With all the current buzz about China being too aggressive by militarizing the South China Sea which include the West Philippine Sea, the world can still make China not to be too aggressive. I think these are the best ways to do it:
1. Send all Chinese back to their homeland. Would you believe that it took China just a decade to overtake the Filipinos as the biggest Asian community in the USA alone? The Philippines took almost 5 decades to send 3M Pinoys to the US. This could have been possible because most Chinese found their way through Canada and then went to the US.
2. Ignore Chinese presence all over the world. Do not buy China made product. By doing this, Robinsons, SM, and other big mall operators will lose their commercial viability since 80% of their products come from China, not to mention the owners.
3. DO not be an opportunist. Just because someone is rich you will want to accept his marriage proposal. Just because you are poor and it is your chance to become rich is not an excuse that you will not be labled as opportunist.
4. Maintain closer relationship with your allies and rely more on locally produced goods. Stop importing too much, even if the locally made products are inferior in terms of quality or more expensive, always remember that if you buy China made products, you are killing your country. The country should support R&D in electric motors and batteries to make electric vehicles. We already know how to manufacture solar panels so we can already achieve energy sufficiency. By doing this we can cut our imports by 50% since most of our imports are gasoline and energy related products.
5. Convince the US to ban all imports/exports to China like weapons, electronics, raw materials, chemicals, machineries, etc. The world could be at worst killing itself if they keep on buying products from China.
6. Ban all tourists coming from China even if they come from Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, or Taiwan. Chinese make up 20% of the population in South East Asia so be cautious about dealing with these countries. And even with this huge communities, fellow South East Asians should be aware of their presence and the future of their country. I think the local Chinese are also competing with Pinoys in obtaining US visas that is why it has become very to difficult to obtain US visa.
7. Ban Chinese ownership in strategic and important industries like Airline, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Infrastructure Development. Look at what happened to the last purchased of MRT trains, until now those trains are not yet being used, the people behind those must be prosecuted and should be made liable and labled as terrorists.
8. You can not rely on the US as an ally since they have very healthy economic relationship with China and they look at the Philippines as a tiny country and of no significance to world affairs so why rely on US for military help? Why haven't Pinoys developed weapon systems that could have served as the source of the country's strength? It could not just have been more than that, the Government could have generated jobs. Or exported those weapons to support the local economy.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Sunday, May 13, 2018
5 Indications that the IT Project is Fake
I got involved with different types of IT projects over the years and got scammed several times and wanted to share this based on experience. If you are in the same field you will agree with this too. Here are the 5 indications that the IT project is fake:
1. Measure the number of errors of the documents being handed to you. Yes, they are not Americans so it is an excuse to write carabao English or is it because they were hired for another reason? Errors(excluding those grammatical errors) in Technical Designs are those that are written to too specific. Instead of just writing: "Return an error if the customer code is not maintained in SAP Master Data"; the pretentious Technical Architect would write: "After obtaining customer code, you must check if the customer code exist in table lfa1". They should not be involving themselves in specifics but should just concentrate on higher level description and the different business scenarios. Giving too specific instructions would lead to more confusions and the programmer would just cut and paste which could lead to a more prolonged test period and you can not blame the programmer since you are invading his territory which he would immediately assume you are in full command which make their job a whole lot easier. Programming entails a lot of careful planning and meticulous design to produce a highly optimized solution. And giving too much information means you are the one who planned it and it is your design and not the programmer. There are a lot instance and I would say a major challenge to describe a certain specification and to hurdle such challenges, creativity and of course your competency is the key. The preparation of Technical Documents and Functional Specifications are more expensive than doing the actual programming or coding so you must realize that being a TA or BA or FA, you can already relax because you are on top of the Software Development Life Cycle, well that is where you are wrong.
2. Measure the competence of your peers. Do this secretly, if all your peers are female, you should begin to suspect something is going on.
3. Frequency of work and how fast it should be done and how many people have the same position like you have. Begin observing how they behave and all your movement must be calculated. The world's resources is scarse.
4. Other than your peers, how does the company's employees behave and the surrounding environment, how was it? Do they start offering other services or want to offer except that they just keep looking at you?
