Concerns about the SSS-ID?

Earlier this blog posted a schedule about tentative releases of the SSS-ID

That post will suffice if your ID concern is simply that you want to know when you might be able to get it. The email provided in that post is the email of the person in charge of questions related to the SSS-ID

TIP: if you email any government office regarding your concerns make sure that you provide complete details to identify yourself and your concerns to the government office, and make sure you number your emails.  so your first email should have 1, the next one 2, etc.  i call this your control number. also, it provides a reference number to the government agency.  Up to you if you want to do the same.

so for SSS, this should include your SSS Number, complete correct name, your concern - and describe this as fully as you can (ikwento mo, kung kailangan), and what i call a reference number.

This post is to specifically assist with other ID-related concerns

1. For example, if you lost your ID and you need a new one -no problem.  Fill-up a new E-6 and make sure you have an affidavit of loss, duly notarized then go to the nearest SSS office to have your picture again. This new ID will cost you, so make sure all your data is correct.  DO look at the screen that displays all your data.

Dapat tama lahat yung laman nun. Kung hindi, pumiyok kayo at sabihin dun sa nagbabantay. 

instructions for the E-6

The E-6.

2. If something is erroneous in your ID, then you need to correct it before you apply for a new one, and i refer you to topic 1 above when you are ready to get a new one.  However, changes in any data reflected in your ID need to have documentation.

Ika nga, kailangan ng prueba kasi para katotohanan ang pag-ayos.

If the error is a data-entry error of SSS, bring your E1 copy if you have it and SSS can rectify the error.   Otherwise, you need to bring an NSO-issued birth certificate or other legal document - such as passport, or your alien card if you are an immigrant or no longer a Filipino citizen.

this is the E-1 form, in case you have forgotten.  baka nalimutan ninyo na.

Remember, if you just need to update your SSS records, you need not apply for a new SSS-ID.

For example, adding a child or children.  If you are male, adding your spouse.  If you are female, and you are changing your last name, you need to have a new ID card.

again. for ID-concerns email carungaybf@sss.gov.ph

again.  if you are hitting snags, let me know (comment on this post) and i will try to bring it to the attention of SSS management so that things can be rectified.  But only if he cannot help you.  He is trying his best, do remember.

Click on the Fill-in or Editable E-6 

click on the downable E-6 

 

SSS IDs - Info

SSS ID sked -  as seen in the SSS FB site.  email carungaybf@sss.gov .ph for queries.


SSS says the ID production process will normalize by end of the year.  Will post.

A New Place

Looking for a new place to think and ponder the wonders of the Universe?
Or an artist studio away from the madding crowd at your own home?
Or simply a place to be away from it all?

Or perhaps you have kids who now want to test their wings? be independent?
and you want a safe place for them?

well, look no more.
there are at least two past posts on the place of my friend.
We had the Arts n Friends preview there on 1 July 2012, and then the following Sunday 8 July 2012
and here's a view of their building

The address is:

9 Major Dizon Street 

Industrial Valley Complex, Marikina City 

Here is the building.  It is a four-story yellow one.

Rental ares are affordable, see -

Unfurnished Studio units (maximum 3 occupants) with own CR, electric & amp; water meters
P6,000 (and up) plus P 700 (maintenance & amp; security dues) plus utilities
Locked Parking Space P 650.
2 months deposit, 1 month advance rent and utility deposit required before move-in
total to move in - 1,900+ utilities without parking, 

Larger units available. 

safe, secure, clean and quiet living space for adults, young and old...
one floor exclusively reserved for age 50+.
Controlled entry, visitor ID, no curfew.......

TEXT 0915-888-9004 and leave name for info and viewing appointment
UPDATE:   click here to go their multiply site

Note: Affordable furniture store is nearby! So you can just buy nearby and save on the transportation hassles

Very accessible to: Ateneo, Miriam College, Eastwood Libis, Blue RIdge,  Katipunan, River Banks, SM City Marikina,
The building is between the Katipunan LRT station and Santolan LRT station... walkable distance from either station.

