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Curfew In The Philippines

This is with regards to what had happened this afternoon started from walkout of Magdalo group from the Oakwood mutiny hearing in Makati Trial Court. I didn’t monitored what really happened in the trial court since 1pm this afternoon. I should have post this earlier but I have to attend to some personal matters.

Curfew will be implemented by Philippine National Police, guidelines was released and announced in the Teleradio by PNP Chief Avelino Razon Jr. I just got home from a despedida dinner, my relatives and friends are txting me to get home as soon as possible, informing me of the curfew tonight at 12midnight to 5am. What curfew?! At my age, I didn’t know what that is. The stories of my father when I was young came to my mind and got afraid. What’s happening? Martial law? OMG!

The moment I got home, I’ve watched PNP Chief Avelino Razon Jr’s phone patch interview clarifying things regarding curfew. We can contact the mobile #09178475757 if we encountered curfew problems or curfew abuse by the local police. Policemen conducting curfew should be in complete proper uniform with their badge and name plates. Exempion to curfew are night workers including call center agents etc, medical practitioners and food travellers from provinces. Razon said, curfew is implemented to monitor the people’s movement, there’s no liquor ban or whatsoever. There will also be checkpoints to various places in National Capital Region, Region 3 and Region 4A. It is right to bring along your ID at all times for proper identification.

I saw people rushing to got home early. It is really unsual, you can see and feel the tension to everyone. There’s no traffic in Roxas Boulevard but there are many commuters waiting for their ride. There’s no bus, taxi, jeepneys and vans in the terminals. I saw some commuters negotiating to taxi drivers. I don’t think there’s nothing to worry. This is contrary to what I’ve saw in local TV that GMA asked Filipinos to remain calm regarding the Makati tension. That was about 4pm this afternoon. People are panicking now, tension is increasing. I think this is unlawful and contrary to our constitution. We are free and democratic country. Where are we heading now?

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Share Your Crumbs 2

I was on my way home and decided to stopped over SM Mall Of Asia to buy some things needed at home. I was in a hurry because it was getting dark already. I was in the north wing, instead of walking inside the mall to south wing, I’ve walked outside. When I was approaching the fountain, this sign caught my attention.

I remember my article “Share Your Crumbs” posted last Oct. 1 regarding Pondo ng Pinoy. Children playing around asked their parents for coins to drop them into the fountain. I don’t know if these parents noticed the sign. I thought if they’ve noticed it and understand what Pondo ng Pinoy is all about, they will drop more coins. Thank you, Mr. Henry Sy of SM Corporation for participating in this project.

My Equitable PCI ATM Is Now BDO!

I was waiting for a cash deposit to my Equitable PCI Bank yesterday. The person who supposed to deposit a sum of money to my account informed me that my account had converted already to Banco De Oro account meaning my Equitable account doesn’t exists anymore. This was what the teller told him. duh! If this so, why was that I haven’t received any notice from my branch? Imagine the hassle? If I knew this beforehand, I would not advise that person to deposit it to my Equitable account, I should have use another way of money transfer.

I’ve called up the Equitable hotline (fastphone) immediately, they’ve informed me that eventually the conversion of Equitable accounts to BDO accounts will take place soon, 100%. My branch had converted their accounts last November 10 as what the call center agent told me. She also asked me if I change my mailing address. I did not.

Its confusing already that my account number had changed. I will go to my Equitable Branch first thing in the morning on Monday to know my new BDO account number. I don’t know if they will replace my ATM card… what I know as of the moment is that I’ll go to the same branch I had my account regardless if BDO branch is nearer to my place. Depositors to converted Equitable account should make their deposit transactions to the nearest BDO branch. I wasn’t aware about the BDO and Equitable PCI Bank merge not until yesterday.

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Congratulations, Sinag!

“Sinag” (Filipino word that means sunlight), Philippines’ representative to World Solar Challenge held last October 21-28, 2007 in Australia. Sinag finished the challenge class at 12th place according to the final tally. There are 21 participants from different countries for Challenge Class. This is the first time that Philippines had a representative.

Sinag is a solar powered car. Yup! You read it right, this is another proof of Filipino ingenuity.

The SINAG Solar Car was proudly designed and built from scratch in a record time of less than a year by students from De La Salle University – Manila with the support of Ford Group Philippines, Motolite, Philippine Airlines, San Miguel Corporation, Pilipinas Shell, SunPower, U-Freight, and Ventus. The project is also supported by Aurora, Cabrera Lavadia and Associates, JWT, CreAsia, Merritt Partners, Tuason Racing School, Gochermann Solar Technology, and Stratworks.

Joining the World Solar Challenge will be an extremely grueling endeavor, the Sinag Project Team is not expected to win any award. “We’re not looking to win but to finish the game and prove that we Filipinos can also do it.”

This is the real Pinoy spirit! I always heard this kind of mentality from my second son who’s into mountain biking. It doesn’t matter if you finish the tracks late, strived enough to finished the trail is important, never quit. That’s his mentality since he started mountain biking 4 years ago, he was 10 years then. Well, Sinag had proved so many things from joining to this competition. Even if this was their first time, they’ve managed to finished the challenge.

Glorietta 2, Freak Tragedy?

Speculations from Glorietta shoppers last Friday said that it could be a LPG blast. I thought, it couldn’t be caused by LPG, if it was, fire should follow after the blast. That’s why I didn’t mention that from my article, Are We Still Safe?.

If it was really “industrial failure” or mismanagement, Ayala Corporation should face the consequences. It was indeed an eye opener as I’ve said from my initial entry… for Shopping Malls Managements.

A lot of speculations and heresays to what really happened last Friday, do we have to wait for another Glorietta tragedy to make Filipinos safe? Do we need a freak incident like this to make another law?

As of this writing I’ve remembered Ozone Disco, March 18, 1996 fire incident. After that incident, strict inspections followed to all the establishments. Strict inspection should be done not in Glorietta but to all shopping malls in the Philippines.