Walang Patawad

Corrupt airport personnel should meet my Granny!

An exec of a giant real estate company in the Philippines recently intimated that they are not very keen in luring tourists to their hotels and vacation resorts. To survive and prosper, they have to become the favorite of the local market. Tourists, while they bring in money, cannot be relied upon because our country is not ready for sustained tourist arrivals.

Our country do not have good airports, our transportation system is behind by at least 10 years, etc, etc..

While we are in this topic, I'd like to to talk about our problematic airports. Our greatest handicap is the honesty of our airport personnel. While I believe that most of them are good people, we seriously need to revamp the areas that matter most since the bad few greatly tarnishes the image of our country. If even returning Filipinos are not happy with our airport employees, how can the country become appealing to the rest of the world?

Please take note that in the survey of the world's worst airports, the Philippines ranked on top mostly because of corrupt airport employees. in an article to be found in this link, even an old balikbayan in a wheelchair wasn't spared by extortionists both during her arrival and departure.

People who check the baggage of incoming and outgoing passengers are perceived to be the most corrupt and this is closely followed by our immigration personnel who are seen as very strict and even rude and yet, the bad guys seem to be getting away all the time.

How To Verify Facts Aganist Urban Legends

Whenever you hear anything that's too good to be true or outrageous, check it out at:

http://www.snopes.com/

It would help keep you from looking stupid.

There's this guy who posted in his facebook, a supposed home cancer cure that John Hopkins supposedly published and he got a lot of good comments. Little did he and his friends know that his posting is nothing but a sick joke.

There's also this lady dentist friend who told me about creating small incisions to bleed people suffering from elevated blood pressures and other emergencies.

Oh geesh! I should have asked her to kiss me instead of saying those nonsense! My dialogie should have gone...

So don't talk just kiss...

...let your tongue fool around!

because,

I'm to sexy for your lov.. ..err!

A Letter From A Former Slave To His Former Master

I just can't help but post this link. I don't much time to write about it today but click on this link and enjoy the contents.

LINK--> A Letter From A Former Slave To His Former Master

What you do to the least of your brethren..

As a young top honcho of a medium sized firm, I had the chance of becoming friends with a very powerful officer of a huge conglomerate. He had the authority to grant huge contracts to a lot of companies so people naturally drifted towards him all the time.

I never asked him for any contract but in the few years that we regularly met, he referred me to a couple of clients and got my firm a few decent projects. But before I met with his referrals, he told me not to allot any "commission" for him and instead, just give the client the best discounts.

Now, he's dead and all that remains are fond memories about a good man. His family is financially not doing very well because all his kids are in college. Now that he's gone, we can see for a fact that he earned nothing beyond his regular salary. Now, it's fully confirmed that he personally got nothing in exchange for the millions and billions worth of contracts that he awarded to people.

I frequently think of his family and try to figure out what I can do for them. If only I have more, I can perhaps pass on more to them.

Only Filipinos Would Understand The Humor in This...

Ok, for my foreign readership base of one or two. ...

SOGO is the name of a motel in the Philippines. In Korea and I think, Japan, a motel is call a "Love Hotel".

Strongest banks in the Philippines

Before I go into my travel posts, I would like to share the list of Philippine’s strongest banks as rated by Theasianbanker, according to an article at yahoo. Metrobank is adjudged as the strongest Philippine bank and BDO is rated to be the largest.

In terms of profitability, Security Bank leads the pack with its strong profit performance in terms of percentage of assets. Other Philippine Banks in the list of Asia’s 500 banks include: BPI Savings, BPI, Land Bank, East West Bank, RCBC, PNB, Unionbank, UCPB, PS Bank. I went to the source of the article at Theasianbanker.com and tried to download the list which has the basis of the ranking but my internet connection is bad. If I have time later, I’ll port the list and write a bit more about this topic.

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/16-phl-banks-asias-500-list-160000912.html

My Travels and the NAIA

After reading about the world’s worst airport brouhaha, I decided to write a few articles related to my use of our airport terminals. This will make this blog look a bit like a travel blog but I intend to write a few things that I hope the readers will find useful.

Please stay tuned.