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Naubusan na ba talaga nang fire ang Barrio Siete?!
My 12th State of the Barrio Address (SOBA) addresses Roni’s comment here na personally, medyo nairita ako! Hahaha! Ano ba Roni?! Leche ka! Grrr!
“Laos ka na ba Reynz?“
Para bang it smacks of sumtin’ sumtin’ na hindi maganda pakinggan. But it’s ok. Ganyan lang yan si Roni, who abruptly left Barrio with his internal fight with a number of B7 writers. Sabi nga ni bluep, matira ang matibay.
“Laos ka na ba Reynz?“
I don’t know if it’s a challenge for the …

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Why would Malacanang even issue an announcement like that?
Kapampangans nga ba talaga or she/they asked them para kunyari believable?
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I’m not ignorant about racial discrimination, bias or however you mix those words. I don’t really understand why people here in my Barrio States of America gets infuriated if say a white person, paints himself black and be black for a moment, or a black person paints himself white to be a white person. Ok. So, what? Kung alam lang nila, that whitening products are the best selling shit in Asia hahaha! Yes, most Asians wants to be white. Filipinos included! Haller! Hahaha!
America is just uber sensitive. Shit like these …

I’m not a weather forecaster, but just like everyone, I have been monitoring the map on the Weather Channel and it looked like the storm Santi, just passed by Luzon.
In fact, the reddish part of the storm actually became smaller. I hear this most of the time from the weather forecasters that when these storms makes a landfall, typically they lose the punch. I don’t know if that’s what happened here. But it looked like it’s over.
It must be very interesting to be a weather forecaster. Kung pwede lang ngang …

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Sight nyo ang litraks na yan mga kabarrio? Yan si Pareng Bill at ang Lolo nyong impakto. Akala ko nga dedo na yan eh! This was taken noong August 4, 2009 when Pareng Bill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Ay mali! To free those two (2) Korean-Americans ata yon na journalist na hinarang at kinulong nang sira-ulong Lolo nyong impakto.
At dahil most influential blogger ang Pareng Bill Clinton, nabitbit nya pauwi sa Amerika yong dalwang gurls.
Pero me chika.
Eto exclusive. Nasagap ko …

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Wanted: Vice President. Celebrity. Crowd drawer. Yan ang problema ni Gibo. Kasi naman eh. Bat’s kasi… ano eh…
“Our preference really is Vilma Santos,” Guico told the Inquirer. “She can raise Gibo’s popularity. She’s had a lot of experience and is a veteran of local government. She’s well-respected.” (Source: Low ratings make it hard to get No. 2 )

For all those excellent credentials, sometimes I feel that Gibo was not thinking strategically by aligning himself with her. So even with Ate Vi’s magic wand, kung meron man sya …

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From the Inquirer
Aside from Metro Manila, the provinces of Aurora, Quirino, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Tarlac, Zambales, Pampanga, Bataan, Rizal, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Lubang Island, Quezon, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur and Catanduanes were placed under Signal No. 2 and these areas will experience winds of 60-100 kph, PAGASA said.
Storm Signal No. 3 was hoisted over Polillo Islands in Quezon province while Signal No. was raised over Isabela, Ifugao, Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya, La Union, Pangasinan, Albay, Burias Island, Sorsogon, Marinduque, Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro …

Recession is something that we all seem to know. But when one start throwing in words like macroeconomic indicators, GDP, consumer spending, inflation – the whole concept becomes difficult to understand. Even the book definition is still somewhat difficult to comprehend to a non-economist.
They say that “two successive quarters of negative growth mark the beginning of a recession and two successive quarters of positive growth mark the start of an expansion.”
And so I woke up this morning with a lot of good news on TV and on the internet. Everyone’s …

Samoa. Where one tsunami swept one day. No warning. No nothing. This is the American Samoa. Where the United States sent million and millions of dollars to prepare the island for emergency like this. Yet, somehow, those millions disappeared of about $13 million in disaster preparedness grant. The allegations are that some of those monies were used to pay for “extra personnel”. In the Philippines, its spelled “ghost employees”. Hahaha! In fact, if you spell Samoa backwards, its spelled Flippines. Eeek mali! Sorry. Its spelled DDSW hahaha! Anak nang leche! …

