SSS registration alert

i received a supposed system-generated email

from SSS Web Registration
sent from SSSWeb.notifications61030@sss.gov.ph.
it addressed me as "Ms./Mr. FRANCISCO" which is not my name.

part of the email read,
"We regret to inform you that your registration in the SSS Website was unsuccessful due to the following reason/s:

Your SS Number is already registered."

it is possible that Ms./Mr. Francisco simply committed a typographical error in trying to register my social security number instead of his/her own.

it is, however, also possible that someone actually tried to create an SSS web account using my SS number.

to be safe, i emailed SSS
at onlineserviceassistance@sss.gov.ph
(the reply address stated in the notification email)
and
member_relations@sss.gov.ph
requesting them
to look into the matter
and
not to entertain any request to register my SS number under someone else's name and/or email address.

forewarned is forearmed.

from here to there

i saw putin in the news and rasputin came to mind.  yup, that's how i'm wired.

i searched him in youtube.  yup, not google.

i was expecting serious videos about the rasputin you learn about in world history.  well, the search results showed boney m.'s song and tiktokers dancing to it!

♩♪  there lived a certain man
in russia long ago
he was big and strong
in his eyes a flaming glow  ♫ ♬

hahaha...  great song 👍
and i loved the dance of thrissur medical college students naveen razak and janaki omkumar ❤️
their rasputin dance video was first posted on march 23, 2021 and has since gone viral...  uhm, even controversial...

"life is queer with its twists and turns."

show and tell

friend:  'what did you eat?'

me:  'egg and corn...'

friend:  'corn on the cob?'

me:  'corn on the egg.'

friend:  'corn on the egg or egg on the corn?'

me:  'well, there was more of the egg than the corn so corn on the egg.'

friend:  'what do you mean?'

me:  'what do you mean what do i mean?'

friend:  'how can there be more of the egg than the corn?  big egg, small corn?'

me:  'i had bread with scrambled egg on top and buttered corn kernels sprinkled on the egg.'

friend:  'oh, sandwich!  you should just have said you had an egg sandwich!'

me:  'well, the corn was a big part of the sandwich so i thought i'd mention it, too.'

friend:  'yeah, but it's confusing.  i was thinking whole corn not kernels.'

me:  'that's your problem not mine.'

friend:  'is this war?'

nyahaha...  ask a simple question.

next time i'll  just send pics 😂

impossible dream

my father was a military man.  he was an officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.  his branch of service was the Army.

he was a member of Philippine Military Academy Class 1956 and was scheduled to retire in 1986.

from 1974 to 1986, he held the rank of Colonel.

several times before, he was already supposed to be due for promotion as General but it never materialized.  he was a principled man who was willing to end his career in the military without reaching star rank.

and then came the EDSA People Power Revolution in february 1986.  it catapulted Corazon C. Aquino to the presidency.  President Aquino extended his service for six months and promoted him to Brigadier General in june 1986.  (there were three of them who were extended and promoted that time.)

fight for the right,
no matter how hopeless,
reach the unreachable star.

p.s.
he retired from the AFP in september 1986 after which he was appointed to the  Economic Intelligence and Investigation Bureau (EIIB) under the Department of Finance, first by President Aquino, then by her successor President Fidel V. Ramos.

he served as deputy commissioner at the EIIB from 1986 to 1998.

pizza

i order food daily and my experience yesterday was not the usual.

12:28 p.m., i ordered pizza through this food delivery app (not one of the two major food delivery apps).

1:07 p.m., i got a call from the rider saying he couldn't contact the sender (the restaurant) and he was asking me whether he's supposed to go up to the restaurant or restaurant personnel will be the one to bring him my order.

eh?

i replied i've ordered several times from the same app and my order just gets delivered to me.  i dunno what the arrangement is between the restaurant and the rider.

1:26 p.m.,  i got another call from the rider telling me the restaurant wants to talk to me.

ok.

the restaurant was asking me what my order was.

huh?!

i asked whether they don't see it in the app.

the restaurant said it's a courier who's there so they have to know what my order is.

hmmm...  ok...  i said it's prosciutto and pepperoni pizzas.

(i've ordered from different restaurants from the very same app before and none of the restaurants ever asked me what my order was.  i'm not the one who books the courier.  i just choose food in the app, pay and that's it.)

1:31 p.m., i received another call and the restaurant was telling me they couldn't find my order.  it doesn't show in the system.

huh?!
i replied it's fully paid.  i have confirmation.  i ordered through their app.

i also mentioned that my last order from them took 3 hours to deliver.  (i'm only 3.5 km away from the source.  i know that the delay was on the restaurant's end and not the rider's based on the status, i.e.,  pending, processing, dispatched, delivered.)

1:52 p.m., i received a system message from the restaurant's umbrella group informing me that my purchase has been successfully delivered.

huh?!
i don't have it yet!

i texted the rider.

the rider said the restaurant has just handed him my order.  he said i could call the restaurant to confirm.

i didn't bother.

2:04 p.m., i received a call from the rider.  my order's here! 😀
i rushed downstairs.
i was surprised the rider had only one box of pizza.  he, however, also had a brown bag which he says the restaurant was giving me for free.

i said they're giving me a freebie but they didn't send one of the pizzas.  the pizza is more expensive!

anyway, i told the rider i know it's not his fault so i'll just raise it to the restaurant.

i opened the box and it was the pepperoni pizza.  it's the prosciutto pizza that's missing.
the brown bag has four pieces of their sister restaurant's complimentary bread.

2:17 p.m., i texted the umbrella group's help line.

2:25 p.m., they said they'll check asap.

3:18 p.m., i followed up.

ending, they're sending the pizza.  asap or dinner, they asked.

i said just send noontime tomorrow.

may the sun come out then 🌞