Minsan Sa Buhay Natin.. May Isang Ala-Ala Di Malimutan.. Pagbabalik Tanaw

PAG-USAPAN NATIN - JUVY DE GUZMAN

Bishop Harry Samaniego and Broadcaster Juvy De Guzman at the Kakampi Online Broadcast (Pugad Lawin). Every Tuesday 11am up to 12noon. (JLAC San Juan Chapter and JLAC Lancaster Hotel from 11am up to 12noon, Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong City.

Thank GOD for another day, BLESS us all the way !!!
FIRST TIME KONG UMIYAK HABANG NANONOOD NG TELEBISYON......
Grabe ang mga ganitong pangyayari sa telebisyon na aking napanood.
Sa News-TV at natunghayan ko ang "SANA'Y MULI KANG MAKAPILING".....
na kung saan, ay naiyak ako sa isang Inang 5 taon ng nawawala ang kanyang anak na si BRYAN, na kung saan ay napunta pala sa Boys Town Marikina.....

After 5 years ay tinupad ng GMA News TV ... ang kanyang hiling na makita niyang muli ang kanyang anak.....na di niya alam kung saan hahanapin......Na noong nawala ito, ay sumama sa kalaro at nawala. Nakita siya ng isang Good Samaritan na namamalimos kung kaya't nadala siya sa Boys Town, na ikinabuti naman ng bata......

Kadalasan kasi, ang mga batang gala ay napupunta sa sindikato o prostitusyon na siya namang nakakalungkot at ang iba sa kanila ay nagiging kriminal sa murang edad.
Sana, dumami pa ang ganitong Network na nagbibigay saya at aral sa buhay-Filipino......
Sa panahong ito, napakahirap talagang mawalan ng mahal sa buhay. Lalo na ang mahal mong anak na ni minsan ay di mo pinamigay o pinabayaan.Dangan nga lamang, sa murang edad, sila'y nagdedesisyon ng taliwas sa tamang kaugalian.

Bigla ko tuloy naalala ang mga anak ng yumao kong kapatid, na pinabayaan ng kanilang sariling INA na nagpapanggap na may pagmamahal daw siya, na nalaman ko 'nung sila'y may mga asawa na. Sa murang edad, bagama't mahigpit ko silang binantayan at ginabayan @ the age of 2, tinuring ko silang tunay na anak at pilit na inubos ang panahon ko na sila ay mapagtapos.....Eto ang napala ko, puro kasinungalingan pa rin ang turo ng kanilang Ina, na ni katiting na panahon at pinansiyal ay walang naiambag para sa kanyang mga anak, na noon ay inakala kong suporta lang ang sa amin. Pero, lubusan silang pinabayaan at inako ko lahat ang hirap kasama ng aking Ina at Anak na di naging maramot sa aking kahilingan.

Pero, anuman ang nagawa ko sa kanila ay di ko naman pinagsisisihan. Nalungkot lang po ako, kasi wala na sila sa piling ko at inakala kong makakasama ko sila sa aking pagtanda........sa pagtanda ng kanilang Lola.....na siyang nagsilbing Ina habang ako ay nasa ibang bansa, na nagsikap, para mapalaki silang mag-isa.....

Sana, noon pa ako nagkaroon ng pamilya, kung naisip ko ang sarili kong kapakanan....Naalala ko rin si TITA Elizabeth RAMSEY, na kung saan ay pinuntahan ako at gusto sanang ampunin at dalhin sa Amerika, pero di pumayag ang aking Mahal na INA, na siya namang dapat bilang magulang......Salamat sa mga alaalang naipagkaloob sa akin ng tadhana, na mahirap kalimutan, habang ako ay nabubuhay.
Anyway, that's LIFE....at least, 'yung tangi kong anak sa pagkadalaga, ang inakala kong di ko makakasama ngayon, ay siya pang narito at kasama ko sa buhay......Ang buhay na siya lang, ang tangi kong mahal na anak na nagpasaya sa buhay ko, ngayon at magpakailanman.........Salamat sa Ina kong di nasilaw sa karangyaan noong araw......Dahil kahit biyuda na, aba patuloy na nagpalaki sa amin na may dangal.

