave me an idea to have a big project. I never did something like this before so this is really worth a try. I have a goal, I’m looking for projects to have experience with my marketing skills, I wanted to help people/community, and this is my chance. It’s really a win-win-win situation.

So here’s the plan.

First, we need to know how much it would cost to renovate the whole parish. Of course, I’ll have the figure after our discussion (hopefully tomorrow).

Second, I’m thinking of applying the social media marketing in pulling this one off. I’ll use youtube – I’ll let the parish priest create a lot of videos. I’ll use facebook – I’ll post here photos plus status messages of the parish. These two sites will lead to a sales page (optin page) where they can see the donate button. I’m thinking of giving something in return to those people who will donate. I’m thinking of Christmas cards/greeting cards but it depends on the resources.

Then third, promote, promote, promote. I need the help of the parishioners as well as my friends to pull this one off. The parishioners will help the online pages to be viral.

My goal is to reach the target amount of money in less than 50 days (before the end of the challenge).

What do you think?

Excited to meet the parish priest,

eLviN

Day 40 : Questions and Random Thoughts

Question. When is the best time to trust someone?

We learned that like attracts like. We attract people that have the same mindset as ours. We attract people that have the same wavelength as ours. But not all have the same blueprint as ours. In some cases, our positivity are misinterpreted and taken advantage of.

Just like what happened to Edel. She was harassed. Her kindness was taken advantage of.

What should we do in such situation?

Here’s another situation.

You want to help someone. You have the resources. You have the skills. You have the talents. You have everything that he/she needs. However, at the back of your mind, you’re thinking that if I give this or that, it will create a dependency that would really worsen the situation. The lesson will not be learned. The person will totally depend on you. No more work, no more actions, no more decisions, nothing.

How can we teach someone a lesson?

If we don’t give them, either they’ll be mad at us or guilt will run in our heads. I know, the solution is to teach them. What if they don’t want to learn? What they really want is to depend on you, what would you do?

I know I have the answers to these questions but most of the time it is difficult to choose. It is very difficult to decide.

But I need to decide. We need to decide and we need to stick to that decision.

eLviN

PS. By the way, tomorrow I’ll be discussing a project to one of the parish priest of one chapel I’m planning to help. I’ll use my talents and skills to help renovate a chapel near our place. I’m excited for tomorrow! Good night

Day 37 : Law of Reciprocity

I have been exposed to too much work. 

But I'm having a great time in helping others. I sacrificed my deliverables for the day just to help someone in need. Doing something unusual creates a certain value that cannot be repaid. In short, priceless.

Here are the things I did today.

I helped someone with her excel formula. Based on my calculations, if she manually computed it, it would take her 30-45 minutes. My solution? Less than 1 minute. 

I created a how to video for a report generation using a screen capture program. That video will save roughly 12 hours of my time (in the future) just to answer questions about how to troubleshoot the process. 

I taught my sister how to construct a chord in piano. I taught her the fundamental of chord formula to know the notes of a particular chord e.g. F#Maj7. 

I realized that there's so much to gain when giving. Law of Reciprocity at work. 

zzzzzz,

eLviN

 

Day 36 : Work work work

This is quick because it's getting late. I should have posted this a while ago but because I'm doing my work, I was not able to create a lengthy post today.

Anyway, I'll just share my update. Godwhispers page already received 235 people liking in just a matter of 8 days. So that would be 29 people per day. Wow! So if you haven't been there, I suggest you'll like that page now and be part of the first 1000 Godwhispers page members.

That's about it.

I'll play the guitar on tomorrow's first Friday Mass at the office.

God bless to me and to you reading this as well.

eLviN

Day 35 : Automation

While I’m doing this post, I’m currently sending an email message to all the attendees of the event on Saturday. In case you didn’t know yet, I’m a virtual assistant. What do I do? I’m sending emails to people who are inquiring on a particular event. As of the moment, I handle three events, two this august and one on September. This keeps me busy for the past couple of days (actually months).

So how did I do it? How do I automate it?

Well, I have this message that will be sent to 200+ email addresses. It would be a lot of work right? Good thing is I have a tool here in my PC where in I can send messages to a lot of email addresses. With just a few clicks of a button, viola, I’m multitasking – writing this post and sending email at the same time.

