Good weather for some evening riding. 🚴🏻‍♀️😃👍
#bikes #bicycles #FoldingBikes #Manila #QuezonCity #Philippines #NightRide

Don't laugh but...

I just discovered that #BPI Maxi savings had an increase in minimum ADB from PHP50k to 2m. 🤯⁉️

But wait, that's not all. The increase happened in 2021 during crazier #COVID times. How nice, BPI. And... how the heck did I miss that?! 😳

BPI never informed me. 🤷‍♀️ Otherwise I'd have closed my account there. Looking through my statements, I don't see any penalty fees for having a balance way below the new min ADB.

So I guess I'm fine, eh? 🤔
#Philippines #banking #finances

hey #sfba, i'm tabling at #sfzinefest (my fav annual art fest in sf!) this upcoming sunday, sep. 3 from 11 to 5.

i draw & paint about #sanfrancisco, bay area wildlife, #unions, #porn, relationships, anti-imperialism, #japan, the #philippines, etc.

most my art can *only* be seen offline, so please come by my table, check out my art, and talk to me about how it makes you feel. or just say hi lol

#sfzf #zines #illustration #neko #birds #landback #digitalart #indieart #mastoart

@jepoy @my_actual_brain @georgetakei
Just want to point out as well that this is NOT NORMAL practice... even in the #Philippines.

I hardly see people doing that.
Because.
We're not supposed to do that.

It's only done by a few bad-mannered and oblivious folks. A rare sight in all the decades I've shopped at supermarkets and convenience stores.

I'll say it again.
They're dead.
#Philippine #news editors are dead.
Extinct. 😐

#Philippines #journalism 👎

What the heck do they mean #EDSA #BikeLanes are "a few meters wide"?! It's not even 1 meter wide! 🤷‍♀️

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/08/23/2290835/unsafe-transpo-advocates-blast-plan-merge-edsa-bike-motorcycle-lanes
"... saddened by the MMDA's idea of zeroing in on bike lanes which only take up a few meters wide ..."

#bikes #bicycles #motorcycles #motorbikes #cycling #ActiveMobility #MMDA

@fediforum there's an active #SouthEastAsia community that hangs out at these hashtags: #TOOTSEA #MakanApaToday

Of course you can find them in their respective country hashtags such as #Malaysia #Singapore #Indonesia #Philippines and more.

I am not sure what you want us to do though?

Looks like a minecraft character, eh? 😅 Pixelated for privacy reasons.

Nice to see that an #eScooter 🛴got into the mall, and the owner not irresponsibly riding it indoors.

Wish I could that with my #bike. 🚲 I bet ya they won't let me. I already asked. Long time ago. Though with the way we roll here in #MetroManila #Philippines it's more like a luck of the draw. Depends on the staff stationed at the entrance, if they even know the rules. In some cases there's no rule, they just say no. 🤷‍♀️

Did a good bit of riding tonight. 🚴‍♀️
Thank God for that. 🙏

Made it to the meetup in #MarikinaCity.
Visited #Parklinks and #ArcoviaCity in #PasigCity.
Rode about 40km total
for about 4 hours.

Had our late dinner at #Eastwood #Libis #QuezonCity.
Nice conversations.

A night well-spent. 😃👍
#bikes #bicycles #eBike #cycling #CityRiding #NightRide #Philippines

@martijn
A billion only means one thing here though. 🤷‍♀️

I think all our #newspaper editors here have dropped dead.
#Philippines #journalism

What...
They couldn't say "billion"?
🤷‍♀️

#Philippines #news #headline

I really just wanted to try the new #BlackPink beverage. I got suckered into buying a pink tumbler too. 😄

It's quite good. 😋👍
#lunch #food #Starbucks #Philippines

Strange... I just got [missed] calls from unknowns -- 1 apparently a landline in #Ilocos Norte or Sur, the second a landline in #NCR, and the third is a cellphone number.

The first 2 calls yesterday Saturday, I missed. The third that called today Sunday, I deliberately did not answer.

Weekend.
Not expecting any call.
No way that it's the bank.
And no one I know in Ilocos.
🤷‍♀️
#Philippines #ShouldIAnswer

#editorial #news #Philippines #scam #spam #HumanTrafficking

Bogus SIM Registration
https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2023/08/03/2285891/editorial-bogus-sim-registration

A week after the deadline for #SIM card registration, they catch a scammy #POGO with all their spammy SIMs and phones.

Haaaay... 🙄

@my_actual_brain
You can think of it that way:
if it were safer,
more people would ride #bikes.

Or you could say,
we need more more mooooore people on bikes!
So much more that they can't take us for granted anymore.
And then things will finally change for the better.
More than just band-aid solutions.

Hope that things get better. 🙏
Or accept it and live with it. 🤷‍♀️
Change will happen anyway.
Gotta have faith. 😉

#QuezonCity #PasigCity #Philippines #ActiveMobility

https://tribune.net.ph/2023/07/28/qc-pasig-launch-new-initiatives/

@royal
Yup. The fool was whining that the authorities should* stop/apprehend violators daily* [so that he won't do it].

#languages #Tagalog #Filipino
Kamote
(n) 🍠

#slang
(adj) stupid
(v) doing poorly [intellectually]
(n) a driver with no regard for the rules of the road

In American times here in the #Philippines, when a student did poorly the teacher would say "You better go home and plant kamote." It was mean. And it stuck.

Now the slang is commonly used to refer to bad drivers. 🚲🏍️🚙🚐

Waaaah!!
Kamote 🏍️ talaga! 😂

Rider caught on busway throws tantrum: “Sana araw-araw kayo nanghuhuli!”
That’s not how it works, buddy
by Leandre Grecia | 7 hours ago
https://www.topgear.com.ph/news/motoring-news/rider-busway-violator-tantrum-a4354-20230727

Sana daw araw-araw.
Sana nga.
Para araw-araw din kayong matiketan.
#motorcycles #motorbikes #BusLane #TrafficViolation #EDSA #Philippines

Signal No. 5 remains in part of Babuyan Islands as '#Egay' threatens northern #Luzon

Philstar.com
July 25, 2023 7pm

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/07/25/2283746/signal-no-5-remains-part-babuyan-islands-egay-threatens-northern-luzon

#SuperTyphoon #typhoon #Doksuri #weather #news #Philippines 🙏

@ruari
See, now that's a proper-sized bike rack. Even your #PennyFarthing can be locked to it. 😃👍 Not saying you should, but you could if you wanted to.

There should bike rack standards* that can accommodate most* 2-wheel designs/sizes. Clearly we don't have that here. 😕 #Philippines

This is how we roll. 🚴‍♀️
🚲 🛵🏍️🚙🛻🚚🚛 🚌 🚋

Photo taken from the #EDSA People Power Monument #MetroManila #Philippines. Facing south-ish. 🧭

Green arrow is the #BikeLane. Red arrows are #car lanes, also for #motorcycles. Behind the yellow & black concrete barrier is the #bus lane. Blue arrow is where the light rail train is.

The bus lane used to be where the bike lane is. Good thing they moved it away... on most* parts of EDSA.

That #cyclist is not one of us #TSP. Just saying. 🤪

Sneaky.
Very sneaky. 🔎

Hiding amongst the #fruits, eh?
Well, ya ain't fooling me. 🧐

#MajaBlanca #LecheFlan #sweets #food #Pinoy #Philippines