Circulars 2021 - December Issue - BRBHAI Board 2021

BLUE RIDGE B HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, INC. MOONLIGHT LOOP, BLUE RIDGE B, QUEZON CITY BULLETINTHE BLUE RIDGE B • •B R B H A I B O A R D Y E A R 2 0 2 1 DECEMBER ISSUE COVID-19-EDITION- CIRCULAR-008 Page 3 Page 7 Page 4 Onward! Feliz Navidad: d isney The Kalesa celebrate the within reach season of giving Ride by Jaymee by Diana Liwanag & Sadili - Tabason by Gel Gepuela interns and interns INSIDE BRBHAI Internship: A Story of Inspiration and Gratitude features: ONWARD! THE KALESA Message by the RIDE (Page 3) HOA President Announcement Page by Gel Gepuela and interns Photo Gallery Tel no. 02-8-296-8630 EMAIL: [email protected] Visit:www.blueridgeb.com

COPYRIGHT 2021 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BLUE RIDGE B HOMEOWNERS' JAMES “BUGSY” DE LOS REYES ASSOCIATION, INC. President MOONLIGHT LOOP, BLUE RIDGE B, HANS BENEDICT \"BAMBI\" N. QUEZON CITY CUNA Tel no. 02-8-296-8630 Vice-President www.blueridgeb.com Head - Livelihood Committee EMAIL: [email protected]  DIANA JOANNE D. LIWANAG Treasurer LAYOUT AND GRAPHICS BY MANUEL D. ARGEL III BRBHAI INTERNS Corporate Secretary LAWRENCE \"LARRY\" S. UY Public Relations Officer Head - Grievance & Adjudication Committee ANNA YASMINE C. CERVANTES Head - Membership & Education Committee Head - Health Committee ANTHONY \"TON\" O. VIRAY Head - Infrastructure Committee MARIE ANGELICA \"GEL\" M. GEPUELA Head–Beautification & Maintenance Committee RAUL B. ABAD SANTOS Head - Security Committee JAIME \"JIMMY\" M. TEOTICO Head - Social, Sports & Cultural Affairs Committee DIANE F. ANDIN Legal Advisor ANDREA DEANNA HARRISON Past President 2018-2019 THOMAS DE CASTRO Past President 2016-2017 Chairperson - Finance Committee JOEY DOLENDO Assistant Treasurer ROBELYN \"BICBIC\" BRAULIO Office Secretary Street coordinators ANA DOLENDO Area 1: Twin Peaks South Evening Glow, Milky way North  MALU TUASON  Area 2: Twin Peaks-North MAUCIE CUNA Area 3: Comet’s Loop LILIAN CASTRO  Area 4: Moonlight Loop Hillside Loop / Hillside Lane DEANNA HARRISON Area 5: Starline Road  ELLEN REYES Area 6: Milky way Drive South MONA ESTRADA Area 7: Promenade Lane Riverview Drive, Boni Serrano 

MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT Dear Neighbors, I thank the residents who participated, contributed and supported in the HOA During these past 2 years, our community activities, the QC-LGU and Barangay who did navigated through the challenges and their roles well. disruptions brought about by the health crisis affecting our families, businesses and As we enter 2022, we look forward to more our way of life. We continue to hope and pray projects and participation from our member that we overcome this and finally go on with residents. The HOA is not only the officers, our normal routines. board of directors and street coordinators. The HOA is composed of all of us, the Although it may appear that we are members of the Blue Ridge B Homeowners’ approaching the end of this Covid19 Association - created to look after the pandemic, the HOA Board continues to interests of the community and maintain the remind the community to abide by the peace and tranquility of our neighborhood. health and safety protocols imposed by the Let us work together to preserve this. QC-LGU, and do our part as responsible residents. Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year. It was particularly challenging to be with the Bugsy de los Reyes HOA during this time. As private citizens, looking out for our families and maintaining HOA President our businesses or occupations was already more than a handful. Then, add our HOA obligations that included the many activities initiated by this group of volunteer board of directors and street coordinators, all while trying to maintain the exclusivity of our neighborhood. The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23

