tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33644432491161018162024-02-20T16:31:42.839-08:00bizjoker-of-the-philippinesWhere views are just personal views..bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-84487540173513285172012-04-17T04:49:00.041-07:002012-04-18T12:01:04.871-07:00WITHOUT CHINA IN THE EQUATION<div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo Credit: Welt-altas.de (</span><a href="http://www.welt-atlas.de/map_of_spratly_islands_6-846"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.welt-atlas.de/map_of_spratly_islands_6-846</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">)</span><br /><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; height: 288px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732362921357209250" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYSX0ZHLIVSJDh9vRyjN99seSua-BYLu7kxYWazfrAGRcoS83afZgmbmvkpi24Hk5rCzAoOcgdO3KrDKalsaF-8qAFBGMe06V8acWVqKYC9peAvn3NHHuhr-8Uw_GYRJgXmEd5Wi_jZBzh/s400/Spratley.gif" border="0" /></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">This thing is really annoying, again for nth time <a href="http://news.ph.msn.com/regional/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=6142918">China is bullying us in front of international communities</a>. </div><div align="justify"><br />Maybe it is high time to rename South China Sea to South Asians Sea. I guess having the word "China" in its name is actually misinterpreted the sea by narrow minded bully China as their own. Just imagine the phrase "<em>to include waters approaching Southeast Asian countries</em>? huh!" I don't know exactly what does it really mean, but it sounds crazy to me. </div><div align="justify"><br />Do they have proof that those fishes living in that sea speak their language;<br />fishes don’t even have narrow eyes like them, how could they say they own the<br />waters?</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Kidding aside, let's face it, we cannot face the Chinese military might, maybe not today or in few generations to come. If we do so certainly there will be more damages to us with just a smaller scale of military efforts by the Chinese if we fight them. Because for sure the war will be on our land, think about that. </div><div align="justify"><br />However, we can still have a fight on a different arena where we can stand firm against their undiplomatic gestures. This is by boycotting totally their products, limit if not totally scrapping out our exports to China (if we have), stricter rules on Chinese tourists, and all their investments in our country should pass through needle hole or rather ban them from investing, without violating any treaty. If our government cannot do it without violating existing treaties then we must do it ourselves, with our own individual capacity, of course some may disagree, but sooner or later if this move has become a lifestyle and has become a trend in our culture wherein using Chinese products will outcasts one from being "in".</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">Of course we have to be prepared for its (boycotting) great impacts to our economy in the beginning, but that's fine we can still cope up without China in our system, possibly in no time. <strong><em>Who likes Chinese products anyway? They only bring rubbish and imitated products, and all these tonnage of illegal drugs into our country.</em></strong> </div><div align="justify"><br />Although this move will bring no damage to them BUT at least we have shown our strong and unified reactions to them, it is maybe a foolish idea but it is better than to dream on fighting them in war with the US. And of course, even we have this move; we will still continue to claim what is obviously belongs to us based on existing international laws.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">China has become an international bully and a spoiled brat because of what they potentially have in their arsenal…”sleeping giant as we all know”. But, who usually kills the giant anyway, not by another giant, but by smart and determine lowly warrior and most of the time killed by extraordinary means...weapons that thought out of the box!</div><div align="justify"><br />Otherwise, if we will let the UN decides on this issue, where China sits as one of the members of UN Security Council with verto power, <strong><em>we will be their bitch forever</em></strong>. This is better than us exchanging different opinions over the issue and worst we are fighting among ourselves on different views.</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">The Chinese's claim has no legal basis recognized by international law or any treaty for that matter that will support their claim that all the waters belong to them. Their claim it is supported by nothing but their big threat of violence over the other claimant-nations.</div><div align="justify"><br /><em>Imagine, they made flybys over our military ships and blocking our military ship with civilian surveillance vessels, what does it mean? Can we do that to them?</em> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">It should start from us...individually...today!</div></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-11011058001151744752011-03-30T02:44:00.000-07:002011-04-02T07:53:55.670-07:00Illegal Drugs-NOT Another "Patalim" To Hang on<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49iwCu_5ZX-KpZeroUZH3ofBMC-J7_B8fp6XIbBaGqJ_pgeoqixnJcQdXym8itjuAx3G5o4oy9KDGAr7dZLNh3smlxRmxWxxYyNKSC468HXKYIQLMGujIHfL9ENYERFeeG49s2cea6EiH/s1600/Bloody+Dagger.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49iwCu_5ZX-KpZeroUZH3ofBMC-J7_B8fp6XIbBaGqJ_pgeoqixnJcQdXym8itjuAx3G5o4oy9KDGAr7dZLNh3smlxRmxWxxYyNKSC468HXKYIQLMGujIHfL9ENYERFeeG49s2cea6EiH/s1600/Bloody+Dagger.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49iwCu_5ZX-KpZeroUZH3ofBMC-J7_B8fp6XIbBaGqJ_pgeoqixnJcQdXym8itjuAx3G5o4oy9KDGAr7dZLNh3smlxRmxWxxYyNKSC468HXKYIQLMGujIHfL9ENYERFeeG49s2cea6EiH/s400/Bloody+Dagger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590253282883084002" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo from:www.justotc.com</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;">.<br /><br />Once again, the Filipinos have shared mixed emotion about the recently concluded real life drama of our fellow Pinoys in China. The three <a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/216491/pinoy-abroad/vp-binay-confirms-deaths-of-3-convicted-pinoys-in-china">Pinoys who were executed</a> last 30 March 2011 by Chinese government for smuggling several kilos of illegal drugs into the country. It was the saddest day again for the Filipinos years after Flor Contemplacion was executed for murder by the Singaporean government back in early 90's.<br /><br />Brief History:<br />Sally Ordinario-Villanueva was convicted and executed in Xiamen for smuggling 4,110 grams of heroin in December 24, 2008, it was Christmas eve. Ramon Credo was executed after getting final conviction for smuggling 4,113 grams of heroin in December 28, 2008 in the same city. This is four days after Sally was arrested, which in my point of view should have given Credo a real stern warning that his mission is way too risky, and yet he carried on. Elizabeth Batain, on the other hand, was convicted and executed in Shenzhen for smuggling 6,800 grams of heroin in May 24, 2008. Her arrest was several months earlier than the Sally and Ramon.<br /><br />In the effort of the Philippine government to save their lives after the Supreme People's Court of China affirmed their death sentences on February 11, 2011, Vice President Jejomar Binay personally went to China upon order of President Benigno Aquino III on February 18, 2011. It was kinda successful diplomatic effort to stay the execution and everyone was satisfied. But we all know that chances to get a commutation of sentence was really slimmer than the slimmest. At 9:40AM Manila Time according to GMANews online, there were officially declared dead.<br /><br />There were hundreds, if not thousands, of mixed reactions around the world. Other expressed condolences, others were furious with our government, and some others they deserved what they've got. In my own point of view, although I don't know exactly all the circumstances, but I will stand firm, I agree with those who are saying that three drug mules really deserved their sentences.<br /><br />Whether there is someone to be blamed that is immaterial now, there is nothing more we can do about them, they are gone. But, there are more things we can do in preventing the same event from happen again. Specially to those who are claiming and using the overrated <span style="font-style: italic;">"kapit sa patalim"</span> (analogy for being coerced by circumstances to grab the knife by its blade in order to survive).<br /><br />Pinoys are really fond of betting, we like to always put everything at stake. We tend to compromise everything if we thought there is a big chance of getting more. We love to gamble and to earn easy money. I don't have problem about that, it is just right to always strive for our goals and to get it in shorter period of time. If we can be a millionaire in just one sitting and there is a big chance of getting it, (the hell!) why not, right?<br /><br />I myself, for instance, is here in the war zone of Afghanistan taking my chances, and had been in Iraq during the height of Operation Iraqi Freedom, just to do the shortcut. Probably, most of Overseas Filipino Workers are just like us who want to make a short cut to comfort, to get out of poverty as soon as possible in all possible means.<br /><br />In the case of Sally, et al, they thought they were just gambling between getting caught, and getting away. Maybe without knowing that what actually they had bet on was their own lives, the future of their love ones, the reputations of the family, and the undying emotional pains they had caused the people who love them so much. This is in exchange of few hundred thousand pesos that can be spent barely in days. There is absolutely nothing wrong in dreaming, having big ambitions, aiming a better life, what makes this right or wrong lays upon the means we used to achieve it. I don't believe that they were not aware of what they were up to when they carry that "hot item," since there was a big amount of money involve for very simple task.<br /><br />Now there is a big difference of grabbing the blade, and getting suicidal,<span style="font-style: italic;"> "kapit sa patalim"</span> is not the same with <span style="font-style: italic;">"pagpapakamatay"</span>. What the three drug mules did is definitely a suicide mission without an option of pulling back.<br /><br />I don't want to sound so insensitive in touching this topic, it may not be the right time since the families of the executed OFWs are still grieving for their lost. However, I still feel this is so timely to somehow discuss it. Our society is in the height of its emotions, and in the extremes of heated up exchange of hard thoughts and opinions is between pros and cons. How I wish this event would turn to be a real eye-opener <span style="font-style: italic;">NOT</span> for the government but for us people. We are the ones actually in the front line, government are just logistical and reinforcement in function if we will compare it with war operations. Let's stop blaming the government. It is us who will be dealing with our actions, good or bad, not the government. Government gets public opinions, but it is us who suffer physically, mentally and emotionally. Actually it is the public opinion that really kills us, it always goes against the tide and disbands us as nation.<br /><br />The point is, laxity is not on the government, but one the unwilling victims for not guarding his own safety. There are more people who are poor that never resort to illegal activities, so poverty in not an issue. If someone has an argument on my point, you may answer these questions: Are you poor? If yes, are you doing the same thing because you are poor, and why not?<br /><br />Nowadays, people who get caught or who get hooked up with drugs business always claim "<span style="font-style: italic;">kapit sa patalim"</span> as means to escape from criminal liability and avoid public condemnation, which, i may say, is really wrong and backward in concept and in execution. <span style="font-style: italic;">Kapit sa patalim</span> gives you the options between getting through and failing wherein in both cases "wound" will be inflicted onto your hand. While on the other hand, <span style="font-style: italic;">pagpapakamatay </span><span>is a sure and no way out thing</span>, do it right or wrong, no matter how you are going to kick the chair you are standing on, the rope around your neck will prevent you from touching the floor, thus breaking your neck in the process. Playing with illegal drugs in country that imposes death penalty for committing the crime against illegal drugs is <span style="font-style: italic;">pagpapakamatay.</span> It gives you no option but miracle to save you. It is similar to be in a hungry lions' den with bleeding wounds. You may be saved, but personality is dead before the eyes of public opinion. Remember police or any law enforcement agencies went through rigid trainings and well-versed on different worse case scenarios while there is no academy for drug mules.<br /><br />Before we bet, before we dare ourselves to do or to get into the most daring gamble of our lives, think about the end-result, and who will suffer the most, is it us or our love ones. After your death, it is all over for you but those who remain will be in agony for the rest of their lives and yet you leave them poor. The same is true in the case of corruption in the military that hits the nation recently. Suicide does not prove anything but cowardice.<br /><br />Illegal drugs is not<span style="font-style: italic;"> "patalim"</span>, it is a rope around the neck. It is enjoying, but don't bring it across the border.<br /><br />Lastly, in my wildest thought, actually harsh, since I want people to stop getting involved in drug smuggling to other countries, I am thinking of having our airports, seaports, and all other ports of exits to have a big visible posters, depicting a reminder of this very sad event, the image of emotions, the fear in the eyes, and the agony after the execution, because what just happened was a reality of suffering the consequences. And at the bottom, in bold text, "BINITAY NA SILA, SUSUNOD KA BA?" This may be harsh but I am sure it will work. I am just taking a positive thing out of the negative event that had happened. At the end of the day, it is still your choice.<br /><br />To Sally, Ramon and Elizabeth may you all rest in peace.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Necessary suggestion from my brother. (he post comment on this blog)</span><br /><br />Aside from the poster I am suggesting which has the unusual warning <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"BINITAY NA SILA, SUSUNOD KA BA"</span>, he suggested that a certificate should be issued by concerned government agencies checking the baggage and the passengers (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agencies, PNP-Aviation Security Group, Manila International Airports Authority, etc.) to every passenger clearing from illegal items and probably stating that the passenger was duly checked and that no drug has been found or detected. By this, framing up can be prevented and there will be government accountability also. We should assumed drugs syndicates have wide network that may be working with the baggage loaders in airport terminals.<br /></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-1132711826449434072010-12-26T12:20:00.002-08:002010-12-26T13:56:27.622-08:00Filipino-in-Afghanistan: Our Rights To Have Much Better and More Decent Kind of Life<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsf6JCZkpc4g-p_3KpnH16ckZRZfNr5KtUfriGuVuEsFpkvwQjP7laXfWfQY9YmZmOuVA6DhEJ2imJikyoYobe7runtS0_GL1AG3IKQdP0Ua4cxWN6nF0alHKIcwYp42DA97er4drW4iS/s1600/FIA.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsf6JCZkpc4g-p_3KpnH16ckZRZfNr5KtUfriGuVuEsFpkvwQjP7laXfWfQY9YmZmOuVA6DhEJ2imJikyoYobe7runtS0_GL1AG3IKQdP0Ua4cxWN6nF0alHKIcwYp42DA97er4drW4iS/s400/FIA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555105315870535618" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Some FIA members participating in the Absentee Voting in 2010 National Elections</span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Recently, as per advice by our </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Kababayan</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> in Filipino-in-Afghanistan (FIA), that we should write and let the <a href="http://www.president.gov.ph/default.aspx">website of the president</a> be flooded by letters coming from Overseas Filipino Workers here until such time the Office of the President (OP) will give us the much needed attentions we have been longing for.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">So I wrote letter to President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III with similar tone and content last December 26, 2010 hoping to catch PNoy’s attention.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The FIA had already sent previously numerous letters and messages to OP since the time of Gloria Arroyo, and so far nothing has come up closed to reality, not even a vague positive response. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The sad part in present time, when Vice President Jejomar Binay assumed responsibilities over the OFWs as Presidential Adviser on OFWs concerns, he proposed the imposition of sanctions and possible cancellation of passports for those who will violate the travel.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">"Buhay nila ang nakataya. We are concerned with that, kung hindi nabibigyan ng sufficient na penalty di napipigilan gawa ng gawa ng hindi tama,"</i> he said.<a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/10/21/10/afghanistan-ban-violators-face-sanctions-binay"> (excerpt from ABS-CBN News)</a><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The thing is who do you think is the one who is not doing the right thing? Is it us here or VP Binay being a lawyer who is expected to be well-versed in laws, that he should know that cancellation of passports is a clear violation of the constitutional guarantee of right to travel.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">There are certain acts and conditions wherein cancellation of passport could be possible under <a href="http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7157_1991.html">Foreign Service Act of 1991</a> and <a href="http://www.chanrobles.com/republicactno8239.htm">Philippine Passport Law</a> (RA 8239). Definitely the act of violating a travel ban to war zone is not one of them.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.chanrobles.com/republicactno8239.htm">Under Section 8, (c) of RA 8239</a>, passport may bear some government restrictions and that is why we have the travel ban stamp on the “Limitation” page of our passports. But as you can see in section (b), violation of such limitations does not constitute cancellation or otherwise confiscations or technical detention of our passport<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Just like what happened to those five OFWs returning to their jobs last December 14, 2010 at Terminal 1 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport, allow me not to mention their names since I do not have their permission to do so, but FIA has full knowledge about what happened to them. Their passports were confiscated and the time of this writing, their passports are still being withheld by those officers who confiscated their passports. The immigration officers who confiscated their passport reiterated their acts is based on the alleged guidance from the VP. Probably to teach these OFWs how to do the right thing, for </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >"paulit-ulit na di paggawa ng tama"</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The following is an excerpt from RA 8239: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">Sec. 8. Grounds for Denial, Cancellation or Restrictions. — The application for passport may be denied, cancelled or restricted only on the following grounds: <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><o:p> </o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">(a) Denial of Passport <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">1. On orders of the court, after due notice and hearing, to hold the departure of an applicant because of a pending criminal case: <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">2. When so requested by the natural or legal guardian, if the applicant is a minor; <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">3. When the applicant has been found to have violated any of the provisions of this Act; <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">4. Such other disqualification under existing laws.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">(b)Cancellation<br /><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">1. When the holder is a fugitive from justice; <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">2. When the holder has been convicted of a criminal offense: Provided, That the passport may be restored after service of sentence; or <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">3. When a passport was acquired fraudulently or tampered with.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">(c) Restricted <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">1. When the country of destination is in a state of political instability which could pose a danger to the Filipino traveler. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">2. When diplomatic ties have been fractured or severed with the Philippines; <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">3. When the country of destination is subject to travel restriction by government policy, enforcement of action by the United Nations or in a state of war.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Here’s my argument in addition to most FIA contentions why there is a need to lift the aging travel ban to Afghanistan, this also part of my letter to PNoy:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>The United States Government, as we all know, issued memorandum to send OFWs in Afghanistan home. So we are no longer allowed to work in US Bases and to all companies with US Government contracts. This is precisely because of the existing travel ban that we have and tolerating our presence will constitute violation of Anti-Human Smuggling Laws according to USG.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Without this ban the USG will let the OFWs to stay and keep their job. Interestingly, Filipinos are the most preferred third country nationals in war zone because of our excellent and professional work performances, but of course US cannot do anything about this sovereign declaration of travel ban by the Philippine government. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">So our fate lies solely with our own government. The idea of transferring the OFWs here to other countries is indeed a good idea, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >but definitely not the best one for our welfare</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. And that is the reason why we keep on knocking to the Palace’s doors to check on the loop of circling problems of OFWs in Afghanistan. The government cannot point to anybody or to anywhere to look for someone or something to blame with in order to justify the travel ban, because there is none aside from the government itself who issued it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p>Take into consideration the reality of life and expenses of going and working abroad, on how life of an OFW changes. Say for instance the issue of having better salary. Since we have undeniably high salary in Afghanistan, our projects for the family, like buying a house, is also equal to the mode of acquiring it. It is not practical to get a 20-year installment term in buying a house when you can get it in shorter period. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Of course, we want it to get paid as soon as possible so we can go home and retire. Besides, who knows when the war and the opportunities in the war zone will end, so we need to hurry up!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This is also true to some other installment basis family projects that we have right now like installment cars, installment business investments, educational and life plan insurances, and many others of the same category, not to mention the idea of sending our children to better school so they will not form part of the massive unemployed graduates from not so popular schools. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">With this current job that we have, we have already increased our monthly expenditures, like electric bill, this is understandably due to having more appliances, bigger food budget, education allotment, again installment properties, other commercial services like cable TV, internet, landline telephone, cost of maintenance, and of course allotment of some dear relatives. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Others may call it extravagant, but we have the right to becoming “<i style="">maging maluho</i>” if that would be the proper term on how we cared for and pamper our family. That is just a compliment for taking the risks. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This is how we dream our lives to be, so that we can afford paying decent and better hospital, and live in decent and safe neighborhood. