SO 2012 Reunion

Discounts for Senior Citizens

Reasons Why the Government Gives Discounts

to Senior Citizens:

1. FOOD– marami nang bawal.

2. TRANSPORTATION – nahihirapan nang sumakay.

3. GROCERIES – ‘di na kayang magbuhat

4. CINEMA – malabo na ang mata.

5. CONCERTS – mahina na ang pandinig.

6. GAMOT – hirap ng lumunok

7. HOTELS – ano naman ang gagawin doon?

(Baka Motel ito?)

LESSON:

Enjoy life while you’re still young, don’t wait for discounts.

NPC Retiree Reunion Nov. 3, 2011

See you at the Retirees Reunion, Nov 3,

a) 1130am, Max Resto, Quezon Memorial Circle - -> KKB (arranged by Norma de la Cruz)

b) 3pm, NPC Solarium, Head Office - -> free merienda; hosted by the Unions

c) 6pm, Grand Night, Head Office - -> Diamond Anniversary celebration

x x x x

Parable of the Pig and the Cow

"The pig was unpopular while the cow was beloved. This puzzled the pig:

"Pig: People speak warmly of your gentle nature and your sorrowful eyes. They think you are generous because each day you give them your milk.and cream. But what about me?
I give them everything I have. I give bacon, ham, chops, etc. I give my all.

"Cow: It is not really what you give when you're dead. It's about what you give while you are still alive!"

So, fellow retirees and NPC-mates, we are asking for your presence. . .join us. .laugh with us. . eat with us. . .joke with us. Or else, we will tell jokes about you if you are absent. Best regards.

LINO S CRUZ

2011-1004 Supreme Court en Banc Decision-GSIS Pension Benefits

2011-1004 Supreme Court en Banc Decision- Gsis Pension Benefit

Hi-Tech Na Si Lolo

Isang bagong website ang aking sinubukang gawin at ito nga ang Hi-Tech Na Si Lolo na ang layunin ay mabigyan ng konting gabay ang ating mga mahal sa buhay lalo na ang ating mga Tatay at Nanay o Lolo at Lola na sa ngayon ay palagian na lamang na naiiwan sa bahay.

Sa aking palagay naman ay halos karamihan sa ating bahay ay may computer na naiiiwan. At puwedeng ipagamit sa ating mga matatandang mahal sa buhay.

Naisipan ko ito dahil sa nasabi sa akin ng isang kaibigan isang VP na siya sa isang magandang opisina pero sabi niya ay hanggang sa paggawa lamang ng email ang kanyang nagagawa sa kanyang laptop. Siya kasi ay nasa idad 50 plus na at malamang talagang maaaring may tauhan siya sa opisina na gagawa sa kanya kaya marahil hindi na siya gumagawa ng paraan matutunan ang maraming nagagawa ng isang computer.

Ayoko rin kasing makita na naiiwan na lamang ang mga Tatay at Nanay o Lolo at Lola sa harapan ng telebisyon. Kailangan kasi kahit papaano ay maging malikhain(creative) pa rin sila sa kanilang buhay kahit sinasabing retirado na sila o senior citizen at ang isang paraan nito ay ang paggamit ng computer na kung saan ay maraming matutunan sa loob ng internet.

Tatalakayin dito sa mga simpleng paraan ang mga makabagong salita, halimbawa ay:

1. Wi-Fi/Wireless

2. Virus

3. Browsers

4. Internet

5. Parts of the Computer

6. Blog

7. Tablet computer

8. At mga bagong words katulad ng HDMI, USB,...at iba pa na madalas nakikita na sa mga bagong TV.

Nagkaroon din ako ng pagkakataon na makita ang mga taong may mga dementia na at maraming pag-aaral na nagsasabing na kapag ginagamit pa rin ng madalas ang isipan lalo na ang patuloy na pag-aaral o paggamit nito lalo na nga nang pagko-computer ay maiiiwasan ang tuluyang paghina ng memorya.

Kung may kasama kayo sa bahay na nais matuto ng computer ay bigyan ninyo sila nang paimulang pagtuturo at sa pamamagitan ng Hi-Tech Na Si Lolo ay maituloy ang pagtuturo sa kanila.

Maraming nagtuturo sa loob ng internet ngunit nakita ko na halos lahat ng ito ay nasusulat sa wikang banyaga.

Isang panimula lamang ito upang tuluyan na magkaroon ng panibagong mga pag-aaral ang ating mga mahal sa buhay sa mga makabagong teknolohiya.

