Masuwerti Meralco nang mabili nang bagong grupo

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The trending tirade vs MVP and Ayala, two of biggest tycoons, billionaire in the country, highlights the monopoly and control of the tycoons on the economy.   Both virtually have control over the telco regulator, and may be even the energy regulator.

We may not be privy to the goings on between and among regulatory bodies and Meralco and others involved in power sector.  But reports have it that the main reason why the Lopezes sold Meralco was its difficulty in getting rate increases under GMA.  (GMA Govt planning to take over Meralco?

Govt sat on the request of Meralco for rate increase for 8 long yerars

The Lopezes sold out to the MVP group who eventually had 53% control of the company.  And lo and behold under MVP Meralco became very profitable because it got a provisional increase under the new administration.   Meralco was soon presided by a veteran former CEO of energy company and engaged in a lot of innovation (founding a collection company, internet via power lines)  prepaid electricity and many many more like outsourcing of linemans activity through its retired employees..

Going slow on big businesses - let us have statesmen and gentlemen running our country

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Rizal Philippines
December 11, 2019

PD30 wants dialogue with water company

                                            Paano mo iboycott ang telco at expressway at 2big?

                                                  Grabe naman ang wish na ito.  


It is is still a democratic govt.  The revolutionary govt, thanks God is not yet in place.  (I understand a former colleague is the mastermind of this.  Bah)

This post is bothered by the sudden change of heart of the Presidency vs two of the largest business in the Philippines:  Ayala and the Metro Pacific.  Since they are all over the place and affecting the lives of people:  telco, infrastructures and water.   All of a sudden a large portion of the society, in social media owing to the sentiment and emotion carried by difficulties with the basic commodity, are ganging up vs Ayala and Pangilinan, and may be very soon with other businesses.

The two behemoths are in the process of large infrastructure project - the skyway linking North and South Express way.   Ayala is building communities for the masses and had major projects in Davao  Let us not forget the jobs they have created and taxes they have paid not to mention the solution to some of our problems.   Talk about gratitude.

Definitely the two large water companies have their lapses and may seem predatory and scandalous in their contracts.   I am no friend of this two guys what with: slow internet (Smart and Globe) and our town with water supply from Manila water. Who am I to say the contracts the past administration in 1997 are not onerous? Who is not without faults and defects.

But to kick them out and replace them with Prime Water, whose services are not that examplary and way below of Manila Water and  Maynilad is unfair and capricious and does not stand well with the rest of citizenry.

Same thing with ABS CBN. non renewal of franchise.  Certainly the Presidency carries with him the mandate of people and these businessmen and their employees also have people who need employment and jobs.

We want to see statesman as our leader.  Not vendetta kings or Megalomaniac emperors.   Time to be more circumspect.   Hinay hinay lang bay...

Is religion a front for looking good, an epal tool? (Pakitang Tao, decoration?)

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Rizal Philippines
May 9, 2019

In the medieval times, some philosophers called religion an opium, ie a  means of escape from the harsh realities of living and all that people shall look forward to is everlasting life without hunger or thirst

Indeed the meaning of religion is larger than life, (literally)  It means relationship with ones Creator

    Let us examine if these incidents reflect the real meaning of religion:    From the Latin word religare - to bind (a person with his Creator)

    1.  I just finished Visita Iglesia during Holy  Week, and on the same date, a protagonist and the organizer
         of that event, turned his back on a previous commitment to an agreement. While at the prayers of
         the Visita Iglesia we talked about goodness to one another (mostly about teaching of John) It was
         a grant of right of way.

        I remember a certain protagonist several decades ago who blocked the right of way of a compound
        creating difficulties for the residents. (He had the set back in front of his property and the right of way
        titled - malakas ang Ms. sa gobyerno.) Not long after, he sought our grant of right of way to his
        property for electricity service.  And then he died when he  was shot in front of his gate, a right of way
        just equivalent to the 1 meter of right of way which he blocked.

        Now a grant of right of way is mandatory and required by the Civil Code to the one being blocked by
        a servient estate. And even more so to be free when a project blocks the right of way to the dominant
        ( property behind)  estate.

