I will detail here the process I went through recently so it can serve as a guide for others.
Step 1: Smoke emission test.
Walk in the closest to your home smoke
emission center with a photocopy of your OR / CR, and ask them to place you in the cue.
Wait to be called. They will check the smoke levels and take a picture.
Pay aprox. 500php and get your certification that you passed the smoke emission test.
This process can take hours.
Step 2: LTO office.
Go to whatever LTO is nearest to your house. Bring photocopy of OR / CR and Smoke emission from previous step.
Get the mandatory 3rd party insurance. Normally they sell those even inside the same LTO compund.
Beware of beggars and sellers pushing you to do the insurance and smoke emission in other places. They could be legit or not. So why take a risk with unofficial sources.
With all docs line up for renewal processing. Cost of both insurance and renewal aprox. 1200php.
Wait and wait.
Total spending like 2k if you give some tips. Time spent can be like a full day almost that you have to ask away from your job to do the processing.
Quite a complicated process with several steps, so I created this post to help you navigate it.
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I bought a 2nd hand repossessed motorcycle from Motorstar. They delivered with an open deed of sale and a certificate of purchase. Papers under the name of old owner. This is common practice.
So your job now is to transfer it into your name. Many people don’t do it immediately because it costs money. Also, some wait for next year so registration renewal is at the same time as name transfer.
NOTE: if you wait too long, the ID of the seller might expire and you will have a problem at the LTO.
Step 1: Closed Deed of Sale.
An open deed of sale is an illegal document in the Philippines to start with. No lawyer or notary will sign or advice you to buy anything with an open deed of sale.
A deed of sale is a contract between buyer and seller. While an open deed of sale only features the seller. So it lacks the other part. It is not a contract at all.
So you close the deed of sale by filling up your buyer details. Together with that document and the IDs and signatures of the seller photocopied you go to a notary to have it notarized. Cost: around 300php for me.
Step 2: Police Clearance of the Vehicle.
You need to bring Deed of Sale, OR / CR to the Highway Patrol office of Police near you.
Request for Police clearance check of the vehicle.
They will give you a form to pay at the bank for their service. Cost: 500php for me.
FUNNY NOTE: police was video-chatting with his son and would not even look at me or pay attention to my needs much.
Step 3: Pay at the Bank
At Pasig they don’t allow online payments and you can’t go to any bank. It was yes or yes at Landbank.
This can take 2 hours of your day under the sun and possible rain since line is long. Wish they modernize the system and can pay online.
TIP: get your grandparents to do it as seniors can skip the line haha.
Step 4: Deliver Proof of Payment to the Police
Go back to the police headquarters. Hope they are not playing with their phone. And give the proof of payment.
Then they will instruct you where to get a stencil of your vehicle and meet you there.
Step 5: Stencil and Picture Taking
At the stencil venue, a technician will take the motor number and chassis number.
Also you will take a picture with the vehicle and a police officer as proof it was done.
They will be the ones to take the pic with their camera. They will give you the stencil results so you can give it to the police.
Step 6: Bring Stencil to Police
Bring your results to Highway Patrol and they will conduct an investigation. Results will take several days, like 3 days.
Step 7: Pickup Results of Police Clearance
If there was no delinquency found, you will obtain your clearance on the date they told you to return.
Step 8: Smoke Emission Test
Head to the smoke emission test center and get an approved smoke emission test.
Cost I forgot, a few hundred pesos. Say 500php with tips.
Step 9: Insurance
Get 3rd party liability insurance at least from wherever you prefer.
Cost for me: 900php.
Step 10: LTO registration
Bring photocopy and original of all the documents: – Your ID – Seller ID and signatures, photocopy – OR – CR – Police clearance of the vehicle – Smoke emission results – Deed of sale: notarized – Insurance
Request of a change of ownership and registration renewal. Will take a few hours of your day.
Cost I forgot. Around 1k probably.
Congrats, the bike is officially yours and now you can sell it and won't be bugged that much by police controls next time they stop you! :-)
1.- Can I stop wearing the mask? Government Response – No
2.- Can they reopen restaurants, bars etc and everyone work normally? Government Response – No
3.- Will I be resistant to covid? Government Response – Maybe, but we don’t know exactly, it probably won’t stop you getting it
4.- At least I won’t be contagious to others anymore? Government Response – No you can still pass it on, possibly, nobody knows.
