Quaere Verum

It's been almost a year since I last posted anything here. Thought I'd clean up this blog a bit, get rid of all the dead links, unprofitable advertising, annoying pop-ups, and what not. Kinda weird actually. Hardly no one ever goes here anymore...makes you wonder if it's even worth the effort cleaning this blog up. Looks a bit dated too...but I really don't foresee myself going back to blogging the way I used to, so there's no point with a redesign. Things have changed...a lot I guess. Older, wiser. Still me for the most part...but somewhere down the line I must have turned a corner. I don't exactly know where...but well...here I am. Still me, but not the old me. Being here makes me sad. Not sure why...maybe I'm reminded of the things that I went through before...or how things are so different now from what they used to be. Ties lost...changed relationships...former pastimes that are no longer there. Don't get me wrong...moved up a lot in...

An open letter to Top Gear Philippines : As a long, long time reader of your magazine, I read with interest the article “2013 Car of the Year” in the latest issue. While the myriad views of the 15 man panel were both fascinating and enlightening (and whole of a lot more refreshing than simple fan voting which can be rigged) I must respectfully disagree with the final outcome. Of course, I don’t get to test drive various makes and models of cars, much less write reviews about them, so in the grand scheme of things, I don’t really know much about cars, except for the precious few that I own or get to drive, and from what I read from various motoring publications and websites, so my opinion is just that, an opinion from an average Juan, albeit, perhaps, a well-read one. To cut to the chase, if it were up to me, the distinction of 2013 Car of the Year ought to belong to the Hyundai Accent Hatchback CRDi . Simply put, out of all the cars which came out this year, the Accent Hatchbac...