I now pronounce you…

You may kiss the bride!

You can watch the pre-recorded ceremony here: Chapel of Flowers. View this video until: 8/13/2010 05:00 AM PST
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From: Jenny Castillo Aquino
Maybe some of you have been wondering what my current beef with the NBI is all about. Here’s the story behind it.

When we apply for an NBI clearance and we get cleared – we normally get our passports, or get employed overseas and it indicates we have no “hits” on the system. We are asked to fill out a form – complete names from your maiden name to the name of your parents as well. Then you line up, for hours, for each and every step it …

Sorry folks kung mainit ang ulo ko today. Woke up this morning. Surfed FB, then I stumbled on this OFW site: Tagpuan nang mga OFW. They were using my OFW Logo. “Ah ok!” so I said to myself.

So, I “liked” the page and browsed. But I found not a single credit to reyna elena dot com, not even a link. Now, I don’t remember getting any email from anyone who wants to use the logo. You see, I spent more than P10,000 for this logo. It’s well documented on …

“Walang lamangan, walang padrino, at walang pagnanakaw. Walang wang-wang, walang counter-flow, walang tong!”

Ex-Congresswoman Annie Susano’s vehicle apprehended for illegal use of wang wang.

Vehicle of Misamis Occidental Vice-Governor apprehended for illegal use of wang wang.

Loren Legarda and her body guards blocking other cars. July2, 2010 Glorietta 4. 2 days after Noynoy ordered a stop to mga “hari ng kalsada”

Marami pa sila dyan. Kung gusto nyong malaman ang iba pa, Isumbong Mo Ang Wang Wang Dito. Kukulo ang dugo mo sa makikita mong ginagawa nang iba saten na akala mo they are …

Saw this on Ellen Tordesillas
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Back in the 90’s, I went to Colombia to visit a friend. I remember when I told my boss that I’ll be in Bogotá for 2 weeks, he went nuts! My officemates were laughing at me. I was subjected to a lot of ridicule. “Huh! I’ll prove you all wrong!” I told them. My boss even offered me a free round-trip ticket to go to France instead. You see, back then, Bogotá was a war-zone. It’s spelled: Pablo Escobar. You can’t miss it on American TV. Bombs were exploding all …

Barrio Siete congratulates Jovit Baldovino! He is the first grand winner of Pilipinas Got Talent. Watch out. He will be hitting the international stage pretty soon! I’m sure the world is taking notice. If Journey has Arnel Pineda, I hope he gets invited by Bon Jovi hahaha!

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Feel na feel ko ang problema nang CBCP. Kung sa blogging, bagsak na bagsak ang Alexa ranking at walang trapik.
Feel nang ma experts, sila ang problema at sagabal sa pag-unlad.
In the Philippines, where 81% of the 90-million population are Catholic, the Catholic Church is the “single, most powerful veto group,” Anderson said.
He decried how the Catholic Church has successfully impeded the distribution of contraceptives and curtailed the education of people about reproductive health, thereby also slowing down the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Mary Racelis, professor from the University …

We all know that there is a war going on between Cabral and the Church. Sa away na to: Team Cabral ang lola nyo.
Cabral suggested kasi that sex education should start in kindergarten. Nagwala ang mga FB friendships ko hehehe! But the ever-present peacekeeper Inday Espina-Varona explained naman na, sex education is not teaching sex per se. Oo naman, noh? Then again, kahit na walang detalye, Cabral indicated na what’s appropriate to their age ang ituturo sabi Cabral. Let’s just assume na hindi naman talaga saksakang kaliga-ligaya ang nasa …

Imagine my new role: Reyna Elena, La Kapita de’l Barrio Siete, defender of Jejemon rights! Bwahaha!!! But don’t laugh now. In fact, I’ve been labeled as a Jejemon already.
Jejemons are called the new jologs, labeled as people of inferior mentality. If they are of inferior intellect, then how in the world were they able to invent and be creative with a brand new language of their own? And if you’re a jejemon hater, show your prowess of superior intellect by translating their language. Care for a challenge?

Like our reader …

Sabi nga nang ulat ni Kapitana, matindi ang labanan ni Mar at ni Binay, ayan tuloy, nagsabunutan ang mga supporters. Alam naman niyo saaten, dibdib masyado nang tao ang eleksyon. Kaya heto ang patunay na ang mga supporters ni Mar at ni Binay ay nagsabunuta daw.

Naku hindi po totoo yun, hindi po sila mga supporter ng kahit na sinung kandidato, at hindi rin po yan pugad ng ibon. Yan po ang in na in na hairstyle dito sa paligid ko.
Parang masyado lang kasi nakala stress itong nagdaang eleksyon na hanggang …

By: Reyna Elena
I’m tired of elections. Kaya it’s time for world peace.
Meron pa naman akong i-ilan na boylets na natitira. Yong iba, isinumpa na ako mula nung nalaman na ako’y isang yellow fairy godmother. They moved at nag-iba na nang bahay. And none of them told me where.
Boylet number 1 is for Villar. Sya yung mega-ask nang pan-tricycle worth taxi fare papunta sa polling precinct na pwede namang lakarin. Binili ko ang boto nya. Kaya lang wala akong internal control systems kung talagang si Noynoy nga ang binoto nang mokong. …

Normally, napakahirap tumawid sa mga kalsada ng tagaytay dahil sa dami ng mga humaharurot na sasakyan pero kakaiba ang araw ngayon – halos walang dumadaang sasakyan sa mga kalsada.

Siguro e na-trap lang ang mga tao sa loob ng mga voting precints.

