Updated: September 24, 2010
Business Ideas
- Added 02/01/2012
- Specialty store with merchandize focusing on marginalized relatives
- App that gives loyalty rewards for frequent visits or purchases
- Tumbleweed cactus plant vending machine controlled by ipad mobile vendor
- Added 12/23/2010
- Digital online version of Flat Christine
- Tumbleweed GreenHouse for Mobile Retail, expandable unit when parked
- Added After 09/24/2010
- BFF
- Multicab
- Blue Mars retail
- netbook case designs for etsy
- succulents anonymous mobile desert
- cactus show sales/seed propagation
- danggit distribution by mom
- Added After 01/19/2010
- An iPad app for SL
- Kutsch Knits for the iPad
- Famotron - algorithm for calculating internet notoriety. Based on I Fame.
- Cebu 2020
- Added 12/22/2009
- PlanetPinoy.com
- Febo in Manila/Cebu
- Parol-To-Go
- Kutsch Knits in US
- Destination BCN service in PI
- Cyber or e-Commerce site:
- Internet site that sells products created by microfinance entrepreneurs. Include feature profiles of the borrowers and their small businesses. This will be a non-profit organization where in most of the revenues go back to the lending programs.
- An online service that allows people to rank skills of their employees. Then, they are rated on an ebay like type of rating system.
- Online G-travel Gear: FGgear
- www.blikvangers.com Cubes
- Sticker/Decal company online
- Internet T-Shirt Company
- Internet Café/bookshop at retail space in Bayview Condos, Manila
- PersonalAssistants.com
- Beadsforbooks.com
- Sporeadical.com or Sporenographic.com
- Make a new app for Facebook (idea needed here)
- Food or Franchised Restaurants:
- Filipino food served tapas style. Cesar as inspiration but not so high-brow.
- A Cafe Latte place in Amsterdam but in OC...sells a whole bunch of stuff
- A restaurant that serves airline food, pushed by flight attendant wearing outfits and in plane food containers
- Succulents: A cafe that also sells cactus and succulents
- Lumpia fastfood
- Hansarap
- Old Spaghetti Factory at Bay Gardens
- Harbor Village in Cebu
- The House of Crabs
- Hotdog stand in 3rd Street Promenade
- Food stop in Sogod/Catmon
- Soup stand in Big Bear
- Real Estate Related
- Purchasing property from OC Public Administration via auction then flipping
- Upgrading condos and properties (flipping)
- Secondary Real Estate market in the Philippines
- Build and sell pre-fab moden homes
- Develop small community of tumbleweed homes for singles
- Design tumbleweed homes that are expandable like the mini house
- Travel Related
- Hostel in Silver Lake, Sunset Junction: Call it Tontoreria
- Inter-island cruise within the Philippines
- Hostel in Tahoe
- Camotes island hostel
- Philippines 2008 trip for fun
- Philippines Travel and Learn. Creative, innovative, and business minded professionals around the globe give seminars to several MFI borrowers in the Philippines in exchange for cultural immersion.
- Bring European experience to the Philippines
- G resort in Bantayan
- Creative Types of Business
- Write my novel about gay in the future and outer space. Tales of the City meets Star Wars and Frank Miller.
- Cute postcards, gift cards, holiday cards using SL photography and captions
- Machinimakers or Machinima Factory: new company on machinima making...DONE: Machitopia
- Machinima Idea: "It was I who killed her", Bahz Luhrmann, Chanel, Molotov Alva, turn into a Trilogy (Crescendo Trilogy)
- No Pretense: A graphic design shop
- Young, hip, and sexy development magazine
- Write a screenplay about that one dream I had. It's about a future or other-worldly scenario where the idea of development is all surreal. In this alternate reality, everything that is considered exploitative and impolitically correct now becomes the future. Also, highlight the contrast between the realist and structuralist political economic views. For example, babies driving different kinds of boats in a luxury exotic resort as a an extreme paradox for child labor. Also, workers that lend their brains for neurological storage as a form of futuristic sweatshop. Another one would be unfair trade taken to the extremes...wherein trading partners can be categorized as consumers and colonies. The future scenario shows a world where there are clear lines between winners and losers. But, society of that period accepts it because it has the highest level of social mobility in human history. So, people are not indentured into a job or lifestyle that they do not want.
- Independent Digital Film Parkway Theatre
- Bluetooth jewelry
- Miscellaneous Business Ideas
- Sticker book where images has to be scratched in to the page with a coin. Create your own scene.
- Co-working in Orange County
- Mall booth that sells 25 days of Christmas boxes: items can be selected individually, as a packaged set, or purchased online
- FunkyFlipFlop from Cebu to Venice
- Start a D&B clone in Malate
- Scooter rental in Carmen
- Day care service for Lovelette
- Manufacturing modern and local Philippine furnitures, creating a chain
- Auto-load to cash payment service
- Fuyuka’s alpaca farm
- Mary’s flowershop and fabric
- Michael's share a butler
GOALS
- Still to Pursue
- Where is home? 40
- Return to fitness. 39
- Purpose is the most important thing in life. My purpose is to grow, learn, become wiser, and help others beginning with my family and then the people who are socio-economically less privileged. Ongoing.
- Seek spirituality, study Buddhism 37
- Improve Spanish-speaking level from intermediate to advanced 38
- 500K 42
- Pay off all CC debts, HOA assessments and HELOC. 45
- Rugrats 43
- Prominent intl org or NGO 45
- Active in a particular sport. Team sport preferably.
- Done Goals
- Own a small condo in Malate 39 --- in Cebu instead
- Half Dome 35
- Tahoe hostel or my own business 55 (DONE on July 2008 when Avatrian went on the black)
- Graduate School 36 (DONE on January 30, 2006)
- Feliz now (DONE on July 14, 2006)
- The One 42 – changed to 40 on 4/28/2005 (DONE on July 14, 2006)
- _ _ l l _ z a _ _ n t r o 40 (DONE on July 14, 2006)
- Build house for my mom 55 - changed to 40 on August 3, 2006 --- Did not build a house but helped find a good house in Anaheim and helped renovate it. This is partial fulfillment imo.
- Goals No More
- Continue involvement in microfinance 36
- Fun Aspirations
- Take pottery classes...Muddy Studio
- Study iPhone/iPad/FB app development
- Study Korean in Seoul
- Try out stage production
- Digital Media courses at FIDM
- learn how to longboard
- try out paddle surfing
- visit Kho Pha Ngan and the Chill House
- live in Sao Paolo, Budapest or Istanbul for 3 months
- return to tennis lessons
- that thing on a commercial flight
- NYU film school 45
- hike Nepal 47
- run a half marathon 43
- learn Mandarin