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red_jasper

August 2nd, 2007, 03:37 AM

ANYWAYS, here's a news report about it.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Hailstone surprise in Baguio and Benguet

BAGUIO CITY: The Baguio City Weather Bureau said that hail accompanying last Saturday’s downpour in Baguio and Benguet was not an ordinary occurrence, although it is likely to happen again due to the continuing warming of the environment.

Joseph Rios, chief of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said over ABS-CBN Baguio City that raining hail might occur again this August due to a weather occurrence called “convection.”

Weather Specialist, Wilson Lucando, said that convection usually happens when solar radiation heats the ground, resulting in moist warm air. The warm air then becomes lighter and rises into the atmosphere. As the air gets cooler, droplets usually form and fall to the ground in the form of rain. However, there are times when not all water vapor turns into rain and instead form ice pellets or hailstones.

Residents in Lourdes Proper, Dominican, Middle Rock Quarry and City Camp brought out basins to catch pieces of hailstone.

Grace Enriquez, of Lourdes expressed her surprise over the hailstone last Saturday, saying it was rare.

Rios recalled that a hailstorm happened in 1996 and it will likely repeat this coming August.

The municipalities of Atok and Kibungan in Benguet earlier lost P49 million as a result of hail forming in their farms, as more than 200 hectares of farm lots in the two towns were greatly affected.
--Thom F. Picaña

Source (http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/june/28/yehey/prov/20060628pro4.html)

Peng Hok

August 2nd, 2007, 04:43 AM

I Love Baguio City so much! Doon kami unang nagkita ng honey ko! It really lived up to its reputation as a honeymoon city. Hehehehehe!!!

I love the buildings, the parks, and the weather! Sooner I believe it will already have the cosmopolitan feel of the big three (Manila, Cebu, Davao). Hey maybe I could be wrong! Baka nga may cosmo feel na talaga ang Baguio at present!

Sinjin P.

August 3rd, 2007, 09:16 AM

SM City Baguio by daryljayeborda (http://flickr.com/photos/daryljayeborda/)

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OtAkAw

August 4th, 2007, 10:13 AM

^^The stores there in SM Baguio have a different style compared to most SM malls. The arched entrances are really unique compared to the common SM boutique entrance. Now if Henry Sy decided to turn SM Baguio into something like Greenbelt, di sana nagkaroon ng higanteng kahon na may tent sa taas diyan sa magandang syudad na yan.

le Reine

August 4th, 2007, 05:21 PM

hindi pa ako nakakapuntang Baguio. Nakakahiya naman. Mahal ba diyan? Magkano murang hotel?

Sinjin P.

August 5th, 2007, 10:51 AM

^ I think mas mura mag transient house. I'm not quite sure, hindi pa ako nakapasok sa kahit anong hotel sa Baguio :lol: Transient house lang :)

hiiamdib

August 6th, 2007, 03:43 AM

when we visited baguio (grabeh ang bata ko pa nun), we stayed at the guest house sa Benguet State University. Wala na ako masyado na aalala pero alam ko tinanung ko sa tatay ko kung nasan yung aircon sa bahay :lol: :lol:

Sinjin P.

August 6th, 2007, 05:14 AM

Baguio Cathedral by kiluahtech (http://flickr.com/photos/kiluahtech/)
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Crowded SM Baguio by czar_d_G (http://flickr.com/photos/10437696@N07/)
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Baguio Products by mi fotografias (http://flickr.com/photos/mifotografias/)

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Baguio Urbanity by mi fotografias (http://flickr.com/photos/mifotografias/)

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iamjomar

August 6th, 2007, 01:57 PM

i've just visited Baguio last summer especi8ally dyan sa sm unique talaga ang style...BTW mukhang over populated na ang Baguio ah...

iamjomar

August 6th, 2007, 02:04 PM

:) narinig ko sa balita, umulan ng yelo (hailstorm?). something weird about our present weather conditions made it happen.

anyways, narinig ko na to na nangyari din several years ago sa isang town sa Zamboanga (sa Aurora yata) kuwento ng kaibigan ko noon. Kala daw nila binabato sila, yon pala umuulan ng yelo :lol:

yup theres really some abnormalities in our current climate this is due to global warming..I think that was not the first time did Baguio hail snow. Nagkaroon na din ata dati eh.I just dunno with Zamboanga..

red_jasper

August 6th, 2007, 02:20 PM

iamjomar

August 6th, 2007, 03:03 PM

long time ago pa yon sa Zambo @iamjomar :)

ahh kaya pala siguro hindi ko na matandaan hehehe...

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August 7th, 2007, 04:45 AM

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August 7th, 2007, 05:12 AM

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karirista

August 13th, 2007, 03:17 AM

Baguio skyline as taken from SM City Baguio:

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overtureph

August 24th, 2007, 08:22 AM

FEATURE
Faces of forgotten ancestors

By Eric S. Caruncho
Inquirer
Last updated 06:31am (Mla time) 08/19/2007

MANILA, Philippines – Tommy Hafalla’s first dream was of flight.

The Baguio-born and -bred photographer, who has since won acclaim for his painstaking photo-documentation of the rapidly-changing way of life of the Cordillera people, had originally wanted to become an aircraft engineer. In fact, he had already finished his Aviation Engineering course at FEATI and was on his first day of work at a charter air company when he was struck by a realization.

“I looked at my pasiking (Cordillera backpack) and thought, ‘what am I doing here?’” he recalls.

Hafalla lost no time, and took the next bus home to Baguio. Not long after, he joined a mountaineering expedition to Mt. Pulag, where he was awestruck by the beauty of the landscape.

“I realized I had been missing a lot all these years,” he says. “I wanted to capture the landscape of the area where I grew up, but since I didn’t know how to draw, or even write about what I saw, I decided to try photography.”

With a borrowed camera, Hafalla taught himself the basics, and was soon running with a clique of Baguio-based photographers that included Wig Tysmans and Boy Yñiguez.

“I started shooting landscape; but later I thought, ’why not the people?,’” he says. “Like the American Indians, the way of life of the indigenous people of the Cordillera is fast disappearing. So I began documenting the people and their life, as well as the landscape around them, until I got into living what they were doing. It became a personal mission.”

The sage says: when the student is ready, the master will appear. Indeed, in 1983, while working as a gaffer with a film crew documenting the hinterlands of Ifugao, Hafalla was asked to drop by Sagada in the Mountain Province to deliver a box of photo paper to a photographer living there.

The photographer turned out to be Eduardo Masferre. The son of a Spanish soldier and his Kankanaey wife, Masferre had been documenting the people of his native Cordillera since 1933, when he acquired his first Kodak Graphlex camera. Much of what we know visually about the Kalinga, the Ifugao, the Bontoc, the Kankanaey and the other tribes of the Northern Philippines we owe to Masferre. Now, of course, Masferre is recognized as the father of Philippine ethnographic documentary. In 1983, however, he was still living in semi-obscurity, printing photographs from his old negatives.

For Hafalla, it seemed he was meeting an ancestor. “When I saw his photographs, it was like, ’Whoa! Someone has gone before me.’ It encouraged me to continue to document the changes that have happened through the years.”

Hafalla met Masferre a second time in 1988, on a return trip from Kalinga. Masferre asked if the Kalinga still wore their traditional dress, and seemed pleased when Hafalla said they did.

“He seemed happy that someone was continuing to document the tribes,” Hafalla recalls. In a way, a torch must have been passed. Masferre died in 1995, but Hafalla continues to photograph the rapidly changing culture of the Cordilleras, himself becoming one of the bearers of that culture. There is a seat of honor for him in many a dap-ay (village council), and he has become an emissary of sorts between the tribes and the mainstream culture.

Today he works out of his studio in Sagada, voyaging deep into the hinterlands most of the year to take photographs, and during the off-season conducting photography workshops for the locals so they can do their own photo documentation. He is also working on what he hopes will be a “Living Museum” in Sagada—a task that has become all the more urgent now that Sagada is no longer the remote outpost it used to be in the ’70s, what with cable TV and Wi-Fi internet cafes threatening to swallow it in the global culture masher.

“There have been a lot of misrepresentations of Cordillera culture,” he says. “One of the most common is the bulol, which is always referred to as a ‘rice god’ or ‘guardian of the granary.’ But it is actually a ‘pain body,’ to which you transfer sickness through a ritual. So if you’re an Ifugao and you know that a bulol has been used, you won’t touch it for fear of catching whatever sickness has been transferred to it.”

The antique business would collapse, Hafalla suggests, if more people knew that the bulol was ritually “unclean.” Conversely, there is much that mainstream Filipino society can learn from the culture of the Cordilleras. “The simplicity of the way of life in the Cordilleras,” he suggests, offers one answer to the age-old question of Filipino identity.

Copyright 2007 Inquirer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view_article.php?article_id=83433

Sinjin P.

August 28th, 2007, 08:34 AM

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allan_dude

August 30th, 2007, 10:21 AM

Lawmaker pushes Baguio hospital flyover completion (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2007/08/29/news/lawmaker.pushes.baguio.hospital.flyover.completion.html)
By Jane Cadalig

BAGUIO City Representative Mauricio Domogan is pushing for the completion of the controversial flyover project at the Baguio General Hospital (BGH) rotunda before the end of this year to save the government from another unusual spending that may be brought about by another delay in the project’s implementation.

"The project must be completed before the year ends," Domogan said, saying that another delay is disadvantageous due to the unpredictable escalation in prices of construction materials.

He assailed the numerous oppositions that caused delays in the implementation of the project in the past years.

"We should learn our lesson from that. If there should have been no opposition, the amount (of P88-million) originally allotted for the project would have been enough,” he said.

Before the elections last May 14, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DRPWH) revealed it needed an additional P64 million to finish the flyover project.

The regional office of the DPWH earlier said the P88 million estimate prepared by the agency for the structures has increased to P180 million due to the delays, aggravated by the rise in the prices of steel and cement.

The estimate for the project was done in 2000 prior to its bidding in 2001. The project was implemented in 2005.

Aside from the P88-million, which was saved from the rehabilitation of the Palispis-Aspiras (formerly Marcos) Highway, the DPWH also allocated P20 million from the national budget to ensure the continuity of the project.

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Lawmaker backs call not to close Loakan airport (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2007/08/30/news/lawmaker.backs.call.not.to.close.loakan.airport.html)

BAGUIO City Representative Mauricio Domogan has supported groups opposed to the planned closure of the Loakan Airport saying development of the landing strip should instead be continued.

"We are not for the closure of Loakan (airport). While we support the put up of a regional airport in San Fernando, we should continue to develop and sustain Loakan as a provincial airport," Domogan said.

Airports are considered the fastest way to reach an intended destination, and the existence of this facility in tourism-oriented areas like Baguio is vital.

The city's tourism sector earlier manifested objection to a pronouncement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that sought the closure of Loakan Airport to give way to the expansion of the Baguio Economic Zone.

Arroyo, during her Lenten visit to the city, proposed for Loakan's closure to accommodate the expansion of the Baguio City Export Processing Zone, particularly the Texas Instruments Philippines Inc.

This however raised a howl among tourism-oriented groups, saying the closure would impact on the arrival of visitors. The closure, they claimed, also means a shutting down of a landmark that is part of Baguio's history.

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) here also supported the clamor of the tourism sector not to close the airport.

DOTC Regional Director Federico Mandapat Jr. earlier said the agency is willing to coordinate with the Philippine Tourism Authority for the release of needed funds to repair the runway. (JC)

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Domogan backs merge of city brgys to 47 (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2007/08/30/news/domogan.backs.merge.of.city.brgys.to.47.html)
By Jane Cadalig

SAYING there are some barangays in the city that do not qualify to be declared as such, Baguio City Representative Mauricio Domogan urged local officials to cooperate with authorities on the planned merging.

Domogan supports the plan to reduce the number of barangays in the city, saying there are areas that do not meet the requirement of the 1991 Local Government Code in terms of population.

"The merger is a must since there are areas in the city that do not even qualify as a barangay under the requirement of the Local Government Code," Domogan said.

A barangay must have at least 5,000 inhabitants as provided for by the LGC. Observers note that some areas in the city do not meet the minimum requirement and some do not even have registered constituents.

Domogan made the pronouncement as he pushed for the conduct of the barangay polls in October. "We need the utmost cooperation of the barangays regarding this matter."

The city currently has 129 barangays as shown by Commission on Elections (Comelec) records. The proposal plans to trim down the number to 47.

But barangay leaders are divided over the plan. Those who support the merger said this would lead to the professionalization of the service and standardization of salaries of punong barangays and their councils.

Those against the plan, on the other hand, raised concerns on the chances of smaller barangays getting a seat in the barangay council (in a merged set up) and the bigger responsibility that the merger would entail to barangay officials.

The City Council earlier requested the National Statistics Office to furnish the body a certified copy on the actual number of population of the city's barangays

chocolato1000

August 30th, 2007, 02:08 PM

siguro kung may pinakamalinis man na lugar sa pilipinas pagdating sa pulitika, baguio ang mangunguna...dito wala kang mababalitaang nagpapatayan dahil sa politica, madalas mong makikita si mayor o si vice naglalakad sa sm na walang bodyguards, ang bodyguard lang ata ni mayor eh si misis, ohohoho:lol: ...kapag eleksyon na, wala kang mababalitaang bilihan ng boto, maprinsipyo kasi ang mga igorot; minsan may mga siraan pero kapag tapos na ang eleksyon barkada uli ang mga politiko. di rin uso ang political dynasty dito, maraming nagsisimula pero hindi ibinoboto ng mga tao. di kailangan ng maraming pera kapag kakandidato ka dito, dapat kilala lang nila ang pagkatao mo, appeal at karisma lang sa masa. hindi mo kailangan mag artista, saka ayaw rin nila yun, ewan kb kung bakit ala lang silang pakialam. :cheers:

allan_dude

August 30th, 2007, 03:24 PM

Insanedriver

August 31st, 2007, 06:48 PM

yup theres really some abnormalities in our current climate this is due to global warming..I think that was not the first time did Baguio hail snow. Nagkaroon na din ata dati eh.I just dunno with Zamboanga..

urgh... i remember sa TV patrol nag hail sa pasig city dati...?
i can still remember one street vendor comment "akala ko me nambabato sakin, yun pala umuulan ng yelo"

so kung nag hail sa pasig... It's very very possible na mag hail din sa baguio...no?

Sinjin P.

September 1st, 2007, 10:17 AM

chocolato1000

September 1st, 2007, 10:44 AM

^^ pag dating sa pulitika, isa sa mga kabaliktaran ng baguio ay abra...doon, ubusan - ngipin sa ngipin, mata sa mata. lintik lang ang walang ganti kumbaga. tsk tsk tsk

Rajah_Soliman

September 2nd, 2007, 02:12 AM

Session Road 1981 by stevechasmar of flickR

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Insanedriver

September 4th, 2007, 08:53 PM

^^ looked like san francisco in the 80's

allan_dude

September 8th, 2007, 06:42 AM

Baguio execs working on returning scent of pine to the city (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view_article.php?article_id=87360)

Inquirer

BAGUIO CITY—City officials vowed to restore the pine scent Baguio, which the country’s summer capital is famous for, by the time it celebrates its centennial in 2009.

They would achieve this by planting a million trees to regreen Baguio, according to Virgilio Bautista, chair of the Baguio Centennial Commission.

“We want to preserve the grandeur as a summer capital. We always want to keep the city clean, green, peaceful, and a family tourism-oriented center,” Bautista said in a press forum here on Wednesday.

Overcrowded

The deforestation, he said, was caused by illegal logging, overpopulation and squatting.

He said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Public Works and Highways have promised to plant a million trees.

The DENR in the Cordillera is expected to plant 300,000 seedlings this rainy season. It also directed the local foresters to start planting in vacant areas to increase the forest covers.

But Michael Pearson, member of the centennial commission, said Baguio has more trees now than in the 1960s. He said the deforestation is in areas outside the city like those along Kennon Road.

Squatting

Bautista said the commission and the government agencies would focus on planting more trees in the eight watersheds where a big number of trees had been destroyed due to squatting.

“Aside from the identified watersheds, we are also looking for other water aquifers in Baguio and also Benguet. We want to make sure that these areas are kept free from the squatters,” he said.

In Pampanga, “green classes” or discussions on environmental issues and protection efforts are being pursued in Central Luzon’s more than 3,000 elementary and high schools starting this month.

The environmental education program came after the DENR and the Department of Education signed a memorandum of agreement for that joint effort.

Numbers game

DENR Regional Executive Director Regidor de Leon said the two government agencies could reach out to 1.7 million students and draw them into the pro-environment movement.

“If the environmental battle were a numbers game, we could have easily licked the threats of global warming hands down,” he said in a statement.

He said the school-based advocacy program would be piloted in 20 schools.

The regional DENR’s 1,472 regular employees are teaming up with the regional DepEd’s 48,000 personnel in this advocacy work.

The modules are going to be suited to where the students live. “If they live near a forested area, we would focus on the dynamics of ecosystems. If they live near rivers or seas, it would be coastal resource management. If they live in urban areas, it would be on solid waste management and anti-pollution efforts,” De Leon said.

Materials

Students would be shown ways on how, as individuals or groups, they could contribute to environmental protection and benefit from it, he said.

Perla Collado, DENR regional public affairs chief, is overseeing the development of information materials, mostly pamphlets and video documentaries, on biodiversity conservation, solid waste management, climate change, ozone layer, clean air and water, forest protection, and other ecological and environmental concepts. Desiree Caluza, Inquirer Northern Luzon, and Tonette Orejas, Inquirer Central Luzon

Nabartek

September 8th, 2007, 07:34 AM

^ Ilan ba ang may Igorot blood sa city council? Mukhang iilan lang sila.

^ Ano pa ba yung mga ibang ethnic groups sa baguio aside from Igorots? May idea ka ba sa percentage ang mga Ilocano and Panagsinan? Pag nagpupunta kasi ako sa Baguio, minsan salita ko Ilocano or Pangasinan pag kausap ko mga locals, lalo na sa market. :)

Most likely HINDI locals yun nakausap kundi bagong salta. Please don't mistake us locals for the immigrants who speak Ilocano and Pangasinense. Just a tip para makarecognize ka ng local.. kapag nagtatagalog..may naririnig kang NGAY.