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Now, if we will be stopped at airport, have our passport confiscated and eventually we are going to lost our jobs here, how can we be able to pay our existing loans? Are we going to let our children to stop their education or transfer them to some inferior schools and be unemployed afterwards? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We have the right to dream for a better life too. It is maybe true that it will be easy for us to find a job somewhere else. Working with US and NATO is a good training ground as they really strictly follow international standard to the letter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">But then again getting a salary closed to what we are getting is almost next to impossibility, not to mention the stiff competition in the wild, wild world. If we will get a smaller salary which is not sufficient with our current family budget, how can we be able to continue paying our current bills and loans that we already have?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Instead of trying to let us understand their hard-to-understand justifications for the continuous imposition of the travel ban, why they might not as well take a pause and hear us out. It is much easier to understand our reasons.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">One of our requests is to let a team of Department of Foreign Affairs representatives visit us here and make an assessment if the travel ban is still necessary. We believe that the ban is long overdue and what we need is a strict regulation to counter those Filipinos who will come here to try their luck in getting a job, not knowing that the travel ban affects the hiring of Filipinos. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">If the ban will be lifted, more opportunities will come in but as I said a strict policy on hiring and deployment should be implemented so that no OFW will be deployed in remote places where security is not that tight. This is because there are also places here, especially those bordering Pakistan, that are still having some security issues. We are not lying about that. It is like working in Makati and working in Basilan. Not because there is a security issue in Basilan, it is already proper to say that Philippines is a dangerous place of work. Of course not!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">At the moment, majority of vacationing OFWs here opted to spend their vacation in some Southeast Asian countries, in Dubai, and in nearby countries fearing that once they entered the Philippines they cannot go back to their respective jobs. They will let their families travel outside the country to spend quality times with them somewhere else. Most of us here, numbering in thousands OFWs, are spending vacation every after 3 months of work for minimum two weeks.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Has anyone imagine the hundreds of thousands of dollars we are spending in other countries, instead of spending them in the Philippines? It could already help boost our local market and local tourism. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In my point of view, the only thing illegal is our itinerary or the idea that we going to Afghanistan whatever door we may exit from the Philippines, back or front door it doesn’t matter. This is because our final destination is Afghanistan where there is an existing travel ban. This is so true based on our government,s point of view. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Ironically, just like the one-way celebration of Filipino-American Friendship day where we are the only ones claiming and celebrating the supposedly mutual relation, in the view of Afghanistan republic OFWs are perfectly legal in the country having legal visa, legal work permit, and legal contract. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">And here is the thing, never that OFWs in Afghanistan put the image of the Filipinos in jeopardy compared to those OFWs who have committed crimes against their host nations and eventually adds to the burden of our government in saving them from their death sentences. Nobody from here has been charged for murder or being drug mules. The fact the most of OFWs here are holding key positions, they have gained the trust and confidence of their employers and have already built good relations with them. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Finally, bear in mind that there is nothing more dangerous than losing our jobs.</span></p>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-40593710952354434482010-08-12T13:31:00.000-07:002010-08-12T15:15:20.418-07:00Maling Pag-ibig ng Pag-IBIG Para sa OFWs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ940QrQtrJsgI3EWV2zrwuSl6ozX9j-BvoEPXgbly1fQvgG2yVrIslNKngXNlh5-OmljQE99eHr9G06lay_qsC8-AWXbj0zmYA15R2ToLs7-bAPa-Ro2DqGy2VRaxJyZ6GpRbVH-UZ8Vs/s1600/broken_heart_OFW.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ940QrQtrJsgI3EWV2zrwuSl6ozX9j-BvoEPXgbly1fQvgG2yVrIslNKngXNlh5-OmljQE99eHr9G06lay_qsC8-AWXbj0zmYA15R2ToLs7-bAPa-Ro2DqGy2VRaxJyZ6GpRbVH-UZ8Vs/s400/broken_heart_OFW.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504648248901861074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Ayus din ang Pag-IBIG at Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) para igiit na mandatory ang Pag-IBIG contribution. Aanuhin ba yan? Kaniya-kaniya trip ang pagkuha ng bahay pati ang paglo-loan ng emergency cash, at ang trip niyong dalawa ay di trip ng majority ng Overseas Filipino Workers.</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Ano ba makukuha ng OFWs sa "<a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/198179/mandatory-pag-ibig-for-ofws-a-legalized-kotong-group">legalized kotong</a>" na ito? Ikaw na reader, ano ba para sa 'yo ang ang Pag-IBIG? Di ba first thing that would come to your mind is housing loan? Correct! Dahil this contribution would be for the Home Mutual Development Fund (HMDF) of Pag-IBIG. Magiging eligible na nga naman ang OFW for housing loan, kung trip mong mag housing loan. Kung di mo trip, pugo nila ang P600 mo para sa capital nila!<br /><br />E paano kung every 2 years ang renewal of contract mo at every 2 years ang bakasyon mo, so balewala na sayo ang P600 pesos dahil kada dalawang taon ka lang magbabayad ng Balik-Manggagawa kung sakaling kasama ito dun. Parang magaan di ba? Pero nasaan na yung P600 mo na binayad mo nung unang alis mo? Nasa Pag-IBIG pa rin syempre, tambay lang yun dun, pag trip mo nang pakinabangan, bayaran mo yung balanse kasi pang 6 months lang yun e. Kumbaga di ka nagbayad ng ilang buwan habang nasa abroad ka at nagpapaka-kuba sa trabaho.<br /><br />So pwede pa rin! Paano kung na-leche employment mo? Natural kakalimutan mo yung P600. Maliit lang e. Paano kung 1,000 kayong na-leche sa buong mundo, magkano na yun? Paano kung buwan-buwan may 1,000 OFWs ang naleleche sa buong mundo, magkano na yun sa isang taon? Magkano yung contribution na hindi napapakinabangan ng nag-contribute? Paano kung hindi lang 1,000 OFWs ang nale-leche buwan-buwan sa buong mundo? Ilan silang nagbabale-wala sa halagang P600?<br /><br />Negative thinker ang dating ko di ba? Pero positive na nangyayari 'yan dahil natutulungan ba madalas ang OFWs? Natutulungan pag na-leche na, kung kailangan ng iuwi ang bangkay. Kung kailangang ilabas sa kulungan, kung overloaded na ang mga embassy sa TNT. Pero yung ma-prevent na ma-leche, nagagawa ba ng POEA? Paano na lang kung hindi na-imbento ang Migrante International?<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/198423/binay-suspends-bawal-na-pag-ibig-for-ofws">Mabuti na lang nandyan si VP Jejomar Binay di ba? </a>Kahit di ka matalino alam mong kotong na malinaw yun eh. Sa dami-dami na ngang kumukotong sa Bagong Bayani kuno, sasali pa ang Pag-IBIG? Sa mga taga-Pag-IBIG, ayusin niyo ang buhay nyo para di nalulugi mga pa-bahay niyo, hindi yung mamimilit kayo na maging miyembro lahat na OFWs ng Pag-IBIG.<br /><br />Mag-abroad din kayo! Maghanap-buhay kayo ng maayos para kumita kayo hindi yung nag-iisip kayo ng pagkakakitaan sa di patas na paraan, na akala niyo mga bobo ang OFWs eh.<br /><br />Eh kung ayaw ng housing loan dahil may bahay na, pipilitin niyo pa rin? OK din takbo ng isip niyo parang nabilad sa init ang mga utak niyo ah. Baka sa susunod niyan maglalabas ng Circular na mandatory na pasalubong mula sa Duty Free at kailangan sa Duty Free sa NAIA, kundi di ka makakalabas ng airport. Tapos may minimum amount pa ang dapat bilihin, yari na!<br /><br />Iba na lang pag-tripan niyo. Ibang style ng marketing and fund-generation strategies. Baka mamaya maki-connive naman ang Pag-IBIG sa Land Transportation Office at pilitin ang mga drivers na maging members ng Pag-IBIG, o kaya sa Department of Education, para estudyante pa lang puwede nang mag-housing loan. Madami bang "Dangerous Mind" sa opisina nila? Sabagay, sabi nga walang basagan ng trip, kaso binasag ni VP Binay ang trip nila.<br /><br />Nagkakalimutan kasi eh, si VP Binay na po ang pangalawang pangulo at wala na po ang Wowowee, naleche na yun! Para 'yang grupong kakilala ko, sa dami ng magagaling di pa sikat lumubog na. Na-over ! Natira puro guts na lang at pag-iisip nila na puro pagtakas sa katotohanang laos na agad sila !<br /><br />Thanks, Vice President Binay sa maayos na pag-aksyon..simple at akmang aksyon ang ginawa nyo!</span><br /><br /></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-22264257532521125392010-06-09T23:04:00.000-07:002010-06-12T06:05:57.328-07:00LET'S DO OUR PART- AS OUR PATRIOTIC ACT<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMRufLmflYxqzKzm9SH2tivONT4nqMjoMoQrQOOy7Eg1vGTFBPuHVjZYCjucZ29LWJZD7b7NlVt6vJBNpJK8SLhRIN6gkPihueL9Y1bDijR8iCbjyT_S4gdsLXGAXV_Rzwb8LQBZ6kmHK/s1600/Hero.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMRufLmflYxqzKzm9SH2tivONT4nqMjoMoQrQOOy7Eg1vGTFBPuHVjZYCjucZ29LWJZD7b7NlVt6vJBNpJK8SLhRIN6gkPihueL9Y1bDijR8iCbjyT_S4gdsLXGAXV_Rzwb8LQBZ6kmHK/s400/Hero.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481810090589817522" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">So what's next?<br /><br />President-elect Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and Vice President-elect Jejomar Binay were finally and officially proclaimed to be the next leaders of the nation last Wednesday June 8, 2010, after excruciating speeches from some members of the Congress and now we can say in the next few days will be the moment of truth for the Filipinos. And again just like the previous transitions of administrations, Filipinos have been used to the "<span style="font-style: italic;">wait and see</span>" attitude. They will wait until the new administration fails and then will start criticizing and create an atmosphere that we have made the wrong choice or the Filipinos had been deceived. Which is why we also get used to have a critical start up for new administration every time the new one assumes the post.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We should change this attitude-Right NOW!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We spent enormous efforts during the recent campaign in order to put the two gentlemen in Malacañang, we should not waste these efforts just like the million-peso campaign materials that were rendered useless after the election. Noynoy's and Binay's failure will be the failure of the whole new government and the Filipino nation, so as I said that fact that we voted for Noynoy and Binay, it does not mean we will stop from there and leave to the new administration our personal aspirations in life.<br /><br />The fight is not yet over, it has only just begun. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Our point here is the change of attitude form "wait and see" being static into a dynamic attitude. We should think and act as if we have the same aspirations as what Noynoy and Binay have in implementing our daily plans and activities and these should be geared towards the betterment of our plight, uplifting the poor living condition, and upgrading the Filipino image around the world. We should formulate solutions on some of the problems right in our immediate vicinity, and let us not wait for the long arm of the government to reach and help us if we can solve the issues ourselves. Noynoy said we need to identify clearly the problem to get specific and appropriate solution to it .</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Let's us all be pro-active this time. This the best time to start a new beginning in order to give new meaning to the spirit of volunteerism. If we can truly contribute an individual micro-solution and put them altogether, it is more than enough act of heroism.<br /><br />After all it is us who actually bring about the <span style="font-style: italic;">"Noy-Bi</span> administration" into existence through our volunteerism, on-line organization and revolutionized activism, which had never been tried before in the same manner and in the same magnitude and yes, it was proven effective. Thereby, we have now implied obligations to support and help them so they will not fail.<br /><br />What we need is the continuity of this volunteerism attitude which rather focus in nation building and not towards the election anymore. We need to turn and shift it to social economic purposes in order to somehow help the new government that we put into power. Obviously we already have well-organized groups that are well-bonded and had worked well during the campaign in the recent election, we therefor should not put our organized groups back to the cupboard for the next national election, but rather let them join the new administration in their new patriotic causes and commitment to fight corruption, help the poor, generate more employment, improve public health, upgrade education system, reliable justice system, peace and order, and so on and so forth</span>.<br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Recently, I have received a short forwarded email thread from Filipino in Afghanistan (FIA) and the topic was referring to the big amount of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and its temporary effect to the Philippine economy. Rasyl Abela (I am not so sure if he belongs to FIA,) said that most of the big amounts sent to OFW families back home are spent on the daily basis for basic necessities and for personal extravagance like expensive cellphone, plasma television set, expensive cars, houses and others. I admired his thought and the point is actually based on reality. Clearly, with this style of expenditures what has been contributed by this big amount of remittances to Philippine economy is just an active local market and business movement due to strong buying power of most OFW families. Aside from that, there is nothing more.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Based on his line of thinking, I think it is high time to divert now the focus of this volunteerism and do the ambitious, unthinkable and probably most patriotic act. If those volunteer organizations abroad that helped in the election and are still set up by smart mechanism and management will contribution to generate funds and invest in the country to create more jobs , we can probably eradicate portion of a national cancer that tends to kill our progress. They can select which types of heroic acts they will engage into after thorough consultation and studies, whether they will opt to venture on strict business that will generate local employment or simply engage with different poverty eradication programs.<br /><br />Take for instance the Filipino migrant workers. If the OFW-groups based all over the world could put up funds and invest into a business that requires more numbers of laborers it can help reduce local unemployment. Although this type of <span style="font-style: italic;">Bayanihan</span> maybe already existing, we need to advocate extensively and invite other groups to do the same. As it helps the country, it will also generate extra income for every member who shared for the investment.<br /><br />How noble it would it be if we can have a reversed method on labor and job-bunting system that </span><span style="font-family:arial;">instead of the job-hunter will go and risk everything to get a job somewhere else, it will be </span><span style="font-family:arial;">the business or the opportunity itself will go to the remote provinces in order to reach those Filipinos who cannot afford to leave their places to look for a job and be displaced<br /><br /></span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Finally, maybe through this effort, we can be part and of help to what Noynoy's ultimate goal "to let the Filipinos work abroad by choice and not by force of necessities."</span><br /></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-70961745190015438712010-04-22T03:59:00.000-07:002010-04-24T01:55:01.548-07:00Overseas Absentee Voting in Afghanistan, the FIA and the Existing Travel Ban<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;">Now it is clear Commission on Election ballots know no boundary.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;">What if the ballots need to go through Department of Foreign Affairs, would it also have the stinking travel ban stamp in going into war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan so that Filipinos working there could also vote?</span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Usually, negative opinions and impressions of most politicians back home about the presence of Overseas Filipinos Workers in Iraq and Afghanistan, during this election period, are being set aside for the sake of winning more votes. Why? Because as they said every vote counts and they need numbers from all over the world. Sometimes they get it even from the underworld where dead people can still manage to vote. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">If we could still remember last year when a chopper crashed in Kandahar Air Field killing 10 Pinoy workers, everyone was at the opinion that OWFs in Afghanistan should go home. It was Abe Mulong Caracas of <a href="http://caracasniabe.blogspot.com/">Naks Naman</a> and of GMA7 who called me and had an interview about the OFWs’ plight here in Afghanistan. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The government even intensified the enforcement of travel ban going to Afghanistan after that, while other potential presidentiables that time expressed their opinion that we, Filipinos here, should be given alternative jobs after forcing us to go home. Sounds so concerned right? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">It was a tooth and nail conflict of opinions whether it is right to force us home or lift the travel ban instead and regulate the flow of OFWs into the war zone. The choice between substantially high-paying job and the safety issue is running around the heads of everyone, whether one should go home or should stay. Among many issues, choices and alternatives, the decision to stay for work always wins, and as always the convincing idea goes back to square one - we can achieve better future for our family in this area.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">By the way, I would like to thank Mulong for airing the <a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/video/58517/absentee-voting-for-pinoys-in-afghanistan-starts-today">Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) of Filipinos here in Afghanistan</a>, last April 17,2010. When I sent the details, photos and video to GMA7, again it was Mulong who made an overseas call to me and we talked about the recent OAV. Thanks also to GMA Network for the flash report. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Now, they must know that we are also voting despite pressures here in Afghanistan!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">And speaking of OAV, I would like to commend Ms. Catherine Sobrevega and the rest of the members of Filipino-in-Afghanistan (FIA) for exerting efforts in order for the OFWs in Afghanistan could exercise their right to vote. Catherine personally got in touch with officials of the Philippine Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan to work on the absentee voting here. She actually even made the process really formal and really fun. It was held inside the compound of Red Sea Engineering in Kabul last April 16, 2010. The national anthem was sang, made few speeches, started the process and ended it smoothly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkiEIiwyksDXvxDkcn-zOj5ohSd53q5LAfO1-2PgsZ2WFM6mCSjWJlVOuqHMD3bpZWVv5Qd7We1OvdfC3nCUodXKkq08nKNBwVXr1PIo_NduLGeKQ0OL8cMw5D4AOmItVQr4N9w6Y4kIU/s1600/OAV_1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkiEIiwyksDXvxDkcn-zOj5ohSd53q5LAfO1-2PgsZ2WFM6mCSjWJlVOuqHMD3bpZWVv5Qd7We1OvdfC3nCUodXKkq08nKNBwVXr1PIo_NduLGeKQ0OL8cMw5D4AOmItVQr4N9w6Y4kIU/s400/OAV_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462930331665019826" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Filipinos-in-Afghanistan group posed after the OAV</span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I wonder what the Philippine Ambassador to Pakistan had told Ms. Sobrevega, who is the chairman of the FIA. Did the ambassador say “<i>Don’t go to Afghanistan it's too dangerous and we have existing travel ban over there?</i>” as a gesture of concern? Or <i>"Don't forget to vote for my candidate huh?"</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJOYCKDC_zFG-3nPDKXUf_CrgXQTEKOVK8GO3iLkyS0aAZx0CWMVeZ-nyHziGD_4jpxX11Q0ZJ9BPCgsSzxJzDTjjAmVBmvgPVjCSGyRgd6WK641bHdbrEmLRj4R3GQnBcyORi-XNujkt2/s1600/Photo_3.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJOYCKDC_zFG-3nPDKXUf_CrgXQTEKOVK8GO3iLkyS0aAZx0CWMVeZ-nyHziGD_4jpxX11Q0ZJ9BPCgsSzxJzDTjjAmVBmvgPVjCSGyRgd6WK641bHdbrEmLRj4R3GQnBcyORi-XNujkt2/s400/Photo_3.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462931339621762658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Singing of Lupang Hinirang</span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">When I told the <i>Astig Pinoy</i> group in Iraq about the OAV in Afghanistan, everyone was wishing that hopefully next time there will be the same activity too in Iraq, where they can be involved in political processes back home while being abroad. I agree with them, every Filipino abroad should be given the chance to participate in election, wherever they are, well of course, unless otherwise they are in prison. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxSbfFDfnzMyTHzQby0EExACL3fVhRYcUUtrXL39bmo7d4a2FQq9jHuFnhjPZhkeaqBs2y0C7Q4wZ6GkMba75jbHwRZSTc5K3_5NzOmq6dygx4Kpx_OZZ9GoyVTaQYJ6KNJ4UfPl3e8rgs/s1600/Photo_5.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxSbfFDfnzMyTHzQby0EExACL3fVhRYcUUtrXL39bmo7d4a2FQq9jHuFnhjPZhkeaqBs2y0C7Q4wZ6GkMba75jbHwRZSTc5K3_5NzOmq6dygx4Kpx_OZZ9GoyVTaQYJ6KNJ4UfPl3e8rgs/s400/Photo_5.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462932256550999010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ms Catherine Sobrevega, head of FIA, explaining the voting process.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Thanks to Red Sea Engineering-Kabul for accommodating the conduct of AOV inside their compound</span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">It is undeniably true that aside from being the biggest dollars earners and the biggest support to Philippine economy, the strength of OFWs can even make a king if only they wish. And it is also undeniably true that for a very long time, after Ka Blas Ople passed away, what the OFWs is getting from the government are all broken promises, as whole. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">But as we can see, the OFWs of today are far different in the old days as we have been empowered by our voice through internet and other media, much more we are organized and united. Each presidential candidate is having real hard to find the right magic words in order to convince the OFWs to get solid votes. Simply because OFWs of today have grown and has become more mature in facing issues. Organized in the sense that we can gather around and have a single stand on every issue, whether through internet or in the middle of war. We can even campaign and participate discussions online. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Filipino communities abroad now gather not only for bar-b-Q, beer, gossips, and photo sharing. We gather around for political issues and act upon it. We write blogs, we post shout outs, we write comments, we post photos, we write to the government, we reach for media, and many other pro-active works. In short, we revolutionized activism from street to broadcast media, to internet and to every corner of the world. (<i>We can even commit coup de' etat in the Facebook..lol!</i>)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Recently they made into law that the OFWs be exempted from paying documentary stamp, travel tax, remittance tax, and airport fee, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/253203/ofws-now-taxexempt">under Section 22 of the Republic Act 10022</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">, and again Filipinos here in Afghanistan will never be benefited out from this new law since we are not considered the regular OFWs under the definition of POEA and OWWA (correct me if I am wrong, but I am confident I am correct), because of the existing travel ban. Instead of us enjoying such benefits, government people are enjoying benefits they are getting from us working in war zone, just to let us through. It is really heartbreaking, because we are here for decent works, helping the Afghans and the Iraqi people build their lives and as we build theirs, our government exploits ours.