Ang Pera Na Di Bitin Book Review

I came from the Manila International Book Fair 2010 at the SMX Convention, MOA. I was browsing through all the bookshops and publishers there. Then, I chanced upon OMF Lit. I was looking for some books and then they announced over the audio that they have this book called Ang Pera na Di Bitin which only costs P50. I suddenly became interested in it and came looking for it. I came to the counter and there I found a number of copies of the book. I immediately grabbed one for I am so interested to find out its contents. This was it. This was the book that I was looking for. Small. Handy. Cheap, at an affordable price. Very much worth it. Affordable for someone like me who has gone through different business books and yet never quite earned a buck or two from it because it is just too complex to read. But this book is short. Short enough to make you interested the whole time you are reading it. Plus, it's Tagalog and English and so easily understood by any average Filipino.

I liked all the parts of it. But most especially the one talking about having a business having said Magnegosyo Ka. I am on the lookout for motivation to do business here in our country coz it is a known fact that sometimes salaries cannot be stretched enough to meet all our pressing obligations. So, what do you do? You find an extra income. Something to do at your spare time and makes you earn something. And that was found in the book. The book is very much helpful and inspirational. It is written in Tagalog so it is very much easily understood. And it's motivational in the sense that it urges you to become an entrepreneur in your own right and like everybody is welcome to be an entrepreneur, anybody can be a student of business or entrepreneurship. I bought the book coz I want to learn more about money and business and it is Bible-based and so being a woman of faith, I sort of adhere to the lessons written on the book as I believe very much about the lessons of money in the Bible.

I liked particularly Maging Enterprising at Matutong Magbenta. Coz I want to go into selling stuffs to different people. That way I can earn so much for myself. That way I need not go hungry for money anymore. With the right selling skills, you cannot go hungry. For me, selling is basic. You eat first sometimes before you are an actor/actress or writer or any other job. So selling something is very basic to earn something for food, for your needs in this world. The world is material and it is inevitable that we should sell. We sell ourselves one way or the other and so we need not be shy about selling stuffs especially if your baby or your family is about to go hungry for the day. Give us this day our daily bread.

It is inspirational that it teaches the common Filipino about how to handle money, how to have an attitude towards money. And it even is exciting to read because it has drawings which are kinda funny and makes you more interested to read the texts of the book.

The book tells about business, investments, savings, debt management and so on. It teaches the readers about money and the lessons of money from the Bible. What God has to say about money. Hope this book teaches to people what God wanted to teach His people about money.

I also particularly like the personal stories of Mr. Eduardo O. Roberto, Jr., his struggles about money and how he put God first and just let the problems go by and just letting God take care of all his woes and how God answered him. To trust God is really the solution to our problems.

Having read the book, we wouln't go Bitin anymore with our money and it would definitely teach us how to have Ang Pera na Hindi Bitin.

The writer of this blog, Ella Untalan, does business consulting and life coaching and does business start-ups, a CPA, she has read the book and has quite learned the secret to having money written in a short compact and easy-to-understand book by Eduardo O. Roberto, Jr. It becomes easy to understand the sometimes complex world or money but all of us has to learn this in order to go through our everyday transactions in life. Ella Untalan's blogs are lovesromantic08.blogspot.com and businessandlifeconsultancy08.blogspot.com which caters mainly about money and life. Free consultations are available at her blog sites personallifeproblems08.blogspot.com and businessproblems08.blogspot.com. You need to sign up for a Gmail account and a Blogger account to interact. Visit them! The book's illustrations are drawn by Roli Sabado. Grab your copies at major bookstores.