When working in Paddington London I normal use the London Underground system to get to and from Paddington. Paddington is on several different lines but the service I use is the Bakerloo line service from Baker Street.
I only use this service for a few stops and I even …

We have a home phone through Verizon. We have had a good experience with them about a month ago our phone was making this horrible static sound and their customer services was good. I had to take a phone to the jack outside the house and see if it …

Water concessionaire for eastern zone of Metro-Manila and nearby towns. It prides itself as the best water supplier Manila has ever experience.
All is not well though for Manila Water Co. Inc. (MWCI) as I experience a sad incident involving their subcontractor for the town of Cainta.
It happened …

If you like convenience, you probably like to order things on-line so you don’t have to add it to your mileage and your errands. The post office is one of my least favorite places to go. I don’t like to stand in line for stamps!
Did you know, you can …

I not to recently changed my internet and phone to Verizon. Overall they are a good company. The only thing that I have noticed that I don’t really like is that when it thunderstorms or rains sometimes the internet will go down. Most of the time it’s not too …

Recycling is not my favourite pastime, especially when there is no roadside pick up. It is time consuming, annoying, smelly, and just a hassle. I recently moved temporarily to a city that doesn’t have a roadside recycling program, at least not in my part of the city, so I …

Naughty by Nature or NBYN (www.naughtybynature.com.sg ) is a photo studio that offers a lifetime package of ‘lifestyle photographs’. They claim that they have more than 6,000 clients and they even include professional photographers. They also promise that they are able to photograph a range of styles. However, after …

I am situated nearer to the public library in Pretoria but prefer the Kempton Park one over any other one, simply because it’s a great source of information, a nice place to study and even a great place to relax, weather anyone would believe that or not.
I first discovered …

If you are unsatisfied with your local telephone service, you might want to give Comwave a try. We did and we are certainly satisfied with the service. Comwave is different in that it uses VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol to provide its customers with telephone service. To use …

I take my car to William Wells for all of my auto repair jobs and I would certainly recommend this shop. William Wells is open from 7am-5:30 on weekdays. I have been going to this shop for about 3 years and the experience has been great. …

On 16th Oct 2005 (Sunday), after church service, together with my elder and 3rd sisters I hailed a Transcab taxi at Lor 8 Geylang and told the driver the locatiowas Tiong Bahru. After we boarded the driver started the taxi. About 5 seconds later my 3rd sister told the …

This the second largest Telecommunication company in the Philippines right now. They have millions of Filipino subscribers on both national and international regions of the world. They offer a variety of cellular services. Like in my case, I use their prepaid cellular service. You don’t …

The FCC hired The Geek Squad to help people in America with the transition from analog to digital TV. This was announced in early June of 2009. The Geek Squad is part of the Best Buy chain. They do home service for computers and such, only …

The Breeze Public Transportation system of buses in Bermuda provides outstanding service. You can get anywhere you want to on the island within minutes, and the price is reasonable, expecially when you buy the all-day pass for twelve dollars. They have a Bermuda Senior Citizen pass available for free, …

Whenever we go to Hong Kong, we use the Aiport Hotelink bus service to take us from the airport to the hotel and vice versa. We usually buy the tickets through a travel agency.
A few years back, I went to HK without a hotelink ticket and without a …

With the proliferation of technological advancements like the internet, a lot of people are choosing to sell products online. Xend Express has established its name as a courier company providing service to a huge number of online merchants. For …

THE Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) Company has failed us so much with the conventional landlines. There are four of them in our office but they are always down and out. The conventional phones are always dead and the linemen would always tell us it is due to the …

I have never been one who is big on tatoo’s and piercings but for the sake of my around town reviews, I decided to get my tongue pierced, which by the way absolutly disqusted my husband and my mother. I choose to go to Red Queen Tatoos and Piercings. …

Water is a very precious natural resource in this country as most of it is desert (the Kalahari). And, when there is not enough rainfall, I am nearly prepared for water rationing which has already happened before I arrived in the country.
Getting a water connection is not a …

One fine holiday morning, my mom and I decided to go to a salon for a haircut. We chose Reyes Haircutters because of it’s unique and very affordable promo. The price that was indicated in front of their salon was, you can have a haircut done for as low …

My electric fence and house alarm are both connected to Securicor which is a security company. This company has the reputation of being one of the best security agencies in Botswana and is all over the world. The agency, therefore, assigns guards in my house 24/7. Compared to …

Last 5 August 2008, I attended a very special occassion and I took quite a number of photos of my family and friends. I am using a camera with 8.1 megapixels and as I have viewed in my computer and through the digital camera screen, I can really say …

Halifax and it’s surrounding cities are considered Halifax Regional Municipality, a mid-size city all put together. If you live in the HRM and you don’t have a car, you best have lots of patience! Our public transit system, Metro Transit, is awful. Bus Drivers will often fly by bus …

Fedex sucks and they charge a whole lot of money. I had to send some documents and CDs for my Aunts to the States, and it cost me $36. I had to pay for 1 pound total even though my package was less than a fourth of a pound. …

I first came to this branch of the Queens Library because I moved to Woodside, and this was the closest branch to me. I’ve always been an avid user of public libraries, both when I was living in Orange County, NY with my parents as well as my …