5. There are other circumstances where it is up to you to interpret which can trigger something in you that you think violates certain moral standards, do not ignore it. Your instincts does not lie to you.
1. Measure the number of errors of the documents being handed to you. Yes, they are not Americans so it is an excuse to write carabao English or is it because they were hired for another reason? Errors(excluding those grammatical errors) in Technical Designs are those that are written to too specific. Instead of just writing: "Return an error if the customer code is not maintained in SAP Master Data"; the pretentious Technical Architect would write: "After obtaining customer code, you must check if the customer code exist in table lfa1". They should not be involving themselves in specifics but should just concentrate on higher level description and the different business scenarios. Giving too specific instructions would lead to more confusions and the programmer would just cut and paste which could lead to a more prolonged test period and you can not blame the programmer since you are invading his territory which he would immediately assume you are in full command which make their job a whole lot easier. Programming entails a lot of careful planning and meticulous design to produce a highly optimized solution. And giving too much information means you are the one who planned it and it is your design and not the programmer. There are a lot instance and I would say a major challenge to describe a certain specification and to hurdle such challenges, creativity and of course your competency is the key. The preparation of Technical Documents and Functional Specifications are more expensive than doing the actual programming or coding so you must realize that being a TA or BA or FA, you can already relax because you are on top of the Software Development Life Cycle, well that is where you are wrong.
2. Measure the competence of your peers. Do this secretly, if all your peers are female, you should begin to suspect something is going on.
3. Frequency of work and how fast it should be done and how many people have the same position like you have. Begin observing how they behave and all your movement must be calculated. The world's resources is scarse.
4. Other than your peers, how does the company's employees behave and the surrounding environment, how was it? Do they start offering other services or want to offer except that they just keep looking at you?
5. There are other circumstances where it is up to you to interpret which can trigger something in you that you think violates certain moral standards, do not ignore it. Your instincts does not lie to you.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Agencies In Metro Manila still Flourishes
Agencies(Companies who's clients are Companies that do not want to have regular employees) still flourishes in Metro Manila.This in spite of the fact that Pinoys opted to vote for a semi illiterate President who promised to eradicate contractualization.
Contractualization destabilizes livelihood of individuals. It makes the person in constant struggle to find decent jobs. It really makes me angry to hear recruiters having fun to find a guy that is willing to accept jobs on a contractual basis. This is what overloading of buses is like. Constant struggle just to get a place so that one can go home it's because there are no decent jobs on the country side, people are poor and have no knowledge to create opportunities and big companies take advantage of this situation. This vulnerability that is exposed for all scammers to take advantage of is what makes Agencies flourish. Even IT companies aka Agencies are there. They survive on big Companies that are not willing to hire employees and regularized them. I understand that they are poor but why do they make use of technology that they can't afford anyway? It is because they take advantage of the poor.
This is an unfair competition, one should be aware of this and should be able to crate a way to equalize or balance the competition. One should be aware that life is a like a rolling wheel, one may be on top today but he is not sure what is going to happen in the future. There is always a balancing force as one becomes powerful that is when the opposition intensifies their effort to ovethrow him.
Contractualization destabilizes livelihood of individuals. It makes the person in constant struggle to find decent jobs. It really makes me angry to hear recruiters having fun to find a guy that is willing to accept jobs on a contractual basis. This is what overloading of buses is like. Constant struggle just to get a place so that one can go home it's because there are no decent jobs on the country side, people are poor and have no knowledge to create opportunities and big companies take advantage of this situation. This vulnerability that is exposed for all scammers to take advantage of is what makes Agencies flourish. Even IT companies aka Agencies are there. They survive on big Companies that are not willing to hire employees and regularized them. I understand that they are poor but why do they make use of technology that they can't afford anyway? It is because they take advantage of the poor.
This is an unfair competition, one should be aware of this and should be able to crate a way to equalize or balance the competition. One should be aware that life is a like a rolling wheel, one may be on top today but he is not sure what is going to happen in the future. There is always a balancing force as one becomes powerful that is when the opposition intensifies their effort to ovethrow him.
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