By glitch, on April 8th, 2008
Should my title be “Wazzup, Philippines?” I can’t help but react to the present situation. Juan dela Cruz symbolizes filipinos, same as John Doe of US.
The basic commodity prices continues to increase, a regular filipino hardly bought food for the family. How about the less fortunate pinoys, their situation became worst. The skyrocketing price of rice added to their dilemma. Its in the news everyday, price increase of gasoline, rice, raw materials of canned goods etc which naturally the finish product price will follow to increase. There are times that I don’t want to watch news, its always bad news [...]
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By glitch, on January 27th, 2008
Last Thursday, I’ve accompanied my sister to Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in E. Rodriguez, Quezon City to claim her lottery price of php 23,040. It was the price for getting the 5 digits out of 6 digit combination.
It was my usual blogging time when my sister hurried home from work to look for her lotto ticket, at first I thought she was just kidding. I saw the newspaper and her lottery ticket, its true. She asked me to accompany her and bring my valid IDs to claim the price. We were in the PCSO at about 2pm. Validation cut-off is [...]
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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 November 16th, 2007
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 [...]
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