Baguio Insider

And what does this news have to do with Baguio City?

1. First, I was asked last December to design the Go Dumaguete! website, and I will have to go there to do my research (junket!!) because some folks liked the Go Baguio! website and wanted the same for their “City of Gentle People.”

2. Except that it’s a lot of sand and sea, Dumaguete is much like Baguio City: laid back lifestyle, lots of university students, koreans arriving in droves, small town where everybody knows everybody, jump off point to Apo and Siquijor Islands (like Baguio is to Sagada and Banaue), the Boulevard purportedly designed by Daniel H. Burnham (yes, it’s the Burnham Park guy, our city’s urban planner), everything cheap (ok, cheaper than here even), a thriving cottage industry, and a beautiful natural environment.

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Three years ago, before the age of what Oprah calls the “new 30,” I decided that I was going to learn to build a web site. This is coming from someone who used to type her term papers on mom’s extra portable typrewriter, who used to mimeograph forms, whose best buddy was a product called “Touch & Go.” Remember when xeroxed pages were dark gray and the letters white?

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Going for No. 1

I never thought I would be happy to be the Number 2.

And today, I found out that I was . . .

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Go Baguio! Your Guide to Baguio City Philippines is such a dynamic website, its pages updated almost daily, so one would think there’s no need to maintain a web journal for it. Why don’t I just keep adding pages instead of trying so hard to learn how to customize a blog?

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