"Ano na NGAY yung pangalan niya"
"Ano na NGAY gagawin natin"

otherwise, hindi sila local.
Mejo insulto lang naman na ganun kasi kaming taga Baguio, sumusunod sa batas, hidni katulad nung nagkukuwaring taga-rito na hindi naman...proud pang nagjaywalk.

mized ang ethnic groups sa Baguio..pero madidistinguish mo sa pananalita at pagbihis(hindi kami ostentasious magdami, pero di rin jologs. Mga nakatsileas sa CBD, mga taga-baba mga yun dahil marunong kaming mga taga-Baguio sa dress coed. Unethical sa amin na dumura, magsuot ng pambahay sa town, magjaywalk, magtapon ng basura basta-basta kahit katabi lang ang basura)

basta, kapag may nakita kang disiplinado, malamang taga-Baguio yun

Nabartek

September 8th, 2007, 07:35 AM

i've just visited Baguio last summer especi8ally dyan sa sm unique talaga ang style...BTW mukhang over populated na ang Baguio ah...

Hindi mukhang./.talagang overpopulated. No because of highbirthrate but because of high immigration rate.

In short, yung mga taga-baba(karamihan) dinadala ang kanilang overpopulation problem sa amin.

Nabartek

September 8th, 2007, 07:38 AM

allan_dude

September 8th, 2007, 02:57 PM

chocolato1000

September 8th, 2007, 04:48 PM

Most likely HINDI locals yun nakausap kundi bagong salta. Please don't mistake us locals for the immigrants who speak Ilocano and Pangasinense. Just a tip para makarecognize ka ng local.. kapag nagtatagalog..may naririnig kang NGAY.

"Ano na NGAY yung pangalan niya"
"Ano na NGAY gagawin natin"

otherwise, hindi sila local.
Mejo insulto lang naman na ganun kasi kaming taga Baguio, sumusunod sa batas, hidni katulad nung nagkukuwaring taga-rito na hindi naman...proud pang nagjaywalk.

mized ang ethnic groups sa Baguio..pero madidistinguish mo sa pananalita at pagbihis(hindi kami ostentasious magdami, pero di rin jologs. Mga nakatsileas sa CBD, mga taga-baba mga yun dahil marunong kaming mga taga-Baguio sa dress coed. Unethical sa amin na dumura, magsuot ng pambahay sa town, magjaywalk, magtapon ng basura basta-basta kahit katabi lang ang basura)

basta, kapag may nakita kang disiplinado, malamang taga-Baguio yun

not necessarily true. since you want to dileneate the people whom you call "locals" (native igorots) from the people whom you call migrants (lowlanders)...there's not much investigation to do to really know who is an igorot or not. here's some:

1. you just have to look at the physique of the person. generally lowlanders' torso and legs are lanky compared to igorots' wide and broad bodies. you just have to look at their arms and hands and you'll know what i'm talking about. the same thing with their women.

2. i don't know what particular code of dressing you're referring to, but to be fair with the igorots, you failed to mention these: igorots loves to use tailored bell-bottom trousers (just like in the 70s), checkered polos, topped with a black or brown leather jackets, this isnt't complete without a pair of iconic pointed toe boots.

3. dialect-wise. you can say an someone's from the lowlands just by the accents. when igorots speak ilocano, it would sound a little bit hard mixed with some of their favourite expressions like "ayyuya." also, instead of saying "ngarud" with the letter U pronounced, they will say otherwise "ngard" with letter U missing. or sometimes, they wouldn't speak in ilocano at all but in their kankanaey, kalanguya, or ibaloi dialects.

4. when it comes to "who's neater? or who don't follow rules?" it is reasonably shared by both igorots and non-igorots. but in defence of the igorots, when you go to malcolm square or anywhere in town, don't be disgusted with the hawking and spitting of red saliva, because "betelnut chewing" is a very much valued tradition among the igorot natives.

5. lastly, most igorots don't like to be addressed as "natives" because you'll make them feel like human being of lower form, because they the word "native" according to them is only for chicken and pigs.

good luck.

Nabartek

September 8th, 2007, 11:50 PM

Nalibot ko na Northern Luzon, yung may "NGAY" na lagi kadikit, common yan kung Ilocano kausap mo.

Sino na INSULTO ko? Paano? What are you talking about?

I don't think "ngay" is really common among all Ilocanos. I know some students from the Ilocos provinces yet they don't have the "ngay". Most likely they are concentrated in Baguio..sometimes extending to La Union

I just find it insulting that you assumed that every people living in Baguio are taga-Baguio. Hell no. Do you think a true local of Baguio would cross UNDER the overpass and wear pambahays at town? No. We have public etiquettes. :)

@Choco: when I say local/native(in Baguio) I do not necessarily refer to the Igorots. Baguio has long been a melting pot. When I say local, she/he is acculturated to the culture of Baguio, not necessarily Igorot(Ibaloi to be more specific)...and when I say "migrants", I refer to the recent immigrants who don't even give a damn cleaning their mess. Including the migrants from other Cordi provinces. You think the Chinese in Baguio aren't locals/natives of the city? I don't think "native" really implies being of lower form. Only those who harbor inferiority complex do. Native is nothing like "******". Many Igorots refer collectively to themselves as Indigenous peoples of the Philippines. If they don't like being called native, then why the hell are they calling themselves 'indigenous', especially when they are in groups. They address problems regarding the 'indigenous peoples of northern Luzon'? Native simply implies that you really are from that place diba? Just like this Ilocanos are native to the Ilocos region. Bicolanos are native to Bicol. Tha Pangasinense are native of Pangasinan.

Ayyuya is not necessarily and "Baguio-Igorot" accent. I know a lot of Baguio Igorots and they don't have that. The ones who have that are those from Mt./ Provinces and northern Benguet areas.

when it comes to "who's neater? or who don't follow rules?" it is reasonably shared by both igorots and non-igorots.

True. But I again reiterate, when I say local, it does not pertain to Baguio-Igorots only, it also pertains to the older Ilocano, Tagalog and Pangasinense immigrants. But in the present situation of the city, it's easier to spot who's a local and not with they way they conduct their public hygiene. You think a true local of Baguio would really be spitting? Most likely, they are recent immigrants...and those who cross under the overpass and throw their trash when the bins are just less than five meters away? I've lived all my life in Baguio and much of my memories were during the 90's when the city was still clean and orderly when the Baguio locals ruled the city. Now that the pesky immigrants are here(mostly lowlanders with a handful form other Cordi places), they can't just be civilized enough to follow simple rules. Just look at the tourists, especially at peak. Rich or poor, they don't know how to fix their mess. Remember when they mutilated Burnham park last Feb? It was horrible.

chocolato1000

September 9th, 2007, 09:10 AM

good to know you've made it clear.

allan_dude

September 9th, 2007, 09:52 AM

I don't think "ngay" is really common among all Ilocanos. I know some students from the Ilocos provinces yet they don't have the "ngay". Most likely they are concentrated in Baguio..sometimes extending to La Union

I just find it insulting that you assumed that every people living in Baguio are taga-Baguio. Hell no. Do you think a true local of Baguio would cross UNDER the overpass and wear pambahays at town? No. We have public etiquettes. :)

:lol: Ok whatever

Ady001

September 9th, 2007, 02:30 PM

lightsaber46

September 13th, 2007, 03:36 AM

SM unit earmarks P1B for Baguio condotel

First posted 08:45:58 (Mla time) June 19, 2006
Elizabeth L. Sanchez
Inquirer

SM DEVELOPMENT Corp. (SMDC), the property arm of the SM Group of Companies, is setting aside about P1 billion to develop a condominium-hotel on a one-hectare lot in Baguio.

The construction of the "condotel" is expected to start next year , SMDC president Rogelio Cabuñag said.

SMDC is spending roughly P1.6 billion in the next two years for residential projects.

Of the total amount, some P800 million will be spent this year for the company's medium-rise "condoville" dubbed Chateau Elysee near SM Bicutan in Parañaque, the high-rise Mezza Residences beside SM City Sta. Mesa in Manila and a residential subdivision project in Muntinlupa.

SMDC recently completed the second phase of its maiden project, the P3.7-billion Chateau Elysee, a six-cluster, six-story French-Mediterranean inspired condominium on a 4.7-hectare lot. The second phase, dubbed Lafayette, with 384 units, will be ready for occupancy this year.

SMDC is spending P250 million for Chateau Elysee this year.

SMDC is also earmarking P400 million for Mezza Residences this year. This is a P5.2-billion high-rise project that will cater to entrepreneurs, middle management, medical students and professionals.

Mezza will have four towers of 348 units or a total of 1,551 units. The first two towers will be ready for occupancy by 2009.
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Does anyone have an update on this?

ritche

September 15th, 2007, 06:48 AM

Session Road 1981 by stevechasmar of flickR

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Baguio is one of the most American-like cities in the Philippines. But they haven't managed the city well in the past few years. Proof is the recurring landslides. I still like to visit the city though every now and then. I like SM City Baguio, one of the best-desgned malls in the country.

allan_dude

September 18th, 2007, 08:37 PM

Remove obstructions to cut Baguio road trip to 3 hours--MMDA (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=89350)

By DJ Yap

MANILA, Philippines -- The summer capital of Baguio may soon be just a three-hour ride away, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando said on Tuesday.

The usual six-hour travel time from Manila to Baguio may be cut by as much as three hours if only the highways would be cleared of obstructions and better traffic engineering would be put in place, the MMDA official said.

Even better, it would be possible to reach Baguio without taking the North Luzon Expressway at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, Fernando said in a statement.

Traveling to the northern city normally takes between six and eight hours, but along the way motorists have to contend with a host of problems, from obstructions like shanties and vendors on sidewalks, to poor traffic enforcement.

Fernando cited the makeshift shanties and illegal vendors that occupy the sidewalks along MacArthur Highway, Manila North Road and the lateral streets connecting them.

On a recent trip to Baguio, Fernando said the traffic on MacArthur Highway from Bulacan to Pangasinan was “chaotic,” particularly in the town proper because of vendors, illegal parking and informal settlers.

He said the MMDA would study the traffic conditions in the provinces between Manila and Baguio and come up with recommendations for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s approval.

Recently, the MMDA extended its traffic management duties to roads leading to Bacoor, Cavite and Laguna, following a directive from the President to help solve the traffic problems in these provinces.

Nabartek

September 20th, 2007, 06:06 AM

Baguio is one of the most American-like cities in the Philippines. But they haven't managed the city well in the past few years. Proof is the recurring landslides. I still like to visit the city though every now and then. I like SM City Baguio, one of the best-desgned malls in the country.

no wonder baguio is over developed. most old timers hate sm.

ilang centuries-old pine trees naman daw ang kinatay ng sm. i am not against capitalism pero obra ang ginawa ng sm. outsiders love the privatization of cjh, the baguio folk hate it.

i can't wait for another strong earthquake to come. tignan lang natin kung hindi bumaba sa 50,000 ang population ng baguio from 300,000. siguradong uuwi yung mga hindi taga-baguio. haha. i mean, they're the ones voting for the crooked politicians. it is estimated na 20% na lang ang baguio folk na tinatawag nila..and that's regardless of ethnicity(so hindi lang sila limited sa mga ibalois). so yung 80%, binoboto yung mga trapo na hindi rin taga dito. oh well, sana magdonate ng lindol ang indonesia sa baguio, parang awa na nila. it only takes six months to be a registered voter in another place.

baguio sits on SEVEN faults lang naman. hindi pa kasama dyan yung sinking areas ha? what a wonderful view kung lumindol no sm, gigiba na yung businesses ng mga lintek na skwater na di taga dito na usually eh nagrurun ng transient houses, apartments, boarding houses, tapos kapag sistahin sasabihin discrimination daw kasi di sila taga dito. ang kapal, di na nga nagbabayad ng tax at nagookupa ng lupa ng may lupa, may k pa sila sabihin yun.

earthquake come oh earthquake.

earthquake, gibahin mo na ang sm baguio!!

earthquake oh earthquake, palaysin mo ang mga professional squatters. patayin mo nalang sila, para tapos palaysain amo na ang mga illegal peddlers na kapag iimplement yung rules na hindi infavo sa kanila, sasabihin nila mapang-api raw kami. pucha, eto nga sila, hindi nagbabayad ng tax, nilalapastangan nag sidewalks na pinopondohan ng taxes namin mga taga-baguio. sila ang mapang-api, hindi kami

earthquake, kailan ka ba darating? matagal na kitang hinihintay para palayasin mo ang mga taong illegal settlers na ito..(including sm)

french mediterrenean churva..eh katabi na nun kalsadang very polluted dahil sa jeepneys. song may ganang tumira dun? paglabas mo amoy usok na na. i even heard na may ancestral land issues yung land na pinagtayuan ng sm. tsk tsk... poor rightful owners.

curious talaga ako kung anong gagawin ng mga di taga baguio kapag lumindol ng 8.0 magnitude. more or less, uuwi mga yan sa kani kanilang porbinsya. not a bad one. instant decongestion ng baguio. wow.

overtureph

September 29th, 2007, 09:56 PM

Baguio's centennial memories placed online
By Vincent Cabreza
Northern Luzon Bureau
Last updated 09:06pm (Mla time) 09/29/2007

BAGUIO CITY -- Everyone's fond memories of the summer capital will be collected for posterity online.

A firm that has been advocating Internet technology-based approaches to education, has opened a website that is dedicated to old Baguio recollections, in honor of two centennial celebrations coming in the next two years.

The only city built by the American colonial government at the start of the 20th century will commemorate its centennial on Sept. 1, 2009, while the Teachers' Camp, another US colonial-era institution, has marked 2008 as its red-letter year because of its 100th anniversary.

The online diary acts as a Baguio "wikipedia" for www.mybaguiodreams.com, which is administered by Elmer Soriano, president of TechLab.

A wiki is a program that allows anyone to contribute entries to an online encyclopedia.

Soriano said his Baguio community encyclopedia allows every resident to build up a definitive history of Baguio, using anecdotal accounts as foundation for illustrating how Baguio was generations before 2007.

The city was designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, and was established in 1909 by a city charter drawn up and reviewed by top American lawyers of the period.

Soriano said he set up the site after realizing that almost every generation has a story or two to tell about visiting Baguio.

It had always been easy to get Baguio's frequent celebrities to share a nugget or two about the city.

President Macapagal-Arroyo, a perennial visitor, often recounts how husband Jose Miguel Arroyo courted her in Baguio.

Mr. Arroyo's family owns a Baguio vacation house, which is a stroll away from the presidential Mansion, where Ms Arroyo spent her vacations with her father, the late former President Diosdado Macapagal.

"There seems to be so much talent in Baguio, but it seems that this talent is not harnessed to help build up the city. We have bar topnotchers, chess whizzes, top bands… so much energy in Panagbenga (the annual Baguio Flower Festival), but for the rest of the year, it is as if that energy goes down," Soriano said.

"I thought it would be wonderful if we were able to harness all that creativity, passion, talent on a weekly or even daily basis," he said. "I think that as we approach our centennial, it would be great if we could re-enchant the next decades by articulating our dreams and by unlocking our collective imaginations, then creating the city that [we] hope for."

Even tragedy breeds lasting Baguio stories, Soriano said.

Former senatorial candidate Sonia Roco, the wife of the late Sen. Raul Roco and who survived the 1990 earthquake here, could not help but return to the city to overcome her trauma.

Mrs. Roco's last public visit to the summer capital was during the campaign period this year, and it led her back to the Nevada Square, the site of the hotel she was staying in when the earthquake struck on July 16, 1990.

This early, the website has been receiving contributions "from strangers," Soriano said.

He said they are drawn to key themes posted by TechLab.

It marked out categories for the interesting taxicab names, and "the best place to bring a tourist friend."

But it is a profile ladder called "You know you're from Baguio, if…" which has intrigued online contributors.

Like American host and comedian David Letterman's "Top 10 List," this item has been receiving humorous and nostalgic responses, Soriano said.

One entry poked fun at the fact that in the 1970s, the only grocery store known to residents was Sunshine Grocery, and that school supplies could be bought only from CID Educational Supply, which has since broken up into smaller supply stores, all named Cid.

Entries also refer to the city's social history.

Some contributors said a person grew up in Baguio if his or her idea of a walk was strolling up and down Session Road for hours.

The central business district used to be limited to the road spanning the city market and Luneta Hill, where the Pines Hotel once stood. Nowadays, it is the SM City Baguio that looms over the city.

Another entry defines a Baguio old timer by the fact that he or she effortlessly speaks English with "no colegiala" twang and would never wear Baguio-labeled bonnets or shorts in public.

Soriano's site also offers a chance for residents to discuss Baguio's future.

Photographs comparing today's Session Road to European streets have been posted, apparently to ignite discussions about a proposed pedestrianization of downtown Baguio.

Session Road businessmen are opposing the proposal of former city architect Joseph Alabanza to convert Session Road into a pedestrian mall with trees and outdoor cafés.

Soriano also linked up galleries of top Baguio destinations, as well as the music video "Suntok sa Buwan," performed by the band Session Road. The video shows clips of old Baguio.

He said he has no personal advocacy regarding how Baguio could evolve.

"I just believe that if more people get engaged in the discussion, the best ideas will simmer to the top… The [Baguio online] community takes a life of its own," he said.

