DRIVING THOUGHTS Writing is what I do for a living. I’ve been writing since I graduated from college in the seventies, and have not stopped. In the recent past, I’ve introduced writing to people who have never thought of themselves as writing their thoughts....
DRIVING THOUGHTS A casual observation of vehicles moving in traffic, or stopping at intersections for traffic signals, will show the prevalence of motorists using mobile phones – for navigation, entertainment, or communications. And although there is a law that prohibits the use of mobile devices...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Will you make time to list your New Year’s resolutions? Or will you think that will be a waste of time as you have not followed one up to the end of the year? According to studies, only nine percent of New Year’s resolutions are done until the end of the year....
DRIVING THOUGHTS It’s the morning after Christmas and the world is still around me. I hear rain and nothing else, not even the occasional broom-broom sound of the tricycle or a motorcycle, or an engine revving up to go. After the noises of movement in the past days, the quiet morning was a...
DRIVING THOUGHTS The Christmas parol is out, perhaps by the tens of thousands around Metro Manila, bringing the warmth of the season in multi-colored lights. Hanging along the main thoroughfares and side streets, windows of houses and shops, churches, gardens, and government offices, the...
DRIVING THOUGHTS I will tell you a story of how things can go very wrong when you trust your vehicle for a paint job and some body dent repair with an auto shop you found only in Facebook. Read on to learn lessons – and get entertained too. After six months of waiting for his Nissan Patrol...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Local government units (LGUs) can learn much from a pilot project on a public transportation system that serves short, but popular, routes that’s been ongoing in Pasay City and Santa Rosa City, Laguna. This is the Toyota Community Shuttle (TCS) project which uses...
OGGIE KAPETANOVIC “If you don’t smoke, don’t start. If you smoke, quit. If you don’t quit, change.” The unexpected statement comes from Oggie Kapetanovic, president of Heat-Not-Burn at Philip Morris International (PMI), who repeated what he called is the “mantra in the company” which...
Members of the Senior Car Campers Plus pose for one of the many photos to close the three-day camping celebration of their second anniversary, on Sept. 28-30, 2024. At least twice a month, a group who look too old for adventure pack into their vehicles tents, cots, air mattresses, stoves and...
DRIVING THOUGHTS According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 1.3 billion people –about 16 percent of the global population – currently experience significant disability. “This number is increasing due in part to population ageing and an increase in the prevalence of...
ROAD SENSE Car camping shows no signs of fading away. There are more than two dozen groups to get like-minded campers to get together and explore new destinations. The campsites have also increased in number, it’s amazing how one country road in Tanay is literally lined by campsites...
ROAD SENSE It’s no secret that the Philippines has a problem with solid waste management and we do not need numbers to tell us how much waste we generate. After long holidays when the garbage collectors have not passed along their routes, bags of waste pile up many feet high at street...
