By glitch, on March 10th, 2009
Another Proud Pinoy teacher in the person of Efren Peñaflorida of Cavite City was first nominated for CNN Heroes 2009 in Championing Children category. A native of Cavite City, the 28 year old nominee grew up near the city’s dumpsite where he spent most of his younger years playing and swimming in the garbage beach. It shows in his character that he believed in our national hero, Jose Rizal’s “Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan” (the youth is the hope of our nation). Formed in 1997 in Cavite by Efren Peñaflorida, its mission then was to keep the youth [...]
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By glitch, on February 24th, 2009
Am I right? No doubt that recession is already in the Philippines. I can still remember the video footage I saw in the news about VAT, people rallying with streamers against VAT.
How about the local governments? I wonder if they’re affected of global financial crisis when most lower class families continues to struggle on their daily lives looking for food to eat. How about the small businesses? Every year, taxes continue to increased. I guess, its not enough but the councilors continue to author “money generating” city ordinances, special permits and penalties that businesses will shoulder. In the long run, [...]
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By glitch, on February 8th, 2009
As of this writing, there’s still no water in Parañaque City. We’re not aware that there will be no water supply until few hours it went off. I could say that our barangay is big enough that a barangay tanod needs to use a megaphone riding in a service jeep, roam around the whole morning to let every household know the news. That Friday morning, there was no barangay tanod at all.
My sister got the news when she was out of the house at 8pm in Friday. OMG! I only have 4 hours to store water to our 2 big [...]
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By glitch, on February 1st, 2009
The last time I bought LPG tank was last year, December 15 at 360 pesos. It was again empty and need to be replaced last Wednesday. Would you believe that I can’t find a store to buy one? Some displayed a signboard “NO GAS“.
I went back in Thursday since my Auntie already bought one from my suking LPG dealer. The seller told me that he will sell me the following day. He told me he already promised the limited stocks he had in the store to other costumers. Ok, fine. Another day without LPG will be fine, I guess. I [...]
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By glitch, on October 11th, 2008
