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Globe and Smart should be congratulated for dressing up greed once again with the glitter of glamor. Behind the sleek designs of their shops and advertising and phone packages, Globe and Smart of course came up with their tax-elusive, peso-eating promos that subscribers find it hard to quit from. Along with these, such P15 downloads as pop-tune ringtones that turn out to be ugly non-tributes to the originals. DTI may have received so many complaints, but we have yet to hear if many consumer watchdogs are already starting to trust government agencies again. A phony credit could also be in your bill. Are you responsible for the payment? Bayantel has a problem. It cannot help but ask its customers to pay for the company's foreign-exchange adjustments on its payments to creditors. Globelines, a territory competitor, is challenging such add-ons with its "adjustments"-free bills.
Movie Trailers for Rent
#018
In the age of the VCD and the
DVD, Video City has only one function. As a cheap place to sample
potential VCD/DVD buys. As for watching a whole movie, two thousand to one
you won't find an unscratched VCD in this place. But it's cheap. At P15 per
view, you wouldn't mind not finishing a disc, you'll get an ample preview
and the longest trailer for a movie.
Walking the Talk #028 (Vol 1 No. 4 Sept 29, 2004) This is something the Department of Tourism regional office in Tacloban fails to warn tourists (where?) about. Akin to the taxis of Manila, the tricycles of Tacloban are exclusive to passengers not used to walking a distance of two hundred meters. Beyond two hundred meters, a lone passenger will not be entertained, and although the local police has advised citizens to report such declining drivers, it is easy to deny citizens' charges. The Tacloban government, meanwhile, has not yet come up with a plan for the displacement of this inefficent form of public transportation. The mode also doesn't help stupid drivers, in fact it enhances their stupidity. The drivers deny their services to passengers who'll pay P5 for a four-hundred meter ride, supposedly because the distance will eat up a lot of fuel. Instead, these drivers will go around for 1,000 meters or more looking for passengers who might want to take a 200-meter ride.
You want to talk about
educating our stupid neighbors? Walk the talk.
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