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0raWuabTjHHxD1r_YhediHdKvGnIL43_dEUtbgRSQpW8YOyhv6h6aZnwUGIRw824WPd3kOvAljfAPhozFCwWOE2dtxO3bbPlvaYc4VGeF0VEIgUkWLpZjOFjNRBCcazRHU7rxLgXAWE8O/s1600/Photo_1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0raWuabTjHHxD1r_YhediHdKvGnIL43_dEUtbgRSQpW8YOyhv6h6aZnwUGIRw824WPd3kOvAljfAPhozFCwWOE2dtxO3bbPlvaYc4VGeF0VEIgUkWLpZjOFjNRBCcazRHU7rxLgXAWE8O/s400/Photo_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462926732896672178" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">Ms Zarenna Vasquez of FIA organizing the ballots</span></span></div></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Nevertheless, thanks to God, by allowing the Filipinos here to exercise the right of suffrage. By this, the government, through DFA and COMELEC, is somehow impliedly recognizing the Filipinos here as OFWs. OAV is only given to those Filipinos working abroad and for those who have never lost their Filipino citizenship as long as they are registered voters. So since we have OAV here, I believe they will hear our voice once again OFWs in banned country, as they have our votes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Let us hope that this scenario should not only be limited during the time when there is a national election but rather should go forward. Otherwise it will be a clear spit on our faces that we are just being at their pleasures. Filipinos in Afghanistan should enjoy what other OFWs in other parts of the world are enjoying since we are sharing to the government the same piece of bread, where most of the time, we give them the biggest.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">We are hoping that the next administration will reconsider the lifting of the travel ban. That is the only thing we have right now is to keep hoping and hold on to it patiently until the better one with a heart for OFWs sits in Malacañang.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So in short, despite the fact that the almost 7,000 Filipinos in Afghanistan are considered one of the biggest dollar-senders to the Philippines and actively participating in the political processes in the country, we are not getting what we have been appealing for to the government. We are not being heard. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">For the Nth time, since I was in Iraq, we are discussing the big advantage we could possibly get when this <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">over-imposed travel ban</span></b> is finally lifted, it will be a happy day for all of us. We all know that the success of OFWs abroad is also a success in dollar-earning ability of the government, and we will champion the Philippine economy eventually-that we can guarantee to them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0raWuabTjHHxD1r_YhediHdKvGnIL43_dEUtbgRSQpW8YOyhv6h6aZnwUGIRw824WPd3kOvAljfAPhozFCwWOE2dtxO3bbPlvaYc4VGeF0VEIgUkWLpZjOFjNRBCcazRHU7rxLgXAWE8O/s1600/Photo_1.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPowDsxgcA6BA3-5My9mohg6ibMHzCM8p9n62VD3CfJhluCpYAnE53JWgo7EdfFXgH0oyd7OqdERBY29xM-ekK88Y3FyiwYQDdP_GRTf2NC0D7lWCoEvTLd7-KxRaBuVZrAwD9o0W4epkc/s1600/OAV_3.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPowDsxgcA6BA3-5My9mohg6ibMHzCM8p9n62VD3CfJhluCpYAnE53JWgo7EdfFXgH0oyd7OqdERBY29xM-ekK88Y3FyiwYQDdP_GRTf2NC0D7lWCoEvTLd7-KxRaBuVZrAwD9o0W4epkc/s400/OAV_3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462934815765124274" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">Some FIA members, with the author</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizayOhSOkeMc1maOwVMOtooLpmiRBJFVJCVdmhTWv-xVhybRMJuHs2XzF_O23YKSk6fxSNR1O5FE53-n3ge4Q37Luov5-fjs4-bIwSq9O13ITe7B56DG6ga9YQOZlu7uTrNq2XviZJN8Vg/s1600/Photo_8.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizayOhSOkeMc1maOwVMOtooLpmiRBJFVJCVdmhTWv-xVhybRMJuHs2XzF_O23YKSk6fxSNR1O5FE53-n3ge4Q37Luov5-fjs4-bIwSq9O13ITe7B56DG6ga9YQOZlu7uTrNq2XviZJN8Vg/s400/Photo_8.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462936272889289698" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Worthy of mentioning.. a friend and a drinking buddy, Flo Del Rosario, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Finance Manager of RANAH Technologies, Afghanistan's leading ISP</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Thanks to Catherine for allowing me to use her two photos. I would to ask apology for not naming the other prominent members of FIA, I forgot their names.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Here's how we spend day off to keep us bonded, I can say it is very Filipino in every way:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnHE3vNXtgFO9EaclOxJMeXd1DX1SF7T5Iv_gHrNSQ0e0wXiMvVCRtl9cOVkIC7KE-0f2jABSPLcYzS3IY_DgWvd78k5SexSZu4qCjbYBTS40uXZGEST8gJedEhdb-lasu3loNi_IQRcSd/s1600/Thursday_1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnHE3vNXtgFO9EaclOxJMeXd1DX1SF7T5Iv_gHrNSQ0e0wXiMvVCRtl9cOVkIC7KE-0f2jABSPLcYzS3IY_DgWvd78k5SexSZu4qCjbYBTS40uXZGEST8gJedEhdb-lasu3loNi_IQRcSd/s400/Thursday_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463385418360484898" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Original Thursday Group (L-R) Afghan close friend Molodin, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Engr. Mar Boniel, the author (not promotor ha!), and Flo Del Rosario</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh18c6LHrn5v9mIaczQC9S8vz4v4koIXpIXk6E_VpmRWnQWehzH22fQKUhBcTH6C09k12LBaqzJi6Vg81vnJvbdcmWUECt8pOJat44AzxfCR2F3Y1Dl4HLRM4Ij3OsSd16ztfKnfjdnkSDT/s1600/Thursday_2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh18c6LHrn5v9mIaczQC9S8vz4v4koIXpIXk6E_VpmRWnQWehzH22fQKUhBcTH6C09k12LBaqzJi6Vg81vnJvbdcmWUECt8pOJat44AzxfCR2F3Y1Dl4HLRM4Ij3OsSd16ztfKnfjdnkSDT/s400/Thursday_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463386916616673874" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Filipino food will never be absent in any Pinoy gathering</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHna9XyPNZSKc0JDysj8pP-7xFCZvze5w5N1vVltYeNaCyNwNLyQbrn-_2WTG8n0jNaW-3V0RmP_6HMwdifUUT40BwsGADPZXfTyGYiUNeKEgoXknKtA1uZCku4nd5oHv_V5AAWYLkzQCH/s1600/Thursday_3.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHna9XyPNZSKc0JDysj8pP-7xFCZvze5w5N1vVltYeNaCyNwNLyQbrn-_2WTG8n0jNaW-3V0RmP_6HMwdifUUT40BwsGADPZXfTyGYiUNeKEgoXknKtA1uZCku4nd5oHv_V5AAWYLkzQCH/s400/Thursday_3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463388051496852978" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Filipinos are used to carry the plates and eat using one hand, lol!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh2AsYtCheMVJlWRMlSnIoGiXcuP9ccAyUFnREPCxX0qlERdhvY-kCLnqLd9QJjoWNVZhiTm7-6NGEycIT1-qkMol0lW2-kc8AqDqcA2a8e1Ls8mR3VLM5D0rKfKE8axjWAW2OP5HzX2xq/s1600/Thursday_4.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh2AsYtCheMVJlWRMlSnIoGiXcuP9ccAyUFnREPCxX0qlERdhvY-kCLnqLd9QJjoWNVZhiTm7-6NGEycIT1-qkMol0lW2-kc8AqDqcA2a8e1Ls8mR3VLM5D0rKfKE8axjWAW2OP5HzX2xq/s400/Thursday_4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463388621583212786" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Videoke is part of modern Filipino culture..we love to sing..a lot!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLxWp8jcfWL43LwnW3Q7O2HkVEqfVn3tUul41HAEwEfOOFzSkkpkDpBsbJGNFM_2wJz-8cm3AVWsb02xut5zLCs_a1d5qgGgQ88rtnJZG_N2L0iSH1LkOyX683k7r3cDFFeYvjoOoC4Gx/s1600/Thursday_5.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLxWp8jcfWL43LwnW3Q7O2HkVEqfVn3tUul41HAEwEfOOFzSkkpkDpBsbJGNFM_2wJz-8cm3AVWsb02xut5zLCs_a1d5qgGgQ88rtnJZG_N2L0iSH1LkOyX683k7r3cDFFeYvjoOoC4Gx/s400/Thursday_5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463390021873203874" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(L-R) Dante, Elia, Teth, Joanne, Au and Joel</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9cFTwJFP6WZhvA11RDXZT1ffCYMM9ocJUq1VDziqZWbUH2Xjav2nysMNgSdi40TELf0z6HWwKGKkMfdFfN1MMF7XR_ITQ5DPaR-H6dyyXFUFVARmmwJHH4NJ8utpDf6PkI_N-Rfh3hX1/s1600/Thursday_6.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9cFTwJFP6WZhvA11RDXZT1ffCYMM9ocJUq1VDziqZWbUH2Xjav2nysMNgSdi40TELf0z6HWwKGKkMfdFfN1MMF7XR_ITQ5DPaR-H6dyyXFUFVARmmwJHH4NJ8utpDf6PkI_N-Rfh3hX1/s400/Thursday_6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463390827662717266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">..the best part..we always have something to drink</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCVlyKT_TmMVwC9ys_uQynHsj7Amx5iBOC6fBvKCfxqHr2Wv90GPAfqGFEn4027IstnB0_1VEeb4DVgIUGAs1ZOCveyVEgSqAyyMXKzNsuuVnw1CWJMKUaYyBXNW1A-7sMyqnfXZ_owXk/s1600/Thursday_7.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCVlyKT_TmMVwC9ys_uQynHsj7Amx5iBOC6fBvKCfxqHr2Wv90GPAfqGFEn4027IstnB0_1VEeb4DVgIUGAs1ZOCveyVEgSqAyyMXKzNsuuVnw1CWJMKUaYyBXNW1A-7sMyqnfXZ_owXk/s400/Thursday_7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463391576642909010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">full of life..fun..and at the end of the day...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the sad truth is we still have travel ban</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><u><br /></u></span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-47459604519238727802010-03-23T07:11:00.000-07:002010-03-23T09:26:54.695-07:00A Powerful and Unconventional Speech for Students<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDkaYenc_BJNUoQzDD66WeT7paIRpFgUU-9g9tFgZ_vwMrw-b9exTZIlMZzlo6JsjtLmKI83nX9vkf4_cuqLVpAphDHiNDUKIWmOIDjmc3XQv0FtXIAhOBIEWoqd3YyZ3dC1htStinaYp/s1600-h/IMG_0308.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDkaYenc_BJNUoQzDD66WeT7paIRpFgUU-9g9tFgZ_vwMrw-b9exTZIlMZzlo6JsjtLmKI83nX9vkf4_cuqLVpAphDHiNDUKIWmOIDjmc3XQv0FtXIAhOBIEWoqd3YyZ3dC1htStinaYp/s400/IMG_0308.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451850422597624770" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ms Jeanette Fabellore-Rivera delivering inspirational message to Paezians</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;"><i>(date was not set up from the camera)</i></span></span></span></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last March 19, 2010 my sister was invited as Guest Speaker on the occasion of 2010 Recognition Day for our high school alma mater. She delivered her inspirational speech in an unconventional manner and it was really remarkable. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Madalas, speaker will make the speech too flowery to the extent na hindi na maabot ng mga nakikinig. Sometimes nakatingin lang ang audiences pero hindi naiko-convey at di na-aabsorb ang idea na sinasabi ng speaker, which the most important part of public speaking (in blogging as well).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrX3y92TeKry7cWod1OMBu814zpLEv3iGpybq8tur9UP4J-pvYMMZ0b6FQwxEUMUZjbeEN-uKOwD66yxLB2FtOqkB4XqL7OsjXkp_crs-XYAeIl9DncAoy1lC9V9l6X9E3cgbTnEbSsdTg/s1600-h/IMG_0371.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrX3y92TeKry7cWod1OMBu814zpLEv3iGpybq8tur9UP4J-pvYMMZ0b6FQwxEUMUZjbeEN-uKOwD66yxLB2FtOqkB4XqL7OsjXkp_crs-XYAeIl9DncAoy1lC9V9l6X9E3cgbTnEbSsdTg/s400/IMG_0371.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451850751150813970" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Recognizing our students' effort really paid off parents' sacrifices</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>(date was not set up from the camera)</i></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nung marinig ko sa video ang laman ng speech niya, naisip kong i-blog since she was not actually only speaking before the new breed of Paezians, but also to all other high school students na until now are struggling on crisis whether to pursue or not. For those who could still feel uncertainty, or fear and even being so undecided about their possible lives once they exit the portals of the school. Those who have no idea what is it like in the real world and how to deal with new surrounding and new way of interactions. Madalas hindi simple ang transition ng buhay from high school to college up to your goal..marami ang sumisemplang dito lalo iyung mga hindi handa at walang guidance.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As I mentioned sa comment ko sa Facebook account ng aming alumni, kapuri-puri ang hakbanging ng faculty papagsalitain ang isang alumnus kaysa sa mga pulitikong walang relasyon sa paaralan. Dahil ang pulitiko ay puro exposure lang at wala rin namang naitutulong matapos ang halalan sa paaralang pinupuntahan. Minsan pa nga mismong alma mater nila ay nakakalimutan nila. Kasi sa isang almuni, with inspiring achievement, nakaka-relate ang listeners lalo kung kauri nila ang nagsasalita.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">May sistemang sinusunod ang school kung sino ang kino-consider na pwedeng maging speaker, hindi sila ang teahcer's pet or kung ano pa man. Hindi rin ito base sa kasalukuyang katayuan, or naabot, or estado ng kayamanan. Kundi ang inspiring manner kung paano naabot ang kinalalagyan.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>"It not the state of being at Point B, but the essence of how you get from Point A to Point B."-Biz Joker</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So kung malapit sa puso or may kaugnayan sa buhay-estudyante ng nakikinig at nagsasalita, mas nakakatulong ito para makasunod or magkaroon ng gabay ang mga sumusunod na henerasyon.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXvWNgMlsE_5hsKcDHDBdhWsrCVWx_pdYHQCPCce9Dc7FFWldCQT8AcPTYGZ3tFBsoiAfWjBLZZmaUjd2Ej0QvUf-28EIU17T6SK031PM52Ma_rHNirSGmDjkis9BhtwwQHDfgyCSMGnR/s1600-h/IMG_0392.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXvWNgMlsE_5hsKcDHDBdhWsrCVWx_pdYHQCPCce9Dc7FFWldCQT8AcPTYGZ3tFBsoiAfWjBLZZmaUjd2Ej0QvUf-28EIU17T6SK031PM52Ma_rHNirSGmDjkis9BhtwwQHDfgyCSMGnR/s400/IMG_0392.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451865345650924546" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ate Jing's batch mates in Batch '81</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">includes TPIPS' Mrs. Elizabeth Bartolome, (2nd,L)</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">By the way, Ate Jing belongs to Batch '81 and I belong to Batch '89 of our great Alma Mater, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10377658857&ref=ts">T. Paez Integrated Pilot School </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">in Balut , Tondo, Manila. My mom retire from high school teaching in the same school.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZalgrc4QhSU8zjcs4hISQOTbHeKE3zAQhAMx684oGrjddvp7T4UBKk6V2cR271GZVkMl_fRm_ExEARaGBmNrgoudDNDtJGAAmvXfnGdOiQsanbTzQCc3qlZT1TZmZTPqRNvXsZ9MnsOU4/s1600-h/IMG_0385.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZalgrc4QhSU8zjcs4hISQOTbHeKE3zAQhAMx684oGrjddvp7T4UBKk6V2cR271GZVkMl_fRm_ExEARaGBmNrgoudDNDtJGAAmvXfnGdOiQsanbTzQCc3qlZT1TZmZTPqRNvXsZ9MnsOU4/s400/IMG_0385.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451851753697133442" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Some of the achievers of TPIPS 2009-2010</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>(date was not set up from the camera)</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So here it, let me share the content of her speech:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>"Thank you very much for the overwhelming introduction and let me thank you as well for inviting me today to witness the celebration of the 2009-2010 intellectuals.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Isang magandang umaga sa lahat</i></span></span><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i> </i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i> na naririto, una sa lahat sa mga kapwa ko magulang, mga minamahal nating mag-aaral, mga panauhin at sa mga magigiting at masisipag na guro at pamunuan ng ating Alma Mater, T. Paez Integrated School.</i></span></span><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Like most of you today, once upon a time, nakaupo rin ako dyan bilang isa sa mga students that will be recognized to their efforts and sleepless night of studying. Pero sasabihin ko sa inyo na pagkatapos nyong matanggap yung mga certificates and medals, you will start to dream again. Yung ilan sa inyo, will speak to his own self, “next year honor uli ako”, yung iba, “ </i></span></span><st1:city st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>sana</i></span></span></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i> mas maraming medal” at yung iba pa, “ </i></span></span><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>sana</i></span></span></st1:city></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i> kasali nako sa recognition day”. Bet?</i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Ang araw na ito ay mahalaga dahil ito ang output ng pinagpaguran nating lahat. Mula sa ating mga magulang na bumili ng uniforms, nagbigay ng baon . Sa mga guro na nagtiyagang turuan kayo sa bawat academic subject, sa mga namumuno ng school para bigyan kayo ng maayos at masistemang paaralang at siempre kayo mga students na nagsunog ng kilay to learn. Ang araw na ito ay pagbibigay pugay sa Edukasyon. Well, I truly believe that everyone knows what education is, but to simply the meaning, ang pagkakaroon ng edukasyon ay ang pinakapangyarihang instrumento para makaahon sa kahirapan, para maging pantay-pantay ang level ng buhay at higit sa lahat para magkaroon ng matibay na kaalaman sa pagsulong ng ekonomiya ng ating bansa.</i></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Ang pagkakaroon ng edukasyon ang siyang matibay na paghahanda sa hinaharap. Ito ang huhubog sa ating pagkatao at isipan na kakailanganin ninyo sa pakikisalimuha sa kapwa, pag-resolve ng iba’t ibang problema, personal man or panlipunan, at pagpapatakbo ng sarili niyong buhay tungo sa katuparan ng inyong mga pangarap. </i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Ako po ay isa sa mga ordinaryong magaaral ng </i></span></span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Bath</i></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i> 1981, palagay ko ang ilan sa kanila ay nandito ngayun. Just like in any batch, merong nagiging successful, meron kainaman lang at meron din medyo hindi naging matagumpay sa buhay. Sabi nga sa elementary math natin, to complete a graph, dapat me high, middle and low points. (relate this situation to the above sentence) So kung ipa-plot natin yun sa blank plane makakagawa ka ng graph. But thing is, saan ka doon? Ikaw ba yung nasa hign point, middle point or low point? Siempre, lahat naman tayo ayaw nating pumayag na tayo yung low point, ayaw nating maging taga kumpleto ng graph di ba? </i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Ang edukasyon ay hindi lamang pagpasok sa paaralan, at pag uwi sa hapon. Pagsagot sa examination at paggawa ng assignment. Whatever we learned inside the classroom, we should definitely apply it in our everyday living. Lahat naman ng mangyayari sa araw araw nating pamumuhay ay dini-discuss ng mga teachers sa loob ng classroom. Kaya walang dahilan para hindi maging maayos ang buhay natin, walang dahilan para maging ikaw ang nasa low point. Ang problema lang sa karamihan sa atin ay binabalewala ang lahat ng itinuro sa atin ng paaralan. We ignore it, we ignore the teachings. But good news is, hindi pa huli ang lahat! It is not too late for you to open your notebooks and review what you have written and apply it in your everyday lives. </i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>When I was in my review school for the CPA board exams, one of our reviewer told us, “ilista nyo ang course outline ng board exams. Write a check kung master mo na ang subject from top to bottom. Take note the words “kung master mo na, hindi sinabing me alam ka na, dapat master daw?. Kapag merong isang outline na walang check, don’t take the board exams”. Proud say, lahat kami followed his advice, and in my case 100% naman may check bawat line item. But did it mean papasa na kami? In addition, sabi nya uli, “hindi porket me check lahat papasa ka na, aim high, dream to be a topnatcher kaya dapat sa pre-board magsikap kayong maging topnotch!” Whew! Pressure yun noh? So lahat kami aim high din, puro aral, sehodang putaktihin ng pimples ang face sa kakapuyat, at matulog sa school para lang mag-aral. Siguro sasabihin nyo OA! But we truly did it! Luckily I was in the top 10 during my CPA pre-board exams. I passed the CPA board (take one) pero hindi ako topnatcher. The morals of the story? Kailangan din pala ang determinasyon at perseverance to acquire the education upang maging part of our system. </i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Ang kasalukuyang generation at ang susunod pang generation ay maswerte. Kasi high tech na, communication is so easy. Ang pag-aaral ay hindi na mahirap. Google it! (Site more examples). Gumagastos nga kayo ng 25 pesos para magdota sa internet, makipagchat sa GF or BF online, at makipag tsimisan sa Facebook. Why don’t you spend your time in the internet café answering your assignments?</i></span></span></p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Google it! Ang sabi ng assignment notebook, “define education”, e di punta ka sa google or yahoo. Type lang “ define education” enter. Naku! Makikita mo kung ilang milyon ang meaning ng education ang lalabas. </i></span></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>O cge, subukan nyo, type nyo (-34)+(-65). Magugulat pa kayo kung ano makikita nyo. Meron drawing ng calculator.</i></span></span></li> </ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Google it! Kapag natutunan ninyo yun, magaling pa kayo sa text book nyo. Panis ang assignment ni Ma’am!</i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Sa mga mag-aaral na narito ngayun, enjoy life. Maging masigla at masaya kayo habang nag-aaral. Enjoy reading books, enjoy listening to your teachers, enjoy solving your assignments. Enjoy going to school every day. This way, malamang sumakit ang ulo ng mga teachers nyo kung sino ang first honor at the end of the school year at kahit pa wala kang honor, ikaw pa rin ang panalo! Because, you earned the most powerful knowledge that no one can take away from you. Hindi pwedeng isanla, di pwedeng manakaw ninuman ang EDUKASYON.</i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><b>Ang pinto ng paaralang ito ay laging naghihintay sa inyong pagpasok, ang inyong mga guro ay laging handang magturo para sa inyo. Ang inyong mga magulang ay nagbabanat ng buto para makapag-aral kayo. Books and school supplies are there for you to use, and most especially the knowledge are always there for you to gain. The only thing you need to do is, study it and embrace it! Having a good education is the key to a brighter future.</b></i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>To all the recipients of today’s celebration…Congratulations! And keep up the good work! </i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Thank you very much for listening, your energy and enthusiasm are appreciated. Mabuhay tayong mga Paezians. "</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmkg3_5me5iXB_Ekkf52n50QmBSHz3DcAeUEBj44dQI179FGaYvqV674oN63prlY547-Hev9Bm-Xs54bmHBnWucfAaobn7Bwxg7zc4NBvlxotGolXodghUemqN0rXX1EK6m1jgZhAvJLTS/s1600-h/IMG_0367.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmkg3_5me5iXB_Ekkf52n50QmBSHz3DcAeUEBj44dQI179FGaYvqV674oN63prlY547-Hev9Bm-Xs54bmHBnWucfAaobn7Bwxg7zc4NBvlxotGolXodghUemqN0rXX1EK6m1jgZhAvJLTS/s400/IMG_0367.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451851294352908178" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">New breed ng Paezians</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>(date was not set up from the camera)</i></span></i></span></div></div></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-6258403687232225082010-02-20T04:31:00.000-08:002010-02-20T05:32:36.747-08:00OFW Children Must Understand Why We Are Here<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03DoLWIEOvxgXtx2xCTSFlH77yFRUesSVg_aU6DROkGUWyinSP20LSj2f-b2hhsBsVh8-_V6jfPidjsezw1VRtiggZSedFHGMnbWaR9EOzlv2pPxYuXAJaxUMlI_6y316VxRbBvPxBaxp/s1600-h/OFW+kids.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03DoLWIEOvxgXtx2xCTSFlH77yFRUesSVg_aU6DROkGUWyinSP20LSj2f-b2hhsBsVh8-_V6jfPidjsezw1VRtiggZSedFHGMnbWaR9EOzlv2pPxYuXAJaxUMlI_6y316VxRbBvPxBaxp/s400/OFW+kids.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440309568180071346" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I received an early usual morning text message from my daughter last Thursday, February 18, 2010. Her message usually so sweet that could always complete my day here in abroad. My wife does the same thing all the time too.</div></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">That morning the message said she was in school attending a forum discussing the topic regarding children of Overseas Filipino Workers. The Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Calamba, Laguna conducted a forum with unusual topic (to me) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“Anak ng Nangibang Bansa, Aruga at Ikaagapay”</i></b>. It was attended by children of OFWs studying in Letran. She told me during the forum she got emotional that she sent me series of text messages in my Smart Roaming, thanking me for all things I am doing our the family. Although my family is well-aware of some of the tricky things I am doing, not everything in my police service of course, she was able to realize more about the hardship of an OFW is exerting just to give them a better life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Well I just re-grabbed this line but actually the lines “giving them a better life” and “Bagong Bayani” are all over-rated things to me and started becoming really boring. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">“Sasapakin ko na tatawag sa akin na Bagong Bayani, sige (lol!) .”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The forum gave another definitions to these words as, I believe, it knocked out the idea from those children who always see their parents abroad as mere provider of stylish gadgets. This time, my daughter said, everyone was enlightened and was given a chance to appreciate more the very meaning why most parents need to work abroad and be alone for years. There was one of the attendees who even admitted doing things just to catch his parents’ attention and force them to go home and be with his siblings. But this is not actually a simple over the table request, we parents understood the present and future things more than out children, and I guess an option of going home will not gonna happen soon. We have extraordinary dreams and goal for our children and that is the very reason why we are here.