Copyright 2007 Northern Luzon Bureau. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=91536

icarusrising

October 1st, 2007, 05:57 AM

no wonder baguio is over developed. most old timers hate sm.

ilang centuries-old pine trees naman daw ang kinatay ng sm. i am not against capitalism pero obra ang ginawa ng sm. outsiders love the privatization of cjh, the baguio folk hate it.

i can't wait for another strong earthquake to come. tignan lang natin kung hindi bumaba sa 50,000 ang population ng baguio from 300,000. siguradong uuwi yung mga hindi taga-baguio. haha. i mean, they're the ones voting for the crooked politicians. it is estimated na 20% na lang ang baguio folk na tinatawag nila..and that's regardless of ethnicity(so hindi lang sila limited sa mga ibalois). so yung 80%, binoboto yung mga trapo na hindi rin taga dito. oh well, sana magdonate ng lindol ang indonesia sa baguio, parang awa na nila. it only takes six months to be a registered voter in another place.

baguio sits on SEVEN faults lang naman. hindi pa kasama dyan yung sinking areas ha? what a wonderful view kung lumindol no sm, gigiba na yung businesses ng mga lintek na skwater na di taga dito na usually eh nagrurun ng transient houses, apartments, boarding houses, tapos kapag sistahin sasabihin discrimination daw kasi di sila taga dito. ang kapal, di na nga nagbabayad ng tax at nagookupa ng lupa ng may lupa, may k pa sila sabihin yun.

earthquake come oh earthquake.

earthquake, gibahin mo na ang sm baguio!!

earthquake oh earthquake, palaysin mo ang mga professional squatters. patayin mo nalang sila, para tapos palaysain amo na ang mga illegal peddlers na kapag iimplement yung rules na hindi infavo sa kanila, sasabihin nila mapang-api raw kami. pucha, eto nga sila, hindi nagbabayad ng tax, nilalapastangan nag sidewalks na pinopondohan ng taxes namin mga taga-baguio. sila ang mapang-api, hindi kami

earthquake, kailan ka ba darating? matagal na kitang hinihintay para palayasin mo ang mga taong illegal settlers na ito..(including sm)

french mediterrenean churva..eh katabi na nun kalsadang very polluted dahil sa jeepneys. song may ganang tumira dun? paglabas mo amoy usok na na. i even heard na may ancestral land issues yung land na pinagtayuan ng sm. tsk tsk... poor rightful owners.

curious talaga ako kung anong gagawin ng mga di taga baguio kapag lumindol ng 8.0 magnitude. more or less, uuwi mga yan sa kani kanilang porbinsya. not a bad one. instant decongestion ng baguio. wow.

Well, hindi ba iyon ang nangyari after the 1990 earthquake? Then balik na naman ang mga tao after at mas marami pang dumagsa.

lightsaber46

October 2nd, 2007, 03:49 PM

marami bang development sa baguio??

Sinjin P.

October 3rd, 2007, 05:02 AM

Does Baguio City have a highrise building? Or will this (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=516521) be their first?

lightsaber46

October 4th, 2007, 06:16 AM

Sana more things to come for baguio, tnx sinjin!

benchjade

October 4th, 2007, 06:13 PM

^ Baguio is really the city of flowers!

diba zamboanga daw??!!

hiiamdib

October 5th, 2007, 08:52 PM

Does Baguio City have a highrise building? Or will this (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=516521) be their first?

tuloy ba ito?

WawaY[625]

October 5th, 2007, 09:23 PM

Does Baguio City have a highrise building? Or will this (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=516521) be their first?

di kaya college project lang ito? pansinin mo ang pagka compose ng project description..

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Magdiwang

October 6th, 2007, 02:12 AM

Since there was no Ifugao Thread perhaps I will just post it here temporarily and the mods can just erase this later.

10/05/2007 | 04:31 PM

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Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo instructed Consul General Alejandro Mosquera in Toronto to extend full assistance to the bereaved family of Jocelyn Dulnuan, the 27-year-old housekeeper from Ifugao province who was believed to have been murdered in a mansion in Ontario.

Claro Cristobal, spokesman of the Department of Foreign Affairs, said Mosquera reported to the home office that police in Peel, Ontario are still investigating the suspected murder case.

Cristobal said the Toronto consulate general officers were also directed to provide full cooperation in bringing anyone responsible for the crime to justice.

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This is her home where her family wants her body to be buried.

Romulo’s instruction includes assistance in repatriating the remains of Dulnuan to the Philippines, Cristobal said. Dulnuan's mother, a domestic helper in Hong Kong, had been informed of the incident.

Earlier, e-mail threads from Ifugaos working in Canada said the consulate general and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) refused to help them for the repatriation of Dulnuan because she was not registered.

Mississauga News reported on Friday that Dulnuan had complained to friends she felt nervous for her safety in the mansion.

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“There's a second door in the back of the house that leads to the basement where her room is. She told me the last time I saw her that there’s a river behind the house, so someone could just pass onto the (property) there, around the gates," said Lyn, 27, also a Filipino housekeeper in Mississauga.

Lyn, who did not want her last name published, said she spoke with Dulnuan the morning she was killed, the report said.

Homicide detectives were tightlipped about the investigation, including the number of suspects being hunted and on details of the crime.

In her friendster account, Dulnuan said she hails from Barangay Namulditan, Hingyon town in Ifugao. "Hey, suplada daw ako sabi ng iba pero in real friendly ako," she wrote.

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Toronto Sun reported Wednesday that Dulnuan’s body was found 5 p.m. on Monday by her female employer in her living quarters at the basement of the mansion.

Homicide investigators from the Peel police district said the Doulton Place home was targeted for burglary.

The mansion valued at $15 million is owned by Dr. Jayshree Chanchlani, a family physician, and her husband Vasdev, a co-founder and corporate finance officer of software developer Sigma Global Solutions in Toronto.

After examining the body of the Filipina maid, investigators believe the victim died as a result of foul play.

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The report said police is still investigating if Dulnuan was a target of the burglars or if she surprised them.

Quoting a relative, the Toronto Star reported in its Oct. 4 issue that Dulnuan finished a criminology degree from the University of Baguio.

Fay Hangdaan, who presented herself as a cousin of Dulnuan's fiance, said the domestic helper made the difficult decision to move to Canada after obtaining her degree in order to help support her loved ones in Ifugao.

"She came here like everybody else; to make a living and help her family," Hangdaan was quoted in the Star report. "We just can't believe it," said Hangdaan, who lives in Toronto.

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Other than a few friends, Dulnuan didn't know many people in the city. Back home, she enjoyed playing volleyball and basketball and hanging out with friends.

"She's so much fun. A little bit of a shy girl, but if you say a joke she'll laugh and laugh," Hangdaan said.

Right now, Hangdaan says, friends and family back home are in shock.

News about Dulnuan’s murder has been disseminated to the Ifugaos through an email group.

Participants in the email thread have called on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to intercede on the case in view of statements from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OAAW) in Canada and the Philippine consulate that they could not help bring home Dulnuan’s remains because she was an unregistered worker.

Toronto Sun said Dulnuan arrived in Canada last year under a work permit. She started working at the Chanchlani household two months ago and lived in the huge house. She worked as a nanny for a number of other families prior to her employment as domestic helper with the Chanchlanis.

Police said she has friends and distant relatives in the Greater Toronto Area. Investigators have reportedly spoken to her mother in Hong Kong who was “extremely upset" upon learning of her daughter’s death.

Detectives are delving into Dulnuan’s background to check on her friends in the area and see if she was involved in a relationship.

Mississauga News said in its Oct. 3 issue that the neighborhood in the wealthy community was shocked over the murder.

While police said the incident was an isolated case, it was reported as the sixth murder in Mississauga during the year.

Irate Ifugaos said the Philippine government ought to help Dulnuan regardless of her status in Canada. “Her citizenship and the circumstances (behind) her death, not her status, should be considered by the Philippine Consulate to seek help from the government in the Philippines," an Ifugao email sender in Canada said.

“Despite our grief, we are trying to face this enormous task of seeking for proper justice and trying to find ways to send her home," another Ifugao in Canada posted. - GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/63260/DFA-to-help-kin-of-Ifugao-woman-found-dead-in-Canada-mansion

READER'S FEEDBACK:

From: Enrico Despogado Buenaflor in Toronto, Canada
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:32 AM

As a show of support and care, I am pleading President Arroyo to help in bringing our Filipina countryman home.

There are many things that we overseas Filipinos endure such as racism, discrimination, abuse and crime in order to support our loved ones home.

I hope that this will be a wake up call to all officials and employees of our land. Its now time to change.

We the public trust that you will handle the public coffers with care.

For every centavo taken from the public coffers, a Filipino suffers hunger, pain, humiliation and death here and abroad.

NEWS VIDEO LINK :

http://www.gmanews.tv/video/12531/Pinay-DH-slain-in-employer's-mansion-in-Canada

Magdiwang

October 6th, 2007, 02:15 AM

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FROM CANADA
Ifugaos start fund drive to bring home slain Filipina
By Vincent Cabreza
Northern Luzon Bureau
Last updated 06:31pm (Mla time) 10/05/2007

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines--Ifugaos overseas have launched a fund drive to raise $15,000 to bring home the body of a 27-year-old-Filipino maid who was found murdered in a Canadian suburb this week.

Canadian newspaper accounts about the Oct. 1 death of Jocelyn Dulnuan of who hails from Barangay(village) Namuldita, Hingyon town, Ifugao province, had been sketchy, except to state that her body was discovered by her Mississauga City employer and that the police have confirmed she "died from foul play."

Anthony Basil, Cordillera case officer of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), said Dulnuan's case had been forwarded to foreign undersecretary Esteban Cornejos, who handles the Department of Foreign Affairs' migrant workers affairs desk.

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Basil said the government was working out the repatriation of Dulnuan's remains, after learning that the victim was an unprocessed overseas worker in Canada.

Dulnuan was deployed to Hong Kong last year, Basil said, citing her welfare fund membership records. "It is actually a trend. Overseas workers fly to Hong Kong and then seek Canadian entry soon after," he said.

She was employed in Mississauga by Vasdev Chanchlani, chief financial officer of the Toronto-based software developer Sigma Global Solution. Chanchlani's wife Jayshree is a doctor in the city.

Basil said the government would pursue the investigation, regardless of Dulnuan's work circumstances.

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Toronto-based Imelda Belanger, Dulnuan's distant cousin, complained in an e-mail letter that Philippine red tape had barred embassy officials from handling her cousin's case.

Belanger sought help online instead, claiming that the Philippine consulate there had "been of no help at all."

"They said that she is not registered [by] OWWA. So what would they do to OFWs who are "not registered? Dump them in the river?" she said in her letter.

"So at the moment, we are depending on the good hearts of citizens to raise over $15,000 to send the body home … I am asking help from the Filipino associations and I just hope they will help," she wrote.

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Response to her plea has been forthcoming. Filipino weblogs have announced a fund raising event on Saturday for Dulnuan which is sponsored by the Filipino-Canadian community

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=92802

Magdiwang

October 6th, 2007, 02:46 AM

A desperate Ifugao family is seeking help from all Filipinos to help them bring home their OFW daughter who was slain in Canada.

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Video link :

http://www.gmanews.tv/video/12531/Pinay-DH-slain-in-employer's-mansion-in-Canada

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http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb244/jibrael865/noel/jocelyn5.jpg

http://igorotblogger.blogspot.com/

These item is also posted in the PEX Thread "Not so good news"

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21830363#post21830363

overtureph

October 8th, 2007, 09:50 AM

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/PINESHOTELBAGUIO.jpg

Wasn't the old Pines Hotel in Baguio used to be located where SM is now standing? The old hotel looks better and seems to blend more with it's Baguio surroundings.

icarusrising

October 8th, 2007, 09:54 AM

^^ Should have been better if SM incorporated these architectural elements in its mall.

Does anyone have a picture of the old Hyatt Terraces in Baguio?

allan_dude

October 8th, 2007, 03:41 PM

Japanese help clean up Baguio streets of trash (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=92976)

By Vincent Cabreza
Northern Luzon Bureau

BAGUIO CITY--JAPANESE businessmen in kimono jackets surprised residents here on Saturday when they started hauling garbage off downtown streets while fog blanketed the city and monsoon rains poured.

Behind this group marched Baguio oldtimers, wearing thick jackets and scarves and lugging black trash bags and brooms at past 9 a.m.

It was supposed to be an ordinary cleanup day for the Baguio Community of Volunteers (BCV), a civic group dedicated to keeping the summer capital as clean as possible.

But they were dealing this week with mountains of garbage, left uncollected by the city government "to teach residents a lesson."

The city enforced a "no-segregation, no-collection" policy for daily garbage, after noting that no more than 10 of the 128 barangay or villages here have heeded the new waste management ordinance that calls for separating recyclable waste from residual waste.

Piles of unsegregated garbage have been decaying in downtown streets and in many villages since Monday.

City officials said many village officials refused to collect trash in their villages despite the city government's warnings because they insisted that the city was duty-bound to comply with sanitation laws.

Some aspiring barangay officials even used the deadlock as their campaign platform for the Oct. 29 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (youth council) elections.

"We are not here to challenge that policy, but we are also concerned that this may start another disease," said Fr. Carmelo Carreon, BCV secretary general.

Insanedriver

October 9th, 2007, 07:30 PM

wow what a nice policy -.-

ivanhenares

October 9th, 2007, 07:46 PM

ivanhenares

October 9th, 2007, 07:47 PM

Save Burnham Park from more development!
http://www.ivanhenares.com/2007/10/save-burnham-park-from-more-development.html

http://bp3.blogger.com/_-fGx2wDrdVc/RwoUQ9poo-I/AAAAAAAABjY/KvllwiItZG0/s400/IMG_6143.jpg

Just received some horrible news from Baguio City! They are planning to build a bus terminal and multi-level vending station in Burnham Park. Some Baguio City officials really do not know how to preserve the city's heritage and the little charm it has left. The proponent is Councilor Perlita Rondez, chair of the tourism committee of the Baguio City Council. I hope this project is stopped. Let's keep what's left of Burnham Park an open space!

At least Councilor Elaine Sembrano, chair of market, trade and commerce committee, said that “vending in parks must not be encouraged.” For more details, read Burnham Park market, parking area mulled (http://www.nordis.net/blog/?p=1633).

Related article
Here are some excerpts from Remember Teachers Camp? (http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article_id=93106):
"The distinct Baguio identity of mountainous terrain with green-and-white architecture nestled under pine trees is fast vanishing. The single largest remaining ensemble of that identity survives in Teachers Camp. Although no other city in Asia or in the Philippines has an identity like Baguio's, the identity today is vanishing rapidly.

"Unregulated development has caused Baguio to lose its luster as the Philippines' most popular mountain retreat. Nondescript concrete buildings and residences have replaced the traditional green-and-white architecture. Informal settlers' shanties now cover urban mountain vistas, once open green spaces, in sheets of rusted tin roofing.

"Pine trees, once a familiar sight of Baguio landscape, have practically disappeared. Heritage, whether urban, architectural, or landscape, neither protected by legislation or by zoning, does not appear to be within the sphere of interest of most city authorities and residents, therefore urban and architectural heritage is going fast, and vanishing rapidly also is its landmark umbrella of pines and multicolored flowers.

"Present-day Baguio is homogenizing into the generic, typical look of 21st-century Philippine cities. Only its mountainous terrain now reminds us that once this was the glorious Summer Capital of our Land and the only American Hill Station in Asia.

"Since Baguio mystique and tradition are practically gone today, it is necessary to maintain whatever is left of its urban, architectural, and environmental traditions for the future."

ivanhenares

October 9th, 2007, 07:48 PM

PRIDE OF PLACE
Remember Teachers Camp?
By Augusto Villalon
Inquirer
Last updated 00:41am (Mla time) 10/08/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- Who does not remember Teachers Camp? For the past five or six generations, almost every Filipino teacher or student has had a Teachers Camp experience, spending a few education-enriching days or even a fortnight, for the fortunate few, in green-and-white pre-war cottages under the pines in cool Baguio air to attend a live-in conference or training event.

Teachers Camp, founded in 1908 by the US colonial government as a mountain retreat for the first group of American teachers, the Thomasites, needing a respite from lowland tropical heat, has a unique heritage. Since its early Thomasite days, generations of Filipino teachers and students have gone to Teachers Camp for educational training, conferences and seminars.

It is a place intrinsic to the history of the Department of Education and has become part of the educational ethos of many Filipinos. It is a nationally recognized teaching facility, also one of the nationally recognized Baguio City icons along with Session Road, Burnham Park, Mansion House, Wright Park and Camp John Hay. It is the last of the large, open, undeveloped parcels of government-owned land remaining in Baguio. The other large parcel, Camp John Hay, is now privatized as a mixed-use real-estate development.

Founded as a rest and recreation facility for teachers and also as a venue for summer training programs for teachers, education is the primary legacy of Teachers Camp. Its secondary legacy is that it is one of the few surviving Baguio environments today, a wide-open area still relatively forested with pine trees and landscaped in the typical but vanishing flowered Baguio garden style, where original green-and-white wooden architecture, once a Baguio City hallmark, still survives.

Hills station

The American colonial government built Baguio in the early years of the 20th century. However, Baguio has never taken its deserved place in the Asian chain of colonial Hill Stations (Simla and Darjeeling in British India, Bandung in Dutch Indonesia, Cameron Highlands in British Malaysia, Dalat in French Indochina).

Making Baguio stand out in this chain of upland vacation retreats is the fact that it is the only American-designed Hill Station in Asia. The green-and-white American-style wooden architecture once so prevalent in the Baguio mountain terrain is the only one of its kind in Asia.

Baguio is of pedigreed origin and Teachers Camp is part of that pedigree. Designed by Daniel Burnham, the leading American urban planner of the day, vast urban parks (Burnham and Wright Parks) opened up broad city and mountain vistas and served as visual and circulation anchors for the city.

A network of winding roads connected main points of the city—the City Hall overlooking a large park with a lagoon (now known as Burnham Park), Mansion House (the summer residence of the Philippine president), Camp John Hay (former American military rest and recreation facility), and Teachers Camp.

Session Road, the city commercial center that leads uphill in a straight line from the Baguio Market now connects to a new mall at its top end. It is likewise well-known throughout the Philippines as part of the Baguio image. Today a gigantic new mall at the top of Session Road now seriously threatens the future of its small commercial establishments that have been there for generations.

The distinct Baguio identity of mountainous terrain with green-and-white architecture nestled under pine trees is fast vanishing. The single largest remaining ensemble of that identity survives in Teachers Camp. Although no other city in Asia or in the Philippines has an identity like Baguio’s, the identity today is vanishing rapidly.

Baguio in decay

Unregulated development has caused Baguio to lose its luster as the Philippines’ most popular mountain retreat. Nondescript concrete buildings and residences have replaced the traditional green-and-white architecture. Informal settlers’ shanties now cover urban mountain vistas, once open green spaces, in sheets of rusted tin roofing.

