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In my meeting with the SM leasing management, maam lea commented that i am such a lucky kid!  in their meeting in manila with hans sy and all other leasing managers, they again approved my AccuDish Satellite TV Services business inside SM Malls.  The first one approved!  we applied 3 years ago and we were declined a chance for they are protecting cable companies already renting out shop.  and other dealer’s where applying to no vail.  our accumosaic concept was approved 4 months in the process.  accudish got approved 3 weeks.  we want to control atleast 2,000 homes out of the 12,000 subscribers of dream satellite tv in Iloilo.  a function of respect.

additionally they knew that their big boss in operations the AVP for Operations visited us and had a little chit chat.  they said that he is always strict but against expectations offered us to use 16ft x 8ft of blank wall space in the SM entrances.  imagine that a 30in x 40in lighted signage, a size 15x smaller than what was offered is charged at 5,000 a month.  ours has better mileage with size and is placed on a better place!  an entrance for that matter.

What’s my plan?  i want to do something socially responsible and something that encompasses universality in design.  i’m thinking of using 3r-sized photos to form the 16ft x 8ft mosaic.  i’d like to partner with an NGO or a socio-civic organization to provide the pictures (for it to be free of royalties) and do something like a mosaic of a bird with one wing covered with oil and one wing trying to flap out of the oil trap.  other concepts in development also for the 3 other entrances.  im dreaming of the local media supporting the cause for it to be BID while in display and all the proceeds should go to a foundation that would help guimaras (i hope that it would be 50,000 each atleast).

sm will get a socially responsive message across.  the printing donor will get promotions and csr.  the partner org will get a project free of financial cash outlay.  media will get csr.  art buyer will buy a popular artwork that has increasing value because of mileage.  i will get my sign on it.  accumosaic will get promotions and chick appeal (joke!).  i will be very happy of seeing another thing living to life (since im not in business primarily for the money).

everybody wins.  i just hope that i could make this thing happen.  so that in my own little way thru awareness and financial proceeds we could help the guimaras people in the process.

Lately, I noticed that I have been using a lot of "play of words".  The phrase “down right dumb” could be interpreted in a variety of ways.  It can be very hurtful and it could be as simple as just thinking of it as another word for comparison like “better”.

Ethel on our YM chat, commented that she has a perception that I’m treating Crystal like a trophy girlfriend or a future trophy wife.  She’s like all day in my blog entries and I arrogantly describe her as a “down right intelligent chic” than any other person I know.  Ofcourse it could bring a lot of eyebrows up.

Historically, when I knew crystal I never thought that she’s as intelligent as she is.  She goes to class just on time and leaves directly after with no chit chat unlike the other classmates whom I perceive where the best in class for pre-class whatevers!  When I was visiting her in the dorm I really thought that they were group studying.  I was “sabog-looking” at that time that I don’t have any idea of what was happening on the ground to complicate my uninformed status.  In fact later I knew that some of my male “sabog-looking” friends go to her dorm to be tutored for math, econ and accounting.  I patiently wait in the garden while they were studying the same topics in some of the classes that I am with them (my subjects are in mixed block sectioning).  Daw wala lang labot.  So to cut the story short, her intelligence was never a factor for me loving her coz I really thought that she was the typical middle-of-the-line girl with a nice dorm that classmates usually hold a group study.  Very naïve of me.

So have I purposely chose a Trophy GF?  I think I haven’t because if I knew I would have felt unfit for her and never made any move in the process.  Later nang naging kami na, I then realized why people look at us a certain different way months ago.hehehe.  We are like opposites out of the world of people’s imagination.hehehe.  In the past five years, she has proved to be better and better beyond my imagination and projections.  I jokingly told her yesterday that, “I really thought that you were just another kokok chic!”.

Another of maam ethel’s comment is like “halos sambahin mo na si crystal sa pinagsusulat mo sa blog”.  I am now thinking why.  It’s because a lot of people I knew including my self if not all show their best feet forward.  I can have a perception that they are such interesting people just to be dismayed by a lot of real things after.  Things like you perceive that they are intelligent but are “down right dumb”.  Things that you feel that their inner devil’s horn is growing each day.  With crystal, I feel that “each day with her is a valentine”.  She continually shocks me with who she is with no bragging or whatever.  Infact, I’m her unofficial bragger..whahahaha.

Kasalanan ko ba na naging GF ko yung best person I ever know (but not the best in my projections when I was courting her..whahahaha)?  As in I’m not purposely silver coating her because I want her to be my trophy GF but she’s really a real silver, a real value, a real loving person, a real intelligently shocking and exciting future wife, a real super achiever that may sound too good to be true for people who don’t know her (errr..a real platinum maybe is a more appropriate word).  She’s 7^th in all UP-System 98-starting student numbers for GWA.  She’s offered 85,000 by _ _ _ _ _ as chief accountant with a little more than a year work experience.  She can also work professionally abroad with her position intact and with higher compensation.  She is such a loving person who adjusts frequently with my auto distorting mind.  She’s also very supportive with my projects.  So when I mean Intelligent I really mean intelligent.

