Wednesday, July 6, 2011

First Aid - Do it


Cramps, come and get it. Who'd want to hear that? Not a well-adjusted with the least tolerance for physical pain, we presume.

Given you're not one with masochistic tendencies, you'd want this kind of crisis nipped in the cursed bud while waiting in line at the hospital, or for the doctor to book you in an appointment.

What are they?


BROKEN BONES

We can't tell when an accident will happen, for us rider it's just ride till dawn.

It doesn't really matter if its a fracture or dislocation, sprain, or the whole orthopedic handbook backwards.

When it hurts on the inside, and we don't mean emotional scars, you briefly yelp in pain, possibly fall to the floor, suck it up like a man and administer first aid.

1. Get some ICE (tig ta-tatlong pisong yelo ay ok na) Durugin sa ulo (I'm just kidding) Ibalot sa damit

2. Assume a comfortable resting position and elevate the body part in question for an easy headlock / rear naked choke if you want him to shut up (Not kidding) hehehe..

3. Minimize movement by supporting the said body part with your jacket or any comfortable objects around.

4. Ice the injured body part and stay that way until the medical reinforcements arrive, or one of your riding buddies decide to take you to them (Hospital)



HEAT CRAMPS


We mostly ride under the scourging heat of sun, we bring tap water but not sufficiently replacing the fluids taken out in out body. If this happens to you. Here's the [B]TIPS[/B]

1. Find somewhere to cool down. Gas stations, Tree shade, karinderia, motel or anything that will hide you from the SUN.

If you're one of these riders who bring the "abaniko" in their UBOX, ofcourse use it.

If you're in the Motel, you need to turn on the airconditioning system ofcourse. It would be better if you're with someone close to you. (Syota bro, hindi co-rider, that's gay)

2. Get hydrated. Preferably with fluids that have electrolytes in them. Yes, that would be GAY-TOREYD (Gatorade) or any drinks in similar.

3. If GAY-TOREYD isn't available, drink something you can make at home or you can make "Hinge" in a near by store or house. Mix half a tablespoon of salt in a quart of water. Drink one or two glasses.

Balaclavas are has also some salty taste after a long ride. But you can't use it. It's , you know, KADERDER!!




CHOKING

Yes, Riders love to eat. After the intense and joyful ride, we always wanted to stop by and eat.

Mang Vic's in Marilaque, Pranjetto, Lomi in Famy, Mushroom burger in Tagaytay, Digman's in Bacoor and a lot more to mention.

We riders ate too much, too fast and too soon. Now We're going to DIE.. (just kidding)
But if only if somebody else can help against. And if you're that somebody, How responsible should you be?


1. The Heimlich. Wrap your arms around the choking person behind and secure both hand just below the chest with least intention of "PANANANTSING" if the choking victim is a girl because under the chest is the JUGS Man...

2. With one fist holding the other, thumb tucked in and turned towards the direction of the party's choking stomach. Pull Pull the trigger , I mean Pull your fist forcibly towards yourself, to the victim's diaphragm (nope, hindi po ito parte ng KARBURADOR).

Nevermind how both of you look like you're doing it, PUBLICLY.

3. Pull the stunt repeatedly until you come, I mean, Until victim un-chokes.




OPEN WOUNDS

Laceration, abrasions, incisions, TOCINO and general "Malayo sa bituka" type of cuts that nonetheless look nastier especially when tear at that flap of supposedly rugged BALAT SIBUYAS skin. Open wounds bleed more profusely than usual - "usual" is when blood stays on your skin, and not drip (DRIP is not for TULO)

1. Pour some alcohol so he'll scream to death, do this if you dont like your ride buddy. (Just playing hehehehe) Find a non stretchy piece of clothing to use as tourniquet.

2. If the cloth isn't already two inches wide, Fold it so it becomes one. (Common sense)

3. Tie a knot just above the would the way you would your shoelaces, minus the bow of course.

4. Call an AMBULANCE.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

MMDA's Smoking Ban


Again, nandito nanaman po ang MMDA at may bago silang pinatutupad na "batas" which is the SMOKING BAN.

Sa unang dinig, napaka ganda ng layunin, siempre wla na tayong maaamoy na usok sa pam publikong lugar.

Ngunit kung susumahin? Aba'y isang malaking katangahan lang pala.

Bakit kamo? Aba'y yung mga smoke belchers po ba eh hindi masama sa kalusugan natin? na 24 oras nag bubuga ng maduming usok sa kalsada,

Maganda pong layunin ang pag papa hinto ng mga naninigarilyo sa kalye. Ngunit gumawa nanaman sila ng alituntunin na parang hindi nanaman nag iisip.

Hindi lamang po ito ang problemang kinakaharap ng bansa natin, ngaung pumasok na ang tag ulan, ang walang katapusang problema sa basura eh hindi pa din nila nasusulusyunan.

Ngaun magpapatupad nanaman ng panibagong batas, eh paano na po yung mga luma na hindi nila napapansin? Baon na lang natin sa limot?

Ganito lang ba ang kayang gawin ng Gobyerno natin? Problema sa Basura, Trapiko, panget na mga imprastraktura, rampant corruption, mga presong nakakalabas sa bilibid just to name a few.

At ang kayang gawin lang ng Gobyerno natin ay i BAN ang condom at ang paninigarilyo?

WOW!! as in..

And meron din pong twitter ang MMDA

@TweetMMDA

Mundials 2011 Results

Filipino Representatives from Different BJJ team:

Deftac - Ribeiro JJ :
Kyle Kapunan
Andrew Laxa
Myron Mangubat
Prof Alvin Aguilar


VPF-Atos Philippines:
Eros Baluyot
Carlo Pena
Ralph Go

Full result will be found here : Mundials 2011 RESULTS

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Paano sumali sa Motorcycle Club?


Sa Pagsali sa MC club, hindi puedeng member ka na kaagad, siempre kailangan mo munang makasama at maka close ang ibang miembro.


Ang pagsali sa club ay hindi para manonood lang ng sine. Na kung gusto mo eh bibli ka lang ng ticket. We build camaraderie, friendship and most of all BROTHERHOOD.


Kaya may "requirements" sa pagsali sa isang grupo at kailangan kang i evaluate ng mga miembro nito. At siempre ganun ka din dapat, i evaluate mo kung maayos ba silang grupo? disiplinado ba? may respeto sa kapwa motorista? etc etc.


Ang Motorcycle Club eh isang pamilya, nagtutulungan, nagkukulitan at nag aasaran. At siempre, hindi naman din nawawala ang tampuhan natural lang yun.


Ang pagsali dito ay pag ko commit na magkakaron ka ng obligasyon sa club at ka grupo mo. Tumulong ng walang pag iimbot sa ka grupo mo at sa ibang pang motoristang nangangailangan ng tulong.


Pag sunod sa batas trapiko at pag respeto sa iba pang motorista na gumagamit din ng kalsada.

Higit sa lahat respesto sa bawat isa.


Dahil ang Motorcycle Club eh hindi basta grupo lamang ng nag mo-motor. Ito ay pamilya. Kung ang pananaw mo sa isang motorcycle club eh isang grupo lang para makipag yabangan sa bawat nilalang na may motor.


Wag ka ng mag aksaya pa ng panahon. Hindi ka bagay dito, dun ka sa grupong ang tanging silbe eh yabangan, yurakan, at iprovoke na makipag karera sa kanila ang ibang riders na hindi man lang isina alang alang ang kaligtasan ng iba.


Kung isa ka sa mga riders na walang respeto sa kapwa nag mo-motor, kung isa ka sa mga riders na natatawa kapag panget at kakarag karag ang motor, kung isa ka sa mga riders na walang pakialam sa mga naka paligid sayo.


Isa kang malaking PUTANG INA MO.. Hindi ka bagay sumali sa grupo. Ang pagsali sa grupo ay pagbuhog sa kakayahan mo bilang rider at hindi pag sira sa sarili mo. Hindi para yabangan ang ibang miembro sa "Husay" kuno mong pagmamaneho.


Ang pagsali sa grupo ay simula ng pagbabago sa pananaw mo kung paano mag-motor. Ang pagsali sa grupo ay simula ng pagkakaroon ng panibagong experience at bagong kaibigan. At higit sa lahat. Bagong mga KAPAMILYA..

