8 March 2010

NOTICE to All CEPALCO Customers Subject: New DAILY Brownout Schedules for March 11 to 16, [...]]]> Cause:  New DAILY Brownout Schedules [March 11-16] due to the continuing power supply curtailments imposed by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines [NGCP] all over Mindanao Actual Interruption Schedule:  03/11/2010 Time Start:  rotational 8:00AM-1:00PM; 1:00PM-6:00PM; 6:00PM-11:00PM Interruption Details:

8 March 2010

NOTICE to All CEPALCO Customers
Subject: New DAILY Brownout Schedules for March 11 to 16, 2010

Please find below the load shedding schedule [5 hours DAILY rotating brownouts] within the CEPALCO service area for the period March 11 to March 16, 2010 [Friday to Wednesday] due to the continuing power supply curtailments imposed by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines [NGCP] all over Mindanao. Again, CEPALCO would like to caution customers that the actual switch off and switch on time may slightly vary from the announced schedule depending on the actual load curtailment level imposed by NGCP on CEPALCO on a day to day basis.

Time of Brownout

Dates: March 11 & 14
8:00am to 1:00pm – Group A
1:00pm to 6:00pm – Group B
6:00pm to 11:00pm – Group C

Dates: March 12 & 15
8:00am to 1:00pm – Group B
1:00pm to 6:00pm – Group C
6:00pm to 11:00pm – Group A

Dates: March 13 & 16
8:00am to 1:00pm – Group C
1:00pm to 6:00pm – Group A
6:00pm to 11:00pm – Group B

GROUP A Areas [Charlie 1 & Charlie 4]:
CHARLIE 1:
1. Greater portion of the City Poblacion along and bounded by Hayes St., Mortola St., JR Borja St. including S.Daumar St. up to corner JR. Borja St., Aguinaldo St. up to corner Justo Ramonal St.,
2. Along Pabayo St.; including portions of C. Pacana St., JR Borja St., Gomez St., C.Taal St., T.Neri St., Abejuela St., Hayes St. and Gaerlan St. from Pabayo St..
3. Hayes St. from corner A.Velez St. towards City Hall area & Burgos St., along T.Chavez St. from Burgos St. up to Tiano Bros. St. – including portions of Tiano Bros. St., Rizal St., Capistrano St. from Hayes St.; and; Dolores St..
4. Along Burgos St. from T.Chavez St. up to corner Gomez St. including portions of Abejuela St., T.Neri St., Cruz Taal St. and Gomez St. from Burgos St..
5. Surroundings along Mabini St. from corner A.Velez St. towards Capistrano St. up to corner Gomez St. including portions of Tiano Bros. St. from Mabini St.; Yacapin St. from Capistrano St. towards Burgos St.; and; C.Pacana St., JR Borja St. and Gomez St. from Capistrano St.
6. Along Pabayo and T. Saco Streets from Dolores towards Clementino Chaves St. up to 15th-26th St., Nazareth.
7. Greater portion of Macasandig, all of Tibasak, all the way to Taguanao.
CHARLIE 4:
1. Portions of Camaman-an near and including towards Manto to the San Jose and St. Vianney Seminaries, greater portion of Camaman-an proper towards Bontong, Bolonsori up to Upper Camaman-an and Hayes Subdivision including Tipolohon.
2. Part of Limketkai Center, Lapasan including Mc Donalds, PNB and Allied Bank.
3. Along Recto Ave. from corner Agora Road towards Maharlika Bridge including Coca-Cola Plant & Osmeña Ext.. up to Gaabucayan St.
4. Portion of A.Luna St. towards all of Mabulay Subdivision including portion of the Provincial Capitol and Provincial Hospital Area.
5. Medical Center area along and bounded by Capistrano St., Echem St. up to corner Akut St., A.Velez St., and Recto Ave.(UCCP side), including all of Consolacion.
6. Corrales Ext. from Gaabucayan St. towards most of PPA area.
7. J.Pacana St. from Recto Avenue towards all of Macabalan area.
8. All of RER Subdivision Phases I & 2 including Dolores compound; towards Fortune Express Shop along Maharlika Highway; including all of NHA-KSS Subdivision and portion of Bayabas near Manila Broadcasting Radio Station to Capisnon area.
9. Greater part of Bulua from Bulua Rotonda towards all of Iponan.
10. Greater part of Patag including Calamansi Drive, Apovel subdivision, Terry Hills subdivision and Anhawon, Bulua area.

