With the sounds of wind and the waves, there was a utter stillness even during the middle of the day in Batanes and moreso at night where streets are literally empty around 6PM. Electricity is on for 24 hours on the main island of Batan while Itbayat and Sabtang have electricity from 6AM-12MN.
The prefixes mis- and mal- basically mean the same thing. Mal-, from French, meaning bad, badly, ill and mis-, from Old English, meaning bad, wrong. In some cases, mis- can derive from mes- (F...
1 As such, Mal is also the first antagonist who is not truly a contestant as he is Mike's hidden personality who he plays a part of, and he simply took full control of Mike's body for a disguise. 2  His name means bad or evil in Latin, as well as in Spanish, Italian, and French. One of the roots of malevolent is the Latin mal, as stated above. 2  Mal might also be short for Malice since malice means intention to do evil or ill will, which fits with Mal's character. 3  Ironically, his real name being the Latin root of a few words might explain why he understands Latin fluently.