Mabuhay ang mga Pilipinong, magpa-hanggang sa ngayon ay yakap ang tradisyon at ugaling Filipino. Di nagbabago at patuloy na may pagmamahal sa Inang - bayan, may ugaling maipagmamalaki saan mang dako ng mundo naroroon. (VerGarciaBlogs)

PELPSPI DEMANDS MORE INFRA PROJECTS IN AGRI AND MANUFACTURING
BY: TED CHO AND GERMAN OJERAS

The Philippine Employers- Labor Social Partners, Inc. (PELSPI), an organization of workers, employers and the academe is urging the goverment to adopt an agro-industrial policy as a solution tp create more and better jobs and enhance industry, productivity and competitiveness.

There's still time to do it and put it in place the structural foundations that the next government can build on, says the group at the Saturday forum at Annabels Restaurant in Timog, Quezon City.

What we have is the usual jobless growth were the economy is posting rising growth rates with the ranks of those who don't have jobs or who can't find jobs equally growing, says Rene Magtubo an officer of PELSPI and President of the militant Partido ng Mangagawa (Workers Party). 

Latest statistic has put unemployment rate at 12% and underemployment at 26% comprising more than 20 Million Filipinos without regular jobs.

Meneleo Carlos, (PELSPI Vice-President for employers group) and  a renowned industrialist, said that an economy that can not absorb the ranks of the unemployed is not sustainable. Mr. Carlos said that the factors that create a sustainable economy are a vibrant manufacturing sector, a modernize agro-industry, a highly trained, globally competitive and discipline work force, and an export-led not import dependent economy.

        The Philippines Former Supreme Court Justice Reynato S. Puno

PELSPI will hold a National Summit for a Just and Sustainable Philippines: Jobs and Agro-Industrial Development For All on April 23, 2014 at the Century Park Hotel in Pasay City with former Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno as keynote speaker. (VerGarciaBlogs)

My Journey of Life After College.. The Real World

Business & Life Sense...Hard Lessons Learned

By:Amy Smith 

College has become the conditioner for the drone mentality. 

Not everyone has the time, attention span or energy to sit through 4 years of college to get a business degree and then take the time to gain the necessary "experience" in order to know what you are doing in your field, how the real world operations are to implementing the subtle nuances of your field of study and how to navigate office politics. Interns have the advantage in the industry of business. 

I had to learn through experience, which means bad judgement, failure, defeat, adversity and misplaced faith and trust, teaching me what not to do. Here is a bit about me and my journey to having business sense.

Let me start this article by telling you that I admit to being a "late bloomer".

I went into the working world at the age of 16 and I was blithely socially inept. I had a very
controlled home environment by parents that were blind to the realities of the world and consequences of their choices. I had a rocky and unstable foundation growing up fraught with trauma and loss. So I am no middle-class regular gal. I know what it is to be hungry, to miss holidays, to wear shabby ill-fitting clothing to school, to never have my parents supporting my efforts and to be humiliated. I never got to play intramural sports, because that takes your parents paying a fee to join and we were nearly always broke and my parents saw extra-curricular activities as a waste of time. I know, messed up.

The first time I tried out for anything I was 14 and it was cheerleading. The camp was $400. I believed that I could raise the money working with my youthgroup to fill sandbags and do fundraisers. When the day of the tryouts arrived I threw my tryout. All I could think of was that my parents were never going to enable me to live in that world...and I still could not to a cartwheel.

Intramural sports are key to a child and young person's development. I grew up believing I was worthless and never worth anyone's time or attention because I was poor. I gained my self-worth  

from my studies in school and my jobs as I began working. I was my job and I liked the respect that money on hand afforded from my peers.

My world was shaken when I went into the US Air Force. I had nobody there with me and I felt terribly unloved alone in west Texas at Goodfellow Air Force Base(AFB). What social status I had achieved at home in Colorado Springs, CO did me no good there. I had no idea what I was doing and no idea how to deal with so many different people. I finally snapped when 9/11 happened and I began smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, choosing risky behavior and promiscuity. I got the attention and affection that I so desperately craved through interactions with males. I did not like clingy and fell for someone who was not interested in me.

My health suffered from the stress of post 9/11 fall out and my bronchi suffered from smoking. 

