Showing posts with label NLEX. Show all posts
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Monday, August 31, 2026

The floods, the force majeure made a lot of things more challenging for many entrepreneurs/businessmen

Nation building via learning and being the best in business





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                                                        Flooding at Calasiao






This post hates alibis and excuses but really the incessant rain.  One of the businesses being aided complained that many of the things he was to do were not done:

     1.  The expressway, and the province he was operating was flooded;
     2.  Things were not moving:   his bank loan transactions, other agreements, payment of his receivables
          were not moving because people were making excuses too because of the rain;

Buyers, prospects, investors do not come your way because of the bad weather....

The other parties are angry but thats it;   there are acts of God, and you just have to wait it out for the sunny day to come.   On Feb 26, 1986, I went to the land owner of the land we bought on installment which we are developing into a subdivsion, saying we cant pay on the date because of the difficulties at EDSA,  The Chinese land owner embraced me, and thanked me for my honesty and courage, and said they too in the car industry,  laid eggs.   And said things will be all right...