How To Get a Busted Lamp Post Fixed, Meralco Serviced Area Only

If you live in a Meralco serviced area and there's a busted street light near your place, you can take matters into your own hands rather than leave your fate to your barangay / community leaders. Get in touch with Meralco to have it fixed rather than go through the trouble of reporting it to your leaders who are sometimes too, ahem, busy that you are left in the dark for months, so to speak. Of course, if there's a barangay / community rule that states that you need to get in touch with them leaders, then do so then skewer them if they don't act on it as fast as you'd like by stating that you could have gotten in touch with Meralco in the first place if not for their rule that somehow removes power from you and transfers it to them.

Lights only. They can't help you with the floods. Or can they?

Here's what to do:
1) List the lamp post number. It's an alphanumeric combo attached to the post and not to the light fixture.
2) Message Meralco on facebook or twitter. I prefer contacting them through facebook.

Jeepney Fare Computation for Metro Manila, Region 3, Region 4 as of February 2017

Minimum fare's back to P8 from P7 for jeepneys in Metro Manila, Region 3 and Region 4. However, fares for exceeding kilometers remain the same or will not increase given that when minimum fare went down to P7 last year, fare for exceeding kilometers did not went down by P1 but remained the same.

from LTFRB twitter page

Food Thrift: Ramen Daruma

have yet to add dark ramen broth

I learned of Ramen Daruma while watching the evening newscast. I was then reminded of it by my sister-in-law who saw a feature on it by Korina Sanchez, a newscaster on another TV channel. After checking online for store hours and location, a cold clear Saturday night saw me and my sister hunting the ramen cart at 11th Ave Grace Park, Caloocan. From the Monumento LRT station, we head on foot towards Our Lady of Grace Parish. That's through Rizal Avenue then left at the street where there stands a Mang Inasal branch. It's one of the food carts along a row of other carts at the side of a Mercury Drugstore. A woman carrying a plastic bag with four styrofoam bowls clued us that we were near the place.