Life remains at an unhurried pace in Dumaguete that until now, even during weekdays, some offices and establishments close at twelve noon, allowing supervisors and staff alike to kick back and enjoy a two-hour siesta, well-deserved or otherwise.
When in Rome, ape the locals. Or go native. Or at least try to act like you know your way around.
Since C. P. Garcia has become everyone's little secret shortcut, the four-lane thoroughfare has been transmogrified into the street that traffic regulations forgot. (Then again, that could be EDSA but I digress.)
THE police officer didn’t understand the word “trapped.” “What is trapped?” he asked me, giving me a slightly amused look, gesturing with his hands, which were wide apart, as if emphasizing a point in a high school declamation contest. “Trapped,” I said, nodding, returning his gaze. “What indeed is trapped?” I looked at the pigeons in the square, [...]
YOU’VE got to hand it to the Pakistanis for sheer persistence. A day or two after a terrorist blew himself up—together with 42 others—in a Pakistan army training camp early this month, the country’s prime minister launched Destination Pakistan 2007 in New York. The campaign invited American tourists to visit the South Asian country, which, a [...]
