It’s been awhile since I’ve been to Chicago. This is their famous “Bean”. Subukan nyong pakuluin to, ewan ko lang kung matunaw. If ever, kelangan ko nang singsing. Dose. Oo. Dose sila. Hehehe!

Photo Credits: My camera. My very, very own camera.
But there’s one newest attraction na pinagkakaguluhan ngayon sa Chicago. Eto.

Photo Credits: Bits and Pieces
It’s called “The Ledge”. If you stand here you can look down through a glass floor 1,353 feet (412 meters) above Wacker Drive in Chicago. This is part of the Skydeck Chicago located on the 103rd …

The entire nation is praying for the complete recovery of President Corazon Aquino. What’s bizzare about this story is that, while Cory struggles for her life in a hospital, si Gloria Arroyo naman worries about her boob job. To top it all, si Imelda Marcos naman is walang tigil ang rampa with her birthday a few days ago at eto, she wants to visit Cory Aquino. Hmpt!!!
President Corazon Aquino, the 11th President of the Philippines, was reportedly in serious condition last July 2, 2009. Since then, the entire nation went …

We were offline earlier. Pinipinturahan ang aming bagong bungalow. Mga 4 hours den ata yun. So, while KK was doing his thing, ako naman was reading my thing – este, da news just to be updated baga. Eto, I thought I’d share it with you all. Mabait ako.
Fourth of July
Tonight, all over America, nag-e-explode ang mga fireworks. Gaya nitong nasa litrato, kuha to New York over the Manhattan skyline na makikita mo sa kabila nang Hudson River sa may parteng Weehawken, N.J. This is like fiesta sa America at mistulang …

Ako po yan. Nakasilip sa dyalusi. (Tinanggal ko na po ang dyalusis! ~Reynz!) Shy dahil bigatin ang mga tiga-Barrio Siete. I’ve been reading Reyna’s blog for about 2 5 months now…. sorry kung late… huli man daw at magaling eh huli pa rin .
I got to know about Reynz blog from Dona Victorina. Hindi dahil palagi kong binabasa yun kundi dahil sinundan ko ang topic about the MLQ3 lambasting the intelligence of some readers about the article written by someone named Chip Tsao from Hongkong hanggang sa mag apologise …

While it’s July 5 now in Manila, it is still July 4 in America and the July 4 fireworks is going to lit up in the skies of America in a few hours. Interestingly, a celebration of independence and more so for America’s founding fathers – the country’s leaders.
Quite honestly, I could not count how many leadership classes, seminars and conferences I have attended. During my business school days, we get bombarded with a lot of leadership talks. The school would invite speakers in different fields from the government sector, …

From all of us here in Barrio Siete, pasok po kayo sa aming bagong gawang bungalow. From our old look:

To what you’re seeing right now.
Are you liking our new look?! This new look was the result of Kotsengkuba’s work to make Barrio Siete dreams come true. Eto na sya. Bungalow na sya.
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In other news… our current Alexa rankings is now at 819,197 as of 9:30am 7/13/09. Tabi tabi lang. Baka masagasaan kayo. Hehehe!
Now, there’s one Barrio Siete reader who wrote a very nice social climbing entry for da barrio that I would like to share to you all. He is Rob Angeles from Forth Worth, Texas; the author of Social Media Philippines whose journey to Social Media started 4 years ago when he became part of a company that markets word-of-mouth services to other companies. That started his curiousity with the …

This just in… Mel: Barrio Siete Writer in an ambush!
Just a few minutes ago, I was tweaking Barrio Siete’s new template when an email popped up. It was from Mel, one of our writers. I immediately asked for his number but I could not get a signal. So, I texted him. He is in Bukidnon. I am posting his email to me in full, with his permission:

Ate reynz,
a few hours ago (around 3pm) galing ako sa bangko to withdraw for our office. inambush po kami ng 4-5 persons. …

