Romero ululating
SO, WHAT else is new?
When the provincial government won the Gawad Galing Pook 2008 for the spectacular increase in quarry collections, businessman Rene Romero had this to say: “Parang bumaba ang pagtingin ko sa Galing Pook…The quarry collection system did not deserve the award. It miserably failed to meet the criteria of sustainability, transferability and consistency.”
(Subsequent results in the quarry collection proved Romero miserably wrong. The high collection generated by the Panlilio administration was sustainable, transferable and consistent, what with even higher collections in the Pineda administration.)
When the Metro Angeles City Chamber of Commerce and Industry won the Most Outstanding Chamber Award 2010 over the Romero-led Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry, here is what he wrote the board of directors of the Philippine Chamber of Chamber of Commerce and Industry: “Deeply dismayed over the result of the MOCA 2010 awarding last October 15 at the 36th Philippine Business Conference in Manila Hotel…
“For MOCA 2010, we shall respect the decision as rendered by the judges and awarded by PCCI albeit with reservations because we are still of the opinion that our chamber merits recognition as an outstanding chamber…”
When no award was given the business sector in the recent Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award last December 11, Romero had this to say, in Tuesday’s banner story of Sun-Star Pampanga yet: “The business sector is disappointed, sad and more so, insulted by the results. It simply means that despite our efforts and support of the Provincial Government, parang sinampal kami at sinabing walang matinong negosyante sa probinsiya.”
Indeed, what else is new with this Romero’s after-loss ululations? Making himself in effect the perfect template of the miserable loser.
But let us indulge Romero’s whimpers, believer as we are in the Desiderata: that we have to listen to everyone, “…even fools, for they too have their own stories to tell.”
It is foolish for Romero to drag the provincial government in his lamentation over the MOKA. The provincial government had no hand in the choice of the awardees. This was undertaken initially by a pre-selection committee and finally by a board of judges of which I was a member.
For the un-MOKAed, dismayed Romero to generalize “the business sector” as “disappointed, sad and more so, insulted by the results” is an arrogation unto himself of the whole “business sector.” A super-ego ascendant there. But for Romero and one or two unnamed others quoted in the Sun-Star Pampanga story, who else questioned the MOKA results?
Indeed, who can question the outstanding contribution to Kapampangan pride of the 2010 awardees? From honorary Kapampangan Fidel Valdez Ramos, to Central Bank Gov. Amando Tetangco Jr., from AFP Chief of Staff Ricardo David to UST’s Fr. Pompeyo de Mesa, from health specialist Juliet Cervantes to World Relief Mission’s George Samson, to Emmy Award winner Jess Espanola, to renowned architect Lor Calma, to name just those who instantly came to mind.
All business and no altruism is Romero in saying, to quote again: “It simply means that despite our efforts and support of the Provincial Government, parang sinampal kami at sinabing walang matinong negosyante sa probinsiya.”
Clear as a blank ledger there is Romero’s avid expectation of a payback, an ROI for whatever efforts and support he considered as capital infused in the provincial government.
A slap on the face indeed! For well-meaning and truly award-deserving businesspersons, of which there is no dearth of in this province, After all PamCham has absolutely no monopoly of the good and the deserving. Go, ask MACCI. See the highly successful un-chambered entrepreneurs all around us.
It is precisely those businesspersons who, for some reason or the other, were not nominated for the MOKA. Businesspersons who have no lost and losing suits at the National Labor Relations Commission, who paid their taxes rightly and timely, who were religious in the remittance of their workers’ social security contributions, who respected and upheld workers’ rights, especially that which pertains to security of tenure not the exigency of contractualization.
Not the leeches who suck the blood out of the workers, not the vultures whose corporate aeries and stately nests are built upon the bones of laborers. As much as Romero laments for the absence of any awardee in the category of business, so we mourn for the deprivation of the rights of the workers by award-seeking, honor-chasing exploitative businessmen.
That Romero had to vent his apparent frustration on the provincial government is the height of conceit, if not the nadir of folly.
“Is this the kind of government we have which allows such people to influence something? Where has professionalism gone? Changed with personal conflicts?” So Romero ululated once more, impugning a vacuity of mind at the Capitol.
This, complexed with his allegation of “influence peddlers at the Capitol that will not be good and helpful to effective governance.”
So who are these “influence peddlers,” “termites” as Romero called them “that would destroy what (he) and Capitol have started in terms of development?”
The Capitol leadership influenced by termites is a leadership with the brains of cretins. Romero implied there.
Unkind. Unfair. Uncalled for. There is no simple disrespect there. There is utter contempt for the provincial leadership: What had Gov. Lilia Pineda done to merit such affront to her very person? Where had Vice Gov. Yeng Guiao failed to earn this aspersion to his integrity?
Feeling deprived of the MOKA anew, Romero unmasked himself. A spoiled brat who lost his second lollipop, resorting to bullying, so he could get the next one. Plain and simple.
An unsolicited advice – not to Romero – but others dreaming of the MOKA and some such other awards of recognition: Don’t seek the award. Let it seek you.
Anyways, maybe, just maybe, it is high time to institute a parallel event to the MOKA. We shall call it MOTA – Most Outspoken Talunan Award. No need for the any other nomination there. The choice there is unanimous, hands-down.
