I put together a few clips in an attempt to focus on the sounds, the noise of the Philippines. The Philippines can be a noisy place. Horns blowing, roosters crowing and people singing while banking on various home made musical instruments. It just occurred to me that I didn’t include a rooster in my video. I’ll have to make a second one.
It is normal for me, my video is very casual, taken while walking around the Philippines.
Horns, I think, are the biggest noise makers in the Philippines. My friend Joe might disagree. He lives next to the catholic church. The church that loudly rings its bells around 3:30am to signal the “mass of the rooster.” He hates it. I live a couple of blocks away and it use to wake me up. So I can understand.
The roosters use to wake me too but I rarely even notice them now. People often say, living in the Philippines is a lot different than visiting the Philippines. I think they are usually referring to the party atmosphere people usually have while on vacation. There are more subtle ways it is different. Such as the driving style no longer seems crazy to me and that includes all the horn blowing.
Tricycle Driver With His Daughter
The new president has ordered a crack down on civilians using sirens in the Philippines as a substitute for a horn. So, I don’t hear those as much. I do think their overuse is a bad idea. I know I found myself starting to ignore them. I just assumed it was some body on a motor bike wanting someone to let him through. It almost always was, then once it was an ambulance that I was ignoring.
This video was taken in July of 2010.
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Well, this observation drew me out of hiding. I visited my wife to be in the Phil way back and chickens and dogs really pissed me off. Especially seeing dog crap on the side walk. But then my relatives explained to me that the chickens eat ants, cockroaches or basically anything moving and the dogs warn of snoopers and burglars at night. I say go GREEN and then eat your bug killers and maybe the burglar alarm if he no good at his job hehe. But one morning I was laying in bed listening to the everyone moving around and the dogs and the chickens and I heard a funny sound, recognizable but it took me a minute to identify. Guess what, out of the calouphany came the gobble of one lone damn TURKEY. I wonder how long it lasted? IT made me laugh. I sometimes think I am feeling the same way Robin Hood felt living in Sherwood Forest…awww country life, Green Acres is the place for me……………
Well, I’m glad something drew you out. Nice to hear from you.
I’m saving it for another post but I didn’t talk about the church bells.
My friend Joe lives next to the local parish church.
They love their 3:30 am bells for the Mass of The Rooster. Some where, I SHOULD have video of this but so far I’m not stumbled across it in my videos. I hope I didn’t fail to press the record button when I captured it.
You get use to it, the church bells never wake me any more, though sometimes I am still awake when they go off.
My brother who is a part-time resident of the Philippines (about half of the year) is driven crazy by the local Karoake bar several meters from our deceased parents’ country house in Cagayan de Oro. The bar blares its music all throughout the day and night. There seems to be no ordinance enforcement in off-subdivision areas. Do you know if the Barangay has any enforcement capabilities in their townships?
One can always file a complaint with a barangay captain. Or just go talk to him. He might bring them in. I don’t know how it will go though. I would think he would be in a better position to know that than i would. I’m a foreigner, I have two strikes against me when it comes to such things. I wouldn’t complain myself about such matters. If anyone did it, I’d leave that up to Jessie.
I think you’re applying western thinking here. It is more of a thing of trying to work it out but to be honest, I don’t think he’s got a chance of getting them to quite down their business. They need the blaring music to attract people. Ordinance, in a country where a 10 year old can buy a beer?
Rusty,
That is a wonderful photo of the cab driver and his daughter. Every single time I check your site I find something I missed. I could take that shot 20 times and miss it entirely. The look on the girl’s face and her father’s face-did they know you were taking the shot?
Its really very good. And her smile is priceless. Not talking politics or filipinas but your photos and writing are really worth my time. I enjoy the photos of the flowers and the market place, the people. Thanks.
Keep it up.
Yes, they new I was taking the picture.
At least from memory. I may go down there tonight. I need to go to BBQ to eat more often, better than fried stuff. Jessie prefers it. I woke up sleepy and I’ve been sleepy all day. I hope I don’t wake up about midnight again. 
I do to run some errands tomorrow would be nice to be awake during the day. Maybe i’ll just try to get to bed very early.
I really envy those cities and towns which has their own noise control ordinances. Unlike here in Muntinlupa City, the mayor, Aldrin San Pedro, his vice mayor, city councilors, barangay captains and kagawads even condone noisy activities such as loud videoke by lending chairs, tables and tents FOR FREE! These noisy activities which could go from sun up to the next sun up is allowed even IN THE MIDDLE OF RESIDENTIAL PUBLIC STREETS.