Friday, September 23, 2011

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.










Saturday, September 17, 2011

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.