Okay fellas. I'm just curious on your take on this:

On the Bicycle:
This morning, while I was drinking coffee (Brazilian, tsalap!) here at home and eating my breakfast, I half-heard over the news that MMDA is proposing the use of bicycles for the now motoring public. Since Marikina, they say, has implemented the use of bicycles for travel to work and school successfully, they say thay the townships under Metro Manila should follow suit. They even cited, as examples, Asian countries like China, Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan as countries where workers use bicycles.

My take on this bike thing are these:

1. I've been to these four countries and people do not use bicycles to go to work if they come from long distances. Most of the workers in these countties that use bikes only live a short distance away from their work.
2. If the roads here are as safe as Japan, where motorists respect and give courtesy to bike riders and pedestrians, then maybe our Metro folk would be comfortable using bikes.
3. From what I observed, bicycle theft on these countries are either non existient or minimal, so one can leave his or her bike outside. What weould you think would happen if you leave your bike outside an establishment for the good part of your day? Malamang, manakaw.
4. As far as Cambodia goes, people there have no choice since that country is poorer that we are, but thet petrol costs 2-3x as much as our petrol here.
5. Now as far as Chine and Vietnam goes, bicycling is part of their culture and part of their socialist past and present. Besides, I think people there learn to ride a bike first before they are taught how to walk.

On Gloria (PGMA)

On the same news program (but on my 2nd plate of tapsilog na ), they were talking about the world prices of oil/crude being "now out of our control". On the same new program, they reported the efforts of PGMA to offer the peace pipe to the opposition so that they can work together to stem or soften the impact of the looming oil crisis due to the stratospheric rise in world oil prices. Then, after a few minutes, I heard the comment of Sen. Pimintel saying that "the only way to stop the price of oil from rising and lessen the impact of a looming oil crisis would be for PGMA to step down." WTF? Ano ang konekment sa pare-resign ni PGMA sa pag-baba ng presyo ng langis sa pangdaigdigang merkado?

So, my fellow Tsikoteers, what's your take on these issues/topics?