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">After the forum maybe everyone will understand now why this kid was acting so stupid all the times that he almost gain ownership of the School Counselor’s Office. While on the other hand, he will somehow understand that his attitude is baseless and should stop immediately as it adds another heavy burden on his parents abroad.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Now I am thinking that aside from Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar or PDOS, a mandatory requirement for OFWs leaving the country, forum like this one held in Letran should be introduced in all schools nationwide yearly. It is high time for the OFWs’ children to have second look on the plight of their parents abroad. Needless to say that most of these children see their parents working abroad as providers of extraordinary needs, and missing the point of appreciating the very reason why they need to leave. This eye-opening forum should start and be held as a regular part of yearly curricula, not to mention that Human Rights Seminar which should also be included as part and parcel of education system. After all there is a great chance that most of the school children we have today are from OFW families. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I see this as far more significant than forcing an ex-OFW to attend PDOS, which is now becoming more of just a "compliance" than being "objective". And everyone knows when something that supposed to be objective by purpose has turned to becoming more of a compliance in nature; it will be a big source of corruption through exploitation of the memorandum or rule covering it. If you are an OFW and have been in and out of the country for several times, is it not that you may have attended PDOS more than ten times, having the same topic over and over again? Does it make sense? You have already become far better than the speaker discussing the topic in PDOS.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">That’s why we need to have second look in preparing the life like what we have right now. Being an overseas worker should be a preparation of our life's and family’s both worlds. The world they will have being the ones left behind, on one hand and the world we will have in our new-found land here abroad, on the other hand.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This is not only about the culture we are about to face, but it is about the new culture our children will be facing. Well, that includes the culture of having more money of course… and you can’t imagine what a culture shock they will get huh! Kidding aside, but this is true. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">More often than not, misunderstood kids in school are product of incomplete family, lack of parents’ attention, lack of appreciations and close parental guidance. This type of seminar or forum, whatever we call it, will help somehow these children to think about things and start getting the deeper positive sense out of being away from their OFW parents, not just being a financial provider, but provider of true and unselfish love. Not everyone is as lucky as these guys, other parents never lifted a finger in order to provide but rather exploit their children to get over on their parental responsibilities.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We need to have this kind of forum. I can call it “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pre and Post Departure OFW Family Orientation Seminar”</i></b>. Maybe we can include barangays to launch the same thing, to inform everyone that when one works abroad it is not a gate way to luxurious life but a great deal emotional and mental sacrifices that everyone in the family must be involved in maintaining the equilibrium to achieve the main goal of going and working abroad. Every cent earned must be looked upon not just as a grain of rice alone but a painful piece of moment of one working across the sea and vast land. It is not all about celebration of a new life, since our life is still uncertain even when one goes abroad to work for the family. It is about taking advantage of uncertain prosperity that no one knows how long or how short it will be.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Life abroad is indeed uncertain. The fellows back home must take and learn the lesson of the ants’ colony, to work while there is still sunshine, to save while they still can. There are hundreds of bad things thinkable and possible to us to happen while working abroad. Death, lay-off, becoming victims of illegal recruitment, termination, accidents, and many more that could bring storms to the “colony”. Think about that and let our kids learn it. Earn what your OFW parents have painstakingly got and sent you overseas.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Maybe through this type of objective gathering, we can prevent infidelity, financial crisis due to over expenditures, way-ward style of studying by OFWs’ children, and the non-compliance to what the couple has planned before one of them decided to work abroad. These are the common failures we OFWs are experiencing, realizing that after a long years of stay and hardship w abroad our lives back home never moved an inch forward, and at the end of the day our favorite song will be ”Napakasakit Kuya Eddie”. Our children, our beneficiaries are always part of it. Let them realize and play their in building a better future for themselves.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">To my children, thanks for the text messages I appreciate the fact you have really appreciated the real sense of my being here.</p></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-37086787967085974772010-02-06T01:34:00.000-08:002010-02-06T10:00:48.029-08:00NOYNOY is Every OFW<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">This is what I have in mind right now....based on this photo</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-32n1dSQa7ylHgAqI4j14-lJXUxfoErJBSWmR5TK0-dUZdFQiRdGgLcUEyC0pz8HVanz4t5aBvCqS6X-onSN3ya7fAH3vLEyI50xRtdN0HIx0HogSNalDZDDCDImReFIuxGjmgZJfJW3Q/s1600-h/Presidentiables.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 365px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-32n1dSQa7ylHgAqI4j14-lJXUxfoErJBSWmR5TK0-dUZdFQiRdGgLcUEyC0pz8HVanz4t5aBvCqS6X-onSN3ya7fAH3vLEyI50xRtdN0HIx0HogSNalDZDDCDImReFIuxGjmgZJfJW3Q/s400/Presidentiables.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435108045882018850" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">We have been asked by a batch mate in our high school Yahoo! Group email thread regarding the three "presidentiables" kung sino iboboto namin. It seems it was from a forwarded email circulating in the internet. There was a photo also attached of the three selections (You can check the above insinuating photo). I know it was not from my batch mate Laudemer and its owner is too impossible to identify.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I realized it is a nice topic to discuss about (I mean the photo) and my few understanding about my candidate for president. Let me put it straight, I AM FOR NOYNOY AQUINO. In my opinion, let's forget about the senate and the house of representatives for the meantime (or the legislative branch) and let's face the fact that the president is the most powerful among the three branches of what we so-called government. You can include judiciary branch as being inferior to executive branch nowadays if you want, pero para sa akin cool lang naman ang Court kumbaga..walang naman kasing mga kibo eh...hmp!..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Wala namang nagawa 'yang House sa pag iinarte at tantrums nung maliit na ale eh. So wala silang bilang muna, mas matindi ang upuan nung ale. So whoever will succeed her will be the important issue.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">What we have today is not actually a "government" but huge type of syndicate, as I can see it. There are collusions everywhere as approved by our "favorite Tita". I am not saying that I want Noynoy to be the next head of the syndicate but should be the next LEADER of the Filipino Nation. Right now we don't have that "Filipino Nation" being governed by a leader, but a nation being mobbed up and robbed up, where white color will be red as she wishes and no one will gonna contradict on that. She was made right when she was VERY wrong.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Anyways, I don't know so much about Noynoy Aquino, aside from few that I read from the internet and from the news. I think all of us do not have so much informations about our candidates, because like me, most of you guys are not so personally close to these candidates and probably what you guys know about them is limited to what you have read and what others have fed to you. Chinismis ika nga!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">And that's a reality, we are actually voting, though we have been given so much time to scrutinize each one of them, for those who have strong campaign gimmicks and remarkable advertisement, kaya nga tayo "na-leche eh". We have been so "possessed" by "pagkain sa bawat hapag kainan" modus-operadi, and yet at the end it was their plates that had the most expensive dinner ever.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i>(Oooops! commercial muna: I am actually watching </i></span><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blogwatch"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i>http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blogwatch</i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i> right now while Noynoy is being interviewed, 6 Jan 2010, Kenji Solis informed about it. Actually, I am watching it, writing this blog post and doing project estimates and costing, lol!)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">OK let's continue. Here's my stance and why Noynoy is my man for Malacañang. Let me explain my hypothetic idea about " Mr. Galing and Talino". Just being GMA's boy, this man should have no place right away in all four corners of government. Putting him in the Office of the president is virtually putting back GMA. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The tag "Galing and Talino" is actually all about him but since he is an administration bet, we cannot help but to think that they are dining on the same table and feast on the same kind of food, therefor have a "common goal". They have led the country to all formidable scandals and horrifying involvement in human rights violation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I would rather drop down the idea of voting for "so intelligent and so skillful" since these things are being used to exploit us Filipinos and especially us Overseas Filipino Workers. She's a Harvard alumna and being such is being a hell of being so intelligent, and where did she use that gift? So being "matalino and magaling" is no longer a plus-point because all them are smart and talented already. Pero nakita n'yo ba kung paano prinitong buhay ang anak niyang panganay ni Winnie Monsod? Why.. hehehehe! he's exactly the opposite of her mother. Kung super talino ang mudra, nuknukan ng "ewan", panoorin niyo na lang ang links. Pero ang yaman ng loko ano po!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">here are the links again: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0JKzpjh_o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0JKzpjh_o</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6I8h24sC8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6I8h24sC8</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><i><b>So no doubt lahat naman sila may "galing at talino" wala kang tulak-kabigin. Magkaka-level sila d'yan !</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Here's another one "Mr. Sipag at Tiyaga". Everyone knows this is pure propaganda, right? The concept of this modus is to sow inspiration which is agreeable to be good. Has he been doing this "sipag at tiyaga" thing long before the election? Or lumalabas lang ito every election. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">He is pointing out this "ST" thing today because he is running for presidency. When he won a senate seat the first time, did he continue his "sipag and tiyaga movement? No he did not. He kept his "sipag and tiyaga" secrets to himself. What is the effect of this slogan to us, wala di ba? Absolutely nothing but made us voted for him. So clearly it's a propaganda and nothing else. Parang gusto pa yata tayong palanguyin sa basura sa jingle niya e.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Also, as I observe this guy has been very active these days in helping the OFWs. Aside from showing the public how he helps them and with matching "heroic speeches in time of distress", he also has plans for us OFWs. That is, if elected, there is no need for us to go and work abroad. Hallleeeer! Wake up, man. That is next to impossibility, are we dreaming to become the next North Korea?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Do you know what is the result of bringing home the more than 12Million OFWS?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Scarcity, over population and food supplies will be limited and who will bring the billions of dollars every year? Di mo po kayang kunin 'yang bilyones na yan sa revenue ng investors lang 'no. Even extremely rich countries have their citizens work abroad. So isa itong pambobola..lumang pulitika at taktika!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">What we need is realistic approach and plans for us OFWs..walang bolahan. Migration, temporary or permanent, is deemed necessary, dudong. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Wheew! Ka Blas Ople cared for and helped us OFW without the need to run for president, kaya n'yo ba yun?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Filipinos do not need "sipag and tiyaga" inspiration as we are so naturally HARDWORKING already since time immemorial. The sad thing was that the fruits of our hard work were abused, much more stolen from us by greedy government.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Of course, capturing the more than 12-Million OFWs is more than winning the lottery. They need to have the best political gimmick just to show that they care. One could imagine, if you multiply that 12-Million by at least three voting members of each OFW family, that a sure thing lottery.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Get OFW majority and their families..you are undoubtedly a winner!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So there you are fellow OFWs, let me remind everyone that with us alone..we can make a president... a leader and not a "LORD"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The problem with the first two good-looking candidates, they were crafted, dressed-up and groomed by their parties long before they dreamed of running for president. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So just like in construction industry, all possibilities were anticipated including accidents to achieve a "common goal". Be it a bad or a good goal, they have prepared ways to achieve it no matter what. They have all the well-prepared crew to answer things, to cover things, to scientifically explain thing in more complex way so nobody could understand and accept it whatever it is. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">That's all for the sake of the PARTY.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><i>So all in all base rin sa sipag at tiyaga, magkaka-level sila riyan!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So here's my guy, NOY!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><b><i>At dito walang ka-level si Noynoy pag-dating sa utos ng magulang.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Based on the photo, I would rather go for MAMA at PAPA! The one who follows the guidance of righteous parents, than those who follow the dictates of the party. Here, we have Daddy Ninoy at Mommy Cory guiding the political direction of the party, if that's what the picture above tried to emphasize. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">He has one noble guidance, and that is just to LOVE and take CARE for all of us. With this guidance, everything else will fall in proper places. Just like a good father who loves and cares for his family, exactly just like us OFW -- just like you and me.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">We are here abroad driven by our love and care for our families, working HONESTLY to keep our jobs for their sake, kahit mahirap and working HARD for them in order to provide their necessities. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Just like Noynoy and us OFWs, WE will never steal because we do not want to put our families in scandalous situation.. WE will never put our families' future at stake for sake of our own personal interest. And most of the time, friendship (or party) is immaterial if things are prejudicial to our families.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So equate that, equals:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">"Filipinos is the big family of Noynoy.. our families is his family too, therefor NOYNOY IS EVERY OFW."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Maybe, there were few guys out there who got dismayed during Pres. Cory's time because of her convictions and her true-to-the-line governance..but that few did not represent ALL of us...NOT the majority of the Filipinos.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Look at us today, look around...it's the other way around and exactly the opposite. Only few guys are so happy, the rest of us are begging for a real life we deserved.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Just like his mother, Noynoy's running for presidency is impromptu and consulted no one but his conscience. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Good governance need long planning and presidency is a short term stint. But to corrupt the government needs longer one, longer than planning a good government and it is also a long term operation where 6 years is not enough. So in order to plan for a bad government that will enrich the whole clan and everyone in the party, it should start from ambition down to planned re-election, from one position to another. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Noynoy never dreamed of becoming a president. It is the people who wished him to run, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><a href="http://bizjoker-of-the-philippines.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-aquino-in-2010.html">he did not fail us on that request.</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Sabi ko nga sa email thread dun sa Yahoo! Group:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Mas mabuting pumusta ako kay Noynoy at matalo, or mabigo ako sa expectation ko. At least expectation ko lang, afterwards, wala na siya. Kesa magbakasakali ako sa iba...bigo ka na..asar-talo ka pa..mas maraming unexpected na ayaw mong mangyari ang gagawin nila.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Etong move na ito, expected nyo ba:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Tatakbo pang Congresswoman.....tanga lang maniniwalang pagmamahal sa bayan ang nagtulak para muling mag-lingkod sa bayan at constituents ang nag-request. Tanga ba kayo diyan sa lugar na yan at di niyo halata ha?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Si FVR nga panay tulong naman until now ah.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Sa sobrang talino, pinaikot ang batas, binalewala ang moralidad, ininsulto pa ang lohikong pag iisip ng bawat Filipino. Awkward! parang di natural!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So di naman ako galit, nagpapaliwang lang, medyo asar nga lang ako dun sa ale..bad trip!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">SO KANINO KA?</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 21px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 21px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ako, di ako makakaboto..wala ritong presinto sa Afghanistan...kaya eto lang kaya ko.</span></span></span></span></div></span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-67080980166917425482010-01-28T23:29:00.000-08:002010-01-29T10:11:52.858-08:00TATAY rin AKO<div>This is what I have in mind right now....</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PGWqINkwndDl11RGj32B8NdSYYhEp2W74G0BAnnFENpFqFoqEO7h20SF_fZAe6U2TVgo4bXN5pQ_Wj03xip4UjoXxXg4u2kxkA4lz1XWGp85UREG128Q-JZ93r59Wqma9uIHOX3TpRGg/s1600-h/Fabellores.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PGWqINkwndDl11RGj32B8NdSYYhEp2W74G0BAnnFENpFqFoqEO7h20SF_fZAe6U2TVgo4bXN5pQ_Wj03xip4UjoXxXg4u2kxkA4lz1XWGp85UREG128Q-JZ93r59Wqma9uIHOX3TpRGg/s400/Fabellores.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432126866716009970" /><div style="text-align: center;text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div></a><div style="text-align: center;">Si Mommy at ang kaniyang Angels</div><div><br /><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Na-excite ako ng ilang buwan sa bakasyon ko last year, kaya medyo naiwan ko ang blog ko. And for last few weeks since I got back from three weeks vacation, parang nagsisisi ako bakit bumalik ako sa abroad. Kasi ang sarap sa amin, kasama ko pamilya ko at ang pinakakmamahal kong mommy. Nag-reunion kasi kami, and I realized habang pinanonood ko ang photos namin sa reunion....naisip ko....eto na kami ngayun....!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I remember nung nilayasan kami ni Daddy in 1979, parang nahihiya ako na sabihing hiwalay ang mga professional kong mga magulang. Not necessarily nagkaroon ako ng inferiority complex, mas superior nga tingin ko sa sarili ko until now. Warrior ang tingin ko sa sarili ko minsan, death is not a tool to stand me down. Kahit matapang ako, inaalala ko lang ang magiging feelings ng mga mahal ko sa buhay na maiiwan ko kapag nadale ako (lalo dito sa Afghanistan) kaya rin nag iingat ako husto. Ayoko ng moment of "iwanan", parang ganun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Madali akong ma-touch about story of somebody leaving the other permanently, lalo in a sad way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ibang-iba noon, ikinahihiya ka ng mga tao kapag galing ka sa broken homes, halos laman ang pamilya mo ng usapan sa kalye, at ang nakakainis pa yung mga iniwanan ang parang tinutuligsa nila at hindi yung ungas na lumayas at nag-iwan ng malaking responsibildad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kakaiba noon. Kakaiba ang trato sa amin ng kapitbahay kasi walang matandang lalaki sa pamilya, maliliit pa kami ng kuya ko, I was 7 at kung batuhin bahay namin ganun na lang, kasi di kami Katoliko. Maingay raw pumuri sa Diyos ang mga Apostolic Pentecostal kaya puro tipak ng bato ang bubong ng church namin na pinagawa ni mommy sa ibaba ng bahay.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maliit pa ako nun kaya di makapalag, puro kutos ang inabot ko..pero di nakaligtas sa akin yun! Kahit ang ginawang kagat ng pulang langgam sa paa ko tinandaan ko....kilala ko isa-isa ang may mga kasalanan sa akin... kaya pinangako ko sa sarili ko..papaluhirin ko silang mga animales sila....mag-a-Army ako! Ayokong pinag uusapan kami, lalo ang pamilya ko. Galit talaga ako sa tsismosong kapit-bahay e. Galit akong pinag-uusapan lalo ang mommy ko.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Taong 1996 tinawid ko ang pinaka-makahayup na hazing sa PNP para sa kanila...at binalikan ko ang kalye namin. Di pwedeng palipasin ng panahon ang inugali nila...kahit paano meron rin nanatiling mabuting tao sa kanila, sila yung nakakatikim ng pa-ibabaw sa akin. The rest!-pailalim na. Sayang nga lang patay na yung iba.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ako dapat papatay dun kapitbahay namin sa banda gitna ng kalye, kaso namatay na siya bago pa ako lumaki. Kinutusan ba naman ako dahil lang sa kalapati na nabihag ni kuya. Kung may tatay ako, magagawa nya ba yun? Nakalawit agad ni Kamatayan e. Nasa listahan ko rin yung bumabato sa bahay, sa awa ng Diyos napatay rin sya sa inuman. Kung may tatay ba ako mababato ba niya bahay namin? Marami pa silang buhay, pero sa ngayun, ayusin ko muna buhay ko hehehehe! Nasa ilalim naman ako e. Huhugutin ko silang mga animales sila one of these days.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sagad sa yabang din ako dati e....kasi di lang ako basta pulis....alam ko matikas akong pulis ...bawal magsabi sa akin ng salitang "wala yan" kasi sigurado bibigyan ko sila. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bago ang PNP... lumusot muna ako sa karayum para abutin at tapusin ang MS-43. Nag-Wing Commander pa nga ako e. Kaya nasanay na sa hazing....pinatibay ng panahon. Kaya siguro di ako takot sa Iraq at Afghanistan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, side bet lang yan ng kabataan na lumaki sa broken home. Until now..ayokong haha-hara kahit sino..kaniya-kaniya tayong buhay..kaniya-kaniya tayong tapang... dun ka sa kalsada mo, dito ako sa akin. Kung magbebenta ka ng gulo sa akin.. di ka mapapahiya... kaso huwag ka aasa ng patas. Di ako maligalig tao..ayoko lang ita-trato akong mali. Ang akin, kahit di ko masaktan ng direkta basta makaganti ako...kay itago mo ang "my precious" mo. Nabuo ang prinsipyong yan sa dun sa kalyeng yun...sistema lang ang nahubog dun pero di ang buong pagkatao ko. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ganun pa man, kinalimutan ko ang kalyeng yun...PERO tinandaan ko ang mga tao at mga pangyayari.