2.  Our group donated sizeable amount of money for an evangelization project, ie donation of PHP
     hundreds of thousands of pesos for purchase of Bible and donation to Christian communities in an
     island province. The proponent, while sending reports of his project  said that our treasurer, my daughter
     was spreading word that their project is a scam. Now that is bad, and when I asked for evidences
     say a print screen, he could not send me one.  And from his text, it turned out that he based his
     accusation of what was said by his wife and on what the pastor told his wife.   In the name of Bible
     and the Lord, we can send lies about  our co workers and  relatives? And after making huge help/
     donation to their group.

3.  What about misconduct of some of the religious with regards to having wives, homesexual and other
      sexual misconduct, pedophilia etc

4.  What about the high and mighty and other socialites attending church, donating to the church projects
     and yet hardly showing that they care for their fellow men.

Hindi ba pakitang tao lang religion to most people, decoration lang?

Hindi mapigiilan ang lumalala ang vote buying

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Rizal Philippines
May 10, 2019

                                             Mataas na ngayon.  P1,000 lowest, up to P5,000

Last Tuesday, galing ako sa Norte sa Region 1. In one of the vote rich towns in vote rich province it was reported that a mayoralty candidate was giving away P1,000 to every registered voter and the hundreds of tricycles lined up in front of his factory attest to the veracity of the report.    Even bigger amount was given to barangay head.   In one of the cities, it was reported that the level of vote buying was at P5,000 per, and the budget for the election at city mayoralty level was placed at P200 million. Wow

Today, this was reported in major dailies Vote buying incidents at MB

Just what can we expect from this candidates if they bought the votes?  Surely there are financiers and ROI is expected.  This coupled with many violation in the poster rules, is condemn able how many candidates made fun and mockery of election rules.  How can we expect good government and progress improvement from these leaders. Shall our country be better if our misconduct with regards to governance and compliance is worsening?

Mas marami sumusuway sa Comelec rules sa poster display

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Rizal Philippines
April 21, 2019

Sa aking pananaw, sa MM lang mahigpit ang Comelec.  Pero sa probinsiya ang daming violation.  At kung maghihigpit ang Comelec sa palagay ko:   1.  Maraming tatastas ng mga campaign materials, 2.  Marami madisqualify   3. Marami lalagpas sa kanilang allowed budget na P3.00/voter

Comelec Resolution 10488 of January 30, 2019

Ano ano na naman palusot:  

    1. Ikinabit ng mga supporter kalaban di ko alam?!!

    2. Ikinabit ng supporter sa kanyang bakod, ano magagawa ko. (with their consent)

        Lusot ba?

Judge for yourself:

Why are real estate prices: offices and housing shooting up so fast in Metro Manila

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Rizal Philippines
April 17, 2019

Gaming industry and Chinese workers driving up real estate prices in Manila

Yesterday, I was in the office of a former chair of Real Estate Company of the government, a former banker  who told me the fantastic real estate deals in MM.  Condo price/sm has risen to a record of P500,000/sm (up from mere P100,000 about 3 years ago)   In Forbes Park there were real estate deals involving sale of house and lot running in Billions of pesos.  Incredible but true.  What could be the reason?

1.  Well may be the market is awash in liquidity what with low interest rates on the bank deposit (1/4 of 1%)
     the BPO and OFW dollar remittances.

2.  But the more important thing is the influx of Chinese workers for POGO (Philippine Offshore Gaming Offices) (Phil is now the number 1 gaming spot in Asia even bigger than Macau and Singapore with most of them in the Bay (MoA area)  The developers there are having it so good like Double Dragon.  The Chinese according to Injap are paying at 30% premium.  and has pdc for say a 5 year contract.

There could be 200,000 or more Chinese workers (so BI is having a heyday hehe2 for its ....activities)
and have driven up prices of housing and office rental.  The Chinese invasion of the WPC is bad for us but the POGO invasion is doing good for the business and the financial markets...

Ang pagiging patriot at isang lider, nagsisumula sa pagdampot ng kalat, pagsunod sa batas trapiko -fmr Senador, investment banker

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ersonal responsibility and moral leadership

In a sense, true leadership must exist before, above, and beyond the system, so that when it immerses itself into the system, it exerts a cleansing, rejuvenative power, rather than be merely, supinely corrupted by it.

