Downpour Monday..

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Good evening everyone! Gosh, the weather's becoming weirder each day it makes me worry about it. In some ways, you have to, knowing that the climate's not supposed to be like this.

The good news is, we can say goodbye to those so-hot-days. The bad news is, well, we have to prepare ourselves for the impending symptoms of Global Warming, plus bad traffic and lousy gimmick days..

Enough said. Anyway, it was a boring day. I was at my house all day long. I just watched some TV and played with my PSP throughout the day. Guess this crazy weather made me nuts. Oh gosh..

Anyway, I have some things to share with you. Let's do this:

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Just moments ago, I've found something very interesting on the net. It was the top 4 list of the most dangerous roads in the world. Believe it or not, they're quite freaky and scary to go to. When will these engineers motivate themselves to lessen these scary roads and rehabilitate them? Well, only time can tell I guess.

So, here's the list:

1. North Yungas Road, aka “Road of Death”, Bolivia: This road cuts through the Bolivian Andes, running almost 70 km from La Paz to Coroico. It travels nearly 3,600 meters down and is comprised almost entirely of narrow hairpin curves. Unfortunately, their is no safety net below off the side of the road, and as you can see from the picture, the drop is quite severe. While you’re smart enough to read about this road before attempting to travel it, between 100-200 people a year over estimate their driving abilities, leading to their unfortunate death. Constructed in the 1930’s by Paraguayan prisoners, it would be easy to assume that they built it to be this treacherous on purpose. North Yungas Road is most frequently traveled by trucks and busses, which makes it’s span of merely three meters wide almost as terrifying as looking out the window when on it. If you still don’t fear the “Road of Death” be warned, these conditions are only what you would experience in the dry season. Let’s hope you don’t get stuck there in the rain.

2. Siberian Road to Yakutsk, Russia. If your looking to travel to Yakutsk, this is road is the only option you have. As you can see, you’ll be traveling on more mud than actual road so let’s hope you’re friends with a local tow truck driver! Expect traffic to come to a stop as many will wait for this 30 km long road to dry enough to considering driving on. But being a mud road isn’t the only thing that makes it dangerous. Many expects suspect underground gas leaks, supported by the reports from a majority of motorists who have survived car accidents on this road claiming that they can’t remember what happened. Perhaps Yakutsk isn’t worth visiting after all.

3. Guoliang Tunnel in the Taihang Mountains, China Before May 1st 1977 the only hope of making it to the small village on the other side of the mountain was to follow the along the rock foot path. In 1972 workers began a five year process of creating this 1,200 meter long tunnel, spanning 4 meters wide and 5 meters high. Wear and tear over the years has caused this tunnel to become uneven, but don’t worry, the view from the thirty plus windows will make your journey on this road even scarier.

4. Taroko Gorge Road, Taiwan. While this road doesn’t offer the twists and turns you’ll find from those above, you’re still riding on a wide open mountain side. Although an absolutely beautiful sight to see, don’t take your eyes off the road unless you happen to have a car parachute. Your best bet to enjoy this beautiful scenery would be to take a tour bus across it, unless of course your looking for a more scenic grave.

Expecting Philippines to be on that list? Well, you can attest to it that after some time, some of our scary roads will make it on that list, that is, if our engineers/government officials will start implementing road safety projects.

Scared of driving already? Well, you don't have to I'm telling you. :)

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I have mentioned on one of my previous posts that I'll be giving away a myriad of techie updates this week. Well, expect them to be granted as I'll be updating you this time with the latest mobile phones from Samsung, some hot cars from Japan and a hot discussion regarding these social networking sites.

Your Techie Princess Melissa's all fired up to give em' away. :)

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