Baguio Insider

(Added 4/14/2008) Baguio has experienced at least five fires in two months (University of Baguio (UB) Fire, a house in Pacdal, Tiong San Department Store on Harrison Road, Baguio City Market and Andok’s Dine-In on Session Road). All of them resulted only in damage to property and injuries to persons. No lives are known to have been lost.

Here are reports of the last three, in rapid succession, just days apart! (more…)

I have been in Manila for a week, and honestly I am reminded every waking moment why I love living in Baguio. My part of Baguio remains filled with trees and the rooms do not require airconditioning. I can take long walks and enjoy the garden without perspiring. Here there’s no need to towel off even after a bath — the water droplets simply evaporate!

Upside to living in Manila, the wash gets dry in an hour — hahaha — and there’s no need to warm up the room after a bath.

But as Bhen Cervantes told me once, he preferred cooler places to warm ones because “In a cold place you can use layers of clothing, in a hot place, you can get naked only so much!”

It bugs me though that Nico and I were not around to cover the Tiongsan Harrison fire. Drat, drat & double drat! (more…)

I just read this obscure ALARMING article in the local new from Sunstar Baguio, which I am reproducing in toto:

Public works office asked to turn over flyovers

BELIEVING that the City Government could better monitor traffic flow and the structural soundness of the city’s two flyovers, Vice Mayor Daniel Fariñas said the administration of these flyovers should be turned over to the City Government.

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Catchy slogan!

There’s actually a group of evangelists and Baguio residents who have formed a watch group and want to shoo away migrants.

Their ire, though is focused on the Koreans. I have reproduced excerpts of a recent article below:

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