Monday, May 23, 2011

Despicable Amnesia - By Elizabeth Lolarga

'Despicable Amnesia'

by Elizabeth Lolarga on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 3:57pm
Oh, the treasures you unearth in forwarded email. This came in today. It contains the chronology of the plunder by Marcos and family.
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TO THOSE WHOSE MEMORIES ARE FAILING, LET THESE BE A REFRESHER.

TO PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN WERE NOT AROUND DURING THE REIGN OF THE MARCOS DICTATORSHIP, IT IS OUR COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY TO EDUCATE OUR KIDS ON THAT DARK CHAPTER OF OUR NATION'S HISTORY, AND TEACH THEM TO REJECT ANY ATTEMPT TO REVISE IT AND DEODORIZE IT BY CALLING THE DICTATOR A "HERO".

In these critical times when efforts are being made to re-write history and sanitizing the record of martial law and the Marcoses, let us cure ourselves of this "despicable amnesia" and get back our sense of righteous indignation!

Charlie Avila, who has not forgotten what the Marcoses did, reminds us, in his CHRONOLOGY OF THE MARCOS PLUNDER, that in…

September 1976: The Marcoses bought their first property in the U.S. - a condo in the exclusive Olympic Towers on Fifth Avenue in New York . Five months later they would also buy the three adjoining apartments, paying a total of $4,000,000.00 for the four and using Antonio Floirendo's company, The aventures Limited in Hong Kong , as front for these purchases.

Oct. 13, 1977: Today, after addressing the UN General Assembly, Imelda celebrated by going shopping and spending $384,000 including $50,000 for a platinum bracelet with rubies; $50,000 for a diamond bracelet; and $58,000 for a pin set with diamonds.

The day before, Vilma Bautista, one of her private secretaries, paid $18,500 for a gold pendant with diamonds and emeralds; $9,450 for a gold ring with diamonds and emeralds; and $4,800 for a gold and diamond necklace.

Oct. 27, 1977: The Marcoses donated $1.5 million to Tufts University in Boston , endowing a professorial chair in East Asian and Pacific Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The students and professors discovered this and forced the school to reject the donation. To save face, the Marcoses were allowed to finance several seminars and lectures.

Nov. 2, 1977: Still at her shopping spree, Imelda paid $450,000 for a gold necklace and bracelet with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds; $300,000 for a gold ring with emeralds and diamonds; and $300,000 for a gold pendant with diamonds, rubies and 39 emeralds.

July 1978: After a trip to Russia , Imelda arrived in New York and immediately warmed up for a shopping spree. She started with paying $193,320 for antiques, including $12,000 for a Ming Period side table; $24,000 for a pair of Georgian mahogany Gainsborough armchairs; $6,240 for a Sheraton double-sided writing desk; $11,600 for a George II wood side table with marble top - all in the name of the Philippine consulate to dodge New York sales tax.

That was merely for starters.

A week later she spent $2,181,000.00 in one day! This included $1,150,000 for a platinum and emerald bracelet with diamonds from Bulgari; $330,000 for a necklace with a ruby, diamonds, and emeralds; $300,000 for a ring with heart-shaped emeralds; $78,000 for 18-carat gold ear clips with diamonds; $300,000 for a pendant with canary diamonds, rubies and emeralds on a gold chain.


After New York, she dropped by Hong Kong where a Cartier representative admitted it was this Filipina, Imelda, who had put together the world's largest collection of gems - in 1978.

May 1979: The Marcos couple celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in a party that cost $5,000,000.00 There was a silver carriage drawn by eight white horses.

Nov. 23, 1978: A house was purchased at 4 Capshire Drive in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (actually near to Philadelphia where Bongbong was taking courses at that time) for use by servants and Bongbong's security detachment. The Marcoses did not neglect their annual real estate purchase. During this year and next year, 1979, they purchased two properties - one at 3850 Princeton Pike, Princeton - a 13-acre estate for use by daughter Imee as she attended Princeton .

The other was a house at 19 Pendleton Drive in Cherry Hill for use of Bongbong and under the name of Tristan Beplat, erstwhile head of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines.

April 1979: In two days in New York this month, Imelda spent $280,000 for a necklace wet with emeralds and diamonds; $18,500 for a yellow gold evening bag with one round cut diamond; $8,975.20 for 20-carat gold ear clips with 24 baguette diamonds; $8,438.10 for 18-carat gold ear clips with fifty-two tapered baguette diamonds; and $12,056.50 for 20-carat gold ear clips with diamonds.

June 1980: For $1,577,000.00 in New York Imelda buys Webster Hotel on West 45th Street . She rewards Gen. Romeo Gatan as a limited partner. Gatan arrested Ninoy at the beginning of martial law.

The insurgents' ranks grew by twenty percent a year.Meritorious officers in the armed forces experienced low moral due to Marcos' penchant for promoting friends over more deserving officers.

Feb. 16, 1986: In Fe's records of monies paid out during Marcos' last campaign, one unusually large item was authorized by "FL" (First Lady) and paid to Assemblyman Arturo Pacificador on this day. A few days later, two carloads
of men drove into San Jose , the provincial capital of Antique. Evelio Javier, head of Aquino's campaign, was watching the votes being counted when the men opened fire and killed Evelio after he was still able to run through town but finally got cornered in a public toilet where he was gunned down in front of shocked townspeople. Pacificador was later convicted of the murder.

Feb. 25, 1986: Marcos fled the Philippines leaving behind a foreign debt of $27 billion and a bureaucracy gone mad. "Cash advances" for the elections from the national treasury amounted to Php3.12 billion ($150 million). The Central
Bank printed millions of peso bills, many with the same serial number. Sixty million pesos in newly printed bills were found in a vehicle owned by Imelda's brother Bejo in the Port Area of Manila, and another Php 100 million aboard the mv Legaspi also owned by Bejo Romualdez.

How massive and humongous a loot Marcos took can be deduced from the known losses he left behind. The known losses he left at the Central Bank included $1.2 billion in missing reserves and $6 billion in the Special Accounts.

Imelda charged off most of her spending sprees to the PNB or Philippine National Bank which creatively wrote off her debts as "unresponded transfers".

Ver also used PNB funds to finance his "intelligence" operations.

The known losses at the PNB amounted to Php72.1 billion.

At the DBP, the losses Marcos left behind totaled Php85 billion; at the Philguarantee, it was Php 6.2 billion ; and at the NIDC or National Investment and Development Corporation (NDC) - the losses amounted to Php 2.8 billion.

These losses were primarily due to cronyism - giving loans to cronies that had little or no collateral, whose corporations were under-capitalized, whose loan proceeds were not used for the avowed purpose, and where the practice of corporate layering was common, i.e. using two or more companies with the same incorporators and officers, whereby one company which gives the loan owns the company which obtains the loan, or similar arrangements.

The cronies enjoyed their closeness to Marcos. With him they formed a Grand Coalition. They participated in the exercise of dictatorship. But Marcos owned them. The wealth of the cronies belonged to him. Because of the free rides taken by Imelda, Marcos and the cronies, the Philippine Airlines was in debt by $13.8 billion.

The conservative Grand Total for losses Marcos left behind (and therefore the kind of loot he grabbed and hid) amounted to $17..1 billion. The Central Bank, the PNB, and other financial institutions badly need an audit. The special review (not regular audit because there seems not to have been any - there are no records anyway) did not uncover Imelda's spending - her name never appeared - and Ver's intelligence fund. The review gave no hint of theft or missing money, only "downward adjustments" and "proposed adjustments" to "deficiencies" and "shortages of money".

Feb. 26, 1986: A few hours after the Marcos party landed in Honolulu , their luggage arrived - 300 crates on board a C-141 cargo jet. It took twenty-five customs officers five hours to tag the bags and identify the contents. The
process was videotaped because of all the money and jewelry found inside. There were 278 crates of jewelry and art worth an estimated US$5 million. Twenty-two crates contained more than Php27.7 million in newly minted currency, mostly P100- denominations worth approximately US $1,270,000.(It was illegal at that time for anyone to depart the Philippines carrying more than Php500 in cash.)

There were other certificates of deposit from Philippine banks worth about US$1 million, five handguns, 154 videotapes, seventeen cassette tapes, and 2,068 pages of documents - all of which were impounded by Customs.

The Marcos party was allowed to keep only US$300,000.00 in gold and $150,000.00 in bearer bonds that they brought in with their personal luggage because they declared them and broke no US customs laws.