From Cubao - Aurora Blvd, stay on right at Marcos Hi-way and turn right at Major Dizon Street, just before the Marikina River.
From Libis: On C-5, going towards Ateneo, turn right on Major Dizon Street from Katipunan Extension just before Aurora Blvd flyover.

Public transportation: via jeepney or FX to Antipolo/Cogeo via Marcos Hi-way from Cubao

personally i use this route - by car or cab - i go via Xavierville turn right at Aurora, do a U, then down Marcos, then turn right at the first right available - that's Major Dizon.

if you need to see more pics of the building with people, click on the label  major-dizon

Starting your Day

How do you start your day?

My friend, the sage, says he opens his eyes.  Yeah, right.
I suppose that's one way of answering the question.

i like to start my day by saying Good Morning to God. 
Then i say thank you for waking me up for the day and that i hope my day be filled with Him
i also dedicate the day to Him as an offering

i ask Him to put me in His Keeping
and ask him to give me strength to fight the temptations of the day
and to keep EVIL away from me

there are many evil persons abroad
betrayers galore, and i am "near" the presence of several
people who corrupt others, or peddle evil
persons who take delight in destroying other people or putting other people down
or who delight in building themselves up at the expense of others
people of greed - not just money but power

i simply ask the Lord God to take care of these kinds of people
and place them away - as far away from me as He can
they are vexations to the spirit

But no. sometimes He places them near.  To build character, i suspect -

Post Weekend 13-15 July

The weekend was very busy.  I was off to do government-related things last Friday, 13 July 2012.
I went to Camp Aguinaldo.  Then went home, talked to the carpenters, and left for Sampaloc, Manila - to be healed.

Healing is God's Grace freely given.  My first cousin is the instrument by which God heals those who believe.  He heals through the the hand of the Black Nazarene, my cousin simply is the carrier of God's Grace.

I want to be healed.  So I went for three days of healing. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
I know I am healed.  I know I am lucky.  The "Pharisees" will bear the proof when i have my medical labs.

As for the rest of the weekend, i was able to fix my elephant collection.
Pictures to follow (i forgot to upload them)

and was able to discard things.  I have more stuff to deal with but as long as i am able to clear a few things every weekend, i am satisfied.  Life is too short not to enjoy it.  So even when i am angry at some people, i find myself looking for laughter.  i suggest anime for laughter.  i enjoy Beelzebub for that.

Laugh. Love. Eat. Drink.
I drink four liters of water, well sometimes 2.5 liters of water, 1 liter of tea (made from tanglad or lemon grass or parsley), and the other half liter, half-and-half of gatorade/coke zero or if i am lucky - half a liter of wine.

Sayans - II

I can feel  -ber coming.

and with it,  the Anniversary of the Philippine Science High School comes to mind

I have the new T-shirt.  The one with the words of the Song, or the Science Hymn.
When my batchmates and I graduated from Sayans, we sang the this one -

Cora Andres, now Cora Andres-Bisda  did the honors and played the piano for all of us

ORIGINAL ENGLISH VERSION

BY MARIO TAQUIWALO

Philippine Science High

Thou stands above with thy thoughts that lift

And fit all thy sons with wings

To lend us flight in the sowing of our gifts

Oh, Philippine Science High,

Thy wisdom arms our youth

As we reach for our dreams, as we strive for our goals

As we seach for the untarnished truth

Philippine Science High,

The PSHS in us will grow

And go as we wander o’er

The crests and troughs of the sea of life that flows

Oh Philippine Science High

Thy light our beacon be

In our path through the world, in our fight for the right

In pursuit of a glorious thee

Our Batch Song

What the world needs now is love sweet love,
It*s the only thing that there*s just too little of.
What the world needs now is love sweet love,
no not just for some but for everyone.

