There are times when the experience, when basking in the sights and sounds of nature, is too expansive and so there’s a need to break it down into smaller pieces, hoping that the smaller attempts to describe the experience would be reasonably enough. (more…)
(This email is currently being forwarded around the email circuit. It speaks of heroism amidst the flood caused by Typhoon Ondoy, and the government’s Please let us know if you’re the author so we could make the proper attribution.)
Yesterday, at the height of the floods, my sister’s husband Rey whose family lives at Provident Village in Marikina, got a call from his brother. They were already at the roof of their 2-storey house — his brother, his wife, 2 kids, his sister, and their 85-year old dad who just got out of the hospital last week. (more…)
Probably you’re thinking that “price war” refers to the competition among the petroleum industry players when it comes to pricing their products. This is not what we’re talking about, and it’s not because of the perceived monopolistic attitude of petroleum companies. We’re talking about the price of gasoline relative to the price of diesel. (more…)
The traffic that early morning was very horrible. A bus ran into a concrete barrier along EDSA and toppled over. That was not the first time in the past weeks that a bus figured in an incident that killed or maimed people. That’s also not the first time that traffic was crawling along the entire southbound stretch. (more…)
The statistics are grim. On 1 November 2008, at least 5 people, including a priest, were killed in a head-on collision between a Fermina Express bus and a Toyota Revo along the North Luzon Expressway in Pampanga. A witness said that when the bus swerved out towards the opposite lane, the Revo was unfortunately stationary on the shoulder of that opposite lane. According to the GMA News report, some of the bodies were dismembered and the Revo was wrecked beyond recognition. Those are understatements, if you’ve seen the footage of the accident. (more…)
They say sleep is a refuge of the weary mind and the battered body. People say sleep is a source of comfort, but this seems to be no longer true. These days, you tend to say this as you hit the sack: “Darn, I forgot to gas up!” Everybody is now familiar that gas prices are usually higher when you wake up the next day (not that it matters anyway, because prices will still increase even if you don’t go to sleep). When I went to the gas station last Sunday, the price was P2 higher than the Friday before that, or just a matter of two days. (more…)
“Res ipsa loquitor,” Latin for “the thing speaks for itself.” (more…)
Jeepneys are called “Hari ng Kalsada.” But the way buses are throwing their weight around (no pun intended), buses should be the new “Hari ng Kalsada.” When you’re driving a bus and you swerve, maybe you expect other cars to stay out of your way. Or maybe smaller cars should stand their ground to teach these buses a lesson. (more…)
Least we be misunderstood, “holy cow” is an expression (neither a religious slant or the name of the restaurant). Also, jaywalking applies only to human pedestrians who walk outside the pedestrian crossing or who walk at the center island of a street, thoroughfare or highway so as to obstruct, hinder or prevent free passage of vehicles (there are other acts which are considered jaywalking, as you can read from the related post). If you’re the traffic officer, how would you report the violation for these cows in Metro Manila? Certainly not jaywalking . . . (more…)
No, I’m not talking about the segment in Jay Leno’s show. It relates to pedestrians and traffic. Jaywalking comes from the words “jay,” which refers to a foolish rural person unfamiliar with city ways, and “walk,” which means, well, walk. Jaywalking, which is the subject of local ordiances, is defined in Ordinance 95-01, as amended by MMDA Regulation No. 99-013, for all cities and municipalities of Metro Manila (again, without prejudice to local ordinances). It’s any of the following acts: (more…)