There were 24 one-kilo gold bars fitted into 2 0$17,000 hand-tooled Gucci briefcase with a solid gold buckle and a plaque on it that read, "To Ferdinand Marcos, from Imelda, on the Occasion of our 24th Wedding Anniversary. "

February 1986: When Marcos departed the Philippines , the losses in the three Central Bank accounts surpassed Php 122 billion (more than $6 billion). The big bulk of losses was attributed to the RIR account mainly due to two items: forward cover and swap contracts. Forward cover referred to foreign exchange provided by the CB at a fixed exchange rate to importers of essential commodities. Swap contracts referred to CB's receiving foreign exchange from banks in exchange for pesos at the prevailing rate with a promise to deliver the foreign exchange back to them at an agreed future date. There was no mention of losses due to CB transactions in gold or foreign exchange.

Feb. 28, 1986: On this day, Jim Burke, security expert from the US Embassy, was tapping on the wooden paneling in Imelda's abandoned Malacanang bedroom when he heard a hollow sound. It was the walk-in vault. Inside were 35 suitcases secured with locks and tape. They contained a treasure trove of documents about Swiss bank accounts, New York real estate, foundations in Vaduz , and some notepaper on which Marcos had practiced his William Saunders signature. They also contained jewelry valued at some US$10..5 million.

March 16, 1986: Did Marcos steal any gold from the CB? The CB always refused to comment. Why?

Today the LA Times reported that 6.325 metric tons of gold was unaccounted for in the Central Bank. Between 1978, the year Marcos ordered all gold producers to sell only to the CB, and end 1984, the Bureau of Mines reported that 124,234 pounds of gold were refined. But the CB reported receiving only 110,319 pounds during this same period.

That left a difference of 13,915 pounds (6.325 metric tons).

March 1986: Jokingly referring to themselves as the Office of National Revenge, a vigilante team led by Charlie Avila and Linggoy Alcuaz received a tip in the morning that Marcos' daughter Imee had kept a private office in the suburb of Mandaluyong at 82 Edsa. They obtained a search warrant, then rushed to Camp Crame to pick up some soldiers. After devising a plan, they boarded four cars and drove to the premises, arriving around midnight. The soldiers scaled a fence and sealed off the area. Avila , Alcuaz, and their men moved in and found documents in cardboard boxes, desks, and filing cabinets. Gunfire could be heard outside,but it didn't deter the search.

The documents revealed the names of offshore companies and overseas investments of Marcos and his cronies - a late link in the paper trail that had been started abroad by the teams of Avila , Steve Psinakis, Sonny Alvarez, Raul Daza, Boni Gillego, and Raul Manglapus.

March 09, 1986: A Greek-American, Demetrios Roumeliotes, was stopped at the Manila International Airport before he could leave with eight large envelopes stuffed with jewelry that he admitted belonged to Imelda - valued at US$4.7
million.

March 15, 1986: Ernie Maceda, Minister of Natural Resources, revealed today that some 7 to 14 tons of Philippine gold are sold to the Binondo Central Bank annually and then smuggled to Sabah , Malaysia - this gold being part of some 20
tons produced by 200,000 panners all over the country. Maceda's query was whether part of the gold they produced was siphoned to the "invisible gold hoard of Ms. Imelda R. Marcos."

"We deliver to the Central Bank," the miners said. "If it happened (the siphoning), it happened in the Central Bank."

Is it true that Marcos propagated the Yamashita myth to hide the fact that he looted the Central Bank, that its gold bars were melted down and recast in odd-size bars to make them look old (how does gold look old, anyway?). Marcos claimed that he "received the surrender of Gen. Yamashita" after a battle with his guerrilla outfit. History has recorded that Yamashita surrendered to Lt. Co. Aubrey Smith Kenworthy and that there was no battle.

Yamashita's peaceful surrender had been arranged at least two weeks before the event.

In one entry in Marcos' diary he noted, "I often wonder what I will be remembered for in history. Scholar? Military hero…?" In a supreme irony, he did achieve what he so vainly sought - lasting fame - but not in the way he envisioned:

* The largest human rights case in history - 10,000 victims.
* Guinness Book of Records - the world's greatest thief.
* The largest monetary award in history - $22 billion.

Sept. 30, 1986: Questioned by Philippine and US lawyers about his hidden wealth, Marcos took the Fifth Amendment, 197 times. Imelda followed suit, 200 times.

December 1989: An American jury found the Marcos estate liable for $15 million in the killing of anti-Marcos activists Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo. Manglapus, Psinakis, Gillego and other erstwhile exile oppositionists testified at the
trial.

Nov. 4, 1991: Today, a Sunday, the circus came to town. The Swiss Federal Tribunal had ruled the year before that the Philippine government must comply with the European Convention o Human Rights, especially due process. There had to be a lawsuit filed within one year. Thus, the solicitor general's office filed all sorts of cases against Imelda and the government had to allow her to return to answer the charges.

"I come home penniless," she tearfully said on arrival. She then repaired to her suite at the Philippine Plaza Hotel which cost $2,000 a day and rented 60 rooms for her entourage - American lawyers, American security guards and American PR firms.

December 1991: The Central Bank had accumulated losses of Php324 billion in the Special Accounts.

Nov. 30, 1992 The Central Bank; losses were Php561 billion and climbing. Cuisia asked that the CB be restructured. Sen. Romulo asked to see the 1983 audit of the international reserves. He couldn't get a copy. It was "restricted" .

Jan. 5, 1993 Imelda didn't show up for the scheduled signing of a new PCGG agreement. She kept vacillating on the terms and conditions - demanding she be allowed to travel abroad for thirty-three days to confer with bank officials in Switzerland , Austria , Hongkong and Morocco to work out the transfer of the frozen funds.

Actually, she was hoping a guy she had authorized, J..T.Calderon, would be able to move the funds just as the order was lifted, before the government had a chance to transfer them to Manila . When the government discovered the authority, all negotiations with Imelda were halted and her requests for travel suspended.

Aug. 10, 1993: Georges Philippe, a Swiss lawyer of Imelda, wrote today a confidential letter to the Marcoses' old Swiss lawyer, Bruno de Preux, who handled almost all of the Marcos family's hidden accounts in Switzerland . Philippe requested de Preux for the status of:

A $750 million account with United Mizrahi Bank in Zurich; various currency and gold deposits at the Union Bank of Switzerland, at Kloten airport and at Credit Suisse; A $356 million account (now in escrow and worth almost $600 million) which was being claimed by the PCGG.

1994: The human rights jury awarded the victims $1.2 billion in exemplary damages, then $766.4 million in compensatory damages a year after that, for a total of $1.964 billion. Two days after, another $7.3 million was awarded to twenty-one Filipinos in a separate lawsuit.

1995: The US Supreme Court upheld the $1.2 billion judgment.

March 29, 1995: The Swiss Parliament passed a law (an amendment to a previous act) that removed the need for a final judgment of criminal conviction of the accused (such as the Marcoses) in the case of criminally acquired assets which
could now therefore be returned to claimants (such as the Philippine government) by Swiss court order.

July 1996: In part because of the torture of Roger Roxas, $22 billion was awarded to his Golden Budha Corporation.

Dec. 10, 1997: The Swiss Supreme Court promulgated a landmark decision that took into account the March 1995 Swiss Parliament act and the fact that new criminal cases had been filed against Imelda Marcos.

The court held that there was no need for any criminal proceeding; that a civil or administrative proceeding would suffice, and the Marcos Swiss deposits which had been "criminally acquired" can be returned to the Philippines in deference to the final judgment of the Philippine court as to the ownership of these deposits.

The Swiss court also announced that the interest and reputation of Switzerland was at stake if it would become a haven for money launderers laundering money obtained by crime. Therefore, in the case of the Marcos deposits, because "the illegal source of the assets in this case cannot be doubted" the Swiss court ordered that the money be returned to the Philippines to be held in escrow account in the PNB to await the judgment of the Sandiganbayan in the forfeiture case.

By the way, on Jan. 17, 1975 a secret decree not made public until after the Edsa insurrection was signed by Marcos stating that in the event he became incapacitated or died, power would be turned over to Imelda.

On June 7, 1975, in his own handwriting, Marcos amended the January 17th decree and clarified Imelda's role as chairperson of committee with presidential powers.

In February 1979, Imelda was named chairman of the cabinet committee, composed of all ministries, to launch the BLISS (Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services) program, an ambitious attempt to centralize control of all economic and social development. She assumed responsibility for the "11 needs of Man" codified in her ministry's mufti-year Human Settlements Plan,1978-2000.

