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To: Mr. Bayani Fernando
Chairman, MMDA
Dear Mr. Fernando,
I can’t help but wonder why floods are still everywhere within the Metro Manila area during a down pour, even if your office had already spent millions of tax payer’s money cleaning the estero’s and rehabilitating the pumping stations. I grew up in the same street where I am living now, and I can only remember once or twice (at most) wherein our street got flooded due to heavy rains — take note, “heavy rains”.
But now, it is very much different: the entire street gets flooded after a 20-30 minute rain. No, I am not complaining because I am against you, but I do not see my money’s worth in the way your office handles flood control.
Another thing, was it really necessary to have your face posted in every tarpauline that your office will post in the streets? True public service need not to have a face — people need not to know who leads what agency or office, as long as they are doing their jobs (right). Same goes with the “BAYANI” stickers pasted on almost all buses plying the avenues of the metropolis — is it a necessity?
I am not sure if you are very much aware of how much each tarp poster or sticker cost, but I do not think they are helping in the improvement on how Metro Manila looks from the eyes of a citizen.
Thanks for your time reading this letter. More power, and I do hope to see less of MMDA tarps with your face in the very near future.
Best regards,
BobReyes.com
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15 Responses so far to "An Open Letter to Bayani Fernando"
July 16th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I agree with you sir. In fact, I used to live around the Pasong Tamo area… and by golly the floods there are legendary and have been there forever! And to think there’s a canal right beside Pasong Tamo–underneath the Mile Long Compound! What the hell?!
And you know what they did to ‘beautify’ Pasong Tamo? They put those little reflective studs on the street, from end to end… that’s supposed to help traffic and flooding how?
I want to see receipts of their spending… I want to know where my tax pesos are going!
August 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
You cannot always blame someone for everything that is happening on your place. If you think that BF can’t solve your problem then why don’t you guys find a way to solve it yourselves.
It is annoying to see a politician’s face and name in a poster everywhere, but come to think of it, dont we have the right to remove those posters that makes our country more ugly.
Our country is being manage by corrupt and heartless politicians and their families. We have to wake up and act for the better.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Bob, why don’t you make a magic out of it? that way those floods will go away in a quick second or better sip it if you can with your mouth then maybe you will realize that controling flood is not that easy as counting 123…
August 16th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Hi Allen! Thanks for the suggestion. But before I consider it, why not unmasked your persona first? Try not to use a proxyfier the next time that you post a comment in my blog. Til next time, AH!
August 25th, 2008 at 10:34 am
using public funds and government resources for his 2010 presidential ambitions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26110335@N08/2620803380/sizes/o/
Take note of the following
1. tricycles with Bayani stickers
2. bayani fernando supporters (or maybe marikina city gov’t or mmda employees) wearing pink shirts
3. government license plate
4. marikina city government logo on vehicle
August 25th, 2008 at 10:36 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26110335@N08/2620785632/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26110335@N08/2620803380/sizes/o/
taken during a tacloban festival
August 25th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Thanks for the comments, Jon! And guess what, he is also a contestant at the Celebrity Duets! Ang tagal pa ng election ah?
September 10th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Hi Bob. Please don’t sound like you know how to solve the flood problem. Think about all the other politicians we don’t even hear or see because they’re busy doing all the dirty work. Feel free to comment on what i wrote regarding BF.
http://kaiserfernandez.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/bayani-fernando/
September 27th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
From where I am living, floods definitely were diminished. Needless to say, solution to floods is your mayor’s responsibility.
Apparently, our mayor works well with BF. However, in your place, does your mayor cooperate with him? Perhaps not. Now you know who to blame!
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
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mike on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
im a marikenyos,so i know what the phenomenon he done to our city…a cleanest,discipline,worldclass ,peacefully livelihood place.6yrs pa lang po ang mmda,pero ang dami nang magagandang accomplistment,na talaga nmang napakaepektibo.!!pasasaan pa’t makikita nila ang ginhawa ng magandang pagbabago ng metro manila,suportahan lng natin si(BF)at ipagdasal pa sa kanyang mga magagandang layunin sa bayan.sa mga honorable mayor ng metro manila…suportahan nlang po natin si chairman bayani fernando…magkaisa po kyo para rin nman sa ikakabubuti ng lahat.magtulungan, na para bang isang team ng liga…at sa bandang huli ay makukuha rin natin ang kampeonato…at makagrandslam pa diba?tigilan na po natin ang erehan,ang inggit,pagkamatigas ang ulo,iwasan na natin mag utak talangka…maging positibo!!!wag natin ibaba ang isang taong sa tingin natin ay maganda at malinis sa kanyang hangarin,alam natin na hindi sya ganun kasikat sa pilipinas pero nakita nman natin ang dedikasyon nya,umikot man sya sa buong pinas,makita ko man ang sticker nya ang tarpaulin poster nya,marami mang kumastigo at kumontra!!!wala akong pakialam!!!no big deal…dapat lang para mas lalong makilala at sumikat pa sya sa buong pinas,kung sa ikakaganda’t at pagunlad nman ng pilipinas ang hangarin nya.bakit hindi?sa ngyn kailangan ng pinas ang (BF)bagong fresidente,bagong finuno,bagong filipino,bagong fatakaran,bagong filipinas…IN BF WILL…IN GODS WILL…
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October 8th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
It’s too sad that Bob’s attitude is showing like a real typical
filipino. I think what you should do Bob, if you have anything good at all in your mind to avoid floodings, or if you have any better alternative to solve those flooding problems overnight, why don’t you make suggestions to BF instead of complaning, because whether you like it or not, the evidence is clear that BF is trying his best to make Metro Manila a better place to live for everyone. If you don’t agree with me, then I think it has something to do with your personal problem with BF that would mean simply because you don’t like him.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
@Mike, if you are hiding under the skirt of your @Tita, just stay there at Marikina. Sa inyo na si Bayani Fernando. I don’t need him.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:46 am
nagbabasa basa ako ng madaanan ko to.
To those who are complaining,
What Sir Bob is saying, he doesn’t see the relevance of using tax (our money) in printing tarps and stickers. Maybe for BF its just his part to show people that he does his work but not seeing funds that go to waste, everybody knows that the design of the sewage system in the Philippines is terrible but maybe if BF uses the money for correcting those instead of printing Tarps and stickers, maybe there’s going to be improvement. and one more thing Sir Bob’s opinion is his opinion and has the right to make one, just like most of you did.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Sir i think hindi na po SAKOP ng Metro Manila Development Authority ang streets nyo jan sa lugar nyo. Ang alam ko sir trabaho na po ng Mayor nyo kung nag babaha man sa lugar nyo. dati din po d2 sa marikina laging baha, pero nung sinimulan po ni BF ang pag papalaki ng Drainage System noong Mayor pa sya d2 sa amin, NEVER na pong nag babaha dito.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
@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.