I was medically discharged with an Honorable status. I came back to the Springs to find my world altered and I was adrift. I began job, after job, after job to find that I missed the Air Force core values and that people and companies sucked. I found solace in partying with my Fire Dogs from Good fellow who happened to be stationed at Peterson AFB.

The best job I ever had was working in Mortgage Home Equity Sales with Wells Fargo as a contracted temporary employee with an employment agency. I lacked career direction, was lonely and unsatisfied because I lacked purpose.

Right before my 22nd birthday I was physically assaulted and could not go to work. I lost my job there. I was too humiliated to tell the best boss ever what had happened. I believed that vulnerability was a weakness that the strong preyed upon.

The next few years would have been great for me to go to school and learn about the world and business, but I had no mentors. I had no faith in myself and I did not trust anyone. I was very self-centered in my pain, confusion and loathing of my circumstances. Adversity only leaves us once it has taught us what we need to learn, that much I can tell you is true.

I did finally start courses and went to school after I had my son, because I had a living, breathing reason to. I tried 4 times with 4 different schools. My main challenges? Lack of support, lack of stable income, lack of childcare and being horribly alone in my journey.

Thankfully after the age of 25 the logic center of the human brain begins to mature and for me the puzzle pieces began to come together, but nothing really clicked until age 30 for me. That is when the world began to make sense. That is when I moved to be near my oldest friend and when I began to engage in the messiness that is the world of business. I put the control in my hands and learned the extent of my abilities. I learned what I am capable of and what I am not, what I am strong at and my areas of opportunity, what my body and psyche can and cannot handle, what revs me up and what slows me down. I learned how to say, "Hell no, stop that noise, that is not for me, that is wrong, this person is toxic, that doesn't work, I am not giving up and I need help." out of necessity. 

No one ever took my by the hand and taught me the life lessons that a lot of people now instinctively know. The whole tribal knowledge of how to function in society was never passed down. I am an intellectual and my mother was an intellectual and her parents are intellectuals...and they have social developmental disabilities. Thank God for my foster parents! I would never have found the joy in communicating with other people and the value in reaching out to make friends! Also, thank God that we are composite individuals and that we can adapt what traits we admire in others into our own personality!

So, my point in all of this is that if a recovered socially inept, now experienced single mom with

health issues and a tiny support system can pick herself up by her bootstraps time after time and keep going, so can you. It doesn't matter how many times that you get knocked down, it matters that you do not stay down. You get back up again. And if you cannot get back up again you get help. God and the living organism of energy that we live in called the Universe will send you the help that you need. I only hope to be able to be an instrument and give others the help that I needed.

My journey has taught me that compassion and vulnerability are good to practice. Our strength comes from standing for what is right. I know that can be hard. I know what it means to be ostracized for making choices that were right for me. I know what it means to not have a voice and then finding it!

                                   Maghintay Ka Lamang..By:Ted Ito

So, in saying all of this, I want you to know that I relish the opportunity to become your business partner, your mentor and your friend. I look forward to helping you on your journey to success, freedom in your financial life and direction in attaining your purpose.

YOLANDA VICTIMS IN CONFLICT WITH LAND DEVELOPERS

Yolanda-displaced communities now forced to occupy forests due to gov’t neglect, continuing harassment by land developers

By:Mary Ann Manahan 

                                                                             

PHOTO CAPTION: A portion of the 282-hectare forest land in Brgy. Buaya (Sicogon Island) has been declared as a "peoples' resettlement site" by more than 300 families affected by Typhoon Yolanda. Photo courtesy of Progreso Panay.

More than five months after being left homeless by Typhoon Yolanda, residents of Sicogon Island are still fighting for a decent place to rebuild their lives and their homes.

On April 12, members of the Federation of Sicogon Island Farmers and Fisherfolk Association (FESIFFA), along with the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA), sounded the alarm on the dire state of over 6,000 residents of Brgys. Buaya, San Fernando, and Alipata in Sicogon Island, Iloilo, whose homes, livelihoods and fishing craft have been devastated since the onset of Typhoon Yolanda last November.

According to the groups, not only has no single government agency assisted the residents of Sicogon Islands in reconstructing their homes and rebuilding their lives— continuing harassments and other rights violations by the Sicogon Development Corporation (SIDECO), have prevented them from returning to their long-held lands.