By 1986, the number of Filipinos living below the poverty line doubled from 18 million in 1965 to 35 million. And the ecological balance of the country had degraded from 75% to 27% forest cover remaining - with 39 million acres of forest falling victim to rampant logging. This was BLISS.

She was also the head of the Metro Manila Commission, which by year-end 1985 had managed to accumulate debts of Php 1.99 billion (which included $100 million in foreign loans) in its ten years of existence. Imelda had accomplished nothing and left the people embittered and even more disillusioned.

In September 1992, Marcos was found guilty of violating the human rights of 10,000 victims. The ruling occurred just after a judge found Imee Marcos-Manotoc guilty of the torture and murder of Archimedes Trajano, a 21 year old engineering student at Mapua who had the temerity to ask Imee after a speech she gave whether the Kabataang Barangay (a national youth group) "must be headed by the President's daughter?"
Imee and brother Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marco, Jr. have been active in the political scene.. Bongbong, who finished 3 terms as Ilocos Norte governor, is now running for Senator under Presidential bet, Manny Villar's senatorial slate.. He has been quoted as saying that if given a chance, he'd like to run for President one day...(gads).

Bongbong is now a Senator, Imelda is governor of Ilocos Norte and Imee is in Congress. The MARCOSES are back in full force thanks to our "despicable amnesia" as aptly described by the eminent writer, F. Sionil Jose.


Elizabeth Lolarga's FB account

Maico Buncio - A Superbike Champ


His untimely death made the whole Motorcycling Community in the Philipines mourn. He had an accident on Saturday while doing a qualifying race in CIS (Clark International Speedway). An Episode by Jessica Soho

http://www.tfcnow.biz/view/16229/jessica-soho-52111/

A Tribute Page of Maico Buncio In Facebok

A tribute to Maico Buncio


"Never stop riding, Coz i Didn't" - Maico Greg Buncio

Memorial thread in Motorcyclephilippines.com/forums

Rest in peace Maico Buncio


How to use a Multi Tester


Ang multi tester ay mahalaga lalo na kung ang hobby mo ay magbutingting ng kung ano anong related sa electronics.

Narito ang isang LINK na magtuturo sa inyo ng pag gamit ng tama sa multitester.

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Multimeter

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Real, Quezon Beach - Experience the Wave not so far from Manila


After Visiting Panguil River Eco Park, Naimbitahan ako ng isang kaibigan na si Janjan Alipayo na taga Cogeo, Antipolo na bisitahin ulit ang Beach ng Real, Quezon.

Makatapos ng kaunting pag papapayag, Umayon na ang aking may bahay at ang aking "excited" na anak na kami nga ay pumunta doon. Pagkatapos ng kaunting pag hahanda kami ay tumuloy na.

Pagdating ng intersection ng Famy galing Paete, ay dapat ng kumanan pa Quezon.

Sa una, maganda pa ang kalsada at smooth naman ang byahe namin. Nung lumaon ay narating na namin ang lubak lubak na parte ng daan.

Take note po, hindi ito rough road, literal na lubak po ito kaya mag ingat po tayo dito. Ito po ay makikita sa boundary ng Laguna at Quezon.

Parang pag nakita mo ang Lubak, Malapit ka na. Hehehehe..

Umalis kami ng Paete sa ganap na alas onse singkwenta'y nuebe (11:59) at kami ay dumating doon ng ala una treinta'y otso (01:38) sa takbong 60kph maximum na sya gawang tatlo kami sa motor.

Nakita ko ang nagimbita sa aking kaibigan nguni't sila ay pauwi na.

Gayun pa man, kami ay tumuloy pa din dahil napansin kong mas excited ang aking may bahay kesa sa aking beachbum na anak.

So ganun na nga at kami ay naligo at nag enjoy.

Hindi gaanong crowded ang lugar, kaya ma e-enjoy mo ang waves, Konting impormasyon tungkol sa lugar.

Unti unti na itong dinarayo ng mga surfer from our country at ganun na din sa ibang bansa.
Unti unti na din itong nakikilala dahil sa ganda ng alon nya from Real to Infanta.

Maka ilang beses na din akong nagawi dito, nguni't siempre ay mas na enjoy ko ito dahil kasama ko ang aking pamilya.

Nakakatuwang panoorin sila habang inaabangan ang waves na natural ng makikita dito.

Hindi rin gaanong madumi ang paligid at napansin kong ang mga basura ay naka tabi.

Mura ang Isda sa palengke ng Real at sariwa ito lalo na pag umaga.

Ang mga resort ay halos tabi tabi na lang din.

Nagsisimula ang magandang buhangin sa barangay tignoan. dahil ang mga nauunang dagat na makikita nyo ay lugar kung saan nakatira ang mga mangingisda, sa madaling salita, komunidad po sya.

Hindi ko na masyadong maalala ang pangalan nung aming resort na napuntahan hindi ko mawari kung star beach o star bay resort.

P25 pesos ang entrance kada tao, ang cottages naman ay ranging from P350 to P900 pesos.
Mejo ok din naman ang CR at banlawan nila. may kahinaan lang ang tubig.

Hindi na namin naranasang magpaluto, ngunit puede pong magpaluto sa resort na ito.


Kung gusto nyo namang ma experience ang nakakatuwang alon sa beach na ito. Napakalapit lamang nito sa Maynila.

At sa aking tingin ay mas mainam ito kesa sa beaches ng Batangas, dahil mas pino at hindi gaanong ganon ka itim ang buhangin nya.

And mas malinis ang paligid nya. Nung huling punta ko sa Nasugbu at matabungkay, nagkalat ang basura at yung iba ay nasa dagat na.

Sana ay magawan ng paraan ng lokal na pamahalaan ng Matabungkay ang problemang yan.

Kung mangagaling kayo sa Maynila itong Real, Quezon - Infanta ay kulang kulang 3 oras lamang kasama ang trapik.

Kung hindi naman kayo nagmamadali, mas maiging silipin nyo rin ang Beach ng Infanta.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Panguil Eco River Park - Ambon Ambon Falls



Ang River Eco Park po ay makikita sa Bayan ng Panguil, Laguna. Ito po ay kinse minutong byahe sa motor kung kayo po ay galing ng Paete, Laguna.

Nitong nakaraang araw ay napag pasyahan namin ng isang kaibigan na si Ralph Maribao na bisitahin ang ipinagmamalaki ng Bayan na ito. Ang tinaguriang Panguil Eco Park River - Ambon Ambon falls.


Abril 23, 2011. Nag text sa akin ang aking kaibigan na nanduon na sila sa Petron Famy, nag reply ako na pumunta na sa bahay at ibinigay ko ang direksyon pagawi ng Paete.

Nagpunta din ang isang kaibigan na nag sponsor ng aming pagkain na si Adonis Paragsa na ang esposa ay taga Magdalena, Laguna naman.

Sa madaling salita eh niluto ko ang kanyang dalang Baboy sa adobong tinuyuan sa bawang at inihaw ko naman ang tilapya.

Kumain kami sa bahay at pagkatapos ay umalis na din papunta sa Eco River Park.

Pagkarating namin kami ay mejo nagulat sa dami ng tao, ayyyy.. Oo nga pala at summer na.
So kami ay nag bayad almost P50 pesos ang isang tao. Ay bata naman ay P22 pesos.

Maganda ang lugar dahil kung mahilig ka sa nature, pasok ito sa panlasa mo.
Mapuno at halos puro kawayan ang paligid.

May hanging bridge na matibay naman kaya wag matakot na dumaan.

May malit na pool na pambata at pang teenager.

At gawang maraming tao ay punong puno ito na halos sardinas na ang labas ng mga naliligo.

Ok naman ang ilog, malinaw ngunit ito ay kulay putik sa ilalim gawa ng mabubulahaw ang tumining na alikabok sa dami ng tao.

Umakyat pa kami sa bandang taas para makita ang Falls ngunit ito ay may extrang bayad pa na P60 pesos.

Ang cottage naman ay Around P200 pesos each.

Pansin ko lang din na sa dami ng tao sa lugar eh napapabayaan na ng ilan ang kanilang basura.. kanina ay marami din akong nakitang plastic na nasa ilog na mismo.

Maganda ang lugar, kung hindi ka naman maselan ay puedeng paliguan ang ilog.
Pero kung ang kutis mo ay mala Kris Aquino ay baka mag dalawang isip ka.

Kung laging ganito karami ang daragsang tao dito kahit hindi mahal na araw eh baka sa loob ng 50 years eh hindi na dayuhin ito dahil sa basurang itinatapon ng ibang nagpupunta dito na walang disiplina.