3 BLUE RIDGE B BULLETIN DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE COVID-19 EDITION -CIRCULAR 008 Onward! The Kalesa Ride BY GEL GEPUELA AND PRINCESS ORNOPIA The most awaited GALAXY TOUR starts its In Union Lane, various stalls are put up and ride on December 2, 2021, from 4:00 pm - everyone can indulge on a variety of food 9:00pm in the Blue Ridge B Community. This options from the famous street foods like is the second year of celebrating the kwek-kwek, fishball, chicken ball, siomai, Christmas season by giving kalesa rides to the kikiam, popcorn and noodle to several drink whole community. refreshments - sago't gulaman, melon and more. They even offer something new! Have Our HOA truly prepared a wonderful event to you ever heard of tocino barbeque? 'Coz if let the residents feel the Christmas vibes not, you better rush over to Union Lane and despite the aftermaths of the pandemic. try some! After riding the kalesa, the residents can enjoy the bibingka and puto bumbong as With the assistance of Mr. Jimmy Teotico, the complementary gifts prepared through the residents are free to showcase their talent in collaboration of the HOA Board and our one singing or dancing. Have your ears and only, Tita Maucie Cuna. serenaded by invited guests who performed and danced to the beat of JLos' Let's Get The kids can even enjoy their little candy Loud! canes as treats for their courageous attempts in riding. This commemorative event was conducted safely thanks to our beloved community members who followed the protocols. It is a simple gathering that can make the residents enjoy the company of everyone and get to just relax and laugh with their friends and loved ones. Disney within Reach! BY JAYMIE SADILI - TABASON, PARENT Positive Thinker Learning Center, Inc. (PTLC) While most of us might have already been has made it possible! Despite the limitations coping well to this new normal, the young created by this pandemic, this first ever ones might still be trying to get used to it. Disney-inspired preschool in the Philippines Toddlers' first school encounter usually continues to offer an imaginative learning involves parents dropping them off, teachers journey for little children. welcoming them and physically being there

4 BLUE RIDGE B BULLETIN DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE COVID-19 EDITION -CIRCULAR 008 at school. Being schooled at home is have realigned their objectives and entirely different and even for parents, this strategies to make it suitable as we shift is new. Considering this, PTLC takes a more to this digital era. With a positive take on mindful approach to make learning a this \"virtually becoming reality\", they still nourishing experience for them rather than want to continue educating children the a confining one. best way they can. They want to witness children's magical moments whenever Directress Ina Estrada-Tulio, together with they realize their abilities and potentials her faculty, has always aimed to adapt to regardless if it's just on-screen. the uniqueness of each child through individualized teaching. They believe each May it be in a physical setting or online child is unique and deserves to learn at platform, Positive Thinker aspires to make their own pace, based on their progress children feel they are at their happiest and not by their age nor even according to place even while learning. One day, when their peers. Still banking on their core everything is better and safer, we will see expertise, that is, stimulating and kids again, on their way to this school that encouraging children's imagination, they happens to be just within our neighborhood. Positive Thinking Learning Centers Inc KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM Positive Thinker Learning Center, Inc. DepEd School ID: 407797 Address: 32 Riverview Drive, Blue Ridge B, Quezon City, 1109 Contact Numbers: (02)8 687 5475 / 0917 880 8847 Email: [email protected]

