Thursday, June 10, 2010
Sweet Nothings: Glimpse and Pieces Of Our Vacation
Sweet Nothings: Glimpse and Pieces Of Our Vacation
Thank you for sharing your pictures. We welcome and are grateful for blogs that showcase and promote Batangas.
Batangas Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. and the Philippine Action Group for Social Responsibility, Inc.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Up, Up Batangas is Usapang Pangkapayapaan, Usapang Pangkaunlaran 98.5FM
During times of emergencies and events of national interest, one would see Lt. Col. Gerry Zamudio on TV as the spokesman for the AFP, explaining away something that just happened. I have known Lt. Col. Zamudio since 2006 when he was still with Fernando Air Base - and I felt so privileged to have known him when he became a celebrity of sorts as I always see him getting interviewed on national TV. Lt. Col. Gerry Zamudio is a native Bicolano but is residing in Batangas with his lovely wife Nilda.
Sometime in March, he and a group of friends from the Rotary Club of Lipa South decided to start a public service Radio Program on 98.5FM every Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. which is also aired on DWDD AFP Radio every Monday at 1:00 p.m. and on Channel 6 Cable TV Lipa every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. entitled Up Up Batangas. Up Up stands for Usapang Pangkapayapaan and Usapang Pangkaunlaran
As our Vice President for Agriculture Mario Amparo is also from the Rotary Club of Lipa South, BPCCI became involved in this program. We are at the Blue Sapphire every Sunday morning from 9:00 a.m. for the live program on radio and simultaneously taping it for Cable TV.
Lt. Col Zamudio is the program's Anchor. We are often joined by Bing Formento of DZRH who comes all the way from Manila just to lend a helping hand and to provide the professional "VOICE" to our "little-town" efforts. Mr. Formento is doing this for the sake of old friendships, and our group is just so grateful to him for his generosity with his time and assistance.
This is a public service effort and no one is getting paid. Those who want to contribute content, time, effort, or just pay for our coffee and local pandesal, which Mr. Mario Amparo tries to provide every session is most welcome.
Blue Sapphire is the "event place" and coffee shop in front of Fernando Air Base in Lipa. During the last session, where the discussion was about NSO, COMELEC, the Police and AFP roles in the coming elections, someone brought "suman" all the way from the town of Bauan.
The next session will be about Tourism and local industries. Guests from Tagaytay Highlands, which new development is mostly in the Batangas area, (although their main gate is in Tagaytay City, Cavite) promised to give us a taste of their "bread and pastries"
Thank you very much to all of you who have been helping us.
Sometime in March, he and a group of friends from the Rotary Club of Lipa South decided to start a public service Radio Program on 98.5FM every Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. which is also aired on DWDD AFP Radio every Monday at 1:00 p.m. and on Channel 6 Cable TV Lipa every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. entitled Up Up Batangas. Up Up stands for Usapang Pangkapayapaan and Usapang Pangkaunlaran
As our Vice President for Agriculture Mario Amparo is also from the Rotary Club of Lipa South, BPCCI became involved in this program. We are at the Blue Sapphire every Sunday morning from 9:00 a.m. for the live program on radio and simultaneously taping it for Cable TV.
Lt. Col Zamudio is the program's Anchor. We are often joined by Bing Formento of DZRH who comes all the way from Manila just to lend a helping hand and to provide the professional "VOICE" to our "little-town" efforts. Mr. Formento is doing this for the sake of old friendships, and our group is just so grateful to him for his generosity with his time and assistance.
This is a public service effort and no one is getting paid. Those who want to contribute content, time, effort, or just pay for our coffee and local pandesal, which Mr. Mario Amparo tries to provide every session is most welcome.
Blue Sapphire is the "event place" and coffee shop in front of Fernando Air Base in Lipa. During the last session, where the discussion was about NSO, COMELEC, the Police and AFP roles in the coming elections, someone brought "suman" all the way from the town of Bauan.
The next session will be about Tourism and local industries. Guests from Tagaytay Highlands, which new development is mostly in the Batangas area, (although their main gate is in Tagaytay City, Cavite) promised to give us a taste of their "bread and pastries"
Thank you very much to all of you who have been helping us.
Travel and Tourism Expo in Lipa and Handbook of Tourism-Related Establishments
We are cooperating with the Philippine Marketing Association - Batangas Chapter in organizing the Batangas Travel and Tourism Expo in Lipa City. Everyone interested may send us a message.
As we cannot accommodate exhibitors and participants in the very limited spaces available in Lipa City, we have decided to publish the HANDBOOK on Travel and Tourism featuring Resorts, Hotels and Accommodations available per Province per Region in the Philippines, as part of this project. This will also contain Comparative Statistics of Philippine Provinces per Region and basic Information on Accreditation and Tourism Standards.