Kung patuloy nilang gagawin ito ay maubusan tayo ng likas na yamang liguan na katulad nito.

Para po sana sa pamunuan ng Panguil, Laguna. sana ay mabigyan nyo ng pansin ang problemang ito.


Lagi po nating tandaan ang awiting "KALIKASAN" ..

Maraming Salamat po!!!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Check Point sa PILILIA RIZAL


I was flagged down earlier sa may Pililia, Rizal tapat ng resort.

So tumabi ako, nilabas ang lisensya at naghintay ng lalapit na pulis.

Ngunit ang lumapit sa akin ay isang matandang lalaki na nagbebenta ng sticker ng "san Miguel" na nakalagay fiesta May 7,8,9 ..


Ako: pinahinto nyo ako dahil dito?

Matanda: yes, sir.

Ako: magkano to? Para saan to?

Matanda: bente sir, idikit nyo sa motor nyo.

Ako: kung ayaw kong bumili?

Matanda: Ok lang sir.

Ako: Hindi ho bat bawal ito? kasi lahat pinapatigil nyo eh.. pati mga private vehicle para bentahan lang ng sticker na ito. Passes ba ito?

Matanda: hindi naman sir, abuloy lang po sa fiesta namin.

Ako: malayo pa sya sir eh. hindi ba kayo tinutulungan ng lokal na pamahalaan nyo para sa fiesta nyo?

Matanda: meron naman sir, hindi naman sya sapilitan eh

Ako: hindi sapilitan eh lahat pinapara nyo. ayan oh, pribadong sasakyan at truck. pati yung jeep oh..

Matanda: inaalok lang namin sir.

Ako: para saan nga sya? puede ko bang malaman?

Matanda: para sa fiesta nga sir.

Ako: sya, akin na ang isa ng matapos na tayo, baka sabihin nyo eh kuripot pa ako(sabay abot ng P20)




Ang punto ko lang.

Bakit hinahayaan ng gobyerno ng Pililia, Rizal ang ganitong gawain? Checkpoint kuno pero nagbebenta ng sticker.. May kaukulang permit ba yung mga ganito? Hindi kona kasi naitanong eh. Para kasi sa akin eh lantarang pangingikil eh. hindi daw sapilitian pero lahat ng pinahinto nila bumili. ultimo mga jeep..

Lahat pinapara nila para bentahan ng sticker na para daw sa fiesta.

Subukan kong litratuhan bukas yung sticker.

Malaking pera ito sa dami ng nadaan jan.


Kung may mga taga Pililia rizal jan, Baka ma explain nyo naman mga kapatid..

Monday, April 4, 2011

Relays Explained

Relays Explained

Relays are widely used in electrical applications where one circuit is to be energized or turned "on" by the presence of a voltage, provided by another circuit. An example of this is when an Otter switch controls a triggering voltage which indicates that the fans should turn on.

The "switch" in a relay is controlled by an electromagnet. The magnet is used to close the switch contacts on the main circuit. The "switch" part of the relay is usually very heavy duty, while the electromagnet draws little current. This allows a very low current signal to control a very high current device. A relay can be triggered with an electrical pulse as small as 150 milliamps. The switched output can be as high as 30 or 40 amps.

Relays can be "normally closed", "normally open", or both. Normally closed means that when the magnet isn't energized, the switch contacts are closed, and therefore the circuit is on. Normally open means the opposite: when the relay isn't energized, the switch is off. Bosch relays usually have both an "87" and an "87a" contact, which are respectively NO and NC. This design is also called "single pole, double throw", or SPDT for short. The following diagram should make this clearer.


Relay unpowered




Bosch Relay Base Diagram


Relay powered

Connections
The terminals of a relay are defined as follows:

  • 30 is the common or input voltage to be switched.
  • 87a is the normally closed connection. This terminal is hot when the relay isn't energized, it is unpowered the relay is energized.
  • 87 is the normally open connection. Powered only when the relay is energized.
  • 85 is connected to the ground of the triggering voltage.

  • 86 is connected to the positive 12V of the triggering voltage.
Bosch to Lucas Terminal Mapping
Typical Bosch Relay
Typical Lucas Relay



Fan Application
Note: Basic application.

Source
Fan Application


Note: Advanced version. Fan grounds when freewheeling. Fan is on common post.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Las PiƱas City to impose "Number Coding" on motorcycles


Las PiƱas City to impose "Number Coding" on motorcycles
By Brando Bontoc (The Philippine Star)



MANILA, Philippines - The Las PiƱas City council yesterday approved City Ordinance 2011-0401AF "to include all motorcycles in the number coding scheme that is already in effect accross the city".

“This will definitely improve and lessen the traffic congestion on our already congested main road w/c is the Alabang-Zapote Rd" in a statement given by city ordinance author Councilor Alvin Paras.

Las PiƱas City, just south of ParaƱaque City experiences everyday of what could be the worst traffic scenario that you can imagine around the metro. Just on a regular weekday, motorists can travel an eight-kilometer stretch of road between Zapote Las PiƱas to Alabang Muntinlupa and would take up to 2 hours. Adding the pipe laying project done by Maynilad, sometimes it could be worst.

"Our objective is to minimize the effects of the already crowded and congested streets of Las PiƱas" said by the city mayor in a phone interview. "We encourage everyone in Las PiƱas to support this initiative and help improve the flow of traffic in our beloved city" said by the mayor.

Other cities that will soon follow this initiative by the City of Las PiƱas are The City of ParaƱaque, Makati City, Malabon City, Mandaluyong City and Muntinlupa City.

Source:
http://www.philstar.com/

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HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!!!

Kurapsyon at Kompyuterisasyon sa LTO


Isa nanamang makapanindig balahibong balita ang aking nadinig kanina lamang sa TV Patrol.
Ang isa sa pinakamalaking ahensya ng Pilipinas, ang Land Transportation Office, isang departamento na kumikita ng limpak limpak na salapi galing sa mga motorista ay nangangambang bumalik sa "manual" application ang mga mag papa rehistro or mag papa renew ng kanilang mga lisensya kapag hindi nabayaran ang kumulang isang BILYONG pisong utang sa IT company na Stradcom.

Anoooooo????????

Tama ba itong naririnig ko? eh ilang taon na pong Computerized ang LTO and then all of a sudden, eh babalik tayo sa makalumang paraan?

Anu po ang nangyari sa mga income na natatangap nyo jan?

Ilang milyon po ang sasakyang nagpaparehistro sa inyo taon taon? Ilang kotse, truck, bus, jeep, taxi at motor ang nairerehistro sa inyo para magkaron kayo ng ganong kalaking utang.

Dagdag pa ang Libo libong nag a-apply ng lisensya at nag re-renew? Nasan po ang perang napasok sa inyo? At wala po yatang napapakinabangan?

Mailiwanag ko nga lang po, ang departamento nyo po ay tumatangap ng pera, budget mula sa Gobyerno, plus ang mga kinikita nyo pa.

Ngunit sa tinuran nyong yan, na ilang taon nang hindi nyo nababayaran ang mga dapat bayaran sa IT provider nyo, eh nasan po ang perang para jan?

Ay, naku po, wag nyo pong sabihing hindi nyo po alam. Dahil hindi po mangmang ang taong bayan.

At hindi lang po kayo ang may ganyang "transaksyon" sa Gobyerno. Ilang ahensya na din po ang nasaksihan kong kumuha ng Provider para sa Computerization ng kanilang ahensya, tulad na lamang ng Registry of Deeds na ang IT Provider eh mga Indiano.

Ang tanong (in the tune of Shalani in willing willie), Nasan po ang perang nakalaan para sa computerisasyon ng LTO, alangan naman pong wala at kayo ay biglang pumasok na lang sa isang kasunduan na ganyan.

Sa dami ng raket jan sa LTO simula sa paglalagay sa mga officer from application, mga nag papa test drive at iba pang opisyal, eh maliit lang pala yun kumpara jan sa Kompyuterisasyon na yan.

Ang dami dami nyong kabulastugang pinag gagawa at kung ano anong kabaliwan, eh yan palang Kompyuterisasyon na yan eh hindi nyo pa ayos.

Anak ng pating na buwaya!!!!@#$%^&*(!!..

At ngayon, sa Taong Bayan nyo ipapasa ang hirap dahil sa mga ka walanghiyaan nyong yan..
Kayo ang nakikinabang jan sa proyektong yan, at nung nagka ubusan ng perang ibabayad jan sa computerization.