GROUP B Areas [Carmen 3, Tango 1 & Pueblo 2]:
CARMEN 3:
1. Portions of Carmen: along vicinities of Villarin St. towards portion of Canitoan-Pagatpat Road; including St. Mary’s Academy (formerly Cathedral School of Technology), Golden Village, City Hospital-DOH Area, COWD reservoir and Seriña St. from Villarin St. down to Madonna and Child Hospital.
2. M.Suniel St. from Villarin St. down towards portion of Mabolo St.; including Matilde Neri St., Dabatian St. and Cagayan de Oro College area; and; portion of Lirio St. area.
3. Portions of Upper Carmen towards Dagong including SM CITY; PRYCE HOTEL; SPUM & SEARSOLIN.
TANGO 1:
1. Portions of Natumulan down to Casinglot, Tagoloan.
2. All the Barangays of Bugo, Puerto, Tin-ao, Agusan, Tablon, Baloy, Cugman, Gusa, and greater portion of Lapasan.
3. Portions of Lapasan-Camaman-an road from Recto Ave. towards Limketkai Commercial Center including Grand Caprice Restaurant.
4. All of Osmeña St. and portion of Cogon Market Area (JR Borja side and Yacapin side) including Roxas St. towards portion of JR Borja St.
5. Upper Gusa, Indahag, Malasag, FS Catanico and Balubal.
6. Agora Market area including Gaabucayan St.
7. Corrales Ext. from corner Recto Ave. up to Gaabucayan St.
8. DMPI plantation, MENZI Agri, etc.
PUEBLO 2 :
1. Portions of Upper Carmen, Upper Balulang and all of Brgy. Lumbia including; PNR Sawmill, Shop and transmitter; Pueblo de Oro, Camella Homes, Xavier Estates, Xavier Heights, Xavier High School, La Buena Vida, Frontiera and Montana subdivisions; CAA-BAT Lumbia Airport & Rio Verde.

GROUP C Areas [Charlie 2, Carmen 1, Carmen 2, Tango 2]:
CHARLIE 2:
1. Along Hayes St. from Camaman-an towards V.Roa St. up to corner J.Ramonal Ext., including Pinikitan, Adela, Balangiao area, Quirino St. and Yacapin Ext.; portions of Macasandig, XU Grade School areas.
2. Along J.Ramonal Ext. from Sto. Niño, Cogon towards V.Roa St., R.Chavez St. up to Corrales Ave. corner A.Luna St.; D. Velez St & Yacapin St., JR Borja Sts between V. Roa St. and Mortola St.(PNB/Everbest) towards Daumar Sts. To Yacapin Ext. up to Doña Nieves St.
3. Along Corrales Ave. towards FICCO, Nazareth, including Yacapin Street Towards Capistrano St.,
4. Greater portion of Nazareth; greater portion of Ramonal Village. From Hayes-12th Sts up to T.Saco-14th Sts. ,T.Saco-6th Sts.,14th-21st Sts., and 15th-21st Sts.
CARMEN 1:
1. Greater portion of Carmen along Lirio St., from Trinity St., towards Oak St., Max Suniel St., Vamenta Blvd, up to cor. Jasmin St. including Waterlily St. and the Carmen market area.
2. Along Mabolo St. from Lirio St. towards corner Rosal St. including portion of Marigold St. .
3. Portions of Carmen: vicinities along Vamenta Blvd. from Fernandez St. towards greater part of Ilaya including Zayas St. up to Callos-Elloso St.: portions of Ipil St. and Mahogany St. from Fernandez St.; Madonna & Child Hospital; and; Seriña St. from COA towards Gumamela Ext.St., Guani Coliseum (former O.Roa’s) and Maharlika Police Station.
4. All of Macanhan, Carmen towards all of Lower Balulang.
CARMEN 2:
1. Portions of T.Chavez St. from Corrales Ave. up to Tiano Bros. St. including portions of A.Velez St from Hayes St..
2. Portions of Carmen along Yacal St. towards Lirio St., Vamenta Blvd., Waling-waling St. upto GSIS area including Ferrabrel St., Mango St. and portion of Rosal St. and Marigold St.
3. All of Kauswagan proper including Fairlane Village and portion of Capisnon, Bonbon and Bayabas.
4. Isla de Oro.
5. Along Montalban St. from near Tiano Bros. St. towards Burgos St., del Pilar St. and Magsaysay St. including portions of Macahambus St. and Abellanosa St. from Burgos St..
6. Portions of A.Luna St. from corner Corrales Ave.; towards vicinities along A.Velez St. upto corner Mabini St. including portion of Macahambus St. from A.Velez St. and Tiano Bros. St. from Macahambus St..
TANGO 2:
1. Portions of Natumulan, greater Tagoloan proper, all the Barangays of Baluarte, Pulot, Sugbongcogon, and Gracia, Tagoloan
2. All the Barangays of Sta. Cruz, Mohon, Sta. Ana, and Sto. Rosario, Tagoloan including Kimaya, Villanueva.
3. All of Villanueva and Jasaan, Misamis Oriental.

We hope all CEPALCO customers & the public in general will be guided by this announcement. Thank you.

Released by:

Marilyn A. Chavez
Senior Manager
Customer & Community Relations Dept.

Anyway, from people with kindred spirits, kind souls [...]]]>

Hmm. It seems only yesterday I celebrated my 25th birthday.. And now,  I can’t believe that I will be turning 34 this March 18. WOW! It’s truly a blessing and it is quite amazing how God continues to bless me after all these years. I am truly grateful.

Anyway, from people with kindred spirits, kind souls out there, listen up! I have here three things that would very much surprise me on my big day.  Wanna know what I want for my birthday, apart from world peace? Well, err.. hmm..  It is a set of personalized bowls from Posylane.com, or some pink and mint green personalized pillowcases to match my new curtains. A green and yellow striped nap mat is also good..

