Comments on: An Open Letter to Bayani Fernando

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:53:36 +0000

@righton: Thanks for your concern! Our houses never had been “buried” by floodwaters ever since 1979. Tell that to Bayani Fernando. Karma came for him, but it was his people in Marikina who suffered.

By: righton

righton — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:05 +0000

Hi Bob, I hope you are not burried by the flood’s mud, I hope your house is not burried by floodwaters, if you are and if it is, that’s what we call KARMA, you should blame Mr. Bayani Fernando again for that!

By: kimi

kimi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:27:27 +0000

ang basura minsan ang dahilan, try nyo wag magtapon sa kalsda o jeep etc.. hindi madadampot lahat yan ni bayani.magumpisa sa sarili natin pgcontrol ng baha. my problema din mayor nyo. magaling mayor nmin d2 eh tsaka disiplinado karamihanng tao.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:27:21 +0000

@smarty: Every specie — human or not — is entitled to an opinion. Thanks for visiting my site and PAYING ATTENTION to my post. No one in our place had ASKED for Bayani Fernando’s intervention to ease the flooding in our place. At the first place, there was NO flooding before in our place. You can tell Bayani to just go to hell and forget about 2010.

By: smarty

smarty — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:03:50 +0000

Bob …”@TJ Thanks for visiting my site! Yah, I know that it is the City Mayor’s job to eliminate flood, if not control it. But what do the pink boys of MMDA doing in our street that time, and the fact that my dad even asked why they are making pakialam the drainage system means that BF and MMDA, for that matter, really made pakialam na the flood control in our city.”

Isn’t that so ironic that Bob Reyes’ letter to Chairman Bayani Fernado is complaining about the consistent flood problem in their area, and here he is again complaining about the pinkboys participation who are only doing their job in easing floodings in their area, shouldn’t you be thankful that Chairman Fernando is doing something to ease the flood problem in your area since no one in your local government units doing it for you? Bob’s letter to Bayani is only showing his ARROGANCE and HYPOCRISY to the highest level and therefore not worthy to pay attention to.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:15:05 +0000

I have read some of the comments regarding MMDA and Chairman Bayani Fernando. I don’t want to make this a personal issue. It’s all about right and wrong and the decency to a responsible citizen. I grew up in the US and I now live n the Philippines. This is the first time I have seen the traffic scheme of a government agency implemented without testing the effectivity of such a move. All these u turn slots that build up traffic before the u turn have become a mojor headache to all. The people driving in the streets of Metro Manila have no discipline at all. It’s a free for all when you get to certain u turn slots as all the vehicles, in an effort to try to get ahead of everyone, take up the outermost lanes, clogging up the whole road, thus creating congestion just before the u turn slot. In the meantime, there a couple of vehicles that get through and there is virtually no traffic after the u turn slot. I am assuming these are the areas that MMDA has focused on, thereby bragging rights have been earned for a congestion free road. This is just one example among many. If I might suggest to Chairman Bayani Fernando, instead of trying to alter the streets of Metro Manila, why not institute a learning process and educate all licensed drivers on proper driving habits and etiquette. Not just Juan Driver, but ALL licensed drivers, including the SIR that drives occassionally.

Thank you.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:11:06 +0000

@sam:

How pathetic is that?!

By: sam

sam — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:57:24 +0000

Pls sign petition for Bayani Fernando here http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/BayaniFernando
thanks ya’ll!

By: Kaiser Fernandez

Kaiser Fernandez — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:12:50 +0000

Your reaction is normal. I know. I also drive in the metro.

Don’t pass on to the government your problem of inefficiency.

Your ignorance is not an excuse. You’re not the first person I’ve heard complaining about this ruling.

The road is just like an assembly line, an obstruction will prevent it from working efficiently. If you’re an obstruction, then sorry. Just make sure your car is in tip-top condition before you leave the garage.

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:38:02 +0000

Dear Bayani,

I hope you read this because I will be publishing this, both in Tagalog (for the local audience) and English (for the international audience) in every blog and website dedicated to you.

At about 9:30am in the morning of December 2, 2008, I was driving along C5 in Pasig headed towards Makati. I was on the second lane to the left and after passing Julia Vargas, my car’s engine suddenly died. I tried starting the engine a few times but it wouldn’t. So I switched on my hazard light, opened my window and waved at the drivers behind me to move ahead.

A few minutes later, an MMDA tow truck arrived. I though, at last someone can assist me. An MMDA officer stepped down, and to my surprise, he blamed me for my car breaking down. He said, “You’re an obstacle! We have to tow your car! You will be fined P1,700 for the towing and a P500 ticket!”

When we reached the gas station, he said, “It’s either we tow your car to the impounding station, where you will be fined P1,700 for the towing and a P500 ticket, or you can just pay P1,500 for towing your car to this gas station.”

I asked him, “Why is there a fine and a ticket? Is it the person’s fault that his car breaks down?”

He answered, “That’s just how it is, OK??”, in a nasty and threatening way. Is this the Courteous Service that you are bragging about?

I understand that there is a towing fee, but I found it expensive to tow my car for P1,500 for not even half a kilometer to the gas station. So like any normal Filipino, struggling to earn a living, I chose to pay the cheaper option of P1,500. He didn’t even give me a receipt. He even asked me to break the P1,000 bill into two P500s, obviously to make it easier for them to divide the bribe. He left in a hurry before I can get his name, happy that he got a victim.

This is when I realized why there are so many MMDAs on the road. It’s such a lucrative job. Instead of helping the people, they have ways to make money off them.

Bayani, it’s common sense, if your car breaks down, is it your fault and should you be fined??

We are the only country like this where a driver gets fined because his car breaks down. We all know that this is no isolated event. This is the same with the MMDAs who wait behind U-turn slots, waiting for someone to jump out of his lane, or the MMDAs who wait around the corner where there’s a traffic light, jumping on someone who makes a right turn during a red signal. Instead of waiting for violations, they should just be guiding drivers on what to do, and helping in the traffic! We, the taxpayers, support your existence, but instead, your officers find ways to milk us for all we’ve got. In the meantime, there are many reckless drivers, smoke belchers and private vehicles with police sirens who are still out there.

Bayani, you are running for president in 2010. I was your fan and I would vote for you. But because of my experience with the MMDA, if you can’t even control the corruption in your organization, how can you control the corruption in the Philippines??

Citizen Jose