Entrepreneurial Farmer

Ambrosio R. Villorente

GSIS Song On The Air Over TV

EF received a written comment about the GSIS Satellite office in Kalibo, Aklan. The comment is self explanatory which EF is delighted to share with his audience. The comment is as follows:

“Everybody at the GSIS ‘Hall of Justice’ falls in love as the melody of “My Song of Love, Love Me With All of Your Heart”. The melody and lyrics touched all hearts of GSIS clients waiting for their turn to be served by the very accommodating non-stop ever-caring services of ever-attentive, Mr. Ronie N. Abella of GSIS Aklan Satellite office. It happened noontime last November 4, 2008.

As GSIS security staff turned on the volume, the TV program hosted by Willie Revillame, all of us hoped and prayed this melody must be echoed to the hearts of Cong. Florencio T. Miraflores and Gov. Carlito S. Marquez, that they may fall in love too, to the sound of “Love Me With All of Your Heart, that’s all I want you to do, love me with all of your heart as I love you… for our kisses (cases), every hour, every summer, every winter and every fall…in every beat of our heart, h e a r t…!!!

We hope, higher authorities concerned may fall in love too, with all their hearts to recognize and commend the efficient services that satisfied Aklanon retirees most of whom looked “uninformed/tanga” but left the GSIS office with peace of mind after tenderly cared by GSIS-Aklan Satellite Office personnel/staff, despite inconvenience due to the damaged facilities by typhoon Frank.

This comment came from Ms. A. T. Baylon of Makato, Aklan.

On Boracay Media Summit

Commenting on his weeklong stay in Boracay Island, Johnny C. Nuñez, my long time friend, of Cabanatuan City wrote EF which I quote below:

“My weeklong stint in Boracay for the October 29-31 Boracay Media Summit sponsored by the Publisherss Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PAPI) in coordination with the Boracay Foundation Inc., the Aklan Press Club, Inc. and the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) had been so energy sapping. I could still feel the nearly a week after I returned home.

Tiring as it was for us who were involved in the Summit secretariat, the three-day media event that was participated in by journalists from Cayagan Valley and the Ilocos regions in Northern Luzon to Jolo and Agusan in Southern Mindanao, proved to be very enlightening and inspiring to both the participants and sponsors themselves.

The Summit had for its theme “The Expanding Frontiers of Media in Promoting Tourism, Preservation of Culture and Protection of the Environment,” all component concerns of which are intimately intertwined with situations obtaining not only in Boracay but in most regions of the country.

The summit’s battery of speakers and discussions included Philippine Daily Inquirer publisher Isagani Yambot, former Education Undersecretary and now Philippine Star columnist Dr. Isagani Cruz, Bohol Congressman and House Tourism Committee chairman Edgar Chatto, Environment Undersecretary Manuel Gerochi, Dr. Alile Quirante of UP Diliman, NCCA Commissioner Elmar Ingles and Press Secretary Jesus Dureza, among others.

The speakers and discussants spoke on various subjects and pressing issues revolving around the summit’s theme, notably the recent Supreme Court decision declaring most of Boracay as forests land and not yet alienable and disposable which expectedly caused investors in the tourism paradise island to raise a howl. Other topics discussed included the fragile ecosystem of Boracay; the dynamic and happy mix of culture, environment and tourism in making Boracay what it has become; and media initiatives that should help promote these vital concerns.

Deserving special commendations from the summit delegates for the gracious hospitality and free hotel accommodations provided the participants are the members of the Boracay Foundation, Inc. under its president Loubelle B. Cann.” /MP