“Umuuwi ka pa sa Bicol?”
Yan parati ang tanong saken nang mga nakikilala ko. Ang typical kong answer?
“Bihira.”
I get a lot of weird look whenever I give that response. Pero deep inside sa puso ko, wa biro at bahid jose rizal, ako actually ang nasasaktan. It’s not that hindi ako marunong lumingon sa aking pinanggalingan, kahit natu-trauma na ako sa sight nang kalabaw, hindi ko lang talaga masikmura ang sitwasyon nang mga ilan kong kebigan, pati na mga kapamilya ko na nasa barrio, nag-hihirap at medyo naiwan. Hindi ko man kasalanan …

Mukhang exciting pa sa koboy stories ang halalan na darating. Ang latest news is that – Manu-manu ang bilangan sa darating na halalan. Naki-kinita-kinita ko na… agawan nang mga balota, bilangan sa ilaw nang kandila, brown-out bigla ang meralco, palitan nang mga kinahon na balota hahaha!!! Pero, teka …. eto muna…
Dutch-Venezuelan Smartmatic and Filipino Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) decided to partner on a project to automate the 2010 Elections. By partnering, they sorta created another legal entity. Ang problema, walang basbas nang SEC. Ano yon?! Nadala sa tagay?! Eto …

I was talking to one of my boylets in Tiwi, Albay the other day. He gave me the news. My other boylet na binilhan ko nang pridyidir is now an OFW in Dubai. Huh?! Eh dahil kilala ko yong nangutong saken… “Tatagal ba yun dun?!” sabi ko. Eh kasi nga, first it was Kotsengkuba who told me he’s had it and decided to go home after working for so many years in China. Then, it was my nephew who said, he is so tired with his Arab employer in Saudi. …

Ako po si Jeri. OFW. Naka-base sa Luanda, Angola. Tiga Lasam, Cagayan Valley po ako. An Ilocano pero hindi kuripot at kaya kong painumin nang tuba lahat nang tiga-Barrio Siete. Sorbetes sa mga babae. I am a family man with 3 kids, pero yung 2 kong kids ay adopted. I’m a Geodetic Engineer. I graduated in 1992 at Saint Paul University in Tuguegarao City. My profession is known as Surveyor. Yung maninilip ng pag-aari ng iba. lol. (siyempre diko naman pag-aari yung mga lupain na aking sinisipat at sinusukat). …

Our Alexa Rankings
Parang keylan la-ang. Barrio Siete is really flying talaga. I don’t know about you, but we must be riding one super-sonic broom made in Capiz. I guess. Wala pa kami sa top 100,000 on Alexa. Pero meron kaming anting-anting that will get us there. As you know, we opened our Barrio Siete doors to the world on May 17, 2009. Mula nun, para kaming kwitis. Our rank?

44 days later, eto na po kami, the sweetest 6 figure milestone of Barrio Siete. Naka-simangot ang Silver. Gusto nya 5-figures. Tahan …

Nagulantang ako sa news sa The Huffington Post kaninang umaga. Naduling ata ako because I was panning the news. Ang pagkabasa ko “President was arrested by the military!” Kinabahan ako with excitement! Nagbasa ako sa ibang online news.
Military arrests Honduras president, official says

Photo Credits: CNN
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Today, a United Nations (UN) agency has just ranked the Philippines as No. 5 in the world’s roster of “shabu giants”.
The report also revealed that illegal drug manufacturing occurs mostly in industrial-sized laboratories operated by transnational criminal organizations, including foreign chemists. Source: RP is 5th ‘shabu giant’

A police officer walks on packages of cocaine in Buenaventura, Colombia’s main seaport on the Pacific coast, Monday, March 23, 2009. Colombian police had seized 3.5 tons of cocaine in a container of vegetable grease bound for Mexico. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara). Source: Mexico’s …

Patawarin nyo ako sa ke-kwento ko. Batang bata pa ako nito nun sa Barrio Siete. Wala pa akong alam magtanim, este… basta… alam mo na bata… batuta. Kasalanan to ni Glo. Kelangan ko nang ilabas ang matagal ko nang kini-kim kim na katarantaduhan. Para mag-karon ako nang world peace. Hehehe! Aten-aten lang to. Wag nyo nang ikalat. Nung bata pa ako, eto: magnanakaw ang lola. Wait! wait! Sandali lang! Bago nyo ako sunugin at tirahin nang Somalia stoning… pwedeng mag-explain?! Hehehe!
Sa barrio, marami akong malupit errr malapit na mga kebigan. …

