October 26th, 2006 When it comes to a cutting tool for diving, simple is the operative word. Face it, you won’t be fighting off a hungry great white. Heck, you’re lucky if you see one. More often than not, you will be using it for cutting lines and ropes. So a simple one will do the job. In [...]
October 25th, 2006 Dived for the first time at Subic yesterday. The place is known for wreck dives so naturally we dived wrecks. First dive was at the San Quentin wreck. It is the wreck of a steam gunboat scuttled by the Spanish to block a channel during the Spanish-American War. Since that was so long ago, there’s [...]
October 25th, 2006 Drove to Tagaytay last weekend for a [very] late dinner. My co-driver (feeling WRC hehe), Billie, and I took the SLEX. Traffic was light so we were moving pretty fast and completely missed the Sta. Rosa exit. We took the next exit at Greenfields. From there, the road to Tagaytay was well-paved and had almost [...]
October 22nd, 2006 E10 is a blend of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline. When I learned that the neighborhood gas station started selling E10, I made it a point to fill-up with it on the next refuel. Aside from directly reducing imports of crude oil, E10 has many other advantages (from Journey To Forever): It is a renewable [...]
October 8th, 2006 Okay, so it may be the the price of crude oil which affects practically everything has receded. It may be the peso is at an high against the dollar because of the influx of remittances from OFWs. That’s why inflation last month was the lowest in 27 months. But why is it that pan de [...]
October 7th, 2006 I’ll have to admit that I was leery of The Departed after seeing the billboard. Coming from Hollywood, I thought it is just another one of those gunfire blazing unlimited ammo action flicks. And the title didn’t help: It actually got me expecting some demonic horror twist. But haven’t watched a movie for so long [...]