Pine trees, once a familiar sight of Baguio landscape, have practically disappeared. Heritage, whether urban, architectural, or landscape, neither protected by legislation or by zoning, does not appear to be within the sphere of interest of most city authorities and residents, therefore urban and architectural heritage is going fast, and vanishing rapidly also is its landmark umbrella of pines and multicolored flowers.

Present-day Baguio is homogenizing into the generic, typical look of 21st-century Philippine cities. Only its mountainous terrain now reminds us that once this was the glorious Summer Capital of our Land and the only American Hill Station in Asia.

Since Baguio mystique and tradition are practically gone today, it is necessary to maintain whatever is left of its urban, architectural, and environmental traditions for the future.

On the eve of its 2008 centenary, Teachers Camp acknowledges its unique place as one of the principal government educational facilities in the Philippines that has consistently provided teacher training since 1908 in the traditional “Old Baguio” setting so intrinsic to the Teachers Camp image and ambiance.

Since both traditions, education and setting, are so intertwined, it is impossible to look at conserving one without the other.

Teachers Camp authorities are now looking at conserving the physical aspect of Teachers Camp heritage—its architecture, landscaping and infrastructure—while updating the entire facility and its physical plant to achieve 21st-century demands to continue its educational focus and improve its amenities as a rest and recreation facility for educators and students.

Heritage, the basis for the new Teachers Camp improvement efforts, is recognized as the primary resource for future income generation to be conserved and enhanced with new infrastructure, architecture and landscaping, to ensure the economic sustainability that will keep Teachers Camp in the lives of the next five generations of educators and students.

Please send feedback to pride.place@gmail.com

ritche

October 10th, 2007, 04:46 AM

A few years ago we in Dumaguete wanted an environment like that of Baguio City. Nowadays we still want to have some of the elements present in Baguio but as we see it, Baguio indeed is going into decay. Public places are not well taken care of and the city has too much people.

One very disgusting experience I had in the area is the absence of water especially during weekends.

I hope cities in the Philippines can learn very well from the experiences of other cities by taking care of their spaces very well. Too much commercialization should give way to careful planning, aesthetics and the environment. In the end, places that have taken care of its elements will reap more bountiful harvests than those places which are decaying, although the harvest may take long.

frustratedarchitect

October 18th, 2007, 09:37 AM

I do agree with a law that would limit in migration in Baguio. For instance, migrants who intend to build slum households should not be allowed in the city. But I dont agree with your other statements. I am a native of Baguio. I grew up in Baguio myself and I could say that Baguio has developed because of the diversity of people who came into the city. Its a melting pot of culture and ideas. Relocate 90% of its people and Baguio is dead. Its gonna end up like some mountain settlement with no progress at all. There is such thing as sustainable development. One that would help Baguio keep pace with the rest of the world and at the same time help maintain its scenery. Too bad our officials dont know anything about maintaining our city.

hiiamdib

October 19th, 2007, 12:20 AM

^^ well, I think urban planning is need for Baguio.

Farirah

October 23rd, 2007, 05:34 AM

Baguio tourist arrivals this year increases by 9.16 percent

BAGUIO CITY, Oct. 23 (PNA) -- The city tourism office today said a total of 559,515 local and foreign tourists have already visited this mountain resort, 250 kilometers north of Manila, from January to September this year.

Gabriel Keith of the city tourism office said among the foreign visitors were 7,244 South Koreans; 4,073 Americans; 2,104 Japanese; 1,169 Chinese and 764 Australians.

The arrivals this year represent a 9.16 percent increase to the number of arrivals for the same period in 2006.

”There were only 509,748 tourists arrivals for the same period last year. Our office does not count on persons who visit the city for less than 24 hours because we only categorize them as excursionists. If we also count the excursionists, the figure who had visited our city would be well in a million this year,” Keith said.

He assured that Baguio will further improve its tourism potentials just like the peak arrivals of visitors here before the 1990 killer earthquake. (PNA)

http://www.positivenewsmedia.net/am2/publish/Tourism_24/Baguio_tourist_arrivals_this_year_increases_by_9_16_percent.shtml

frustratedarchitect

October 24th, 2007, 08:00 PM

All they have to do is remove all the crap that has sprouted all over Baguio over the last decade, replace them with something new (cable cars instead of jeepneys perhaps) and maintain the stuff that had placed baguio in the map. The rest ) meaning the tourists would follow

frustratedarchitect

October 25th, 2007, 02:58 PM

The last time I was Baguio, driving east to west is a a nightmare.Good thing tricycles are not allowed in Baguio otherwise traffic couldve been much much worse. Areas around the city are also experiencing the effects of urban spillover/sprawl. On a happier note, much of the eastern side of the city still has vast pine cover.

overtureph

October 28th, 2007, 03:02 AM

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pines.jpg

frustratedarchitect

October 28th, 2007, 08:34 AM

Dreamy. Its so.. Baguio. :) ^^ What occupies that place now?

icarusrising

October 28th, 2007, 02:28 PM

The INC Baguio City house of worship along Magsaysay Avenue...
It was finished and consecrated to the Lord in 1956. With a seating capacity of 1,700, the house of worship, also serves as the center of activities for the whole of the Benguet Ecclesiastical District.

Then...
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n37/icarus05x/INC/Baguio-2.jpg

Now...
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n37/icarus05x/INC/Baguio-1.jpg

overtureph

October 29th, 2007, 03:27 AM

Dreamy. Its so.. Baguio. :) ^^ What occupies that place now?

If I am not mistaken, I believe what occupies the former site of Pines Hotel is the ever ubiquitous SM mall.

frustratedarchitect

October 29th, 2007, 11:01 AM

http://www.geocities.com/lingayenbay/quake26.jpg

Burnham Park becomes an evacuation center. July 1990

frustratedarchitect

October 29th, 2007, 11:06 AM

http://www.geocities.com/lingayenbay/quake01.jpg

Hyatt Terraces Hotel, July 1990

frustratedarchitect

October 29th, 2007, 11:15 AM

http://www.geocities.com/lingayenbay/quake11.jpg

Magsaysay Area: July 1990

frustratedarchitect

October 29th, 2007, 11:45 AM

http://www.geocities.com/lingayenbay/quake33.jpg

Malcolm Square (Hilltop Hotel in the backgorund)

icarusrising

October 29th, 2007, 11:52 AM

^^ Do you have a pic of the Hyatt terraces when it was still standing? I read that its daring design became its downfall.

frustratedarchitect

October 30th, 2007, 10:53 AM

I am still searching for the one I saw before. The terraces collapsed into the hotel lobby, so its easy to picture how it happened. probably there wasnt enough beams to support the terraces. Before the earthquake, the hyatt was declared to be structurally defective.

frustratedarchitect

October 31st, 2007, 03:03 AM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/143805725_7e35f1b299.jpg?v=0

Hotel Veniz: One of the new hotels in Baguio, doesnt look structurally defective to me:)

frustratedarchitect

October 31st, 2007, 10:59 AM

http://www.shuion.com/eng/SOCAM/images/photos/baguio.jpg

Can anyone tell me why this group of high rise flats inHong Kong was named after Baguio?

flymordecai

November 2nd, 2007, 02:29 AM

Because they were inspired by Baguio's beauty? I dunno. Why not?

kiretoce

November 2nd, 2007, 05:20 AM

Baguio air pollution still tolerable, official insists (http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=regions2_nov2_2007)

BAGUIO CITY — Despite the pollution caused by about 44,000 vehicles that traverse streets in this mountain city, the Department of Environment and natural Resources said air quality here is still within the limits prescribed by the clean air law.

In fact, Wilhelmina Lagunilla of the environment department said their records show that air quality at the city’s central business district has been within the tolerable limit of 230 total suspended particulates since January last year.

But Lagunilla conceded that the 44,000 vehicles that ply through the roads of Session, Abanao, Harrison and Chanum are contributing to air pollution and pushed for the use of bio-fuel to reduce pollution and its health hazards.

The local Clean Cities Baguio Coalition has appealed to local fuel dealers to use more bio-fuel additives in the fuel they sell.

Coalition coordinator Junie Itliong said some vehicles already use fuel with 1 percent bio-diesel from coconut. “We are pushing for a 2-percent use of coco bio-diesel for us to feel its effects on the environment,” she said.

Itliong said some gasoline stations are already preparing facilities for fuel with bio-diesel, as required by Republic Act 9367, or the Biofuels Act, which was enacted last year. The law mandates the pre-blending of 1-percent cocomethylesther, or coco bio-diesel, in diesel-fed vehicles and 5-percent ethanol in gasoline-fueled ones.

Itliong said many public utility vehicles here have also begun converting to liquefied petroleum gas that saves as much as 35 percent on fuel consumption and helps improve air quality.

Air and water pollution problems are epidemic in the Philippines and continue to increase rapidly, official figures show.

In Metro Manila alone, particulate matter smaller than 10 microns levels, which exceeds twice the national air quality standards, is now considered the priority air pollution dilemma.

Sulfur dioxide and total oxidants in air still occasionally exceed the standards, while nitrogen oxides, ozone, and carbon monoxide levels all remain barely within the air quality standard range.

The largest contributor to the total suspended particulates and particulate matter in air are fossil fuel combustion in small and medium industrial and commercial installations, re-suspension, and construction activities.

Vehicle exhaust makes up about 12 percent of the total TSP emissions, the largest contributors of which are diesel trucks, buses, and jeepneys.

According to a World Bank study, air pollution in other urban areas of the country is becoming a problem, including Baguio City.

An epidemiological study conducted by the University of the Philippines College of Public Health showed that the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is 32.5 percent among jeepney drivers, 16.4 percent among air-conditioned bus drivers, and 13.8 percent among commuters.

The study further stated that up to 55 percent of the total burden of bronchitis was found to be attributable to pollution in urban and rural areas of the country.

frustratedarchitect

November 2nd, 2007, 05:30 PM

http://www.cityofpines.com/baguioglimpse/baguio42.jpg

One of my fave buildings in Baguio. Kinda reminds me a general store in a suburb of Berlin.

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/veterans/thien/luzon/baguio/baguio-cathedral.jpg

Amazing pic. Baguio Cathedral 1945

Baguio Cathedral 1995: No more tanks, japanese flags and most of all no more

war :)

http://www.webdrx.com/bulaga/images/baguiocathedral.jpg

frustratedarchitect

November 3rd, 2007, 06:05 PM

Not too long ago, I remembered taking my half breed cousins to mines view. I thought it was a good idea but it wasnt. My cousins, unlike other tourists who were there, didnt go to that "park" to buy souvenirs or brooms. They came there for the "view". Eager to get down with them to that old promontory with their cameras, I felt disappointed with what I saw.. Everything has this air of neglect.The park is very poorly maintained beyond words. The mines are closed so what can be seen is just a suburb apparently a spillover from Baguio. The only solace are those far mountains unaffected by Baguio's growth.
What makes me a lot more sad is seeing Baguio's old pictures. Everything that has brought Baguio to its present state of "progress" seem to have faded away.

bily_lion

November 5th, 2007, 03:39 PM

Lahat ng landmark sa Baguio is sobrang neglected na. Kailan kaya aaksiyon ang ating National Government? Sobra din ang pollution :ohno:

allan_dude

November 7th, 2007, 07:55 PM

Guv opens Benguet to investors

Sun.Star (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2007/11/07/bus/guv.opens.benguet.to.investors.html)

BENGUET Governor Nestor Fongwan is opening the province to private business investments, saying this would greatly help boost the province's economic resources.

"We encourage private investments. In fact, we are encouraging communities to be business-friendly," Fongwan said.

The governor has admitted that lack of financial resources is one of the major challenges facing his administration.

Board Member Juan Nazarro Jr. said the Provincial Board (PB) is working on the provision of good incentives to businesses, which would be incorporated in the province's investment code.

Among the industries being promoted to attract more investments is the province's tourism sector.

Fongwan is pushing for the enhancement and availability of tourism facilities in tourist spots here.

Earlier, a giant shopping mall has manifested intention to put up a branch in La Trinidad, Benguet's capital town.

La Trinidad Mayor Artemio Galwan however said this has to be carefully studied first.

He said the business firm has only manifested intentions to put up a shopping mall but has not requested formal action yet from the local government.

“They were just informing us of their plans. They did not ask for specific actions yet," Galwan said. (JC)

dreamtime07

November 10th, 2007, 01:57 PM

I took this photos on April 4 to 6, 2007.

Looking up to SM Baguio, taken at Session Road
http://static4.bareka.com/photos/medium/2486979/going-baguio.jpg

Session Road
http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/2487684/traffic-session-road.jpg

Session Road
http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/2487761/sidewalk-session-road.jpg

Session Road corner Magsaysay Avenue
http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/2634169/session-road-corner-magsaysay.jpg

Session Road
http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/2634180/session-road.jpg

You can find more photos at my Panoramio Site:
http://www.panoramio.com/user/517635

dreamtime07

November 10th, 2007, 01:59 PM

Photos taken April 4 to 6, 2007

http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/2634188/inside-baguio.jpg

http://static3.bareka.com/photos/medium/2634198/inside-baguio.jpg

You can find more photos at my Panoramio Site:
http://www.panoramio.com/user/517635

dreamtime07

November 10th, 2007, 02:01 PM

Photos Taken April 4 to 6, 2007

The Scenic Bridge
http://static3.bareka.com/photos/medium/2486950/bridge.jpg

Going Inside the Tunnel
http://static3.bareka.com/photos/medium/2486738.jpg

Inside the Tunnel
http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/2486832/tunnel.jpg

You can find more photos at my Panoramio Site:
http://www.panoramio.com/user/517635

dreamtime07

November 10th, 2007, 02:04 PM

Photos Taken April 4 to 6, 2007

Photos taken at SM Baguio Viewing Hall

http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/2487301/view-from-baguio.jpg

http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/2487448/view-from-baguio.jpg

You can find more photos at my Panoramio Site:
http://www.panoramio.com/user/517635

lightning099

November 13th, 2007, 02:42 AM

Baguio City today...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/1982913971_a15e95e8a6.jpg?v=0

Wright Park
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2171/1982515031_5481d3bbed.jpg?v=0

Burnham
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/1982349139_7bef8f2495.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/1980883937_92dbca8dc3.jpg?v=0

Mines View
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l140/lightning099/IMG_2133.jpg?t=1194914063

bily_lion

November 14th, 2007, 09:31 AM

^^ Napaka photogenic talaga ang Baguio. Sana alagaan yung mga parks dyan kasi pumapangit na :ohno:

Ex!lE

November 15th, 2007, 02:11 AM

P1.4-B Baguio City road project nears completion
(http://http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV20071115108658.html)

Promoting economic development especially in fertile highlands of the Cordillera Region, the Department of Public Works and Highways reported the near completion of the Baguio-Pangawan-Kayapa Section of the Baguio-Aritao Road Improvement Project.

In his report to DPWH Secretary Hermogenes E. Ebdane Jr., DPWH Philippine Japan Highway Loan (PJHL) Project Director Vicente Perez said that the road project is already 91.4 percent complete and is ahead its scheduled accomplishment rating.

"Because of the near sources of aggregates in the area, the contractor was able to accomplish much of the programmed works on time, with our current we are sure to complete the project before March 2008," Perez said.

This R1.4 billion road improvement project was jointly funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Government of the Philippines under Contract Package 1 of the Cordillera Road Improvement Project Loan Agreement.

The project involves the construction of 66 kilometers of portland cement concrete pavement, replacement of Acnip Bridge and provision of drainage and slope protection works.

Upon completion of this project it will lessen the travelling time of agricultural products from the Cordillera Region going to Cagayan Province and other nearby provinces," Perez added.

frustratedarchitect

November 17th, 2007, 02:34 PM

Baguio does not have any seaports,its airport is small, its terrain is really rugged, it does not have large farms to rely on, much of it was destroyed last July 16 1990 but it is a very progressive city as compared, relative to its size and population. Largely because of its cold climate, and the ingenuity of the larger bulk of its 280 000 population. Sadly, migration to the city is very high, some, not all of these "migrants" usually have no respect for the existing laws in the city to which "old timers" in Baguio faithfully abide. Which is really unfair. :(

frustratedarchitect

November 18th, 2007, 09:10 AM

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/2761/21456986296dea1183d2sv1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Mountain city
courtesy of Flickr meroko yui

[dx]

November 18th, 2007, 10:56 AM

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/psychosanctum/Lignon%20Hill/Panorama8.jpg
The Mansion, Baguio City

le Reine

November 18th, 2007, 03:03 PM

Thank you for all those wonderful pics! Hindi pa kasi ako nakakapunta ng Baguio eh. Yes, I know it's pathetic, knowing that I live in MM.

allan_dude

November 19th, 2007, 02:35 PM

frustratedarchitect

November 23rd, 2007, 01:17 PM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/322197398_17d5ae0468.jpg?v=0

A man pees on a poor bush

courtesy of flickr
photo belonbgs to finepetite

frustratedarchitect

November 23rd, 2007, 01:42 PM

Farinas on Proposed P1-B budget: Let’s be Realistic
By: Aileen Refuerzo
Email: baguiocity.com@gmail.com
Posted: November 16, 2007 06:38:08 PM GMT(+8)

BAGUIO CITY – Acting mayor Daniel Farinas Thursday appealed anew to the city council to reconsider their position of passing a P1 billion budget for 2008 for practical reasons.

Farinas maintained that a P1 billion budget would be too high a goal and might not be realizable for the city.

Eight councilors including acting vice mayor Rocky Thomas Balisong are currently pushing for a P1 billion budget via a proposed resolution saying increasing the financial plan would enable the city to implement more projects next year.

In the resolution, Balisong and co-proponent Councilors Galo Weygan, Perlita Rondez, Antonio Tabora Jr., Isabelo Cosalan Jr., Fred Bagbagen, Elaine Sembrano and Richard Carino said an increase in the budget “is reflective of a progressive city that practices sound fiscal management, efficient collection of taxes and careful identification of additional income generating programs that will spur the city’s economy.”

