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Its really irritating when you’re phone is ringing in the middle of the night or early in the morning and yet if you are to answer the call, no one is talking in the other line. You will really get mad at this prank caller and yet you cannot recognize the number that keeps on calling you.

Prank caller’s day is up. With the help of Free Reverse Phone Lookups you can now locate or track any phone call for any number whether it’s listed or not. You can even get information about the owner of that number, and by “National No Call Registry“subscribers of both landlines and cellphones can determine the origin of the call or even identify if the call is from another telemarketer trying to waste your time and will block all unwanted calls.

I was searching for the old Buick model car that I saw in the recent 2008 Trans Sport Show. Having to find out because my digital camera don’t focus that good enough unlike DSLR camera that I have before so I have a little blurry photos of it. Thanks that in my searching I was able to find Don Bagsit Multiply website where I was amazed about the entire picture he took during the 2008 Trans Sport Show. He also permitted me to use some of them for my future post.

I like vintage cars so much and if I have enough money, I will collect some more of it too. So one of the cars that captured me during the Car Show was the Buick Eight but I am not sure if the model displayed there is the 1952 Buick Eight Sedan because what I know the Buick Eight series model started in 1931 - 35. (Correct me if I’m wrong).

According to Wikipedia Buick originated as an independent motor car manufacturer, the Buick Motor Company, incorporated on May 19, 1903 by the Scottish-American David Dunbar Buick (who invented the overhead valve engine on which the company’s success was based) in Detroit, Michigan. Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting (1842-1919), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition. Buick sold his stock for a small sum upon departure, and died in modest circumstances twenty-five years later.

Durant was a natural, and Buick soon became the largest car maker in America. Using the profits from this, Durant embarked on a series of corporate acquisitions, calling the new mega-corporation General Motors.

Now Buick is a marquee of automobile only sold in the United States, Canada, China, Taiwan, and Israel by General Motors Corporation. The name is pronounced /ˈbjuːɪk/. Since the demise of Oldsmobile in 2004, it is GM’s only North America-based entry-level luxury brand.

So lucky if we can have Buick car now in the Philippines. Maybe if you have a lot of money and friends inside Bureau of Customs (but only if rumors are true) we might be able to obtain smuggled ones.

We love to travel, explore various places and most especially, we love the adventure that goes with roaming around. The thrill of not knowing the location is just a wonderful feeling. Even my friend from California agrees as he’s also a stranger in the place when he comes to visit our other friend in the same state. 

Getting “lost” is not a big problem anymore with the help of GPS or Global Positioning System.  With GPS you can now explore places with the help of satellites that transmit precise microwave signal, where the system enables a GPS receiver to determine its location, speed, direction and time. The GPS technology is now more useful and a big help in many ways. 

One company called GTX Corporation has been developing, patenting and integrating miniature GPS tracking cellular location-transmitting technologies into a wide variety of consumer products and business-to-business applications. Since 2002, the GTX Corp with their GPS tracking unit device uses the Global Positioning System to determine the precise location of a person, vehicles, good, crowd control, children and others and with their  matchbook sized GPS unit which can be live tracked on Google maps.

Because of its a miniaturized, interchangeable module, it fits seamlessly into active lifestyles We  can even use it or attach it to our son or children when we go shopping, and it is very useful to be used it in our vehicle in locating it to avoid becoming a victim of carnapping.

My wife has been asking me to visit Vigan ilocos Sur in order to see the old heritage houses there and those beautiful places in Ilocos. I told her it’s really far, and that maybe I could bring her to Silay City instead of Vigan.

I remember when we were having our hospital duty at Silay General Hospital during my college nursing days at Colegio de San Agustin – Bacolod, we had to wake up early because Manong will leave at 6 am. He was our driver for almost three years of hospital duties for both morning and night duties where we had to attend almost more than 10 birth deliveries a night back then.

Of these moments, what I will never forget was when we were having our last duty in Silay. Manong toured us for free in all of those old houses in Silay. He served as our tourist guide. This houses were densely concentrated and you can easily walk from one to the other. Some remain in private hands with the people living there quite literally living in the past. These may be closed to the public, but there are many that are open and a stroll around the city will bring you face to face with history.

Worthy of note was the home of rich and famous people before like Victor Gaston, son of a French sugar baron who settled in the Philippines. Bernardino Jalandoni who built a museum in 1908, Vicente Conlu Montelibano’s house, Maria Ledesma Golez’ house which has been converted to the Silay branch of RCBC bank, while the Angel Araneta Ledesma house, also known as the “Green House”, is currently used as the Silay culture and tourism offices. and Kapitan Mariano Montelibano Lacson’s house.

I also remember Manong brought us to the known haunted house in Silay. I don’t if it’s true though. Neverthless, I wish I could bring my family also in Silay someday.

I think I need to add to my computer memory or RAM (Random Access Memory).  I always use more programs and do some multi tasking, sometimes working in word documents while surfing the internet for my research while listening to mp3. In addition, I sometimes watch TV or video and it’s very draining on my computer memory. As we all know, RAM is also the big factor in the overall system speed. Having more computer memory is the best.

I was searching for a website about vintage car models displayed in the recent 2008 Trans Sport Show when I happened to passed by an old forum where there is a photo of 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air.

I remember my beloved grandfather told me a story about the car he was driving before, and always heard from him about the Impala, being born in 75’s and living in a province I never saw an old car. The only vehicle I remember then was original Jeep Wrangler and Jeepney, just wondering what Impala and just found out that from 1958 until 1965, the Impala was Chevrolet’s most expensive full-size car.

Just followed by the mid-range Chevy Bel Air, Bel Airs are among the most recognizable American cars of all time. The Chevrolet Bel Air is an automobile series produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1953-75. From 1950-52, hardtops in Chevrolet’s premium deluxe model range was designated with the Bel Air name, but it was not a distinct series of its own.

Now Bel Air is highly sought after by enthusiasts. Roomy, fuel-efficient, and with tastefully restrained use of tail fins and chrome, they are seen by many as vastly superior to the oversized and over-decorated full-size models. I wonder if there are still Chevy Bel Air cars being rebuilt or revived as of the present time.

I remember when I was in 4^th grade wayback in 1984, Rizal Park in Luneta, Metro Manila was the favorite spot to visit by families. I was living in the province then and only visiting my aunt every summer and school break.  I will never forget the first time my uncles brought me to the Filipinos’ favorite spot, the former “The Park” was also called Bagumbayan (English: New Town). But since the Philippines was under the Spanish rule, it later came to be known as Luneta.

Hope most of the Filipinos will remember the significant moments in Philippine history. This is where our national Hero Dr. José Rizal was executed by firing squad on December 30, 1896.

That was my first and last visit to Rizal Park but I have passed by it for once in a while but never had a chance to really spend time to look around by now. I remember the monument of Dr. Rizal was guarded 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by ceremonial soldiers, known as Kabalyeros de Rizal where his poem, “Mi Ultimo Adios” (”My Last Farewell”) is inscribed on the memorial plaque. There was a big Clock there in the garden I don’t know if it is still there until now. There were also orchestras playing there on Sunday afternoons and I remember it was also shown on local government TV then.

So every time I pass by there and see some foreigners having their pictures taken and you will see the gladness on their faces where they visited one of the famous places in the Philippines, it makes me wonder if we Filipinos are still putting the same importance to the place.

I feel guilty that I always turn my wife down whenever she asks me to have our family day in Luneta. Maybe this is the right time to have a reunion again with Rizal Park after for almost 24 years.

(Arial BW Photo above was taken in the year 1920 from Skyscraper Forum)
(Middle Photo - Original Rizal Monument 1920)