Lord we don*t need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb,
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last until the end of time

What the world needs now is love sweet love,
it*s the only thing that theres just too little of,
what the world needs now is love sweet love,
no not just for some but for everyone

Lord, we dont need another meadow,
there are corn fields and wheat fields enough to grow,
there are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine,
oh listen Lord, if you want to know

What the world needs now is love sweet love,
its the only thing that theres just too little of.
what the world needs now is love sweet love,
no not just for some, oh but just for every every everyone.

what the world (whoa whoa) needs now,
is love (is love) sweet love
what the world ( oh oh) needs now
is love (is love) sweet love
what the world (whoa whoa) needs now
is love (is love) sweet love

I was at the Philippine Science High School when there was only one campus and it was  the Diliman campus at Agham Road, Quezon City where i hope it will remain til the world ends

one does not move a Harvard or any Ivy League school for any reason, does it?

and the campus has produced many talented individuals ......
Jimmy, my classmate, calls it simply sentimental
that is partly true, but sentiment and nostalgia is powerful
and for many logical reasons, my friend Roselmo Doval-Santos can articulate for me

Sunday 8 July 2012 Arts n Friends Exhibit III

Art n Friends - Exhibit III, for the NGO Kidney Friends and other Advocacies

I got Art.  and I want more.  if the pocket can afford it.

Food.  Glorious Food.

Art to me is beauty and spirit, and a wham to the heart.
without that wham or bang to the heart, the art is not for me.

Art has to hit me where i live, for me to want it, or for it to belong to me

So. I went to the Exhibit.  Not just for the Art, of course, but for the laughter with friends.

me. Tita Cherry. Alice. Sis-n-law of  Dr Coni

I got these."The Sun will come out Tomorrow", my title for Amihan Abueva's quilling work.  Alice is holding the art work.

A bunch of cards for a variety of events that will surely come my way. 
A butterfly/flower design by Giselle.  I need her to frame it.
A poster print from an upcoming Anime artist ...to be given to my nephew Japoy Ongchangco

and these i want -

A photo titled Circle of Life, but one i prefer to call - Life Triumphant
-- i was just updated.  it has been sold to another art lover
and another piece - of the sun, and 2 companions
The Art Book  of Napoleon Abueva.
The sun, and 2 figures.... i am hoping it is still there

and this that i cannot afford at this time.
in metal, Abueva's black trinity kalabaw (my name for it)
done in smooth black - that is just wonderful to touch
2 adult na kalabaw  nestling a tiny one between them
though the metal is cold, one can feel the love.
if i cannot get this, surely the one who is able to have this will be lucky
to hold that love in his possession
the tag price ---- over half a million in phil pesos, but truly worth the price methinks

Manny, Boy (Angel Lebanan), Alice, me

 

more Abueva pieces will be blogged separately.

Weekend Thoughts of 7-8 July

The Virgin of Penafrancia departed SSS today to go to the Fort, i was told.


 There was a smallish crowd to bid her farewell, and to keep her in their hearts.

i heard some of their more voluble petitions -
to get what is due (whatever those were)
and to have peace in their hearts

may the hearts of all be at peace this weekend



i have be at the Arts n Friends Exhibit III this Sunday
and tomorrow, i shall be fixing my study and the library

ah books. one of my loves.
maybe i shall find the time to read a little Voltaire

God's Guest Book

I read a blog by  Sharon Jaynes  who writes "Girlfriends in God"

You ought to read it and feel the meaning of her words directly.

We are just guests in this existence, and what do we is - just write in God's Guestbook.

Did we enjoy our lives?  Did we fill it?  Were we happy? or sad?

I wish all of us can say that the joys were worth the tears

I have had my share of tears and joys.  

Done the right things, and still do the right things - although it is very, very hard

Done some wrong things, as I - as the boy said - ain't purrfect

I do find joy.  I hope you find joy.  Everyday

Arts and Friends - Part III

This is by way of a small announcement

If you are in the area,  there will be an

Arts n Friends Exhibit at the Open House 

at

#9 Major Dizon

Industrial Valley Complex

Marikina City

on

8 July 2012    3-7 pm

at the arts n friends preview, 1 July 2012

Beneficiary will be the NGO Kidney Friends

i will be there at 3, but might have to go before night falls.
i have already reserved a piece of art i call, "the sun will come up tomorrow" done by Amihan Abueva.

in the picture

standing: Lawin Abueva, Jerry Obaldo, Fr. Ces Magsino, Jimmy (Amihan's hubby), Liza (Jerry's wife), Benita Padilla

sitting:  Manny Lim, me, Alice S-Lim, Tylette, Amihan, Janet C-Santos

Changing Lives through information

The Social Security System - SSS - has recently launched a 16-hour help-talk window.
If you need someone to walk you through your concerns, this might be the best bet for you

Details:

The numbers to call.   920-6446  to 55

note:  i havent tried this particular service so i cant rate it for you yet.
will let you know when i have done so.
if you've tried it, let me know how it goes....