The move was bolstered by the information received by the council that the city has over P1 billion savings.

Mayor Reinaldo Bautista earlier submitted an executive budget amounting to P820 million and the councilors feel that this could still be adjusted to accommodate more projects for implementation.

However, Farinas said the city should opt for a lower budget so avoid being caught in a situation where the city will encounter difficulty raising said target.

“We have to check on our capabilities to raise such a big amount because if we fail to reach it, we will be faced with a situation where we will have deficits and obligations that we won’t be able to pay,” Farinas said

He said the city should also consider the plight of the taxpayers who are also faced with hardship due to economic crisis.

“We should really study it so that we will not be pushing ourselves and the taxpayers to the limit,” he said.

He said what the city can do is to stick with the conservative amount and just adopt measures later for an additional budget.

“Let’s be practical. We can work on a lower budget and just come up with a supplemental budget later,” he said. – aileen p. refuerzo

allan_dude

November 23rd, 2007, 01:55 PM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/322197398_17d5ae0468.jpg?v=0

A man pees on a poor bush

courtesy of flickr
photo belonbgs to finepetite

Taong boondocks kasi yan! :lol:

frustratedarchitect

November 23rd, 2007, 02:20 PM

precisely...what a loser. with such loutish behavior and lack of discipline. These types who dont respect civility should be banned from all places that are called "civilized" and be thrown back to the caves where they belong. haha. :bleep:

frustratedarchitect

November 26th, 2007, 09:24 AM

rainy days suck...the typhoon's been raging up here north.

lightsaber46

November 27th, 2007, 08:20 AM

tapos na ba yung notre dame hospital?? can anyone post a pic of this site

GearX

November 27th, 2007, 08:24 AM

naramdaman ba ng Baguio ang lindol?

red_jasper

November 27th, 2007, 10:54 AM

^^
Magnitude 6.0 quake rocks Metro Manila--US Geological Survey

Agence France-Presse, Inquirer
Last updated 01:10pm (Mla time) 11/27/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE 2) A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook the Philippine capital on Tuesday, sending some office workers fleeing into the streets, seismologists and witnesses said.

The quake struck at 12:27 p.m. (0427 GMT) and was centered 195 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of Manila at a depth of depth 62.5 kilometers, the US Geological Survey said.

Witnesses and radio reports said some office buildings in Manila emptied as people rushed outside when the structures began to sway.

The city's light railway system also stopped briefly, they added.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that the quake was felt in the cities of Makati, Manila and Pasig, especially by tenants of high-rise buildings.

Malacañang, Senate, and Government Service Insurance System employees evacuated their buildings during the earthquake, according to INQUIRER.net in separate reports.

But Senator Juan Ponce-Enrile was undeterred as he proceeded with the floor debates on the proposed 2008 budget.

The quake was also felt in Ilocos Norte, Baguio City, Pangasinan, and Pampanga, according to reports from the Inquirer’s provincial correspondents.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has yet to issue a statement.

frustratedarchitect

November 28th, 2007, 07:52 AM

Nasty earthquake. I pray Baguio doesnt have to go through it all over again

dancethingy

November 28th, 2007, 07:57 AM

^^ True, baguio is especially vulnerable given their geographic features. When i visited baguio a couple of years ago though, its as if an earthquake never happened there. Development has been unchecked and uncontrolled.

frustratedarchitect

November 29th, 2007, 02:10 PM

For a mountain city it is quite overbuilt. And the sad thing is, it is not certain if the new structures are strong enough to withstand another earthquake. Tall buildings are also being built along steep slopes. So when the earthquake happened it kinda freaked me out.

OtAkAw

November 29th, 2007, 10:27 PM

Photos from our Baguio Trip last weekend, for pacsa.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/4699/dsc05421pu8.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05421pu8.jpg)

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3275/dsc05426ur6.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05426ur6.jpg)

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6071/dsc05452hg1.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05452hg1.jpg)

Ganda talaga ng pine trees
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3459/dsc05615lo1.th.jpg (http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05615lo1.jpg)

Effect ni bagyong Mina (too bad sinira niya ang 2 days namin doon)
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5681/dsc06034zv5.th.jpg (http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc06034zv5.jpg)

frustratedarchitect

December 1st, 2007, 10:09 AM

tapos na ba yung notre dame hospital?? can anyone post a pic of this site

The notre dame hospital and its environs

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7713/picture059yh0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9525/picture063ka3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

pechie

December 2nd, 2007, 05:58 PM

ano kayang temperature ng Baguio ngayon?!..hehe!

frustratedarchitect

December 3rd, 2007, 04:15 PM

Low 11 degrees and going down...

High: 16 degrees

pechie

December 3rd, 2007, 04:35 PM

w0w grabe 11c kung dito nga sa Manila 19-22c..sarapa naman jan!:)

MirageBistro

December 6th, 2007, 09:40 AM

tyronne

December 7th, 2007, 12:09 AM

Frustratedarchitect: When you get a chance, pag napadpad ka sa Athletic Bowl, ****-take ng pictures yung mga clay tennis courts don? I just wanna see how they are, yung condition. Thanks!

frustratedarchitect

December 7th, 2007, 07:52 AM

^^ Sure. :) But the clay tennis courts are still the same. Theyre still clay..haha

frustratedarchitect

December 8th, 2007, 02:55 PM

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6039/picture051jb5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

session road

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/673/picture057tt8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

ayala land (pineridge residences)

tyronne

December 9th, 2007, 11:34 AM

^^ Sure. :) But the clay tennis courts are still the same. Theyre still clay..haha

I know. I haven't seen a clay court in person yet. I've seen some on TV, but the clay courts we have here in the Philippines are different. That's why I want to see one :D

allan_dude

December 15th, 2007, 05:44 AM

Texas Instruments plans training unit

By Vincent Cabreza
Inquirer (http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=106357)

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines -- Texas Instruments Philippines Inc. plans to build an Asian Center of Excellence in the Philippines as it prepares to expand its presence in the Asian region.

Officials of the top semiconductor maker announced its plans at the University of the Cordilleras last Dec. 1, when the company linked up with the school and the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to fast-track an P80-million “information technology (IT) bridge program.”

The University of the Cordilleras is one of eight Philippine universities tasked by a national technical working group to implement President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s cyber corridor project.

Arroyo has identified this information technology belt that links Baguio to other cities as a “super-region.”

In a program last week Russell Henarie, worldwide manager for the Dallas-based TI Center of Excellence, expressed Texas Instruments Philippines’ commitment to the “super-region.”

The Texas Instruments plant in the Baguio City Economic Zone has been developing apprenticeship programs with various Baguio schools.

red_jasper

December 15th, 2007, 08:28 AM

Saturday, December 15, 2007

TO MAXIMIZE the use of the parking space at the vegetable trading post in La Trinidad, the local government is set to implement an experimental parking scheme within the facility.

Mayor Artemio Galwan instructed market officials to implement the parking plan this December in time for the peak season with regard the hauling of vegetables by traders from the lowlands.

"We want to re-arrange the parking system at the trading post so we could see if we have to add more trucks and maximize the use of the available space for parking," Galwan told reporters.

The trading post parking space currently accommodates at least 20 trucks. Around 250 to 300 farmers conduct their business here daily, said Evan Kim Lee Lai of the trading post watchman's office.

Vegetable trucks are expected to congest at the trading post as the town anticipates more traders to come up and haul vegetables in time for the celebration of Christmas and New Year days' celebrations.

Details on how the re-arranging of the parking system for trucks would be done are not yet known.

If proven effective, the town would permanently adopt the new parking system for vegetable trucks. Source (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2007/12/15/news/local.gov.t.adopts.experimental.parking.scheme.at.trading.post.html)

red_jasper

December 15th, 2007, 08:35 AM

Saturday, December 15, 2007

THE City Council has approved on first reading the proposed resolution of Councilor Isabelo Cosalan, Jr. urging Mayor Reinaldo Bautista, Jr. to suspend the implementation of the waste's "no segregation, no collection" policy from December 19 to January 2, 2008.

"It is the clamor of the public to prioritize the cleanliness of the city, especially during this yuletide season when the influx of tourists and visitors increases and the volume of garbage doubles," Cosalan explained.

The councilor stressed that temporarily suspending the policy would avoid the unsightly heaps of garbage, particularly within the central business district and other tourism sites, since all garbage would then be regularly collected.

He added it is the city's responsibility to protect the public from health hazards that may arise due to the uncollected garbage during this peak season.

Once approved, the City Environment and Parks Management Office (Cepmo) would be tasked to regularly collect all kinds of garbage during the suspension of the policy.

Vice Mayor Daniel Fariñas meantime penned a proposal recommending the creation of a committee to study the possibility of privatizing garbage collection in Baguio.

The passing of the proposal stemmed from observations that despite the efforts of the local government, together with various non-government and private organizations, the city is far from realizing the "zero-waste" vision due to several constraints.

"A privatized garbage collection would also allow the city to prepare for the full implementation of its 10-year solid waste management plan and the purchase of additional garbage trucks and material recovery facilities (MRFs)," Fariñas said. Source (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2007/12/15/news/dad.pushes.garbage.segregate.suspension.html)

bonixx

December 18th, 2007, 03:19 PM

SM City Baguio Interior...Ganda ng Elevator!
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7084/smus0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Good Sheperd
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4065/gooddg3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
yun lang aheheh

Colonel Burger

December 20th, 2007, 05:21 AM

Ayala Land joins John Hay consortium

By Vincent Cabreza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Last updated 03:41am (Mla time) 12/20/2007

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Close this BAGUIO CITY, Philippines -- Ayala Land Inc. has joined the group that runs the Camp John Hay leisure estate here, which a consortium led by the Fil-Estate group has been trying to sustain since 1996.

Officials of John Hay Management Corp. confirmed that Ayala Land had joined the consortium, promising to foot some of the rental liabilities of Camp John Hay Development Corp. that have grown to about P2.3 billion since 2005.

A formal announcement of Ayala Land’s entry is expected this month. Camp John Hay Development begged off discussing the Ayala Land participation.

Camp John Hay Development said in a statement, “We have to wait for the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel to review the renegotiated contracts between Camp John Hay Development and the Bases Conversion Development Authority before we can announce the new agreements.”

Inquirer sources in both Camp John Hay Development and John Hay Management, asking not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the project, said Ayala Land’s entry would revitalize the beleaguered project in the former American military R&R base.

Ayala Land is coming in as a joint-venture partner for a still-undisclosed property project that will host a business process outsourcing facility, the sources said.

It is also taking over Camp John Hay Development’s entertainment cluster project and build a strip mall, they added.

An official of Camp John Hay Development said Fil-Estate Urban and Fil-Estate Land would infuse fresh capital to finish construction of the 280-room John Hay Suites and leisure cottages programmed for 2008.

An official of John Hay Management said Ayala Land originally offered to cover all of Camp John Hay Development’s liabilities.

“The money would have been issued upfront to John Hay Management, so [the city government] can have access to its share immediately, but I have no idea how that arrangement was finally set in the contract,” he said.

The company official sought anonymity because he was not authorized by the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) to discuss the new John Hay contracts.

He said the new deals would need city government endorsement.

BCDA Chairman Narciso Abaya announced last week that the BCDA would sign a new payment scheme with Camp John Hay Development by yearend.

Both Camp John Hay Development and the BCDA had gone to court to settle a dispute on outstanding rent, after Fil-Estate chairman Robert John Sobrepeña suspended payments in retaliation for a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated tax incentives enjoyed by businesses in Camp John Hay.

John Hay Management board member Lito Pangilinan said the dispute was already addressed when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law an amendment to the BCDA law that restored the tax incentives.

That development also eased the tension between the BCDA and the Baguio City government, which had mortgaged its only convention center against proceeds from Camp John Hay.

Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. said he had demanded that Camp John Hay Development remit partns of its future rent to the Baguio treasury.

Pangilinan said John Hay Management also assured the city government that the city would continue to receive a 25-percent share of Camp John Hay’s rent proceeds as prescribed in 19 conditions that the city government had set as a prerequisite before it endorsed the privatization of Camp John Hay in 1994. Edited by INQUIRER.net

Colonel Burger

December 20th, 2007, 05:23 AM

Yipee!!!! sana mag tayo sila ng parang Serendra at Bonifacio High Street sa John Hay.

maybe call it John Hay Stroll or The Manor Strip or The Manor Belt or whaterver! hehe

zoroethgenre_003

December 21st, 2007, 02:28 AM

http://photos-726.friendster.com/e1/photos/62/71/8241726/804648566l.jpg

a view from Mines View Park..

tj_brewed

December 31st, 2007, 08:41 AM

http://www.knittinginhollywood.org/photos/happy_new_year.gif

IMPRESARIO

December 31st, 2007, 10:21 AM

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5579/3bjbxnyrtk5.jpg
:carrot::cucumber::pepper:From SSC-Iloilo:carrot::cucumber::pepper:

frustratedarchitect

December 31st, 2007, 11:28 AM

365 nights has come and gone.

Happy new year everyone from the city of Pines!!

http://www.cityofpines.com/baguionight/baguio05.jpg

http://www.cityofpines.com/baguionight/baguio02.jpg

SUV111

December 31st, 2007, 01:08 PM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2193/2149006770_ccf53fd88c.jpg?v=0

GearX

January 3rd, 2008, 07:45 AM

PGMA declares Baguio as educational center (http://www.bayanihan.org/html/article.php/20080102172334597)
Wednesday, January 02 2008 @ 05:23 PM UTC

City mayor Reinaldo Bautista, Jr. praised the distinction of Baguio as an "educational center" by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo before New Year's Day when she met with leaders in private education nationwide to discuss how the country can further improve the quality of education in the elementary, secondary and tertiary level.

During the brief holiday of the First Family at the presidential Mansion House in this mountain resort prior to New Year's eve, the president met private education officials to discuss various policies including those which give higher importance to efficiency in languages, mathematics and science.

The President, in her opening statement described Baguio as "an educational center" aside from being a tourism and business partner of the super economic region of Northern Luzon.

Bautista said the distinction should further inspire the private education sector in the locality and suburbs to help in fostering education to students from all over the country like the Visayas and Mindanao.

Even foreign countries such as Asia, Middle East, Africa and United States of America study here due to the pleasant climate and environment and cheap but quality education.

Bautista, who hails from a family of pioneer educators in this city said Baguio will do its part in furthering the security and welfare of all transient and resident students in Baguio.

papable

January 3rd, 2008, 08:47 AM

GearX

January 3rd, 2008, 10:31 AM

I don't think baguio is "around 3000 meters above sea level". Kung ganun, it's around 9,840 ft. Mas mataas pa siya sa mt. apo, our highest peak (2,954 m or 9,692 ft)? Ang alam ko, baguio is just a little more than 4,000 ft.

Baguio City is just around 1,500 mASL or 5,100 feet....@frustratedarchi's signature need to be rectified...:cheers:

frustratedarchitect

January 5th, 2008, 11:33 AM

Sorry for the error.:bash:^^

tj_brewed

January 5th, 2008, 11:34 AM

^^ ei!

frustratedarchitect

January 5th, 2008, 11:39 AM

Hey there, havent heard from you for quite sometime. I have to do some "rectification". ^^ Baguio is 1500 m above sea level All apologies

frustratedarchitect

January 6th, 2008, 09:19 AM

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5832/picture033sk7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Baguio's Changing skyline (picture1)

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6904/picture031xm3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

(picture2)

frustratedarchitect

January 6th, 2008, 09:28 AM

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8521/picture030xp2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Sinjin P.

January 6th, 2008, 02:24 PM

^ Nice photos. Did you take them?

frustratedarchitect

January 7th, 2008, 02:49 PM

Thanks.:) :) I took them a few days ago.

chocolato1000

January 7th, 2008, 06:13 PM

^^ baguio-based ka pala. kpag napadaan ka sa bonifacio, kuhanan mo nga ng pic yung SLU maingate, binago na daw 2 years ago pa ata yun. good luck!

tyronne

January 8th, 2008, 04:14 AM

chocolato1000

January 8th, 2008, 02:38 PM

^^ yup. akala kb tinanggal na yung tennis court sa tabi ng covered court? kasi naalala ko few weeks after matapos yun eh giniba uli, baka in-expand nila. saka mas ok yung colour scheme ng SLU ngayun kesa yung dating white and blue. anyway, that's good to know.

frustratedarchitect

January 8th, 2008, 03:10 PM

May pictures ba kayo or rendering ng bagong slu campus sa bakakeng? Its too far so I wasnt able to take pictures. It would open in 2011 in time for SLU's centennial.

yeah..pag white and blue yung color scheme ng buildings medyo dumihin. ok na yung ngayon

baguiowriter

January 8th, 2008, 03:53 PM

Councilors to revive Blist dev’t plan

Sun.Star Baguio (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2007/11/19/news/councilors.to.revive.blist.dev.t.plan.html)

ELECTED officials of the neighboring towns of Baguio are receptive to the idea of reviving the Blist (Baguio, La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan and Tuba) development plan, said Baguio Representative Mauricio Domogan who earlier asked Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. to pursue the plan anew.

The lawmaker earlier initiated a meeting with the mayors of the towns of La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan and Tuba, including Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan but was called off because of Bautista's tight schedule.

However, Domogan said as soon as the mayor comes back from a series of overseas commitments in Baguio's sister cities, another meeting would be scheduled to discuss the plan.

Included in the meeting is the long time apprehension of officials and residents of these towns that they would merely serve as catch basin of Baguio's excesses like garbage, population.

Town officials are also apprehensive that if they agree to the plan, Baguio's expanding population would suck their remaining natural resources out, especially water.

But Domogan said these apprehensions are misplaced. He stressed that under the Blist urban development plan, Baguio and all the towns would benefit because industries which would give rise to employment, road networks and other projects would be equally distributed to these towns and Baguio City. (RO)

Pustahan, walang mangyayari dyan. Domogan is in his last term and has been harking on this one for the nth time. Next year, electioneering na naman and they are bent on pursuing that bill on regionalization of senatorial slates....