5 BLUE RIDGE B BULLETIN DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE COVID-19 EDITION -CIRCULAR 008 BRBHAI Internship: A Story of Inspiration and Gratitude BY AIZEL EJERCITO & SOPHIA ALCANTARA Hesitation, confusion, uncertainty, curiosity and Sophia pressure were what we interns felt right after our Alcantara first interview with the Blue Ridge B Corporate Secretary. Hesitant and confused not just because Aizel we know that we will not be doing purely Ejercito accounting tasks but also because we know nothing of Homeowners Associations, pressured It offers more than just an internship, it offers a because we will be working with such highly great deal of opportunity of learning skills and respectable Directors and people. Little did we knowledge necessary for us students - who will know that these emotions will soon be feelings of soon be facing the real world and who will soon excitement, fulfillment, eagerness, and motivation be venturing out through our chosen paths. We given to us by everyone in the Board and the interns found a home, a group of respectable community. mentors, and a wide circle of friends. Our experiences with HOA have inspired us and made We can still vividly remember each of the tasks our fires burn brighter. The 400 hours spent given to us - encoding of RFID, Finance Report, working with the Directors and with Blue Ridge B preparation of Minutes of the Meeting, assisting in Homeowners Association Inc. made us more the Vaccinations, different tasks related to the hopeful for a successful, peaceful, and happy life Directors’ different businesses, recruitment of a in the future. Indeed, our time spent with the creative team, and many more other tasks that Blue Ridge B community and the Directors is a helped us improve and gain knowledge aside time well spent! As our internship ends, we would from accounting. We were given the chance to like to express our sincerest gratitude to attend monthly board meetings and other everyone in HOA for giving us such valuable important meetings concerning the welfare of the internship experiences, knowledge, and the whole Blue Ridge B community. We were given chance to prove ourselves and show our skills. the opportunity to voice out and present our We thank you for all the life lessons and opinions and ideas for certain aspects of the inspiration you have given us. We sincerely pray community - be it a solution to a problem or a and hope for the best for the whole community suggestion on improving the exposure of Blue and to everyone. We hope that this organization Ridge B online or improving the internship continues to be a place where students like us program flow. One of the Directors gave us the can learn and be given the opportunity to prove chance to work on the Finance Report of the HOA, themselves. Godspeed, Blue Ridge B! which for us being accountancy students, is one of the most valuable and exciting experiences to us. We were even given the opportunity to learn how to trade by our dear manager which gave us the chance to make our own money and be profitable. Throughout our internship with Blue Ridge B Homeowners Association Inc., we were always treated with utmost respect and gratitude from the Directors. These very experiences gave us such a valuable understanding of how leadership and effective management works. The HOA internship program does not just offer an on-the-job-training students can avail to fulfill their OJT requirements.

6 BLUE RIDGE B BULLETIN DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE COVID-19 EDITION -CIRCULAR 008 LAUREFEL BOLO VIANA GABAYNO BERNARD BEÑALES LOUISE LIMBO Joining the BRBHAI Family As someone who lives far Being an intern in BRBHAI Having my OJT in BRB is was definitely the right from the city of Manila, I definitely a new experience byTestimonials Interns - October Batchdecision that will forever be never thought that 400 has enabled me to improve to me. I didn't know what to a memorable and joyful hours’ worth of virtual on- expect at first but as time experience in my senior year. the-job training would be in various aspects such as goes by, I get the hang of it. I was able to grow and be this meaningful. Thankful It was hard but it was confident in delivering my for sir Manuel, for his my leadership skills and something I can bring as I works. To Sir Manuel, I would guidance, time and carry on with my life. I get to like to express my sincere patience in training us to interpersonal experience and scratch the gratitude for this be ready to face the surface of working in the opportunity and for being a “corporate world” and also communication which real world. I definitely learn a great mentor in training us and to all BRB HOA lot of things and hopefully I both in management and in directors. I gathered much further proved that my can gain more knowledge trading before we take the knowledge that exceeded from the people in the next steps in the corporate my expectations, lessons I experience here as an community. Sir Argel, our world. I am also grateful to will bring everywhere I will mentor, is one of the kindest our directors, who have been go, and life stories I will intern is beneficial for me. I and patient person I've met. a good role model to us. All look back when I need will definitely use his the advices and learnings some motivation. am very grateful to our teachings in the future. the BRBHAI taught us, I will surely keep it all in mind. supervisor, Mr. Manuel, and also to our esteemed Directors which gave us the opportunity to grow as individuals. Thank you to the BRBHAI Community! MELLAH OANDASAN PRINCESS ORNOPIA PEARLY BRUNO ALEX LLORENTE Growing up with a family Being a student leader was I always see myself I view this internship with challenging the unknown business includes having a a great advantage because and believing in small BRB as an opportunity for beginnings. The internship different perspective in the I am familiar with some with BRBHAI made me growth and expanding realize that if you want to world but learning never given tasks in Blue Ridge attain something in life, social circles. I am glad you must take the stops. Our dear directors B. Despite the challenges, I initiative and believe in that I am able to meet the yourself. I am very grateful guided us wholeheartedly. am grateful to our to Sir Manuel, the team, team and my fellow directors, and coordinators Our manager, went above manager, Mr. Manuel for their support, patience, interns while at the same and appreciation. BRBHAI and beyond to teach us the Argel, who provides will always have a place in time work on tasks where I my heart. aspects of the corporate opportunities to several can apply my skills outside world. Sir Manuel told us industries. He also gives (virtual) classrooms. As a jokingly, \"wag puro points in decision-making, newbie in the team, I am pambobola\" but flowery presenting, and any looking forward to learn words could not represent business-related course. more from them and our experience with BRB, Our internship does not nurture genuine they deserve praise and end on financial or friendships along the way! recognition and us interns, computation, but we are past and present, will be now very flexible from the forever grateful. task given by our dearest Directors. We are all beyond grateful to teaching, lesson, and learning that will be helpful not only in our career but also in our entire journey.

