This is a comparison of my Meralco bill for this month and last year's bill for approximately the same time frame.

2010   (May 8 to Jun 8)                                      2009 (May 11 to June 11)
Generation chrg  4,487.07 (48.2%)                     3,517.93 (46.7%)
Transmission  499.18 (5.4%)                                663.96 (8.8%)
System ( Read more... )

PRESS STATEMENT

We, the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) and the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) would like to congratulate the Filipino people who were all engaged in exercising their right of suffrage and who patiently waited for their turn to vote despite the heat and other discomfort.

We also commend the ( Read more... )

TRUSTING NOYNOY
A Framework for Decision
Jose Gabriel M. La Viña
April 28, 2010

Twelve days from today, we will be choosing the 15th president of our
republic in the country’s first-ever automated elections. A cacophony of
slogans and reasons for supporting one candidate or the other permeates the air.
Some say this election is about the yellow or the ( Read more... )

In the business organization I belong to, Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX), the 700 or so members are mostly supporting Noynoy Aquino, Manny Villar, Gibo Teodoro and Dick Gordon. I don't think Erap would find any support in FINEX ( Read more... )

As far back as I can remember, every December 25 to early January, all movie theaters in Metro Manila are required to show Filipino movies as part of the Metro Manila Film Festival.  As far back as I can remember, I've always hated MMFF because it limits my freedom to choose which movie I want to watch.  There are some good movies shown during the ( Read more... )

One of the most idiotic Executive Order issued by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is EO 839 freezing the price of oil to the pre Typhoon Ondoy price level.  This single act by an economic expert who happened to teach me Macroeconomics at the Ateneo and is also Noynoy's and Mar's teacher is the most stupid thing she could have done.

It goes against ( Read more... )

I had to get a NBI clearance.  The Bangko Sentral has a new requirement for the top bosses of financial firms.  Naturally, I pulled strings to find a contact within the NBI so I would not line up with the rest of the people.

I found one.  And less than an hour, I was almost done except for a glitch.  There were 2 cases against me.  The 1st case ( Read more... )

Unexpectedly, Joey, an account manager in my office exclaimed: "Sir please go to this live streaming website. You would not believe what I am seeing right now." I went to the website and with disbelief I saw Bongbong and Imee Marcos at the wake of President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino. They were met initially by the Aquino grandchildren and President ( Read more... )

WTF!?! Incredulous!  Lani Mercado, an actress and wife of Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr. was appointed as a Director of San Miguel Corporation, one of the biggest and most profitable conglomerates in the country.  She is replacing one of two government directors, Silvestre Bello III.

In an interview conducted over DZMM, Lani revealed that she sat ( Read more... )

In my previous note/blog (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/note.php?note_id=107703724759 or http://cutebalddiver.multiply.com/journal/item/1113/ ( Read more... )