5.- If we vaccinate all children, will school resume normally? Government Response – No
6.- If I am vaccinated, can I stop social distancing? Government Response – No
7.- If I am vaccinated, can I stop disinfecting my hands? Government Response – No
8.- If I vaccinate myself and my grandfather, can we hug each other? Government Response – No
9.- Will cinemas, theatres and stadiums be reopened thanks to vaccines? Government Response – No
10.- Will the vaccinated be able to gather? Government Response – No
11.- What is the real benefit of vaccination? Government Response – The virus won’t kill you.
12.- Are you sure it won’t kill me? Government Response – No
13.- If statistically the virus won’t kill me anyway … Why would I get vaccinated?” Government Response – To protect others.
14.- So if I get vaccinated, the others are 100% sure I’m not infecting them? Government Response – No
So to summarise, the Covid19 vaccine…
Does not give immunity. Does not eliminate the virus. Does not prevent death. Does not guarantee you won’t get it. Does not prevent you from getting it. Does not stop you passing it on Does not eliminate the need for travel bans. Does not eliminate the need for business closures. Does not eliminate the need for lockdowns. Does not eliminate the need for masking.
So…what the heck is it actually doing? ????????♂️????????♂️
Now I’m confused ????????????
Do what works for you. Don’t say Kuya didn’t warn you not to.
People are dying after taking the shot.
Best defense in to have a strong immune system. Makes no sense to take and vaccinations if you are trashing your body daily.
Kuya’s advice:
Go get sun light on your skin daily
Daily walk 1 hour
Daily exercise
Vitamin C 500mg daily
Vegan diet
Meditation
Hugs
No news
No gossip and complaining
Block all negative people in real life and online
No masks
Government’s advice:
Stay isolated
No sunlight indoors
Listen to the news
Listen to unhealthy health experts
Wear a plastic shield that will deteriorate your vision
Wear a mask that deprives you of oxygen
Consume dairy products
Kuya loves you, the Government and big corporations don't.
Ways to make extra pesos starting small. I asked the net how to make some money and this is what I found… This is part of an ongoing series. You can send your ideas also!
How to make 1 PHP?
Selling newspapers
Selling candies
Selling hugs
Picking up the coins in the street
Begging
Posting a video on Youtube if you have enough followers
Posting a blog with ads on you web page
How to make 10 PHP?
Buy and sell marking up 10php only
Tweeting for someone else
Selling halo halo
Selling ukay ukay
Selling load through Gcash app
Selling water bottles in the traffic
Cleaning windshields
Taking care of parked cars in the street
How to make 100php?
Wash cars
Baby sitting
Being an intern for an allowance pay
Buy and sell online
Drive for Grab or Taxi
Do a massage
Sell halo halo
Offer acquisition of online documents for a fee e.g. birth certificate, passport application etc.
All these are simple ideas to make some cash in the Philippines. We can all survive and move forward if we put enough effort in this third world country.
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Your destiny is in your hands, you have the power.
Use salary to help parents, siblings and relatives before themselves.
Love yourself. If you are rich, you can help others better.
Never invest.
A salary can only go so far, even if it is a big salary…
Smoke and drink.
Spending time, health, money. And damaging brain, taking worse decisions the next day and being less productive.
Believing in luck.
Results are about sweat, not magic!
Gossiping.
Envy and negativity attract more of that to yourself.
Begging in the streets and online.
Nobody likes a needy person. Everybody loves people who give. Be a giver and never beg.
Believing someone will fix their life for them: President, Angels, Boss, rich husband…
The only person to save you is You!
Never mastering the English language.
It is not funny that you have bad English. It’s so easy for a Filipino to brush up English, more than any other language, we grew up with English around!
Playing video-games.
Epidemic of young and not so young playing video-games in their spare time is alarming, unproductive and mind harming.
Being lazy when the boss is not watching.
Perfect reason to be fired because you are not productive for the company! Not sulit!
Spending time and money patronizing the Catholic church.
You can pray at home and save time and money going to the church.
It is a religion who loves the poor and says it is hard for a rich person to go to heaven. Bad motivation.
It makes people small and fearing an all mighty god. Makes you weak.
This are reasons I found after some years living in the Philippines as an employer and seeing many repeated practices that keep people in the mud forever.
The problem is not economic, it is mental. A change of mindset would change their pockets.
We have successful Filipino titans who came from zero to the top. It is possible for anyone.
I write this post not to put anyone down, but to awaken even if 1% of the people who read it. I am happy to take the bashing and the hate of 99% if I can save one Filipino by turning on the spark towards change, effort, success.
