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5-Why Analysis: Traffic on C5

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself
Philippians 2:3

Why is traffic bad along C5 from Market! Market! to that overpass crossing the Pasig River?

This section of the highway is poorly designed with four bottlenecks in a span of 1.5 kilometers.

Topped with the Filipinos' penchant for squeezing in every road space available, this blends just the right formula for a horrifyingly epic experience on the road.

It is safe to say that you can get anywhere around Metro Manila within 30 to 45 minutes, traveling at a safe speed of 80 kilometers per hour. But the only time you can do this is during Holy Week (at least from Maundy Thursday to Black Saturday) or a Manny Pacquaio fight.

On the contrary, traversing that very span of C5 will take you about 45 minutes to an hour on peak hours 5pm to 8pm, Mondays through Fridays. Don't miss it.


July 13, 2011 | 6:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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The essence of trail blazing

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Last Sunday, July 3, I conducted a lecturer in front of 40-plus trainees under my mountaineering club's Basic Mountaineering Course, touching on the subject of trail movement. Towards the end of my 45-minute talk, one of the trainees asked me what trail blazing meant.    

"It's, basically, building a trail when there is none," I answered.

A few minutes after the session, during a self-evaluation of my performance, I thought I could have expounded more on the subject albeit deviating from the topic of mountaineering.

"Trail blazing is leaving a trail behind you that others can follow."

"The analogy of trail blazing is used in modern society to refer to people who leave a positive and lasting mark that benefits others."

...and so on.

July 7, 2011 | 6:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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Paris 2011 Homeless World Cup

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The Homeless World Cup is just around the corner. Here is sneak peak of what spectators can expect from the 8-day event.

Visit the Homeless World Cup website for more information.


July 2, 2011 | 4:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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"Fishermen do the hardest work...yet receive the least profit"

"We can't immediately trace the increase in prices," said Ely Buitizon, WWF's data enumerator, referring to the vibrant but vulnerable live fish trade in Palawan. "But what's evident is that the fishermen do the hardest work, have the highest economic needs, invests the most time in the trade, yet receive the least profit."

This is a phenomenon that occurs throughout the country with farmers and fishermen at the lower end of the tier (worker-local trader-distributor) receiving a measly share of the economic pie. The article, "Fishing for Survival: How a Global Market Is Shaping One Island Community", tackles this inequity plus the growing challenge of resource depletion.

Coleen Jose, a grantee from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Dean Rusk International Studies Program at Davidson College, uncovers the bustling Live Reef Fish for Food Trade (LRFFT) program in Taytay, Palawan and the dangers faced by local communities from dwindling aquatic resources. The upside of the article is the viable resource management program being executed in the province that poses as a model for the rest of the country and its neighbors.

Read more of the article on Huffington Post.

July 1, 2011 | 4:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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A Renewed Sense of Faith

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I have always believed in God. But there were moments in my life when I doubted his power and form, even at one point believing that a higher being—if indeed there was—resided nowhere but within each individual. This is short of saying that he did not exist, at least in the entity as depicted in the Bible.

My faith then was a contradictory of sorts—it had its limits but it knew no boundaries. My belief only went as far as the sense and feeling of lightness and comfort that I get from faith. I would question any intent, purpose or motive—if there was—that He supposedly have vested upon me when I was beset by trials and challenges regardless of gravity. In short, I only believed when blessings rain upon me and doubted His greatness when problems occurred.


June 28, 2011 | 7:06 AM Comments  0 comments

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