Excessively loud and dangerously speeding motorcycles are a nuisance throughout the Philippines. One old lady decided she has had enough.  h...

"Walking through the park just the other day, baby. What do you, what do you think I saw?" More like, what do you I think I heard?...

If you think those trucks blasting out popular songs with altered lyrics all about a candidate are annoying then you ain't seen nothing...

On a drive into the local barangay to print some documents I saw huge several huge stacks of speakers each blaring different music at diffe...

Who am I kidding?  This is a typical morning practically every day in my neighbourhood. This guy has his car speakers blasting so loud I ca...

Filipinos often boast that the Philippines can be like Singapore. What a joke. The Philippines will NEVER be like Singapore. Things holding...

Previously I have written about loud church noise and loud barangay fiesta noise but today I want to tell you about something a little mo...

Filipinos love to party.  They love to party all day and all night.  Every city has an annual fiesta.  Every barangay within the city has a...

Today a neighbour celebrated his 60th birthday. By 9pm the party had been going on for 12 hours. I was headed to slumberland except for the...

Twice a week, between 6am and 8am, the garbage truck comes through the neighbourhood. With such frequency and regularity there is no reason...

Everything in the Philippines is loud.  Even the churches.  The Filipino knows nothing about sacred silence.  Everything he does, even the ...

Fighting cocks are everywhere in this country.  After all, cockfighting is the national sport of the Philippines. In order to fight cocks y...