Blaming the system evades personal responsibility. In government, as in business, we bring into our jobs the values that have shaped and prepared us to make decisions for the good of others. Those values and decisions do not necessarily involve multimillion-dollar deals or millions of votes. Every day—not just once but many times—every individual gets an opportunity to exercise leadership, in decisions big and small.

Every day for me is a struggle in exercising leadership. I am constantly asking myself: will what I say or what I do move the country forward, or will I just be indulging myself? Are the people getting value not for their money but for their vote?

Jimmy Ongpin surely faced the same dilemmas in his own sphere. He could have chosen to skirt environmental regulations as chief of Benguet Corporation—but he did not. He felt personally accountable for his corporate decisions. He could have ducked when he saw that government policy was ruinous to the economy and the country—but he did not. He challenged the existing order (including his brother's ideas and programs) and became a central player in overthrowing the dictatorship. When the call came for him to serve the Aquino government, he brought with him those same values, and applied them with the same vigor and consistency. He did not become a leader because he became Secretary of Finance; he became the Secretary of Finance, and head of the economic team, because he had already proven himself a leader.

Moral leadership—or doing the right thing for the good of the many—is not a function of the system, but of the individual. If everyone picked up one piece of litter, or stayed in the proper traffic lane, or paid the right taxes, or declined a bribe, or put up shelter for the homeless, it would not matter one whit whether we had a presidential, a parliamentary, a monarchical, or a tribal system. What would matter would be that we did the right thing.

If the failure of the system cannot excuse our leaders, then the failure of our leaders cannot excuse us. If we expect much of our leaders, then we must expect as much of ourselves.

Indeed it is only we, the citizens, who can make the system—any system—work. Our destiny is in our hands—hands that work and hands that build, not hands that destroy

Let us start with ourselves to improve our country, huwag iasa sa gobyerno

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January 14, 2018


Subject:  Taking personal responsibility for what happens around us

1. Responsibility for cleanliness 5s in the workplace:

                               Why is picking up trash leadership (and not doing is mediocrity?)

    1.  There was a feature today about a Danish intern at Danish Embassy who is observed to picking up trash daily while going home at Bonifacio Heights.  Comments on the  post say it is sampal sa Pinoy

From Page One - Danish Foreigner (Emily) to inspire citizen not to litter/pick up trash?

2. There was an urban legend regarding Tan Cak Tiong chairman of Jollibee picking up trash while visiting a branch at the North.  It was rumored that afterwards, that Jollibee in the north became a model of cleanliness

3.  The Manila bay is a model of being filthy and smelly and its only lately that DENR is taking serious attention about this.  The waste accumulating at Manila Bay, a bad Feng Shui (malas, hindi aasenso, maligalig na pamumuhay) was traced to:

      1. Institutional waste, from factories, govt offices, including govt entity:

          Hospital, Manila zoo but most comes from urban settlers using

          the estero draining into Manila bay as toilets and sewers, and garbage

          dump

     SEC Cimatu of DENR notes commercial establishments and informal urban settlers for massive pollution
     of Manila Bay (333 mn ppm vs standard of only 100)!!!!

                                            Why is this ahppening?  The govt is to be blamed?

                                                Eh pusali iyan eh;  basurahan, hindi body of water

                                           And we call Philippines Pearl of the Orient Seas?
                                                             True ??????

4.  At the SBU, say Calapan, Pangasinan, La Union, HAMP,  it is a constant battle about keeping the Park clean because it:

       1.  It is a park

       2.  It is part of 5s

       3.  It is part of COBS

   There are proofs that many are none compliant  We are all victims of indifference and a system that
   corrupts the mindset of professionals to be corrupt (marumi mabaho)

5.  At the 3f, the base of the stairway is often littered with trash, and none seems to mind.  The undersigned does the job of picking up the trash and none seems embarrassed,  reflecting the indifference and lack of responsibility being part of the team and caring for the workplace.

   

   This despite the admonition that:  what you observe around you as dirty workplace is a reflection of your personality and your understanding of your world and your faith (and your regards for the superiors or the owners)

6.  Operationally it is simply not being responsible and having the mindset:

      It is anybody, somebody, nobody, everybody

      Whose job is it: Nobody, Everybody, Nobdy, Somebody

Here's the story, titled "Whose Job Is It, Anyway?"

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.

The story may be confusing but the message is clear: no one took responsibility so nothing got accomplished.

