“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government,
so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution
so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
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seems like the last day of registration has to come through this day of the 31st Oct 2009.
i have no doubt that having the final day should always come in this kind of procedure. you can’t really wait forever for most of the procrastinators.
but, looking at it on a more patriotic, or maybe more responsible or just let us say more accommodating way. the deadline should have been extended with better focus on the logistics and number forecasts.
i came doing my own registration in a span of around 2 hours, and looking at it on the initial time that i faced and joined the crowd in the queue. i felt retreating, felt helpless in what could seem a frustrating excercise.
but there is just no way that i would have to fold back and i insisted on my mind that a day would have to be spent for me to get a crack in 2010.
since i may just get to experience this once in a while, i did just observed how it works and found some notable moments.
there were Konsehalas doing their stuff herding and muscling their ways into the line.
there are some special people who seems to have forgotten that the name of the game in voting is one-head-is-to-one-vote — that in the queue, as well, everybody are all equal. almost like an ondoy-reminder that the rich and the poor are just alike in the face of the nature’s wrath.
the timing of finger-registration and photo-pose is at most 90 seconds on the good average but would sometime come close to 4 minutes to some, due to impromptu encoding of new records and sometimes apprehensive looks and feels in this new technology.
almost everybody are friendly to each other except for some righteous ones who seems to be looking at every steps in the most negative way. if i can only speak to them and say — a line is never without a wait, a procedure is not without the time-spent and a voter’s right is not without an effort to spare.
all in all, my registration went by without a hitch and had a nice experience with the Lubao Municipal Hall’s Comelec staff. friendly as they are, they lived up to serve and patiently mowed down the line.
there was a good poster that says ‘if you want to be respected, abide and be the one to show yours first.’ this, i should say is evident in all the people i seen in that municipal hall.
now, if by not extending, did we bump out the procrastinators? maybe not, since by their nature, most of this types of ‘voting procrastinators’ are not really keen on voting, if i should say so.
we may have bumped out mostly the new voters, the busy-ones and all the others who would have tried another time if given a chance.
on this note as well, the issue of closing the voters list way ahead of time before the vote in May of 2010 due to preparation issues do not hold valid anymore… this is a computerized endeavour and no programmer-from-the-old-school will tell you that a patch is a easy as just doing the same routine.
the energy needed is more on the physical registration-logistics… and with the enthusiasm of the registrants, how i wish that an extension should have been thought about.
i came to register and i want to vote… wanting to invite more people in 2010 is but another thing, not my task but my beef.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf
The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.
The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.
grabbed From RowenaReyes (ME AZ-Paglilingkod Member)
“Facing reality sounds simple — but it isn’t. I found it hard to get people to see a situation for what it is and not for what it was, or what they hoped it would be.”
JACK, straight from the gut, page 103 — a Jack Welch liner.
the ads by LBC on the spell out of remittance was already pulled out from the air waves.
it has been so since our DepEd decided in favor of its natural mandate… education.
i can’t argue with that kind of position since, the existence of such ads may truly be alarming to some parents.
but looking at it on a bland perspective, outside of any righteous motive.
i see not much difference from what has always been delivered by the adverstising industry, the focus on getting the audience to recognize the presence of the endorsed product.
there are ways to look at the LBC ads, most admirable maybe is to conclude that it is giving a misleading message…
but, a big but is that the message is a practical and witty play of engaging once thought to be taken in.
i have observed that the ads did not insist on having the tumpak, realistically tumpak… but it gave me the impression that the answer was a witty one given by a child who seems to have a problem with the long and real spelling. his thoughts evolving around his experiences on receipts of such deliveries.
looking at my children, and maybe all the others whom i spoke with in this subject, the alarm is not much about it was the wrong spelling, everybody knows it was incorrect…
the alarm is caused by us being taken in. and yes, the ads did give a lasting impression…
so, you will end up asking… was it really admirable to create a fuss out of a funny-witty play?
that could really be something for some educated positioning or enhanced analysis…
and as we go on with our lives, we have to ask a milk advertiser why they are saying that the other product is ‘dinadaan sa tamis’… ethics do play some roles at the back burners… sometimes.