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TWIST:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pero ngayun, ang pamilyang broken home ay parang lima singko. Ordinaryo at parang di ka "in" pag di ka galing dun. Hinahangaan ang mag asawang naka-survive ng 12 years of marriage. Although wala akong data, parang napakataas ng naghihiwalay na mag asawa sa iba't-ibang dahilan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pero di tulad noon, ang mga magulang na naghihiwalay ngayun, karamihan sa kanila ngayun mas concerned sa welfare ng anak nila. Minsan umaabot pa sa demandahan, kindapan, sakitan o minsan maging sa patayan kung sino ang kukustudiya sa mga anak nila. Meaning may pagmamahal sila sa mga anak, kahit walang maibigay minsan basta makasama once a week -talagang inilalaban nila.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ngayun isa na akong parent na rin, naintindihan ko ang mga mag-asawang na naghihiwalay sa henerasyong ito. Acceptable siguro ang mga reasons ng hiwalayan nila, at ang over reaction nila sa mga anak nilang apektado.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ang hindi ko mahanap sa isip ko hanggang ngayun ay yung mga taong humiwalay sa asawa nila noong panahon nang maghiwalay ang parents ko na basta na lang naglaho. Mommy ko lang ang kinakitaan ko ng attitude at concerned sa aming magkakaptid. Kaya kahit anong palusot, kahit anong paliwanag...unacceptable kay Fabe ang 30 years na lumipas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Malaking pasalamat at kulang ang buong buhay ko para ibayad sa ginawang pagpapalaki, pagmamahal, pag aaruga, pag-pupuyat, pagbabntay, pagpapa-aral at ilang taong pag sisikap ni Mommy para sa aming lahat. Sa liit ng suweldo ng isang public school teacher, pinag-aral nya kaming lahat...nagtapos sa tamang panahon, kumain ng sapat, dinamitan ng tama at dinisiplina sa lugar. Palagay ko, ang pwede kong itumbas kahit paano ay yung maging mabuti akong tao, at mabuti akong magulang tulad niya..isang mabuting ama.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nakikita ko si mommy sa bubong ng bahay namin noon, tuwing may bagyo, nag-aayus ng butas, minsan nagkakarpentero pa, mga gawing panlalaki na dapat lalaking kamay ang gumagawa. At Isa pa, buti na lang Math Teacher mommy ko at magaling magpaikot ng numero, kahit baon sa utang dati, nakaraos din. Mga diskarte na dapat isang tatay ang gagawa dahil siya ang inatasan ng Diyos na mag taguyod ng pamilya. Madals nga sa jeep, tig-isang hita kami ni kuya, naka-kalong kami para isa lang ang bayad..hehehehe! tapos sabay kami matutulog.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Di pinadama ni Mommy ang kakulangan ng magulang sa loob ng tahanan namin bagkus pinakita niyang siya lang ay SOBRA-SOBRA na bilang magulang. Sa taas na 4ft at 11 inches daig nya pa ang 6-footer sa abilidad, sa bilis at sa talino. Dami niya diskarte noon, na sinusundan ko naman ngayun, magaling na manager sa buhay ang Mommy. Matalino talaga Mommy ko, honor students kaya ang Mommy nung estudyante pa sya. Planning, implementing and controlling ang basic na makikita mo sa kaniya. Lima kaming inakay-akay niya, pero wala kaming malungkot na Pasko at wala kaming nilagpasang birthdays namin. Siya lang yata ang taong may 72-hours in a day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hanggang ngayun, higit pa siyang nakakatulong at parang naging nature na niya ang umalalay sa amin gayong may kaniya-kaniya na kaming pamilya. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Kaya ngayun medyo mahigpit ako sa mga anak ko, prevention ika nga ang the best cure. Ayokong masilat at nakakahiya kay Mommy. Siya nga kababaeng tao e..tapos ako, ka-lalaki kong tao, di ba?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kapag nakikita ko si Mommy, lalong napapamahal sa akin ang asawa ko at ang pamilya ko. Di nila dapat danasin ang naranasan namin. In-upgrade na ni mommy ang pamumuhay namin, so dapat upgraded na buhay rin ang ibigay ko sa pamilya ko. Di naman ako nagmamalinis, naging babero rin ako, siyempre pulis nga e... pero si mommy ang idol ko e, so kahit di itanong, walang approval ang naging style ko.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mas mabuting asikasuhin ang asawa at ang pamilya, hubugin sila ayun sa taste natin....para di tayo matukso sa iba.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">SO ETO NA KAMI, 30 years na ang nakalipas mula ng inakala ng taong nag-iwan sa amin na ikamamatay namin ang paglayas niya....dumami pa kami, lalong sumaya, mas mataas ang rating yata ng pundasyong ginawa ni Mommy (1Million-pounds per square inch, kahit ipa-compression test mo pa)..... at totoo ang mga smiles namin..nakakasingkit talaga ng mga mata. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL91NRAfIq31IAJJgBfU_QCoHd4G3Gkv6pMr-a3glg23lIdbR-gFJqec3d2UeC31nvuOAGRlaCTpYH_TI_DqjP5C25QL9JmR31Z4lX10Xog-X7259gNRto9GgZAr0PuUZf0WKAAPpBqOd0/s400/Mommy's+Clan.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432123120718687762" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Five lang kami sa buhay ni Mommy..kita mo kung paano niya pinarami !</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3u2B1FDwBRSqdclrFdfxl8KLsWQUCrT2bn1O6u-Qs1aBKw-ile8qhdvZSzlODErY2fbrHyM90YQnNoJvG0ZEzULqLSYG6GpJww18_Dltlir0YCXWbhoLyecMzfy3VSyxRa1TeM-I9lSlJ/s1600-h/Image347.jpg"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3u2B1FDwBRSqdclrFdfxl8KLsWQUCrT2bn1O6u-Qs1aBKw-ile8qhdvZSzlODErY2fbrHyM90YQnNoJvG0ZEzULqLSYG6GpJww18_Dltlir0YCXWbhoLyecMzfy3VSyxRa1TeM-I9lSlJ/s400/Image347.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432121116010351010" style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ang mga tunay na saya at smile....mas masaya kami</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;">Kaya para sa' yo.....Di pa tayo tapos!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div></div></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-83275096599980798302009-11-07T22:03:00.000-08:002009-11-08T00:47:24.592-08:00Yahoo! Number 5 ako sa PEBA!<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">This is what I have in mind right now....</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-nAoLx2VSg_ggjgRF4yoWMsQFAet98XuFKy5Q98ypWMe4BX4Np3l4xZnstHm2CaR3zYhTyEqqh46oF07sjz9tXpPQntvTgUfZcJS3bgpTiMrVcSk7hKq96x-iZodyl_VK_mMw1XPBPxY/s1600-h/PEBA+at+ABS.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-nAoLx2VSg_ggjgRF4yoWMsQFAet98XuFKy5Q98ypWMe4BX4Np3l4xZnstHm2CaR3zYhTyEqqh46oF07sjz9tXpPQntvTgUfZcJS3bgpTiMrVcSk7hKq96x-iZodyl_VK_mMw1XPBPxY/s400/PEBA+at+ABS.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401623234549571746" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(photo from ABS-CBN site)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">I feel so proud this morning, kasi naka-received ako ng email from Servando Delen, ang nag iisang ka-batch ko sa Camp Taji, Iraq. Sabi niya " Wow pare number five ka sa PEBA!"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Natawa ako kasi kahit papaano, nasa top ako sa LISTAHAN... sa listahan lang po! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Just being a nominee actually is already a big deal to me, how much more being a finalist. Nung nasa showbiz nga ako, being a nominee for an award is more than enough to be a fulfillment for career move. Di ko lang talaga kaya ang intriga sa showbiz...madalas akong ma-link sa mga leading ladies ko....<i>(ipapakasal ko kay Gloria ng hindi tumawa)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Nakakatuwa kasi magada ang exposure ng PEBA 2009 mukhang sobrang big event. I am so proud at naging part ako ng PEBA !</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Visit nyo ang site ni Ellen Tordesillas, nakita ko roon si Pope nag comment...kaya nag sign-up rin ako para pasamalatan ang butihing si Ellen. Bukod sa magiginig judge sya ng PEBA, binigyan nya tayo ng exposure. I would like also to thank ABS CBN for the exposure na ginawa nila para sa atin.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Please visit these sites:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ellen's blog:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="http://www.ellentordesillas.com/?p=7974">http://www.ellentordesillas.com/?p=7974</a></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">ABS-CBN Website:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/11/07/09/blog-awards-pinoy-expats-ofws-set">http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/11/07/09/blog-awards-pinoy-expats-ofws-set</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mabuhay po kayo!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">SIDE BET:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Down below the news article sa ABS was a comment from fellow OFW from Sudan, Africa. And his sentiment was that PEBA, as he said, is after only for those in developed countries. He was telling PEBA to visit them and see their plight in that part of the world, so the world will know.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">I think he misunderstood the cause of PEBA, the fact that we are really pro-OFWs but I think we cannot write about things we never personally experienced. I suggest somebody from that place should start blogging and tell the world how is it going in Sudan.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In my opinion, I cannot write something about a place that I don't have any knowledge about, baka tamaan ako ng kidlat, and if I wrote it wrong.. somebody will rebuke me and start hating me.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Now, if he could send us verified information, with links and really evidential, maybe I could write something for him..pero the best thing he should write it himself and join the PEBA next year. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wala pong favoritism dito. Nais ng lahat maipalam ang tunay na kalagayan ng OFW sa lahat na sulok ng mundo, and it is up to us to relay the message through blogging. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Sana nga maging blogger din itong si Ed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic; ">Here is his comment on ABS-CBN site:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold; line-height: 13px; "><a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/11/07/09/blog-awards-pinoy-expats-ofws-set"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Awards..?</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Kabayan,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Nakalimutan yata nyo kami d2 sa Sudan Africa...? Mga kababayan nyo nagta-trabaho d2 sa gitna ng disyerto...? Napuna ako ang mga kandidato nyo ay puro na sa developed countries, maliban lang sa Afghanistan.?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Paano naman kami mare-recognized ng blog award na yan..?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mahirap ang kalagayan namin d2. Bakit di kayo pumunta dito at magsuri ng kalagayan d2 sa Southern Sudan kaysa sa nakikita nyo ay yun lamang mga nasa developed countries. Pansinin nyo rin kami dito sa Africa</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Salamat</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>Submitted by Ed Cuisa on Sun,11/08/2009 - 12:18.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">SALAMAT DIN ED AT MABUHAY KAYO RIYAN.</span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-15545323810885256522009-10-22T02:40:00.000-07:002009-10-22T11:42:16.985-07:00Pietà- Historical Tweet (Ovi by Nokia)<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;">This is what I have in mind right now....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_j_soz_VH7-PQm02M37ng9xT7TxPbqlsc1MmakNnn8okoloZbYupg5TGLOJe3dyf7QrlG45ciX2DcmPFtkH6Xo65XbrfuHRC_MyVMrrbF-HqnYJFpDvmaIh9V8xhmW0_DsWMCaQTBmti/s1600-h/Pieta_bizjoker_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_j_soz_VH7-PQm02M37ng9xT7TxPbqlsc1MmakNnn8okoloZbYupg5TGLOJe3dyf7QrlG45ciX2DcmPFtkH6Xo65XbrfuHRC_MyVMrrbF-HqnYJFpDvmaIh9V8xhmW0_DsWMCaQTBmti/s400/Pieta_bizjoker_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395416464168755218" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvMrirV5xm2Sd_LwNW9yEKbF5EJN5f-7s0SuLdRrVkSiPxYrETH-zGXbhMpdlS-2kC0AhEJjgjmhtX9XfQSC9l4vUVFtzDgK2V9inBGyDJjYMvIyLV5Q2r2_MpiYJwl3pMBCfinwc092n/s1600-h/Pieta_bizjoker_1.jpg"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">One of the famous sculptures during the Renaissance period is the </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Pietà</span></span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i></i>, depicting the scene of the Christ on Mary’s lap after He was brought down from the cross.</span></span></div></div><div><div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is the only sculpture of Michelangelo that has his sign, announcing that he made it. His action was prompted by a comment he overheard from someone during the sculpture installation to its new place that </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Pietà</span></span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i></i></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">was someone else’s piece. He regretted his outburst and promised that he would never do the same thing again to his artworks. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As you can see in the photo, Mary here wore sash across her chest with Michelangelo's sign (Source: </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)">Wikipedia</a></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">However, on the technical aspect (dimension) of the sculpture, do you know?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If the chaste woman (Mary) carrying the dead body (Jesus Christ) would stand up, she will have un-proportioned anatomical body of that of a normal person? While seated, observe her torso and compare it to the legs carrying the dead body. If she is standing, she would have smaller head and shorter torso but longer thighs and would have legs that are almost of the same length as that of the man’s she is carrying.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Make your own analysis if this claim is true. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On-Screen:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In Philippine Cinema, </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Pietà</span></span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i></i></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">was an action-drama movie of 1983 starring the late actor Ace Vergel, the original “Bad Boy” of Filipino showbiz, and the late multi-awarded actress Charito Solis who played his mother. Ironically, it is the story of a mother’s agony over her son’s <i>crooked</i> path of life. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ryan Agoncillo and Cherry Gill starred in the latest version of </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Pietà</span></span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i></i></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%; color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">in television series in 2008</span></span></p></div></div><br /></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-41595337278648193892009-10-14T23:15:00.000-07:002009-10-15T03:47:22.987-07:00DARNA-Anti-OFW ?<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">This is what I have in mind right now....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-7z2TM-_CQrAElNY7SzzhuXMuHnPezWTpT6jrnmUqxCWELpjnagg0alxsGtlpy9T7K57AkrtJ5tHAru9cfcaI4O1Bt0eOdbG91mD6049ZFjW0oUobZLL5lyzWRqC_FBrASJp9xm1LtXc/s1600-h/Marian-Rivera-Darna.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-7z2TM-_CQrAElNY7SzzhuXMuHnPezWTpT6jrnmUqxCWELpjnagg0alxsGtlpy9T7K57AkrtJ5tHAru9cfcaI4O1Bt0eOdbG91mD6049ZFjW0oUobZLL5lyzWRqC_FBrASJp9xm1LtXc/s400/Marian-Rivera-Darna.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392707672568238354" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">Chatting through internet between Overseas Filipino Workers and their families back home has become the cheapest and easy tool to combat homesickness. Old folks who have been here in abroad way ahead of us, talked about their dilemma during the early days. Letters took month to get replies that’s why they used to send more than five letters in one sending without waiting for reply. Writing letters had been the common past time of OFWs back then.</span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Also, they made once a month long distance call to the Philippines since it was extremely expensive, unlike these days where they are just few peso away from each other, wherever and whenever. Communication and staying connected with our families back home is top of the list in OFWs daily life, this helps us prevent experiences of overseas workers in the past, where attentions were diverted.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Today, we have email, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, Chikka and many more. Even as our company IT personnel will block these chat machines, we still find ways to get connected through chatting and video talk. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Recently, Astig Pinoys in Iraq were complaining about KBR in Camp Taji blocking their YM and Chikka, but still they found ways and manage to re-connect by themselves <i>(pinoy talents talaga!) and </i>other through soft-hearted IT guys. Staying connected with our families back home improves our performances, unless one will abuse the use of internet during working hours. I could say it is indispensible part of us to be able to overcome fear and loneliness here in abroad. It makes us less worry as we could monitor them all the times and we could even help the kids do their homework, or guide our spouse what is missing in her cooking. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The worse part of working abroad is having no peace of mind. Knowing what’s happening around our dear family back home is important and makes us inspired, which in return boosts up our quality work output. Doing away on this perspective and you are becoming anti-OFWs, as you are putting back the loneliness in our working consoles and it will have a "domino effect" to our decision to better be home and stay happy, which is actually sad ending.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">BUT HERE IS THE THING!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">These few weeks, as I observe, and it has been a discussion among my peers in the internet that something is eating up our chance to have time with our families online. And even among us OFWs, they don’t have time in the evening for important discussions through chatting, as they have something else focusing on.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">It is getting my family’s time for me and makes me feel ignored, as if it is far more important than me. My friends complained the same thing, the same experience and they feel lonely during this time, and homesickness starts to envelope the entire surrounding waiting for them to come back in front of the webcam.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The top rated DARNA is becoming my wife’s "paramour" <i>(lol!)</i> during our chatting hours, even my kids can’t stay longer when the programs starts, they would hang me up until it is done airing. What is with Darna that we OFWs don’t have? Marianne Rivera’s </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">oh-lalah</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> body? Yeah I guess the ever-exciting run of events and suspended climax. Damn! Why GMA7 did not think about putting up a cable TV subscription here in Afghanistan.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Well, I really like Marianne when she hip-rolled in Marimar! Hehehehe! That’s why today, to get even with them, I subscribed to </span><a href="http://www.noypi-unlimited.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">www.noypi-unlimited.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> to see Darna.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The next time I face the webcam, I will be in my new two-piece Darna costume too, to get my family back!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">“Ding ang bato!”</span></p></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-64873043750861636392009-09-29T21:12:00.000-07:002009-09-29T22:05:19.769-07:00JACQUE BERMEJO AND HER ENGLISH LANGUAGE - Storm Ondoy Version<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaiH5U5RYvkpha897Ss0Ie8IrC0K_Zs7rhOMprLx2D-4kwmvISZqHu1lfafchF3BoyMsb-pv8yHFhyphenhyphenkYAGyckCTsc0nsvMI_pn5lhpcGrHj3plsYK-KM3_U34ScxbcSheF-JlMRGYWlTQ/s1600-h/JACQUE+BERMEJO+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaiH5U5RYvkpha897Ss0Ie8IrC0K_Zs7rhOMprLx2D-4kwmvISZqHu1lfafchF3BoyMsb-pv8yHFhyphenhyphenkYAGyckCTsc0nsvMI_pn5lhpcGrHj3plsYK-KM3_U34ScxbcSheF-JlMRGYWlTQ/s400/JACQUE+BERMEJO+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387109538659570130" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">This is what I have in mind right now....</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As the entire nation was sadden by that fateful day when storm Ondoy ravaged and caught the entire Luzon unprepared, it was really amazing that in midst of crying, yelling for help and extreme sobbing, and while unified voices and efforts of all the Filipinos back home and around the world to call for rescue, there was one soulless Filipina breaking her devilish laughs accusing the victims of Ondoy as being sinners, and even calling them as being well-deserved of the wrath.</span></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">While GMA Channel 7 used its Facebook Social Netweork to help the authorities in their rescue efforts, JACQUE BERMEJO has a different cry to get attention in the middle of the crisis. In her Facebook page, she bravely told right in the faces of those victims, VICTIMS who maybe our very own families, your families or my family, that they deserved what they’ve got from the storm as being sinners and added further that she was lucky enough to be in Dubai at the time. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:14.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">“Kaya totoo nga ang kasabihan, ipinanganganak sa gitna ng unos ang mga demonyo.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:14.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(Devils are born the midst of storm)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VggjYKYktjkUNc32V06qe_UIcza7S9GXXriecXa0Gykj2-QOWyDqT1tejr3w5_PTNCTlk-2GicuNaE8UIvS_3rd6e6iH2zs-HePWglnL_vxCvp6aDZ21JVwXCurTvl3qbeLWIm-y5i_i/s1600-h/JACQUE+BERMEJO+1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VggjYKYktjkUNc32V06qe_UIcza7S9GXXriecXa0Gykj2-QOWyDqT1tejr3w5_PTNCTlk-2GicuNaE8UIvS_3rd6e6iH2zs-HePWglnL_vxCvp6aDZ21JVwXCurTvl3qbeLWIm-y5i_i/s400/JACQUE+BERMEJO+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387110347553974082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px;font-size:19px;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:6;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We bloggers used to stand firm to what is RIGHT. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We united to condemn those who lambasted the Overseas Filipino Workers and their families. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This time, JACQUE BERMEJO lambasted not only the OFWs’ families but the country as whole and I cannot let it pass without giving JACQUE BERMEJO her much needed attention as what I did to those others who seek a minute of popularity. As long as my blog exist, her statement will exist as a dire reminder about her intelligence. Her kind of specie is worse than those previous ones. What a rotten personality you have, Ms. Bermejo. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Alam ko palusot mo..na-hack ang Facebook mo)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Ipinagtanggol pa ang sarili nya in her reply and calling the victims as WALANG ASENSO?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Let me tell you this JACQUE BERMEJO, more than anything else that perished underwater, the lives of those Filipino victims were the most affected here in your insulting comment. Have you thought how it was, their trauma and their physical agony while waiting for help and rescue efforts? They don’t deserve you brainless opinion but I will never let it go without castigating you, by all means I know. Your irresponsible opinion will echo through generations. I wish your families and relatives would be able to read this and be ashamed of themselves as they had lapses on how they brought you up. As they search the Google on items related to you and the storm Ondoy, your name and this article will show up-forever.</span></p></span><p></p></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-52275628790622227742009-09-09T00:07:00.001-07:002009-09-09T11:14:36.598-07:00ANOTHER AQUINO IN 2010<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">This is what I have in mind right now....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-ZFFnOtqNDkbxkmWh-sHYCXo9_6lTEwCKiFLPoj_tZyPHQjDRmbv4C-emCbzFB2H6KQAnmGzuBmbPnwOTLQ-xYdOC2KN-BmBIdq0KHK1cfq1_ZdB2rZCI0OysYHSuWPEs68LuprsuJ6_/s1600-h/Noynoy_banner1a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-ZFFnOtqNDkbxkmWh-sHYCXo9_6lTEwCKiFLPoj_tZyPHQjDRmbv4C-emCbzFB2H6KQAnmGzuBmbPnwOTLQ-xYdOC2KN-BmBIdq0KHK1cfq1_ZdB2rZCI0OysYHSuWPEs68LuprsuJ6_/s400/Noynoy_banner1a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379375336433880306" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/171814/noynoy-aquino-announces-bid-for-presidency-in-2010">NOYNOY will be running for president in 2010.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Finally, the Liberal Party has presidential bid for next year's presidetial election, as Senator Benigno C. Aquino III made his announcement early morning on the 40th day after Gat Pres. Corazon C. Aquino's death, that he will face and accept the call of the people supporting him and to continue the fight for real democracy his parents have started.