Saw this post from Antonette Aquino on Facebook - sharing it here. This is what she said:
No, I did not leave the aircon running 24/7.
My Meralco bill came in at ₱9,791.78. So let me break it down because nobody else will.
Generation charge alone is ₱5,266.66. That’s 54% of my entire bill. Meralco’s actual cut? ₱1,730.98. And that number hasn’t moved since 2022. What keeps going up is everything sitting on top of it.
Here’s what’s actually eating your money:
System Loss — ₱486.83
You are paying for stolen electricity. Illegal connections, meter tampering, jumpers. Republic Act 7832 lets Meralco pass the cost of electricity theft straight to paying customers.
Universal Charges — ₱201.96
Part of this goes toward paying off the National Power Corporation’s debts. Old debts. From decisions made before most of us were even working.
Government Taxes — ₱989.81
The 12% VAT is not just on what you consumed. It’s stacked on top of every other charge, including the subsidies you’re already paying for. So yes, you are paying tax on stolen electricity. Tax on an old government debt. Tax on a subsidy you do not even benefit from.
FiT-All and GEA-All — ₱149.59 combined
Two separate renewable energy levies running at the same time. The second one was quietly added to bills in February 2026. Both government-mandated. Neither one is optional.
FYI..none of this is illegal. It’s all backed by law. But legal and fair are not the same thing.
The middle class does not steal electricity. We do not qualify for lifeline rates. We do not get 4Ps. We just pay full VAT, fund everyone else’s discounts, and absorb costs that should never have been ours to begin with. Every month. Without relief.
What actually needs to change:
1. Reform the generation charge. One line item cannot be more than half your bill and go unchallenged.
2. Stop passing system loss to consumers. Other countries make the utility absorb it. We should demand the same.
3. Move faster on renewables. Lower generation costs long-term. That transition is already overdue.
📸 CTTO
For thousands of years, babies slept with their mothers. When they cried, they were attended to. Then two men came along: Dr. Holt and John B. Watson. They said babies should be trained. That babies had to fit the assembly line schedules of their parents. "Newborns must cry to expand their lungs," they claimed. "Simply let them cry it out." And that's how the "cry it out" sleep training method was born. Watson treated babies like experiments. "Never hug or kiss your child," he wrote. "Shake hands with them in the morning." After all, mothers needed rest, to attend to their husbands and households. Watson had four children. Three attempted suicide. One succeeded. And we still follow it today. Because once you convince a mother to ignore her baby's cries, you've broken something primal.
wishlist
1. abolish mtrcb. industry-run dapat ang regulatory board
2. tanggalin ang mmda as organizer ng mmff. mga taga-industriya din dapat humahawak nyan
3. dati, after ipalabas sa sinehan one year later pa sa cable channels. sana same sa streaming. mabilis masyado ang 3 months
“30 is so old.” you’ve only been here for three decades. in two of them, you couldn’t drink, rent a car, or even be fully responsible for yourself. please wake up. you are a FRESH flower in the garden of life
if quezon city is serious about being a unesco film city, i hope this entails building a non-profit cinema that has multiple screens because istg we cannot just rely on these commercial malls for life
no one prepared me for the fact that when you have a 9-5 you can't like. go to the dentist or the doctor or anything anymore. because you work. and when you don't work they're closed.
The Daily Mail reports that Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney are in a “bitter feud” over differences in their political beliefs.
Zendaya is reportedly refusing joint interviews and red carpet photos with Sydney Sweeney while promoting “Euphoria”.
People are literally dying because of a super typhoon, and yet the DILG announces class and work suspension like it’s something to be hyped about. “Mga Abangers”? “Wow. Malupit ang hagupit ni Uwan”?
This isn’t a weather update to make light of. THIS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS!
Sa ibang airports you get a variety cuisines and coffee shops, sa atin Hen Lin talaga. Ang poignant na reminder na kahit afford mo na bumili ng ticket at magbakasyon ngayon, sa Hen Lin pa rin ang bagsak mo.