Sun.Star Baguio

Wanting of jeepney service

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THE weather has been very preferable lately. Close to perfect in fact. Normally at this time of the year, Fire Prevention Month, it is almost impossible to enjoy such.

Surely from this I will just enjoy first the outdoors. It is just good timing. I get to walk. During this time it is inside the confines of a fitness center or a gym that makes it convenient. It is cooler inside than running off outside.

It is also Women's Month. Most of my invitation­s cancelled. Women are more preferred this days. I'm cool with it. It is also most appropriat­e. This time.

Gasoline prices are on the rise, taxi fares are higher, SM Baguio is doing a lot of changes in their mall that even doing grocery is a problem these days. I'm OK. I walk. A thousand pesos is all I will need to get me through the week. A thousand for groceries. Just that, really.

I will just get eggs, veggies, some meat, not much since there's just me and my dog. Only during dinner when I would have to prepare a meal. A meal just for four. Just us too.

Sometimes if I would feel it, a bucket of chicken of six is more than enough from KFC or Jolibee. Just those two since there's a spicy option. Less than four hundred pesos. Another option would be Mang Inasal. Three orders is OK.

I'm cool with everything this days. From my home, most restaurant­s are just nearby. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Filipino and now Nepalese. From my place everything is now present. A bus station, a gas station, a water station, a country club, a golf course, an eco trail, a talipapa, hospitals, a mall, the technohub all within a kilometer range. Cool!

It must really be the cool weather. I hope it continues on. While there's climate change it is still a blessing we get to enjoy this weather. Even for just a short time. I will not announce all of this as I might pre-empt an influx of visitors up here. Once they find out about the cool temperatur­es we are experienci­ng they might all come up. Not that I am complainin­g, it is just that with them might follow, heavy traffic, higher prices of goods, garbage, and it is not cool.

I just love to hear the birds and kids playing outside upon opening of my door and window to feel the morning breeze, cool and soothing. School must have ended pretty early for some children by this time I suppose, since they are all home. Less traffic outside. This is probably one of the best summers I ever had.

Lately I must have overlooked the freon in my car. A trip to Sagada didn't help at all. But off to Bataan and Manila and I feel it. Open windows it was until we reach Manila. No way as buses to my left and right and fumes of all kind will make me fume. I fume too from this oversight. It is now done with, except it is just too cool for

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