Isn’t it great?

Yes it is. It made my life easier. By doing automation, it is like delegating a task to someone else.

I know you can do that too.

Leverage automation for future success.

Until tomorrow,

eLviN

Day 33 : A blessed day!

Yesterday, I talked about blessed or stressed. I decided that I'll be serving blessing today and that's what I got!

A lot of things happened today!

This is an awesome day!

First, we won in our first basketball game (our team standing is 1 win and 2 losses). I scored two points. I’m more of a defense type of a player when it comes to basketball. So scoring two points is already an accomplishment.

Second, I had an affiliate sale! Isn’t that great! I just need to put up more stores. Currently I have four affiliate links, scattered in facebook, a couple of websites and some forums. This means I need to scatter more of them in different places. Of course, I need to remember that I need to build networks first. I’m a permission internet marketer. :D Target for this one, is at least one sale per week.

Third, I’m happy that Godwhispers already have 168 fans in just a matter of 5 days! I did not reach my goal of 200 fans by August 1 but I already consider that one an accomplishment. Next goal for this is to create value before promoting the Godwhispers sales page. I have the post ready for the sales page we’re just waiting for the right time. :D

Fourth, we have a new article in our Feast Laguna Website courtesy of Bro Rem. This week, we will be executing our plan to put more posts in our facebook page. If we are right, this will encourage more people viewing Feast Laguna Facebook page that will eventually become Feast attendees. Target for this is in a month’s time, we will be doubling in Feast Attendees. Right now, the average attendees is 250. In four weeks time, it will be 500!

Fifth, Jomar Hilario already advised me the date for our Laguna Internet Marketing Workshop! It will be on November 20-21. I’m excited for my first event! Please pray for me.

By the way, I guess I’ll stop here for the mean time. It’s getting late. Gotta sleep.

Excited for tomorrow!

eLviN

Day 32 : Stressed or Blessed

I missed writing day 31 on this blog. My head was aching last night until this morning. Due to lack of sleep I guess. Good thing I’m back to writing. I really missed writing my thoughts down. It’s kinda automatic for me. Well, it has been one straight month I’m writing my thoughts down. Before I could not think that was possible but here I am, doing the impossible before.

I thank Tito Tony for that. I thank Tito Tony for introducing me to this 90 day challenge. It really pushes me to the limits (more or less).

Anyway, on this post, I’ll discuss to you my rant for the past couple of days. You see, I’m starting to be stressed out because of my job. Too much frustration I guess. I have this project wherein I’m tasked to lead the data validation of our inventory system. Other markets are willing to help me except for Philippines. I don’t know why, they don’t want to help me (themselves) to fix the problem. Everytime I talk to them, it feels like I’m the bad guy. I’m the bad guy because it is a hopeless case. From what I’m seeing, they don’t like the system because they could not change the details posted on that report.

For months, I’ve been trying to convince them that I’m just trying to help them.  

I’m starting to lose my patience.

I’m starting to be stressed out.

Good thing, God sent me an angel. The angel enlightened me and told me that I don’t need to be stressed out because I’m blessed. I’m blessed with my work.

I even got this message from Godwhispers…

Each day, you have only two options: To be stressed or to be blessed. Stress and trust cannot co-exist together. If you’re stressed, then it means you don’t trust. If you trust, then you won’t be stressed.

Trust me,
God

P.S. When you’ve done all you can, and the problem is still staring at you, just turn everything to me. Like a child, tell me, “Lord, I’ve reached a point of incompetence”. And then sit back, relax, and watch me move.

I thank God for the reminder. I’ll trust him more.

I’m working tomorrow because I’m blessed,

eLviN

PS. In case you haven’t like the page Godwhispers, please do so. I’m 50 people away from my target fans until August 1, 2010. Be blessed.

Day 30 : Time flies fast

It has been thirty straight days, I’ve been posting my thoughts here in my 1 million in 90 days challenge. Honestly, I’m on my way to greatness though I haven’t earned anything with monetary value yet (aside from my active income).

This post will just contain what happened since then.

First, my mind was opened to a vast learning and earning opportunities. I have read four books in one month. I’ve read one minute millionaire and cash in a flash both from Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen. I’ve read my first ever marketing books, all marketers are story tellers and meatball sundae by Seth Godin. I learned various internet marketing videos in the internet.

