Word: jeepney
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...find it impossible to disagree. Manila's aesthetic isn't perfect, and that's its attraction. There's an ironic local expression that sums it up: Frankenstein. It describes an old object or concept injected with new life through fresh components-"antique" chairs bolstered by new arms and legs, jeepneys revamped with transplanted motors and fresh paint jobs (a new MTV program, Pimp My Jeepney, is in the works), to ukay-ukay, or rummage-sale, vintage clothes stitched together with modern materials and prints. To me, Frankenstein explains the city's visual style as well as its strength and resilience...
...figurines along with herbal potions that claim to do everything from curing coughs to terminating unwanted pregnancy. Afterwards I walk to Chinatown, where merchants hawk watermelons, pearls, watches and glutinous rice cakes. Padyaks, or pedicabs, painted with names like Raymond and Alfonso are lined up for action, while a jeepney called Jeremiah 616 whizzes by in an eye-catching streak of fuchsia and peacock blue...
...towns of Real, Infanta and General Nakar no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become instruments of death-powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. Last Monday, Mary Anne Bantucan, a 34-year-old schoolteacher from Maragondon, was returning to her hometown from Infanta in a jeepney with her mother and eight other passengers when Typhoon Winnie hit the coast. "I saw this house being swept away in its entirety," she recalls, "and the cars, vans and jeeps behind us were all washed away." Then came a landslide of mud clotted with felled trees that...