Matagal na tong nag-aaway na Fox News and White House dito samen mga kabarrio. Last week, habang busy ang lola nyo nang kakatili for the Phillies winning the National League, umuusok naman ang istori nang awayan nang Fox News at White House. Eh kasi nga, nag-reklamo ang White House na me consertive bias daw po tong mga tiga Fox News at talaga namang atake at criticized bawat galaw ni Obama or kung ano mang strategy nang White House.
Hmmm…
Eh, kung tiga-rito ka sa barrio namen sa merika, you don’t even have …

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Where have all the leaders gone? Matagal ko na syang sinulat. Nung time na bagsak na bagsak ang ratings ni Gloria. Bagsak pa rin sya and will never make ahon talaga.
And to some, Chiz is the leader. Kaya lang, tumiwalag na pala si Chiz sa NPC. Ang cheezmaks sa FB me gusto raw magbayad nang P1 billion just for Chiz to give up his ambitions to run for President. Teka lang… hindi naman ata front runner si Chiz, so what’s the P1 billion for? I could declare not …

From forwarded emails:

“I must confess I am one of those who felt that the attempt at a reprise of the People Power saga, this time a signature campaign for the designated heir of the Aquino legacy, Senator Noynoy Aquino, was a throwback to some old diseases of the traditional electoral system personalism and the predilection to fall back on tired political symbols.”
“But seeing on television the announcement of Noynoy’€™s candidacy, I was unaccountably moved to tears. It could not be accounted, I think, to the resurfacing of …

Eto na naman tayo mga kabarrio. There’s another one coming and this is how this new storm looks like right now if you visit the Weather Channel.

There’s a new tropical storm heading for the Philippines mga kabarrio. It intensified further Tuesday night and now has an international code name, Mirinae. In its 5 p.m. (Manila time) report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Mirinae was about 160 miles (257.495 km) northwest of Guam. Mirinae – which will be code-named Santi upon entering Philippine territory – was moving west-northwest at …

Love moments…

“You may now kiss the bride!”

“Philippine Senator and now Vice-presidential candidate Manuel ‘Mar’ Roxas and his new bride popular Philippine television and radio broadcaster Korina Sanchez kiss following their wedding ceremony Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009 at Sto. Domingo catholic church at Manila‘s Quezon city in the Philippines. The wedding was postponed a few times following back to back typhoons which saw the worst flooding in Manila in 42 years and extensive damage to homes, agriculture and infrastructure.” Source: Yahoo

Mr. & Mrs. Mar Roxas

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I read the article that ran today: RP tourism competitiveness slips five notches which said:
The country last year occupied the 81st spot among the more than 130 countries included in the study. This year, the country fell five notches to No. 86.

Its bad enough that the infrastructure in the North have been battered by Ondoy and Pepeng, then here comes the bad news on tourism. But let me leave that infrastructure and standards for them to figure out. For me, goodwill is important. Image is everything. Priority-wise, if …

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Gulong-gulo ako ki Loren, akala ko wala nang ganang tumakbo. Chika lang pala. Now that she has decided to make a run, tipong she wanted those three guys (Manny, Gibo & Chiz) to make ligaw to her. Kaya tuloy when Loren formally declared her bid for vice presidency in 2010, interestingly, Danding Cojuangco was not even there to witness one Josefanya Rizal moment. Instead, it was the son of Danding who made the announcement that there is gonna be a Loren-Chiz tandem.
Not to Loren though. Ah-ah! Loren said, …

Do you know where this island is located?!

