Archive for February, 2008

Philippine Peso To China?

A group allegedly composed of Camp Crame police officers and a Metro Manila
Mayor is reportedly raking in millions of pesos by hoarding P1 coins and shipping them to China for conversion into amusement game tokens in casinos and night spots.

Hmnn… here we go again. Disrespectful filipinos of our country. They are not ashamed of what they’re doing. According to the news, they’re giving php 300 for every php 1,000 worth of 1 peso coins they are buying. We don’t have enough law to punish these kind of people for doing such things, if they are caught, the coins are just confiscated. That’s it. The Rules and Regulations on the Reproduction and/or Use of Legal Tender should be revised as soon as possible to stop these people and face the consequences of their violation.

Our “piso” or 1 peso coin is made of Cupro-Nickel composed of 75% copper & 25% nickel. If you compare it a to a regular token, it is slight heavier. As a filipino, the issue made me sad, it made me ashamed that I have “kababayan” like them. How come these disrespectful people get away just because we don’t have enough law to protect our monetary system. I doubt that they haven’t taught enough or understand their finance subjact in college. Aren’t they ashamed of Jose Rizal, our national hero who happens to be embossed on our 1 peso coin?

As far as I know, if this is true, China is known for low cost production and our country have existing agreement with them. There are many websites I’ve seen that offers custom made tokens production. It just so happen that I know that there are also local manufacturers here of tokens for video games and videoke machine.

On the contrary, is this for real or just want ZTE Broadband deal witness Jun Lozada issue be forgotten just like the other corruption issues?

Philippine Airlines Holy Week Promo

Its pretty normal in the Philippines that filipinos will go home to their respective provinces because Holy Week is almost a week long vacation and holiday. Good thing that Philippine Airlines came up with their promo to help filipinos lessen their expenses.

Philippine Airlines had extended their P88 promo for the coming Lenten season, the promo dubbed as “Holy Week Special” is valid from March 21 to March 22, Good Friday and Black Saturday respectively. They’ve already started selling the tickets at PAL ticket offices and accredited travel agents until February 15, 2008 only.

Covered by the promo are all PAL flights between Manila and Bacolod, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Cotabato, Davao, Dipolog, General Santos, Iloilo, Kalibo, Laoag, Legazpi, Puerto Princesa, Roxas, Tacloban, Tagbilaran and Zamboanga. Prior to this promo they also have the “Seat All You Can” promotion last month that drew a strong market response prompting them to have another promo. The promo “Seat All You Can” is a companion scheme requiring passengers to buy a full fare ticket (valid for one year) and the chance to purchase a second ticket for P88 (valid from February 6 to March 12, 2008) each way on selected domestic flights.

For more details on these two promotions, you can call the 24-hour PAL reservation at (02) 855-8888. Better to purchase your tickets early.

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My Entrecard Top Ten Sites

Here’s the top ten sites where my widget was shown. Its really hard placing an advert on most of these site because of their advert value, no regrets. no wonder they costs that much.

My widget shown on:

1. Belolats
2. Gorilla Sushi
3. Blarguments
4. Sam’s Freedom
5. BloggerNoob
6. Alive
7. So Marjienalized
8. Cromely’s World
9. How2Blogger
10. JoanJoyce

Credits per click: These blogs are really amazing, inexpensive because they still belong to “most recent members” when I advertise on their site. BUT I received entrecard drops more than their value.

1. Tipid Meals
2. NJ-NJ-Real-Estate
3. Money And Stock Market
4. Wayfarer Wings
5. Bring Me Up: Environment
6. StuffToGet.net
7. Mobile eBook Etc
8. That Grrl
9. DIVANESS
10. Dutsji

There’s no guarantee that if I have this statistics, you can have the same drops if you advertise on them.

Better Caring Of Filipino Elderly Abroad

Strong family ties is a culture we have among Filipinos, there’s no doubt that we take good care of our elders. But sometimes, there are various reasons why some family cannot attend to their elders. Unfortunately, poverty is one of the main reason, filipino elders belongs to class A and B family are lucky.

The most common reported illness by the elderly was arthritis and rheumatism. Other common health problems are hypertension, lung diseases (e.g. asthma, emphysema, tuberculosis), cataracts and heart problems. The elderly also mentioned diabetes, stomach and kidney problems. Poor physical function has adverse consequences for the affected elder, his family, community, and the larger society.

What about the filipino elders outside our country, in United Kingdom specifically? They have the financial capacity to live in a care home. But choosing the right care home is the primary concern. Each elderly have different health condition, emotional state and needs, the family are choosy on choosing the right home care.

Bettercaring is leading online service offering needed informations on registered care homes in the UK. Its impossible that you cannot find the best option available that suits the needs of your beloved elderly. Aside from the list of registered home cares, the site is also a source of information on care. They also have articles on health care that are really worth reading for. I even read the diabetes article because my mother is a diabetic. A forum is also a plus factor of the website wherein people can discuss their concens on choosing the right home care and other topics such as health care experiences.

ZTE Witness Jun Lozada

ZTE broadband deal star witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada testifies at the Senate Hearing started at 10:30am this morning. After his hiding for almost a year because of this controversial issue involving First Gentleman Mike Arroyo and Comelec ex-Chairman Benjamin Abalos.

The overpriced amounting to $329M National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with China’s ZTE Corp., is originally initial proposal of $132M. Comelec ex-Chairman Abalos wants Lozada to be sure of his $130M commision from the ZTE broadband deal. According to his testimony, the initial proposal of $132M had ballooned to $329M.

This is another corruption issue of our present Government. There are already many corruption issues before and left unsolved. I hope, there are many people just like Jun Lozada who will come up in the open. To Filipinos, let’s be aware of what is happening to our country. The Blue Ribbon Committee assigned to the investigation of the ZTE anomaly scheduled the next hearing on Monday at 10:30am. Jun, mabuhay ka!

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