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Valenzuela Nostalgia
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Valenzuela Nostalgia

Remembering the “Good Old Days” of a Valenzuela That May Never Have Existed The “Payatot” Rice Field Fantasies of Malinta Old-Timers Mang Tony, 75, sits on his porch in what is now a dense Malinta subdivision. He points to a row of identical houses. “Dyan, noon, may malaking palayan.” (There, before, was a big rice …

Taguig Extreme Weather
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Taguig Extreme Weather

The City’s Delicate Systems vs. the Elements The “Light Drizzle” That Paralyzes the District In Taguig, it doesn’t take a typhoon. A sustained 30-minute afternoon downpour, what the weather app calls “light rain,” is enough to initiate systemic collapse. The streets, engineered for aesthetics over drainage, become shallow rivers. The traffic lights at key intersections …