Another one

One abusado is not enough. Here’s another one. Now it’s very clear that there are a lot of people like them. Mga abosado, walay respeto. I don’t think they’re not aware that this is not a parking space. Mga abosado lang gyud.

Hard-headed, abosado

I don’t know if the owner of this vehicle is from Butuan or from the neighboring places. But one thing I’m sure- the owner (or the driver) of this car belongs to the group of hard-headed citizens. People who do not respect the law. The kind of animal who think that they are above the law. In short, abosado. Why on earth that this car was parked in this side of the parking area? When will start showing respect to others?

What is politics?

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’. — Larry Hardiman

Are you authorize?

At the back of the City Hall, this sign was hanged. What does it mean? Only authorize personnel are allowed to smoke? Holy, Piguk! Maybe I just miss something.

Happy Women’s Day!

Today marks the celebration of Women’s Day. Butuan has it’s own share of the great event. Happy Women’s Day!

Even though they make up half the population, women and girls have endured discrimination in most societies for thousands of years. In the past, women were treated as property of their husbands or fathers – they couldn’t own land, they couldn’t vote or go to school, and were subject to beatings and abuse and could do nothing about it. Over the last hundred years, much progress has been made to gain equal rights for women around the world, but many still live without the rights to which all people are entitled. — Robert Alan

Holy Criminality

Oil and water won’ t mix. Maybe the same through with holiness and criminality. Not in Butuan. Possibility happens here. Nothing is impossible in Butuan.

Take a look at Barangay Holy Redeemer. It’s just few blocks away from the city hall. The place is best known for it’s church- the Mother of Perpetual Church. The solemn and the most holy place of worship is in the midst of the barangay. When one hears the words- Holy Redeemer even if he’s not from Butuan, first thing that comes in his mind is the place’s holiness. But behind this solemnity and tranquility, criminality in this place is rampant. Philippine National Police (PNP) records show that Holy Redeemer has the highest criminality. Barangays Ong Yiu and Tandag Sora come only next. These places are PNP’s priority to implement its customize anti-criminality action campaign.

Holy Redeemer residents insist that their place is safe. My baker friend agreed. He said, “in Holy Redeemer you can rest in peace”.

Beauty never comes late

For the past 30 min. I was browsing the web looking for materials about Butuan. Not much has been written about my beloved city. There were bloggers like me who write but only did it occasionally. Usually these write-ups were journals and diaries of their visit. I don’t believe there’s nothing worth writing about Butuan. Butuan is an interesting place- full of history and a lot of friendly people. However, there were a number of superb photo blogs in the web. Many of these collections are found in flicker.com. Just type butuan in the search space and click. Of the images I found what interest me were the photo collections of beautiful ladies. The above photo is one of those. Though it was taken during the 2008 Ms. Bikini Contest but I believe posting it here is not late. Beauty never comes late. It will never die.

2D- Discipline and Disease

Many Butuanons are too hard headed to follow traffic rules. No matter what and how many signs and warnings are posted- they won’t give a damn. Simple rules seems so hard to follow. This becomes a disease.

That’s why we won’t progress.

very serious indeed!

I wrote my first blog entry yesterday after a long silence of dormancy. I am right. They are serious in implementing more tax. In fact, an avid (sorry for the word) follower of this blog made an immediate comment. I’m posting it here because I think it deserves space.. and attention. Here’s proButuan’s comment:

There may be a slight increase in tax compared to the previous year due to updated valuation and revision done by the City Assessor’s Office….But looking at it…the City of Butuan remains to have the LOWEST in cost real property tax among cities in Mindanao.

The developments in infrastructure like new by-pass roads, bridge and the completion of major flood controlsystem projects have significantly improved the value of land in the city be it residential, agricultural or commercial.

A benchmarking mission to cities in Mindanao was undertaken by the City Assessor’s Office of Butuan to gather the comparative real property tax valuations by cities. The cities of Davao, Tagum, Panabo, Iligan, Cagayan de Oro and Surigao City were the points of reference.

The benchmarking mission done in 2007 revealed that for a 300 square meter lot first class commercial land in Davao City cost P17,250.00, which is 18% higher compared to Butuan of P14,625.00. Likewise, for a second class commercial land, it is higher bb y 8% of P12, 937.50 compared to our city of P12, 006.00. In the case of Cagayan de Oro City, the tax due for first class commercial land of 0.3% is just similar to ours. It differed in the tax due for second class commercial land, which is 15% higher of P13, 770.00 in contrast to Butuan’s P12, 006.00. First class residential land in Davao City has a tax due of 16% with the corresponding cost of P825.00 compared to P714.00 of Butuan. Cagayan de Oro City has 3% tax due with cost of P735.00. Davao City’s second class residential land has 9% tax due of P660.00 while that of Butuan is P604.80. Agusan Del Norte as the reference showed that for a 1,000 hectare agricultural land it has a tax due of P395.00, which is higher by 24% compared to Butuan of P319.20.

It is not enough to report on your blog about an increase in tax….But IT IS MORE worthy to report that compared to other cities benchmarked above; BUTUAN remains to have THE MOST COMPETITIVE LOWEST

Seriously, they are serious

This blog is back. It has not risen from the dead because it’s not yet dead. This comes back to life not with vengeance but maybe will try it’s best to mix with funny stuff. I’ll try my best not to post serious issues. People up there were not happy. I thought they have the sense of humor. No, they are dead serious. Do you really expect seriousness from people who lack the seriousness in their promise to public service? Come on. We know they can’t handle it. That’s too much for them. But they mean it this time. They are seriously serious. After last year’s increased in tax, they are serious to add more this year and even more for 2010.