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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There’s a recent addition to this post below:

I posted a comment at Padma’s blog about the people of Baguio not being really poor, Nashman asked me if we lived in the same universe, so I had to rethink my definition of ‘poor.’

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Good news for all those living in Baguio, or those coming up in the next few months!

Asian Massage is a great alternative to all the blind masseurs who have heretofore been the only ones offering home service massage. And you no longer have to go to a public place like those ’spas’ at SM City Mall or Session Road.

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I know a lot of them are graduates of Baguio schools, and they probably think they’re doing Baguio a favor, but let me tell you how the City Council is destroying Baguio via their badly thought of plans.

The city bounced back pretty fast after the 1990 earthquake, but the damage caused by the local government in the 17 years since is like water torture, drop after drop (or should I say, building after ugly building, policy after useless policy) and yet in the end, devastating to the environment that fuels our economy. And it continues to this day.

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