Medyo nasita ako ni Anthony Bayarong of Subic Times on those Gordon pictures na nadekwat ko sa Facebook , which I forgot to put some proper credits (sorry po talaga Anthony!), and so, I went back to facebook hoping na makita ko ang link. Instead, here’s what happened…
I was looking for Ondoy pictures this morning when I ran across this entry: Island No. 132 of 7,200 Philippine Islands. According to the entry, this particular island in the Philippines was featured on the National …

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Y2K.
That was supposed to be doomsday.
Me karton den akong me nakatagong tubig at patatas. Plus lighter.
Instead, the US was flooded with computer programmers.
Now?
It’s Polar shift.
Alignment of the sun to the milky way.
These are all happening in three (3) years…
And no one sent me a memo last year.
That the the world that we know it today is about to end.
END?!
Or are all these emails we’re getting from strangers part of a well-planned movie promotion of 2012? Whatever it is, I’m sure, I’m not the …

The New CNN
If you’ve seen the new layout and design of CNN, you’d be impressed. Continually being on top of their game, CNN changed their layout today to a much more deliciously designed online newspaper, great photography and a lot more crispier pictures, nice layout design and tons of videos. What’s more, it’s a lot easier to share the stories you like on facebook and on twitter! Truly standing up to it’s name as the global leader. I believe, they are really tops as far as leveraging technology in delivering …

Out of nowhere, I suddenly remembered my fourth year adviser back in high school. I would say she was intelligent. She was very knowledgeable of uncommon things such as theories which are not commonly discussed, as well as palm reading.
One afternoon during our break, we talked about marriage, crushes, early pregnancy, relationships and other related topics. Of course, the most “kilig moments” of talking were about those of our during teenage years. She said, you know what, back in college, I read my classmate’s palm then I discovered that she’s …

The City of Philadelphia went wild last night. The Phillies (Philadelphia) beat Dodgers (Los Angeles) 10-4, to win the National League Championship and return to the World Series for a rare chance to win the World Series back to back. Last year, they beat Tampa Bay and they are the only other team to win the National League back to back like what the Cincinnati Reds did in 1975-76. New York Yankees would win the title three consecutive times from 1998 to 2000.

Here’s Jayson Werth and Ryan Howard practicing …

Ladies & gentlemen and everyone else in between, this is La Kapitana.
One Ella reader sent me an email (Bebe from Toronto, Canada) to pick up Ella’s entry dahil sasakalin na daw nya lahat nang deers na makita nya sa North America sa sobrang galet. She was so agitated that I left a comment on Ella’s blog and requested permission to repost her entry toditz sa Barrio. Dahil parehas kaming maganda, I was given one green banana. Now, remember this entry was written by Ella and not Reyna Elena. Here we …

Gulat ko nung binuksan ko ang Inquirer online. Kidlat, all over the Makati skyline. Interestingly, yong headline na nakabalandra was about Estrada, declaring his candidacy for Presidency. Tingnan nyo nga naman, ultimo kalangitan galit at nag-ngi-ngit-ngit sa mga nakakabaliw na balita. Andyan si Ebdane na inaway ni Miriam Santiago dahil nangawala ang mga road taxes. Andyan yung mga Dacer children na hinahabol ang Estrada. And for some reason, Bhutan would like to learn democracy from us?! Ahh… Hellooo! Houston?! We got a problem here!!!

Dressed in orange, the color between yellor …

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“Filipino scholars’ abroad urged to return to the Philippines and share what they have learned to help improve the country’s academic and industrial sectors. Helpless Filipino politicians??? Sounds charity for the love of country.”
Seriously, if any local or multinational company or university in the Philippines hires me, I’ll go home. I am available. Bakit, sino bang ayaw umuwi? But not for charity. I don’t have any financial darna skills to increase my kakarampot na negative net worth to a million in just a year.
Now, Senator Edgardo Angara just …

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I was reading this news story by Neal Cruz of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It’s about Chiz Escudero who had already turned korenta and is already eligible to run as El Presidente de las Islas Filipinas. But curiously she said, no hay anuncio por todos diez diaz already mga kabarrio, so, que pasa senor?!
Im fak, everyone is already campaigning hard and mighty. Noynoy and Mar is out there. Erap is running again with Jojo Binay. Anyone wants to be VP to Gibo Teodoro? Ayaw ata …