We have noticed blogs where Information on Resorts and other related establishments are misleading. Websites and contact information stay published even if they are no longer valid. We have also read Comments where people are so ignorant of basic locations.
The HANDBOOK will be given to the would-be "newly elected" and newly-appointed officials of Batangas and other stakeholders in various industries and businesses to aid them in planning their seminars, conferences, team-buildings and vacations.
Hopefully we will be able to generate enough interest in this project and produce more copies to furnish our national network of friends and associates.
As we cannot accommodate exhibitors and participants in the very limited spaces available in Lipa City, we have decided to publish the HANDBOOK on Travel and Tourism featuring Resorts, Hotels and Accommodations available per Province per Region in the Philippines, as part of this project. This will also contain Comparative Statistics of Philippine Provinces per Region and basic Information on Accreditation and Tourism Standards.
We have noticed blogs where Information on Resorts and other related establishments are misleading. Websites and contact information stay published even if they are no longer valid. We have also read Comments where people are so ignorant of basic locations.
The HANDBOOK will be given to the would-be "newly elected" and newly-appointed officials of Batangas and other stakeholders in various industries and businesses to aid them in planning their seminars, conferences, team-buildings and vacations.
Hopefully we will be able to generate enough interest in this project and produce more copies to furnish our national network of friends and associates.
Batangas Action is now Philippine Action
We are retaining this blog, although it has been a while since we last posted. We are cross-linked with multiply.com. So when we used to post there, it turns up here, and in Facebook too. But during the last two or more months, multiply has been "upgrading". And the automatic "cross-posting' has not been working, so there has been no new posts.
We have signed up -batangascham and batangaschamber- for both gmail.com and yahoo.com extensions. People keep inviting me and I ended up maintining three facebook accounts. Soz, sorry for the invites to the other account... 3 is more than enough, I'd say.
While we were registering Batangas Action for Corporate Social Responsibility with SEC, we attended a seminar in Manila. Our counterpart "Executive Directors" from Laguna, Quezon, Cavite, Rizal and Baguio saw the paperwork - and so liked the idea - of involving employees of our member companies in local social responsibility projects that they decided to join in. The individual membership Fee is P250.00 per annum and they paid up readily.
You see, the membership base of the Chamber of Commerce is the Company and/or it's official representative only. If he/she/they do not issue an official memo for their employees to participate in a project - then there will only be few attendees. And understandably, he/she/they being CEOS/owners/presidents are always too busy to bother with memos for small-scale community projects.
As of this writing, we have already filed the application with SEC - for Philippine Action Group for Social Responsibility Inc. The name evolved from "services and development" to "group for social responsibility". We are still in the process of editing some points in the Articles/By-laws from the comments of the Monitoring and Evaluation Department.
So, we will be posting about our next projects - and we hope to see more of you, Batanguenos - whether you are in a Resort in Nasugbu, in one of the towns to get to the far reaches of San Juan, a farm in Lipa somewhere, or working in one of our Industrial Estates. The time to act is now. Join the philippineaction group.
We have signed up -batangascham and batangaschamber- for both gmail.com and yahoo.com extensions. People keep inviting me and I ended up maintining three facebook accounts. Soz, sorry for the invites to the other account... 3 is more than enough, I'd say.
While we were registering Batangas Action for Corporate Social Responsibility with SEC, we attended a seminar in Manila. Our counterpart "Executive Directors" from Laguna, Quezon, Cavite, Rizal and Baguio saw the paperwork - and so liked the idea - of involving employees of our member companies in local social responsibility projects that they decided to join in. The individual membership Fee is P250.00 per annum and they paid up readily.
You see, the membership base of the Chamber of Commerce is the Company and/or it's official representative only. If he/she/they do not issue an official memo for their employees to participate in a project - then there will only be few attendees. And understandably, he/she/they being CEOS/owners/presidents are always too busy to bother with memos for small-scale community projects.
As of this writing, we have already filed the application with SEC - for Philippine Action Group for Social Responsibility Inc. The name evolved from "services and development" to "group for social responsibility". We are still in the process of editing some points in the Articles/By-laws from the comments of the Monitoring and Evaluation Department.
So, we will be posting about our next projects - and we hope to see more of you, Batanguenos - whether you are in a Resort in Nasugbu, in one of the towns to get to the far reaches of San Juan, a farm in Lipa somewhere, or working in one of our Industrial Estates. The time to act is now. Join the philippineaction group.
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