Electricity and mobile services are now up as Barasenians slowly start to recuperate from the havoc brought by typhoon “Ondoy.”
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A fire that lasted nearly an hour broke in a house very near the police station.
7:32 PM
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By writing this post, I know that I will be accused of blasphemy.
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I was once invited to a birthday party where I met one of the regular readers of BRO. She came from the US and told me that one thing she noticed about the town, when she comes home, is its garbage. You see trash everywhere-roadside, river, market, in front of houses. I have no reason to doubt that she is right but I still believe things can change. Only if we become a “town of character” (as one mayor put it), discipline could be in place.
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For more than two years now, I have always been dependent to Smart Broadband as my Internet service provider. Though I experienced some downtimes, I would say that service is generally “acceptable.”
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Whenever I pass by the Ever Gotesco mall in Ortigas every Saturday morning, I notice a group of women doing some exercise in tune of the latest pop music. Same thing in Rosario in Pasig City – women wearing jogging pants and rubber shoes, performing dance like exercises, running, stretching their legs and arms and other aerobic exercises.
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It’s saddening to know that while the rest of us try to cope with the economy, we have a national government that increased the budget merely for travel. The Arroyo government has been accused of corrupting people’s money – NBN-ZTE deal, fertilizer fund scam, rice scam, hog raising scam, and more recently, the road scam which involves a member of the Senate. It’s not surprising therefore that experts have conceived our country as the 38th most corrupt in the world, out of 180 according to Transparency International. Read the rest of this entry »
When Baras National High School was still housed in the current municipal building, I‚Äôve always felt that there must be something wrong with the gymnasium. The gym served as an extension of the school back in 1998 when the classrooms weren‚Äôt sufficient to the burgeoning population. Read the rest of this entry »
An unsigned yet interesting letter was read yesterday at the Sangguniang Bayan. In a gist, s/he complains of the ineffective implementation of the traffic rules that were enacted by the SB itself, particularly in Barangay San Juan, near the Catholic church. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been seeing this sign along JP. Rizal street for some time now. I find nothing wrong with it because the intention to communicate is there – that they repair refrigerators, airconditioning units and washing machine. But what is ‚Äúmaski‚Äù? Read the rest of this entry »
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