vote on 2010

If you can only pick the best candidate from their political ads...
I will vote for Manny Villar.

I like the catchy beat, makes me want to sway my head while singing it (kid's voice).

Hence, reading comments and feedbacks and biographies...
I am looking at specific people to consider.. like Gilbert 'Gibo' Teodoro.

I heard a lot of good things about him yet I'm sorry,
I'm not particularly familiar about the guy.
Need to research more to know him though.

but right now, I am thinking of Richard 'Dick" Gordon
and after checking his site and reading this..
if this is true beyond belief, 'the man' has my vote! He had me at 'be'! :D

10 Principles for Success in 2010

Asked how ordinary Filipinos can improve their lot in life, Sen. Dick Gordon, who has enjoyed a fruitful and accomplished life, shares his key principles for career and financial success:

1. Be ambitious. Umaasa tayo lagi sa tulong. Kahit anong hirap mo, you have to be ambitious. Being ambitious is not negative.

2. Have the right work ethic. Bawal ang tamad. Lalong bawal ang tanga. Manage by objective. Instead of a quick fix or instant gratification, practice delayed gratification. We should go for meritocracy. Hindi palakasan. Palakasan pa rin dito.

3. Learn a skill. Poverty is an absence of choice. That’s why you have to continue learning. You have to learn a skill. I never tell people “good luck.” I always tell them “good skill.” Be creative. Nasa Diyos ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa. God gave you skills. God will not help you if you don’t help yourself.

4. Work, save, invest, and prosper. You have to work. Address your needs but always save. Get into a business. Get life insurance or a personal accident insurance kung `yun lang ang kaya mo. We need a provident fund especially for our OFWs. We have 11 million Filipinos abroad. You put them and our people here in a provident fund, we can prosper ourselves. Combine GSIS and SSS funds and come up with a provident fund, just like what Singapore did. People have to learn to save something.

5. Help. Find extra time to help. Volunteer with the Red Cross. Kapag alam mong ginawa mo, bibiyaan ka. Helping others is a reward in itself.

6. Lead by example. The Philippines would improve if it elects a leader who can inspire, able to communicate by word and deed, provides a vision, extracts values, and displays integrity. Demand from your leaders. Ask for their qualifications. Look for their record.

7. Be independent. I had to fight big guys but I couldn’t tell my dad. He encouraged me to learn judo to protect myself. You have to learn to survive. You have to learn to stand your ground. Those guys who tried to bully me, I stood up to them.

8. Learn from your mistakes. I learn from my mistakes. I learn from other people’s mistakes. There’s only one thing I can never learn: to be overly materialistic. I don’t pay the media to cover me. I don’t pay for my press releases. If my being straightforward is a mistake, that’s a mistake I’ll keep on repeating.

9. Be assertive. We’re like makahiyas. We shouldn’t be. We shouldn’t be an adapting culture. We’re resilient but we don’t assert ourselves. We’re a happy people. That’s good psychology. We laugh at ourselves. We’re an accommodating culture. We shouldn’t be. We should live by the national anthem, by our oath.

Make fear your friend. During the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, I told myself we’re not going to allow ourselves to die here. I prayed, “If you’re going to take me, take me. Please though, don’t make me look bad as I lead.” You must make fear your friend.

MONEYSENSE MAGAZINE
Sen. Richard Gordon’s 10 Principles for Success
By: Lynda C. Corpuz

My POV..

as a Filipina born during the Martial Law years. I grew up with Ninoy and Cory Aquino on my shirt and posing with the Laban sign on every picture. I danced with my sister after my dad had his campaign speech on a Barangay election, issued sedula and Brgy. clearance during afternoon siesta. I stood at a corner street and gave away liflets with my father's photo and name as he ran for vice-mayor. I waited for a big empty feast after my dad lost his recount appeal. I packed food for volunteers and poll watchers few years next. The Brgy hall was my hangout place every weekends, meeting de abanse and parades were one of the events i would be seen present. Provincial Capitol was my detention place once I was grounded. Different faces every morning having coffee at home, different voices calling at the gate asking for every kind of help at any god-forbidden time, different hands you shake at one place to another letting you feel they knew you thoroughly. The food, money, car even holidays and bedtime hours were never private properties to consider. The friends who became enemies who became friends again. The truth that became an issue that ended as a gossip. The drama of it all..

Yes indeed, i am a politician's kid and I grew up seeing the multi-layers of politics. Yet I don't think it is a mandatory just for me to think about all these. We all have the responsibility, we all have the right to vote for we are a free man in need of a free country.

(ehem..nice speech bah?)

Vote for me!!!! :D