Basura lang di nila maayos. Simple lang ang gusto pero dugyot na dugyot pa rin ang Baguio.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2077/2178219122_cd04b7826b_b.jpg
Baguio City's official Xmas postcard. See the packaged black bags at left.
LINK --<a href=http://jackcarino.multiply.com/photos/album/37/Baguios_Official_Xmas_Postcard>'Baguio's Official Xmas Postcard'</a>

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2186/2178219126_f327985b2d_b.jpg
Burnham Park these days. Photo taken on Dec 17, 2007.
LINK-- <a href=http://jackcarino.multiply.com/photos/photo/39/2>Burnham Park a Few Days Before Xmas</a>

baguiowriter

January 8th, 2008, 05:07 PM

Yayks...how can I post the pics? Sori, you need to click it pa yata to see the photos.

brownman

January 8th, 2008, 06:14 PM

^^ use the code. Type [img]insert the URL here

:)

kiretoce

January 8th, 2008, 08:32 PM

@baguiowriter: I edited your post. Your photos are now visible.

kiretoce

January 8th, 2008, 08:54 PM

Councilors want city auditorium area rebuilt (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2008/01/09/news/councilors.want.city.auditorium.area.rebuilt.html)

Baguio City officials cannot seem to make up their minds whether they want to solve the city's parking woes or develop the cultural landscape.

Some councilors are proposing for the vacant lot previously occupied by the old city auditorium and the city library at the Burnham Park to be converted into a pay parking area or a concert center.

Councilor Perlita Chan-Rondez said the City Government has not been earning from the use of the area although for several years now and private vehicles, buses, vans and some vendors have using the area for free.

While agreeing to the proposal, Councilor Nicasio Palaganas proposed for construction of a three-level building where the first floor could be used as parking area. The second floor will house a restored auditorium and the third floor a lodging house for the city's guests.

He added that the proposed structure could be patterned after the Banaue Hostel in Ifugao province.

Councilors Richard Cariño and Fred Bagbagen argued that if pay parking is allowed, the council might be sending the wrong signal that the area is open as a terminal for buses, vans-for-hire and jeeps that do not have loading areas or as unloading area for cargo trucks.

Councilor Erdolfo Balajadia proposed that in accordance with the plans of the Baguio Centennial Commission, old landmarks of Baguio, including the auditorium, should be restored.

Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. also identified the site as a probable site for a multilevel parking building.

As local officials are debating on how to utilize the area, former Baguio police chief Isagani Nerez requested the city through the council to ask the Philippine Tourism Authority to allow the construction of a world-class police office there.

Nerez then said the building would be the new headquarters of the Baguio Police Office and former national police chief Arturo Lumibao already earmarked some funds for the building's construction. However, citing the Burnham Park master development plan specifies that no vertical structures could be built anywhere in vicinity of the park and the council turned down the Baguio Police Office's request.

The Balajadia and Palaganas proposals meantime were referred to the City Planning and Development Office for its comment.

chocolato1000

January 9th, 2008, 01:56 PM

about sa mga basura, my city ordinance kasi na "no(garbage)segregation, no collection," may nagsasabing effective daw ito para turuan ang mga reisdente, pero obviously ang naging kinalabasan eh patigasan lang city gov at mga tao, kaya sobra ang basura pero at the end civic groups din ang naglinis. :lol: ang resulta, councilors want it repealed.

allan_dude

January 9th, 2008, 05:58 PM

Benguet hopes climate, mountains will lure tourists

By Delmar Cariño (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080106-110638/Benguet_hopes_climate_mountains_will_lure_tourists)
Philippine Daily Inquirer

LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET -- Local officials are pushing the province’s cool climate and mountains for trekking as a major ecotourism come-on this year.

Claire Prudencio, provincial tourism officer, said the province’s mountains attracted numerous tourists, particularly nature lovers, last year.

The most visited sites, she said, were Mt. Pulag in Kabayan town (9,640 feet above sea level), Mt. Ugo in Itogon (6,450 feet) and Mt. Kabuyao in Tuba (7,500 feet).

Prudencio said the policy of involving indigenous communities in local tourism ventures helped sell the province’s natural wonders.

Three targets

The programs to be mapped out for this year by the province’s tourism council will be in line with the three domestic tourism targets of the Department of Tourism in the Cordillera, she said.

These are an increase in domestic and international tourist arrivals, investments and job opportunities in tourism-related ventures, and the improvement of frontline services that include visitors’ safety and satisfaction.

The DOT said the success of this year’s tourism program would depend on how strong the lobby would be for the support of nongovernment organizations and local governments.

“This would be in terms of improved access to and from destinations, construction of clean restrooms at major entry points and putting up of standardized directional signs on major tourism highways,” a DOT brochure said.

Prudencio said tourism in the region had always been unique in one aspect—there has had to be a balance between tourism as a business and respect for the cultural environment.

“This is because tourists have to confront the combination of nature as a tourist destination and indigenous communities pushing for the preservation of their natural resources,” she said.

She said the local tourism office had been organizing barangay tourism councils that would enhance the social acceptability of tourism ventures.

“It is the tourists’ experience with the community that would spell the difference,” she said.

The DOT reported a slight dip in the number of tourist arrivals in the region for the first quarter of 2007 (230,979) compared to the same period in 2006 (240,266).

Benguet showed the same trend for the third quarter of last year (19,885) compared to the same period in 2006 (24,236).

Prudencio said the slight drop in tourist arrivals for the province could be attributed to the rainy and planting seasons that made tourist sites less attractive.

GearX

January 11th, 2008, 05:31 AM

More flyovers seen in Baguio City (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080110-111580/More-flyovers-seen-in-Baguio-City)
By Vincent Cabreza
Northern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 20:19:00 01/10/2008

BAGUIO CITY—The worsening traffic problem here has moved the city government to consider building new flyovers and an underpass that could compromise its conservation projects for Baguio’s centennial celebration next year.

Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. informed city officials this week about plans to build a new flyover, pedestrian overpasses and an underground vehicular tunnel near the City Hall.

Studies

Bautista said studies have been commissioned to help the city government design an appropriate underground tunnel in a road behind City Hall.

At least three other major traffic intersections are being considered to host flyovers, he said.

A controversial flyover project that proposes to ease traffic and which passes through Kennon Road and Marcos Highway is set to open this month, after being delayed for years by protests from Baguio residents.

Former Mayors Braulio Yaranon and Virginia de Guia objected to the Baguio flyover project because it relied on savings meant for the Marcos Highway modernization project.

City employees tasked with enforcing Baguio’s conservation efforts said the new infrastructure projects could disrupt their work.

No foresight

Like most urbanizing communities in the country, Baguio’s roads were not designed for heavy volumes of traffic.

The Baguio report to the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives showed that over 23,000 vehicles travel through Baguio’s roads daily, which were designed in 1909 for a population of no more than 25,000 people.

The report also pointed out an oversupply of public utility jeeps servicing the city. The jeeps represent half of the volume of Baguio’s mass transport system.

Traffic management here is also hampered by broken traffic lights that have never been replaced.

baguiowriter

January 12th, 2008, 11:17 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/shigure/Baguio/baguio15blower.jpg

i found this very interesting artwork inside vocas, a resto, gallery, one big artwork in the top floor of la azotea building in session road, baguio city.
This is an artwork by Gilbert Gano, a Baguio-based Ifugao sculptor who is also a descendant of the indigenous sculptor, Alberto, who carved the statues and altar of the Baguio Cathedral.

baguiowriter

January 12th, 2008, 11:26 AM

How to Mess Up with the Burnham Master Plan?
(Quoting here Lisa Araneta's blog. LINK: http://www.i-baguio.com/alert-p200-million-building-to-be-erected-on-burnham-park/#more-147]

Nothing, not common sense, nor good intentions, nor love for Baguio, nor a sense of decency, nor good taste is going to stop the Baguio local government from pushing through with a multi-storey building on Burnham Park.

According to my sources, this project has already been ‘approved.’ That the All The Mayor’s Men are now going around looking for and negotiating with the one who’s going to be the ‘winning’ bidder. Our politicians are so friggin’ unimaginative about making money while in office that they have to enter into all sorts of building schemes. And they’re so friggin’ tasteless that it has to be multi-storey and in the center of town, when just as much money can be made with widening roads, building sidewalks, fixing street signs, lighting up the streets and making Baguio pretty.

Added on 11 Jan: Why not spend the money on Baguio Convention Center instead? That money can be spent to redesign it to accommodate 5,000 guests at a time and imagine the revenue!

If I were mayor of Baguio, I would STOP building and start clearing. We simply cannot see Baguio anymore for all the buildings, jeeps and taxis.

And this is because they know that Baguio residents are friggin’ apathetic and probably just as tasteless — judging from the lack of massive protests against Domogan’s flyover, or Vergara’s pedestrian overpasses.

Let us not allow any building to be built on Burnham Park! Bus terminals must move to the fringes of Baguio, jeepneys and taxis must not be allowed to park on Burnham and in the center of town. Massively populated Baguio schools devoid of trees like University of the Cordilleras (14,000 students), Saint Louis University (22,000 students) and University of Baguio (20,000 students) that are directly responsible for the congestion of Baguio must provide for parking buildings at their expense and not get it for free using public land and public funds.

Give Baguio back to the people. We should have the right to breathe good air and take long walks in safety.

Attention: Baguio newspersons! Don’t report this too late, when the deal is done! We can still stop this!

Wake up, Baguio! Apathy means consent.

[Fuming comments are also interesting...]

frustratedarchitect

January 12th, 2008, 01:19 PM

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The Texas instruments new plant. Texas Instruments Baguio, a producer of microchips consists of around 5 or 6 of this massive structures which are interconnected.Although it would require apass to get inside teh facility. This new building is the most visible from the outside.

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EL cielito inn extension

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random pic

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new buildings

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frustratedarchitect

January 12th, 2008, 01:41 PM

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Visitors in Baguio go through this terminal

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Tiong San

Urban Baguio. (Pictures of Baguio's new buildings and old ones and some random pictures I took while going around the city)

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The SLU library: A friend told me it is the seocnd largest library in the Philippines, although I still have to research if its true

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tracymack

January 13th, 2008, 05:17 AM

^^Maganda na yung main gate. May electronic board pa yata don. Tsaka ni-repaint nila, well, lahat ng buildings nila yata ni-repaint. Tsaka may bagong tennis court sa tabi ng covered courts. Nag-aral ka rin ba don?

You're from SLU karruba? Nice!:rock:

Since graduating march of 2003, I've only been to SLU a few times. Probably once a year. I got my alumni ID just recently and I've noticed a lot of new buildings like the student center. That's where I applied for the SLUAA card. Ang layo ng nilakad ko. :nuts: I also noticed all the LED displays on several gates. I wonder if they had the ECE students do it as a project or maybe the university just purchased it ready-made. Either way it's a nice little piece of technology. The paint job is also nice. During my 5th year, most of the buildings have been repainted except for our bldg, Otto Hahn. I thought it was odd to have that building repainted last since it houses engineering & architecture students.:lol: Now all the buildings share the same color although I wish they also had the roofs repainted. It's the same old dark green colored roofs. I don't know if it's for environmental reasons (making the campus look green from above?) or aviation reasons or what but it sure would be nice if they repainted the roofs with a color that matches the buildings' colors. The main gate looks way better than before. Now it does look like a legit main gate. :lol:

tyronne

January 13th, 2008, 07:59 AM

^^Karruba, nag-aral ako don from 1997 to 1st sem 1999 (BS Ac). Pero hindi ako don nagtapos :) SLU does look better now than before.

tracymack

January 13th, 2008, 08:53 AM

^^Karruba, nag-aral ako don from 1997 to 1st sem 1999 (BS Ac). Pero hindi ako don nagtapos :) SLU does look better now than before.

It doesn't matter. Once a Louisian, always a Louisian. ;)

WawaY[625]

January 13th, 2008, 08:55 AM

the UB building looks tall! ilang floors yan?

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6408/picture002rq0.jpg

chocolato1000

January 13th, 2008, 03:49 PM

^^ they are tall, probably around 10 levels...but not as tall as what it might first impress. those building were erected on higher grounds, like on a hill should you not notice. let's just call it optical illusion.

tracymack

January 14th, 2008, 03:18 AM

^^ Yup. I think these are comparable to SLU's Charles Vath Library Bldg when placed on level ground.

GearX

January 14th, 2008, 08:28 AM

Inauguration of P172-M Baguio flyover set on Jan. 17 (http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/jan/14/yehey/prov/20080114pro2.html)

BAGUIO CITY: President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is set to inaugurate the P172-million second flyover project on January 17 with Highways Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane and city officials.

Early last year, the construction of the flyover became the center of con*troversy and quarrel among local poli*ticians as some deemed its cons*truction unnecessary considering that the traffic volume has lessened. However, there were those who thought otherwise and underscored the uncontrolled flow of traffic in the city.

The construction started in 2004 by a Manila-based cons-truction firm with an initial funding of P80 million that was sourced out from the savings of the rehabilitation and improve*ment of the Marcos Highway.

Baguio Rep. Mauricio Domogan said that an additional P64 million was added to the initial funding for the construction of the flyover besides the regular budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways in the region.

The Baguio lawmaker added that the P64 million came from the 2007 bud*get appropriated for Baguio City and another P12 million other infras*tructure project was taken from his initiative as a repre*sentative of the city.

Domogan said he would be inviting everyone to the inauguration on Thursday, January 17, including those who were opposed to the construction of the flyover. “They can see for themselves that the flyover will benefit to everyone in the city as well as other commuters and visitors.”

He noted that former City Mayor Braulio Yaranon and some militant groups were opposed to the construction and even filed complaints with the court to stop the construction of the flyover and even warned that the site of the project was an area that was sinking.

The 172-meter long two-way BGH flyover was designed to decongest traffic along Marcos Highway , Governor Pack Road, and Kennon Road.

“If you see the flyover it is now a natural attraction to the local and other visitors passing Marcos Highway and Kennon Road because of its design and features that were installed by the Goldrich Construction firm.

The project was implemented in six phases, first is the road widening and putting up of girders, construction of two approaches, the installation of fabricated steel box, painting and installation of globe-type bulbs and landscaping.

tracymack

January 14th, 2008, 10:34 AM

^^ Wow! I wish all flyovers in the Philippines look as good as the ones in Baguio.

[dx]

January 14th, 2008, 12:55 PM

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1473/pineshotelru1.jpg
Pines View Hotel by noogy (http://www.trekearth.com/members/noogy/)

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1320/johnhay1yj1.jpg
Manor Hotel by noogy (http://www.trekearth.com/members/noogy/)

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6475/baguiocathca5.jpg
Baguio Cathedral by noogy (http://www.trekearth.com/members/noogy/)

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7969/mountain2wr2.jpg
Marcos Highway by pehpot (http://www.trekearth.com/members/pehpot/)

frustratedarchitect

January 14th, 2008, 01:22 PM

;17669514']the UB building looks tall! ilang floors yan?

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6408/picture002rq0.jpg

Yeah it is just an optical illusion. The arched building with the UB sign on it is just 7 floors. The building next to it is 12 or 14 floors only. It was built closer to ground level which accounts for the increase in height.

Thanks for the pics dx. I really wanted to take a pic of the pines view hotel at night.

[dx]

January 14th, 2008, 01:27 PM

Thanks for the pics dx. I really wanted to take a pic of the pines view hotel at night.

No prob. I miss Baguio :( hehe

baguiowriter

January 15th, 2008, 07:38 AM

A Perfect Way to MESS UP with the Burnham Master Plan

Hi. Would like to share with you some reactions to the proposed multi-level parking bldg cum market at BUrnham Park...from Atty Lisa Araneta's blog:

"ALERT! P200 MILLION BUILDING TO BE ERECTED ON BURNHAM PARK

January 10th, 2008 | baguio, burnham park, government & politics

Nothing, not common sense, nor good intentions, nor love for Baguio, nor a sense of decency, nor good taste is going to stop the Baguio local government from pushing through with a multi-storey building on Burnham Park.

According to my sources, this project has already been ‘approved.’ That the All The Mayor’s Men are now going around looking for and negotiating with the one who’s going to be the ‘winning’ bidder. Our politicians are so friggin’ unimaginative about making money while in office that they have to enter into all sorts of building schemes. And they’re so friggin’ tasteless that it has to be multi-storey and in the center of town, when just as much money can be made with widening roads, building sidewalks, fixing street signs, lighting up the streets and making Baguio pretty.

Added on 11 Jan: Why not spend the money on Baguio Convention Center instead? That money can be spent to redesign it to accommodate 5,000 guests at a time and imagine the revenue!

If I were mayor of Baguio, I would STOP building and start clearing. We simply cannot see Baguio anymore for all the buildings, jeeps and taxis.

And this is because they know that Baguio residents are friggin’ apathetic and probably just as tasteless — judging from the lack of massive protests against Domogan’s flyover, or Vergara’s pedestrian overpasses.

Let us not allow any building to be built on Burnham Park! Bus terminals must move to the fringes of Baguio, jeepneys and taxis must not be allowed to park on Burnham and in the center of town. Massively populated Baguio schools devoid of trees like University of the Cordilleras (14,000 students), Saint Louis University (22,000 students) and University of Baguio (20,000 students) that are directly responsible for the congestion of Baguio must provide for parking buildings at their expense and not get it for free using public land and public funds.

Give Baguio back to the people. We should have the right to breathe good air and take long walks in safety.

Attention: Baguio newspersons! Don’t report this too late, when the deal is done! We can still stop this!

Wake up, Baguio! Apathy means consent."

For more...LINK:

http://www.i-baguio.com/alert-p200-million-building-to-be-erected-on-burnham-park/#comments

tracymack

January 15th, 2008, 09:13 AM

^^ Wow. That's gotta suck! I hope this project does not push through. There's already way too many buildings in baguio. All these unnecessary building projects have to be stopped before it's too late or else baguio might lose its charm.

baguiowriter

January 15th, 2008, 12:04 PM

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Burnham Park, circa 1910
(Taken from the area near City Hall.
In the background, you can see the old Pines Hotel in the area of the present Comelec offices and the University of the Cordilleras.
The P200-M building will rise in the area of the old auditorium behind the lake in the photo.)