Naito ang link sa website ng Hi-Tech Na Si Lolo (Here).

Official Websites of NAPOCOR, NGCP, TRANSCO, & PSALM

You can now browse for the current news about NAPOCOR, NGCP, TRANSCO, and PSALM.

Just click on the links above the Napocor1979 header.

Regina Brett's 45 life lessons and 5 to grow on

May 28, 2006

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.

It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolls over to 50 this week(born 1956), so here’s an update:

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.

8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.

12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.

16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.

18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, will this matter?”

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.

35. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.

36. Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.

38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.

41. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

42. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

45. The best is yet to come.

46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

48. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.

49. Yield.

50. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift..

DBM releases P1.6B to avert power shortage in SPUG areas

M a l a c a ñ a n g h a s

a p p r o v e d t h e

immediate release of

P1 . 6 2 b i l l i o n t o t h e

N a t i o n a l P o w e r

Corporation, in a bid

t o p r e v e n t a n

i m p e n d i n g p o w e r

shortage in the farflung islands and other off-grid areas

b e i n g s e r v i c e d b y t h e S m a l l P o w e r

U t i l i t i e s G r o u p , t h e m i s s i o n a r y

electrification arm of National Power.

Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad said the

fund release was made by the Department of

Budget and Management upon the instructions

of President Benigno C. Aquino III himself. Of

the total amount, P1.32 billion will be earmarked

for the fuel and lube requirements of SPUG until

December 2011. Another P140 million will go to

the rental or lease of generator sets in some

SPUG areas, while the remaining P162.5 million

will be allocated for the purchase of spare parts

for SPUG plants, which represent roughly 50

percent of National Power’s unfunded capital

expenditure requirements for 2011.

“The P1.62 billion was immediately released

by the government to urgently address the

National Power’s capability to provide stable

power supply in off-grid areas, some of which

have already experienced sporadic brownouts

due to fuel supply constraints,” Secretary Abad

said.

“ F u r t h e rmo r e , t h e g o v e r nme n t i s n ow

preparing for its next steps in ensuring stable

and affordable power supply to remote areas,”

he added, noting that a fund release for the sitio

electrification project is now being processed.

To recall, National Power had earlier warned

that fuel supply is running low in several SPUG

power plants, resulting in rotating brownouts and

raising prospects that the Corporation may be

forced to stop operating altogether in several

SPUG areas. The fuel problem stemmed from a

too-tight budget, with National Power hardDBM releases P1.6B to avert

power shortage in SPUG areas

pressed to fund its fuel requirements in the

SPUG areas and owing diesel suppliers roughly

P700 million as of end-July.

For hi s par t , Nat ional Powe r Pr e s ident

F r o i l a n A . T a m p i n c o w e l c o m e d t h e f u n d

infusion, saying it will ease National Power’s

present financial difficulties and address the

Corporation’s fuel situation. “We got another shot

in the arm, so to speak,” newspapers quoted the

President as saying. “This is something we will

utilize to tide us over until the end of the year.”

The fund release will be sourced from the

Malampaya Gas Fund, which consists of royalty

fees paid to government for the use of natural

gas from the Malampaya fields in off-shore

Palawan. Earlier this year, National Power also

received an infusion of P2 billion from the said

fund, as reimbursement for advances it had

made for the upkeep of the mothballed Bataan

Nuclear Power Plant.

B y N a t i o n a l P o w e r ’ s e s t i m a t e s , i t h a s

a d v a n c e d r o u g h l y P 4 . 3 7 b i l l i o n f o r t h e

p r e s e r v a t i o n o f t h e BNP P f r om 1 9 8 6 t o

December 2010. The two fund infusions made

to SPUG this year bring to a total of P3.6 billion

the amount that has been released to National

P owe r f r om t h e Ma l amp a y a Ga s F u n d a s

reimbursement for its BNPP advances.

Phl power cost now highest in Asia

'Phl power cost now highest in Asia' By Jess Diaz (The Philippine Star) Updated July 28, 2011 12:00 AM Comments (18)

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines now holds the unenviable record of having the highest cost of electricity in Asia, beating Japan, Singapore and its more developed neighbors, House Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada said yesterday.

“At P8.14 per kilowatt-hour, the price of electricity in the country is now the highest in Asia,” he said.

He said this price would soon go up once more, as if it is not already high and people could still absorb a new round of rate increase.

He revealed that the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) wants to pass on to the public P134.9 billion in loans and expenses it incurred from 2007 to 2010.

