Typhoon TRAMI / Maring made landfall last night in Fujian Province. It will continue to enhance Habagat during 1 or 2 days. La Mesa Dam in Quezon City is still overflowing. Water levels in 8 of...
I just had to pirate this photo from Bam Alegre at GMA News (sorry). It perfectly shows how Filipinos are fatalists and opportunists at the same moment. How would you call this vehicle? Is it a...
This photo illustrates perfectly the situation yesterday afternoon at Manila’s NAIA airport. The picture was taken at NAIA-4, the old domestic terminal. Photo courtesy of AutoErotica Philippines/Facebook Downtown Manila a new way of fast...
I already wrote about “Saint Zest“. And now there is a wonder! Zest is really a Saint. Zest is flying again, at least 3 aircraft of Z(P)est Air are allowed to fly. CAAP said Zest...
Silent Gardens does not comment politics but this cartoon of Joseph Morong says too much about the Philippines in these days. In the midst of public anger over pork barrel abuses, Storm Maring arrives to...
La Mesa dam in Quezon City is still overflowing. By 03:00 p.m. it had a water overhead of 17 centimeters (6.7 inches). 6 of 9 dams in Luzon still show increasing water levels. Tropical...
La Mesa dam approaches critical level. At 10:00 a.m. this morning it had been only 23 centimeters (9 inches) from overflow level. San Roque dam still gets enormous masses of water. In the last...
Severe Tropical Storm TRAMI / Maring is still intensifying while moving around in strange patterns. The storm has now a central pressure of 985 hPa and is almost stationary off the coast of northern...
It is now 08:00 p.m. in the Philippines – time to prepare for the night. Unfortunately there are no good news for our people in the north. Tropical Storm TRAMI / Maring is moving very...
Some kind of press is really a mess! Last Saturday morning, the morning after the ferry disaster in Cebu, international press agencies spread messages saying that passengers had to jump in the ice-cold water...
Zest Air has been grounded by CAAP due to safety violations! Zest Air had encountered several air incidents and accidents in the past. The reasons for the suspensions are multiple. Maybe the AirAsia take-over just...
We learned that Subic Seaplane has stopped their flying activity. I wonder whether there could be developed a market for sea-plane tourism or not. For tourists in the Maldives it is always a funny...
Weather here in the south is still quiet good. A small crescent moon is soon to set and a dark night without wind to expect. The perfect weather for fishing. Our neighbor fisherman with a...
Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla has ordered the reconnection of Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) to the national power grid by 5 p.m. this evening. The reconnection was ordered after Aleco successfully disconnected its top 100...
Since yesterday Legazpi City, 2 other cities and 15 towns of Albay are plunged into darkness. The usually wonderful lights of Embarcadero in Legazpi City Photo courtesy of lakbaypilipinas.com At noon yesterday the National Grid Corp....
Siemens has received their first wind energy order from the Philippines. The company announced that they will supply 27 wind turbines with a capacity of 3 MW each to Pagudpud in the province of...
In many ports and even on high sea you encounter the pink 2Go logo. A lot of well known ferry companies like Negros Navigation or Cebu Ferries sail pink for now more than two years....
No, no, weather had been sunny and friendly today in Camiguin. We had lunch at Casa Rocca with Evelyn and Jim, Gwen and Rob. Everything had been really fine. I am speaking of weather...
Fishbook Jeric Chan made me read an article of Michael Ray about the Night Cafe and the Night Market in Cagayan de Oro. The following is a mix of Michael’s article and my own impressions. We have...
This morning we got an interesting e-mail and were asked to publish its content. We do it with pleasure. Hi Due to many brownouts and rising electricity cost I like to gather interested people...
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