HOW those LTO (Land Transportation Office) guys love to project authority on the road. Surely they have it, and the number of vehicles they flag down to the roadside for non-fastened seatbelt to non-wearing of the standard blue shirt (for PUJ drivers) and similar violations every now and then proves that. How great the feeling of being able to stop vehicles in motion and order them to the side must be to these agents of the law!

But how many, just how many, of these State Cop-acting LTO teams ever, and I mean, ever, even just randomly check whether any of these vehicles are still using the now banned R12 aircon freon on their vehicles? And there are fairly easy spot checks for this which LTO agents must know. Read more

OKAY, just one post for Mother’s Day, however a day late it may be, and no thanks to the power outage in my place courtesy of typhoon Caloy’s windy passage. Not exactly mine, this, but the Net provided enough good read on the subject I just decided to share it with those who didn’t surf the areas I went to. What exactly does a Mother do or teach the young ‘uns? 

Here are glimpses of Her Lessons (So sorry I can’t remember the exact blogpost I got it from, please holler anyone who recognizes this, to be duly acknowledged):  Read more

THE  moguls of marketing are hard at work promoting the magical properties of the Green Tea like it carried God’s miracle in a bottle or can. As far as I know, it was the Gokongwei’s Robina Food Corporation that started this unprecedented fascination for tea since last year when C2 (for Clear and Clean?)) hit   supermarkets and convenience stores in the country with the force of a blockbuster. 

The “fad” caught on soon enough and Nestle and other bottlers and health drink companies came up with their versions of the great green tea in flavors similar to the C2 line, selling these at cheaper price to gradually chip away at C2’s market lead. The drink madness recalls the storm generated by the Noni Juce some years back when health Read more

WITH technology exploding like nobody’s business today and governments becoming more and more predisposed to monitoring their own people for “national security” purposes, and for whatever other reasons, sometimes you wonder how things would be like, say, 10to 15 years from now. 

Jasonpickles provides us a ‘typical’ fast-forward scenario of how a simple activity like ordering a pizza from your favorite store would run, circa 2020. 

But other than that, one can just understand how a national ID system as being espoused by our leaders is met with some grave reservations (mainly arising, we believe, from having watched or read about the Big-Brother-is-watching syndrome) by some sectors.

As every human being cannot avoid becoming a buyer one time or the other or needing  customer service sometime, once tagged through a national ID, he remains tagged till death. Of course one can always go the mountains and live the life of Ka Roger, incommunicado for the most part outside of the trusty cellphone, but that’s a rather abnormal life. I seriously doubt many people would want that.

And so, to live or not to live with a national ID, that is the question?

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