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Among other remaining presidentiables, I guess, no one has come to level with or get closed to, or even go over Noynoy's reputations a statesman and as a person. As far as I know, he has never been into any kind of anomaly with respect to his being a government servant and to his performance as such since he entered the politics. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">He is the type of person who surely will not taint the good names and legacies his parents had devoted to the Filipino nation. He is spiritually motivated, low-profile, does his assignment without need of publicity, a real patriot, and most of all <b>he is driven by will of the people and not by mere personal ambition.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Just like Gat President Cory, <b><i>Noynoy never dream of and aspire</i></b> for the presidency. <b>I</b><b>t is his supporters, <i>the People</i>, who hoped for him to be their next president</b> and that what makes him unique and really stands out from other presidential aspirants.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">After the announcement, all we want to hear in the coming days, during the campaign period, are his platforms once become the next leader of the nation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I wish you all the good luck, Sen. Noynoy Aquino and here are some wishes and expectations from me once you become the next Pres. Aquino, but not limited to:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you not be eaten by current rotten political system once seated in Malacañang Palace.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you declare your Statements of Assets and Liabilities Networth (SALN) honestly as ever.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you live a modest life as expected from a government official, as ever.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you be contented to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in a fine dining abroad without unreasonably spending our taxes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May your spouse-to be, sisters and other relatives do not interfere or otherwise be brokers to all government transactions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you not call a COMELEC official at any time during election to ensure winning.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you respect Human Rights as being your advocacy and not by mere media exposures.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you consider the nation's plight when you travel abroad for states visit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you lessen the number of your visiting entourage when you visit other countries and not to allow unnecessary political personalities and their spouses, their dogs, their yaya, their amigas and their amigos...Baby James would be fine though.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you not play golf in Wac-wac where "<i>back-off"</i> and "<i>may 200 ka r'yan" </i>are used as sports technical terms to win a game and government project.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you, as being an economist yourself, be a blessing to Filipino economy as you don't need to be US Pres. Clinton's classmate, your being Atenista is enough.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you be a true <i>"Ekonomista"</i>, who is a <a href="http://www.gonegosyo.net/blog/">Pro-Economy</a> for the nation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you consider re-impositioning the death penalty to fight more crimes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May you consider lifting the travel bans here in Afghanistan and in Iraq (personal wish of mine).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#00CCCC;">MAY YOU LEAD US WHERE YOUR PARENTS WANT THE FILIPINOS TO BE.</span></b></span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-33523695788199829622009-09-03T08:34:00.000-07:002009-09-12T01:04:11.520-07:00FOREX ON STREETS OF KABUL<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; ">This is what I have in mind right now....</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2pU1Fy24XOYy3S1AtcUdN541whe9JodhO9aGikcv-P38MY880zSl5oAiqE_fXAjWp4I82AQEkJYa2ROvs-xUKs0P0z-KeoHtRK0E4X666tapqG321f9y4gAHzWK7Yw8LolnGISyF7TEN/s1600-h/afghan-market072_133541gm-a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2pU1Fy24XOYy3S1AtcUdN541whe9JodhO9aGikcv-P38MY880zSl5oAiqE_fXAjWp4I82AQEkJYa2ROvs-xUKs0P0z-KeoHtRK0E4X666tapqG321f9y4gAHzWK7Yw8LolnGISyF7TEN/s400/afghan-market072_133541gm-a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377278201255275682" /></a><div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">After the car bombing near the NATO facility and US Embassy few days before the national election here in Kabul, again I hit the street this morning to shop around for some personal necessities...</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">syempre kasi nga nakakuha ako ng in-country payment e... the rest po ng sweldo ko goes to my wife...hu hu hu hu!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Although it is an ordinary sight here in Afghanistan seeing Afghan street vendors waving Afghani bills to get attention of their customers on the roads of Kabul, this morning I realized, it is actually an amazing view to see. Holding hundreds of thousands Afhgani bills without somebody watching your back? Afghan's currency is almost equal to our Philippine Peso in terms of US dollar exchange rate. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I could not help but to think and compare how we Filipinos usually negotiate our city street on a daily basis. Absolutely no one can do this trading in our streets in metropolitan areas, without someone or some organized small group snatch your money right from your very hands. As I understand, we even made cellphone snatching has as a specific crime now.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Aside from full-bearded majority, AK-47s, military vehicles, sandbags, soldiers and policemen, one thing that caught my attention the first time I travelled by road outside military base few months back was this scene. I remember seeing those guys doing street trading and holding bundles of papers as they ran back and forth across the highway looking for possible customers amongst motorists. You can see them selling cellphone cards, doing foreign currency exchange, selling fruits, selling clothes and other street tradings. I didn't realize that those were indeed real money amounting to tens of thousand to more than hundreds of thousand. One guy has even more than US$50,000 in his hand...hmmm nice objective for<i> Salisi Gang!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">As soon as I got back in the office, I asked my local colleagues, most of them are <i>Pashtu,</i> if this trading practice does not really pose danger to the vendors as they are really vulnerable to robbery, swindling, and other <i>modus</i><i> </i><i>operandi</i> of organized street criminals. Our project manager said he never heard of any incident of any street crime against these traders even during times when law enforcers were not around. He said this could be traced back during the Taliban regime where the extremists were so unforgiving to all forms of crimes and probably people had carried over the fear inculcated in them through the years, thus it has become a standing culture in all street business dealings, and of course this is largely part of the teachings in Holy Koran.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Afghan culture, as far as morality is concerned, is really influenced deeply by the strict implementation of Koran's law by the Taliban, where a woman could be killed by her own brothers, father or other relative by suspicion of cohabiting illicitly right on the street where they might meet her at anytime of the day, without persecution on the part of the her slayers. Afghanistan democratic law, however, does not recognize this kind of honor killing any more although still in practice in most provinces out side the cities.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">After seeing this in Kabul, I wonder which place is safer? Philippines or Afghanistan...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUO5MEUizB03ooboTzQNlzYC96wj3E2_gXnTH8yEQWMh_kDetJk2mHkVYemAqKq-3wOtnN3AopvGXYMWlGezE2FOAx8D29hsp_06IpH_7TRpslzqE5h62l4fIRsIBOzVeUlX9_8F6mCqh/s1600-h/2008223461.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUO5MEUizB03ooboTzQNlzYC96wj3E2_gXnTH8yEQWMh_kDetJk2mHkVYemAqKq-3wOtnN3AopvGXYMWlGezE2FOAx8D29hsp_06IpH_7TRpslzqE5h62l4fIRsIBOzVeUlX9_8F6mCqh/s400/2008223461.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377284218777583362" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Money trades in Kabul. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Afghans are trading with bundles of bills right on the street.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2oSke43SGkDLYpkqFDucF6j5nFP2miUSCZ4HFOfIESis5CrReFKyk41Z3KtYV3iugX67OEg84lCBDXi9Jkz_8ZaXN6VuEU8hcnDZEgqYD2I8uIUWoGGNuxqdCC8VbAro5q0TDAEBLfFgJ/s1600-h/610x.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2oSke43SGkDLYpkqFDucF6j5nFP2miUSCZ4HFOfIESis5CrReFKyk41Z3KtYV3iugX67OEg84lCBDXi9Jkz_8ZaXN6VuEU8hcnDZEgqYD2I8uIUWoGGNuxqdCC8VbAro5q0TDAEBLfFgJ/s400/610x.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377285973925724226" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Currency Exchange?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">You can find it here, sitting duck!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">You will never be too afraid to get out from money exchange booth, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">as there is no booth at all!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsMl473sUcLvtUw4aNO3VA26aX5h0gw6byLGZjNrYh5aJ2sf87cz9mn1pWBE9I3oEKknN9As5DqKRRjCmOby9dkp-diE39ttvArZ6wAt9vNXJk6XW14zYz_axNhgyysDG_7LWZZ5w9r0Z1/s1600-h/Af%2520currency%2520dealers.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsMl473sUcLvtUw4aNO3VA26aX5h0gw6byLGZjNrYh5aJ2sf87cz9mn1pWBE9I3oEKknN9As5DqKRRjCmOby9dkp-diE39ttvArZ6wAt9vNXJk6XW14zYz_axNhgyysDG_7LWZZ5w9r0Z1/s400/Af%2520currency%2520dealers.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377287227206964690" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 360px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Old Bills Exchange</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">As the government printed new currency bills, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">this Afghan is exchanging old bills with new ones..whew!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgee-QCOXLIzg1X_M6g1RAucfUKLyvJddZyl9ZsxaslKAlnyq5SdhBOoqikHubE1xppvrPL_dkIJFvS4ohIuvJ1vO1_Pxhpoys4W94GZUCM1yp4jsiyeOr0frvn3QfKP1yG5DA28LsMv_yW/s1600-h/bizjoker_kabul+forex.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgee-QCOXLIzg1X_M6g1RAucfUKLyvJddZyl9ZsxaslKAlnyq5SdhBOoqikHubE1xppvrPL_dkIJFvS4ohIuvJ1vO1_Pxhpoys4W94GZUCM1yp4jsiyeOr0frvn3QfKP1yG5DA28LsMv_yW/s400/bizjoker_kabul+forex.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380486979105255170" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 383px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Bizjoker with street FOREX local</span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-72784152872303295332009-08-31T07:11:00.000-07:002009-08-31T23:15:25.767-07:00NO SORRY? THAT'S NOT RIGHT!<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">This is what I have in mind right now....</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2RduAsoCb6MzfN0VUpO6SOVKcHgndnF05gK0bANMEgNON5ZbEL3zRmh1zJCMf0RDmDUzjsILexX_lar7y5NjGk-NlYh71ykvqLqC9KlVab3k7aO76LXW2rcTM2Ugfx6aOU9OKEENhT_r8/s1600-h/Image023b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2RduAsoCb6MzfN0VUpO6SOVKcHgndnF05gK0bANMEgNON5ZbEL3zRmh1zJCMf0RDmDUzjsILexX_lar7y5NjGk-NlYh71ykvqLqC9KlVab3k7aO76LXW2rcTM2Ugfx6aOU9OKEENhT_r8/s400/Image023b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376168545514792642" /></a>OBSERVATION FROM VANTAGE POINT:<div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">After few days, less than a week I guess, all tensions had subsided and it seems like everything is back to normal, hopefully. It looks like nothing had happened while bleeding hearts and insulted dignity are the only evidences left, obviously everyone is sharing the same feelings until now.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">This war is shorter than the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/"> </a><a href="http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/">Six-Day Arab-Israeli war in 1967</a><a href="http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/"> </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">after its declaration to engage in the <a href="http://desertaquaforce.blogspot.com/2009/08/smoking-peace-pipe-burying-hatchet-and.html">act of blog war</a> against <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">a single enemy</span></b> but with a reckless and dangerous mind. In the name of peace, the supposed blog war was put to a sudden stop before the first shot was even fired. As I understand, there was actually no peace pact achieved or a formal ceasefire declared but only withdrawal of forces back into the jungle, and for sure his crooked ideology still remain. Is it a stalemate? I'm thinking who will wave the white flag first?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"As he hurt too many of our kind around world and he never even care to say SORRY even to only few, he is still at war in the area of Afghanistan and some areas of Iraq. In my opinion, there is a mistake in giving forgiveness so easily without clear term of "surrender" from this enemy. It may send a wrong signal to others of his kind. A manifestation of apology must be posted "- bizjoker</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">His psy-war operation is to weak. (or is he?) We should have engaged him first in "fierce fight" to show our might and let him cry for ceasefire, after all he's the one started all of this mess. We should have let him ASK for a talk for HIS surrender option before we offer it. Arrogant as he is, he did not even bother to mention about his intention to apologize, so he is not worthy of forgiveness. Otherwise this thing will be repeated again and again.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In his </span><a href="http://arvin95.blogspot.com/2009/08/peace.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">PEACE</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> entry, in the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Bilang panghuli</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> paragraph he mentioned about him being not afraid of any legal responsibility since he believes it will never be accepted in court as a legal issue, which only shows his gross ignorance of the law and all the legal processes. Ironically, in this entry, is he really humbly offering a peace?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I would say ,"Yes sir, a class suit can be filed against you for your baseless and libelous entry and don't be so stupid to say that the judge will drop the case for it will hold no water before the court. The National Beaureu of Investigation recently filed a libel case and other cyber crimes against blogger </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.crazytolits.wordpress.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Crazytolits</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> before the Department of Justice. Crazytolits has been so ellusive that not even a single trace of his real identity can be found in his blog page, but the NBI agents are just smart enough to apprehend the real guy red handed. Crazytolits is way far intelligent than the you are, but not to the rule of law, how much more a specie like you. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Bisitahin mo ang site niya nang malaman mo sino ang kinakalaban n'ya. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">He stopped posting entries as of June... for obvious reason."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Another point, PEBA has recently earned its SEC registration therefore making it a juridical entity with rigths duly recognized by law. As it protects and promotes Filipino bloggers' talents, I guess, it impliedly protects also the Filipino bloggers' welfares for being bloggers themselves. PEBA has the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">locus standi</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> so why wave the white flag first? Correct me if I'm wrong at this point.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I have now a lots of "what ifs". </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">What if next time it will be the house of PEBA that will be directly under attack by this kind of specie of blogger? What course of action will be taken and how? What if he is just to hard to move and he will keep his libelous post? What if he will keep on insulting most of us, not in anybody's chat box but in his own webpage where he has all the advantages? What if this thing is repeated again by someone of the same specie? What if he strikes again but this time not against OFW but just against one of us? What if he just simply ignore our wishful thinking and go on with his stupidity around the blogosphere? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We need to protect the house and make it stronger in order it can protect us as well. I am not suggesting a class suit be filed immediately <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">as there are hundred ways to kill a cat <i>(kasabihan lang ha)</i></span>. If this will be repeated, we can boycott his blog, block him from our chatboxes, and promote a shame campaign until his inbox gets flooded by violent reactions from millions of readers for whatever article he will post and until he cries and beg for peace talk.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">But of course the final solution, as always, is to file a class suit against the erring blogger for crime of libel and other criminal offenses arising from his blog entry. Once filed, let the course of law drag him around in his daily life..everyone knows it's hard to have pending case and derogatory record in our NBI and Police clearances.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The frog with <a href="http://arvin95.blogspot.com/2009/08/kokak-ng-kamatayan.html">croak of death</a> will just leap from one blog page to another, annoying each and everyone of us and soon enough it will be a part of our daily blogging life until we get used to his irritating style.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Until an article of apology for OFWs is posted, he has no space in civil society, in society of matured and educated persons...ano akala niya..kunya-kunyarian?</span></div></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-58794765541317546592009-08-28T03:22:00.000-07:002009-08-28T05:03:16.354-07:00OFW Remittances-Sulbabida ng Ekonomiya<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is what I have in mind right now....</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKEvJv3qcYDheel4oF0o7yaHKBveztvG0i1Hm_YGhRKVyqP_-scdzuEb2qMVyQ-e_GmXgE4_OR-Z3JK7JheFKbqLZPl9ER2870p3f6h1Hv0SAJnhqee1AIlTVA2kBjdVimVV250pf3PVs/s1600-h/OFW+Remittance.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKEvJv3qcYDheel4oF0o7yaHKBveztvG0i1Hm_YGhRKVyqP_-scdzuEb2qMVyQ-e_GmXgE4_OR-Z3JK7JheFKbqLZPl9ER2870p3f6h1Hv0SAJnhqee1AIlTVA2kBjdVimVV250pf3PVs/s400/OFW+Remittance.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374966379769645202" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hundred percent siguro naman lahat ng bloggers marunong magbasa at makaunawa ng binabasa nya. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ito na yung bendikasyon sa mga sinusulat na laban sa aming OFWs, mga naisulat na kulang sa tunay na impormasyon kundi punong-puno ng adhikaing sumikat sa maikling panahon. At palagay ko nasa ilalim ng kanyang kama at nagtatago sa kahihiyang napala so mundo ng blogs.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ayun sa balitang 27 August 2009 na naisulat sa GMANews.TV, kung may time kayo basahin nyo..although nakakasawa na at alam na ng milyun-milyong Filipino, pero tila iilang nagmamatali-matalinuhan ang bulag sa katotohanang ito.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mga kaibigan, ingles po ang balita, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/170866/ofw-remittances-kept-rp-afloat-economist-says"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">OFW Remittances Kept RP Afloat, economist says</span></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><h1 style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The World Bank had earlier projected a four percent drop in remittances this year but Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando Tetangco said that signs of a global economic recovery "affirmed the positive outlook for steady remittances for 2009." (hango sa nasabing balita)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Nitong nakaraang June lang record high $1.5 billion ang ipinasok na salapi na itinuturing na nanatiling nagpapalutang sa ekonomiya ng Pilipinas. Ang tinutukoy rito ay US Dollars, so gaano kalaki yan sa Philippine Peso mantakin na lang na ito ay kalagitnaan palang ng taon? Paano pa pag dating ng buwang ng aginaldo at kapaskuhan.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dahil naging naughty kayo, wala kayong regalo sa Santa Clause na OFW hehehehe!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Maibahagi ko na rin, na kasama sa bilyon-bilyong pera na iyan ang remittance ng </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">caregivers at nurses</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">at lahat na bloggers na OFWs</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) na patuloy na bumubuhay sa ekonomiya ng bansa. Kasama rin dito ang remittance ng tinatawanan nilang domestice helpers at yung mga gumagawa ng "extra" para kumita pa. Sige husgahan nila at ipakita nila ang kanilang KONTRIBUSYON sa malinis man o maruming paraan. Mabuhay tayo sa katotohan na mayroon talagang gumagawa ng di kagandahan. Accepted ko yan, so sino ba ang unang pupukol ng bato sabi nga ni Kristo?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">At kung kaya may access pa ang magagaling ng bloggers sa internet, kung kaya may mga serbisyong gubyerno pa ang nakakarating sa kanila at kung kaya mas maalwan pa kahit paano ang kabuhayan sa gitna ng global crisis dahil yan sa OFW remittances. Sisigla ba ang kalakalan sa SM, sa Robinson, sa Divisoria, sa mga sinehan, sa airport, ang lokal na turismo, at iba pang negosyo kung hindi mamimili ang pamilya ng OFW na ipinalalagay na 10 percent ng populasyon ng Pilipinas? Do your Mathematics! At karamihan po sa mga pamilya ng OFWs ay mga negosyate na rin sa Pilipinas, tama ba o mali?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Aba sa text messages at overseas call na lang....panalo na!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So bago gumawa ng artikulo, magbasa nang matuto. Magsaliksik at magtanong-tanong para magkaroon ng sustansya ang laman ng entry sa blog. Minsan sa kagustuhang mag mukhang matalino lalong lumulutang ang kamang-mangan.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Alalahanin dapat..</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">MAS MARAMING MATATALINO SA MUNDO NG BLOG.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Para sa akin, pasalamat ako dahil OFW ako kasama ako sa kahit paano nakakatulong at di ako kasama sa pasanin at pabigat sa lipunan.</span></span></i></div></span>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-53097169404446142752009-08-25T10:04:00.001-07:002009-08-25T14:15:16.223-07:00OFW Topic - Ticket to Stardom<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWTWp1lu9m1q5Ots8OtfhilF7KkxXqYLRoOze6iBhJtogre5Z09-XTPFpg06NsiK8F97w3-A8rdAZnUKEKFeoOrzc43ekuc6AvP5mwYE0qL3C1jWehsAX3gdI56gWGoPvHumhToC7gY_C/s1600-h/OFW.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWTWp1lu9m1q5Ots8OtfhilF7KkxXqYLRoOze6iBhJtogre5Z09-XTPFpg06NsiK8F97w3-A8rdAZnUKEKFeoOrzc43ekuc6AvP5mwYE0qL3C1jWehsAX3gdI56gWGoPvHumhToC7gY_C/s400/OFW.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374005004606215746" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">An entry of complex ideas, mixed up feelings or whatever. I don't know..<i>nalito na rin ako</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">More often than not, I have encountered articles featuring Overseas Filipino Workers, their successes, failures and misfits. Some foreign writers touched and shared their personal stories, their momentous experiences with OFWs and their first encounter of the third kind with the Pinoys <i>(parang alien 'no)</i>. <i>Para bang kung maka-kwneto ay parang</i> it was the most extraordinary encounter they had in their lives. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mostly these stories talked about how a Filipino touches one's life, how an OFW rendered above-expectation kind of services, how a Filipino display heroic acts in extreme situation, or commendable no non-sense OFW's performance at the end of his every overseas day. These are all good stories. I am not saying no bad stories were written about us, yes, there are and plenty of them too!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Something about good stuff, however, I can call it "<i>Isang paghanga in totality</i>" to all OFWs by other nationalities in the country where an OFW is working. And mind you, as you go through the reading of these kind of articles, you can feel something inside yourself of some unexplainable of some sort of happiness and pride. The fact that you are not the one being talked about in the article... you can feel the sense of pride... probably you're even vocalizing your thought in soft tone..