Second, I aligned myself of my career as an internet marketer. I created a Godwhispers page as a start (targeting of 200 fans by August 1 – four days of existence). I even sent Bo Sanchez an email to ask for his permission with this one. He replied and gave it a go signal. So what’s the statistics? Currently it has 96 fans, half way to go and one day left. My goal is to practice viral marketing in facebook. I need your help! 

For the remaining next sixty days, here’s my plan.

I’ll continue in creating viral messages. I’ll be promoting events, I’ll be creating my own website that will contain a lot of how to’s in the internet (I’m thinking of doing this in a tagalong version). The purpose of this one is for Filipinos to become aware that there’s a lot of earning and learning opportunities online. I’ll be using my handy dandy Camtasia.

To be aligned with the things I wanted to do, I’ll be pursuing another career. I will be an internet marketer and I’ll be discussing it to my boss on Monday. Please pray for me to have this job post.

Next 60 days, here I come!

eLviN

Day 29 : I never expected...

Today is the first day of our 2 day planning conference here in Taal Vista.

Well, the experience was great. I never thought that I’ll learn more marketing skills in our supply chain planning conference. Actually, I never expect something great will happen, it just came. So this post I will be sharing them all to you.

First, I never expected that I’ll learn a new quote that will help me as an internet marketer. Here’s the equation:

Deliver the results = Gain the Trust = Earn the right to

Actually, this applies to our life. This applies in our work, in our relationships, in our everyday life.

How?

If we manage to deliver the results we gain the trust of our superiors. Gaining their trust will result to us earning our right to provide a strategy to better improve the process.

In my life as an internet marketer, if I manage to continuously provide the things my market (selected niche) wants then I gain their trust, I gain their respect. Once they trusted me, the things I’ll be sharing will be trusted as well thus earning my right to influence their decisions. My voice will now be heard and will be considered.

This agrees to the idea of Social Profit Formula (Don Crowther) that we need to have a ratio of 50 valuable messages to 1 selling message. The 50 messages would make us more or less trustworthy (or should I say an expert) on the selected niche.

Second, I never expected that our company will be gearing towards the new marketing in five years time. With this, I’m excited to apply as a internet marketing of our company. With my passion in blogging and social media, and web 2.0, I know this will be a great learning opportunity for me.

Third, I never expected that I’m still on track for the first popular page I created in facebook. My previous post says that I’m seeing 200 people liking that page on August 1. And I’m very proud to tell you that in just a matter of 2 days, the Godwhispers facebook page already have 69 fans! Woohoo! I never created something like that before. This is the first one. :D

Fourth, I never expected that we will be sending email invites for feast laguna attendees tomorrow. Edel and I are starting to worry about not being able to do our job as media marketing for the Feast Laguna. Lo and behold, when I opened my email, I saw a personalized email from Jon Escoto! Whew! That message save our day!

Lastly, I never expected that God will enable me to share my thoughts to you today. God is really good in providing me everything I need.

Still in awe in God’s amazing power,

eLviN

Day 28 : Rant!

For the next two days, 29^th and 30^th day of July, I’ll be out of the office. We will be having our annual planning conference in Taal Vista. So bear with me if you’ll not see any post on this blog for tomorrow. I’ll do my very best to create a journal tomorrow even though the schedule will be tight. Who knows, anything can happen.

With this planning conference, each team and group are required to do some pre-work. We started doing it since last week and thank God it is finished (we’ll just present it tomorrow or on Friday).

Meetings after meetings were held just to finish the powerpoint presentations of each group.  I was assigned to create two powerpoint presentation, one for our group and the other own for my team.  

This does not excite me. Powerpoint presentation forced me to put a lot of texts in one slide. Long meetings mean long unproductive time. I should have finished a lot of my operational tasks. I should have got home early for the past couple of days. I should have written very nice articles for my blog (which is quite overdue). I should have promoted my facebook page enough. Sigh.

Good thing I have a nice stress reliever in the beautiful form of Edel who made my day by being so sweet and kind and understanding.

I appreciate her presence more and more.

By the way, today is our fourth year and 7^th month anniversary.

I guess, I need to go to sleep.

