Increasing capture of informal sector

Increase in tax collection attributed to increasing capture of informal sector is not growth. It is just an improvement in accounting.

State of the Nation

The State of the Nation should be truthful and should neither be used for political bragging purpose, nor for tourism and investment promotion purposes.

Character vs Knowledge

All persons have unique characteristics, and they differ according to color, shape, behavior, habits, social perspectives, moral standards, preferences, sound, smell, gender, etc. Stereotyping a character is taboo in the universality of mankind. Stereotyping a character is only done by losers who want to make their own common characteristic superior compared to the diversity of the rest. Unlike character, knowledge can be sold, can be bought, can be given away, can be withheld. And there such a thing called forgetfulness that may just make knowledge evaporate into oblivion. By the way, a pretentious character is just a product of acquired knowledge about a desired characteristics that can be forgotten anytime anywhere.

Bend or Break

Bending the Law and Breaking the Law are two different stories.

Visions and Memories

The mind of the young ones is full of VISIONS of the future. The mind of the old ones is full of MEMORIES of the past. Just by looking at the line-up of your top leaders, I will be able to tell whether your organization will be moving forward or reverse.

Frustration, Depression, Inspiration

What defines a weak and strong person is how his mind reacts to frustration. Frustration will either cause a person to get depressed or inspired to create solutions.

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Frustration drives people in two ways. For a weak person, depression. For the strong person, inspiration to create solutions.

Trust

A person who will least likely do wrong is more trustworthy compared to a person who will least likely squeal.

Economists - same mind different heart

Economists don't agree. While most of of them consider population size as a hindrance of economic growth, I consider it as an opportunity of economic growth.

While they start killing the unborn and systematically depopulating the poor sector, I will start consolidating dormant funds to build more companies, create more productive jobs, and improve the lives of the poor.

In the end, I realized that we economists have the same minds, but we differ in the heart.

Age and Weight Gain

People gain weight as they grow older because as they work, they realize the value of money, and start eating the left-overs of their children.

Dream

A dream is a product of the complex past of each individual. No two persons share the same dream. Dreams are even more unique than the individual uniqueness of each human being.

Hate

Hate is a temporary state of emotion that is created by God as part of the human configuration and instinct of survival. The only way to remove hatred permanently from the heart of humans is to convert humans into plants.

The Struggler in Us

Politics is simply a struggle for power over the purse and policies of government.

Business is simply a struggle for profit.

Charity is simply a struggle to help other people in need.

Diplomacy is simply a struggle for sympathy and support.

Advocacy is simply a struggle for change.

Publicity is simply a struggle for fame.

Rebellion is simply a struggle for armed dominance.

Education is simply a struggle to escape from ignorance.

Revolution is simply a struggle for freedom.

Religion is simply a struggle for happiness in the afterlife.

Courtship is simply a struggle to earn love.

Parenthood is simply a struggle for the survival of the specie.

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I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.

Jose Joloyohoy Remollo Jr, Abnoynoy Aquino, Beantoii F. Remollo, Bong Manlulu, Carl O Perez,Christine Calata-Cortes, Gabriel Cultura,Jelly Kamini Barol, Marjay Salidio, Millene Edradan, Millene Edradan, Ning Ate, Thalia Tolentino

Trial by Publicity

There is fairness when the Court decide based on the merits of the arguments and evidences. Public pressure may sometimes jeopardize the fairness of the judge. It happened in the time of Jesus Christ.

Crab Mentality

Ang problema natin mga Pinoy, ang akala natin, nag-aapakan tayo para umangat. Ang hindi natin nakikita, naghihilaan pala tayo pababa.

Advocacy work is eternal

Advocacy work is eternal. Good and Evil has been fighting ever since mankind existed. This duel is inherent inside the individual person, and widely manifested in conflicts of people in society. Survival is the factor that makes a person decide to do good or evil. Conflict is endless because from the respective point of view of the conflicting parties, each side advocates himself as Good and advocates against the Evilness of the opponent. Good and Evil will continue to exist until the last human being becomes extinct.

Is the last-man-standing a Good person or an Evil person? It does not matter, really.

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I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthday today.

Abby Lai, Abhie Lazarte, Bredie Pueblos, Evelyn Nagallo de Castro, George Gordon, Gray Gin Remollo Malicay, Kathy Ulang, Krizzy Lauren, Paul Kenneth Guarte, Rose Novenario

Guide to Friendship and Trust

Your own friends are the most effective spies of the enemy. Better tell the truth to a stranger than to a friend.

Avoid friends who ask information about you that they don't need anyway. Those are the kind of friends who invests in getting information about you and will make use of it in the future that may be disadvantageous to you.

When friends' trust require honesty, silence is the safest form of honesty.

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FRIENDS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO EXHORTATION

No friend of mine has immunity to my exhortation, even those who are very very very close friends, even those who falsely claim that they have given me something to be grateful at. You make a mistake, kaboooom!

The principle of Persona Non Grata is founded upon the existence of the premise that that person OWES you something. Remember, OWE means UTANG, something he got but did not pay for. Pag walang binigay, for sure walang utang na nangyari. Pag may kusang bigay, na hindi hiningi, ay hindi utang yan. Ang pagiging mabuting kaibigan ay hindi UTANG, kasi kusang binibigay yan. Pag walang utang, hindi pwedeng ma-sabihan ng "walang utang na loob".

Kaya pag sinabihan ka ng "wala kang utang na loob", sagutin mo agad, "anong utang ko sayo?"

Hindi pwedeng gamiting dahilan ang consepto ng Utang na Loob para i-tolerate ang isang kaibigan sa kanyang pagkakamali. Pag nagkamali ang iyong kaibigan, pwede mong pagsabihan ng secreto deretcho, pwede mong sulatan, i-text, o tawagan. Importante sabihan mo. Pag matigas ang ulo, ISIGAW MO SA BUONG MUNDO! He he he!

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HANDLING HEARSAY ABOUT YOUR FRIEND

If you are a person who require your friends to take time to "disclose" their TOTAL life story to you, you are simply a SPY of the enemy, a person to be avoided at all times as a general rule.

If you heard someone talking shit about your friend, you will be the most stupid friend if you will think bad about your friend for not "disclosing" stuffs to you. You just bit a hearsay. If you are a good friend, you should talk to your friend about any disturbing hearsay that other people is talking about him. Right?

In short, you have a duty to DISCLOSE to your friend all hearsay you have heard about him. If you follow this duty, then you are a trusted friend.