<i>"ehem... that's us....I am Filipino too"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">From those Fil-am Holywood stars, to Manny Pacquiao waving the Philippine flag in Las Vegas, to that Filipino nurse whose name was entered into the book of heroes of 9-11, to that honest OFW in Hongkong, to those extraordinary leadership exerted by Filipino communities in the Middle East which affects the region, to life-saving Pinoy doctors of the UK and the US, to all Filipino seamen and airmen, to all Pinoy desert-settlers working day and night, to all Fil-Am freedom fighters in Iraq and in Afghanistan...up to democratic icon - our very own Pres. Cory Aquino... as a Filipino.. what can you possibly feel...when someone uplifting the spirit of your being a Filipino?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>Be honest...ang saya ng feeling di ba? Nakakasama ka sa papuri kahit di naman ikaw ang tinutukoy?</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ironically, while most of them posting articles praising and saluting OFWs, some "Filipinos" who are undeniably gifted in writing wrote non-sense and insulting entries to their blogs and columns about OFW just to shoot themselves to instant stardom. If you want to try it... write something stupid about us OFWs and see for yourself...you are a shooting star the next day. But where does a shooting star go...most of the time into the quite abyss of the ocean. <b><i>Dun mag isa ka na lang!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">One should undestand and this has been mentioned many times, that OFWs are not just those who do "kadiri" works, or those you guys see in your porn DVD, OFWs are not just women... mostly we are those wearing Levi's Maong jacket upon arrival at NAIA..sporting long hair and mustache... so why play on women OFWs? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In order to educate some little brains of some so-called writers, OFW are not just low-salaried overseas workers, there are those big bosses OFWs whom you used to run to borrow money without any intention of paying them back <i>(kasi inisip mo balato na yun)</i>. OFWs are also those you are pretending as friends upon their arrival and you keep on asking them about the date of their arrival...the fact that everyone knows when..and you are actually trying to make an opening line before you will say " <i>pare kelan ka pa dumating,</i> <b><i>painum ka na naman<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Sila rin yung kinukuha mong ninong at ninang kahit wala sa sila Pinas. Pinapa-proxy-han mo pa </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(tapos ang lakas mong manlait).</span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">OFWs are not just caregivers and nurses, there are scientists, researchers, eningeers, educators, ambassadors, company owners, actors and many more. As I understand, not all OFWs are OWWA members and the term is not limited to those members alone as there are those who entered the foreign countries as tourists before getting their overseas works, without getting through the POEA. So I believe OFW is generalized term of Filipino working abroad. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Nonetheless, no one, absolutely NO ONE should judge an OFW on his or her reason of living the country nor about his or her long stay abroad, whether one is categorized as low-salary on not.</span></span></i></b></span></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOIhVLKbkf_2R0SfRKOsMMZIFpljL4o2f5anD3ykD-XQgZPIAEKG1VpCX07CKCiZqwa1qIn7RcGrAB5olP0gm_aMz3uorJJD8NkOsjLVQIbHsjDEHqNsCVCcf3gGYQTc3DPddQkx401sL/s400/Filipino-Workers_female.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 200px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373986280895535026" /><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>(see the photo sila ba yung tinutukoy mong OFWs?)</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRXX5Nyy0oZvg97PzTKvpxSmxqMfpXtqDWYtvS5ioHKP4h0nO0SZKq7uCex7-LsFU9eJVdekfYAyz7RHg9t3j7RPgh3bIBbTI9fBtrYQMgU6uDinCZ5uxvztOTghpuXjdvOTTTi-f2uKgC/s1600-h/Overseas+Filipino+Workers+in+the+UAE.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRXX5Nyy0oZvg97PzTKvpxSmxqMfpXtqDWYtvS5ioHKP4h0nO0SZKq7uCex7-LsFU9eJVdekfYAyz7RHg9t3j7RPgh3bIBbTI9fBtrYQMgU6uDinCZ5uxvztOTghpuXjdvOTTTi-f2uKgC/s400/Overseas+Filipino+Workers+in+the+UAE.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373987607362383842" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>(or sila?)</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">Also I am so confused about this, is there any glorifying thing about OFWs' scandals, failures and other "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>Kapit sa Patalim"</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"> decisions made by them? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>Sino ba ang hindi kumapit sa patalim? Kaya nga ang iba pinupulutan ang OFW sa kwento nila kasi kapit sa patalim na sila para sumikat</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">, I don't really appreciate this style. Although some of these really happened and I am witness to that, if I have my way I would tap and talk with them rather that writing and posting or publishing their stories flowered by <b>vulgar words</b> and made-up lies just to look better as presented. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Where is the Protein in your brain?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"> As blogger, we should be aware that all our entries, just like commercial ad posters, should be rated as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FFFF;">For General Patronage</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">. Just like sexy billboard, it leaves to your imagination the rest about it.. no need to show its total nudity. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">And for additional information, what happening abroad is also happening in the Philippines as far as illicit affair is concerned</span>. Self-explanatory yan. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Really, whatever you write reflects your personality which also reflects what morality you have in your family.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">While it is true, that the good story about OFWs is an exhausting-type of reading material, well my opinion to this is that, we have to accept this a matter of fact and that is the way it is being an OFW.....we cannot go against it, it is cultural, it is in the blood and by that we cannot stop good stuff about OFWs. OFWs are basically best source of overflowing triumphant stories. So more and more write-ups will be written and published, can you stop it? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Why?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We are driven by dreams and of love for our family that lead to love of work and extreme display of skills, talents and sacrifices...up to the fact the we are being exploited by our neighbors across our office table..<i>kasi nga masipag tayo kahit trabaho na nya ipapagawa sa 'yo</i>. And this NOT only for OUR DREAMS and of BEING RESPONSIBLE to our families, <i>para</i> <i>kay nanay, kay tatay, kay ate, kay kuya at mga anak...</i> this is ALSO for their dreams that we want them to reach. <i>Paano magiging engineer si Kuya, paano ang bubong ng bahay, paano ang baha sa kalsada na pumapasok hanggang kusina?</i> <i>Pinanganak ka ba para umasa gubyerno, nakanganga at hindi ka kikilos at gagawa ng paraan? Kaya ka nga nag aral so you will have a broader horizon</i>. That is why we are here abroad. Not purely because of money but because other's dream and our immeasurable love we have for them. <i><b>Kasi kami ang lupon ng hindi madadamot sa katuparan ng pangarap ng mahal namin sa buhay.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">But other blogger-vultures see this as an oppurtiny and an enteresting piece of flesh and worth giving a reaction if made a blog entry, so they made stories without personal account.Their chosen way to popularity is a bad taste of pill without curing effect at the end. It's like marrying someone you don't really love by heart but by personal interest. Happiness is ungodly and you are somebody who cries all the time in your solitude... <i>gusto mo ba yun?</i> And easy for you to say sorry...whether you wrote it as only<i> pahaging to OFWs.. masakit pa rin ang tumamang hangin sa amin.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>And I tell you this... as we are entitled to our opinion in our blogspace...I am not as forgiving as the others as I live by principle that, "anuman ang sinabi mo sa hangin, di mo na kayang habulin at bawiin" by Nicanor Formilleza, my grandfather, teaching on being responsible to our words we are going to say to others.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(note all pictures are taken from internet)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-63955069451360109982009-08-17T01:47:00.000-07:002009-08-18T00:12:17.506-07:00"2009 Galing ng Blog Mo Awardee"<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 199px; height: 201px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb79WoNAJGZVVJshB0Fa7_sNjnkTHXZfYeEPdh8kO4NWCWdGek0QWcB-hAhweA7V_QGNBypmoB4_o2INpY4ILoFnALgwXmYExAi-SPTjGpwMrBi0p3rF6_GTCsZ5s6SL5mHxPzsmZjHuuF/s400/Awardee_6+OFW.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370857902473352482" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">First of all, congatulations to all </span><a href="http://thoughtsmoto.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">2009 KaBlogs awardees</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> on different categories. This blog was so fortunate to have been chosen as the right one to grab that <b><i>"Galing ng Blog Mo"</i></b> Award for this year. Each award was also categorized for Non-Overseas Filipino Worker and for Overseas Filipino Worker, and I won the OFW award for the galing ng blog mo.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Thanks to all those people behind this award body who had worked for this months ago and to all those who voted for Bizjoker, as they found my page fit for this category. Thanks you guys, I owe you one.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Just like the winners in 2004 Presidential Election, although I never called, <i>"Hello, Kenji"</i>, I knew two days beforehand that I won an award since it was me and Jeesa who prepared the list and the badges to be distributed on Monday, 17 August 2009. Nevertheless, rest assured that all the winners are well-derserved for the awards as Garci was never a part of the reviewing committee who went on blog-hopping on all nominated blogs and bloggers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">On my part, the fact that I have been around in bloggershere for quite some times, I am still a neophyte in the field of blog-writing, I will continue writing sensible entries, timely, base on truth, justice and morality to live by the award that I have received. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>I just hope that next time...may cash na kasama ang badge hehehehehe! (o kaya gift cheque) joke!</i></span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-38256514013802905972009-08-10T06:02:00.000-07:002009-08-10T22:39:29.162-07:00Ka-BLOG-kada - Friendship Badge ni Bizjoker<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(170, 119, 170); line-height: 19px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bizjoker-of-the-philippines.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Ka-BLOG-kada Kita" height="180" id="Image20_img" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAil4S67peHmhNbWvrQvFXj_6MMFamweOU6xRzWQ9DDb0S2_g-BxLl0MKq9s65hyphenhyphen0IfnE4ZSk_JAZIBs3v6fKw3RoHKwq7wZUipspMAt64zZnHRe10ONWP6wsg_TTaA3nXjYr9dek13M3/s220/Bizjoker+Bagde.jpg" width="200" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; " /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></div>Ask ko si Lenzthedreamer, paano ako magkakaroon ng friendship badge mula sa ibang bloggers, nakakahiya naman basta lang ako mangga-grab at ilalagay ko sa page ko...tapos di naman pala kami BFF. Sabi ni Lenz gumagawa ako ng entry at mamigay ako ng badge ko...Hopefully..tama itong pinagagawa ko..</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Isa pa wala akong maisip na entry e, kakatapos ko lang gawin ang badges na naka-assign kay Bomzz. Wala na kasi sa huwisyo si Bomzz dahil ang utak nya lumilipad na papuntang Pilipinas...bakasyon kasi si Bomzz. So dahil gawa ako ng gawa ng badges... gumawa na rin ako ng personal friendship badge ko.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">At sya nga pala... Bomzz hind mo ako binigyan ng friendship badge mo dahil delay ang pinagagawa mo badge ha....kahit ganun.. hehehehe! ASTIG pa rin tayo.. pag di ko nakita sa page mo ang badge ko...ibig sabihin hindi mo ako love!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Sa mga kaibigan kong bloggers, I don't know if this badge looks appealing to you guys.. but it is my token of appreciation for you being around and connected to my blog. Pwede n'yong i-grab yang nasa side bar.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Thanks, guys! HOPYA like it...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ito ay para sa lahat na naka-link sa akin at sa hindi naka link..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">sa lahat na dumadaan at nakikibasa...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ka-BLOG-kada kayo ni Bizjoker !</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">Barkada kayo ni RIO !</span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-37313000009602258012009-08-01T01:34:00.000-07:002009-08-04T09:16:12.117-07:00Goodbye, President Aquino<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxH_2W-u-qdiM5ol46_ZJipt6dK8adBv4zVlelk-s8lcfArT0A8d530d7DIGgiYZ7SrbZZZ9jcsiXVIEOj4lgIvGLRCgPzywVSeGoa7IjlbSt1p-lLf0lbzksqhuk_q3y05AuWVB-R5kIN/s1600-h/Cory_1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 394px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxH_2W-u-qdiM5ol46_ZJipt6dK8adBv4zVlelk-s8lcfArT0A8d530d7DIGgiYZ7SrbZZZ9jcsiXVIEOj4lgIvGLRCgPzywVSeGoa7IjlbSt1p-lLf0lbzksqhuk_q3y05AuWVB-R5kIN/s400/Cory_1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364919065109946706" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">As former member of Philippine National Police and a full-blood Class Kaagapay 1996, PNP- Aviation Security Group I am rendering my last and most snappy salute to President Corazon C. Aquino. My condolences to her family and to the entire Filipino Nation for our great lost of a true freedom fighter and world icon of democracy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ten years before our <i>Class</i> passed through the portal of Camp Vicente Lim, in Calamba, Laguna as gradute and as part of full-pledge members of the Philippine National Police, Pres. Cory led the nation to a real democracy and this part of the history is her great gift to our generations.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">She lived a great, meaningful and patriotic life. A true insperation to all freedom-lovers and freedom fighters around the world.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Thanks, Pres. Cory Aquino</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Kaagapay, Tanghal... na!</span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-54253087360141481382009-07-24T23:22:00.000-07:002009-07-26T12:31:56.168-07:00Alisin ang Travel Ban -NOW na!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKww5EovcT3yO6en5oVQiSnOGKEpZIbnofo-wf5bLWuU4vu0-leDTOlCznxecmX2GkYbkXlokgLgqb7jAOg8HWG1J-9BwuE6RupC74EKjzlipIzR0_U_JWztX5JVLAmGEwsbsWD8CWzxr/s1600-h/Image124.jpg"></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9r9s5mZJsIM2ahyvxZlRv6eJEPL-F1ItFo-4XnitW65Je-ageWpjX-3jpKKcjDST8ma9rQ6dF-auuK8UE_i9x8vVXklahgAjWGGqEdQ8IRuFq39nerjsVgq3Kq8ufLqYjR7lSsqtJw38/s1600-h/Image124.jpg"></a><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgScPEF2REfuZ9njvABKyV1zmQyXzM66l4Qnq-BCxnAv0ok0V8x4ikYbQmQju_aAAebi1lHLafimEXxJZLzuJsDbY5PZ8Pl-n14fspB8gf7YQrQLoXpV1sjH5ZFCHLoW4N7rbd2eBD1w9jr/s1600-h/Image126.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgScPEF2REfuZ9njvABKyV1zmQyXzM66l4Qnq-BCxnAv0ok0V8x4ikYbQmQju_aAAebi1lHLafimEXxJZLzuJsDbY5PZ8Pl-n14fspB8gf7YQrQLoXpV1sjH5ZFCHLoW4N7rbd2eBD1w9jr/s400/Image126.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362749545835953058" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I don't know if most of you will agree with the idea of lifting the ban in war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Well of course iyong nakaisip ng travel ban will strongly oppose on this with a hard slam on her table. Immigration also will jump in to support her in her idea of continous imposition of travel ban, including hundreds of illegal recuiter based in Dubai and in Central Luzon </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(lalo na!)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Napapanahon na bang alisin ang ban na ito?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ano ang mga parametro para malamin nating dapat na ngang alisin ang travel ban sa Iraq at Afghanistan?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Para sa akin ito ang mga parametro na dapat isaalang-alang, kundi man kalahatan, ito marahil ay iilan at dapat kunin nating ang pag bentahe at pag dehado sa bawat parametro:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Security Situation</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Job Oppurtunities</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Victims of Situation</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Heavy Expenses</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Welfare of Workers</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Market Value</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Direct Violence Against OFWs</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Direct Violence Against Non-combatant Non-OFW</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ang nangyayari kasi dahil alam na ng marami na tahimik at condusive na to be a working environment ang dalawang bansang ito, alam na nilang bearable ang security situation sa halos lahat na lugar dito, hindi pa rin nirereview ang imposition ng ban. Although may kakaunting lugar na talagang maituturing na uncontrolled pa, ito ay nasa malalayong lugar. Parang kasing layo or mas malayo pa sa distansya ng Manila at Jolo, nakita ba nating nabahala tayo sa ganyang distansya? At naitakda na ang limit nito para mapangalagaan ang "sanitized areas" sa pagpapalaganap ng peace and order dito.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPKww5EovcT3yO6en5oVQiSnOGKEpZIbnofo-wf5bLWuU4vu0-leDTOlCznxecmX2GkYbkXlokgLgqb7jAOg8HWG1J-9BwuE6RupC74EKjzlipIzR0_U_JWztX5JVLAmGEwsbsWD8CWzxr/s400/Image124.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362759561057821074" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(iba na nagpinagkakaabalahan ng mga may baril dito e)</span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">At dahil nga naituturing nang magtahimik ang karamihan sa lugar dito, ang job oppurtunity ay nasa labas na ng base militar, outside the wire ika nga. Ang mga opisina ng malalaking US-based companies ay nasa Kabul City na, nagkalat ang mga iba't-ibang lahi na patunay lamang na controlled na ang sitwasyon dito sa Afghanistan. Ang Iraq sa kabilang banda ay hindi na dapat ipaliwanag kung matahimik na at ligtas. Matatandaang ibinabalik na ng gubyerno ang embahada natin dito e..so sila na mismo ang nag-assessed nyan.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ganito kasi yun, kung aalisin ang deployment ban, makikinabang ang maraming OFW sa mga bansang ito, maibababa ang unemployment rate sa Pilipinas sa gitna ng global crisis. Ayun sa prediction ng mga financial analysts, aabutin ng ilang taon ang global depression. Kung ganun bakit, di natin tingnan ulit ang puntong pag bibigay ng trabaho sa maraming nakatungangang Pinoy sa Pilipinas na nais mag trabaho pero walang mapasukan. Haayaan natin ang daan-daang Pinoy visit visa holders sa UAE na makarating sa mga lugar na ito. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Nandito ang pera ng UN, ng US at ng NATO at bilyun-bilong dolyares ang inilalaan sa re-construction ng Iraq at Afghanistan.</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Habang may global crisis, patuloy ang paglustay ng tatlong ito para dito sa pagsasaayus ng sinira nila h'wag lang silang mapulaang nagkamali sila sa pag-sakop sa mga bansang ito. Nakaraan naglaan na naman ng mahigit na $17Billion ang US government kung saan nakuha ng Fluor at Dyncorp ang mga kontrata sa LOGCAP 4 or Logististics and Civil Augmentation Program -4 para suportahan ang mga GIs dito.</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Kung napapansin nyo, mababa na ang market value ng OFW sa Saudi at UAE dahil sa mga pagdagsa ng Bangladeshis, Indians, Sri Lankans at Nepalis na pawang mga cheap labors. Dahil sa murang labor costs nila, naapektuhan ang Pinoy sa presyuhan at napipilitan tayong sumabay sa mababang pa-sweldo kundi mawawalan tayo ng pagkain sa mesa.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Iba dito sa Afghanistan at Iraq, nanatiling mataas ang market value natin. Pero dahil nagdagsaan ang Pinoy na dumarating at dito na naghahanap ng trabaho, ang iba ay napipilitang tumanggap ng sweldong mas mababa sa US$1500 para sa ordinaryong skilled worker. Pagnatili ito, baba na rin ang market value natin sa katagalan. Ito ay dahil sa nauubusan na ng budget ang mga naka-stand by dito at kailangan na nilang magpadala ng pera sa kanilang pamilya. Naka-standby po sila dahil namimili sila ng mas mataas na offer which is normal lang.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Sa pag alis ng travel ban, ang teribleng gastos ng OFW ay maiiwasan dahil di na nila need mag visit visa, mabibigyan sila ng terms sa pagbabayad ng placement fees ng mga placement agencies </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(well mas ok pa rin ang direct hire, ungas kasing maningil ang mga agencies e-ganid!). </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Sino pa ang mabibiktima ng illegal recuriters na mangangako ng trabaho tapos sila mismo mga wala ngang trabaho? Nagiging mabango ang mga OFW sa illegal recruiter dahil sa extreme na pangangailangan ng Pinoy, lalo na ang mga nagmamadaling makapagtrabaho. Alam nyo naman ang mga illegal recruiter, dati nasa Pinas lang ang mga yan..ngayun sa UAE na rin sila dahil nandun ang mga nagmamadaling magkatrabaho. And guess what? Ang mga lintek na illegal recuiters may mga doctorate degree na sa panggagancho...</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">wtf! improving din..!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Sa pagpapaigting ng ban, isaalang-alang dapat sa evaluation ang mga nabibiktima ng kinakatatakutang gera, kunin ang statistics ng mga direct victims ng hostile fire versus direct victims ng illegal recruitment. Kumuha sila ng ng kaukulang data ng mga Pinoy na na-biktima ng karahasan dito at sa Iraq at ng iba pang migrant workers anuman ang lahi, saka nila sabihing delikado pa ang sitwasyon dito. Natural hindi kasali ang naaaksidente kundi yung namatay or nasaktan dahil sa hostile activities. Kung maalis ang travel ban mas lalong mapapangalagaan ang welfare namin dito, kasi may sumbungan kami. Lahat ng karapatan at benepsiyo ay mababatantayan at maipapatupad although naibibigay naman ang karamihan sa welfare benefits. May magko-caution na sa mga employers tungkol sa karapatan ng OFWs, at mamomonitor ang galaw ng deployment ng Pinoy. Kaso nga nangunguna sa kaduwagan ang opisyales natin..TV pa lang pinanonood nanginginig na sa takot. Ang tanging nakikita kong pagtaas ng panganib dito ay ang pagdami ng nagiging biktima ng illegal recruiters, dahil sa patuloy na pag exploit sa travel ban.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Nagpahayag nung 24 July 09 ang POEA tungkol sa pagkakasabi kong walang oppurtunity sa Pinas </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">(ininterview nga ako ng GMA7...tinago pa ako sa tunay kung palayaw, damn!)</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">. Sabi ng POEA marami raw ang oppurtunities sa Pinas at di na dapat mag-abroad. Kami lang ba ang kausap nya sa pahayag nyang iyon or lahat ng OFW sa buong mundo? Kasi kinukumbinsi nya raw na mag-entrepreneur ang mga Filipino para di na mangibang-bansa at may mga success stories na raw sila...hehehehehe! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Inday</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, bago kami maging enterpreneur need muna naming mag OFW kasi </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">awan ti kwarta..djay ti banger..</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> (tama ba ilokano ko </span></span><a href="http://ambisiyosongnangangarap.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">poging(ilo)cano</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">?). Kung di na need mag-abroad ng OFWs dahil sa sinasabi nyang upurtunidad..ala eh..gibain na yang POEA at yan ay inimbento para sa amin. </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Uwian na! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Uwian na!</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ganito po ang pangarap ko</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Kung aalisin ang ban, dapat magkaroon ang gubyernong Noy-pi ng ganito sa Iraq at Afghanistan:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Identification sa Airport</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Registration ng OFWs</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Monitoring ng Job site</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Benefits under contract</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Location of Accommodation</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Employment Pre-Requisit Document from Consulate</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Dahil mahilig na rin tayo sa imbensyon ng polisiya, e di eto imbentuhin natin ito. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Kunya-kunyarian lang ha... e di kunyari may kunsulado na tayo sa Kabul so maglalagay sila ng representative na may personalidad at walang balbas sa Kabul International Airport para sapul lahat na darating na Pinoy. Lahat na Pinoy na kararating lang imbis na salubungin ng banda, dadaan sila kay Mr. Personality para i-verify kung ano ba lakad nila sa Afghanistan o sa Iraq, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">" 'Tol ano atin?" </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i></i>Sa ganitong paraan maaabisuhan sila na, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"Repapips de-hins ka pwede dun...baka matsugi ka."</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mahalaga ang registration para sa dumarating at umaalis na OFW, need explanation?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mahalagang malaman ang jobsite, baka ang tubero sa iba mapunta at sila matubo sa "ano".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mahalagang malaman ang laman ng kontrata at ang mga benepisyong napapaloob dito, baka pasko na wala ka pang bonus e. Sino babasa ng contract? Sige ako na lang babasa, ako nakaisip e.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mahalagang malaman ang mga pansamtalang tirahan nila dito baka hindi na sila naliligo e. Lalo ang mga Pinoy na naghahanap pa lang ng work. (dapat malaman ang bahay nila nang madalhan sila ng adobo pag tanghalian)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Gawing requirement sa employment ang pakikipag uganayan muna ng Pinoy at ng kaniyang magiging employer sa consulate. Makiki-coordinate ang kunsulada sa lahat na employers na gawing isa sa requirement ng pagtanggap ng OFW ang pagdaan kay Mr. Personality</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> (</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">kaya dapat si mr.personality ay mag-inarte sa pag approve kung walang tocinong suhol).</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i></i>Sa totoong buhay lang ha, dapat lang magkaroon ng consulate dito ang Pinas dahil may Pinoy dito e pero ang nangyari iniwan tayo sa ere at iniasa tyo sa embassy sa Islamabad.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ayaw sigurong nilang umupa dito, di naman need na malaking office e, kahit sa tabo na lang sila mag office ang mahalaga may </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"personal touch".</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">So di na need maglagay sa recuiter, mag visit visa, magpa-escort, di na need magtanong-tanong kung sino nagpapaalis sa Dubai papuntang Afghanistan at Iraq. In short less expenses, less worry, less creation of Task Force, less victims at less ang kalabaw na maibebenta sa walang katuturan. Napapanahon nang pag-isipan ang mga bagay na ito. Naaangkop pa ba ang trip nilang "tamang-hinala"? Sayang ang bilyones na budget para sa mga bansang ito ng US, NATO at UN.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Eto ang the best...at pwede nyo ring gawin kung nasaan man kayong bansa naroroon...</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> Halleeer MS. POEA listen up, yo!</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> Yung sinasabing entrepeneurship ay dito natin gawin dahil mas maganda ang cash flow sa abroad. Kumuha ka ng sponsor mo na local bolahin mo para makapagtayo ka ng negosyo, dito sa Afghansitan napakaraming gumagawa nya...so bakit nila iiwan ang Afghanistan?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-42518974085647738412009-07-23T23:06:00.000-07:002009-08-04T08:03:04.040-07:00ANO BA GINAGAWA NG OFW SA AFGHANISTAN?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAEoMT9YHYj7bTMdQJFNU9HCikzzYQW8Qah03nqA1bnBYbZmxh-FHsRQQ0RzLcdWxs8_xdiG7ijmD-OlsOphK8-W80x_bOehQhLf2wXWPmxzXrC3pLbL-wIGPByETIQPtbDQTUsMambv-s/s1600-h/Image110.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmy7oFODY_i3MyrGoZWMpR_tU77D6yqKc0-z7Ue54ViRuDLPqwmj0jUc_ZEVKxdtFRsH3CJzodtUgoOl_t1Pm-cNCtK8QOGSBioLLeKyO5apEXoVZLYH2xdpSOOoSDXhag73_9LQvxQ3Cj/s1600-h/Image110.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqhq4GhV4fm9OnLXfhrm8J9ytkboWuGI63yAWyPbnUREp35hjHoyS_uJqLc7CA88VbaSfCpnRrwzdor9aQGXtzaV6yuRBUxLYfOgqypKJGFg9NYcnOgbu248QQep6v17P8qjsuxcMl5_ZU/s1600-h/calculated+risk-1.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Una sa lahat, nirerespeto ko at nakakiramay ako sa mga pamilya ng mga nasawi sa Kandahar Helicopter Crush, sila'y kadugo naming mga beterano sa warzone, 'wag na natin sila tawaging bayani baka may mang-asar na naman sa ating mga OFW pag tinatawag tayong bagong bayani. Bagong Bayani lang tayo sa revenue pero di naman talaga ganyan ang turing sa atin... tayo ang mga makakatas na inahing baka.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Nainterview ako last night ng taga-GMA 7. Nagpakilala siyang Rolly, kaibagan ni Blogistang Mulong (<a href="http://www.caracasniabe.blogspot.com/"><i>Naks Naman</i></a>), o baka sya na mismo yun. Itinago ako sa tunay kung palayaw, hehehe! Tikas!</span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Five questions yata ang pinaka-main na tanong nya, at yun ay recorded. I trusted GMA 7 dahil may mga kumpare ako dyan at mga naka-dikit na rin na mga reporters. Pero ang GMA na walang 7 ay hindi dapat at kahit kailan man dapat paniwalaan . Sana kung ii-ere ni Rolly ang phone interview, buo at wag putol-putulin para lang maiba ang meaning.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ito ang mga tanong.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Kamusta na ang buhay ng Filipino sa Afghanistan, ano ba ang buhay ng OFW sa Afghanistan?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Hindi ba nababahala ang OFW dito sa Afghanistan sa pinaigting na travel Ban?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Hindi ba kami natatakot dito sa Afghanistan dahil sa pagkakamatay nung 10 Pinoy sa pagbagsak ng Mi-8 Helicopter sa Kandahar Airfield?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ano ang work ko dito at ano ang work ko sa Iraq? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ilan ang Pinoy sa Afghanistan?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ang ultimate na tanong ito na maaaring yun ang trick dun, paano nakakarating ang OFW sa Afghansitan?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ito ang mga sagot ko, sa maraming sagot ko at dahil may birthday nang gabing yun (July 23, 2009) medyo iniwan ko ang mic at ang kantang "Lady" para pagbigyan si Rolly. At para sa entry kong ito hahabaan ko na.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Cz-4IjcMPhXev7QSxaEAXWx8yyAvbNPAEcdvckOxM1NvKQ12pM6rxPonddLm3ltbkbF6uBUrkU_g2bfHkeLxTGjNGr1uNLo-Z52veb9eaE_yOOWd7WZTMNhjWSdW8aTUe55vtSbtNAoz/s400/Image083_a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362063014085823074" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Usual ang buhay ng Pinoy sa Afghanistan, trabaho sa umaga, bonding after work, shopping pag day off, inuman pag may okasyon at videoke ang hindi mawawala. Tulad rin kami ng ordinaryong manggagawa, napunta dito para mag trabaho, kumita, mag-ipon, maglibang. Makikipagsaya sa mga kaibigang patuloy na nagbibigay ng tiwala, tulad ng mga Kano. Nalulungkot rin kami pag tinatamaan ng homesick. Masaya kami pag pay day at pag may extrang income. May naiinlove at may napo-fall out of love. Kasi tao pa rin ang OFW sa gitna ng Iraq at Afghanistan. Ang term na pakikipagsalaparan ay generalized... kahit saan ka nakikipagsapalaran ka. Kahit nasa Pinas ka, kahit wala ka sa warzone, kahit nandoon ka sa Vatican kung ang pakay mo ay upang itaguyod ang kinabukasan mo at ng iyong pamilya ikaw ay nakikipagsalaparan. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mali kasi ang imagination ng ibang tao sa sa salitang <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">pakikipagsapalaran</span></b> dito sa Afghanistan at doon sa Iraq. Akala nila pakikipag-pantentero sa lumilipad na bala para makatawid papasok sa upisina..Ala ey... mali po kayo. The phrase "search for greener pasture" knows no boundary. And the term itself is packed with struggles and sacrifices and great deal of INTELLIGENCE. The cow in the field sees no fence and respect no boundary if there is abundant food across, di ba? Gigibain nya ang bakod mo pag alam nyang mas matataba ang damo sa kabila, at yan ay kasalanan ng may-ari ng baka dahil hindi nya ginawan ng paraan ang kanyang tumana na magkaroon ng masaganang damo. Hindi nga kami mga baka pero pareho ang pangangailangan namin sa greener pasture.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Dito sa Afghanistan, mas malaki ang chance na magkaroon kami ng maayos na buhay at pamumuhay at napakaliit ng tendency na madisgrasya kami or umuwi kami ng luhaan, pero sa Pinas wala ka na ngang chansa, malaki pa ang chansa mong mamatay sa gutom, ma-abuso, masaktan ng ibang tao, at may tendency kang gumawa ng bagay na labag sa kalooban mo para lang magkaroon ng magandang buhay....AND FOR GOD SAKE, hwag na sana makipagtalo sa amin ang mga taong wala naman dito at nakakakita ng paligid ng Iraq at Afghaninstan. Hwag nyong imaginin ang mga war movies or mga video sa YouTube dahil noong unang panahon pa yan. Nangyari yan sa kasagsagan ng shooting war. May shooting war dito pero naka schedule at dun yun sa walang maraming Kanong sibilyan. Natural dun nila dadalhin ang barilan malayo sa tendency na magkaroon ng civilian casualties..common sense po iyan. At papayag ba naman sila, ang NATO at UN na makalapit ang kalaban..halleeeer!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Walang mas magaling kesa sa amin pag dating sa sitwasyon dito at wag nyo paniwalaan ang ibang mga duwag na media natin... nakiki-interview lang yan at walang first hand view yan dito. Exempted ang Kapuso Network syempre hehehe! bias ako e... <i>(what's up Ederick Villegas...inum tayo pag uwi ko!)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wala dito ang Philippine Embassy!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wala dito ang DOLE!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wala dito ang DFA!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wala dito ang Malacañang!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Walang Filipino Media dito!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wala silang lahat dito na nagsasabing NAKAKATAKOT sa Iraq at Afghanistan... nandun sila sa laban ni Pacquiao, nandun sila sa political meeting nila, nandun sila sa EDSA at nagpapapogi...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Nandun sila sa lugar malayo dito habang ginagastos ang contribution ng OFW sa Iraq at dito sa Afghanistan na 13 Billion Pesos annual revenue... Nandun sila sa greener pasture nila....tapos kami na nasa lugar na ito..idadamay nila sa pagpapagwapo nila sa 2010 election, pero kahit wala naman kami...gagamitin nila ang names namin upang bumoto sa kanila as absentee voters..di ba sobrang abuso na yan?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgrlqvMuiUUhFJlT6XrPr56lS24jHpM52-XSBWm2CHaDkRSRbRxsHM-aLB7g7JIZjbU4wRjwPYIG4uUXr8dcJUpt7qdcBKATLYLtH-hKdykGC8WoskxU2N3SxE60kzfXMNGNgDpnVcKcWg/s400/Image123_a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362065677198531938" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px; " /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ngayun paano nila nalamang ganun pa rin ang sitwasyon dito? E nung first term pa nila yun? Naalala ko nang pumunta si Roy C. sa Baghdad... pag uwi nakasabay ang mga magbabakasyon, finish contract at mga terminated na OFW at ito ang sinabi....hahahaha! Nag-media exposure e nakumbinsi nya raw ang mga kakabayan nating umuwi at sumunod sa travel ban hahahaha! chance passengers nga lang sila e. Na-timing pang may incoming nun sa Baghdad...parang daga sa bilis mag-bunker...<i>WTF!</i> Eto namang mga sawing kababayan natin matapos magpasaway dito, gagawa ng istorya na nakakalungkot para makahingi ng tulong sa gubyerno... tapos mandadamay... whooow! <i>(ayan natatawa tuloy sa kaniya yung sadikk kong Afghan.. Roy are you f_kin' kidding me)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Bakit kami mababahala sa pinaigting na ban... e kada may bad news...laging ginagamit yang PINAIGTING.... isa lang ibig sabihin nyan..mas malaki na lagayan. Yun pong mga OFW na namatay sa pagbagsak ng helicopter ay aksidente...at yan ay very elementary...nangyayari yan sa lahat ng sulok.. <i>aksidente nga e..halleeer!</i> Ipagpalagay pang hostile fire yun lagi namang may ganynang opinyon e..laging may hostility kahit saan. Hindi solusyon ang travel ban..yan ay solusyon ng mga taong tamad mag isip. Nakidnap si Dela Cruz sa Iraq, alam nyo ba bakit na-kidnap yun? ilan ba silang nakidnap na OFW....hindi lang kasi mga blogista yung mga nakasama nyang nakidnap e.. kundi lahat kayo magigising sa katotohanan...<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">pataka lang bitaw'g istorya kining mga dili bisaya</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Pinauuwi kaming may magandang buhay dito, para ano? Willing naman kaming umuwi kung meron silang alternatibo na pwedeng ipalit sa offer na oppurtunity dito...e kaso nga wala!..puro pauwi na lang pauwi. Ano gagawin namn sa Pinas, a-attend ng TESDA para mag-titinda ng kakanin? Global Crisis na nga dadagdag pa kami sa unemployed. NI walang siguradong lilipatang kumpanya sa ibang bansa para sa amin e. Hindi madali ang lahat gaya ng naiisip nila. Saka paano kami bubunutin dito? E kami ay under ng isang <b><i>legal na kontrat</i></b><b><i>a</i></b> ng aming mga kumpanya...maaring labag sa mata ng gubyerno ng Pilipinas ang pagpasok namin dito, pero legal ang contract namin, sige nga kung matalino kayo.. i-void nyo nga ang kontrata nang mabibin ang mga istraktura dito at iba pang proyektong funded ng UN, US at NATO. Hindi tayo naghahamon, pero hindi kami mga botanteng nag-aabang ng bibili ng boto at madadaan sa bolahan, maging makatotohanan tayo sa mga pinapahayag natin. Kasi kami ay di nakakaharap sa media, kaya sila lang ang nagsasalita at sa mga pahayag na binibitawan nila ay <b><i>nababahala ang aming mga pamilya at kaibigan. </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Kung matataandaan nyo sumulat tayo kay VP de Castro noong 2007 dahil sa maling akala nila sa sitwasyon dun sa Iraq at dito </span><a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/68519/OFWs-appeal-Lift-the-ban-to-Iraq-Afghanistan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">http://www.gmanews.tv/story/68519/OFWs-appeal-Lift-the-ban-to-Iraq-Afghanistan</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">. Wala kasing eleksyon noon kaya dedma tayo, hehehehe! E ngayun may magandang istorya bagay sa election season..ayun habulang daga na naman sila. Kung ilang beses na sinasabing hindi sulusyon ang BAN sa issue... pero ginigiit pa rin nila...ilang taon na ba ang travel ban? pero mas marami yata ang nandito ngayun kesa nung unang lumabas ang ban. So ano ibig sabihin nyan? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mas marami ang naakit matapos may mga OFW na nakauwi at nagbigay ng mga patotoo na mas <b>l</b><b>untian ang damo rito</b> at ang kinatatakutan ng pamahalaan ay malayo talaga sa katotohan. Mabibiktima ka rito kung puro pera iisipin mo, tulad rin kung nasa Pinas ka. Tama ba?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">At dahil sa pinupulutan na naman ang travel ban sa lahat na tumpukang ang iinuman, wala munang magbabakasyon amin...haaaay! miss ko na ang San Mig Lights.. postponed! Mauudlot ang inaasam na relaxation dahil lang sa di pinag-iisipang travel ban. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">May debate na ba sa travel ban? or trip-trip lang.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ilan daw ba ang Pinoy sa Afghanistan? Well kahit scientific calculator gamit ko...di ko mabibilang sila at wala akong balak bilangin sila dahil di ako taga Census Office. Ang masasabi ko kada kumpanya dito palagay may Pinoy...e kami ang kanilang Dragon Balls dito e...kami ang bato ni Darna... at pag nalakad ka sa Kabul City, daming tatawag sa yo ng "pare", sa loob ng military base, tatawagin kang "kabayan" so marami kami. Sa sobrang dami at sa laki ng sweldo namin, sabi nga ni Engr. Ted Mirasol at Engr. Jorge Javelosa... ang laki ng revenue ng Afghanistan kesa sa OFW ng Taiwan, marami sila in terms of volume pero ang per capita dito...hey! ang laki talaga.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBKh-6ewtjn2Y5gEsdDqhIvh9KZInCdd3LZKAJZ69MTZUrcVIhepAwuqY-M6Pt19fCDnYp8Xv2f1YJUv5bihZTPLpbI1tecjy1w8deqsOYBl3yJMzjMr-tpqGMScJwSggL_T7C-Blc-W1/s400/CIMG4621.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362064259547439394" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px; " /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Isa rin ang tanong na kung di kami nababahala sa pagbagsak ng Mi-8 Helicopter sa Kandahar Airfield, ang sagot ko bakit ako mabahala. Nag eeroplano ako pag pumumunta sa Kandahar. Isa pa disgrasya yan, walang may gusto nyan at alisin natin ang espekulasyon, masyadong wild ang imagination natin. Wala ngang nabahala sa paglubog ng mga barko ng Sulpicio Lines na mas marami ang namatay, nang atakehin ng terorista ang LRT at ang Makati, wala ngang nabahala, tuloy ang buhay di ba? Nalungkot kami syempre dahil bukod sa pumanaw sila sa isang tradehya, nariyan pa ang mga pangarap na nabinbin para sa kanila. Ang kinabukasan ng mga anak at ng lahat na umaasa sa kanila ay nawala na parang bula. Pero under sa Defense Base Act or DBA, mandatory yan dito, sila ay tatanggap ng insurance. Kung sa Pinas kaya sila nadisgrasya, may insurance kaya? Hwag kang plastic, alam mong wala! Meron SSS or GSIS...pero dudugo ilong mo bago ka makuha..gigimikan ka pa..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG171vcGRvKDrAVJDndmMIZh47K2YskPz3brCp0jLVJOgER6I2GC599r2nGXq3uFxKrUhWECEGWBcL2fjRbOyeY3GejY7Q0NfjsGuTuhmwebPf6yRKZNMYSDBCzYDLkJUND9wzv9lj7f1w/s1600-h/CIMG4606.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG171vcGRvKDrAVJDndmMIZh47K2YskPz3brCp0jLVJOgER6I2GC599r2nGXq3uFxKrUhWECEGWBcL2fjRbOyeY3GejY7Q0NfjsGuTuhmwebPf6yRKZNMYSDBCzYDLkJUND9wzv9lj7f1w/s400/CIMG4606.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362062103804968914" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 358px; " /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ano raw ba work ko sa Iraq at ano ang work ko dito..well pareho lang pero syempre tumaas lang ng konti ang posisyon. Iyan din ang advise ko sa mga kababayan nating pupunta dito, kung ordinaryong karpentero ka or mason, dapat pagdating dito, leadman ka na or foreman, kahit di mo pa naranasan kasi lamang ka na sa mga lokal dito e dahil articulate tayong pinoy. Ang sistema natin ay pasok sa panlasa ng mga expats dito. Saka kung kapareho mo lang ang lokal dito, mas pipiliin sila dahil mura ang labor pay nila. Bukod dun kakaunti ang leadmen or foremen dito, kakaunti ang supervisor na local dahil wala pa yatang trades school dito pero may mga universities sila. Kaso mas marami ang hindi kayang mag-aral dito, kaya kakaunti ang qualified mag lead. So maganda ang pagkakataon natin dito upang yumabong sa larangan natin.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ito ang pinaka-cream of the crop na tanong,<b> paano nga ba kami nakakarating dito?</b> OK..ang hint ko yung luma nang style na alam ng marami..dumadaan daw yung iba sa Dubai. the rest...SECRET! ano kayo hilo? E di nahirapan naman kami...basta sa amin dito, ang pagpunta rito ay calculated risk! </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbiKpKn1rAPQ5TgFJcGvwZnxuyefCLz3hALUpe6_KLcy-hkYJbVoBAhx_tNFz1NAA-CYvGX3gevp0C6htP7vgn1-EQg8LF_378DR88uFjrrxZ36WCy7CyZXeSf92dQja3rZ_hohyphenhyphen1WMqbJ/s400/calculated+risk-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362092212776562002" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px; " /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00z0OHIt0O-2m3B2q4H5BuyWDBscvVUPKP7OLOJmRaWZFA6ZcXC5cQS0CLz6jzwU8mjcQMgWajmQAlCOr0ID_BggyGITkbjCQ2qwK2gfaIm7ijlPzC2q_JP-O7w1oWwQ-buzZ8SR8-UFT/s1600-h/Image098.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00z0OHIt0O-2m3B2q4H5BuyWDBscvVUPKP7OLOJmRaWZFA6ZcXC5cQS0CLz6jzwU8mjcQMgWajmQAlCOr0ID_BggyGITkbjCQ2qwK2gfaIm7ijlPzC2q_JP-O7w1oWwQ-buzZ8SR8-UFT/s400/Image098.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362091501142411506" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Si Sgt. Calangian yan nakita ko sa Kandahar Airport, K9 Handler sya dun.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKrk3ylTfXm9fxAi4Y2hsnT1DhpfHfQglcAnoiCqY2Gx_5-aWd4WLRcsi-u_GdCMph9HvOneBQW8tEkTkTMCnEI7jgOy6WJHdoraCrROILvlqL8ibAam5sA-UUqh_zTNEQ4nUWGpNhYXXe/s400/Image071.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362093556912052418" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Yan si Ronaldo Dorado, ang matikas na Lead Scheduler..tanging TCN ng Taji na Certified ng KBR sa Scheduling..kasama ko yan dito. At si Mark Wilson ang brick mason. Ito si Danny, ang "hero" ng Camp Taji, Iraq at nagkita kami dito sa Kabul kagabi.. back in the old days...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAEoMT9YHYj7bTMdQJFNU9HCikzzYQW8Qah03nqA1bnBYbZmxh-FHsRQQ0RzLcdWxs8_xdiG7ijmD-OlsOphK8-W80x_bOehQhLf2wXWPmxzXrC3pLbL-wIGPByETIQPtbDQTUsMambv-s/s1600-h/Image110.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAEoMT9YHYj7bTMdQJFNU9HCikzzYQW8Qah03nqA1bnBYbZmxh-FHsRQQ0RzLcdWxs8_xdiG7ijmD-OlsOphK8-W80x_bOehQhLf2wXWPmxzXrC3pLbL-wIGPByETIQPtbDQTUsMambv-s/s400/Image110.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362098744852510306" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364443249116101816.post-50875411948850249662009-06-26T03:34:00.000-07:002009-06-27T01:50:04.771-07:00WHAT'S LIFE WITHOUT MICHAEL JACKSON<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uTtf1t1eFuvJIbrwoq_2lC5Os8T4UQhkB7Ebtd_tQjyIiV6cTMVAYVlLDnZFZ_fjwz9HLytSTu1M-c_Y2vOy-6_zDA5BiT7apSNPL8Pc-2qRNU7lR5oBuwN_62Qo0y8fqeq8T2UBXMZt/s1600-h/MJ.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uTtf1t1eFuvJIbrwoq_2lC5Os8T4UQhkB7Ebtd_tQjyIiV6cTMVAYVlLDnZFZ_fjwz9HLytSTu1M-c_Y2vOy-6_zDA5BiT7apSNPL8Pc-2qRNU7lR5oBuwN_62Qo0y8fqeq8T2UBXMZt/s400/MJ.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351590610367516898" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Ako na lang muna papalit kay MJ.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><i>(para akong si El DeBarge hehehe!</i>)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">Imagine? Moonwalk lang ang pinaka-kabisado kong dance routine kasi mga dekada ochenta at noventa ang aking kabataan. Yung mga sayaw na para kikinsot, alam mo ba yun? Thriller dance yun at yung high kick and leg twist tapos ita-tap mo ang paa mo, Beat it yun. Meron pang isa, yung hahawiin mo sa side ng damit mo then pa-funky-funky yung kamay mo..Billy Jean yun..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Siguro lahat naman tayo, batang-MJ..Michael Jackson! Mayabang ako dati dahil may album ako ng Thriller, yung cassett tape pa nga uso nun... first dance ko sa Manila when I arrived from two years stay in Cebu, Michael Jackson ang sayaw ko hahaha! That't was 1985, tinawanan pa ako ni Buboy yung kababata ko sa Navotas na tumakbong mayor.Pati utol ko, parang nahihiya sa pinaggagagawa ko noon. E uso nga si MJ e. Asar lang sila kasi kakulay ko si MJ at MJ moves ako nun. I remember nag dance number pa kami nung high school under Mr. Morla, ewan ko english subject yun e, english musical dawe ... so Smooth Criminal ang ginaya namin... yung nag-lean forward si MJ dun. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Malaking impluwensya si MJ e. Para nga di nakakahiya, pag wala pang pambili ng pants dati, at bitin na ang pants mo... uuy! Michael Jackson ah..hehehe! totoo lang walang pera mommy ko nun.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I could say kahit complex ang influences ko sa music, Michael Jackson was a big part of my musical side. Nasa Saudi na nga ako last year, namba-bad trip pa ako sa mga ibang lahi, kasi may MJ vcd dun na music video..palagi kong pinapanood at ang sound malakas...habang nag luluto ng Sadike (Saudi cops..hulihin nyo ko.....).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Uniter si MJ ng black at white, maraming siyang music records na siya ang unang nakagawa, at mga records ng kasutilan syempre , ganun paman isa s'ya sa nagpausbong ng black music industry sa mundo. I don't need to talk so much about his life and career kasi konti lang alam ko jan..basahahin nyo na lang sa internet...pero as of now, maglalaban muna kami ni Wes, yung black na lawyer dito, sa paramihan ng kabisadong kanta ni MJ. Gusto ko lang i-dedicate ang isang portion ng blog ko kay MJ, that's it..bilang pasasalamat sa contributions nya.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Wala naman akong personal encounter with MJ, he is just an idol and I am a proud big fan. Anuman ang naging kulay ng buhay n'ya, para sa akin lesson at insperasyon na dapat nating pulitin, at i-absorb. H'wag tularan ang mistakes n'ya na palagay ko yun din ang ipapayo nya, pero gayahin natin ang ang diskarte nya tungo sa pag unlad. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">h'wag natin i-deny, we all have skeleton in our closets... kaya sa mga may bad opinion kay MJ...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Beat it!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Anuman ang preference ni MJ...para sa akin, He's the Man!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Go peacefully with our Lord, MJ and teach the angels how to do the moonwalk.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Rest in Peace, bro.</span></div><div><br /></div>bizjoker-of-the-philippineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12049887785451729683noreply@blogger.com3