7 BLUE RIDGE B BULLETIN DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE COVID-19 EDITION -CIRCULAR 008 Feliz Navidad: Celebrating the Season for Giving Margaretha Home for the Blind Girls & Young Women Gift-giving\" on a literal translation is the The HOA sourced out suppliers and got act of giving gifts voluntarily without orders for the Christmas parols and the expecting in return. It's not only residents supported the project by comprised of tangible things but also ordering. Initially, there was an order for intangible acts of love and kindness. 50 pieces of parols and it went up to 160 for the first batch. The proceeds was Our holiday season for the past two given to the Margaretha Home for the years was filled with grief over the loss Blind Girls & Young Women to support incurred due to the pandemic, but no their basic living. matter the struggle, the kind nature of the people is especially strong in the The generosity of the community reached season of giving. the hearts of these wonderful ladies and rest assured that they are praying for the This year, the Margaretha Home for the well-being of everyone in Blue Ridge B. Blind wanted to give their most heartfelt thanks to the Blue Ridge B \"Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out community for they have received more until you're left only with what you love, what's blessings in time of the holidays. Our necessary and what makes you happy\" dear HOA directors wanted to provide a significant act of charity. - Collected by your next door neighbor .

8 BLUE RIDGE B BULLETIN DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE COVID-19 EDITION -CIRCULAR 008 ADVISORY eARLY BIRD FEE 10% OFF FOR 2022 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION DUES How Much Do I Pay? Payment Options Year Month / Description Monthly Amount Total ONLINE / BANK UNION BANK C/A 000-53-000-5074 2022 January - December Php 1,200.00 Php 14,400.00 DEPOSIT Blue Ridge B Homeowners Association Inc. ( x 12 months) 1,400.00 CHECK Blue Ridge B Homeowners Association Inc. Less 10% PAYMENT BRBHAI Office c/o Robelyn \"Bicbic\" Braulio Total Amount: Php 12,960.00 CASH Php 1,200.00 / month for single detached houses due on Feb 28, 2022 Php 1,100.00 / month for townhouses or duplexes Php 750.00 / month for each studio/apartment unit. Dues and fees collected help the homeowners association sustain the necessary services for health, safety and security of our neighborhood. Please email screenshot of payment to [email protected] HOA Committee For comments, suggestions and inquiries kindly Follow us contact Robelyn Braulio (+63 956 451 2501) @blueridgeb

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