Pasado alas-10 na ng makarating kami sa voting precint sa barangay namin dahil magtitinda pa ko ng halo-halo. Maiinit na ang ulo ng mga nakapila dahil bago pa mag-ala sais sila nakapila dun pero di parin sila nakakaboto.
Box office ang tinda kong halo-halo kaya pasado alas kwatro na nung makapag-usisa …

I was already at the voting center here in Quezon province at around 6:30 am together with my whole family. We spent at least 30 minutes looking for our names. The names or the voters’ lists are plastered on a single door of a particular room which really brought inconvenience to the voters. According to some city hall insider, the order of the Mayor was clear: Voters list should be on an open field and plastered on a long table or a wide blackboards lined up on a court or …

By Sylvia L. Mayuga
(Article in the week’s issue of Graphic Magazine)

You don’t meet generals in prison everyday. Danilo Lim in a handful of Filipino West Point graduates is a rare bird turning 55 in prison this June.
It’s curious: the first Filipino graduate of that US Military Academy back in 1914 was also surnamed Lim – Vicente from Calamba, Laguna, apparently no relation to Danny from Solano, Nueva Vizcaya. After Vicente Lim got back to the Philippines, Gen. Douglas MacArthur made him his right hand in the nascent Philippine Army at …

By: Yoying Pimentel
(Translated from its original Tagalog-Bicol version. Pulled from Sylvia Morningstar’s FB)

Good afternoon to you all, good afternoon to my Barangay Captain who is present today.
Greetings and congratulations to all the parents who for years have balanced their limited budget, reduced the food on their tables and looked away from a new t-shirt they badly needed – just so they could be here today – to see their child graduate from high school.
I would also like to greet the honorable teachers who tirelessly walked under the simmering sun and …

Mainit ba ang panahon? Banas na ba kayo sa rolling brownouts? Mataas na bill sa koryente? Pwes, mas lalong iinit ang ulo nyo dahil sa bagong pinalabas na anunsyo nang Meralco. An sabi sa bandillo:
“A double whammy is hitting customers of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco)—brownouts and higher power rates. Customers of Meralco, the country’s biggest power distributor, will have to bear an additional burden of P1.20 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) starting this month, due largely to the huge spike in the cost of power it buys from suppliers. This means that …

This was forwarded to me and I have no clue who to give credits to. But I would like to share this to you all.

Take note, nakasapatos ang mga tao, walang maka tsinelas kahit sa Avenida. Just sharing…sayang mga iba hindi inabutan. Super linis at discipline ang mga tao. Wala pang naka maong.
Old Manila
The environment was still very clean. Very little wires hanging from posts. I still remember Mackay Radio and La Estrella del Norte where my parents would shop. Based on the Oldsmobiles, Studebakers, Buicks & Pontiacs, I must …

Do you know that even the Pope believes that condom use for people in Africa would make the fight against HIV and AIDS worse?
You see, the policy of the Roman Catholic church is the encouragement of sexual abstinence and fidelity. This way, you prevent the disease from spreading. Ganun lang. And yes, the Filipinos have pretty much practiced abstinence every… let’s see… I don’t know, 25 seconds?!
Let’s listen to Winnie Monsod.
Why the big fuss about condoms?
By Winnie Monsod

…as Johns Hopkins says, “Still, some use is better than none,” and …

This all started when I wrote this blog entry: My Legazpi City. I would ran across the multiply blog of this Bicolano blogger. Since then, I would meet a number of fellow Uragons on Facebook and I have to thank these guys for all the work in promoting our beautiful city in Bicol, Legazpi City. Dex Baldon has been at the forefront with his Legazpi City Facebook and Wow Legazpi and another person who I still don’t know behind Gayon Bicol.There’s also Pading Romy, who has been hilariously pulling …

After about 4 blizzards, average 28 inches of snow, followed by 4 days of continuing and unrelenting rain, finally we had a beautiful day. Tamang-tama, kasag-sagan nang internet bullying, hate and vilification campaign to Reyna Elena sa Pinoy Blogosphere. So, mon ami et moi decided to drive somewhere.
We went to Atlantic City but decided to take the local roads. Wala lang. What would typically take 2.0 hours from Delaware to Atlantic City, it took us about 3 or more hours. Why? We discovered other alternative driving route destination, read: …

Mainit ang labanan sa Gordon Avenue, kaya as it is usual in the Barrio, break muna tayo.

I am brittle and vulnerable too.

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Life in the barrio B.C., that’s boring community, is truly boring. Only the sons, daughters and friendsters of the politicos move up to taste barbecue. Us, los indios have no futuro. Some of my relatives died of kamote overdose. Us the survivors, have to work twice as hard and haw-haw de carabao to even smell pugak pugak de tambutso in the city. Now, that’s a big deal when you go back to the Barrio. In fact, it’s a must that you carry one lata of biskwet. Ave Maria, I never …

Hello mga ka-barrio, Happy Valentine’s Day sa inyo!
At syempre, dahil sa araw ng mga puso ngayon – time out muna tayo sa politics mga ka-barrio! Let’s take a breather and have some fun with the Pinoy cheesiest quotes I found online.
1. Minamalat na naman ang puso ko. Paano kasi, laging sinisigaw ang pangalan mo..
2. Ikaw ba may-ari ng Crayola?? Ikaw kasi nagbibigay ng kulay sa buhay ko..
3. Can I take your picture? I want to show Santa kasi exactly what I want for Christmas!
4. Exam ka …

Writer’s block is a condition, associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task in hand. At the other extreme, some “blocked” writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers.. iyan ay ayon kay Mr Wiki (kung may iba ka pang alam na meaning, paskil mo sa comment section ha)
But what if a blogger loses …