DRIVING THOUGHTS It has been a week of talk about the old and the modern jeepney and all the issues that come with the transition. We’ve heard the jeepney drivers, operators, and transport groups protest the planned phaseout of the jeepney with the PUV Modernization Program (PUVMP) which was...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Have all the CCTVs monitoring major streets and intersections in Quezon City been deactivated? If those are still on, then no one must be viewing the traffic problem along Quezon Avenue – specifically around the area entering the underpass at Araneta...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Reading is one of the most important values you can pass on to your children. If, by chance, your parents have passed on the love for reading to you, then you are blessed with a lifetime source of good things. Reading is a habit that gives more knowledge,...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Is this the way media events have become? Clusters of people, their heads bowed to their gadgets, are somewhere else but not at the site. That’s the scene that I walked into when I finally went out of my “safe zone” and ventured into attending a media...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares So many people are talking about road safety because it affects all of us who need mobility for basic human activities – work, worship, school, socialization. What is the community doing about keeping our roads safe? In the motoring industry, automotive...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares The stories of scholars who have stepped out of poverty and are now proud breadwinners whose families live better lives tell of how education can break the cycle of poverty. Those stories of past interviews with graduates from the various automotive mechanic...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares I’ve been with the Manila Bulletin for more than half of my life, and I’m still learning new things in the changing landscapes of media. I’ve enjoyed the lessons of change, many times trying to understand new technology, sometimes resisting it, and...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Many people have found their routines completely changed by the now-standard-act of going into isolation after getting exposed to a person who tests positive for COVID-19. It may sound like a break or a holiday to some, a work-from-home arrangement to...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares As relief efforts — the delivery of food and essential items packages — continue, the programs to rebuild houses and restore livelihood in communities have already started at the headquarters of the Negrense Volunteers for Change (NVC) in Bacolod City....
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Today is a good day to start a promise – to do at least one act of random kindness. It can be an act of generosity, like paying for the purchase of a poor old person in a drug store. It can be an act to give joy, like buying a can of ice cream for a family...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares It’s not the ideal time to do a long road trip but if you have to visit the family patriarch, it is the ideal way with today’s limited travel restrictions that require minimal travel documents. We opted to drive to Bacolod City from Quezon City weeks...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Did you know that there are more than 200 fuel vending machines around the country, mostly along the coast of Oriental Mindoro, Siargao, and Panay? These are machines that dispense fuel to counter the “bote-bote” sale of fuel in far-flung areas....