Kayo po ay nangangambang bumalik tayo sa manual license application, abay pati pag re rehistro ng sasakyan ay apektado dito!!

Mahiya naman kayo!!

Tsaka bakit ba lagi kayong naglalagay ng mga taong hindi namankayang patakbuhin ang departamentong yan..

Ano ba ang alam ni Daisy Jacobo sa batas trapiko? sa pag gawa ng mga bagong alituntunin?
Sana naman eh maka pag lagay kayo ng MARUNONG magpatakbo ng ahensya at hindi puro pag papaganda at pag papapogi ang alam.


Bakit hindi nyo muna ayusin ang pagkuha ng lisensya, pag hihigpit sa mga bagong applikante? pag bibigay ng tamang edikasyon sa mga bagong applikante ng sasakyan.

Ano ang mga dapat gawin at tandaan.

Sa madaling salita, wala kayo nun.. Puro kayo pahinge ng pera...

Tama na, kawawa naman ang mga taong bayan..

Ngaun sa kabulastugang kayo ang may gawa, TAONG BAYAN nanaman ang mag sasakripisyo kapag natuloy at pag papatigil sa computerisasyon ng departamento nyong corrupt..

Land Transportation Office Website

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Open PIPE law, Bakit napaka LABO nito?


Open pipe? Ano ba ang "sa tingin" nyo bakit madaming riders ang nagamit nito?
Sabi ng iba, para maging aware ang mga tao na may paparating na motor, ganun din sa sasakyan.
Sa iba naman eh "dagdag" power daw at hindi mainit sa makina lalo na kapag modified na ang cylinder or BORE kung tawagin ng iba..

Ano man ang dahilan nila eh sa kanila na yun.

Maraming nagamit nito ay walang konsiderasyon lalo na kapag gabi, ang mga walang aral na mga bagitong rider eh kung maka hataw sa malilit na daanan eh ganun ganun na lang.

So in return eh magaalit ang mga tao, dun na nadadamay ang buong komunidad ng pag mo-motor.

Sa makati unang umalingawngaw ang city ordinance na bawal ang naka open pipe. Maraming riders ang naging biktima at palagatasan sa batas na ito na originaly ay hindi dumaan sa public hearing.

Well, kung ang tawag nila sa mga konsehal at ilang tao na hindi lalagpas sa 50 at walang imbitadong galing sa motorcycle body eh "PUBLIC HEARING", deskripsyon nila yun.

Subalit itong ordinansang ito ay ipinapatupad ng illegal, bakit nga po ba?

Sila ang nanghuhuli ng walang tamang gadget para malaman na lumabag nga sa batas ang ingay ng tambutso!!!

Itong mga yellow boys ng makati o MAPSA eh nireredondo lang nila ang silinyador para masabing maingay ang TAMBUTSO..

Aba. aba. aba... MALI po yun mga ginoo.. ito po ay ginagamitan dapat ng "decibel meter/gauge" para po malaman natin na lagpas nga sila sa itinalang sukat ng ingay..

AT ito po ay dapat pinapatupad hindi lamang sa mga nag mo-motor.. ang batas pong yan ay hango lang naman sa pinatupad na batas ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos noong 1972

i quote
"1. That it shall be unlawful for the owner or possessor of any motor vehicle to use or attach to his vehicle any siren, bell, horn, whistle, or other similar gadgets that produce exceptionally loud or startling sound, including domelights, blinkers and other similar signalling or flashing devices."

kung babasahin nyo po nung panahon na yan eh sa other gadget tayo pasok..
Ngaun naman po, naglabas ng isang dokumento sa Cebu na "naglilinaw" daw sa pinag kaiba ng open pipe sa after market mufflers.

Disclaimer, this is funny as hell...


Nabasa nyo po ba?

heto po ang regarding sa aftermarket pipes.

Mufflers - A device that reduce noise and used with
an internal combustion engine


1. motor vehicle exhaust system is composed of exhaust
manifold, exhaust pipe, muffler (noise reduction device)
and for some with catalytic converter


2. driver/operator flagged down operating a motor vehicle
without of defective muffler shall be issued a ticket
for the violation. Defective muffler has visual defects
missing internal components like silencing asbestos, inner tube

3. after market exhaust mufflers are allowed

My Answer:

Number 2, Defective muffler has visual defects
SO if ever sumemplang ang riders, or bumagsak ang motor at mejo nayupi ang tambutso, titiketan na ba ako agad? visual defect daw kasi hindi po ba?

Number 3, after market pipes are allowed.
Ito po ang malabo, kung allowed po ang after market pipes, bakit marami pa ding pong nahuhuli regarding sa what they called "open pipe"?

Napaka labo po nitong ruling na ito regarding sa pipes, unang una, ito po ay dapat iniimplementa hindi lamang sa naka motor, dahil ito pong batas na ito ay ginawa para sa kotse, bakit ang naka motor lang lage ang gatasan ng mga buwayang naglipana hindi lamang sa Makati pati na din sa ibang lugar tulad ng Pasig at the Fort.

Hindi po ba magkakaron ng "uniform ticketing" sa buong bansa? kung saan isang sistema lang at presyo ng tubos ang ipapatupad?

napaka gulo po ng systemang pinapatupad nyo..
Naturingang kayo po ang mas edukado sa tingin ng iba, kayo pa po yata ang walang mga utak..

LTO, kelan po ba tayo gagawa ng aksyon sa bulok nyong systema?
Abay, hahayaan pa po ba nating pagtawanan tayo ng iba? Bulok na bulok na po ang departamento nyo eh.. baka balak nyong mag pa "fresh" ng konti sa simulaing UNIFORM TICKETING SYSTEM.


at siempre kung nakakabili ang ibang departamento ng speed gun para sa commonwealth, bakit po hindi maka iskor ang LTO ng decibel gauge para sa mga nanghuhuli na walang basehan kung hindi bombahin ang silinyador ng motor..


Napaka laking pera po ang napasok sa departamento nyo eh mukhang diretso lang sa bulsa ng mga namamahal diyan ang kinikita..

BAka lamang po.. nang TUMINO TINO ANG BATAS TRAPIKO SA BANSA NATIN..

Friday, February 18, 2011

10 things you need to know when driving in Metro Manila

http://ph.yfittopostblog.com/2011/02...r-should-know/


QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA — For first-time drivers in the metro, here are some helpful tips that you ought to know to drive wisely in the road, according to Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Francis Tolentino.

The list is published by MMDA to educate drivers and motorists of their rights and to know what an enforcer must or must not do. The MMDA encourages drivers to print out a copy and place it in the vehicle for easy reference.

1. MMDA enforcers are not allowed two work in groups of two, especially when apprehending a motorist, except for special operations like running after colorum buses.

2. Swerving or changing lanes is not a traffic violation. But it becomes a reckless offense if done carelessly and without the use of hand signals. A list of traffic violations and penalties is also available at the MMDA website.

3. Private vehicles cannot use the yellow lanes in EDSA except when they are about to turn, provided that they started shifting lanes using the transition lanes some 50 meters away from an intersection. Only city buses are allowed to use the yellow lanes (first and second lanes in EDSA) while provincial buses must use the third lane.

4. Before apprehending, the traffic enforcer should flag down the vehicle and lead it to the roadside where it will not obstruct traffic. The traffic enforcers should courteously inform the driver of his violation.

5. Traffic Enforcers are not allowed to ask drivers to alight from their vehicles during apprehension for a violation. Most importantly, traffic enforcers must not ask or receive bribe money.

6. A driver’s license cannot be confiscated by a traffic enforcer during apprehensions unless you commit administrative violations or are involved in a traffic accident that require attending a minimum two-hour of seminar at the Traffic Academy.

When your license is confiscated, the enforcer must inform you of the reason and ticket validity. Refusal to surrender your driver’s license can result in the detachment of your plate.

7. Apprehended drivers can ask the traffic enforcer’s mission order from the MMDA Central Admin Office. The order includes his area of responsibility, time of duty, official function and whether he is authorized to issue tickets.

8. Traffic enforcers should issue a traffic violation receipt (TVR) in complete uniform, with visible nameplates, and without delay or argument on the road.

The enforcer can issue another TVR for the towing fee. If the owner of the impounded vehicle fails to release his vehicle after payment of the fine, the officer shall issue a separate TVR indicating the number of days the vehicle remained at the impound area.