See yah!

eLviN

Day 27 : Making My Move

Today marks my 27^th day of doing the challenge. I admit I’m starting it a bit slow. A lot of the initial plans were not done. I’m constantly changing the path I’m doing on this challenge in search for that one thing that I really, really love doing.

Upon contemplating and reading Seth Godin books and listening to social media, I really want to make my own online business.

And because of that I have made my move. I’ll be following Seth and Don’s (Social Profit) advice. I created a facebook page for one particular product that I loved and really worth sharing. I’m seeing that we will be having 200 people liking this page by August 1 as I continue posting three to five posts per day. A lot of interactions will be happen on this page as we see people being healed and being blessed by the daily dose of Godwhispers.

That’s my first page.

Second, we are now more focused in bringing more people to the Feast Laguna. Again just like the Godwhispers facebook page we will be promoting the Feast Laguna. Here’s our strategy. We are incorporating the various thank you messages received from the love offering envelopes to have daily posts and daily interactions in Feast Laguna facebook page. We will be placing 10 thank you notes (or 10 inspirational messages) every day. So that would be 50 messages per week then promote the event on Thursdays or Fridays. The goal here is to have five to ten new people per week coming from the facebook page and/or the Feast Laguna website.

By the way, we will be doing audience targeting. How? We will promote on those people who follow Bo Sanchez for both Godwhispers and Feast Laguna (with Laguna as geographical location).

After this, we will be starting to feature another page which contains our own product. I downloaded software to aid me on this so this will be very fun thing to do! :D

Ooops. I forgot to take note that I admire Bo Sanchez for replying everytime I emailed him. He really values relationships. I like that. He is truly a blessing.

That’s it. I’ll keep you posted on the 200 people by August 1. The current status? 192 people to go.

This will be the start of me becoming an internet marketer!

eLviN

Day 26: A Helping Hand

This will be another short blog post because it is already late. I helped my mom create an office layout for their new office. Good thing, I still know how to create office layout using MS Visio.

I also helped Edel in fixing her blog. I removed some advertisements in her blog to focus more on our affiliate programs.

By the way, Edel and I created a history. We felt this certain opportunity to post our link in the official site of the Philippines (www.gov.ph). We noticed that there were no comments posted on the English version of 2010 SONA so we commented. We also created a blog post about 2010 SONA. In any minutes now until the SONA craze will subside we are expecting visitors to our blog (either from the social media or the search engines). We’ll see. In case you’re interested in reading the 2010 SONA, just visit my blog (www.elvinperia.com) or Edel’s blog (www.bit.ly/edelramilo).

By the way, tomorrow will be our second mastermind meeting here region 4.

I’ll continue my thoughts tomorrow.

eLviN

Day 25: Interruptions

Today, things not went well according to plan. We were supposed to have our Fourth Starbucks Experience. To give you a background, Starbucks Experience is an event where in Edel and I go out to have a sip of Starbucks coffee to meet and discuss with friends some plans for our future. Plans may include business ideas, wedding plans (ahem), life plans, strategies on how to make our lives remarkable and anything under the sun.

Well, it does not happen due to an interruption.

We accompanied Ren and Bridgette on their first ever Karate Tournament.

It was a great experience seeing Ren and Bridgette perform. I took their video and Edel posted them in Facebook. Here’s the link to Ren’s first ever Kata Tournament.

Interruptions are not that bad after all.

We just learn how to make every moments (interruptions or scheduled) remarkable.

eLviN

Day 24 - Law of Attraction at work again!

I just finished reading All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin. I started a new book and so far I’m enjoying it. It is about the old and new ways of marketing. The new way focuses on internet marketing, the path I’m going to take.

Just like what I have said in yesterday’s post, I’ll read and look for more materials like this to start my job as an internet marketer. By the way, I thank Tito Tony for sharing me these awesome books! I want more.

Thanks to law of attraction, the universe gave me what I want. I got a priceless material that would help me understand social media and how we can harness its full potential for profits.

In case you want them, you may check out this link (this link contains three videos this is the first one. Social Media Doesn’t Work unless you do it right. Just put there your email address and you can see the videos. I’ll tell you they’re priceless.

By the way, the third video is my favorite. It shows us the social media map.

That’s about it for this post. I want to have more time reading Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin.

Back to reading,

eLviN