Baguio Insider

Folks who know me will say I am quick to get over my anger, quick to forget. That makes me very Filipino, I suppose. That’s why it surprises me that I can be this angry for this long. But more than mere anger, there is great depression, uncertainty, even despair.

Folks who know me also know that I am a very open book, that I speak my mind, that although I used to be probably the shallowest person who walked the august halls of U.P. Diliman in the early 1980s, all that changed when Lean Alejandro was slain in 1987. And when one of my favorite persons, Cochise Bernabe, disappeared forever in 1990, life somehow lost a lot of its flavor.

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Quote #1″Let’s face it. Much money has been invested (for the project) and removing it would be impractical.” Fariñas, appealing to the various sectors to just consider the benefits the flyover would give to the city like traffic relief in the area.

Let’s face it, there was no traffic in that area until they started building the stupid flyover! Much money was wasted on an unnecessary, ugly, impractical structure that arose from the figment of someone’s imagination on how to make massive money from the project.

If there was truly traffic congestion in the area, Domogan and Vergara could have first tried an effing stoplight before wasting a hundred million on a few meters of a concrete monstrosity.

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I posted a comment on the Mayor’s blog regarding his deliberate move to ruin tourism by not collecting the garbage just when tourists were arriving in Baguio (there of course I was nice and polite — it was his blog, not mine — here I can say what I want about the politicians’ pathetic and ill-disguised moves to line their pockets while ruining Baguio). I remember reading Padma’s very polite suggestions published there, too, and about 5 comments before hers that were visibly sucking up to cheering Peter Rey on. (more…)