Heidi
10 Aug 2007

 

 

Mr. Oriel;

Why even bother explaining yourself to posters who are only here to put others down? Their only purpose is to mock those with better ideas than theirs. They will put others down to make themselves look good.

It’s a Pinoy thing, don’t you still get it? It’s sad, but it’s the reality. You gotta learn to deal with it. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Plain and simple.

I got something to tell those “toxics” who just can’t seem to stop putting down their kabaleyans. Can’t you just rise above the “crab mentality” and be normal? You can talk all you want but if those words aren’t put into action, they meant nothing.

To the dreamers, keep on dreaming, dream the impossible, but reach only those within your grasp! Make it easy!

To those who are know-it-alls: just pretend you are just an average Joe. Because in reality, you are just that. No one really cares how much wealth and how many diplomas you have accumulated in your lifetime, what really matters the most is how you treat others.

That, my friends, will earn you a VIP ticket to heaven! It’s priceless!

Edener Benitez Fabella
10 Aug 2007

 

 

I believe in my heart instead of a prosier word we continue verbalizing as dreaming, batting at last inning and trailing, we should be pinning our hopes on such word as goaling.

The latter reflects a distinction which can only result either in success or failure. Dreaming is like wandering endlessly not knowing where or how it will end.

In normal cases, it ends when one finally snuffs out of it. To others, it becomes a nightmare and never comes out of it.

It would be nice if dreams can be like taxi meters. You can control a dream before it becomes too big and you stop dreaming permanently.

In other words, you can yell “Para na!” when you feel the excitement of the ride is making you queasy specially when running out of fares?

By contrast, when you set out a goal, you only have two things to weigh in and these are, is it doable, the other more crucial - is it affordable?

If you dream like what most of our politicians do being experts second to none in the trade, everything is doable and even more inspiring - it is always affordable.

Thank God we have not yet reached the age of sending someone to the moon. He or she may not get back to earth!

Our politicians can always claim, they dreamed the return trip was only a dream of our ‘nakurakotnaut’! Sadly, Filipinos are always on the losing end of the scale every time politicians fling with destiny.

By golly, hearing politicians engaging in all sorts of promises is an adventure in itself. I mean, where else in the world can you find politicians promising garden of roses only to leave Filipinos abasing in kangkong leaves?

As if that wasn’t enough insult, the scums gets on the 6:00 news promising more! Wouldn’t you like to weep big time? I bet it will be a tough choice between vivarin and ambience pills.

Dream on!

Reform the tax law

By Oscar V. Cruz D. D.

The injunction for both Houses of Congress to “Reform the tax law” seems to have been officially given on the occasion of the last glorious and glorified State of the Nation Address (SONA). In the event that such is really the marching orders given to the Legislative Branch of Government by the Supreme Executive in the land, then such can only mean any or all of the following both disturbing considerations.

One, when this present administration wants the Tax Law reformed, it is only for the fools and silly to even think that the intent is to lower direct and indirect taxes reluctantly and infallibly paid by the financially able and unable citizens, respectively. It only and categorically means that all taxes of all kinds should be increased by all means.
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Van S. de Leon
9 Aug 2007

 

 

Suggested way to celebrate 51st Anniversary of Sunday Punch.

Dear Fellow Pangasinense Posters, read on the article here, “Karina & Ermin” by Arsenio Jesena, to find the very reason why we are here exchanging ideas in this Sunday Punch Forum.

I found the articles there very nourishing to the mind and the soul. Very inspiring. The Eulogy delivered by Ermin Garcia Jr. during the necrological services of his great father, Pangasinan hero Ermin Garcia Sr., will surely touch your heart and your mind.

Pause for a while from our busy life and read it. Indeed, this great Pangasinense hero, Ermin Garcia Sr., must be honored with a Pangasinan Holiday in his honor, a statue for him , a highway named in his honor, a museum in his honor, a park in is honor-any of these or combination of these will suffice… I will go to Pangasinan and will drum this up.

Let us go fellow posters and put a little action in our postings here. IT IS A MUST. IT IS LONG OVERDUE. IT IS VERY SAD for this great man and in fairness to the ever dedicated Garcia Family.

His name must be featured in any history book of Pangasinan that will be published in the future.

Rafael L. Oriel, Jr.
9 Aug 2007

 

 

Mr. Carrera, after reading your latest post, you just made me laugh especially because I saw this t-shirt that says “Those who have no dreams claw at those who do!” That’s true. It has been said that those who have abandoned their dreams will discourage yours.

Your posts make me wonder, what’s your problem with people who have dreams? You keep on mentioning Crocus Fund in your previous posts but I doubt if you really know what you are talking about.

How on earth do you know where and how other people invest their money? Just by reading your posts, I am quite sure you really do not know what Crocus Fund is all about. I am sorry to say that every time you mention Crocus Fund, you are just displaying your ignorance about it.

You make lots of assumption and imagination in your posts which reminds me of the slang connotation of the word “assume”. You should use your imagination and creativity somewhere else because in reality, you are the one who is evaluating the professional qualifications of Palafox Associates.

