Is BPI Online Now Safe for Transfer of funds to your COL account?

Is BPI Online Now Safe for Transfer of funds to your COL account?

There was a recent advisory last April 11 as post in the facebook of COL Financial to temporarily use other way of funding your COL account as BPI Online and Over the Counter Bills Payment is experiencing technical issues.

One good thing at that time is that I didn't need to fund my account these past few months. And now I'm nervous to try it. So here it goes:

I went to the BPI Online Facility Platform and then I clicked the Payment/Load. Next, I encoded the necessary details and then made the confirmation as BPI will send a One Time Pin on your phone for validation. Step 3 shown the transaction details.

I made a successful transaction at 10:15 pm and from my previous experience usually the money is credited to COL after 15 minutes. 

It's 10:35am and my transferred money is still not credited. I already tried to log out and logged in.

I checked again at 10:54 am and it's credited.

So to answer the question: Is BPI Online Now Safe for Transfer of funds to your COL account? YES.

New to the Philippine stock Trading/Investing? Try the Virtual Mode.

New to the Philippine stock Trading/Investing? Try the Virtual Mode.

If you read this article you might be interested in stock trading or stock investing. However, you might be adamant still and postpone it until later when you are finally ready.

Part of being prepared is finding your safety net first where you are at your most comfortable and then dipping your foot the next. I'm no newbie when it comes to stocks and I'm interested with personal finance and management for years. Though I didn't take stocks seriously before as I thought it was very high risk (and high potential reward too), I've been quite familiar with it for a while. Just so you know, the younger generations today are luckier than the previous generation because with today's technology, you can now set up, trade or invest your money with as little as 5000 pesos using your phones/computers. Imagine, you can always trade or invest at the end of your fingertips which wasn't available in the last two decades!

If you are planning to start investing in stocks, why not try first the virtual stock trading? That way you can learn how the stock market works and what will be your strategy once real money is involved.

Here are the websites in which you can try virtual stock trading:

• Investagrams Virtual Trading Platform

Netflix's Movie To Watch: Pihu

Netflix's Movie To Watch: Pihu

I'm not really a fan of Bollywood movies. I liked "The 2 idiots" movie because it was hilarious and it comes with several lessons. But there is something that caught my eye when I happened to come across a Bollywood movie in Netflix. The summary plot was was intriguing and I was planning to watched it at that time and then I got bored until now.

This movie is a thriller and from the 30 minutes that I had been watching it, is heart-stopping. There are many hazards for a 2 year old who was alone in the movie that you just want to cringe. 

Choose Your Own Adventure by R A Montgomery: A must read for a beginning Book reader

Choose Your Own Adventure by R A Montgomery: A must read for a beginning Book reader

With computers and tablets becoming more accessible and cheaper by the day and software application games are increasing in numbers, childrens' attention span are becoming short. And it may become a bad thing.

I grew up in a time when computers are still in their bit mode pixel type generation. I'm a millenial and I grew up liking books. I always look forward to my new books every time before starting school. Whenever I reminisce about my childhood, I'm overcome with nostalgia as I would be reminded of the time that I smell the books first and then scan the content before reading them later on.

Nobody coerced me neither reiterated that I need to read for the sake of gobbling up information. As a reader, I think that it is important that we instill love for reading on the younger generation today because it broadens the mind (aside from travelling around the world) and in time, the vocabulary.

If you're thinking of introducing books to the young ones, I suggest that you check out the works of R A Montgomery specifically his Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Side note: I think I owe my love for reading to the clay animation story books that I've read. I'm always fascinated with clay animation. :-D