Designer Jockey

I got this email from a friend last night and I want to share it with you guys. I think the facts are a bit exaggerated nevertheless it raises good points. I hope it’ll help you decide who to vote this coming May 2010 election. Read;

Fact. (Manny) Villar has a minimum of 40 TV spots a day at a cost of PhP10 million every day the past 5 months for a total cost of PhP1.5 Billion - and that is not counting his expenses on radio, Dolphy, Willlie Revillame etc, etc and the election official campaign period has not even started - they say his budget is PhP20 billion and all for a job that pays PhP200 thousand a year!

Leading newspapers mentioned that this level of spending has never happened before in Philippine politics, it is outrageous and shameful. This is not also Nationalista party money this is just Villar’s money, so what we are really looking at here is one single individual who has a personal budget of 20 billion just to become a president. The rest of the cast of the so called Nationalista bandwagon are mere highly paid role players, that’s why it’s a political circus, with all political ideologies and colors (leftist, fascist, idealists, red, white, blue, orange, etc) packaged in one basket.

Question. He says he is a good businessman—and if he is, I wonder where he expects to get his return on his at least PhP20 billion investment. What kind of return will Villar expect given the high risk of this undertaking, he probably expects a good return - maybe double or triple his money in six years say to PhP60 billion.

Do you believe Villar when he says that his intention is just to serve? First of all if he does not intend to recover the PhP20 billion he spent, then he is not a good businessman after all. Second, what is so special and motivating about being the highest ranked public servant that you need to spend PhP20 Billion just to get it - the only believable and logical answer is that you will get back what you spent ten times by conservative estimate. If this is not the case then Villar is not fit to become president, he is mentally imbalanced.

There is more where that came from but that is all I want to share. What do you think?

It’s already 2:07am on my clock and I just got home. Woke up around 8am yesterday to attend the first ever training-team building of our company where we talked ‘bout productivity, time management and a lot more topics which we hope would help us improve the way we work.











By 5pm we were done so to make the most out of the day we all hanged out at the mall, played arcade games and with the water fountains outside. Then we had dinner at Jerrys where I super enjoyed the food, so sarap.







After dinner some of us decided to spend the rest of the night at the courtyard where we tried gilbeys—parang sprite lang—and listened to ‘dekada’ band play some old songs. We were all set to leave after the first song of the second set of the band when my boss arrived so we stayed for a couple more hours and had more gin. It was already midnight when we left.







So here I am, checking and updating my accounts and felt the urge to blog. I’ll hit the sack in a few while so goodnight everyone! Hope you’re all having a good life.

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'We are the world' video released during the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies to help the victims of the January 12 earthquake that rocked Haiti.—pretty great.