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Sooo, what's happening then? Over the last few months I've been in talks with a guy about merging businesses. I'm kind of a one man band and, for various financial reasons, have got a bit stuck in a rut with my current project, which I'm keen to break out of. The other guy - a Brit - has a Malaysian company with ties to the UK, along with a Russian signalling supplier. To work here, he needs to set up a local company, which is a big, and long, bureaucratic hassle. I already have that local company with a track record of good projects both here and in the SE Asia region. I've also got contacts with a local company, whose name you'd probably all recognise, who want to break into rail systems installation/maintenance here. I bring the local knowledge and company, along with rail operations skills, they bring systems design and signalling equipment, which we'll hold the exclusive regional distribution license for. So, we're in the process of tying the two companies together. Next week, I'll have sorted both the Bureau of Inland Revenue, and the Securities and Exchange Commission which leaves the way clear for a redistribution of shares and a change of name. In the long run it'll mean I have access to a wider range of skills and equipment along with the ability to fit and maintain it. Basically we'll be able to offer turnkey solutions from feasibility and costing, through the design process, systems supply and installation, along with systems integration - which is where a lot fall down - testing and commissioning. Our first tender goes in next week for a signalling job on PNR, and we're also in top slot to help a major Philippine developer with two unsolicited rail PPP jobs, if government accepts them. The last two years have been about domestic stabilisation and clearing off a major debt. Now I'm in a position to take a few risks again. That feels good. Still gotta lot of stuff crossed here though.  |
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Last Edit: Jan 4, 2020 2:39:29 GMT by georgeb
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A new chapter
Sounds promising , good luck
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George,
If on the level, I hope this goes through for you to alleviate the doldrums of dealing with the Incompetents inhabiting the current project.
Fingers crossed,
Lance
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Well that sounds exciting. Wishing you the very best for 2020 and your new venture.
James
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Hope it works for you, definitely sounds promising!
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Good luck with your new venture for 2020, keep us posted!
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Good that you are feeling excited again....all the best for 2020.
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Good Luck for 2020 (and beyond!)
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best wishes for 2020 and interesting business developments!
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Nice one George!
All the best for you, Madame and bottle openers and mutts!
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Last Edit: Jan 12, 2020 23:54:29 GMT by Deleted: Edited cos I forgot a word that made a sentence make sense, first time round!
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Good luck on your endeavour and best wishes!
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sounds like an excellent plan, good luck to you all  |
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Thanks all for the good wishes and the 'likes'! Met with the girl who will be our accountant last night. Between the Inland Revenue and Securities and Exchange Commission, there's something that needs doing every month, and that's without quarterly and annual stuff, so having one on the books is a must. She's just squaring away the last bits of the old company so came round to the house to get Madam's signature. So we're chatting away and I finally ask her what she'd be looking for as a retainer. She looked at me shyly and asked if PHP3,500 a month would be okay. Sixty quid? Yeah, go on then! Hopefully, we can do a bit better for her than that. |
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So, today is the festival of the Black Nazerine, although it actually kicked off yesterday evening. I’ll leave those of you interested enough, to look up what it’s all about, but basically, centred on Quiapo Church, it shuts Manila. Well, not exactly shuts the city, but shuts all its roads which, when you think about it, is pretty much the same thing. Now the festival date is January 9, it was last year, has been going back to the 1700’s and chances are, it will be next year, providing we’ve not been renamed South China by then of course. So why, I ask, does it always seem to take people by surprise. Yesterday on the way home, I was talking to the driver about the following morning’s pick-up as our natural route is past Quiapo Church, obviously not a good option. “No problem, Sir George, we go out via Makati and join normal route north of Quiapo.” Good man, thinks I, he’s got this under control. So what, by all that is good and wonderful, possessed him to try and come through Quiapo on his way to collect me?  The SMS exchange was as follows: Driver – I’m still here at panderos, sta mesa..still the trapic is no moving sir…. Me – Nazerine and heavy traffic? Who’d have thought it? Driver – All the ways are stock…cause the parade of black nazerine are on going now…pls extend you patient to wait for me Me – Armon, the Nazerine happens every year, traffic stops, every year. Why even think of coming that way? He arrives to pick me up 55 minutes late. This is A screenshot from Google Maps at 6am this morning. I't looked like this from around 9 last night, and will do most of the day.  And it’s not just the driver. Whilst I was at work yesterday afternoon, Madam took herself off to see a girlfriend of hers. No problem with that, although said friend lives north of Quiapo and we live south. I message her when I get home at 6.30, telling her that we’d just come through and the roads, at that time, were clear if she wanted to make a run for it. To be fair, she may not have received it (see below). Then I get a massage at 9pm bemoaning the fact that the roads were now all closed because of…wait for it…Nazerine! So she’s stuck there best part of today as well, unless she does the mighty EDSAring! Still, My Little Bottle Opener gets a day’s walang pasok out of it. Should have given myself one as well, now I think on. And another thing. During the festival and attendant parade, the telecos are instructed by Government to limit mobile phone coverage in the area. So, we have a situation where people are stuck in traffic, stuck in the wrong part of the city, suffer illness or maybe injury in the huge throng attending, or perhaps get separated from their loved ones in the crowds, and no one can contact anybody. How sensible it that?  |
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Why on earth would they want mobile phone coverage limited???
Can you imagine that here? lawsuits and claims of infringement of human rights etc!!
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Why on earth would they want mobile phone coverage limited??? Can you imagine that here? lawsuits and claims of infringement of human rights etc!! Apparently it is for security reasons, to prevent mobiles from being used to set off bombs. I could neither reach Madam or Tania from the office despite me having a full signal. They, being in Manila, didn't. However, as I found last night, if the two phones were in close proximity, as mine and Tania's were when she sent an SMS asking if I was nearly home, then they could connect, kinda defeating the object! |
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Hi, In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 they stopped the bulk of mobile calls, People were getting frustrated and angry because they were trying to contact friends and families to find out if they were OK. It was claimed all sorts of reasons but the main ones were security and to ensure that emergency services and other agencies could have easier access.
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Hi, In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 they stopped the bulk of mobile calls, People were getting frustrated and angry because they were trying to contact friends and families to find out if they were OK. It was claimed all sorts of reasons but the main ones were security and to ensure that emergency services and other agencies could have easier access. Colin Hi, Colin, I understand about them trying to stop the networks being swamped in a huge emergency, but this was purely to prevent remote detonation of bombs. As described earlier though, if the two phones were fairly close, I guess around 2km last night, SMS could be sent and received, which surely would be enough to do the job! I was in Bangkok during the first of the red shirt riots and they supposedly cut off the networks, but there were all sorts of bizarre things happening. I tried to call Madam in KL to let her know I was okay, as they were showing a pile of burning tyres outside my hotel on the news, and kept getting crossed lines. On a mobile? I was also there for the second round when they sent the tanks in. They cut the signal again, but no worries, Madam was with me that time! |
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Jan 12, 2020 17:04:02 GMT
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Hope the volcano isn’t causing you problems..
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