Bishop: P20 wage hike better than nothing

MANILA, Philippines - While militants may grumble over it, a Catholic Church official on Friday lauded the P20-wage hike ordered by the government, saying it can somehow have a ripple effect on many workers.
Antipolo Auxiliary Bishop Francisco de Leon said that with the recent salary hike, ordinary wage earner can now have a little more in their paychecks to help pay for basic necessities.
"For me, wage increase is needed because the prices in basic commodities are rising," he said in an interview on Church-run Radyo Veritas.
Excerpts of the interview were posted Friday night on the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Web site (www.cbcpnews.com).
De Leon said that had the government not made a move, many people would surely have hard time coping with spiraling prices of goods.
The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Metro Manila earlier approved Wage Order No. 14 increasing the amount of minimum wage by P20 per day for private sector workers.
The P20 wage increase includes a P15 increase in basic pay and P5 cost-of-living allowance (COLA).
With the new increase, the highest minimum wage rate in the NCR is P382 per day for non-agriculture workers. - GMANews.TV

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Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right.. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grabit with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back.Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late. I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you. Send this to all your friends including me and see how many you get back. Even send it to your balloons that you think have flown away forever. You may be surprised to see it return. Send this heart to everybody you like. You may also return it to me.

I thought it was but it wasn't.

I am not spending my summer vacation on wasteful things. I am taking my summer class for me to cope with my requirements this coming semester. I am enrolled in two subjects (Philippine History and Statistics). I do enjoy my summer class. I am not regreting of not going somewhere else to spend my vacation because I am not bored with my summer days.

At first, I have this thought that I will not be happy this summer because of my summer class. But now, I do not think about it anymore. I thought our history class will be a boring one(thinking that it was a twohour class, starts at SEVEN THIRTY AM and we are few in the class). But I am wrong, it is good to say that even if I am waking up very early in the morning just to catch up with the time, I learned a lot. Not just with the topics but also topics concerning our situation at present.

I think I will be missing my classmates here because I am sure that they will not be my classmates for the next semester because they we have different courses. But for sure, I'll gonna wait for the next school year to end. I'll gonna enroll again in the next summer class!!

If you were an animal, what would you be and why?

Here are answers to the above question:

I'd like to be a sea anemone.You just sit on a rock waving your arms about in an enticing way, and your dinner swims right in.You can think your own thoughts all day, and when the tide goes out you just batten down the hatches, and think the more.-Hattori

i would love to be a wee mink and the reason why is i have heard from a reliable source that dolly parton loves mink braziers,,,what a way to go eh- The Wiser One

monkey,they look cool-Ywe

A swift, they do the highest mileage of any animal on earth ...I like to travel-mekenuz

I would be a golden eagle, soaring high, total freedom and I'd have the most amazing views of our wonderful planet.-Aria

i'd be a cute lion- with a bow on my hair, with long lashes, and pearly white teeth. Lion is the king of the jungle, so ill be the queen of the jungle- to make peace- not war!!-Shi

I would be a cat. I would lounge in the sun, play with my family, get fed and brushed and snuggled, and be a totally cool cat. Oh, and also always land on my feet! :-)-Leah

(Nice answers?..here's mine)

I wanted to be a like NEMO. A rainbow fish. he may be too young but he tried to conquer life's difficulty. Motivated by love and affection from people whom he treasure most.

People Always Leave

I am always wondrin' why do people always leave? people come and go. Sometimes they stay...but sometimes leave. Maybe they just simply could not stop their pace? or maybe they need to move on? A lot of maybes and probabilities. friends come and go, so as overs....they've been part of our lives. Someone so important. Someone you can not live without. But still can't refrain them from leaving. "Is it my fault?"-we often ask ourselves. why can't we make them stay? Oh, it's really ironic. those whom you leve leave while those whom you hate stay.