William Joseph Slim
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Annoyance + Rice Problem
At times, I get annoyed when I check the news and I see poor people getting angry over the high prices of food and rice, and how they demand that the government do something about it. And here comes the government, trying to "save" these people by subsidizing NFA rice at a huge huge loss just so the people can get what they want. Now NFA is predicting around a deficit of 43 billion pesos this year alone! The government is doing all these losses mostly for the poor, and yet they still manage to complain and complain about everything.
Do they not realize that much of the money the government is using for those low cost rice comes from the pockets of the middle-upper class citizens, who pay taxes!!?? And they still complain! We don't complain that much, why should they? They are not contented with what the government is trying to do for them, which is to provide low cost rice. I guess the only time they will stop complaining is when they get everything for free.
Do they not realize that much of the money the government is using for those low cost rice comes from the pockets of the middle-upper class citizens, who pay taxes!!?? And they still complain! We don't complain that much, why should they? They are not contented with what the government is trying to do for them, which is to provide low cost rice. I guess the only time they will stop complaining is when they get everything for free.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Adidas and Puma's relationship.
Turns out, Adidas and Puma, two world famous brands of shoes, actually spawned from two brothers' feud! Who knew?
For more details, check out article.
For more details, check out article.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Family Baguio Trip 2008
My family went to Baguio this long weekend to enjoy the weather there. It was an impromptu outing because we only decided on it last weekend. I tried booking us a nice room for five at some nice hotels there, but I couldn't get one since most of them were booked already, but good thing my mom had this friend who owned an apartelle type house in the Green Valley area. It's situated in Marcos Highway, so it's a little far from Baguio proper itself. But its area is very nice. It's located on a nice mountain top view which gives you pretty much a great view of Baguio (or maybe a view of how urbanized Baguio is already).
My family hasn't been there for years so we decided to check out the sites and all. The only new thing I was able to do there was visit Bell Church and the Strawberry Fields. Bell church brings back a lot of memories from our childhood days. My mom still remembered that we had pictures taken there around 20 years ago! As for Strawberry fields, there were no strawberry picking when we went there. But we were able to buy loads of fruits, fresh vegetables, and of course, freshly picked strawberries.
I just have to mention this: On our way to La Trinidad, this is what the scenery looked like:
Too many houses... that just doesn't look nice.
Other than that, another very very memorable experience was going out to dinner with Chase's parents, just me with the two of them. I have no idea how I got through the night, but dinner actually went very well. I wasn't expecting to have dinner with them, but when I delivered some brownies to them, they invited me to have dinner with them that same night. I couldn't say no of course. So, night came, they picked me up at the house, drove all the way to country club, chatted the night away, and by the end of the night, they even bought me tons of pastries. Ako na nahiya sa dami nang binili ng mom niya.
This was taken, where else... at SM Baguio.
All in all, the trip was real nice. There isn't much to see at Baguio, however, what you'll enjoy there is really the weather. During the day, it may not be as cool, but at night, the weather's really nice. I'm hoping to drop by Baguio again, hopefully, soon.
My family hasn't been there for years so we decided to check out the sites and all. The only new thing I was able to do there was visit Bell Church and the Strawberry Fields. Bell church brings back a lot of memories from our childhood days. My mom still remembered that we had pictures taken there around 20 years ago! As for Strawberry fields, there were no strawberry picking when we went there. But we were able to buy loads of fruits, fresh vegetables, and of course, freshly picked strawberries.
I just have to mention this: On our way to La Trinidad, this is what the scenery looked like:
Too many houses... that just doesn't look nice.
Other than that, another very very memorable experience was going out to dinner with Chase's parents, just me with the two of them. I have no idea how I got through the night, but dinner actually went very well. I wasn't expecting to have dinner with them, but when I delivered some brownies to them, they invited me to have dinner with them that same night. I couldn't say no of course. So, night came, they picked me up at the house, drove all the way to country club, chatted the night away, and by the end of the night, they even bought me tons of pastries. Ako na nahiya sa dami nang binili ng mom niya.
This was taken, where else... at SM Baguio.
All in all, the trip was real nice. There isn't much to see at Baguio, however, what you'll enjoy there is really the weather. During the day, it may not be as cool, but at night, the weather's really nice. I'm hoping to drop by Baguio again, hopefully, soon.
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