Thursday, April 17, 2008

THE PERILS OF BEING A ROAD WARRIOR and Other Rants

aside from the lack of comfortable working areas, we practitioners/road warriors are often targets of these effing thieves.

tapos pinapatay kami.

kawawa naman si tatang ted. Cry kabibigay (salary deduction) pa man din sa kanila ng office yun sa kanya,

2 journalists lose laptops to robbers

The Philippine Star

Two journalists lost their laptop computers to robbers Wednesday.

Ted Torres, editor of The STAR’s banking and finance section, lost his Apple Ibook laptop at the UCC café in Makati City Wednesday morning.

He said he was in a meeting at the café, and when his companion left the table to pay their bill, a man allegedly walked by and told him that his money was on the floor.

Torres said he took the money. When he looked toward their table, he saw that his laptop bag was already gone. He said he did not report the incident to the police since the chances of retrieving his computer are very slim.

Makati City police chief Superintendent Gilbert Cruz said he will order an investigation into the incident.

Manila Standard Today reporter Joel Egco, 35, said he parked his van in front of the City State Tower building in Pasig City past midnight Wednesday to attend to his radio program on dwIZ.

However, when he returned home in Bago Bantay, Quezon City, he discovered that his P29,000 laptop and two Nokia cables worth P3,000 were missing.

Egco believes that a suspicious-looking person who used a nearby automated teller machine had something to do with the robbery. He hopes the footage taken by a closed-circuit television camera will help police solve the case.

He said there have been many robberies in the area.   – Michael Punongbayan, Non Alquitran

 


--

whatever happened to newsbreak? sorry, i'm so out of the loop, i don't know if they've already closed shop or what. kasi ilan sa kanila nasa ABS-CBN interactive na eh. kaya nga nagkaroon ata sa kanila ng reshuffle. on the other side of the fence, GMA.tv has new bosses also kaya nagreshuffle din sila. the past few days parang wala sila masyadong coporate stories. hmmm...

--

aside from the systemic problem with the agriculltural sector (naku nangunguna dito DA, anlalabo ng programa, isa syang malaking sore thumb. GMA rice and GMA corn my ass! i should know, i've worked there for almost 3 years!), accelerating population growth ang isa sa mga problema natin. di na natin kayang pakainin ang sambayanan.

the catholic church's dogmatic teaching re population control is a throwback to the middle ages. so stupid, really. and this government is more stupid for following the catholic church's edicts.

sa tingin mo ba sa taas ng bilihin ngayon (6.2 percent inflation rate!) sa tingin mo ba kayang pakainin ng isang trabahador sa ang 10 nyang anak na nagsisiksikan sa barung-barong on P325 a day?

--

where is my deutsche welle channel?! sky cable, where is my german channel? where is my tv mundo? where is my NHK and KBS? SHAME ON YOU!!! we're sky cable silver subscribers for YEARS! di makatarungan ito. eto na nga lang pinapanood ko eh.

oy benpres, sumagot ka!

buti pa cable namin sa probinsya. may history channel na, may discovery travel and living pa. hmpph!

Posted by luthien at 21:44:55 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) |
Comments
Write a comment