totoo ba ito?!

Here seemed to be the grand plan, Ex DAR chiefs will be positioned in case Noynoy wins. This is to ensure that the family’s interests in Hacienda Luisita will be shielded. They are LP bigwigs ‘Butch’ Abad and ‘Popoy’ Juico who were both Agrarian Reform secretaries during the Aquino administration. While Ernesto Garilao served as Agrarian Reform chief from 1992 to 1998.

Their Mission is to make sure that the Cojuanco’s prime property, the HACIENDA LUISITA, will be spared from CARPer which rendered illegal the stock distribution option of the original CARP which allowed the Hacienda Luisita to escape land distribution and continued the Cojuanco’s reign in the blood laden Hacienda Luisita.

Habang nasa poder si Aquino patuloy nilang hahadlangan ang mga kawawang magsasaka ng Hacienda Luisita na makuha ang minimithing Lupa.

Hacienda Luisita is indeed the core of Noynoy Aquino’s presidential campaign. It is a major issue that his camp kept avoiding… yet reading between the lines, SAVING HACIENDA LUISITA SEEMS TO BE THE CORE OF HIS RUNNING.

At the start of the campaign period, in hopes of killing the issue, Noynoy mentioned that they will distribute the land among the farmers by June 2014. Oh common, why wait for 2014? Can the hunger and poverty of the farmers wait until 2014? This statement was issued just to pacify people’s ranting.

And then here comes the GAG order. Noynoy’s staff in his sortie in Catarman barred anyone from asking questions related to Hacienda Luisita and a couple more issues. Why o Why? I surmise they just wanted to suppress the issue so as not to hurt Noynoy’s candidacy more. Or they wanted the people to be blinded of the very nature of HOW THE AQUINOS AND THE COJUANCOS treat those WHO GOES AGAINST THEM?

And alas, no less than the New York Times exposed that Mr. Fernando Cojuanco, COO of the holding company clearly said that “THEY (Cojuancos) HAD NO INTENTION OF GIVING AWAY THE LAND TO THE FARMERS”. And this is the COO (Chief Operating Officer) speaking.


cc - maicalee

HOW NOT TO LAND A JOB

by: Susan Ople

Dear Job Applicant,

I just got your resume, font size 14 and triple-spaced. If it were a landscape, a desert comes to mind. Sparse, dry, and with lots of open spaces, with a photo that convinces me of your lack of knowledge about Adobe Photoshop.

So heres the thing, As the chief headhunter, I really dont care if you enjoy badminton. Of course, I am happy that you have the endurance for it, but my chief concern is if our organization can endure and be enhanced by you, and vice-versa. I also now know that you love attending seminars. Let me guess, you probably kept each and every certificate of attendance laminated and framed hanging on your wall.

I dont think you should have included that seminar on drunk driving though. It does send the wrong signals. Despite the lack of relevant information about you, I will still see you on Monday.

I hope you prepare well for your interview because you are number 46 on a list of seventy applicants. It will be a tough day for your interviewer, having to meet and listen to the pitches of so many people, competing for this single, blessed job vacancy.

What will make you stand out?

You would have to sell yourself, keeping in mind the perspective of the buyer. In short, this is not really all about you. Its about us, and the fact that we do have the money to keep you and your dreams alive. If you come late, then out you go.

If you show up with greasy hair, a tattoo on your arm, and hot Shawarma breath, then your resume goes straight to the garbage bin. You are not going on stage to audition for American Idol where you can be spectacular or stupidly outlandish, and still make it on the show.

In my room, when you come in to take your seat, there really are no second chances. As Heidi Klum of Project Runway loves to say, its either youre in or out. Bear that in mind when you decide to stroll in my office ten minutes late.

If you slouch in your seat, then that means you are too lazy to even think or care about your personal image. How then can we expect you to think about our own institutional image and integrity? If you come in for an interview and have absolutely no idea about what programs and services we offer, it shows a lack of initiative on your part.

It also gives me the impression that you dont really care about us. You are simply going through the motions of applying for a job.If you sit across me and start acting bored in the first five minutes of our talk, then maybe you are not cut out for the job.

You probably were already daydreaming about your next interview. Extending our conversation would simply be a waste of time.

Here are more tips on how not to land a job:

1. Show up in frayed denims, a halter-top, and sneakers. Ah, the audacity of youth!

2. Getting the name of your interviewer and the head of the company wrong.

3. Applying as an account executive and underscoring your units in accounting. Not the same, folks, not the same.

4. Telling the interviewer how much you liked their products and then mentioning a different brand? Not cool.

5. Asking about the starting salary, even before the interviewer mentions and describes the work involved. Atribida!

6. And when the interviewer asks you about any future plans, you really shouldnt tell him about your plan to watch a movie right after the job interview. The thing is, if you want to sell yourself then be yourself, but just a tad better. Your competitors are not just the fresh graduates from other colleges, but the ex-OFWs who have since returned with actual experience and not just seminars attended on their resumes.

You are also competing with the outsourcing of work to project-based contractuals here and around the world. The world of work has changed immensely from when you first entered college.

It takes more than just connections now to land a decent job. In short, what we have is a buyers market, where a company headhunter has access to online applications, alumni networks, and walk-in applicants, for every single job opening. To land a job, youd have to prepare yourself long before your first job interview. Because what you really are looking for, is not just any job but a career to call your own.

