Just four bottles

Before this blog, I consumed 4 bottles of beer. I drunk with my fellow officemate "SEB".
We talk a lot of things, Oh yes so many things we have to say. Things we've encountered within office and outside the office. We have a family of our own, and the issue of our conversation just getting further.

Then there is one moment, I ask him, What would be the effect if your children will graduate in the year 2010 if the educatinal system was designed years back 1950's. I felt frigthened after I realized that. Sad but true like they say. Thats for all my friend Cyril the man is here.

Cyril will be getting married this November 8, 2006 and he will be my neighboor for a long time. Lots of beer again.

De Paul College Cafe or what?

It has caught my attention that it seems my blog turned out to be a stop-over station of De Paul College or Vincentians people. I must say, I'm very honored to have them as a guest.

To give you an overview, I'm working right now as an I.T . personnel and has been working for 6 years together with my 2 classmate and friends, Namely Orne Dignadice Jr. and Joey Aristoki.

Originally we were four, but sad to say Jovan Aristoki cannot work together with Joey since they are brothers. Right now we work together as an IT personnel in PhilHealth - Region 6.

Good Luck to all Vincentians...

philhealth6.gotdns.com new database structure

Its been a long time since I blog again, well I'm proud to announce that i-philhealth got its new database structure, a modified server configuration to give optimal performance.

Very soon i-philhealth will adopt AJAX technology to catch-up with the rapid changes in terms of Web Application. I'll be designing web layout and collect some necessary information to be included for the migration.

I'm also planning to add more features ie: visitors may inquire their Claims, Membership, Payment Status and more.

But as of now I'm very focus with Delphi coding due to my employer is in need of Database Application. That's all for this day..

Why We Are Not Out In The Streets

Dear Tita Cory, Senators, Congressmen, Businessmen, Media people, Leftists
and all Bleeding Hearts Out There:

I am angry. And I know that there are many out there, who are angrier than I
am for the same reason. And that reason is simple. I am sick and tired of
all you guys claiming to speak for me and many Filipinos. I feel like
screaming every time you mouth words about fighting for my freedom and my
rights, when you obviously are just thinking about yours. You tell me that
the essence of democracy is providing every citizen the right to speak his
or her mind and make his or her own informed judgments, but you yourselves
do not respect my silence and the choices I and many others have made. In
other words, your concept of democracy is limited to having your rights and
your freedoms respected, at the expense of ours.

I am utterly flabbergasted that you still do not get it: we already
responded to your calls, and our response has been very clear - we chose not
to heed your calls to go to EDSA or to Fort Bonifacio not because we do not
love our country or our freedoms or our rights, but precisely because we
love our country even more. Because quite frankly, we are prepared to lose
our freedoms and our rights just to move this country forward. You may
counter with your ideological propaganda and give me all the dire warnings
about the evils of Martial Law, authoritarian rule, suppression of freedom,
etc., but quite frankly all we see is your pathetic efforts to defend your
right to continue fulminating, filibustering, and sabotaging this country
until you wrestle power for yourselves. You tell me that you are simply
protecting my freedoms and my rights, but who told you to do that? I assure
you that when I feel that my rights and my freedoms are at a peril, I will
stand up and fight for them myself. I have done that in the past, and I will
do it again when I SEE THE NEED FOR IT, not when you tell me to do it.

You tell us that GMA is not the right person to lead this country because
she has done immoral acts. As someone who sees immorality being committed
wantonly in many ways every day and by everyone (yes, including the ones you
do), I may have become jaded. I may have lowered my standards about what a
leader should be. Guess what, Tita Cory, you lowered it yourself . When I
accepted your incompetence and fought for you during the many attempts
against your government, I already lowered the standards to ridiculous
levels. Guess what, Senators and Congressmen, you lowered it yourselves when
you ran for office and won and now make fools of yourselves in the august
halls of congress.

But the simple truth that you try to obfuscate is this: you have not been
able to offer me any viable alternative On the other hand, GMA has bent over
backwards many times to accommodate you while continuing to work hard
despite all the obstacles and the brickbats you have thrown her way. From
where I sit, she is the one who has been working really hard to move this
country forward while all of you have been so busy with one and only one
thing: to make sure she does not succeed. So forgive me if I do not want to
join you in your moral pissing contest. Forgive me if I have chosen to see
things from another perspective. You say she is the problem. I say, we are -
all of us is the problem; more to the point, I think you are a bigger
problem than she is. Taking her out may solve part of the problem, but that
leaves us with a bigger problem: you. That is right, YOU.

