By glitch, on January 14th, 2008
Every first month of the year, entrepreneurs / entrepinoys / businessmen are busy for their business permits renewals, land tax, depends on the business but some businesses are busy also applying for their employees’ working permits.
Just before Christmas, we had our Induction of Officers and Members of our Association with a list of honorable guests headed by Mayor Florencio Jun Bernabe. I’m thankful that the event went on smoothly despite of the last minute problems we’ve encountered. I could say that it was indeed a success. Some guest didn’t make it like Congressman Eduardo Zialcita but he send over the [...]
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By glitch, on December 10th, 2007
Reuters reported that the peso hit 41.62 per dollar, gaining just 0.2 percent from Friday, but taking its rise in the past month to 3.7 percent and its gains this year to almost 18 percent. I’ve exchanged my dollar yesterday at SM Mall of Asia for PHP41.40 per dollar.
It is normal that the Philippines have low demand of dollar during Christmas season. We have an estimated of 8 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and other Filipinos abroad who send dollars to their families here for the Christmas season.
Did I mention that Filipinos have the longest celebration of Christmas? Yup, you [...]
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By glitch, on October 22nd, 2007
Two weeks ago, the local Government of Paranaque City distributed letters addressed to establishment owners informing them that they should comply to the necessary business permits and working permits of individual employees. It indicated there the penalties for each violation. Around 8pm tonight, the business inspectors of Paranaque City Hall joined forces with Paranaque Police and Baranggay Tanods inspected all Restaurants, Bars and KTVs in Baclaran. They’ve inspected the necessary documents of each establishments. Establishments caught without business permits were closed immediately literally as they’ve put pieces of woods to block the establishments’ door and posted big red stickers [...]
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By glitch, on October 4th, 2007
I went for novena to Mother of Perpetual Help in Baclaran yesterday, a regular Wednesday habit. The difference was I have to stroll around and look for native stuffs for my sister in law in California, today is my father in law’s flight to US, a business and some vacation perhaps.
Anyway, as I looked around, I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of ukay-ukay stores around. Do I have to mention that I am a native of Baclaran. I’m not fond of ukay-ukay and I don’t have anything against ukay ukay. I’ve been to ukay-ukay capital in the Philippines also the [...]
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