It's a story that plays out often in organizations and companies and on teams—anywhere there is culture that lacks accountability.

But how do you get people to take responsibly for their work? Different things work in different situations, but here are some strategies that have proven to be effective:

Become a role model. You can't tell people what to do if you yourself aren't willing to hold yourself to the same level. If you want people to act responsibly, you have to be accountable. Your team and your company look to you for direction.

Don't make assumptions. Don't assume that others know instinctively what to do and when to do it, or even what you expect from them. Before people can take responsibility for their work they require clear communication. The more you communicate, the better the results are likely to be.

Set the standard. If you expect excellence, it's up to you to set the standards for results and performance. Make each task or goal measurable and set it on a reasonable timeline so it's achievable. Give people a clear target and they'll work to reach it—and maybe even surpass it.

Get the buy-in to go the distance. You need people to buy in and commit if you want to succeed. Each vision should be compelling; each goal should build toward the whole; each task should be laced with motivation. You need people to feel compelled, inspired and motivated to take responsibility.

Make regular check-ups. One of the biggest reasons people fall short is a lack of follow-through by leadership. Help people stay focused by setting up regular checkpoints—phone calls or meetings where everyone can communicate and catch up, staying focused on moving forward and being accountable. When people know there will be check-ups, they're less likely to procrastinate and more likely to hit their targets.

Provide support and training. Especially with a start-up or a new initiative, people are taking on projects or tasks that they've never faced before. Make sure everybody has the training and resources they need to be successful, and provide help in resolving any issues that may arise.

Encourage candor. One of the worst things that can happen to a team is for people to feel uncomfortable discussing problems and expressing their honest opinions. Build a culture of candor so that people know it's the norm to tell the truth, even when it's difficult or awkward.

Concentrate on solutions and not only problems. If people are having problems or falling behind, expect them to come to you with possible solutions, not just the problems. Create an expectation that the first response to a problem is to start finding solutions.

Praise performance. Praise people for good results and be specific with your acknowledgment. Let them know what they did well and how their work is affecting others. If they fall short, coach them privately and let them know how they can improve. And if their performance does not improve, also address this with meaningful consequences that have been explained ahead of time.

To avoid having your team become Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody, commit to becoming the kind of leader who takes responsibility for your own life and leadership.

Lead from within: Don't let Anybody (or Everybody, Somebody or Nobody) stop you from doing what you need to do to create the kind of leadership and life you can be proud of.

7.  In a speech by Mar Roxas in 2005, he urges every one to take personal responsibility for what happens around us, and not expect the government, as it were a knight in shining armor (the height of socialism) to take care of our needs and problems.  If we pick up trash, or observe traffic rules, do our  share, then we can be better.   Thre is a huge gap between our expectations, and wishes and our persona actions.

Nothing can be higher of moral and personal leadership if we do this...(from lecture Fresh Start on the Filipino dream

       

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PAGSASANAY SA TAGUMPAY (Training for Success)

Good management is good management everywhere

Habits of Successful People

Si Pastor Quiboloy ang self proclaimed Son of God ay tunay?

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False Teacher - Pastor Quiboloy

Pastor Quiboloy a leader of the church group based in Davao, is one of the many religious leaders in the  Philippines among them:  Eli Soriano of Dating Daan, Ernesto Tanchi of GCF  Marinano Mike Velarde  of El Shaddai , Eddie Villanueva of JIL among others.

He is so wealthy, owns a jet and a mansion in Davao and is being criticized for this.

Is he really an appointed Son of God as he often claims?   A website doesnt think so.

 viewed Apollo Quiboloy’s site and find it as you say – total falsehood. The site glorifies him from start to finish. The man is so deceived.

There are simple external signs for people to watch for. Men of God don’t customarily dress in white and present themselves as beautiful to the world, and they never attempt to impress or be popular with it. They don’t live in extravagance and luxury, expecting the poor to support their lifestyle. They don’t give apologetic interviews and answers to the world, though they may answer questions for those enquiring. More importantly, they don’t contradict the Holy Scriptures with their claims and doctrines.

PACQ  (Pastor Apollo Quiboloy) vs    BES (Brother Eli Soriano)

Totoo bang nagswitching na name si PACQ at Diyos?  Kayo naniniwala ba?






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