Kung may tanong o may problema, sabihin nyo lang
sisikapin kong saguting o kaya ma-irating sa kina-uukulan

Social Security System - Using the Internet to Serve Members

The Social Security System is trying out different ways and means to reach its members.  With many of its members using the internet more and more, SSS has expanded its internet presence.  This blog is NOT part of the internet SSS expansion.  Although i hope the SSS posts will help individuals who have concerns.

Rather, this blog aims to serve members as a public service because as an SSS member, and having worked in the private sector, i know it can be sometimes difficult to ask, or know what to ask. 


This blog will not just touch on SSS, but other items of interest to me - and sana  (hopefully)  of assistance to the readers.


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i believe that each one of us is obliged to serve as the Lord has served, to share as He has shared.   we have only one life to live, and i would like to live this life partly in service in ways i can.  as the Lou Rawls song goes - click if you want to hear Lou Rawls youtube

i am a kidney transplant, and life is different, but almost normal.  i cannot have pets though, although i would like to have a cat or a dog.  i used to have pets.  *sigh*

i am deeply grateful to the family of my donor, who agreed to give one of his kidneys to me.  my kidney partner is a young boy of about 12.  my donor was a young man, the victim of an accident.  i am also grateful to my friend and doc, Dr. Benita S. Padilla, MD.  She is a nephrologist, and a very good one!  and deeply grateful for the miracle of a donor.  
Thank you God.


God is good.  God is great. God is Love.

On a diet of books

i come from a family of readers - the side -  of my father AND my mother

when i was in grade school, i had my close male cousin borrow books from the San Beda Grade School Library.   he would borrow the Hardy Boys for me. i would borrow Dana Girls, and Nancy Drew, among others 

but i was reading about Greek and Roman mythos at the same time.  i would sit by the dining table, reading.  we ate at the table in the kitchen so the dining room table was available for me. I can still name all the gods and goddesses - and their relative powers.

the legends of Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, and the like were very familiar to me.  i was grade what .... 3 or 4 maybe?

Lola Petra, my grandma, was a tad frustrated with me - no matter how near she was, i couldnt hear her when i was reading.  yes, i was that engrossed.  i love reading.  bookworm is an apt name for me.

in high school at PSHS-Diliman, i can remember reading Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Sherlock Holmes er Arthur Conan Doyle, and less i lie, i read all the romance books i could find.  Mills  & Boon was popular at the time. still is. 

Then my fantasy and sci-fi reading.  I read Asimov, Star Trek, Philip Dick, Ray Bradbury - who recently passed away and since i had very good lit teachers at Sayans - Agnes Vea and Helen Ladera immediately comes to mind i also read stuff like Anton Chekov,  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Voltaire, Socrates, Plato, St. Augustine, Shakespeare - his poetry and plays. And less you think Filipino was neglected - Ms Alfonso took care of that.  I happen to like Florante at Laura and i can still recite a few stanzas - the more relevant ones... for example:  Pag-ibig anaki's aking nakilala

and well, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.  Although i read the Tagalog version, it really didnt register.  i had to read the English version to get the best appreciation.  So i did.  All exams were in Pilipino, but that was alright - the mind could handle the translation.

College reading was very different.  I was at scholar at the UP-Diliman, but i loved to read. I read everything i could lay my hands on - and i remember most is Marsh McLuhan's the medium is the message.  I had a good Enlish 4 teacher - i remember her face vividly, but i have to check my classcards (yes, i still have them) for her name

Rudyard Kipling - and my favorite - to this day - remains Rikki-tikki-tavi.

then i would read ... and recite poetry Shakespeare, Byron, Christopher Marlowe, 

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning - my favorite remains - How Do I love thee?

