My Manila

"Shit happens. Doesn't mean you have to step in it. But if you do I would buy a new pair of shoes." ~Kilburn Hall, Americ...

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structur...

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ John F. Kennedy, Remarks on the f...

CITY DAILY PHOTO THEME DAY: STREET LAMPS • The street lamp in front of The Wedding Lounge is probably part of the design of the RFM Corpo...

An itinerant fruit vendor on the sidewalk outside the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish church was selling green mangoes , sampaloc ( tamar...

Vendors outside the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish church selling peanuts, corn, dried fish, suman and kakanin (Filipino delicacies usu...

Carlo loves Jane, and so does Cherry. I wonder who Jane loves.

What looks like a checkers -like game with the board marked on the sidewalk and bottle caps as playing pieces. It was beside a restaurant, ...

CITY DAILY PHOTO THEME DAY: PEDESTRIANS CROSSING • A few people use the pedestrian crossing on Buendia Avenue near the corner of Taft Aven...

How our utility men can make sense of this jumble of cables—power, phone, cable TV, internet—I have no idea.

  During weekends, all the roads which lead to SM Megamall , which has three other malls nearby ( Shangri-la Plaza , St. Francis Square an...

CITY DAILY PHOTO THEME DAY: CAFE CHAIRS • Nothing pretty today, just some of those uncomfortable plastic monobloc chairs. At least they...

The balcony on the second floor of the Regis Center wraps around two sides. Yesterday's photo was the view from the building's lon...

And this is a view of the northern end of the Ateneo de Manila University from the Regis Center . The red-roofed building is the Ricardo a...

I don't know if the owners of the Regis Center (see yesterday's post) paid for it or not, but the footbridge across Katipunan Avenu...

Back in October, I posted a photo of a portion of the concrete sidewalks in the Ateneo de Manila University . Just three months later, tha...

Near the entrance of an alley which leads to a poor community, the water meters of a row of apartments are locked in a metal cage whose bas...

A flame tree blossom-covered sidewalk at the Ateneo de Manila University .

Calle Crisologo is the best-preserved Spanish colonial era cobblestone street in Vigan , Ilocos Sur . Most of the houses have been turned ...

A metal fence separating the loading bay for public transportation and the highway has a sign which says "Walk and wait on the sidewal...