If you are anything like me then you are looking for a way to keep gas prices from slamming you in the wallet. Since I travel a lot this is something that I feel more than most and I have been searching for a way to make the raising …

I started using ACP Laundry’s services 3 months ago. I decided to try them out because they were very near our place and they offer free delivery and pick-up. My laundry was piling up since my house help eloped.
Our first encounter was okay. They got the …

Acme is a window tinting shop that’s located in Columbus, MS. I have gone to Acme several times for car tinting service but they also provide tinting service for homes and businesses. Whenever I need to have windows tinted I go to Acme Window Tinting and I …

For the past four or five years, my family had our phone service through Comcast Cable Company. Even though the fact that our home phone and cable services were bundled together in one package was convenient at the time that we signed up for services, after a period …

Transports Publics Genevois or simply TPG (www.tpg.ch) is the name of the Company which is in charge of making the urban transportation of people in Geneva (Switzerland). I use TPG’s services everytime I have to travel to Geneva and I am always amazed by their professionalism. There are many factors …

Of course none of us want to think about funeral homes, but we all have to at some time or another. During these difficult times you want to go to a place that makes you feel comforted and that you know respects the wishes of your family members. Wilson’s …

I recently celebrated my 35th birthday. And, as part of that, I realized my driver’s license was set to expire and I had to go to our local Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles to renew it.
I received the renewal notice in late August. But, even though they gave me …

This De Post is the postal service in Belgium. If you are living in the are where they speak Vlaams or Dutch language, they call it as De Post. But if you are living in French language part of the country, you should look for the sign board La …

BSNL is the main telecommunications service provider in India but being a government enterprise it isn’t very efficient , the line is congested and has problem of cross connection along with many other problems so we disconnected our BSNL landline service and opted for Tata Indicom wireless walky post …

A few years ago, Wisconsin followed a trend started by several other states and implemented a Do-Not-Call list to cut back on the number of calls by telemarketers.
In my opinion, it was a complete failure.
Not only do I still receive telemarketing calls, I receive just as many as …

My landline service at home is provided by the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation. The office of my husband usually keeps all the telephone lines in the houses of their staff to avoid the connection and disconnection issues which will arise when a house is vacated by staff members who are …

Red Star card offers a very good rate for calling China from Singapore. For just $10, you can talk to your friend/relative in China for about 510 mins. That amounts to 1.96 cents/min. Moreover, you can use your mobile or call from a fixed line. It does not charge …

Its been 6 months now I am using Vonage for calling United Kingdom and National calls to USA at a fix rate. Vonage is a VoIP calling . Vonage calls are made using broad band but calls are made phone to phone. The Vonage is possible to get …

I work full time and make decent money. But, the cost of living unfortunately has risen to the point my paychecks aren’t keeping up. My wife went back to work recently to help with that. But, she hasn’t gotten a paycheck yet and we were running very low on …

A friend of mine who lives in Calgary, Alberta, was in the middle of renovating their condo in the nearby Canmore with the intention of selling it. I wanted to see what they were doing, as I am constantly renovating my own home, and I love looking at other …

I remember doing homework and school assignments at The Eva K. Bowlby Public Library in Waynesburg, PA. After 30-some years, I had a chance to revisit this wonderfully quaint converted Victorian house that sits across the street from a well-maintained small town park. Beyond the park is …

We had to use this Bus station in Kuala Lumpur when we planned to go Penang. We started from Chennai by Malaysian Airlines and reached KL International Airport at about 0730 hrs. As per the prior information we had, we looked for the Star Shuttle Bus Service at the Airport …

KSRTC - Kerala State Road Transport Cooperation, that is what it is called. The KSRTC has many vehicles it owns but mainly it is the KSRTC Buses which draw attention. At present there are mainly 5 types of buses which the KSRTC owns. They are mainly listed as:-
* Grauda …

For quite sometimes in the past, I had been a victim of the scoundrels in the Philippine Postal Service. I don’t know if these people are still existing up to now or not, but I stopped doing transactions with them because of those terrible …

I had been in the band for only a few weeks and our first show was scheduled on a night when my car was being used by my brother in Portland. The show was in Portland, OR and I live in Salem. I’m a student at Willamette …

I have done my last two perms at Cost Cutters, a family hair salon located at North Ottawa Plaza in Ottawa, IL, and I am very pleased with the service and with the results. Last year, I had asked for regular perm, and this year I went for spiral. …

I recently started to ride the city bus to and from school, due to the fact that gas prices have skyrocketed out of this world. My two year old son and I went and got on the city bus and paid out little two dollar fee and sat down …

I have been using the Signpost (Singapore post office) self service automated machine for few years now. It is one of the most convenient machine that works 24 hours with a touch pad screen. I have been able to buy stamps when the post office was closed or …

Media Mail is a great service from USPS (United States Postal Service) and one I have used many times. Over the years I must have mailed out over a hundred media mail items, some in boxes and some in bubble envelopes. It’s a very affordable way to mail books, …

After living in Bellingham for thirty years, I finally found a real barber shop. I’m talking about a small shop with a real revolving barber poll, stacks of magazines, and men who come in to get a haircut.
I’ve been there twice now and have no intentions of going anywhere …