Tañada said the agency has already filed a power rate increase petition with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), which will most likely act on it favorably.

It was Congress that created PSALM under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) of 2001. The agency was tasked to privatize the National Power Corp. (Napocor) and use the proceeds from the sale of its assets to pay for its debt.

But PSALM itself is now mired in indebtedness, which it wants to pass on to the public.

“Epira was intended to be the solution to the country’s electricity problems, but PSALM now literally wallows in debt amounting to some $16 billion,” Tañada said.

What makes matters worse for the government and taxpayers is the fact that the agency continues to incur huge amounts of operating losses, he said.

He said expenses that PSALM wants the public to pay for through a power rate increase includes P1.16 billion paid to consultants in 2009 and bonuses to officers and employees equivalent to 5.5 months of basic salary.

He urged the House of Representatives and the Senate to jointly stop the impending increase and investigate both PSALM and ERC. He said the two chambers could do so through the Joint Congressional Power Commission, of which he is a member.

The commission is supposed to oversee the implementation of Epira, including the privatization of Napocor. It should share the blame for the high power rates in the country, according to some business groups.

Congress has just extended the life of the power oversight body and given it fresh funds.

It was Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone who first blew the whistle on PSALM’s plan to pass on to the public hundreds of billions in loans and questionable expenses.

He called for an independent audit of how the agency used billions of dollars in earnings from the sale of Napocor power plants and other assets and billions more in loans it obtained.

He said the more than $10 billion in privatization proceeds that have been realized should have been enough to wipe out Napocor’s debt.

System Operations 2012 Reunion

30^th Anniversary of System Operations (SO) Building 3, Diliman, Quezon City in 2012

An opportunity to meet SO originals from

Ø System Control Division

Ø System Planning Division

Ø Computer & Telemetering Group

To achieve effective information dissemination and logistics, groupings by Division is suggested, with the following persons in charge:

1. Mr. Lino Cruz System Control Division

2. Mr. Rollie Bacani System Planning

3. Mr. Paul Partoza Computer and Telemetering Division

The occasion will be in 2012 in Manila. There are no definite dates yet as suggestions/comments of people from abroad regarding their availabilities are being solicited at this time.

A rough schedule is a three-day get together as follows:

Day 1 (Could be a Friday) A Lunch at NPC Function Room. A chance to have those on duty in SO to come with the occasion (12:00-1:00) and for others who can’t make the next two-day trip. Invited Guests may join the celebration and the affair could last until 5:00 or 6:00 p.m.

Day 2 Trip to Tagaytay. Orlando Pedarse offered his vacation house in Tagaytay for an overnight stay. Assembly place will be NPC Diliman. Vehicles will be arranged. Lunch will be any restaurant along the way to Tagaytay. Sleep at Lando’s vacation house.

Day 3 After Lunch, trip back to Manila

Any other suggestions and recommendations are appreciated.

Rolando T. Bacani appointed to Transco

Latest appointees

by Tess Bedico

Sunday, 06 February 2011 19:11

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III named a few more appointments to government-owned and controlled corporations and other government offices. Rolando Bacani who was named president and chief executive officer of National Transmission Corporation led the new list of presidential appointees. Bacani, former general manager of Korea Electric Power Corporation Philippines, replaced Moslemen Macarambon as Transco head. The President also appointed Francis Garcia as member of the board of directors, representing the municipality of Hermosa, Bataan at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority; Bienvenido Benitez, SBMA board member representing the national government; and Roberto Garcia, SBMA Board member, representing business and investment sector The other appointees are Aminah Rasul Bernardo, member of the board of directors, representing the academic sector, Mindanao Development Authority, and Rejoice Subijano, MINda board representing the academic sector; Benjamin Santiago III Acting Director 1 (Assistant Regional Director), at the Land Transportation Office; and Villamor Villa, Acting director III, Department of National Defense. Aquino named Leon Flores III, chairman of the National Youth Commission; Erwin Chua Andaya, NYC commissioner representing Visayas; Georgina P. Nava, NYC Commissioner representing Luzon; Earl Saavedra, NYC Commissioner representing Mindanao; and Percival Cendana, NYC Commissioner at large.

Balitang COLA from EV Mail News

Court orders NPC to pay employees P6.49-Billion

by EVMAIL NEWS on APRIL 7, 2009

ORMOC CITY – A Quezon City regional trial court has awarded with finality this week some 9,777 employees of the National Power Corporation (NPC) a whooping P6.496-Billion representing “back allowances” and unpaid cost of living allowances (COLA) from November 1989 up to 1999, when the case was filed against the government corporation.

