Tulabut: Bits and Pieces

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

SO MANY things have been taking place lately. They deserved some commentaries. Here are some of them:

GIZMOS. While appliances and electronic devices have been given new names, there’s a newly reopened Savers Appliance Depot (Saver’s Mall) in Balibago, Angeles City.

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The former “Jack’s Video World” has been turned into an empire of consumer electronics, enterprise solutions, cable television and what-have-you. And for that we could only be so happy for the Uy brothers – Jack and Dennis. The former rent-a-betamax-or-VHS store is now a symbol of hard work, entrepreneurship, and good investments that is widely respected and looked up to by local traders.

Savers Appliance Depot has undergone a major facelift in the past several months and it now offers a more convenient, practical, easy way to shop for household appliances. Prices are affordable and reasonable too.

Last week, its initial blast in its renovated commercial area opened — Sony Centre — where high definition television (LCD, LED, 3D,Plasma) sets, personal computers, walkmans (oh that 80s thing that is still in the groove), cameras, projectors, BlueRay and DVD players, etc. could be bought.

And just to give you an idea as to how the place is a step ahead of other shopping centers and malls in Metro Clark, Savers will also have an Apple Center where Mac products will be sold. This, aside from a wide range of products and household name brands that are displayed and carried at the much-improved Savers.

Congratulations to Jack who runs Savers with utmost concern for customer delight and professional excellence. I should also mention here their hardworking employee Janet Layson, who has been loyal to the appliance company since its inception. Janet is such an efficient worker, courtesy of the training she got from the Uy company.

By the way, Dennis – the IT brain in Savers Group of Companies – said that ACCTN will soon be rolling out HD signals to thousands of their customers in Angeles City, Mabalacat, parts of Magalang, Porac and San Fernando. The same will be offered by Comclark-run cable companies in Central Luzon.

Dennis says that an upgraded system is already in place and that new HD powered cable boxes that could also record (something like digital video recorder or DVR) TV programs will soon be installed in homes of interested subscribers. HD signal is the way to go now and Dennis will be making a lot of cable subscribers happy and satisfied with their improved offerings.

PEACE MAKER. News photos of Angeles City Mayor Ed Pamintuan forging peace and reconciliation between two feuding fraternities is a big score for the local chief executive.

Peace and reconciliation had eluded Phi Beta Rho and Tau Gamma Phi for decades. Some lives were even sacrificed as members of the two frats engaged in furious battles and fisticuffs in the past.

It is good that Mayor Ed was able to make the leaders of these frats smoke the peace pipe and bury the hatchet. This reconciliation is also a good way to show today’s thriving frats (and other organizations) that enmity would bring no good things and that it has its end too.

Mayor Edpam is really making good in his comeback term. Not that only he minds the affairs of the City but also a lot of socio-cultural issues and concerns. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day he would be called too in resolving parental and marital problems.  Way to go Kong Ed.

CLARK STAR. CDC President Ping Remollo is right on track in pushing for the establishment in Clark for a sports training center for national athletes. His proposal for the 200-hectare Clark STAR project (that’s Sports Training, Amusement and Recreation Center) is being seriously considered by officials of the Philippine Olympic Committee.

And why will not they do so when our venues for a big sporting event like the Southeast Asian Games and the Asiad are no longer in presentable form for regional games. How is the Rizal Memorial Stadium now?

The Philippines has got to have new venues to host regional sporting events. And Clark STAR, when finished, could very well be the new symbol of Philippine pride.

This facility is proposed to have field events like athletics, baseball, equestrian, polo, soccer and what have you. It will also have buildings for indoor games such as basketball, volleyball, badminton etc. Not to mention of course that it will serve as a training center for athletes who represent the country in various sporting events in other parts of the globe.

An added attraction will be a commercial strip and a promenade where spectators could enjoy shopping and other forms of recreation before and after games.

I hope that this project gets off the ground real soon.