ten pesos

I’m back in Benguet Province, at 2:12 a.m, about to go to bed. I’m dead-tired because I slept only four and a half hours before arising yesterday to take a five-and-a-half-hour bus trip from Baguio City to Cubao so that I could walk from the bus station to Columbia Cubao Camera store near Gateway and Araneta Coliseum to retrieve a camera and lens that I’d taken for repairs in January. The store wouldn’t mail my gear to me. Oh, no. I had to spend twelve and a half hours on the road to retrieve a camera and lens. How ridiculous. Welcome to the Philippines, where inefficiency reigns. A big Panagbenga parade is slated for 8 a.m., but I’ll be asleep past then.

A recent World Health Organization study resulted in a report that 1.5 million Filipinos under age five suffer from diarrhea at any time due to lack of access to clean water, basic sanitation facilities and poor hygiene practices. »→

To succeed, we must first believe that we can. ~ Michael Korda

Patience is accepting a difficult situation without giving God a deadline for removing it.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart. ~ Blaise Pascal

I read today that the Philippines has paid 2.76 billion U.S. dollars to build a defective Westinghouse nuclear power plant that has never generated a watt of electricity. Too bad that money wasn’t spent to educate the populace.