Category Archives: On the Road

Weekend Travel to Bohol

Posted on October 12, 2009 by pinoydad

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 … Continue reading →

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A Story of Heroism and Frustration Amidst Typhoon Ondoy

Posted on October 3, 2009 by pinoydad

(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, … Continue reading →

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Price Wars: Diesel vs Gasoline

Posted on December 23, 2008 by pinoydad

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 … Continue reading →

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Guns and Traffic Jams

Posted on November 19, 2008 by pinoydad

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 … Continue reading →

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Beep, Beep: Give Way to the King of the Road

Posted on November 11, 2008 by pinoydad

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 … Continue reading →

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Reduced traffic with increase in gas prices?

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Fred

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 … Continue reading →

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Don’t Steal

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Fred

“Res ipsa loquitor,” Latin for “the thing speaks for itself.”

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LTFRB Hotline

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Fred

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 … Continue reading →

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Holy Cow: Attack of the Jaywalking Cows

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Fred

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 … Continue reading →

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Jaywalking in the Metro

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Fred

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. … Continue reading →

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