The years in between - my reading has not changed. I read almost anything, i think. and enjoy them. i love to read more than i love to watch. so maybe that is part of the reason i have read - and reread so many books. I love Tolkien. I love mysteries. I love sci-fi. i even read recipe books.

these days i read Neil Gaiman - the Sandman is a favorite but my favorite story remains an illustrated story about a black cat and the title is The Price. I do have his entire Sandman collection, and a few others. i think his illustrated books are lovely.

Graphic novels can be fun reading . I do have a lot of John Constantine - the blonde scruffy English bloke, not Keanu Reeves - though i like the actor. John Constantine novels are dark and hellish and scary. I am a member of a wonderful forum, but not really now. No longer active because circumstances drove me out. It was simpler to leave although i miss the guys and ladies there, except for one. She can have them all i suppose, like the ring.

i also read a lot of romance stuff. i rather like regency romance.  makes me wonder how they managed all the shenanigans in the various eras.  Well, women do love to read that stuff and besides, they make for excellent bedtime reading - nothing to think about.

But i love to read Calvin and Hobbes. I got the complete collection about 2 years ago and I have been reading them. One of my best birthday presents to myself. I read a few pages everyday. There are 3 volumes but i am still on the first volume.

Sigh.

Remembering Antonio R-Infante

ARI, that was his initials.
One saw it in all top level communications at Anscor Insurance Brokers, Inc.  (AIB).
i was a management trainee and he was the President of the Company.

He was tall, past 6 feet.  Spanish. Very autocratic. Very wise. 
But was a warm and lovely person though i did not know that in the beginning.


One of his passions was Cardinal Ceramics, the marketing firm of the Tala Foundation.

At the time when there were no small computers, i was given a small computer with a printer to make a small claybody analysis application system.  What, you would ask is a claybody analysis system?  Well, clay has different properties that make it suitable for different kinds of ceramics, and the application gave him details about the different clays to make a good combination.

i loved doing that little system.  And i think he loved to use it too.
he said that it made deciding which clay to use easier.
for a man whose time was as valuable as it was.....
those were pretty words for me.

i remember he danced with me once - for the giddy girl that i was then, it was the highlight of the evening
AIB had a party and the date of the party fell on my birthday and so he did - a brief waltz!
Tony Reyes-Cuerva did the boogie with me. 

i also remember playing GHOST around the dinner table at his home.
The word was CRAZI...... and the next person seemed to have no choice but to be GHOST, but he saved the day and said there was a word CRAZING .

i still have that mug that defines CRAZING to me.

his death is recorded in October 1996
i did not get to read his obituary on time to make it to the wake

But he will always be part of my memories


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The officemates that I do remember:
John McLaughlin, Tony Reyes-Cuerva - the senior management guys
and the 2 secretaries of Tony R-Infante.  I remember their faces very well
Malu Gaite-Faber, Luz L. Lorenzo, Bibit Berena-Stein
Mark Cordero, Tess - there were 2 of them  ....
Pete Mendoza-the "fire" guy,  Tony-the marine guy, George Francisco-the casualty guy, Ed Atayde...,Arlene -she handled Bonds , Rico Nicasio - he was a nephew of Tony R-Infante
the IT people, Bert (+), Queenie, Alex Eufemio, Alex, ......
Sigismundo - Sig (+), Brenda (Head of Accounting, Juliet, Carmen, Cynthia - she was the secretary of Tony R-Cuerva
 

Remembering Edgar H. Sarte - The Horse Collection

Collecting elephants is my thing.   Ed had a horse collection.

i started Ed's horse collection.  i dont know where they - the horses - are now

but the collection started with my first birthday gift to him at Systems Technology Institute (STI)

i couldnt think of a unique birthday present so i cogitated .... and thought... and pondered

He was born in the Year of the Horse

So i figured, i should give a horse and i did, and that first gift was really just a figure of a horse

but it came with an original short free verse

in essence the verse said that he was THE herd stallion

briefly it described what a herd stallion is - 

it defends and protects

and you know, it also tickled his fancy ....

here's a link if you want to read about herd stallions

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stallion

my last horse gift was an ancient horse drawn carriage, the cinderella type

like the first gift, this too came with an original verse

this time, about horses ... and dreams come true

Fun things - I love Anime

I love Anime. and I read Manga.