Maam Ethel also commented that I’m purposely choosing a super-achiever like I am and mixing it up with love.  A super-achiever that achieves something I can’t or an exact compliment partner for that matter.  Kasalanan ko ba na in my first try for love I met her?  Kasalanan ko ba na God intersected our path?  Parang I feel na people thought that I purposely arranged this situation because it sounds too good to be true.  We work out problems, I talk about my other attractions to other chics with her and we allow things not allowed by most couples for the better.

I’m also very thankful to crystal that when we started out and people look at me unfit for her, she made me feel very easy.  She has not brought a bandwagon of delineating situations to show a large actual gap at that time or to prove herself.  She made me feel right for her when most people don’t (including me when I was awakened by the real situation).  On the other hand, she helped me develop and show my true colors now to most people.  If ever I attract someone sexy, intelligent and who speaks nicely in our SM art displays and our other business projects (even offering to be a nude model), I usually remind myself that “crystal loved you when you were unpolished when most people treat you as mud”.

crossroads.  which way should i take?

each day it continually becomes a more pressure packed choice.  should i again choose my love for entrepreneurship versus schooling?  one of the driving forces of my taking up of a master’s degree this year is my feeling of not hiking up to my potentials in school. 

in highschool, i chose several of my activities versus physically being in a classroom.  i chose competition chess morethan anything.  we were made by our coach to jog at 6 in the morning at the largest football field i saw (our town’s!whahaha), we were served food in our training area while seeing our classmates across the hallway eating their hearts out making tea-time with their school books, we were exempted from the dreaded stuff like CAT and community volunteer projects and we were trained psychological chess by one of the best chess teach i ever knew (we sometimes play to control their emotions morethan control the logicality of the game).  I also chose academic competitions so again i was exempted for weeks of class attendance because of this.  competed and awarded abs-cbn iloilo’s toys award, flared up the regional rotary club academic excellence competition (ate whole the bragging bacolodnons coz it was iloilo studs 1st time to join the competition.  5 on 5 and it was first 6 iloilo!hehehehe).  i also joined national boy scout jamborees (again exempted in class attendance..hehehe) and bring out more money in the process by playing speed chess in the other tents during the evenings..hehehe.  all in all i was out roughly 2 months of my graduating year.

it resulted in my poor and flunking grades in the general education subjects of college life because i can’t simply relate to something i got the equivalent highest score in HS without attendance and learning.  during the start of our specialized subjects for our course things ran quite differently.  it was our first on-base try in our accounting subjects, BA 99.1 Introduction to Accounting.  all are well and good excited of it and most are eagerly studying.  during that time i signed in the class cards the first day and has been absent 12 straight meetings until the 1st Long Exam.  classmates were complaining about our very strict professor, prof. gianina cainglet the accounting academic head at that time.  hambal ni GV pirmi sila ginasabon kung ma late.  paano na lang ako wala gaatend!whahahaha  i was not attending coz i opened my desktop publishing business at that time and i was pressured of the small loan that the PC suppliers and my Aunt gave me.  i did my best to learn things at the outset of the business in able to have a good and fast transition to decentralizing management.  i was crying because of the pressures of it as i can recall.  i was also sad with an emotional failure at that time.  i thought of quitting school.  but in the mix exam of all sections, i took the test.  surprisingly, i got the highest score (almost perfect i guess) and most of my classmates hardly ever know that i was on their class (its supposed to be an automatic DRP grade after an equivalent of 6 absences, 3 lates = 1 absent).  my classmates jokingly complained to our terror teacher why pinapagalitan sila kung ma late pero hindi ako hindi nilalaglag sa clase for absences.

i explained to my teacher the real situation and she advised that i shift to marketing even if i had the highest grade in our class without attending and making my own process sa blue book.  for she saw my love for entrepreneurship.  she saw that i was not for it just for the money but in seeing entrepreneuring ideas come to life.  because of these unproven capacities i thought na since stable na ang micro biz projects ko i can regain things i left in the past.

my plan to transcend my projects to a national significance after graduating master’s may come early.  offers are being faxed from all sm malls and a feeling of a special preferrence is given by SM’s top management.  i was informed that initial talks for my AccuDish Satellite TV is scheduled tommorow (in only took 1 week for this step when it took 2 months for my AccuMosaic.  this i guess is a function of respect).  slowly all the 4 installments of my AccuVentures projects are slowly getting in ahead of projections.  after all are in in Iloilo next na yung easier replication in all sm malls.

so what will i choose again?  entrepreneurship or schooling?  technically i wouldn’t need much of this skills since i have a future wife that is great with these things in a corporate setting.  being offered the chief accountant position at ORMAT for 85,000 at age 25 couldn’t be a better exclamation.  grad school is more for the release of my historical past nightmares than something i would actually need (errr..correction.  things i presume i wouldn’t need because of having a crystal..hehehe)

if you were me what would you do?

