The Neurotic

I was reminded yesterday why I quit the corporate world. A bunch of long @$$ meetings and nothing ever gets done in any of them. I was invited to join and give a short introduction of our association at a donors meeting for STD/AIDS by the QC health department. A can of worms was opened during an impromptu open forum after my short presentation.

Quezon City has a drive that they call 100%. They hope that eventually 100% of the designated entertainment establishments will have condoms available. In line with this, QC has a local ordinance that disallows any form of authority to use the presence of condoms (used or unused) in an establishment as proof of prostitution. The Department of Health has a similar drive. The problem is, as a police representative said, there is a certain Republic Act that was approved in 2007 that DOES allow them to persecute a "fun" establishment for having condoms in the premises. All of us present (DOH, QCHD, NGOs, HealthGov, UNICEF etc.) were dumbfounded and never even heard about this RA before.

What does this mean? No entertainment establishments will now carry condoms because of this. GG.

Talk about the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.

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Oh and a friend of mine forwarded this to me....some guy is using my pic on his YM avatar... Bleah.



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Oh and new Fabcast!

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Thanks McVie for the great production as always!

Busy. Busy. Busy, but before this (Chinese) year ends let's end it with a podcast!
It is always a great time to meet up with friends, add a bit (a bit daw!) of alcohol and the conversation takes a life of its own.



The 2009 Fabcast (Part One : 21 minutes)


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The 2009 Fabcast (Part Two : 26 minutes)




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I know, I know. This has been out a couple of days if you checked out the rest of the blogs of those who were at the gathering.... Just felt like spreading out the episodes. Anyway, much applause to McVie (http://mcvie5.blogspot.com/) for the great (and fast!) production of these podcasts! Migs of (http://www.manilagayguy.com) who is hosting the podcast, Corporate Closet (http://www.corpcloset.blogspot.com) for inviting all of us to his pad and to the rest of the gang for being such great company. Until the next time!

I hope, for anyone who is hearing this for the first time (though I kind of doubt it) that you guys enjoyed listening to it as much as I had enjoyed being a part of it (hey, I just had to go there and get drunk and string some words together....what's not to enjoy right?)

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Didn't realize we were talking for such a long time..... always happens when you are with good company. :D

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CC, of corpcloset.blogspot.com,invited Gibbs, Joel, Migs and I to his pad for a night of wine and conversation. I met this new guy, Tenchu, who tagged along because he wanted some insights on the impending changes that his relationship is going to go through. Obviously he went to the wrong people for insights! Lolz.

Listen to a fun night of wine (or in my case Bailey's, and yes, I actually brought my own drink at the party), conversation and all around rioting. :P

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Finally a new Podcast with the crew.