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Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on February 22, 2010

HAVE YOU NOTICED Cebu City's map or have tried walking upon its city streets or, better still, have ridden around the suburbs of this Queen City of the South? Chances are you would see street names where you would least expected it or getting curious as to how city planners of the past label such streets in a roughshod manner? Sometimes, if not, most of the time, you'll get confused.

Take for example V. Gullas ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on February 8, 2010

WE WERE IN A celebratory mood as we drove from Toledo City down to Pinamungajan town on the west coast of Cebu in the morning of October 14, 2009. Eddie Alberca drove the white Suzuki Every220 and Noel Ronquillo sat beside him. Meanwhile, I have all the spaces in the back seat. Willy Sulib, drove from behind us on board his motorcycle.

It is a fine Thursday morning even when the clouds were wispy gray and ...

This morning,my eyes were glued to the television,as I watched a show in GMA 7 entitled Sine Totoo: Pobreng Pilipino.

The topic were about Filipino men and women clinging on to anything,just to make money.One is the craze these days, selling an organ for a meager price.Another was selling blood to Blood banks and lastly, the oldest profession that the Philippine streets have is Prostitution...

Among those three,I was reduced to tears when I saw them interview ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on February 1, 2010

I GOT SICK today. It is Saturday, January 23, 2010. I have been vacillating in my bed if I will go to work today or not. Wife Vilma is already up and went to the market minutes ago to buy something for breakfast. Youngest son, Cherokee, is feeding his pigeons while grandsons Jarod and little Gabriel are busy perfecting their Navy SEAL skills.


A knock on the door send the duo scurrying towards there ...

I am going to sort of retract my earlier blog post that we can absolutely do nothing here in the Philippines in case an earthquake strikes. Actually, we can do something, and it's something that the government can even implement ASAP. It can prove to be a confusing, disorderly and routine-disrupting affair, but if perfected, it can help save lives.

It's a very simple, age-old concept, borrowed from another potential hazard catastrophe scenario--fires. Yes, if the Philippine government ...

I've been reading a lot of posts/blogs from people discussing what would happen if a quake like the one that struck Japan recently would hit a major Philippine city (i.e. Metro Manila, Metro Cebu etc.), and that research has indicated ( http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...quake.cnn.html ) that major cities in the Philippines are FLAT-FOOTED-UNPREPARED for a quake like the Japan quake. Which means, over 50,000 people are expected to die if one of these ...

Most of you by now, have probably seen a videoclip of the horrific "Tsunami On Fire", part of devastating tsunami waves that slammed into Sendai/Miyagi province yesterday. If you have not seen it, the video can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwnxVIlWss (advance to 6 minutes, 11 seconds).

I wanted to know where this exact spot is...and after about 10 minutes of Wikimapia and Google Earth searching, eureka.

Here is a screenshot ...