and if i could only ask a news anchor why he speaks in loud and raging syllables that only him knows and, where he also flutters in unknown ends of his sentences. not much about ‘a pain in your drum’… but he speaks no good tagalog every single day of the weekdays.
food for thoughts, contentious topics can really drown you out… that is what are minds made of.
as i look forward at the tasks ahead
enormous really, streaming up as i tread
the never ending designs, seems going into a head
i have to review, and avoid chaos which i dread.
resting is something that i can choose
what else but think of ways to just muse.
i have to consider all but forward options
those things that are always in upward motion
for there are my Piglets and my Apple,
whom i will work, all throughout that i am able.
i can’t choose not to work in their favour
but more so, because i am filled with ardour.
the tasks are just what i needed now,
i like it, and the greens are just beneath my vow.
but getting it on and pushing for that aspiration.
i cannot help, but rely on my inspirations.
aha, my Piglets and my Apple
i just hope, the provisions are that ample
for i will never be so rich and the most able
my promise? their Papski would forever be dependable
A young man shopping in a supermarket
Noticed a little old lady following him around.
If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at him.
She finally overtook him at the checkout,
And she turned to him and said,
“I hope I haven’t made you feel ill at ease;
it’s just that you look so much like my late son.”
He answered, “That’s okay.”
“I know it’s silly, but if you’d call out
“Good bye, Mom” as I leave the store,
It would make me feel so happy.”
She then went through the checkout,
And as she was on her way out of the store,
The man called out, “Goodbye, Mom.”
The little old lady waved, and smiled
Back at him
Pleased that he had brought a little
sunshine Into someone’s day, he went
to pay for his Groceries.
“That comes to $121.85,” said the clerk.
“How come so much …
I only bought 5 items..”
The clerk replied,
“Yeah, but your Mother said
You’d be paying for her things, too.”
Don’t trust little Old Ladies!!!
source: grabbed from Ray Tuliao’s email
he is undeniably the best pound for pound boxer …
you can bet your last money for him.
there was a time that i rooted for a boxer and had some cloud of doubts on the winnability of my chosen one against opponents.
when Muhammad Ali fought then, it was all about fanatism in me and almost everybody else that i would bet against the odd. his foul mouth was an added power on my young mind then.
when Sugar Ray Leonard was on the ring, i would wish that he can always be dancing to the finish.
Duran will always be my other one, and really hoped that the canvass would not be used as a sleep mat and i was so quite sure about that with him. was even happy when he did the ‘no mas’.
looking at the MoneyMan Pacquiao… i seem not to doubt that everytime he climbs up there… the episode of that corner-kneeling-prayers would always come up in the end.
yes… that is the most that i would wait-on to see.
it is something that i really appreciate in him that he seems to never forget to thank Our Creator each time.
for a common tao like me, the prayers always come before and at the middle of every overwhelming challenge …
and right at the end… the after-meal prayers, seems to be as always, a forgotten one.
i would want to get into it. just when the ‘fruit’ has been given and do my own kneeling right after ‘i got it!’.
he seems to have that purpose in me.
after i clinched a deal, i drink and had been merry.
the moment that i am home after a long journey, i pack everything and rest.
yes, and there is that ‘before-meals’ prayers and not a simple salamat after.
the purpose of Pacman in me is that he showed me the grateful-way with Him.
and i can now start by thanking Him that we have a Pacquiao, whom we can be proud of as a Filipino.
for how can we not thank Him for not having him… there was a time when Mexican boxers are the dreaded ones, you can beat them to a pulp and they would remain standing.
talaga, salamat po sa INYO kay Pacquiao… at Roach na rin!
sa pera ng mayaman at pera ng mahirap…
mga tumpak na kasagutan:
1. marami at kaunti
2. may halaga at kailangan
3. naka impok at kinakapos
4. pang negosyo at panggastos
pinaka tumpak sa lahat:
parang “pepsi” at “coke”
ang pepsi kasi ay MEGA at MAX…
samantalang ang coke ay SAKTO at ZERO.