UBEC in CEBU

On the way to the airport in Cebu, I saw this graffiti on the wall. Look carefully - there's UBEC with blue skies in the middle. I found this very amusing because I created Ubec in the stories I've written. Ubec's first appearance was in the stories in my first short story collection, Woman With Horns and Other Stories. What happened was that when I wrote on characters set in Cebu, I used to block and felt I had to tell the absolute truth. It came to me to reverse the letters in Cebu into Ubec, and so I created this mythical place (loosely based on Cebu). To my delight I found I could "lie" and make up stories.

More on Ubec, there is also an Ubec Band in Cebu.