Abs-cbn news reported that “The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Thursday filed a case against several officials, including the mayor, of Malay town in Aklan after a hotel company was allowed to destroy mangroves to build a hotel in Boracay island.” Read more

You see the vast expanse of urban decay. You see an endless road, cluttered with tricycles, jeepneys, taxis, and various vehicles. In the horizon you see an impressive skyline of buildings, and at their feet you see a pile of makeshift homes made of used tires and rusted corrugated metal. And everything is coated with a think layer of smog and cigarette smoke.

Welcome, my friend, to Metro Manila.

It may look benign from a distance, but I swear, you will get killed if you are not careful.  Metro Manila is home to various types of creatures, harmless and predatory, and you will lose your belongings (like an unviolated asshole, among other things) if you let your guard down for even just a moment. What you, need, kid, is a guide to guide you through the dirty and dangerous streets of Manila in spite of your naiveté.
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OFW Community, A new promising community for Filipinos abroad. Recently, we’ve just completed the initial phase of OWFCommunity.com, a newly built online community for OFW’s around the globe.

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Somehow, our eyes can determine a good layout from a bad one. Somehow, there is a visual paradigm that we adhere to every time we experience visual works. Although we are not all trained in the fields of fine arts, graphic design or visual communication, we can distinguish between what is visually organized or visually cluttered, or what may be considered as visually engaging versus something that is visually confusing or incoherent. Read more…