There is no question, Michael Jackson is the undeniable King of Pop. I will never understand why he lived his life the way he did, during his last few years, but like millions of all of us, I will always remember him because of the music he created.
One of the most memorable song for me was – “We are the world”. This song was produced by Quincy Jones for the United Support Of Artists For Africa and would sell for a staggering 800,000 copies. I love the rest of …

Photo Credits: CNN-Iran says Neda’s death may be tied to ‘terrorist’ group
Ang aking adopted Barrio Siete sa Amerika is Philadelphia. Isang cosmopolitan na shoedad kung saan nagpirmahan nang Constitution nang Amerika. Im fak, sa First Amendment nang United States Constitution, mababasa mo to:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .”
Ang phrase na to ang tinatawag na “separation of church and state”. Naniniwala ako na ang forefathers nang Constitution nang Amerika eh talagang uber-talino dahil 1802 pa …

Photo Credits: Media Bistro
Exciting magkaron nang blog. Eto yong best invention after food. If I know, yong iba dyan di baleng malipasan nang gutom basta makapag-blog! Hahaha! Kaya naman, blogging used to be thrilling. Ewan ko lang mga kunichiwa noh? This is just my own and very scientifically not experimented and unproven observation. Yon bang excitement na makita ang first entry mo that took you forever in the wee hours of the morning na i-compose and it’s out there for the world to see under sa www.pangalankoto.com.
At dahil sa …

Da gods must be angry!
With packing winds of up to 83 kilometers (52 miles) an hour – with gusts of up to 102 kilometers (63 miles) – this is one storm that not only created havoc in its path, lives were lost, but a host of other storm related problems like floods, landslides and stranded people that its almost like one storm that enveloped the country. It even spawned tornado and big waves sa Barrio Siete ni Malen in the Eastern Visayas region. Consider the so many inter-island travelers …

And so, classes in most Barrio Siete and Sitis in the Philippines have opened. At bawat opening, me closing. Eto ngayon ang chorva. Life after college can be very difficult for students everywhere. You may be living in turd or pers world kawntri noh! Pero parang mas mahirap ata kung asa turd world leche land ka deba? Anjan na yong there’ll be tons and thousands of graduates like yourself but there are only “limited employment opportunities” to fill in. *Arayat* Por ejemplo, ang aking brother ay 4 years ng graduate …

Tulad ni Reynz , I’m impressed and overwhelmed by the sight of tehran’s streets teeming with protesting citizens, in the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, and talaga naman, nakaka-wonder if this is Iran’s EDSA moment, sabay merong touch of inggit, kasi, WOW, we havent been able to raise such a crowd since EDSA 1986 (i don’t know that EDSA 2001, a poor sad crass imitation, drew as huge a sea of humanity).
But as the days go by, sa kakabasa at kakarinig ng tungkol sa sitwasyon sa Iran, it’s …

If you have been watching what’s going on in Iran from your Barrio Siete TV sets or laptop computers, what an incredible set of developments this Saturday leading to the bloody offensive against the demonstrators. One victim, ‘Neda‘ has become the rallying cry for Iranian protests.

Photo Credits: Time: Iran in chaos
You’d ask, what happened?!
Well, here’s what I know from watching what’s going on. Before, it used to be a political dispute between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his opponent Mr. Moussavi over an election protest. What happened next was …

Barrio Siete folks, look! Tehran is like Manila in 1986 less the violence. When you have this many people demonstrating about the outcome of a Presidential election, one could only ask if indeed there was any fair election at all in Iran. When Mousavi said that he was ready to die and be a martyr, the more it energized his supporters to really take to the streets. Some reports have it that the death toll is now as high as 150 on the seventh day of post-election protests, right after …

Dear Ate Charing,
Putok sa buho kung kami’y tawagin. Madalas alispustahin. Mababa ang tingin samen. Masakit sa damdamin. Wala akong magagawa. Anak ako sa labas. Nilunok ko na lang lahat nang pangungutya. Bakit nga ba ganun ang mentalidad naten? Bakit ako ang kelangang mag-suffer??? Eto po ang story ko…

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