I just got home from an early shift today and while on my way home I felt like I’m itching to write something about the potential Philippine Presidential candidates. As of this writing there isn’t a final list yet of the presidentiables. There are still rigmaroles in the aspiring candidates. In short, we have not decided yet if they will run or not.
I often have this discussion about politics with my daughter’s dad about who to vote this coming presidential election. Most of the time we would end up arguing about the one with the most potential, and he is an avid follower of Sen. Francis “CHIZ” Escudero. At first the young senator is reluctant to announce what position is he vying for. He almost got me into voting him this coming election, until he made an odd decision. He is leaving the NATIONALIST PEOPLE’s COALITION. Maybe he hasn’t decided if he would like to team up with Sen. Loren Legarda. I don’t much about the reason why he resigned from the party list but if in case he’ll win it will be the first time that a presidentiable would win without a party list. The big question is can he make it with a party list? A political party may come in handy when it comes to campaigning, laying out political agenda, and of course the most essential part of candidacy, funds…juicy right. I can tell that Sen. Chiz would like to prove every political party that you would not need to join a party to win a seat in the government. He is quite popular already because he has made a name for himself as a very well known critic of the GMA administration. We all know that the only thing permanent in politics is change. Friends can become enemies. Enemies later on become allies. This is not new in politics, and most of the time being seated in government has become a mean to earn a living. That’s why foreign governments are saying that the country is one of the most corrupt government in the world and we are an epitome of a mock government. I think this is what Sen. Chiz is trying to avoid. I understand that he is asking for more time to think hard about his decision to run for a higher position, but sometimes-perfect timing meets perfect situation. Like in Sen. Noynoy’s case. Forgive me, but I think he is a concrete example of someone who is in the perfect situation. But let’s tackle that later. This time I am focusing on each and every candidate that I can see who has the most potential to run a lost country. Hopefully Chiz is just not only rich in words but I hope he is also rich in works. We have to admit that we are being ran by traditional politics and we have to escape from the reality that we are changing and we need to change also the way we are being governed. Sadly each and every one of them is corrupt…in their own big and little ways.
This 2010 Presidential Election we need not only to be wise in choosing a leader but we need to make sure that we won’t be a puppet. We need to gather up our senses and make sure that we will screen every candidate and not be blinded by the colorful posters, flyers, the celebrities that they drag to their campaign (what do celebrities know about the candidate that they are endorsing? Celebrities are just like us ordinary people; they don’t know much their bet as much as we do. Think about this celebrities are just hired spokesperson for the candidates and rare that they know each other very well.
Here are some researched facts about Sen. Francis CHIZ Escudero:
BORN October10, 1969 to Represenative Salvador “Sonny” H. Escudero III (1st District of Sorsogon) and educator Evelina B. Guevara.
Escudero’s initiation into the political arena and into the art of addressing big crowds began in his teens in the ’80s, when he helped organize the local campaigns of his father. Escudero explained: “In 1984, I was part of the postering brigade in my dad’s campaign for assemblyman. In 1987, I handled the youth; in 1992, I handled the headquarters and arranged logistics. In 1995, I handled last minute operations, and in 1998, I was finally the candidate!”
He first indicated his inclination towards politics at age of 22 when he expressed interest to run for public office as municipal councilor of Sorsogon City. At age 25, he again indicated intent to run for the office of the mayor of Sorsogon City. But for both occasions, the family’s opinion, especially that of his father’s, that he finish his law studies first before beginning a political career, prevailed. In response to the wishes of his family, he finished his Law studies first before entering politics.
Escudero attended the University of the Philippines Integrated School for both his Elementary and Secondary Education, and graduated in 1981 and 1985 respectively. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City in 1988 and Bachelors of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1993. He received his Masters in International and Comparative Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D. C. in 1996.
2007-Present – Elected as one of the youngest Senators in the Philippine History
He primarily started running office at the Philippines house of Representative for the first district of Sorsogon. He is also a Minority Floor Leader of the 13th Congress on his 3rd and last term.
NOTE: He just resigned from the NPC party. Most of his senior mentors of the said party list are quite disappointed and upset when he publicly announced his separation from the party. Most of the senior mentors are saying that he is being ungrateful and the government to be a running mate for the administration Presidential bet Gilbert GIBO Teodoro is wooing him. This may seem odd but who knows? We can’t tell which is which until the first day of campaign is here.
This is just the first part of the Philippine Presidential saga. And believe me it’s a long process and we still have to evaluate 5 more candidates. Bye for now because I still have some things to think about. It’s just a couple of months away from the elections and we can’t afford to waste time doing nothing.
What happens when suddenly you lost confidence over something that you believe in? That’s what exactly happened to me at work. This is a continuation of my laments about work. Yes, I am vocally expressing my disappointment about my job. I work in a very well known company; it is a global company with different businesses.
I don’t complain much about the levity of work that we have. What I am saying is that the utmost priority of a company is fact should be focused on health. When you have enough sleep, your mind process and analyzes things more efficiently. With this kind of work, we are dealing with customers financial problems every freaking day. So in conclusion, if you get enough sleep, you tend to focus more on problem resolution instead of getting frustrated more than the customer is. It should be simple, right? But hell, no! As much as I would love to think that this job is easy, it’s damned not. We get a whole lot of stress and get sickness like hypertension, heart diseases, lung disease, crankiness and throat problem etc. We are actually treated like at the bottom of the food chain. Sometimes, I think that even though they look at it that way, I think that it is rewarding sometimes to hear a customer say thank you and appreciate your effort in resolving the concern.