Miserable loser.
When the provincial government won the Gawad Galing Pook 2008 for the spectacular increase in quarry collections, businessman Rene Romero had this to say: “Parang bumaba ang pagtingin ko sa Galing Pook…The quarry collection system did not deserve the award. It miserably failed to meet the criteria of sustainability, transferability and consistency.”
(Subsequent results in the quarry collection proved Romero miserably wrong. The high collection generated by the Panlilio administration was sustainable, transferable and consistent, what with even higher collections in the Pineda administration.)
When the Metro Angeles City Chamber of Commerce and Industry won the Most Outstanding Chamber Award 2010 over the Romero-led Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry, here is what he wrote the board of directors of the Philippine Chamber of Chamber of Commerce and Industry: “Deeply dismayed over the result of the MOCA 2010 awarding last October 15 at the 36th Philippine Business Conference in Manila Hotel…
“For MOCA 2010, we shall respect the decision as rendered by the judges and awarded by PCCI albeit with reservations because we are still of the opinion that our chamber merits recognition as an outstanding chamber…”
When no award was given the business sector in the recent Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award last December 11, Romero had this to say, in Tuesday’s banner story of Sun-Star Pampanga yet: “The business sector is disappointed, sad and more so, insulted by the results. It simply means that despite our efforts and support of the Provincial Government, parang sinampal kami at sinabing walang matinong negosyante sa probinsiya.”
Indeed, what else is new with this Romero’s after-loss ululations? Making himself in effect the perfect template of the miserable loser.
But let us indulge Romero’s whimpers, believer as we are in the Desiderata: that we have to listen to everyone, “…even fools, for they too have their own stories to tell.”
It is foolish for Romero to drag the provincial government in his lamentation over the MOKA. The provincial government had no hand in the choice of the awardees. This was undertaken initially by a pre-selection committee and finally by a board of judges of which I was a member.
For the un-MOKAed, dismayed Romero to generalize “the business sector” as “disappointed, sad and more so, insulted by the results” is an arrogation unto himself of the whole “business sector.” A super-ego ascendant there. But for Romero and one or two unnamed others quoted in the Sun-Star Pampanga story, who else questioned the MOKA results?
Indeed, who can question the outstanding contribution to Kapampangan pride of the 2010 awardees? From honorary Kapampangan Fidel Valdez Ramos, to Central Bank Gov. Amando Tetangco Jr., from AFP Chief of Staff Ricardo David to UST’s Fr. Pompeyo de Mesa, from health specialist Juliet Cervantes to World Relief Mission’s George Samson, to Emmy Award winner Jess Espanola, to renowned architect Lor Calma, to name just those who instantly came to mind.
All business and no altruism is Romero in saying, to quote again: “It simply means that despite our efforts and support of the Provincial Government, parang sinampal kami at sinabing walang matinong negosyante sa probinsiya.”
Clear as a blank ledger there is Romero’s avid expectation of a payback, an ROI for whatever efforts and support he considered as capital infused in the provincial government.
A slap on the face indeed! For well-meaning and truly award-deserving businesspersons, of which there is no dearth of in this province, After all PamCham has absolutely no monopoly of the good and the deserving. Go, ask MACCI. See the highly successful un-chambered entrepreneurs all around us.
It is precisely those businesspersons who, for some reason or the other, were not nominated for the MOKA. Businesspersons who have no lost and losing suits at the National Labor Relations Commission, who paid their taxes rightly and timely, who were religious in the remittance of their workers’ social security contributions, who respected and upheld workers’ rights, especially that which pertains to security of tenure not the exigency of contractualization.
Not the leeches who suck the blood out of the workers, not the vultures whose corporate aeries and stately nests are built upon the bones of laborers. As much as Romero laments for the absence of any awardee in the category of business, so we mourn for the deprivation of the rights of the workers by award-seeking, honor-chasing exploitative businessmen.
That Romero had to vent his apparent frustration on the provincial government is the height of conceit, if not the nadir of folly.
“Is this the kind of government we have which allows such people to influence something? Where has professionalism gone? Changed with personal conflicts?” So Romero ululated once more, impugning a vacuity of mind at the Capitol.
This, complexed with his allegation of “influence peddlers at the Capitol that will not be good and helpful to effective governance.”
So who are these “influence peddlers,” “termites” as Romero called them “that would destroy what (he) and Capitol have started in terms of development?”
The Capitol leadership influenced by termites is a leadership with the brains of cretins. Romero implied there.
Unkind. Unfair. Uncalled for. There is no simple disrespect there. There is utter contempt for the provincial leadership: What had Gov. Lilia Pineda done to merit such affront to her very person? Where had Vice Gov. Yeng Guiao failed to earn this aspersion to his integrity?
Feeling deprived of the MOKA anew, Romero unmasked himself. A spoiled brat who lost his second lollipop, resorting to bullying, so he could get the next one. Plain and simple.
An unsolicited advice – not to Romero – but others dreaming of the MOKA and some such other awards of recognition: Don’t seek the award. Let it seek you.
Anyways, maybe, just maybe, it is high time to institute a parallel event to the MOKA. We shall call it MOTA – Most Outspoken Talunan Award. No need for the any other nomination there. The choice there is unanimous, hands-down.
Miserable loser.
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