The sum, if equally divided among the 9,777 employees, would give each around P664,000.00. However, the distribution of the money would be prorated, depending on their salary scale, as the back allowances and COLA due to them represents 40 plus 10 percent of their salaries, respectively.

Presiding Judge Luisito G. Cortez of the RTC Branch 84 in Quezon City has also ordered NPC to pay the employees another P 704-million interest at 12 percent per annum on the whole sum, from the time the complaint was filed in December 2007 until its resolution in December 2008. The lawyers and “consultants” of the NPC employees were also awarded 300,000.00 in attorney’s fees, aside from five percent of the entire amount that each employee will receive, as consultancy fee for them. That would be around P324.8-million.
A notice to comply dated March 24, this year, has since been served by the sheriff of RTC Branch 84 to the NPC on March 25, after the decision became final. It is not learned at this point in time if the NPC would file an appeal on the judge’s decision at the Supreme Court, or if still can be appealed.
However, NPC employees are confident they would get the P6.496-Billion award, banking on a similar case that has already been resolved by the Supreme Court just last December 2008. This was the complaint filed by terminated members of the NPC Drivers and Mechanics Association (NPC DAMA). The Supreme Court has ordered NPC to pay the terminated drivers their back wages and allowances, saying their termination from work was illegal. The National Power Corporation is a government-controlled corporation. Its transmission facilities under TransCo have since been privatized, including the one in Eastern Visayas based at Milagro, this city, which was bought by a Chinese firm and now operating under the name National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).

NPC is the same entity that has recently been allowed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to increase on their power rates by some P1.1460 in the Visayas, claiming they have been operating on the red. However, in a certification issued on April 22, 2008, Alexander Japon, NPC senior finance department manager, certified that it has available funds for the payment of back allowances and COLA to its personnel and former employees in the amount of P8.5-Billion.
To demand for the immediate compliance of the court order, former NPC employees, majority of who have since been absorbed by the new owners of its facilities, have started a “peaceful assembly” in their respective locations every lunch break. Here in Milagro, this city, the employees took to assembling at the plant gates during their lunch break starting Friday, March 27, 2009. Requesting anonymity, some employees told the EV Mail that what they are doing is just to dramatize their demand, but they are doing it during their lunch break so as not to disrupt the normal operations of the electric transmission facility.

Class suit

The complaint against the NPC is for mandamus. It was filed by two employees originally, Abner P. Eleria and Melito B. Lupanco. Eleria was president of the NPC Employees Consolidated Union or NECU and Lupanggo, president of the NPC Employees and Workers Union (NEWU). Soon thereafter, their respective unions filed as petitioner-intervenors in behalf of its members. The judge then ruled that since the parties involved were numerous, that the same was a “class suit”. The petitioners complained to the court that before November 1989, they received allowances and COLA which were discontinued after the Salary Standardization Law took effect. The Department of Budget and Management, on the other hand, issued DBM Corporate Circular No. 10 (CCC No. 10), as its implementing guidelines. The guidelines, however, proved fatally defective after it was not published. It was only published by the DBM on the Official Gazette on March 1999, after 10 years. Government counsels, on the other hand, including the Office of the Solicitor General, tried to argue for NPC and DBM, attacking the complaint for various technicalities including the non-payment of the proper amount of docket fees.

However, Judge Cortez brushed these aside, invoking in his decision the constitutional right of the people to the equal protection of law. In his prefatory statement, the judge said “The State affirms labor as a primary social economic force. It shall protect the rights of workers and promote their welfare. The state values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect of human rights.” He also invoked that “Free access to the courts and quasi-judicial bodies and adequate legal assistance shall not be denied to any person by reason of poverty”. He said that when the case was filed at his sala, the Clerk of Court computed the proper fees for its filing then, since it was only in the course of the proceedings that it became a “class suit”. As such, the judge also imposed a lien of P145.4-million on the total award representing payment of the adjusted docket fees. He cited Section 2, Rule 141 of the Rules of Court that provides: “Where the court in its final judgment awards a claim not alleged, or a relief different from, or more than that claimed in the pleading, the party concerned shall pay the additional fees which shall constitute lien on the judgment in satisfaction of said lien”. with a report from JP Serseña

from...http://www.evmailnews.com/court-orders-npc-to-pay-employees-p649-billion