“It has been already five months and one day after Yolanda struck, but the government has completely failed to protect the land rights of Sicogon’s residents from land-grabbers like SIDECO,” said Raul Ramos, FESIFFA president. “Up to today, we are still being forcibly prevented by SIDECO’s private security guards from rebuilding houses that we, our families and other agrarian reform beneficiaries have been living in for decades.This is not helped at all by the no-dwelling zone policy of the government, which practically rendered more than 1,000 families homeless.”

“With no options left to rebuild our communities, we are being forced by the government and by SIDECO to occupy public forest lands as a resettlement site, even without support and approval from official authorities. Because government agencies have systematically failed to protect our rights in the face of SIDECO’s post-Yolanda land-grabbing efforts, we have nowhere else left to go,” Ramos added.

Ramos was referring to the recent initiative of more than 200 Sicogon families to settle in a portion of a 282-hectare public forest land area in Brgy. Buaya, Sicogon.

Since March 28, FESIFFA members have sought to establish a residential camp, having been displaced by Yolanda last November 2013, followed by a mass eviction orchestrated by SIDECO.

Earlier, claimed FESIFFA in a statement, SIDECO had prohibited the island’s residents “to reconstruct or even simply repair their houses. Instead, the corporation offered the residents two options: a) PHP 150,000 for each family who will voluntarily vacate the islands; and b) a relocation site in Barangay Jolog, Estancia Iloilo.”

Most of the families who have opted for either of these options, according to FESIFFA, are now attempting to return to the island, both due to the substandard quality of relocation homes offered and the lack of available resettlement areas in the Yolanda-stricken region.

At present, both SIDECO and its allied officials in the local DENR are threatening to file cases against FESIFFA farmers for their occupation of the public forest lands.

“SARA condemns the government’s continuing neglect of the welfare of Sicogon Island’s residents, most especially its consistent failure to protect their right to land,” said Trinidad Domingo, SARA spokesperson. “The residents affected by SIDECO’s plans for a tourism resort have ample legal documents to prove that they are agrarian reform beneficiaries. This is a clear incident of land-grabbing facilitated by both natural disasters and government’s lack of political will.”

“We, from the various federation-members of SARA, demand a stronger political commitment from the government to protect the right to land of small farmers and rural communities like those from Sicogon Island. Stopping land-grabbing by developers like SIDECO and ensuring the effective implementation of the agrarian reform program will be the best venue to start demonstrating this stronger commitment,” Domingo asserted.

According to various sources and documents secured by SARA, SIDECO has entered into a joint venture partnership with Ayala Land to undertake a claimed “Sicogon Island Redevelopment Project.”

In a recent media report last April 9, Ayala Land director Antonino Aquino stated that “We’re looking around for properties in Sicogon. We’re interested in expanding our tourism portfolio.” (VerGarciaBlogs)

SMILE.. THE BEST GIFT TO EACH ONE YOU MEET

A Smile takes but a moment.. but, it lasts forever.   
          SMILE... Ver Garcia Blogs

A smile costs nothing, but it gives you so much.     It enriches those who give it.     It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.      

None is so rich or mighty that he/she can get along without it.. and none is so poor but that he/she cannot be made richer by it.      

A smile creates happiness in your home, promotes good will, and is the cornerstone of friendship.       

It can perk up the weary, bring cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best, an antidote for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is given away.  
        

When people are too tired to give you a smile, give them one of yours.  Smile at them and you will see they will also return a smile at you.
(VerGarciaBlogs)

                                

New York.. New York.. By: Woman of the Universe Ms. Emma Cordero

AMOR SEAMAN PARTY LIST LEADING MOVEMENT FOR SEAFARER IN THE PHILIPPINES

Chris Maambong with wife and his kid

AMOR Seaman( Association of Marine officers and rating, Inc) Party list is a party list vying for you vote to represent Seaman and their families in Congress.

Helping hardworking and resilient Filipino seafarers around the world in their quest for dignity in the workplace, for empowerment in industrial relations and for better living conditions of their families.

The Association is firmly committed to serving the Filipino Seafarers by protecting their rights, by enhancing their competitiveness, and by promoting their role as a world-class workforce to reckon with.