While I felt outraged that she called a Comelec official during the
elections and that she may have rigged the elections, I have since then
taken the higher moral ground and forgiven her. Yes my dear bishops, I have
done what you have told me to do since I was a child, which you say is the
Christian and moral thing to do: forgive. Especially since she has asked for
forgiveness and has tried to make amends for it. Erap certainly has not
apologized and continues to be defiant, continuing to insult us everyday
with his protestations - and he is part of your cause now Cory has not
apologized for her incompetence but we have forgiven her just the same
because like GMA, she has worked hard after all.

I know you do not think that GMA's apology was not enough, or that she was
insincere, or that that apology should not be the end of it, but please
spare me the hypocrisy of telling me that you do so for the sake of
protecting the moral fibre of society. The real reason is because you smell
blood and wants to go for the kill.

Well, I have news for you. I do not like her too. I did not even vote for
her. I voted for Raul Roco. But as much as I do not like her, I do not like
you even more. I may not trust her, but you know what, I do not trust you
even more.

You know why I do not trust you? Because all you do is whine and sabotage
this country. You belittle every little progress we make, conveniently
forgetting that it is not just GMA who has been working so hard to achieve
them. Every single day, we keep the faith burning in our hearts that this
country will finally pull itself out of the mess and we work so hard to do
that. Every little progress is the result of our collective effort, we who
toil hard everyday in our jobs. Yet, you persist in one and only thing:
making GMA look bad in the eyes of the world and making sure that this
country continues to suffer to prove your sorry point. In the process, you
continue to destroy what we painstakingly try to build. So please do not be
surprised that I do not share your cause. Do not be surprised that we have
become contemptuous of your antics. You have moved heaven and earth to
destroy her credibility, you have convened all kinds of fora and hearings
and all you have done is test our patience to the core. For all your
efforts, you have only succeeded in dragging us further down. I say enough.

Don't get me wrong. I am not asking that we take immorality lying down, or
that we let the President get away with anything illegal. But you have tried
to prove your accusations all these time and you have not succeeded, so it
is time to let things be. Besides, you are doing something immoral as well
if not utterly unforgivable. The Magdalo soldiers are consorting with the
communists - the same people who have been trying to kill democracy for
years. Cory has been consorting with Erap and the Marcoses.

So please wake up and take a reality check. In the absence of true and
genuine moral leadership, many of us have decided to cast our lot with the
President, even if we do not like her. A flawed leader is better than
scheming power hungry fools who can not even stand up for their convictions
in the face of an impending arrest.

Your coup attempts and the denials that you have consequently made only
underscore what we think is true: you are spineless and unreliable people
who only want power but not the consequences and the sacrifices that go with
the quest. Your one and only defense is to cry suppression when your ruse
does not work. You are nothing but BULLIES who taunt and provoke, but cry
oppression when taken to task for your cruelty. You call for the rule of law
and respect for authority, but so brazenly display your defiance and
disrespect for the same things you claim to be fighting for.

I would have respected you if you took the consequences of your actions like
real heroes: calmly and responsibly instead of kicking and screaming and
making all kinds of lame excuses. You say you are willing to die for us,
that you do all these things for the country and the Filipino, but you are
not even willing to go to jail for us.

Come on, you really think we believe that you did not want to bring down the
government when THAT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN
DESPERATELY TRYING TO DO in the last many months?

We love this country and we want peace and progress. Many among us do not
give a f*&k who sits at Malacanang because we will work hard and do our
share to make things work. We the people will and can make it work, if only
you get out of the way and let us do it. If you only do your jobs, the ones
you are supposed to be doing, things would be a lot simpler and easier for
all of us.

The events during the weekend only proved one thing. You are more dangerous
and a serious threat to this country than GMA is. We have seen what you are
capable of doing - you are ready to burn this country and reduce everything
to ashes just to prove your point. If there is something that we need
protection from, IT IS PROTECTION FROM YOU.

S. C. Austero S. C. Austero

D Boyz

ThE Boyz of Philhealth Region 6, taken at my house after the session