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Drainage/Road Repairs during Rainy Season
If you’re a father who brings your kid to school, or anyone who has lived enough years on the road, you’d notice that during the start of the rainy season, which incidentally is also the start of the school year, construction or repairs of drainage, canals and roads go on full blast.
Driving Preparedness for Adverse Weather
Rainy season has officially started in the Philippines. There are some tips offered on how to improve our driving preparedness during adverse weather conditions, in an article at the Inquirer. To summarize the article, maintain your vehicle. On the other hand, practice makes perfect, as they say, and there’s a great practice area in Metro …
Face-to-Face with the Butanding (Whale Shark) of Donsol
Perhaps only an insane person would happily jump from a perfectly fine boat, into the middle of the open sea, beside a huge fish that is called a whale SHARK. Maybe that’s why they call it a butanding in the dialect. Butanding sounds cute, like a cuddly little fish. Then again, a shark is called …
Suggested Itinerary from Manila to Bicol (Mayon Volcano and Butanding of Donsol)
Summer vacation. Perfect time to go on a road trip, whether down to the beach or up to Baguio. Sure, taking the plane is more comfortable, but taking the car could be fun. Those who prefer the beach may go to Boracay, Palawan, Bohol, Subic, Batangas, Pagudpud or other great Philippine beaches. How about going …
Weekend Travel to Bohol
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.
A Story of Heroism and Frustration Amidst Typhoon Ondoy
(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 …
Price Wars: Diesel vs Gasoline
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.
Guns and Traffic Jams
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 …
Beep, Beep: Give Way to the King of the Road
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 …
Reduced traffic with increase in gas prices?
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 …
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