2 posts tagged “trust”

Tell us about a lesson you had to learn the hard way.

"Letting go"

That is the hardest things that I learned from my past. I could tell you more about it but I'd rather not. The details of my story are too much to open up but I have learned that I should always keep in mind of things to say and things that I should keep.

Letting go also goes with a lot of things. It comes with trust, forgiveness and acceptance, am I right?

When I say trust, it's just like letting go of your partner's hand when you're together. From some of my experience, there was a guy who I was with and couldn't let go of my hand even if I just need to pick something up or fix my hair. It didn't take long for me to see that he was really possessive of me. Especially when I'm going out with my guy friends without him. That relationship ended up quickly.

Forgiveness - letting go of the pain and the bad things that one has dealt on you is one of the hard part in anyone's account. They say, "forgive and forget" but it's hard to forgive if you can't forget. Forgetting is also part of letting go. There is someone out there who I can't forgive as he ruined my life back in college and ruined my trust. In the years that went through, I can say that I forgive him but I can't say that I can forget what he did.

Acceptance - accepting that you are wrong is also something that's attached with pride. Accepting that you're not that strong or you're not that kind of person who you want to be. When you finally get to the point of accepting who you are as to letting go some of your pride then that is when you should strive to be a better person, right? That is what I think, anyway.

What would your reaction be if your complete name, birthday and complete address can be seen in the internet for public viewing? This came to my attention when a friend of mine showed me the address of the website and I am really shocked and infuriated.

WELCOME TO THE COMELEC NCR WEBSITE! The SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION through its national advocacy office fully supports this publication of the voters list in pursuit of transparency to the end that the stakeholders in our election will trust COMELEC more. This shares with all the responsibility for cleansing the voters list. View it and inform us of corrections to be made: inclusion of omitted voters, exclusion of voters who should not be included by reason of death, transfer of residence, conviction, loss of citizenship, double registration, etc. Let us all work together for truthful elections and living democracy!

Stupidcomelec

Fully supporting a publication where you can see the voter's list along with their complete address, birth date and complete address is just plain STUPID. My name is listed there and the people who I know is also listed. I'm really paranoid on regards about my personal information. The website's tagline "bring back the people's trust in the comelec" is a joke. The website is a breach of privacy and trust to the COMELEC. As Gelo already said: That’s an invitation for several crimes right there!

I'm a registered voter and my identity is sacred to me and knowing that there's no one else who has the same name as mine in NCR or anywhere else in the Philippines is big thing. What if someone is mad at you? what if someone got a hold of your credit card? What if those people who has delicate online accounts? Also just imagine how much kidnappings will rise. Flying voters and all that. I don't know if I should be angry or cry.

And don't even get me started with the website's layout.

UPDATE (16 March 2007, 15:50):

The following link will take you to INQUIRER.net :
Comelec to take down online voters’ list amid privacy issues
http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=55248

As of a few minutes ago, the list has been taken down from that specific site.