9. When apprehended, a driver can show these valid IDs: plastic card ID, temporary driver’s license, temporary operator’s permit, international driver’s license, and foreign license.

10. Know the MMDA hotlines and contact details to report erring personnel. To report duty violations of MMDA traffic enforcers, report his name and submit a complaint within five days of the apprehension to the Traffic Adjudication Board (TAB), MMDA Bldg. Edsa cor. Orense St. Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City.

You can also e-mail complaints against erring enforcers to email@mmda.gov.ph and attach photos or videos and details of the incident.

When involved in an argument with an enforcer, call or text the MMDA hotline 136. Or contact the Metrobase at 0917-5618711 to send inspectors where the argument is occurring for investigation.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Vice President Jejomar Binay Finally allowed by the Chinese to visit Beijing

MANILA, Philippines - After being initially turned down, China has finally agreed to allow Vice President Jejomar Binay to visit Beijing. This is a last ditch effort to salvage the lives of three Filipino OFWs who are set to be executed due to drug trafficking in China.

The message was relayed through the Philippine Embassy in Beijing, stating China's readiness to receive vice president Binay.

The vice president will leave Friday morning at 7:15 a.m. and is set to meet up with the president of the Supreme Court and the Chinese Executive vice foreign minister on Saturday.

It may be recalled that earlier today, Binay's request was denied by China. China stated that the vice president's visit would be inappropriate at this time.

Two Filipino OFWs are set to die by lethal injection this Monday in Xiamen while another is scheduled for Tuesday in Shenzhen.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Ultimate Fighter Philippines!! Watch out!!

Dana White Says 'The Ultimate Fighter Philippines' Will Be the Start of TUF's Global Expansion


Mark Munoz, after training with Boxing Champ, Nonito Donaire -- Could he be a coach for the upcoming "The Ultimate Fighter Philippines"?

Mark Munoz, after training with Boxing Champ, Nonito Donaire -- Could he be a coach for the upcoming "The Ultimate Fighter Philippines"?

For years now, Dana White has been talking about a global expansion for their long running reality show, The Ultimate Fighter. He's talked about bringing the show to Brazil, Canada, and even Abu Dhabi for the longest time, and while most people thought the UFC president was just talking about his grand plans and pipe dreams, it looks like it is finally going to happen. On the UFC 127 and UFC 129 conference call (Transcribed by Sherdog), White talked about bringing the show to Asia on 2011, with the first host country being the Philippines:

"The Ultimate Fighter is gonna start airing in every country. We’re gonna start doing ‘The Ultimate Fighter UK’, ‘The Ultimate Fighter Canada', ‘The Ultimate Fighter Philippines’. We’re doing it everywhere."

"This year. I’m pretty sure the first one’s probably gonna be the Philippines."

The Ultimate Fighter has been one of the longest running reality shows in America, and it has successfully produced a myriad of UFC stars. Aside from the sudden jolts of fan interest on seasons featuring guys like Kimbo Slice, and now Brock Lesnar, the general perception on The Ultimate Fighter though is a bit bleak. Most think that after more than 12 seasons, the format is getting stale and the talent pool of 'TV friendly' fighters is thinning. This though, isn't where the international edition of TUF is lacking.

Outside of the United States, there is an untapped market for MMA, and with the massive marketing machine that is The Ultimate Fighter, Dana White knows he can create and develop new stars from the international talent pool:

"What’s happening is, as this sport becomes more popular in all these different countries now, there’s a lot more talent coming up. Believe me, there’s a lot of guys out there that are coming up. We’re doing nothing but cultivating new talent."

No official date has been announced for the 2011 debut of TUF Philippines, but BloodyElbow.com has been informed that while there are details that are still needed to be ironed out, the legwork is already being done and they are confident that it will be finalized soon.

UFC officials have been talking to ABS-CBN, the host network which has a TV deal with the UFC, for months now, and sources close to the URCC, the Philippines' top MMA promotion, have also told us that the head of UFC Asia has already set up meetings with the URCC brass to possibly talk about the participation of some of the top Filipino fighters in the show.

The UFC has made plans of hosting a show in the Philippines before, even sending Brandon Vera and Chuck Liddell on separate promotional tours to the country a few years back. Both events were huge successes with both fighters being swarmed by several thousand Filipino MMA fans, but plans didn't push through with Dana White citing "sponsorship problems" during the global financial crisis. Now, with the steadying economy, and the still growing rabid fanbase - as evidenced by Georges St. Pierre's visit to the Philippines - the country could be ready once again for a UFC invasion. The first step, The Ultimate Fighter Philippines.


Source: TUF Philippines


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We do have a lot of great fighters here in the Philippines, We have Edward Folayang, Froilan Sarenas, Sabah "The Persian Warrior" Fadai who recently won as the Martial Combat champion, Former light heavy champ Caloy Baduria and a lot more.


One question is, who will gonna be the coaches?

Alvin Aguilar? or UFC will bring Mark Munoz and Brandon Vera to coach the TUF Philippines?

I really hope this one will pushes thru, so pinoy fighters can step up and fight in the Octagon.

Banning of Plastic will not gonna help US. RECYCLING is the answer!!




Making do without plastic On a weekend afternoon at the Festival Mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa, shoppers adjust to a small, but basic, change in their routine. City Ordinance 10-109 banning the use of plastic bags has taken effect earlier that week.

Shoppers have to put their purchases in the bags they have brought from home or buy reusable bags that don’t come cheap. Supermarket customers have the option of having their goods put in boxes.


Buyers and sellers alike cope with the change in varying degrees of success. The ban on plastic bags is not a novel concept. More advanced countries, especially European ones, have been practicing it for years.

Singapore has its bring-your-own-bag day. Generally, shoppers have to pay for plastic bags if they insist on using them.
The objective is to lessen the amount of plastic used and thrown into the trash. Plastics are non-biodegradable and emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The high level of greenhouse gases, in turn, is responsible for global warming and the resulting climate change.
While the Philippines is a low carbon emitter compared to other countries, the widespread use of plastic materials still do us immediate harm. Our mountains of trash, for instance, contain plastics that block our waterways and worsen the flooding that we have to contend with. *** A sheet of paper bearing salient points of the ordinance is printed in color, laminated and put on display at the entrance of a clothing store at the mall.

“Where do I put my shirt if I decide to buy one from you?” I ask. “Your bag is big, ma’am,” says the male store clerk, in Tagalog. “Surely it will fit there.”
I next talk to a bookstore cashier. “Oh we just don’t wrap purchases of our customers anymore,” she says, a bit apologetically. She points to a man who has just bought three ball point pens. “See? We just hand him the receipt and he puts the pens in his pocket.” I try to be insistent.

What if I buy a dozen notebooks, I tell her, and I’m only carrying a purse? The bookstore clerk pulls out a big, red fishnet bag from underneath her seat. “Then you can get this bag for only P65. The great thing is that you can use it every time you shop.” All the plastic bags in the fiery red that the bookstore is known for are still stacked on shelves below the cashier’s wrapping area. I wonder how the store would get rid of those. “Can’t you really spare me a plastic bag? I don’t want to buy this fishnet thing,” I ask, pointing to the stack of unused plastics. The girl starts being impatient. “Ma’am, if I do that, my manager will be penalized.”
I am led next to a kiosk selling branded chicharon—by my nose, more than by any strategic plan on how to work the mall.

I saw that the cooked stuff was packed and sealed in a transparent plastic container. I ask the vendor what will happen if I decide to buy: would he pry open the seal and transfer the chicharon to a paper bag? He smiles. “Of course not. The freshness will go away. This kind of plastic is allowed,” he volunteers, pointing to the transparent container. I am not a woman of science and neither, I suspect, is he, so I decide against asking him to explain why this particular kind of plastic was “allowed.”

However, instead of putting the purchased chicharon in a sando bag upon purchase, he put it inside a brown paper bag.
Residents of Muntinlupa City had one year to prepare themselves for the transition. The ordinance was passed in January of 2010, when it was also determined that the local law would be implemented January 18 this year. It appeared to me, too, that sellers in the mall had been briefed well by their employers about the ban.

Well, almost all of them. I approached the take-out countcfber of a popular local fastfood chain and asked where they would put my food if I decide to have it taken out. “In a plastic bag, of course,” beamed the takeout crew, a short, happy-looking young man. I was perplexed. “But won’t you charge me extra for the plastic bag? Aren’t they banned in this city?” Mr. Jolly seemed amused at my sense of compliance.