Your resume is just part of your arsenal of marketing tools. If your lifetime achievements can fit in one page, triple-spaced and all, then make up for it with personality, initiative, and an infectious enthusiasm that makes it hard for even the most tired interviewer to ignore you.

Good luck!

Sincerely,

YPB (Your Potential Boss)

THE POSSIBLE DREAM

I have listened intently to all the presidentiables talk in public trying to read the truth between the lines or at least catch them speak in forked tongues ,so to speak. Listening to Villar on his former speeches in schools way back 2004 and now in Forums he attended, however, I can’t detect any trace of double-talk. He look at you straight in the eye as he talk extemporaneously full of sincerity, almost passionately.

He speaks of the truth from the heart.


WHAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH BEGINS IN THE HEART. Mbv discourses on alleviating the poorest of the poor from the fangs of hunger and shame. A kind of governance that promote commerce and programs that directly help them. As his humble beginnings likewise suffered abject poverty, he successfully freed himself from its clutches and became super rich by sheer determination,and hard work. And now he said, he wants to share his blessings, experience and competence, to rally the people in breaking free from the bondage of poverty, a malady that plague the Filipino nation from generation to generation.

National prosperity is his ultimate goal, an obsession that he pursued to the extent of pouring all his wealth for the upliftment of his country and people. “If I can come out triumphant from my own private war against poverty, he retorted, why can’t every Filipino do the same?” Given much better opportunity, they can do more for the welfare of the people: the whole nation breaking free from the bondage of poverty and national shame, and so he said and I quote: “but all that I have achieved would be nothing if at the end of my public life I would not have been able to translate my own success into the success of all our people”.


Truly, the words of MBV struck me as a strong evidence of an intense love. No doubt MBV is passionately in-love with the Filipino people, especially the less fortunate and marginalized. His life is not only a revelation of a person destined to lead this country and people, but also serves as a beacon light of a path to follow, a godly path that leads to life of prosperity.

It suggests to us that his life involves direction, decision, and determination to propel the nation into national dignity and recognition. MBVs’ life is not only the kind of success that we ordinarily know. It means much more than making a living. It means making a life that honors god as it serves others more important than riches and power, because his kind of a success helps you build for all eternity. Yes, the Filipino people are worth dying for, but we don’t need; to commit national suicide.

What we need is to have FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE, and he believes that LOVE of his people is the greatest of them all.

ENTREPINOY

Talking about the current campaigns and national elections of this time, I remember having first met in person Senator Manuel Villar back in 2005 during my college days.

When he spoke in the entire college of aspiring students who were very much eager to graduate. His speech centered on envisioning the youth as truly the hope of country. He said that, If we can redirect our dreams to becoming leaders of entrepreneurial endeavor in a national scope, not becoming employees but rather employers, then the entire Philippines will become a strong nation.

I did remember him asking why FILIPINOS are so much passionate on running in a government position. Why of all the aspects ,in all the fields of endeavor where there is obviously a meager salary, would they still pursue it to the point that they will sell their land, or even mortgage their house just to have enough for the campaign? A Filipino is so passionate and would not accept NO for an answer for him just to win an election.

And he answered, that if and only if THAT PASSION WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO A NEW LEVEL OF EMPOWERMENT, a NEW LEVEL OF FREEDOM...

That if only the youth can emancipate themselves from the mindset of colonial mentality,A psyche pervading in the Filipino mind then, if and if they enrich the nation thru promoting dynamic entrepreneurship only then they can say that they really become the hope of the country.

Thus, our speaker, then a neophyte congressman chaired the House Committee on Entrepreneurship and traveled the Philippines helping and reaching out micro entrepreneurs to promote his vision of sharing his economic and managerial expertise in encouraging everyone to be entrepinoys.

Manuel B. Villars' enthusiasm and success story in life serves as a glim of light that gives HOPE for every Filipino young and old to emulate.

xoxo FIerceOnView

GUEST OF HONOR

I have read the recent article of Ms. Rachel Arnaiz from the Philippine Daily inquirer Visayas last March 20,2010 , regarding LP Presidentiable, in the article stating that in Northern SAmar he held a press conference, but an employee of the POI (instructed by an LP Staff) asked the media to refrain from asking questions regarding 4 topics.First is to refrain asking regarding the Reproductive Health Bill. Second, the issue on Hacienda Luisita, the Plaza Miranda bombings and the burial of the late president Marcos.

Northern Samar is closest to my heart, having my father grew up there and his family well respected in the land since the 1950's, i have always loved the warays. I have always found them to be one of the most humble, talented and one of the smartest Filipinos.

It is so unfortunate to know that the town employees and warays have prepared a festive lunch for the LP presidentiable, yet, actually "skipped" it and went on straight to just attend a conference. I believe that one of the most important cultural values we Pinoys do possess, is being hospitable and continue to do so upto now. How you act as being a "guest" in a certain hometown that you are actually courting, is much more and is equally as important as elaborating biased answers to questions in a press conference.

It says alot about the character of a certain candidate.

I also believe that there should be no banned questions in any press conference of any candidate. Having to answer all controversies and issues in a press con that tackles not just their own but the people around them only shows that they are not afraid nor not hiding anything.

How come a staff of the LP party had to tell a town employee to brief the PRESS about not asking "sensitive" topics? Sensitive or not, this should be answered again and again until May 10. More so, Filipinos especially in far flung areas have to be equally respected and thanked for their hospitality.

XOXO FierceOnView

reference:

http://politics.inquirer.net/view.php?db=1&article=20100320-259776