About

“J” with friends, “Reynz” in the blogging world. Smile! C’est moi! And I consider Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Pasig City, Philippines and Legazpi City as my home.

And this is my personal and humor blog. I’m not much of an Improv character because I need a lot of improvement but I do love humor and for some reason, I could always find something funny, something humorous on anything and in any situation. I don’t know why. Sometimes, my brains are just oozing with something funny, you’d think I lost my mind and if could not make one soul smile, I’m telling you, I’ll probably start arresting cops. Which is why, some of what you’ll read here are my real life experiences. Some are also products of my wild imagination. Daydreaming is for everyone, remember?

Honestly, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a doctor. All my parents can afford was to send me to a make believe medical school ran by a quack doctor. I did not become a doctor but I learned how to quack. In fact, sometimes, I walk like a duck. I just have to remind myself how humans walk.

I’m a product of both the US and the Philippine educational system which was quite a privilege. From Aquinas University in Legazpi City to the United States. I was about 7 subjects away from finishing a Master’s in Public Admin at GWU, read: short of funding. However, I was happy to graduate and receive my Executive MBA degree from Temple U along with the Class of 2004!

I’m a Certified Public Accountant and in the Philippines, I worked for one of the largest accounting firms associated with Coopers & Lybrand then. In the United States, I worked for two (2) of the biggest broadcast investments firms, one was based in Philadelphia and the other was based in Princeton, New Jersey. After graduating and receiving my MBA degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, I would become the Director of Finance of a housing agency. My last job was a CFO of another housing agency.

Blog Projects

I have been blogging since 2005/2006 and it’s nice to have been featured in several English daily papers in the Philippines. These are two (2) of my biggest projects so far, with Barrio Siete Dot Com as a collaboration with a number of Filipino bloggers:

1. reyna elena dot com

Poking fun to the phrase “social climbing”, my personal and humor blog literally changed the negative meaning of social climbing to mean being friendly and creating network and connections to open up opportunities. This was my 1st blog where I talk about anything to politics, money and economy and matters that is of interest to Overseas Filipino Workers.

2. barrio siete dot com

With the success of reyna elena dot com, thus born barrio siete dot com. Together with some of the well-known Filipino bloggers around the world including journalists in Philippine media, we created a collective blog called barrio siete dot com. Four (4) months later, it will become one of the fastest blog in the Philippines in terms of traffic, reach and readership.

For more, here’s one entry where I had fun writing. The Movie of my life.

If you want to get in touch with me, feel free to shout out!