Strong Earthquake in the North of the Philippines early this morning. PHIVOLCS reported very early a Magnitude 5.0 quake near Ambaguio (Nueva Viscaya). Early this morning the map of the ten most recent earthquakes...
What have Habagat, Yellowfin Tuna and Gaisano to do in one headline. The answer is simple: They are back in Camiguin or will come soon. Habagat Habagat is the south-west monsoon so long awaited here...
10 Chinese nationals were arrested off Camiguin. This headline created an uproar in the diver community in Camiguin. But there is a hick! The article that created the uproar was published in rappler.com. I wondered...
Mactan-Cebu Airport soon receives a new terminal building. This wouldn’t rock, but the fact that the building will be made of glued wood – glulam – is an absolute novelty in South East Asia. The...
Cannes Film Festival – “Ma’Rosa,” directed by Brillante Mendoza wins the “Palme d’Or” for the best actress: Jaclyn Jose. A movie absolutely worth to watch. The Trailer: Cannes Film Festival The International Film Festival...
Kalibo International Airport is missing 50 Million Pesos (USD 1 Million) from Terminal Fee collection. It seems that ticket (fee) collectors have put the money in their own pockets. The INQUIRER reports that 11 contractual...
VAPE? Never heard? So did I, until we got an inquiry from a reader of “Silent Gardens” two days ago. Vape means: To inhale vapour from E-cigarettes. 3 weeks ago my daughter Diane came for a...
The 1000th Earthquake occurred last night at 09:05 PM near Calintaan, Occidental Mindoro. The first 4 months of 2016 we recorded more earthquakes per day than in the precedent 2 years – 7.2 quakes!...
Du30 – and I wondered about the Tagalog spelling of “Thirty” – DUTIRTI. It isn’t Tagalog, it’s Visayan and Cebuano. Let’s talk about culture – we do not discuss politics. Foreigners encounter some problems in the...
The 2016 Drought still haunts the southern islands of the Philippines. Elder people here in Camiguin say that this year is the worst one since 1982. Even 1998 had not been so dry. The...
Rock Fall near Tuasan Falls in Camiguin. Last night I got a message from a friend. He sent me a short movie clip taken last Saturday – April 23, 2016. The title of the...
Philippines – Fee-lippines is one of the reasons why tourism stalls in this country. There are many more, but all these separate taxes and fees offend and disturb many tourists – and local people. We did...
Camiguin island in the southern Bohol sea has been known for its pristine nature, mountains and sea. I write this in past tense because the concrete cancer is developing at fearful speed. And now...
Mangroves protect Camiguin’s coast and provide us with clean air. One might accuse Camiguin’s government for the ongoing concrete madness and the diesel power plant, but coast protection is not just a word for them,...
Motorbikes Philippines owners can still use Light Emitting Diode (LED) but with certain restrictions. LTO announced that the previous rules and regulations governing the use of LED stay but clarified that use of LED should adhere...
Your passport is your ultimate travel document. In the last years passports got more sophisticated with the embedded chips containing your biological data and much more. But making errors is human! A friend recently travelled to...
This is Camiguin! The little island in the southern Bohol Sea is slowly but steadily developing. While Boracay suffers from mass tourism, Camiguin attracts people who like the real things. Camiguin for kite boarders The white...
Two minor eruption events occurred at Kanlaon Volcano at around 6:20 PM and 7:18 PM of 29 March 2016. The eruptions lasted around 12 minutes and 25 seconds, respectively, based on visual observation and seismic recording....
The Via Crucis or the Sations of the Cross also known as Way of Sorrows or Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. The stations grew...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer were one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock bands in the 1970s. Their jazzy rock style was dominated by Keith Emerson’s flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer,...
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