During the Baguio PAGASA Workshops, Mahatma Gandhi’s message “Become the Change You Want to See in the World” is explained to us very well. And we learn that all our actions are ripples of energy that can actually cause a tidal wave of change.
(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…)
The day I went down to Manila, two ‘Jims’ biked to my house and invited us to sponsor ‘The Green Ride.’ Thinking I was to be in Manila for only few days, I left the letter back home and said it was the first thing I would attend to upon getting back up to Baguio. Well, two weeks later, am still in Manila!
The first Jim owns a wonderful vegetarian restaurant I am addicted to, Bliss Cafe, while the second Jim is a Muslim imam who (was a butcher by trade, too, as it turns out — attention those who need Halal food!) now teaches at the Philippine Military Academy. For those of you who live in Baguio, I’m sure you know who I’m talking about.
Bobby Fischer Live Interviews, Baguio Philippines, 9.11.2001
As I was googling Baguio Insider today, I stumbled upon a rejoinder to my comment at Bill Bilig’s “From the Boondocks.” The discussion was about the “20M Cars for the Baguio City Councilors issue.” Bill was asking “How to Spend 20Million?” and everyone was then complaining about this current set of councilors and their shameless appropriation of public funds for their personal gain to allocate unto themselves a luxury car each, and, after a lengthy comment I asked, “Are we just going to blog about it?” (more…)
