Month: December 2010

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) launched a new generation of Philippine Banknotes. It boasts of several new security features including embossed prints, improved serial numbers, embedded security fibers, a watermark, and a security thread among others.

Leading the new Philippines money is the new P1000 bill with Josefa Llanes Escoda, Vicente Lim, and Jose Abad Santos on the obverse and the Tubbataha Reef Marine Park, the South Sea Pearl and the Tinalak (Ikat-dyed abaca) on the reverse.

The new P500 bill follows with Corazon Aquino and Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. on the obverse and Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park and the Blue-naped parrot on the other side.

The new P200 bill features Diosdado Macapagal on the obverse and Chocolate Hills in Bohol and the Philippine tarsier on the reverse.

The new P100 bill has Manuel Roxas on the obverse and Mayon Volcano and the Butanding (whale shark) at the back

The new P50 bill have Sergio Osmeña on the front with the Taal Lake, the Taal Volcano and the Maliputo (Giant Trevally) at the back.

The new P20 bill banners Manuel Quezon on the front with Banaue Rice Terraces and Palm Civets (the one who produces the Alamid Coffee) at the back.

All images courtesy of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (www.bsp.gov.ph)

My Christmas wish is that may we all (readers, friends and family) have plenty of this new money in the Philippines for Christmas and New Year!

Wow! Menardconnect.com turned 2 this week.

After 342 posts, 1588 legit comments, 13416 spam comments, 60 (sometimes peaking at 79) feedburner subscribers, 175 Facebook page likes (and other stats to follow) I am very happy with menardconnect.com activities that officially started on the first complete post (Eheads Concert CD Review on December 4, 2008) and I am really amazed how time flies so fast.

Some other highlights on the 2nd year includes the 10,000 spam, the 4-digit thing and many other activities including attending 2 blog conferences (iBlog6 and WordCampPH 2010 )

And now my thank you notes:
First of all, thank God for all the blessings He has given my family and me.

Second, I would like to thank Raven, my family and my friends for the support and inspiration they have given me.

Next in my thank you list is of course my blogger-friends and the great blogging community out there.

Last but not the least, my appreciation goes the readers and supporters of this blog. For you I will really do my best to make menardconnect.com better!!!

Just like last year, I consider the whole December as the anniversary month of this blog and will post other related stuff to menardconnect.com 2nd anniversary here so watch out for it OK?

I’m getting some calls from unlisted numbers. Some of the numbers are from mobile phones and some are from land lines. For the land lines some are from Metro Manila while some are from the provinces so I compiled some list of Philippines NDD Codes to help me sort the numbers.

So what is NDD anyway? NDD stands for the National Direct Dial. It is like IDD (International Direct Dial) but its the one assigned for the Philippines provinces and cities. The usual format for the Philippines is:

+63 <NDD Code> 6 0r 7 digit telephone number

As this info may be useful to the readers I will share then here. Below are the Philippines NDD Codes of key cities and provinces in the  Philippines: