Month: December 2012

Meet an honest person

Published by Ellen on December 30, 2012

Update: Jason texted me yesterday that All Around Services and Merchandising renewed his job contract. He was so thankful and happy.

I finally met the guy who found my cell phone and turned it over the Customer Service of Southmall. He is truly admirable.

Jason Miranda, 25, a janitor employed with All Around Services and Merchandising Corporation, services provider to companies, is assigned at Southmall in Las Pinas.

He said he found my cell phone on the floor near Counter 20 in the Supermarket. It must have fallen off my bag when I stooped to pick up the grocery paper bag that I dropped. I thought I was a victim of a pickpocket much more so because I returned to Counter 20 when I discovered that my phone was gone and the cashier said no phone was left there.

This happened about 3 pm of Dec. 19.

Jason said he immediately turned over my cellphone to the Customer Service of Southmall Supermarket. A lady called me up Friday morning, Dec. 21, to inform me that they have my cell phone. She said they looked at my phone directory and found my residential landline. She also said someone attempted to claim the phone but couldn’t give the number when they asked him. It just shows that as there are good people like Jason, there are also bad elements quick to seize opportunities to profit from the misfortune of others.

Have a meaningful Christmas!

Published by Ellen on December 24, 2012

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal…

Anti desaparecidos na batas: makabuluhang pamasko ni Pangulong Aquino

Published by Ellen on December 23, 2012

Urban Poor Solidarity week Dec 12 2012 — A meaningful gift to families of desaparecidos and to the Filipino people.

Malaking bagay na pinirmahan ni Pangulong Aquino ang Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012 noong Biyernes, Disyembre 22, isang araw bago ang deadline.

Kung hindi niya pinirmahan yun, magiging batas rin naman ang bill by default. Ngunit maganda na pinirmahan niya. May tatak na personal siya doon sa batas.

Mag-isang buwan na ang bill na yan sa Malacañang, isang malaking bagay rin na nakarating dun dahil katagal-tagal na yan na i-file. Anim na Congresses na ang nakalipas at ngayon lang naka-usad at nai-pasa sa House of Representatives at sa Senado.

Pamasko talaga: Salamat kay Jason Miranda ng Southmall

Published by Ellen on December 22, 2012

The incident with my cellphone has become a beautiful Christmas story:

Nativity — “”Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.- Psalms 23.6

Marami pa rin talaga mabubuting tao sa kabila ng maraming kasamaan na nakikita natin sa ating paligid.

Isa na dyan si Jason Miranda,na nasa maintenance ng Southmall sa Las Pinas na nagbalik ng aking Blackberry cellphone noong Miyerkules.

Noong Miyerkules ng hapon, bago mag-alas tres ng hapon, dumaan ako sa supermarket ng Southmall para bumili ng plastic na lalagyan ko ng crema de fruta.Nakalimutan ko kasi ito nang namili ako noong isang linggo.

Doon ko huli ginamit ang aking cellphone. Habang nakapila ako sa cashier, nag-check ako ng mga messages. Mula sa supermarket, pumunta ako sa National Book Store para bumili ng mga libro para sa mga anak ng aking mga pamangkin.

What to do when you lose a cellphone

Published by Ellen on December 20, 2012

pickpocket at work — Pickpocket at work. Thanks to On the Road website.

I lost my cellphone to a pickpocket at Southmall, Las Pinas the other day.

I was queuing at the Supermarket cashier with a few items for crema de frutta that I was going to make for friends. While waiting for my turn, I brought out my cellphone to check on some messages.

From the grocery, I went to the National Book Store to buy some books for my grandnieces and nephew. To make sure that they have not yet read the books that I was going to buy, I thought of calling their Mom. That’s when I found out that my cellphone was gone.

I’m really puzzled how the thief could have found an opportunity to pick my bag because I was wearing a body bag. But looking back, there was a brief moment when I had difficulty closing my bag because of zipper problems and I dropped my bag of groceries. Someone helped me with them and I even thanked him.

Will Aquino use his political clout for the FOI bill?

Published by Ellen on December 19, 2012

Right to know2 — Thanks to Interaksyun for this photo.