Darn, I better start a formal list here as anytime soon I will start wanting many more items from the site. They are all so tempting.. Visit the site and see what I mean..

Today, my class and I spent only 30 minutes in class. When the brownout started at 6pm, we were all on our way out of the gate.  I was at Mercury Drugstore when my [...]]]> These two  doesn’t go together? Family Time and Power Interruption does go together, when it’s permitted to be..

Today, my class and I spent only 30 minutes in class. When the brownout started at 6pm, we were all on our way out of the gate.  I was at Mercury Drugstore when my sister sent a text message saying that they will be going to SM. And I told her that I want to go with them since I do not have a class due to the power failure.  They have planned to go to SM after dinner because of the same reason. And so I went to SM and met up with them..

First, we shopped for Lili’s and River’s costumes for their closing program, and a few more to add to their wardrobe,  then we went to Quantum and Worlds of Fun.. Then we ate waffle dogs and bought a few more foodies from Watson’s. We headed home before SM Cagayan de Oro closed. When we arrived home, we only had to wait a few more hours/minutes then electricity came alive again..

This rotational power interruption is crazy, and is really giving a headache for everyone.. But, like all other adversities, we simply need to find what’s best about every situation.. After all, it’s all a matter of perspective..

My family had fun, especially the kids.. What more can I ask for.. Not asking for power interruptions to frequently come but, I am hoping we will be able to keep our cool when they come so as not to ruin a good family bonding..

Please find my reasons below:

While my sister [...]]]> Since the day it opened in Divisoria, I am an avid patron of your branch not until yesterday when your cashier/attendant Zue Bongat and the male attendant on duty with her at 3:18 pm disgusted me with their poor customer service and poor customer relations.

Please find my reasons below:

While my sister and I, along with our house-help, were browsing for things to buy, and Zue gladly attended to us, I specifically told Zue, not to punch the items yet because we are going to pay everything at once and that we have an HBC card (under my name of course and I had applied for it in your branch);

When we have decided what to buy from the back of the store, we went to the cashier’s post, I gave her the items that was with me, and asked her the total tentatively, and gave her some money for the items, but we were still out looking for things to add since we saw a few more deals near her post;

When finally we have decided that we are not adding anything anymore, I asked from my sister the card that she was holding for me. And when I handed it to Zue Bongat, she told me she had already punched the items and that there is no way that I could have my card used for that transaction because she already punched in the items. And she and the guy told me, they can not reverse the process, which is not true, because anywhere you go, the manager just have to over ride the transaction and credit the customer back with what was lost. The guy even told me that I could bring the receipt and have another customer use it at another time, which I did not quite understand, which I do not really want to happen anyway!

I have five points in this complaint.

#1. I specifically told Zue before we even came to the second item we picked up, that “I HAVE A CARD, IDUNGAN RA NA UG PUNCH TANAN!—didn’t she listen enough to hear that?

#2. While we were in front, I may have given her the items and some money, but she obviously saw that we were still thinking of buying some more items, so she should not have punched them yet.

#3. WHY DID SHE PUNCH THE ITEMS WITHOUT ASKING FOR MY CARD? Getting the card from my sister and giving it to her signals that we were done and that we are ready to make the final payment. Just because I gave her the money before hand doesn’t mean she can punch them in because we were still looking for more things to buy.

#4. It was not my fault that my card was not punched in together with the payment, because technically, a cashier would always ask first if the customer’s purchase is final and a cashier would always ask if the customer has a card, which she did not do!

#5. Is it just plain laziness that they both should lie about not being able to override such transaction to give what’s due for a regular patron? And they were cajoling me like a child that I was given the freebie (that is just worth a measly P 49 compared to the 324 points I lost) already so it’s just okay that I do not get the points that I rightfully deserve as a member with the card.

If you find this deliberately funny and that you should not take action, well it’s up to you. This is not merely about the 324 points that they denied me during this transaction, but the totality of your service at HBC Divisoria branch. Instead of apologizing, the two attendants made me feel like a child whose lollipop fell down on the floor and there is no way of getting another lollipop because according to them I was given the freebie already, which by the way, I was entitled to because I reached the amount they specified to be able get it..

I hope you take action into this because somehow, I feel cheated during that last transaction; I was not a happy customer. And I guess I will never be. We went to Watson’s afterwards, and I swear I could compare people working there with yours. They are more professional, especially the cashier.

Remember this, one happy customer always brings back other happy customers, word travels fast.

UNHAPPY CUSTOMER,

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Finding [...]]]> A lot of people complain about the bad things they experience. They complain about problems especially when solutions are not clear enough or when solutions are nowhere in sight. Most often, people complain about hardships. The many things that seem to be abundant and are causing so much more hardships. hmm..

Finding the solution is one thing, but bearing with it and winning over it is of course what’s best. But,  think about it this way, some problems are actually blessings.. blessings in disguise. It is just a matter of perspective..

Just some thoughts to ponder on.. It’s vague, I know..hehehe

Happiness from within.. I am grateful for everything I am enjoying now and I am happy.. What more can I ask for?