Two weeks ago in our return trip from Davao via Cebu Pacific, my wife checked-in her backpack, along with the boxes of durian and mangosteen we purchased as pasalubong. Around half-an hour later she was called back to the check-in counter. Apparently her backpack ended up in the cart of Philippine Airlines, without the claim [...]
Entries from October 2008
You could lose stuff in your checked-in baggage
October 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Tags: Transportasyon · Turismo
Electric dreams of Filipino industrialization
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments
This article is cross-posted from FilipinoVoices.com
While the racetrack-like Elliptical Road in Quezon City rumbles with noise, fumes, and traffic, a few silent automobiles make their own rounds in the Quezon Memorial Circle that the road borders. Humbly seating four persons max, the curious rides called G Cars (in a pun-loaded attribution to their inventor, [...]
Tags: Agham · Ekonomiya · Industriya · Karir at Propesyon · Nasyonalismo · Negosyo · Pulitika · Transportasyon
Becoming the un-OFW
October 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I don’t know what it is with me but for some reason, my opportunities to travel for work abroad, whether it be for a local or foreign employer, never seem to push through.
Three years ago I was employed with a company that regularly sends employees to the US. I got fired from that post and [...]
Tags: Buhay · Karir at Propesyon · Pamilya · Turismo
Asian Spirit becomes ZestAir: juicy new aircraft acquired!
October 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments
With juice magnate Alfredo Yao’s acquisition of local airline Asian Spirit, it was not entirely unexpected that he would change the branding of the carrier. Considering that Asian Spirit has been the butt of jokes (”fly as an Asian, land as a Spirit”) it is not surprising that Yao would rebrand the airline.
Asian Spirit has [...]
Tags: Transportasyon · Turismo