With a commanding popularity, hardly dented by controversies and bungling, President Aquino’s push makes a lot of difference in passing the most difficult legislations.

We have seen it in the last few weeks.

His certification of the Reproductive Health bill as urgent last week facilitated the passage of the measure which was vigorously opposed by the intimidating Catholic Church.

A few weeks ago, Congress also passed the Sin Tax Reform bill which cigarette and alcoholic drinks companies, with huge lobby money, were blocking.

How serious is this latest jueteng noise?

Published by Ellen on December 16, 2012

The P10 million a month Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino, Jr.

Jueteng investigations come and go but the illegal numbers game is flourishing as ever.

News reports about Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino, Jr. as a jueteng lord is nothing new. On Sept. 20, 2010, retired Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz gave the Senate committee investigating the illegal numbers game a list containing 12 names of jueteng lords, operators and recipients of payola which he said his group, Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Jueteng, had cross-checked with several sources including those with the Philippine National Police and the Department of Interior and Local Government.

Espino’s name was there together with that of two people close to President Aquino: former Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Rico E. Puno and former Philippine National Police chief Jesus Verzosa, touted to be the next DILG secretary but had to retire early due his negligence in the Aug 23, 2010 Rizal park hostage-taking fiasco.

Buhayin ang magandang tradisyun ng Pasko; ingat sa manloloko

Published by Ellen on December 15, 2012

Pasko na talaga. Simula na ng simbang gabi.

Maganda naman at buhay na buhay pa rin ang tradisyun ng simbang gabi, ang misa sa medaling araw. Paglabas mo ng simbahan, nandiyan ang puto-bumbong at bibingka.

Dito sa Manila, kape ang mainit na inumin. Three-in-one na. Sa probinsiya, salabat. Yung may kaya, tsokolate na malapot kasama ng ibos-suman at mangga. Ang sarap. Tamang-tama sa malamig na simoy ng hangin.

Ang ginagawa pa namin noon, nagsisindi ng mga naipon na basura na kadalasan ay dahon ng mga puno. Upo kami doon sa paligid ng apoy at magkwentuhan habang umiinom ng salabat o kape. Ang kape doon, kung hindi barako, kape ng bigas.

What’s Pacquaio take on his men’s boorish actions?

Published by Ellen on December 13, 2012

Michael Koncz grabs photographer's shirt — Michael Koncz grabs photographer’s shirt

Manny Pacquiao should be asked what he should do with his confidante and assistant trainer Buboy Fernandez and adviser Michael Koncz who assaulted photojournalist Al Bello who was taking a picture of Pacquiao unconscious after he was knocked out by Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez.

The deplorable incident was captured on camera by Chris Cozzone and can be viewed at http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/manny-pacquiao-aides-allegedly-attacked-photographer-brutal-knockout-005405170–box.html

A Yahoo news report by Kevin Lole showed a picture of Koncz grabbing Bello by his shirt while the burly Fernandez kicked him.

Another picture showed an enraged Fernandez going down through the ropes running after Bello.

Aquino missed the chance of making Human Rights Day more meaningful

Published by Ellen on December 12, 2012

Daryl Fortuna — Missing since March 9, 2010

Malacanang’s enumeration of its human rights initiatives last Monday, International Human Rights Day, would have been more meaningful had President Aquino signed the proposed “Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012” which had been on his table for almost three weeks.

Fernando Butch Fortuna Jr — Fernando “Butch” Fortuna, Jr: his son disappeared more than two years ago.

Families of those who just “disappeared” from the face of the earth, most of them for their political beliefs, were fervently hoping for an early Christmas gift for the President. But alas, there was no such gift from the President.

Fernando “Butch” Fortuna, a taxi driver, tearfully appealed to the President to help find his son Daryl who was forcibly taken, with an female companion , Jinky Garcia, and Ronron Landingin, one evening in Masinloc, Zambales by men suspected to be members of the 24th Infantry Batallion of the Philippine ArmyB-PA while he was in an outreach activity in connection with his thesis. At that time, Daryl was a graduating student of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.