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View of Burnham Park from the air
Photo by Ric Maniquis

defUSED_bOi

January 16th, 2008, 08:32 AM

;17691597']http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1473/pineshotelru1.jpg
Pines View Hotel by noogy (http://www.trekearth.com/members/noogy/)

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1320/johnhay1yj1.jpg
Manor Hotel by noogy (http://www.trekearth.com/members/noogy/)

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6475/baguiocathca5.jpg
Baguio Cathedral by noogy (http://www.trekearth.com/members/noogy/)

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7969/mountain2wr2.jpg
Marcos Highway by pehpot (http://www.trekearth.com/members/pehpot/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/2187214954_b719d0116e.jpg

Burnham Park, circa 1910
(Taken from the area near City Hall.
In the background, you can see the old Pines Hotel in the area of the present Comelec offices and the University of the Cordilleras.
The P200-M building will rise in the area of the old auditorium behind the lake in the photo.)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2366/2194115819_7b6695c6b9_o.jpg

View of Burnham Park from the air
Photo by Ric Maniquis

nice pictures!:)

[dx]

January 16th, 2008, 08:50 AM

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Bird's eye view of Baguio
by Storm Crypt (http://flickr.com/photos/storm-crypt/)

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Baguo at night
by don sevilla (http://flickr.com/photos/donsevilla/)

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Diplomat Hotel
by christinestrada (http://flickr.com/photos/christinaestrada/)

^looks eerie, where is this located?

baguiowriter

January 16th, 2008, 01:25 PM

///Can't delete these 2 empty posts. Pls help.

baguiowriter

January 16th, 2008, 01:27 PM

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Burnham Park, circa 1936 (Back of envelope container for postcards, downloaded from Ebay)

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View of Burnham Park from the Air, 2007
(Photo by RIC MANIQUIS)

tracymack

January 16th, 2008, 01:28 PM

;17736697']

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2373/2191893613_64810df24a_o.jpg
Diplomat Hotel
by christinestrada (http://flickr.com/photos/christinaestrada/)

^looks eerie, where is this located?

Diplomat Hotel is in Dominican Hill. Yes, it is Eerie. A lot of people do ghost hunting there. This is one of the places Noli De Castro used to feature in Magandang Gabi Bayan's halloween episodes.

baguiowriter

January 16th, 2008, 01:29 PM

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Baguio Public Market, circa 1910

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Baguio Public Market, 2007
(Photo by OMPONG TAN)

baguiowriter

January 16th, 2008, 01:52 PM

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A view of a Baguio Barangay from Kennon Road.
(Photo by Jack & Chi, Baguio City Yearbook magazine)

chocolato1000

January 16th, 2008, 02:26 PM

^^ from afar, it looks like tons of rubbish. what an elegant zoning.

jackcar

January 16th, 2008, 04:24 PM

Peter Rey to implement BLIST program by yearend 2008

I usually make it a point to watch the local news on TV, particularly TV Patrol Northern Luzon, every time I have the chance to do so. A report by anchor Dhobie de Guzman headlined “BLIST program maisasakatuparan na” in this afternoon’s edition caught my attention. Mayor Peter Rey Bautista was caught on camera telling Dhobie that he plans to “implement the BLIST program hopefully before the year ends.”

This is either a deception designed to mislead the public or Peter Rey does not know what he is talking about. First of all, the BLIST plan is a conceptual framework, a development framework designed to decongest Baguio and to disperse development initiatives to the outlying municipalities of Benguet. Realizing that Baguio was designed by the renowned American architect Daniel Burnham for a population of only 25,000 and that it is now literally bursting at its seams with a population of almost 400,000, the urban planning experts from the European Union formulated a BLIST plan after the July 1990 earthquake.

This BLIST plan is now outdated and obviously has to be updated. The BLIST mayors can come together and have dinner regularly, they could heap praises on the BLIST concept, they can even agree to implement it before yearend. But I am betting my balls that nothing meaningful will happen.

When I ran for councilor last elections I advocated for the creation of a Metro Baguio Development Authority or MBDA to oversee the implementation of the BLIST concept and an updated BLIST plan. If there is no MBDA, all talk about BLIST will be hot air.

This MBDA will need a Republic Act or legislation by Congress (Lower House and Senate) to become a reality. I volunteered myself to the Baguio electorate to be their pointman for the creation of this MBDA. I told them that as councilor I would untiringly liaise between all stakeholders and decision makers to make the MBDA and an updated BLIST plan a reality. Furthermore, I told them that 3 years may be too short to realize this but with a pointman who will pursue this vision, substantial steps in this direction can be achieved.

This is why I think that Peter Rey does not know what he is talking about when he says that he will "implement the BLIST program hopefully before yearend." He can go to the NEDA offices and get a copy of the BLIST plan which is available. He can implement parts of the plan like the completion of the circumferential roads. But all this will be band-aid solutions to the chronic congestion problems of Baguio.

Actually, private citizens especially the “captains of industry” of Baguio City, if they really care for Baguio and its citizens, can implement the BLIST concept without any MBDA. Peter Rey can lead by example by initiating the relocation of the University of Baguio campuses to the BLIST outlying areas.

(Note on the past elections: Friends told me that they thought I was talking over the heads of the Baguio electorate when I talked about BLIST and the MBDA. Voters are more concerned about immediate results, such as a pig to butcher.)

le Reine

January 16th, 2008, 09:31 PM

^^mabuti naman. Baguio is very very dense. Just look at that photo above and it would surely make you sad. Hope no one gets offended but it really looks like a slum.

frustratedarchitect

January 17th, 2008, 02:37 PM

Baguio has its own flaws. It is sad houses were built on that hill above. But actually looking closer it isnt a slum (by philippine standards), all those houses are made of cinder blocks and concrete. Its the topsy turvy terrain that makes it look so disorganized.

Good thing Baguio has nice neighborhoods like so...

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mwg12a

January 17th, 2008, 09:29 PM

They should encourage the people or the residents/homeownes to paint their houses with something earthy in color or green so that it will blend with the nature. The Local government should also make it a point that these residents have plants and trees around their houses, that way, there is still something that would hold the soil together to prevent erotion and possible landslide.

chocolato1000

January 19th, 2008, 05:00 PM

Fischer has a Pinoy heir born in Baguio -- friends

BAGUIO CITY -- A generation still remembers American chess genius Bobby Fischer as a recluse. It is hard to picture this bearded legend playing tennis matches at a country club or walking hand in hand with a Filipina.

But this generation will have to embrace this new image of the 64-year-old Fischer shaped before his death on Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Fischer played tennis at the Baguio Country Club and had romanced a 30-year-old woman from Davao in Baguio City before he went on exile to Iceland.

The man became an American icon for defeating Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War and again in a highly publicized match in Yugoslavia in 1992 that later led him to renounce his American citizenship.

The American government sanctioned Fischer for playing in Yugoslavia. It said he violated the United Nations embargo imposed on Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic who fomented war in the Balkans.

Fischer became more notorious when he gave brazen speeches and interviews over various radio stations around the world that depicted the United States as an evil nation run by Jewish conspirators.

But the man who styled himself as a modern American outlaw made the American-built Baguio his home between 2000 and 2002 after he renounced his American citizenship, his Filipino friends here said on Saturday.

Fischer's certified Filipino heir was born in 2002 at the Saint Louis University Sacred Heart Hospital here. Her birth certificate bore her father’s name.

The 6-foot-tall Fischer used to consume large servings of Filipino cuisine and adored sinigang (a popular soup dish) while he stayed here for almost two years, said Marilin Torre, wife of Filipino grandmaster Eugene Torre.

Marilin said Fischer used to consume five balut (boiled duck eggs in embryonic stage) in one sitting every day, years before he decided to stay in Baguio.

Fischer asked Marilin to bring him 50 balut eggs when she went to Yugoslavia with her husband for Fischer's match with Spassky. Eugene served as Fischer's second in the match.

Eugene, Asia's first grandmaster, became Fischer's bosom friend and one of the few people he trusted until his death.

Fischer had lived a nomadic life, pursued by what he described as a cabal of Jews that controlled the world, so he entertained only a small circle of friends like Torre when he decided to stay in the Philippines, said Leonides "Des" Bautista, a close friend of another chess icon, Florencio Campomanes.

Despite his reputation, Fischer kept a normal home with his sweetheart in the city, according to Marilin.

A top executive of the Government Service Insurance System briefly hosted Fischer at the country club for three months in 2000.

Jimmy Tangalin, 49, a professional tennis coach of the club, supervised Fischer for a while, and found the man "kind and entertaining."

"It was Eugene who introduced me to Fischer. I knew about [Fischer's] celebrity status. But it was still a pleasant surprise. We just met, but he immediately opened up a conversation about Jews and the US. These conversations were awkward for me," Tangalin said.

Fischer leased a home inside the compound owned by former Baguio Councilor Elmo Nevada where the Torre family used to stay.

Elements of Fischer's bizarre reputation cropped up from time to time, Marilin said. "When he showered, he didn't use any shampoo. He preferred to wash with just water and soap. He brushed his teeth without toothpaste."

Why he decided to make "a former American colony and city" his home for a while still confounds his friends.

Bautista said Campomanes had a hand in bringing Fischer to the country back in the 1970s at the height of martial law.

Since then, Fischer occasionally visited the Philippines.

He had been a close friend of New York-based Filipino artist Isabel Diaz whom he sometimes accompanied to the country whenever she returned for a visit, Marilin related.

But he began to frequent Baguio when he became close to Torre, Bautista said.

Bautista said his first meeting with Fischer gave him some insight as to why Baguio was the American’s sanctuary.

"You don't recognize him. He wears a hat. For the older generation, we remember him as clean-shaven so we would not recognize him if he approached you. He had a beard and was balding. But when Eugene introduced us, he was so comfortable."

"Fischer lived in his own world," he added, and being incognito fitted well with a community where people minded their own business.

Bautista said the old Baguio culture developed this habit because residents were used to Caucasians who lived in the city.

"That's what Bobby loved about Baguio," he said.

Fischer never lost this connection to the city. When he was arrested by the Japanese authorities in July 2004 for holding an expired US passport, he telephoned friends in Baguio.

Marilin Torre said Fischer’s sweetheart, then already based in Davao, kept in close touch with Fischer even after another friend, Miyoko Watari, publicly declared that she would marry the controversial celebrity to keep him out of Japanese prison.

tonyboy

January 21st, 2008, 03:46 PM

^^wow..what a compelling story...

..and uncanny coincidencies!

we visited friends and stayed at baguio country club once in 2006..
maybe one of the many strange-looking americanos we saw
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/aguilo/0Pinas/0smbaguio.jpg
at shoemart mall ..was bobby fischer???

my father used to mention bobby fischer often while teaching me as a pre-teen how to play chess. ever since i started to learn bobby's chess moves, to this day...my father never has won..or maybe he pretended to lose.:nuts:

during my university days, i was the only one who beat eugene torres in one pinas chess grand master vs 50 thomasian exhibition chess players' tournament . maybe he was just hot, tired and under the influence of ice-cold san mig...:)

two of my acquainces died of sudden heart attacks at their very prime ages (38 yr old into balut-selling business and his close friend age-47) because of their deadly balut eating habits?? :ohno:

maybe i should start being a devout vegetarian....:eek:

lightsaber46

January 23rd, 2008, 07:23 AM

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080122-114141/Baguio-then-now-and-tomorrow

Inquirer Northern Luzon
Baguio then, now and tomorrow

By Padmapani L. Perez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:54:00 01/22/2008

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Close this MANILA, Philippines – Baguio seems to become newer as she grows older as the “Baguio Then/Now” exhibition shows.

The exhibit features photos of the city 100 years ago from important sources such as the US National Archives and Records Administration, the University Of Michigan Museum of Anthropology and the American Historical Collection.

Some images come from the private collections of culturati like National Artist Bencab and Jonathan Best. The old images are juxtaposed with photos of present-day Baguio taken between 2000 and 2007 by Robbie Casas, Elicon Consul, Caesar Paul Garcia, JT Gonzales, Rudy Furuya, Tommy Hafalla, Ric Maniquis, Julius Mendoza, Mark Perez, Rudi Tabora, Ompong Tan and Boy Y&ntiliguez.

The photos give a perspective that viewers don’t often notice. Some will see development and modernization; others, loss and destruction. Some will see urban blight eating away at shrinking pockets of greenery; others, a growing city dotted with green gems.

“Hopefully, the show will stimulate discussion on different levels about the environment and historically important issues,” says curator Erlyn Ruth Alcantara.

The show contributes to a historical understanding and visual knowledge of Baguio’s 100 years. Alcantara chose to mount the exhibit in 2007 instead of during the 2009 centennial to provide context beforehand.

“People will know more about the city’s past. This can generate greater interest for a more meaningful centennial celebration,” she says. Historically, much of the construction of Baguio’s early buildings began in 1907.

Alcantara has been invited to mount the show in Metro Manila -- at The Podium in Mandaluyong City, the Filipino-Chinese Museum and the National Museum in Manila. By all means, the show should travel to these places, but it should eventually be permanently mounted in Baguio where teachers, students and residents would have access to it.

It would be good for local government officials to recognize the value of this exhibit and acquire it for the city. Official support can go toward a school tour since the exhibit serves varied educational goals.

“Baguio Then/Now” is also about the future. It raises these questions: “Which way forward from here? What kind of city do we want for our children’s children?”

Now is the time for Baguio people to deal with the task of creating a future city with intelligent, decent and imaginative leaders, a highly educated and well-informed citizenry and a healthy living environment.

One can begin by visiting “Baguio Then/Now” and letting the photos tell their stories. The exhibit is on view at the Gallery, Lower Basement, SM City Baguio until the third week of February.

[dx]

January 23rd, 2008, 12:50 PM

Happy Birthday @frustratedarchitect! :cheers1:

Waldenstrom

January 24th, 2008, 12:35 PM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/2194953366_6c5c87854b_b.jpg

A view of a Baguio Barangay from Kennon Road.
(Photo by Jack & Chi, Baguio City Yearbook magazine)

This is a landslide prone hill right?

frustratedarchitect

January 24th, 2008, 02:16 PM

Hey dx... thanks for greeting me!!!:):):):):):)

Yeah, the hill is landslide prone. However Baguio residents have a way of putting strong reinforcements/ riprapping. So I could only wonder how strong it is to hold up those houses for very long inspite of Baguio's high annual rainfall. But still, there's still that fear all the time.

allan_dude

January 27th, 2008, 03:16 PM

Controversial Baguio flyover now open to motorists

BAGUIO CITY – After several postponements, the controversial P172.2 million flyover at the Baguio General Hospital rotunda was finally opened to all types of vehicles Friday morning.

Public Works Sec. Hermogenes E. Ebdane, who was present during the ribbon-cutting ceremony, said the flyover is expected to ease traffic in the area and address the growing population and motorists of the city.

Ebdane was accompanied by Baguio Rep. Mauricio Domogan, Vice Mayor Daniel Farinas, Undersecretary Ramon Aquino and DPWH-CAR Director Mariano Alquiza.

Apart from easing traffic, Ebdane said the multimillion flyover will add to the natural attraction of Baguio City for its grand design of log finished guardrails and modular blocks.

Baguio City is a popular destination of local and foreign tourists especially during the summer season.

The 271-meter flyover was designed in 2002 to cost P88.4 million, with initial funding coming from a P43M savings from the Marcos Highway rehabilitation.

Protesters had tried to stop the project because of environmental concerns such as tree-cutting, destruction of springs and water basins, and the threat of an earthquake.

Domogan said the delays had bloated the project’s cost to P172 million.

“We suffered the consequences of delays," Domogan said.

Domogan said all the matured trees were not cut. - GMANews.TV (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/77973/Controversial-Baguio-flyover-now-open-to-motorists)

allan_dude

January 27th, 2008, 03:18 PM

Baguio plans tougher rules vs ‘eyesores’

HOMETOWN Snapshot

By Vincent Cabreza (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080126-114865/Baguio-plans-tougher-rules-vs-eyesores)
Philippine Daily Inquirer

BAGUIO CITY – The city council has plans to penalize Baguio businessmen, who tolerate illegal vendors operating outside their stores, to enable the enforcement of a “zero peddling” policy.

The policy addresses the clamor of local conservationists, who want Baguio sidewalks cleared of vendors when the city celebrates its centennial in 2009.

But all the council managed to do was compel a market traders cooperative to reveal conflicting ordinances guiding commercial retail since the 1950s that virtually legalized Baguio street vending for decades.

These laws make the city government vulnerable to a class suit, according to the Baguio Market Plaza Vendors Cooperative Multipurpose (Bamapcom) that compiled the ordinances in a position paper that attacks market policies.

Joseph Cacal, Bamapcom manager, said laws enforcing zoning and trade in the city market are often discarded by city employees who prefer to collect taxes from traders, regardless of whether they own a peddling license or not.

Bamapcom presented its position paper at a Friday public hearing for a proposed ordinance that targets businessmen who lease out the sidewalks in front of their stores to illegal vendors.

Cacal told the council that it should not support the measure because, like existing laws on peddling, the proposed ordinance “is another law that will be un-enforceable.”

Bamapcom said it “has the effect of transferring the burden of the enforcement of existing laws to private citizens who do not have the authority to clear sidewalks and thus should not be held responsible [for peddlers].”

It said the city government “contradicts itself because its tax ordinance allows the existence of peddlers and requires them to pay an annual tax of P100.”

This resulted in record earnings for the city, but a poor management of the Baguio public market, and the uncontrolled number of peddlers who sell in parks and sidewalks.

flymordecai

January 27th, 2008, 03:44 PM

Waldenstrom

January 27th, 2008, 04:10 PM

^^ That is one of the prettiest flyover I've ever seen.

Sinjin P.

January 28th, 2008, 03:31 AM

Nice flyover. Not a bland piece of concrete. :yes:

Sinjin P.