Makes me wonder how many of us are out there, still loving anime - at our very young ages.

The stuff I've watched/am watching - in no particular rhyme or order
Inuyasha, Beelzebub, Nurahihyon, Spooky Kitaro, Bleach, Naruto, Sayuki (including Gensomaden, of course), Kekkaishi, Letter Bees .........

still everything's in harmony.

anyone care to discuss any manga or anime with me?

Birthday party of Horacio T. Templo, March 2012

Horace T. Templo

Ding, Rod, HTT

Birthday T-shirt

In Jesus Christ Our Lord

I bear witness to the miracles of God

there are many in my life.
i ask you to look for them in your life

i ask you to pray without ceasing.

Sayans

This is to celebrate my friendship with my batchmates at Sayans, and this is NOT complete

The Sakonits  (in NO order, sometimes Chaos can be fun)
Atty Rafael Orencia
Alice Sibal-Lim
Doc Jerry Obaldo (nuclear medicine), MD
Pastor Mel Cartera
Caesar Octavious Parlade  (Boboy)
Butch Tupas
Doc Joel Dumandan, MD (Joey)
Dale Amor Villamor
and yours truly 

Our many MDs
Benita S. Padilla, nephrologist and internal med
Leonila Dans, pediatrics
Roselmo Doval-Santos, industrial med
Jay Crisostomo, cosmetic surgery
Joey Dumandan, reconstructive surgery
Mianne Silvestre, new born babies
Ces Alincaste
Gardee Estacio

our bankers

 Boboy Parlade
Jose Marcelo
Joselito Sibayan
Roberto Reyes (Union Bank)

our IT people

Doy Santos
Dode Arcilla
Joan Albito Villegas
Timmy Bisda
Vivs Malabanan Pacia

our geologists

Art Morado
Sandy Sales
Lino Villacastin

our artists

Amihan Abueva
Janet Calalang Santos
Fr. Ces Magsino
Cora Bisda

our educators

Alice Sibal Lim
Gorbo Kintanar
Nimfa Mendoza

will update.....

Isaac Asimov

Someone told me that reading Asimov made one a nerd.
I happen to disagree.  You are free to object, or discuss in a comment.

I like Asimov. He is famous for his Foundation series, and his Robotic series. And yes, I have read most if not all his books.  Happenstance that they were available when i wanted to read them, and when i had time.

Part of the wonder of his books was his wonderful ability to look past things present,  tinker with it, and make it the future.

I remember Elijah Bailey, Danilaw, and the words psychohistory .... and the 3 Laws of Robotics
Any takers for a discussion of any of his books?

a Baguio retreat

i found this retreat in Baguio, which is just off the Marcos Highway.

this retreat  is the Maryknoll Sisters's place.  it is very beautiful.  i dont know if they allow people (non-sisters i mean ) to stay here, but it is a wonderful place to meditate.  Ask

Sister Catherine O. Encarnacion is a first cousin on my Dad's site.  She showed us this beautiful place.

Right beside this place is the Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary where they hold seminars, have group stay weekends and overnights.  

they also have a small store where i bought cards, candles, and a tv-shirt.
click for their website  the ecological sanctuary

more of the gallery

gallery

the loom

more art work

art

Sister Cathy O. Encarnacion, Directress

Baguio handicrafts.  they also serve as decor

my brother, me, my sister.    Stairs lead to open balcony bedroom

A quiet place for prayer

main floor

the Holy Place.  the paintings along the walls are about creation.  me. Sis Cathy. my bro.

Military things

if you follow philippine politics, you'd have read about the recent scandal about the military
*sigh*
i am glad - at least today, that Dad has gone to a better place
he would have been pained at the events