with my co-staff @ anpi

bonding with my LMSI Big Boss

mga kuhang larawang noong akoy nag-aaral :)

DOH-RITM Selected Pictures & Activities

YPS Holds, Speakers Seminar

YPS Holds, Speakers Seminar

The Youth Progressive Society thru the effort of Ms. Maria Teresa J. Diestro, conducted a Speakers Seminar on September 24, 2006 at KP Restaurant. Different Organizations attended including the Red Cross Youth, In School Youth Ministry, Tanada Scholars, JPIA Journal, Tau Gamma Phi, PUPLSSC, The Focus, SOLIMAN and The Youth Progressive Society.

It was conducted to provide the youth leaders on Training to be effective public speakers. The speaker in the said seminar was Mr. Marlou Abaja, who presently work on The United Nation Advocacy and Educational Research. He gave the content and pattern in making a speech, ways and techniques in public speaking and many more. The last part of activity was the actual delivery of speech in front while others are grading each speaker and making comments for better improvement.

JMA’ers at SOLABC’ 06

JMA’ers at SOLABC’ 06

By: Harrel M. Paycana

The Quezon-Lucena Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in cooperation with the Community Business Development Center and Fundacion Santiago Inc. held its annual South Luzon Area Business (SOLAB’06) Conference and Trade Fair at SM City Lucena and Queen Margarette Hotel last July 20-23, 2006 at Lucena, City.

PUP Lopez Branch was invited to participate in the annual major event and the JMAers actively responded to that invitation.

The Junior BBA Students learned more about the topics discussed such as: Investment Guide: Sustainable Coffee Production given by Dr. Jose Reane of Nestle Philippines, Laboratory Analysis for processed food products including the nutrition facts, microbial analysis, shelf-life and other laboratory analysis given by Ms. Sandra Bucao of Intertek LabTek and Business Opportunities by Medardo M. Noscal of Fundacion Santiago Inc. and CBDC-Quezon

The JMAers also learned from the interaction with the businessmen coming from CALABARZON, MIMAROPA and Bicol Provinces. Through their sharing of business opportunities, several expressed their interest on livelihood trainings, food cooking, franchise opportunities, information and communication technology and others.

This was an opportunity for the PUP – BBA Students to familiarize themselves with possible business interests, livelihood skills and e-commerce trends.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Sincere gratitude and appreciation are hereby extended to the following persons who shared assistance and support to make this publication possible: to very supportive course advisers, for their patience and words of encouragement; to Prof. Ma. Asuncion R. Del Castillo, for editing and sharing her expertise; to Prof. Alicia V. Delos Santos and Prof. Violeta A. Danes, for allowing us to use the computer room for encoding purposes; to Prof. Veronica Almase, for their assistance during the press work; to all JMAers, who heartedly confer their unselfish support, and fill the publication with news and bright ideas, thus our source of inspiration; to the CEGP and AKM-PUP, for seminars and conferences held and attended with; to all PUPians, for the trust and appreciation to our publication, and most of all, to the Divine Providence, for giving us will, guts and determination to accomplish this. To all of you, thank you and happy reading!.

My Last Editorial

Editorial
Harrel M. Paycana
Editor-In-Chief
The FOCUS

Where do Filipino Entrepreneurs Go?

Philippine is a country where the system of the economy is capitalist. It means that one individual who has a lot of money can invest his money into a big business, later become on empire of enterprises. Some business tycoon well-known in our country today are the Ayala, Zobel, Madrigal, Tan, Sy, Couangco, Lopez, Araneta and others plus the foreign investor who have established business in our land. They are few individuals who have a large power of domineering our resources, our wealth and maybe you don’t think this one question: How much percent of resources remain on those who belong to the lower level?

Maybe this question is nonsense for some, but if you have a critical mind, you will know it is very serious matter you need to thinks about. Poverty is the main cancer of our society existing today, and sad to say many of the Filipinos are afflicted with it. As for their survival, they try to make some ways so they can feed their starving stomach three times a day.

As you can see on the typical day of our lives, Filipinos are mainly depending on the small business they have, a small business established from their long-time effort. On critical ways, why do many of this business can’t transform into a bigger one? Why can’t Sari-Sari Store expand its investment even it stands a long time? Why doesn’t a grocery store develop into a bigger one? And the last question is the most critical among them, why does the largest part of population depend on the small income they obtain from selling one such kind of merchandise like banana cue or “Tinuhog” stick meats put in the grills with the small amount of fire.

The answer is simply the Bureaucratic- Capitalist. It is the major cause of abnormalities happening in our country from the time of Spaniards until the end of World War II. Capitalist who have great control in our economy and even in our natural resources where our native land is rich. Capitalist is also a part of the so-called Imperialism, the larger degree of Bureaucratic - Capitalist which are domineering almost eighty percent (80%) of the treasures of the world. Mostly the victims are those nations belonging to the third World country or the developing one like Philippines.

Doubt not about it, it is the reality. A reality which always hurts once you know the truth behind. So don’t be astonished if our citizenry are still experiencing scarcity on their lives. Like us, we’ll soon be a future entrepreneurs and if don’t open your eyes on the truth, we’ll be the next victim of this cancer of our society.