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Friday, September 3, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Say Hello to My Little Friend
As the country is hit by the El Nino phenomenon, the city has been plagued by the worst power and water crisis than we have ever experienced. We encounter power outages that lasts for up to 6 hours and the water supply is now being rationed. And they said the situation will still worsen until May or June where we hope the rains will come in, which I pray won’t be too extreme as how we have experienced from the recent typhoons that hit us. The condition of the planet is indeed changing rapidly for the worse and unless we act on ways that will at least help decrease pollution, we are doomed to find ourselves at the end of the road very soon!
Amazingly, we sometimes experience continuous power and water supply here in Zamboanga whenever we’re visited by prominent and influential people. Coincidence? I hope so! Otherwise I feel ashamed for how the city treats foreign people as royalty rather than it’s own constituents. But that is another story, and it is not my purpose to incite a propaganda and complain about trivial things. My main purpose for this article is to present to you guys a solution for the energy problem, an option if you will consider it.
Let me now stop with the drama and show you how this works. All you need is a good car battery a power inverter and a battery charger. How does it work? First off, we need the main ingredient which is a car battery. For my setup I bought a new car battery for only P3,300. You can buy used car batteries or if you have car batteries that you don’t use anymore, it will definitely help you to save. What I bought is a 2SMF, 9 plated battery. The principle here is a battery that stores more power will provide more power longer. You can get 11 plated or 13 plated batteries. Of course it will cost more to buy a battery that stores more power and it will take you longer to charge a battery as the plate increases.
Next you need a power inverter. Inverters converts 12V direct current from the battery to 220V alternating current. There are inverters that has a transformer that converts to 220V and 110V. What I got is a small one that only produces 220V so it won’t suck too much power from the battery, hence prolonging the life of the battery. I got it for only P1300. To help your appliances from possible power surges from the inverter, connect it to an AVR and surge protector. My inverter produces 600 watts of power, but you can buy one that can product up to 1000 watts. To find out which inverter you need, you will have to do a bit of math. You need to determine which appliances you’ll be connecting to the inverter. Then you need know how much power each appliance needs and add it all up. With my setup, I was able to get 6 hours of electricity. You need to take note here that as you increase the power that your inverter produces, it will decrease the life of your battery.
And finally, what you need is a battery charger, which is also know as a power converter. The converter converts 220V current to 12V current, which is what the battery stores. I plug it to the battery every time I have electricity and would charge my battery for 3 hours to fully charge it. I bought my charger for only P140. There are converters which can charge faster and others that charge slower. Take note that the capability and functionality of a device is directly proportional to the cost, so as the charging ability increases so does it’s price. I have posted the picture of my charger below.
All in all I only spent P6000 for my setup. Sweet deal isn’t it? Better than a power generator in my opinion, which produces too much noise when it runs and requires gasoline, thereby producing toxic air and would add to your expenses. I hope you guys find this information useful as well as entertaining. Please do not hesitate to add to this article to share to others, and please leave comments when you can! To God be all the glory!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
A VERY DEFINITE VOTE by Guy Seguiban
Election time is a high-water mark
of everyone.
The candidates vying for the most
prestigious posts are ubiquitous.
Tumultuously wooing and courting
the electorates.
Not much of a big deal to a poet.
to muddle himself in this muckraking
pastime gives him a helluva hell
of time – perhaps losing everything \
and gaining nothing.
But all things considered –
I ain’t a candidate but a poet,
my star has not burned out
at the core – so I ain’t yet dead
in the water.
I have a voice undeniably participative;
Thanks to this poetic license –
no Ali Baba can steal or seal my lips.
I walk my talk.
Look, my essence of living is not to be
in league of the high and mighty;
just happy to be in the mainstream,
only sad not to go gaga over
a certain candidate.
I won’t fall in love anymore with that
paragon of beauty, I swear –
for my soul was badly bruised,
for what happened once in a front row.
Seated together attending a debate,
she never flash a smile to me.
More amused than aghast,
I concluded perhaps she needed
to visit her dentist!
What could I say of that king?
One of the three who visited the child
in the manger.
A niche in Congress will still require
a tedious building of a huge bird’s nest.
“But he has all the virtues I dislike
and none of the vices I admire.”
Churchill was right in describing him.
Forsaking my case when I needed
most his legal services left me in a quandary.
It’s my turn now to dump him
like a hot potato.
I am not keen about him
Sorry, I won’t vote for a kin.
In his baptism of fire –
he carries the famous name of a wife
like a second skin.
That’s nothing to crow about.
The aura of a wife is not transferable.
I will maintain my vapid silence
as to his academic excellence.
To have a fire in the belly
is better than a crown
tilting in one’s head.
His tirades inside a post-graduate
classroom bludgeoned me like
a red tomato to death.
But nothing in my poetic license
suggests a death wish.
My own vote won’t diminish or tarnish
the track record of those destined
to win.
TREASURES ALI BABA CANNOT PURLOIN by Guy Seguiban
Gold and diamonds I don’t have
that I surmises Ali Baba
and his forty thieves
won’t be interested in appropriating
My less valuable belongings –
I was grossly mistaken!
In a case where a magical password
accessed Ali Baba to store his collectibles –
A treasure trove dazzles the eyes!
I was building my dream house then
but unfortunate I’ve hired
the wrong people at the wrong time.
Now, at Ali Baba’s own perimeter
is a veritable commercial lumberyard.
But eventually a selling point
in transparency cripples
the team Ali Baba.
Is the team losing steam
or just taking a respite?
Believe you may –
nothing beats keeping one’s nose clean
Where in eking out a living –
let everyone view what builds he
from the sweat of his own brow.
Peace of mind has long eluded
the tormented souls in troubled waters.
They have had denuded the forest
of the words and they emptied the coffer.
I was smarting from a wounded pride.
(For my vulnerability has always
provided a free lunch to the unscrupulous!)
I was outsmarted by Ali Baba;
Obscene was my loses –
Absence was a sigh of relief
in a worst-case scenario.
Day after day I live where I believe
even a superpower, Hegemon, or empire
losing its hold could teeters
on the brink of collapse.
Everything was going kaput!
But put it this way:
There’s always a solace
in a summer solstice
and there’s a silver lining
behind the gathering clouds
I found joy in a fellowship
to hope for salvation in every word
of God and inspired by the Holy Spirit –
I know I have to keep no treasures
here on earth but keeping treasures
in heaven is to transform the inner
cove of my being.
In a new lease of life emanates
in me a forgiving heart!
The Lord who hangs in a leafless tree
redeemed me of my sins and circumcised
My unbelief in compassion, the Lord also loves
Ali Baba.
Wasn’t he whom the Lord promised?
“Today, you shall be with me in paradise.”
Verily, I lifted my arms heavenward
to sing a hymn of victory!
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