i guess i came to a point where the small advantages of a street smart tax avoidance technique is well and over my present capacity.  it could still provide me the same tax savings but the personal time needed to explain such to a lot of people will surely eat my personal time.  so in short money saved is not equivalent to specific time spent.

lets define tax avoidance first as compared to tax evasion.  tax evasion is purposely manipulating taxable items to have a lower tax amount.  may it be in manufacturing a support document for a legal dependent, lessening of actual sales declared, hiking up of costs and expenses that has a clear definition in the laws of the land.  tax avoidance however plays on the unclarity of undefined concepts,  vagueness in the generalities placed in the law and the vast possibilities of interpreting vagueness in an acceptable conceptual function.  in short, tax avoidance measures is simply intelligently legal.

i have been acustomed to so much of this thru my observation and virtually full centralization of decision making  in the first 2 months of my new businesses.  i always think if saan yung vague, mali, mali na technically legal and tama and such stuff.  in my accumosaic business, i observed na generally wala naman kaming for sale na item sa kiosk sa sm city iloilo (ofcourse meron din pero it can be easily scrapped out).  So i thought can it be treated like a "billboard"?hehehe  ofcourse kung nakakita tayo nang billboard nang jollibee tapos kumain tayo sa malapit na store, di ba yung sales is considered sa store not sa billboard?hehehe

so yun, my concept is to make folks from the revenue district treat it as a billboard in the hallway of a mall with a personnel just giving out calling cards and entertaining in the process for sales to be treated in consolidation in my small town biz.  (technically parang ganoon pa rin.  nagkaiba lang yung jurisdiction from rdo 74 to rdo 75).  so why?  because sales expectations from the city is different from sales expectations from the towns.  i hope gets nyo na yung point.

pero on 2nd thought, i am now valuing my time to be morethan the 2-3 days in a quarter needed to explain such an occurence to BIR people in the ground tax mapping the business even if big bosses signed an acceptance letter.  The hassle and the 2-3 days time requirement would most likely only be equal to my tax savings if not more.  if iisa lang yung biz ko, ok sana.  in today’s case, parang hassle na kung magstreet smart strategy ako even if it will conceptually work (i guess..hehehe)

billboard sa loob nang mall.hehehe parang kalokohan pero natatawa din ako..hehehe

I think Age is one of the prime influencers of my thoughts.  I have a strong desire to be above and well over what people expect for kids of my age.  This is the reason why i get doubly pressured to come up with a working "wow" idea on June which i started developing first quarters of the respective years.  So by the time of august construction requirements are done and before my september 7 birthday it is already up!

This week is such a shocker!  Malapit na yung time na di ko na kakayanin eto lahat.  i need a wife!  joke..hehehe We opened on sept 1, 2006 in sm city iloilo.  One of the first few visitors was Sec. Boboy Syjuco of TESDA.  he wants to order 300 framed mosaics to be given as gifts to his friends and family.  we need to finish it before end of november.  just in time for christmas.  i think we couldn’t fill the order because our capacity for our signature hand-made 2 inches thick by 6 inches wide cross-section of wood which is bound without nails is just 1 a day.  our works cost a minimum of 8,000 per frame.

He ofcourse expects a lower price for an economies of scale in the order.  But like the SONY chairman example when he was ordered a lot of walkmans.  Instead of decreasing the price, he increased it because he would need to make new infrastructure improvements to fill in the order.  In our case, we need skilled artisans of wood.  kung pipilitin namin, sigurado quality would be an issue.

Hans Sy is also very interested with our works.  he instructed as a top management of SM Malls that offer sheets for different SM Malls be sent here to iloilo.  He have received faxed offers from SM Mall of Asia, SM  Manila, SM Cagayan De Oro, SM San Lanzaro and other have started calling on my phone for details!  Paano ko to magagawa?  i have a great idea on paper.  Walang provider nang this quality of frames, specialty printing, art photography and digital arts inside sm malls to provide for A-type clients.  Pero we don’t have the capacity.  I started inquiring about subcontracting pero quality is always an issue with a loss of control on the productions system.

I was planning to do all of these after finishing grad school in UP.  i was planning to place all my business segments in all sm malls.  But it came early to a point that i’m now considering dropping the grad school thing and the saturday formal photo schooling.

it’s kind of ironic where there are very small orders at present but the smile of common people seeing our works and spending 10-15 minutes at different vantage points to observe our thing is such a heart-warming experience.  I even said to our people na kahit tabla lang tayo dito ok na.  mabubuhay naman tayo nang iba nating projects.  But i also feel that its about to erupt in proportions we can not handle.  that’s my fear!  an idea so good that we can only watch self destruct with orders we can’t fill.  I can’t also prepare people for the computer graphics part, people for the woods part, people for the sales part ahead of the requirement because we can’t be really sure or can accurately project something that was not even done anywhere.

quite funny.  but the wonders that i push myself to be over my age brings a smile when i and my people look in the eyes in enourmous amazement.  we are questioning ourselves "ano na ni ginapang-ubra ta man?".  Being 25 tommorow will bring in new preparations to prepare higher level projects before i’ll be 26 on september 7, 2007!

thank you lord!