January 28th, 2008, 03:32 AM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/2194953366_6c5c87854b_b.jpg

A view of a Baguio Barangay from Kennon Road.
(Photo by Jack & Chi, Baguio City Yearbook magazine)

Are there roads leading to the houses above? :nuts:

tracymack

January 28th, 2008, 03:52 AM

Nice flyover. Not a bland piece of concrete. :yes:

Yeah. Baguio has the nicest flyovers in the country. They always make it a point that infrastructure projects have that Baguio look. Aww shucks.. I suddenly missed Baguio. :(

tracymack

January 28th, 2008, 04:08 AM

Are there roads leading to the houses above? :nuts:

Of course there are. :lol: But to reach most of the houses you have to do it on foot.

Sinjin P.

January 28th, 2008, 01:56 PM

Yeah. Baguio has the nicest flyovers in the country. They always make it a point that infrastructure projects have that Baguio look. Aww shucks.. I suddenly missed Baguio. :(

Baguio has more than 1 flyover? :nuts:

Of course there are. :lol: But to reach most of the houses you have to do it on foot.

I see.

tracymack

January 28th, 2008, 03:02 PM

^^ Yup, the other one is along Magsaysay Ave. going to La Trinidad. It's been there for quite a while now. It has a similar design to the one posted by flymordecai.

tracymack

January 28th, 2008, 03:08 PM

It's this one. Sorry, I couldn't find a bigger pic.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2114/2226078690_c6a5dc3e8c_o.jpg

flymordecai

January 29th, 2008, 11:21 AM

Baguio is so clean! Or at least the parts I went to. My sister was saying that it looks way cleaner than last time she was there about a year and a half ago. Is this true? Was there a concentrated effort to clean up the city? If so, bravo! Here are some pictures.

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/baguio1.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/baguio2.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/baguio3.jpg

chocolato1000

January 29th, 2008, 03:21 PM

^^ baguio can be extremely clean or extremely dirty, it's because of the "no segregation, no collection" (of rubbish) city ordinance.

baguiowriter

January 29th, 2008, 04:33 PM

Are there roads leading to the houses above? :nuts:

Yes, jeeps and taxis can go up and down this hillside barangay. By the roadside are a number of footpaths and stairsways, the equivalent of alleys in lowlland towns and cities.

frustratedarchitect

January 30th, 2008, 12:27 PM

I posted these pictures of the flyover in the Baguio Infrastructures thread. This was taken January 16th, just before it was finished.Very nice flyover!

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover1.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover2.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover3.jpg

Woohooo!!! Thanks for the pix flymoredecai. Its been a long time since gusto kong kunan ng pix tong second flyover ng Baguio. Its just so far from where I live. Putting the controversies aside, the flyover looks good.

dinabaw

February 2nd, 2008, 11:08 AM

I posted these pictures of the flyover in the Baguio Infrastructures thread. This was taken January 16th, just before it was finished.Very nice flyover!

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover1.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover2.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover3.jpg

nakakatuwa naman na flyover yan:colgate: wow tagal na ako hindi naka punta ng Bagiuo

frustratedarchitect

February 2nd, 2008, 12:58 PM

http://photos-381.friendster.com/e1/photos/18/35/6605381/1_805472712l.jpg

Little Flower Convent Baguio

chocolato1000

February 3rd, 2008, 03:45 PM

Baguio music schools expand, stand test of time

BAGUIO CITY -- Name that tune. Owners of three music schools in the country’s summer capital -- Musar Music, Music World and Overtones -- are singing happy tunes because they have been attracting the young and old to study music and to sing and play jazz.

“Music in Baguio is very much alive. We have developed so many talents here and we feel so much fulfilled,” says Bernadette Arevalo-Avila, chief executive officer and general manager of Musar Music.

Musar Music was started by the late Corazon Musni, a well known pianist in Baguio, in 1976 as a piano store in Maharlika Bldg. here. Musni is the maternal grandmother of Avila.

It became a family corporation in 1983 when the musically inclined Musni and Arevalo families started to expand the music school.

The teachers, mostly members of the Musni and Arevalo clans, would conduct piano and guitar lessons. Later the school started teaching violin.

“We developed our own curriculum and we hired very good teachers. Some music teachers in this city were trained in Musar. We make sure that our teachers undergo follow-up training and we subsidize their expenses. We want our students to learn quality music from our school,” says Avila, also a pianist.

She claims that Musar Music has become the biggest music school outside Metro Manila.

Musar offers lessons in piano, organ, voice, guitar, bass, saxophone, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, drums, voice, stage performance and musical theater.

Avila says the music school has become successful because they offer quality musical lessons which are affordable. A lesson for beginners costs P1,890 for 12 sessions.

Avila says their clients do not only come from Baguio but other provinces as well. “They would even come from La Union, Pangasinan, and as far as Manila because of our affordable tuition. Our market has no age limit,” she says.

Music World

Music World is both a music school and a store. Bruce Sorisantos, owner of Music World, envisions putting up a branch outside the country like the United States. “We want to bring music and expand it from Baguio to the world,” he says.

Sorisantos, a professional drummer, is also a product of a music school. He says putting up a music school was very risky but because he wanted to teach, he started the school with limited resources.

In August 1996, Sorisantos started Music World with his wife, Ethel Jane Llanes, a pianist from La Trinidad, Benguet.

The couple was determined to put up a school from their own resources.

Sorisantos would teach drums to students but would act as a carpenter in putting up small classrooms on the second floor of the Allied Bank building here. Llanes, on the other hand, would act as the piano teacher, cashier, secretary and school directress.
After three years, the school opened another branch in La Azotea building on Session Road.

From two faculty members, the school hired 100 teachers who would teach various instruments from piano to wind instruments, percussion, string, voice lessons and musical theories.

“We have very good teachers who teach quality music and our rates are the cheapest among the music schools in Baguio. This is our unique selling point,” Sorisantos says.

A beginner’s lesson in Music World costs P1,422 for 12 sessions in all kinds of instruments and voice lessons.

Aside from teaching, the school, which doubles as a store, also earns from rental of instruments and sound system.

Overtones

Overtones is the newest music school in Baguio City. While other schools cover all kinds of musical genres, Overtones specializes in lessons on wind instruments under the jazz genre.

Located on Upper Mabini Street, the school is not only a music store but it has also a bar with performances held every night.

“We started teaching saxophone then we expanded to guitar, piano, drums and voice lessons. We also teach our students to overcome their stage fright by making them perform on the stage,” says Joanifer Abubo, one of the owners of Overtones.

Abubo, the former city architect, says he decided to put up the school because of his passion for music. “I realized that there are lots of talents in Baguio which need to be developed,” says Abubo, a popular saxophonist and jazz musician here.

Running for almost two years, Overtones is proving to be lucrative because there are lots of music enthusiasts in Baguio who want to hone their talents, said Abubo.

A beginner’s lesson costs P1,850 for 12 sessions, with special lesson on jazz improvisation.

WawaY[625]

February 3rd, 2008, 09:16 PM

I posted these pictures of the flyover in the Baguio Infrastructures thread. This was taken January 16th, just before it was finished.Very nice flyover!

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover1.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover2.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r64/jborlongan/flyover3.jpg

for some reason di ko trip yung flyover, maybe because pet peeve ko talaga yung mga sementong pinagmumukhang kahoy like the ones found sa railing ng flyover

baguiowriter

February 4th, 2008, 05:31 AM

;18164678']for some reason di ko trip yung flyover, maybe because pet peeve ko talaga yung mga sementong pinagmumukhang kahoy like the ones found sa railing ng flyover

Kitsch

Etymology:
- [German] word for "trash" -- verkitschen etwas -- meaning an object of poor taste and usually poor quality

- In Art Theory, kitsch refers to "anything that claims to have an aesthetic purpose but is tawdry and tasteless, (like Baguio's concrete pine tree, for example; or anything fake, like the railings of the Baguio flyovers and arches mimicking pinewood, he-he-heh!)

Other meanings:

- cheap sentimental works for mass market
- object of bad taste
- pretentious
- creating an appearance (often undeserved) of importance or distinction
- anything that is vulgar

WawaY[625]

February 4th, 2008, 07:22 AM

i wouldnt go as far as calling it trash though haha..but IMO sana kahit yung standard railing na lang kung di man kaya yung modern railings kung meron man..

isa pa, what if (wag naman sana) may mabangga sa railings

1. kaya ba nyan pigilan ang sasakyan gaya nung standard? di kaya mahulog yung sasakyan hehe?

2. if ever man madamage ang railing kung mabangga/masagi, papalitan ba nila ng tulad ng orig?

baguiowriter

February 4th, 2008, 11:58 AM

;18173911']i wouldnt go as far as calling it trash though haha..but IMO sana kahit yung standard railing na lang kung di man kaya yung modern railings kung meron man..

At least, we should know where we, and our inspirations, are coming from.

Some people --mostly politicians who have itchy hands and oodles of (public) money at their disposal-- think they have what it takes to plan for everyone or concieve grand projects for the community.

Unwittingly, their cultural and artistic subconscious/consciousness must have been mired (for several lifetimes) in the garbage bins of history.

Six spans of concrete at P170-million!

Just wait a wee bit for smog and soot to get stuck to the walls of this structure, and then try looking at it again from a distance, better yet from the now-spoiled green scenery of the Home Sweet Home retreat house.

Colonel Burger

February 5th, 2008, 03:57 AM

Lapit na yung Flower Festival! yipee!!!! Im going there to see all the festivities. I believe this is the only secular festival that is really celebrated in the Philippines

chocolato1000

February 5th, 2008, 12:23 PM

^^ not really. longanisa festival, bangus festival, atbp...siguro, magkakaroon narin ng sinelas festival. :lol: dahil dyan nawawalan ng saysay ang mga ibig sabihin ng festival!

lightsaber46

February 6th, 2008, 05:58 AM

Baguio City removed from RP list of IT hubs
http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV20080206116318.html

Due to lack of telecommunication infrastructure facilities

By DEXTER A. SEE

BAGUIO CITY — Players in the Information Technology (IT) industry have removed this mountain resort city from the list of the major IT and call center hubs in the country due to the lack of sufficient telecommunication infrastructure facilities that would guarantee continuous service to foreign and local clients.

This was reported by Trinidad C. Trinidad, executive director of the Baguio-Benguet Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (BBCCII), who said that it is now high time for the government to adopt appropriate measures that would attract telecommunication investors to come to this city and build the needed facilities for advanced IT operations.

She said that IT and call center companies expanding their operations in the Philippines go to Cebu, Davao, Clark or Subic because of the presence of three or more service providers that could guarantee their uninterrupted service to their clients in the different parts of the world.

In this city, it is only the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and Smart Telecommunications Co. which are considered as advanced telecommunication service providers of the call centers here.

Trinidad said that the delisting of this city as one of the IT and call center hubs in the country is a big setback and contrary to the repeated pronouncements of national and local officials that this city is fast becoming the IT and call center hub of the north.

While business in this city remains in good shape despite the economic slowdown in the United States (US) and unabated oil price increases, Dennis Sy, president of the Baguio Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BFCCI), said that the government, both national and local, must adopt appropriate programs and projects that are designed to boost investors’ confidence in a certain area like Baguio City so that the desired economic growth in the areas outside Metro Manila can be achieved.

In the case of this city, businessmen have time and again prodded local officials to formulate a local investment plan to serve as a plus factor for prospective investors to locate their businesses here especially in the telecommunication industry in which the city is falling behind.

Trinidad said that IT and call center companies have greatly helped in providing employment to thousands of residents, but the delisting of the city as one of the IT and call center hubs in the country could adversely affect the economic gains which the city has achieved in the past several years.

Ironically, telecommunication companies are having second thoughts of investing billions of pesos for the improvement of their facilities to cope with the advancement of technology because of the allegedly huge capital needed due to the mountainous terrain and the low return of investment caused by a small market.

Colonel Burger

February 6th, 2008, 10:15 AM

^^ not really. longanisa festival, bangus festival, atbp...siguro, magkakaroon narin ng sinelas festival. :lol: dahil dyan nawawalan ng saysay ang mga ibig sabihin ng festival!

its good having this secular festivals. at least there are some festivals that all Filipinos can enjoy regardles of religious affiliation.

I for one, being a non catholic does not enjoy Sinulog or the Ati-atihan because of its catholic roots. but at least, there is a festival that we can participate in and enjoy! :)

frustratedarchitect

February 10th, 2008, 01:37 PM

Yeah. Panagbenga na na naman.

frustratedarchitect

February 10th, 2008, 01:41 PM

Baguio is home to Clientlogic, (Sitel), Peoplesupport, Medical transcription facilities and other BPO companies. I am still optimistic Baguio will be the IT hub of the north

frustratedarchitect

February 10th, 2008, 01:48 PM

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9915/picture2008xg0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

session road

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2193/picture2007ga2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

abanao street

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1676/picture043vv3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

City camp Barangay

allan_dude

February 11th, 2008, 06:06 AM

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2193/picture2007ga2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

abanao street

Abanao Square?

chocolato1000

February 11th, 2008, 08:08 AM

^^ yes, it houses the first national bookstore in the city.

allan_dude

February 13th, 2008, 07:25 AM

Dispute over Kennon Road management continues

BAGUIO CITY — The Department of Transportation and Communication (DoTC) and the Department of Public Works and Highways(DPWH) continue to contend over authority and management of Kennon Road.

http://www.nordis.net/blog/wp-content/files/kennon2008_0210.jpg
SCOFFING AT THE LAW. Motorists simply ignore traffic signs along Kennon Road. Photo by Dorothea Ysabel B. Maranan/NORDIS

This started when DoTC Regional Director Federico Mandapat issued Memorandum Circular 2007-001 banning inter-regional public utility vehicles (PUV) from passing Kennon due to safety reasons. The said memorandum was based on a Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (MGB) findings that Kennon Road is 85% landslide prone.

Faye Apil, a geologist from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said 85 % of the roads from Baguio City to Camp 4 are landslide prone. She also said Kennon road is highly susceptible to landslides especially during the rainy season and motorists or commuters passing through that area should exert extra precaution.

In a letter to Mandapat, DPWH Regional Director Mariano Alquiza asserted that his office has the proper authority to give traffic advisory on the condition of Kennon Road.

“Your published memorandum is somewhat discriminatory/selective as it only seeks to protect those that are availing the Inter-Regional Public Utility Vehicles while allowing private vehicles to pass,” the letter further read.

DPWH Benguet Engineering District 1 Head Alexander Castañeda admitted that Kennon Road has landslide prone areas. He explained that DPWH inspects the said road quarterly and conducts repairs as needed.

“Kennon Road is still safe for all vehicles. We close Kennon Road to traffic when we find it unsafe and repairs damaged areas,” Castañeda said.

Castañeda also urged MGB to coordinate their studies with the DPWH in the future.

The Benguet provincial board passed a resolution asking Mandapat to recall his memorandum in an attempt to settle the dispute.

The board asked both DPWH and DoTC to shed light on the issue of management of Kennon Road as the said agencies are citing different administrative orders. Dorothea Ysabel B. Maranan for NORDIS (http://www.nordis.net/blog/?p=2184#more-2184)

frustratedarchitect

February 15th, 2008, 06:46 AM

http://i.pbase.com/u18/cmanaginged/upload/43086409.IMG_3216Medium.JPG

Manor Hotel, Baguio city
courtesy of James Deakin

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/razyneth/baguioclubnew.jpg

Baguio Country Club

frustratedarchitect

February 15th, 2008, 07:35 AM

http://www.eslteachersboard.com/webbbs_pictures/teachers_pictures/pic27867.jpg

row houses in Baguio like these are common

chocolato1000

February 16th, 2008, 10:32 AM

Fire hits University of Baguio

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines -- Fire hit at least two buildings in the University of Baguio, one of the biggest universities in Northern Luzon, before noon Saturday.

Councilor Danny Fariñas, UB legal affairs chief, said the blaze started in the old high school building at about 11:30 a.m. then spread to the Rosa C. Bautista Building (RCB), which houses the nursing, dentistry, and physical therapy departments.

“We tried to contain the fire but we ran out of water so it (spread) up the RCB Building," he said.

The fire razed the UB Preparatory High School, a mostly wooden building built almost 60 years ago, Fariñas said.

No one was reported hurt in the fire which was put under control at 1:30 p.m.

By Frank Cimatu
Philippine Daily Inquirer

tracymack

February 16th, 2008, 11:08 AM

^^Yikes! Totoo nga. May nagtxt kanina sakin about that. Good thing nobody was hurt.

chocolato1000

February 16th, 2008, 01:24 PM

naka-respond daw agad yung mga bombero, pero hindi daw agad na-contained yung apoy kasi naubusan ng tubig.

http://pic60.picturetrail.com/VOL1698/10588304/18969014/304273772.jpg

benchjade

February 16th, 2008, 01:53 PM

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2193/picture2007ga2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
abanao street

yang abanao na yan, nakipagsabayan yata ng opening sa SM..walang pumunta.:lol:

tracymack

February 16th, 2008, 02:03 PM

^^Alam ko matagal na open yang Abanao Square bago pa nag-open yung SM.

icarusrising

February 16th, 2008, 06:47 PM

A lengthier article regarding the UBHS Fire...

Fire destroys UBHS building
By Artemio Dumlao
Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Philippine Star

Baguio City – A huge fire gutted yesterday the wooden high school building of the University of Baguio here.

Thousands of students who were then having classes in UB college department were evacuated from their classrooms at the campus along Assumption Road.

Firefighters aided by private water delivery trucks, some coming all the way from Tuba, Benguet, rushed to contain the fire that lasted for at least one hour and a half.

City Vice Mayor Daniel Fariñas, dean of UB’s College of Law, said the fire started at around 11:30 a.m. and spread rapidly at the UB high school building which was made of wood.

UB Vice President for Finance JB Bautista, an older brother of Baguio City Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr., said the fire started near the faculty room of the high school department.

The high school building is one of the oldest buildings of the Bautista-owned school that started as Baguio Technological (Baguio Tech) Academy 50 years ago.

Bautista said the fire spread rapidly and the firemen have a hard time containing the blaze.

“Our volunteer fire marshals could no longer contain the fire that was so huge,” he said.

Students, teachers and school employees join firefighters in saving books and other school items from the burning building.

The fire also gutted the nearby eight-story building in front of the school.

Firefighters and investigators still has to value the damaged properties although volunteers tried to “salvage” some of university equipment from the burning building.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Nation&p=49&type=2&sec=28&aid=2008021685