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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

TRILLION PESO MAN

The idea that something  eventually happens that could change how things are put into motion, is one reason to be optimistic.  You'll never know.  The belief that someday the scenery would change and would bring forth the enlightening of everybody's minds. 

It'll start with the resource.  A surplus of resources, could take a form of a funding, reservation, manpower and management.  An abundance of something that has to be set free.  Like a spare change from everyone's pockets.  That could reach a very large amount.  An amount that could create a new town, city.  Say a Trillion pesos. A Trillion Peso resource that does not involve a bank.  Say a Trillion worth of goods and services.

Strange.  And the government intervenes...

Monday, February 3, 2014

PROJECTING A PROJECT - A VAGARY (PART I)

Less than a hundred square meter lot area.  A progressive type residential building.  Two storeys with roof deck.  On some place unfamiliar.  No guaranteed commission and no preliminary written or verbal agreement.  All talk from an architect friend.  More talk is necessary I guess.  More to discuss.  He's in haste.  He'll be leaving the country after around twenty four hours he says.  

The Registered Architect was reassuring.  He sent me the technical description for the lot.  And so it was drawn on CAD.  He says he can't open the files sent.  The lot was just drawn on PDF.  What else could he have been preoccupied with? He must have a lot of things on his mind.  A lot. I do too. Lots.  Different kinds of lots.

He had to take me there, to the site I guess.  There as I said, it was unfamiliar territory.  Buildings were closer to each other.  Closer than they could ever be.  Taking advantage of firewalls, using all consuming the property's extent.  Residential buildings or Commercial, I am not sure anymore.  Why? Why this small? 

Therewith upon simple inspection, the place was clearly abandoned or I'd say uninhabited.  I requested some site photos of the existing structure. We had to leave.  The client called him.  He told me it's good.  The client was concerned about the project's elevation.  He says it like there's something else better to do.   Like the present was consuming him.  Right, he was leaving tomorrow.  Yes he is.  I'm not sure what he's really thinking.

He says he gave my number to the client.  And so we left with his new vehicle.  A black pick-up truck.  (Toyota Hilux) And I thought I bought my mobile phone with me. His wife was at the shotgun seat, he was driving.  As usual, I'm the passenger.  He says we wont be able to meet his client.  And so we went for the mall.  They apparently left something there. Just to pick it up I guess and go somewhere else to eat or have lunch.  I told him it's fine.  He needed my services and at the moment I feel I need something to work with. 

But as I said earlier, the area was just a hundred square meters.  And there's an existing structure on it.  Another case of demolition.  And there goes the Demolition Permission.  Permit.  Firewalls on the right and left side as well as on the back.  He is into the project though he looks like it was something to discard.  To pass on to someone else.  It just happened to be me.  

There's really nothing to worry about.  At least at the moment, there isn't any for me. But wait.