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Manila named 3rd worst city for driving

<p>The Manila, Philippines capital has been named by the <a href="http://www.cnngo.com/">CNNgo.com</a> travel and lifestyle website as the world's city for driving. Before it is also has been tagged as <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">one of the most dangerous places in the world for motorcycle owners.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">CNNGo, the travel news website of the Cable News Network, made a “non-scientific” list of the </span><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">ten worst cities in the world for driving</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">, which is based on different surveys, World Bank statistics and other Internet sources.</span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">CNNgo said </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">In 2001, Manila borrowed </span><a href="http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&theSitePK=523679&entityID=000094946_01060804031083&searchMenuPK=64187283&theSitePK=523679" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" target="_blank">US$60 million from the World Bank for transit-related activities</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">. Among other things, the funds were meant to “promote the use of non-motorized transport.”</span></span><br />
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<span class="fullpost"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"A campaign asking locals to “Please stop driving,” however, wasn't necessarily the best approach to traffic management.</span></span></div>
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<span class="fullpost"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to one report, “Residents perceive traffic congestion as their number one problem, followed by air pollution, garbage collection, flood control and the need for security.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="fullpost"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, Filipinos care more about getting to work on time than they do about respiratory ailments, mounting trash heaps, drowning or being assaulted? Capitalism wins again!</span></span></div>
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<span class="fullpost"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Redeeming quality</strong>: You're in a country in which smooth-flowing traffic is apparenly of utmost importance to residents. So, you gotta figure somebody, somewhere is working on the problem. Right?" CNNgo said</span></span></div>
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Worse than Manila were also two Asian cities like New Delhi, India and Beijing, China  which rank 2 and 1.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Completing the list were Lagos, Nigeria; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Moscow, Russia; Toronto, Canada; and Monaco, which ranked sixth to tenth respectively.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">CNNgo also named Manila as one of Asia's greatest food cities early this year including Seoul, Singapore, and Bangkok. </span></span></p>

Manila named 3rd worst city for driving

The Manila, Philippines capital has been named by the CNNgo.com travel and lifestyle website as the world's city for driving. Before it is also has been tagged as one of the most dangerous places in t…

19 Apr 2012

Coming soon to a theater near you: Bob Ong's 'Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin'

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I was searching for a book review for "Lumayo Ka Nga Sa AKin" by Bob Ong when I found this article from Interaksyon. Cant wait to see in a full length movie, but must read the book first.<br />
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Fans of Bob Ong, rejoice! His latest novel, “Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin,” is about to get made into a movie. </div>
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Just don’t expect the bestselling author to come out and acknowledge the applause. True to his mystique of anonymity, only his publisher showed up to sign the contract with the producer.</div>
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Nobody knows who Bob Ong is. That is not his real name. His identity is a tighly guarded secret at his publishing house, Visprint. The guessing game is part of his growing legend as possibly the most successful Filipino author today. </div>
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<span class="fullpost">His nine novels have sold a total of over 300,000 copies—an astounding figure in a country where selling 5,000 copies is enough for a book to be labeled a bestseller. </span></div>
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<span class="fullpost">“Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin” came out just last December, and instantly came to the attention of Viva Entertainment.</span></div>
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<span class="fullpost">By early January, Viva and Ong were already negotiating for the movie rights through email—the only form of correspondence the author allows. </span></div>
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<span class="fullpost">Before the end of the month, a contract that includes the rights to the author’s first novel, “A B N K K B S N P L Ako,” was signed at the Viva office by Viva executive vice president Vincent del Rosario and Visprint’s Nida Ramirez, representing the author.</span></div>
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Pre-production is already in progress for “Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin,” a satirical look at commercial filmmaking with three different stories rendered in screenplay form. </div>
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On paper, the book looks tailor-made for the big screen. But Ong thought otherwise.</div>
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“I have doubts about the suitability of ‘Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin’ for a feature film,” he noted in his first email to Viva. “It could be tricky, and much of the humor could be lost in translation. I don't see it as a movie at the moment. But if you have a vision and a team which is up to the challenge, I'd be glad to let my publisher discuss the possibilities with you.”</div>
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For the past few years, Viva has been trying to start a specialty division that will house fresh, forward-thinking, out-of-the-box films. The perfect material has eluded the company until he read Ong’s 9th novel.</div>
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“‘Lumayo’ is what we have been looking for,” Del Rosario said. “It’s the kind of non-formulaic film with commercial appeal that we want our new division, Sunshine Films, to carry.” </div>
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Del Rosario sees this adaptation of Ong’s novel as a return to the 30-year old movie company’s roots. </div>
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“Viva made a name for itself in the ‘80s with a string of hit movie adaptations of komiks material such as ‘Mahawi Man Ang Ulap.’ We also made an adaptation of Nick Joaquin’s short story “Tatarin.” So we are just going back to that literary tradition.”</div>
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Didn’t Viva take offense at the material, which pokes delirious fun at the very school of commercial moviemaking that happens to be the company’s bread and butter?</div>
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Del Rosario thinks this project will show that Viva can take a joke.</div>
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“We enjoyed the novel because it’s so true. We see ourselves doing the very clichés that Bob Ong satirizes wonderfully in the book,” he said.</div>
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Viva has tapped Mark Meilly, award-winning writer and director of acclaimed comedies ‘Crying Ladies’ and ‘La Visa Loca’ and the historical film ‘Baler,’ to lead the project. </div>
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The choice has received Ong’s approval.</div>
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“I'd like to express my confidence in Mr. Mark Meily,” he wrote. “While I cannot tell which director might be best suited for this, I am comforted that Viva didn't pick a bad one.”</div>
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“Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin” will hit cinemas later this year.<em><strong>InterAksyon.com</strong></em><br />
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Coming soon to a theater near you: Bob Ong's 'Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin'

I was searching for a book review for "Lumayo Ka Nga Sa AKin" by Bob Ong when I found this article from Interaksyon. Cant wait to see in a full length movie, but must read the book first. Fans of Bob…

05 Apr 2012

Photo of Whale Shark used as "Surfboard" outrages netizenz.

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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A photo of Butanding use by a girl as a "living surfboard" prompted anger in the online community after it was posted in Facebook.</span></div>
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Photo of Whale Shark used as "Surfboard" outrages netizenz.

A photo posted last March 31 by Liza Sesaldo taken in Oslob town in Cebu outrages Filipino netizenz. A photo of Butanding use by a girl as a "living surfboard" prompted anger in the online community …

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