Why not read your previous posts again? You sound like you are the one questioning and have some doubts about their qualifications and capabilities even though their firm is a well respected urban planner and the only Philippine firm who was able to break into the top 100 of world architecture, the 94th according to the latest report.

I guess, you even think that your recommendations for the city of Alaminos are far better than their recommendations.

Anyway, I really do not need to argue with you. I have no intention of competing with your expertise and knowledge. Besides, I do not want to waste so much of my time.

Rafael L. Oriel, Jr.
9 Aug 2007

 

 

Ms Ric, you have a budget of ten thousand dollars and you set your eyes on a grandest throne with marble flooring, Jacuzzi tub and the works?

Of course, you will definitely run out of money or run into other problems if something is wrong with your budgeting. A budget is supposedly a plan based on estimates.

What you can do is to set your eyes only on a throne that your budget can afford, something that your ten thousand dollars can buy. People often canvass prices or get price quotations from suppliers to know how much to budget.

In the first place, the reason for budgeting is to avoid future problems especially those that you mentioned.

On the same token, on a budget of 700 million pesos, it is insane to set your eyes on a grandest international airport comparable to NAIA3 that you said cost US$400 million.

Of course, you will definitely run out of money because of very poor budgeting blown out of proportion. You must not set your eyes on NAIA3 because your budget certainly cannot afford it. You must set your eyes on a much smaller airport like Bagabag, Basco and Bislig airports.

From what I understand, that is exactly what the people of Alaminos will be doing. The city of Alaminos will be using the same technical study for the airport made by Air Transportation Office (ATO) in the past.

On a budget of 700 million pesos, the people of Alaminos set their eyes on a much smaller airport not even comparable to most major domestic airport in the country.

This is exactly what I am trying to point out in my previous posting. The runway of the proposed Alaminos Airport is only 1.2 km. long. They are expecting only to accommodate small jet aircrafts with around 60 person capacity or even large types of airplanes but absolutely not the 727 that Mr. Jeremias Andrade Carrera is talking about in his “Mickey Mouse” posting.

Why is it that Mr. Carrera still insists talking about landing 727 jet airplanes in spite of the fact that I already stated in my previous posting that the runway of the proposed airport is only 1.2 km long? He must be either kidding or daydreaming.

Anyway, like I said in my previous post, examples of airports in the Philippines with just 1.2 kilometer runways are Bagabag Airport in Nueva Ecija, Basco Airport in Batanes and Bislig Airport in Surigao.

These airports are very small compared to the extremely large NAIA3 . These airports are just minor commercial domestic airports unlike the NAIA3 which is an international airport.

It is even highly possible that the combine capacity of these three small airports plus the proposed Alaminos Airport can be less than that of NAIA3 which is designed to have a capacity of 13 million passengers per year.

Inappropriately comparing the proposed Alaminos Airport to the gigantic NAIA3 is just blowing the issue out of proportion.

For sustainable development, it is very obvious that the future Alaminos airport is only appropriately comparable to either of the smaller Bagabag, Basco and Bislig airports.

Eduardo Pontaoe
9 Aug 2007

 

 

Mr. Edwin (family name is deleted by editor per Edwin’s earlier request) :

Your privacy, your anonymity, Edwin? Your deceptive cover was blown . . . compromised. You cannot demand respect of your privacy if you’re not truthful with the Forum.

What’s coming out from you are equivocations . . . prevarications . . . fibs . . . the untruth. What’s the matter with you taking us for granted? I reiterate again, “The Forum is populated not by knuckleheads and idiots. We can see thru a counterfeit”.

The intention behind using glass half-full of your name is self serving. Without full disclosure of who you are, if you make mistakes everybody would be looking for who’s the who.

If you’re trying to impress the Forum with your limited knowledge: STOP! It’s not working to your advantage.

Still, your last post you kept burning yourself. The A-bomb or the H-bomb was not discovered, they were invented - meaning man made. And space flight was not a dream, it was a plan to be realized from Verne to Goddard to von Braun. You shouldn’t go on . . . and on . . . and onnnnnnn!

However, the others who use pseudonyms like you, I know who they are. They are safe with me because they’re honest enough with themselves.

Jose Ceralde
9 Aug 2007

 

 

Edwin,

Just ensure your half full glass is still there when you wake up.

Yes, most of the projects you cited were successful but behind each one were a lot more that were failures. Daily, the government has lots of ideas that come up and some are considered for funding and some lay dormant.

History ’s lessons remind us of dreams that if funded early would have saved lives like the air balloons presented to Big Abe during the early days of the civil war.

So how do we choose the ones that have a probability of success? Find an incorruptible & independent agency that would weigh your ideas. Have a Sunday Punch that gives everyone a forum to weigh in.

Remember the “Master Planners” profit motive, world class or not. Where are the US-based world class planners that built the Clark convention center NOW? The public is holding the debt and the people have to pay because of the grand vision and honor of whom?

I am sure you could not brag to your neighbors of the debt incurred. Yes no company or entity would organize now a days without a vision.

Check out the world class company visions of Enron and recently American Mortgage. Listen to the employees that woke up looking for their half full glass.