Comments on: Who paid PHP90,000 for each of these ATROCIOUS lamps?

By: Blaise

Blaise — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:48:09 +0000

I wonder where our politicians seek for consultation to spend such big amounts of money.. or do they actually make consultations?

By: sometime_lurker

sometime_lurker — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:43:36 +0000

Agh, I didn’t hear about this at all but here and it’s crazy that I read it just now!

So saddened by this…I cried. Not proud of it but hey, an understatement compared to this rant. I never knew this before I left the country and I’m so sorry to say that this is one of the reasons why I did leave… Helplessness and hopelessness with our govt. This is just so downright absurd that I can’t believe there’s not one decent body of govt left to check these numerous, inhumane projects.

I’m now going to research more about this and if there has been any developments on the complaints. I will not, and will refuse to as long as I can, let this go silently.

Thank you for the informative rant, MM.

By: pilar

pilar — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:20:55 +0000

Just watched it on channel 2 news. They government will start an investigation on these deco lamps on why it’s SO overpriced! Lagot ang DPWH!

By: neil

neil — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:26:13 +0000

Those lamps must be Philippe Starck-designed to command that exorbitant price tag! Too bad they look awfully ordinary it would be so hard to convince anyone they really cost that much to build. Any investigation made into this yet?

This country is totally hopeless and I really hope I could be proven wrong in the foreseeable future.

More power to you!

Cheers!

By: filet minion

filet minion — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:42:43 +0000

hahaha mm oh how i wish i were a mountain climber! haven’t had any rugged adventures in awhile cos of work. your perception of me is as far-off as how we all thought you’d look like an old fat man with bayong in tow (little did we know that you’re a deadringer for james bond pala)! i suppose your guess was pretty close, if restudying french at the foreign service institute constitutes a degree in languages. and well, i did study management economics undergrad but couldn’t hack the math, got kicked out of the program junior year and ended up a lawyer instead!

anyway, i’m dead serious about joining you in the chain-yourself-to the-atrocious-90k lamp-parade!!! please fix the date so we can all arrange our sked and buy tickets in advance!!! i think the sinulog festival would be a good time to go if you’re there for work

By: marco

marco — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:09:19 +0000

this is one of the ways the politicians “make money”. i know someone who work for the “mayor”, actually a city engineer. he says the bricks that were used for pavement were overpriced. he said that the “quotation” for EVERY BRICK was 60 PESOS! when in fact it was way lower, maybe even 5 pesos a piece! that way, the budget would increase a thousandfold. the “excess” money would definitely be going into the people involved, like the mayor, engineers, accountants, etc. this trend was started by the “mayor” and is now being copied by others so as to generate income.
have you guys been to tagaytay recently? i think i saw similar looking lamps being installed! while i agree that the roads definitely need lighting, i would have been contented with ugly lamps that light well than fancy ones that give less light and that cost a bloody fortune!

By: Frayed

Frayed — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:38:28 +0000

These ugly lamps made their debut at Roxas Blvd c/o the great mayor of Manila. Then they started spreading more of them (“moderne”) all over Malate which was supposed to be left quaint. On the plaza in front of Malate Church alone, there are 5-6 different styles of lamps..in one square! There’s the nice old fashioned ones, there’s the tacky “Cibo-Chow King” lamps (as someone coined them), there are some “marine, sail shaped lamp bec the City Hall engineer is supposedly into that, there’s still the originial old standard balls, then there are those atrocious lollipop lamps… which by the way, on paper, allegedly cost P300,000 EACH. No need to go to Cebu to get all riled up.

Oh and of course, those modern lamps on MH del Pilar are pundido. Zero maintenance but we knew that would happen.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:16:57 +0000

I was watching “Unang Hirit” on GMA tv last Monday, and the summit was one of the topics of their conversation. One of host commented, “why build when we already have the PICC, why waste those money just like they did in Clark” and he goes on saying what happened to the other places which they built for these purpose and now is either dilapidated or just wasting away….Bakit nga ba nag build pa sa Cebu when it can be held somewhere? Do we always have to show our “pinoy yabang”…I was also reading an article earlier, about the cha-cha and so on…and I saw this comment, which is very true…”The Philippines does not need a change OF leaders but a change in repeat a change IN leaders”.

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:17:38 +0000

A reporter friend quoted the Summit’s press officer saying the lamps did cost organizers P93,000 each.

By: mia

mia — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:19:36 +0000

Hmm. These look suspiciously similar to the ones along Roxas Boulevard, and much like the ones in Bicutan…looks like one guy is laughing his way to the bank.