He said, “Sa iba lang ho bawal yang plastic na yan. Dito sa amin, pwedeng pwede (It’s only others than ban plastic bags. Here with us, they’re okay).”
Roselyn, a thirty something working mom who lives in Barangay Alabang, says she was not aware of the one-year “adjustment/phaseout” period given to residents and businesses to get used to the idea. “But of course, I understand what it is for, so I don’t mind. I am only too happy to comply.”

She worries though how other residents of the city would react to the ordinance if it were suddenly sprung upon them and they don’t know exactly why such is being done. “I have not been to the public market recently but my mother has, just this morning, and she came back with colored sando bags containing her purchases,” she adds.

Indeed, the ban may have been easier to implement in the malls because businesses generally want to show that they are earth-friendly and law-abiding. But what about those who have become so used to using plastics?
She wonders, for instance, how sellers of meat and fish in the wet market can adjust to the ordinance. Where will they put their sold goods?

They cannot use the permitted kind of plastic, or a special type of paper, which would likely be more expensive. “I think the local government needs to work harder on alternatives for these very small, mom-and-pop businesses, as well as for ordinary folk who use plastics to gather their kitchen trash, not out of apathy to the environment but out of habit.”


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At Festival, the change is apparent by the end of the first week of the implementation of the ban. More people are carrying paper bags and even look proud doing so. Those pushing carts from the grocery into the parking lot use boxes and bags as well.

We have no idea what goes on in areas that are less informed. Education thus needs to be sustained, especially since the ban is not a fad or passing fancy but a long-term attempt to change people’s perception and habits.

It is easy to announce the implementation of a ban but the tougher gauge—whether people understand what it is for and whether they comply because they understand despite the inconvenience of changing their habits —is not as easily available.
The local government also has to make sure that businesses comply regardless of their profitability, tax contribution to the city and owners’ connections that may embolden them to think they are beyond the reach of the ordinance.

Finally, while the present crop of officials at city hall deserve credit for their political will in implementing the ban, in no way should they act as though they had a copyright to this great initiative.

In fact, the challenge is how to maintain the zeal and consistency in influencing the public’s habits across different administrations, over time.


Then again, this is only Muntinlupa. I wonder whether other cities and municipalities are coming up with a similarly worthy move one of these days.


This was written by adellechua@gmail.com

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I just wanna quote that last phrase in RED, before Muntinlupa. Paete, Laguna implemented the total banning of plastic bag usage.

I actually debated to one of the Councilor, that banning of plastic is not gonna really help. WHY?

There are some instances that we really need to use plastic bags like for example, buying a fresh meat from the wet market, buying tofu's etc. etc.

So, getting these stuffs will be needing plastic bags because this products are most of the time are fresh / wet.


So, on that case, banning of plastic is already not effective.
So this is just another Publicity stunt for them. We call it "Pogi Points".

Proper waste disposal and Proper waste segregation is the answer, not banning the usage of plastic bags.

If we can properly dispose it, then we can recycle it.. That's the answer. I hope these "politicians" will be using their heads the next time they implement a ruling / ordinances.


RECYCLING IS THE ANSWER!!!!!



a cool discussion from MCP

Banning of plastics in Muntinlupa

Happy, Yipee, Yehey! Versus Eat Bulaga



By Ed Sicam

Two blogs ago, I wrote that ABS-CBN’s new noontime show, “Happy, Yipee, Yehey!,” (it premiered last Saturday) would have a difficult time dislodging GMA-7’s more established “Eat Bulaga” from its number one position. On Monday, February 14, I sat through two hours and 15 minutes of “HYY” and these are my observations.

The show started with images straight out of Willie Revillame’s “Wowowee”: Dancing girls in red (in keeping with Valentine’s Day), the hosts, almost a dozen of them, rushing in and dancing to the theme song, the audience being fired up to join the merriment, and finally some audience members going onstage to dance one by one and getting P500-P2,000 for their effort.

The opening segment was a “Wowowee” trademark that “Eat Bulaga” also copied, then dropped after a while. I suppose it was meant to get viewers in the studio and at home excited about the show. The “HYY” song was not as catchy as the “Wowowee” signature tune.

Next came the first game. Assorted items like toothbrush, lunch box, broom, etc were hidden in three display cases and covered by curtains. Contestants had to locate the desired item when the curtains were drawn. It was like finding a needle in a haystack except the items were much bigger. It started with 12 contestants until only one remained for the jackpot prize of P50,000.

For this, he had to find five items in one minute. The finalist got one item wrong but with host Mariel Rodriguez’s help, he was able to replace it with the right one. I thought that was unfair. As a TV game, this did not register well on the screen as the camera could not catch the action for the viewers to appreciate.

Deviating from the games, “HYY” presented a spoof of the primetime drama “Mara Clara”: about babies switched at birth that was not funny at all. The usual slapstick elements--guys dressed as girls, overacting talents, exaggerated fight scenes—did not tickle my funny bone. This was followed by a musical number featuring Matteo Gudicelli and Maja Salvador. Matteo has the potential to make it as a singer.

Then the biggest prize being offered that day was announced P100,000, if the contestant could shoot a small ball into a goldfish bowl from about ten feet away. It reminded me of “Minute to Win It,’ a US game show featuring challenges using ordinary objects. I understand Solar is going to do a local version. An elderly woman was given three chances to win the top prize but she failed and got a consolation prize of P10,000.

If “Eat Bulaga” has its “Juan for All’ where the program gives away money to a lucky household outside the studio, “HYY” has “Ikaw Ang Bida” where a contestant is chosen at random. Last Monday, “HYY” went to Marikina where the first person to buy roses from a chosen flower shop got to join the contest.
The lucky person then had to undergo several tasks to win the top prize of P50,000. For the final task, the chosen one, a guy had to put on lipstick and kiss 10 girls on the brow in one minute. This was an easy task as there were school girls in the audience willing to be kissed. The guy won the top prize. Unlike “Juan for All” where a lucky household won large amounts without joining a contest, “Ikaw ang Bida” only had one winner and he needed to complete several tasks.

In another game where the hosts were the contestants, they had to transfer a coin using only their brow to pass it on to the next person. Again, this was something that “EB” did where hosts competed against each other in different games.

Of the many hosts on the show, the ones that created an impression on me were Toni Gonzaga, who maintained her vivacious persona throughout the show and Mariel, who was just as kikay as Toni. The guys, John Estrada and Randy Santiago, were not impressive. Hasn’t the network learned from previous shows where John and Randy were co-hosts? Didn’t they cancel the shows these two hosted? Repartee is one of the ways John and Randy can improve their hosting. The writers have to come up with something more kwela for them to say. Bentong has a funny face but the writers have to give him something funny to do.

Overall, I would say that “HYY” is much better than “Pilipinas Win na Win” but needs to come up with really inventive and unique ideas to compete with “EB.” Introducing games that involve more contestants is also a way to distribute more prizes that will attract a bigger audience. Of course, what I monitored was just the second show. It will take several months before we can judge its competitive strength.

Photo by Voltaire Domingo, NPPA Images

Source: Yahoo blog of Ed Sicam

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Well, Sir Ed Sicam and me almost has the same observation.

Here's some of my thoughts

HYY is trying hard to be a noontime show.

Most of the concepts are actually from Willie Revillame's defunct show "Wowowee" and GMA 7's Eat Bulaga.

Well, we can't blame them, some of the writers are still working on abs-cbn.


As we know, that the benchmark of noontime shows here in the Philippines is Eat Bulaga, so probably most of the new comers will actually get a concept and they will just change it for the people will not gonna recognize it. But still, it came from EB.

Pera o bayong AFAIK was from pepe pimentel's Kwarta o Kahon

EB's version was Meron o wala.

There's a lot of noontime shows that abs-cbn handled, Magandang Tanghali Bayan, Sang Linggo Na Po Sila (before ASAP, There was Sa Linggo na po sila) and Eat Bulaga was also a former abs-cbn, but the rumors was, abs-cbn wants to "BUY" Eat Bulaga, so they are forced to jump into another Channel which is GMA-7.

A little trivia, before GMA-7, EB was in Abs-Cbn. But before ABS, Eat Bulaga was aired at RPN 9.

Lastly, we can't actually blame them for "robbing" the concepts of a noontime show, because even thou it's "their" intellectual property, it's not registered to them.

As far as i know, i still stand that Eat Bulaga, is "their" Benchmark for noontime show concepts.