1) Lobbying for retirement pension plan for all seafarers derived from OWWA contribution and proposes, the segregation of OWWA SEAMAN's FUNDS FROM land base workers.

2) Protect the rights, welfare, benefits and privileges of Filipino seafarers that includes the passages of "seafarers bill of rights".

Kapihan sa Diamond Hotel Every Monday with Neal Cruz

               PARA SA KAALAMAN NG PUBLIKO-  (SO THAT THE PUBLIC MAY KNOW)

At the Press Briefing at the Kapihan sa Diamond Hotel hosted by Neal Cruz, Senior Columnist
of Phil. Daily Inquirer. In photos  seated from left: Atty. Manuel Sanchez and Neal Cruz and others.
Photos Taken By: Teddy  Cho

Ang Katotohanan sa Home Guaranty Corporation

Walang kinalamam ang kasalukuyang managemement ng Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC) sa mga ibibintang na losses at corruption sa HGC. ang mga problemang ito ay nangyari noong 1984 hanggang 2009. Wala pa nag kasalukuyang management ng HGC noon. Si Atty. Manuel Sanchez ay naging Presidente ng HGC noong Setyembre 2010 lamang.

# Ang pagkakautang ng HGC ay resulta ng pag-garantiya sa mga bumagsak na proyekto ng pamahalaan mula 1984 hanngang 1999, na pinondohan sa pamamgitan ng pagbebenta ng Asset Participation Certificates (APC). Wala pa si Atty. Sanchez sa HGC noon.

# Dahil walang pambayad ang dating management ng HGC sa mga investors ng bumagsak na APC Projects, nanghiram ang HGC ng pondo sa pamamagitan ng Bond Flotation noong taon 2002, 2004 at 2006. Ito ang dahilan ng utang na mahigit P16 Bilyon. Wala pa si Atty. Sanchez sa HGC noon.

# Ang pagbibigay ng car plan at Early Retirement Program noong 2004 na sinasabing ilegal ay nangyari lahat bago pa man dumating si Atty. Sanchez sa HGC.

# Walang kinalaman ang HGC kay Delfin Lee at sa Globe Asiatique scandal. Ang Globe Asitique scandal ay nangyari bago pa ma-appoint na Presidente ng HGC si Atty. Sanchez. Isa sa mga unang repormang ipinatupad nina Atty. Sanchez ay ang pag 'black list' sa mga developers na may masamang record.

#Ang mga acquired assets na na-foreclosed at napunta sa HGC ay maraming mga problema at mga kaso. Dahil dito, hindi agad maibenta at mabawi ang investment ng pamahalaan. Kabilang dito ang Smokey Mountain at Manila Harbour Center, ang Central Market sa Old Bilibid Compound sa Maynila, ang National Goverment Center at Commonwealth Market sa Quezon City.

#Ang pagpapa-upa sa Commonwealth Market noong 2005 at ang pagbebenta ng mga APEC  Villas noong 2007 ay nangyari bago pa na-appoint si Atty. Sanchez sa HGC.

# Nang dumating ang kasalukuyang pamunuan ng HGC noong Setyembre 2010, agad nitong inimbestigahan ang mga bumagasak na APC projects at mga sanhi ng pagkakautang ng HGC.

#Bukod sa mga reporma, nagdesisyon ang bagong pamunuan ng HGC na kasuhan at singilin ang mga taong ilegal na nagpayaman at nakinabang sa mga bumagsak na APC projects.

#Patuloy na sinisingil ng HGC ang mga utang ng ibang ahensya ng gobyerno, gaya ng National Housing Authority.

Ang kasalukuyang management ng HGC ay walang kinalaman sa mga anomalya na pilit at paulit-ulit na ibinibintang dito. Bagkus, ginagawa nila ang dapat gawin para mabawi ang pera ng gobyerno at mapalago ito. Bukas ang pamunuan ng HGC sa anumang imbestigasyon para sa kaalaman ng publiko.

Article was published by Phil. Star dated March 31, 2014 page 19 for details.

Inaanyayahan ang lahat na magbigay ng kanilang Komento hinggil sa issue na ito.
(Blog credited to German Ojeras, Teddy Cho and Ver Garcia)