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Barrio Siete Blog Performance

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It’s about 8:33 am now in the East Coast of the United States, March 13 (yeah, I am posting this entry pabalik March 6 dahil I am way late updating this site) and our collective blog, Barrio Siete is currently experiencing a slow down. Actually, this all started yesterday. Share on Facebook Digg Stumble Upon [...]

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Traditional Pasko sa Amerika

by MrNonsense on December 12, 2009

After stuffing ourselves with all the Thanksgiving turkey, my family and I decided to burn some calories by going to the Christmas tree farm. This was the first time we cut our own tree, and it was so much fun.

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The American Turkeys

by MrNonsense on December 2, 2009

Every fourth Thursday of November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day tocommemorate the first big feast between the European settlers, called the Pilgrims, and the Native American tribe that helped and taught them how to farm, hunt, and survive the winter.   This is a special time for gatherings and giving thanks for all our blessings, our families, and friends.   Some [...]

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Katakot Ako Eh

by MrNonsense on November 3, 2009

Mino Saves Little Miss Nonsense I’m not a saint.  I don’t have a soul.  I’m not dead—yet.  [Lightning flashes] Halloween was a pagan tradition that originated from the Celts 2,000 years ago.  November 1st was considered the end harvest season and the beginning of the winter chill and darkness, the time of the year that [...]

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America's Favorite Past Time

by MrNonsense on October 24, 2009

I hate baseball!

But after getting free tickets for the Seattle Mariners game from work, I didn’t hesistate to take the opportunity to bring my whole family to our first professional sports event. Free tickets, free hotdogs, free soda, fun with family and friends, and watching my half-brother, Ichiro…almost perfect! Only thing missing was a bowl of spare ribs teriyaki.

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September 22 (Marriage, Fancy Restaurants, and Lea Salonga)

October 22, 2009

I’m a party pooper! I had a talent for ruining surprises. I would go as far as looking all over the house, checking the bank account, checking my wife’s purse for receipts, coming home early unannouced, and bribing my children to tell me any information that they have about a gift or a plan that my wife have made. Blowin’ up the surprise is more fun than the surprise itself. But through the years, she has learned to hide things better. And I also realized that it’s not fun for her everytime I screw it up. So, as a loving and dedicated husband, one must just go with the flow.

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Our first date

October 19, 2009

…in a very long time since my children were born. My wife and I decided one Monday that it is time to leave the kids and go on a date again. So we left the boys with the babysitter and planned to go to the the casino. But the casino wasn’t the romantic place we [...]

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Soldiers are Mothers, too

October 19, 2009

War is not like a hollywood blockbuster. A soldier is not an action hero. Outside the statistics and the news-worthy portrayals, there are deeply personal issues that most of us don’t see.

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Starbucks Coffee Break

October 18, 2009

Last year my wife and I, along with a few other staff, were asked to participate in a poetry reading with the children at the psychiatric facility that we both work at. This annual poetry group encourages children to open-up and express their feelings in a more positive way. An so my wife read her poems [...]

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How to read Alexa charts

October 18, 2009

Back when I was just starting to blog, trying to social climb with who would turn out to be Manila’s self-proclaimed users influential bloggers, I was not just pushed out to the dark corners of internet pit of the world but would constantly be compared and lambasted that I’d be labeled to be just uberly [...]

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Cows, Pigs, and Brains at the Puyallup Fair

October 16, 2009

This was the funnest and most adventure-filled summer my family and I have ever had.  It was also the most documented and most expensive.  We visited and enjoyed some of the best places that both Iowa and Western Washington have to offer.  From Adventureland, to the Amanas.  From Mt.Rainier, to Lake Quinault.  From Ichiro, to [...]

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11th State of the Barrio Address (SOBA): Welcome our new tagline!

October 7, 2009

“Keep Social Climbing Alive!” That’s our tagline that endeared us to all of of you and gained us a lot of our followers worldwide. Except this reader from Houston who had no clue what our social climbing meant: “What about you, the self-proclaimed “social climber”? You do realize, surely, what a contemptible connotation the term [...]

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10th State of the Barrio Address (SOBA)

September 20, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome po sa ating 10th State of the Barrio Address! Duda ko, di nyo napansin ang maraming pagbabago sa paligid nyo. As La Kapitana, andito ako to tell you that we do this to nobody, nobody bachuu *clap* *clap* *clap*!!! Our Alexa rankings Our Alexa ranking mga kabarrio continues to streak like [...]

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9th State of the Barrio Address (SOBA)

August 30, 2009

3 months and 12 days! What a run! But we’re not finished! We’re still flying high! What are we gonna be when we grow up? Sikweet!!! For now, I’m broadcasting live from Philadelphia mga ka-barrio, if you’ve noticed our Barrio 7 statistics, we have now breached the 200,000 Alexa ranking category which means, we are [...]

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8th State of the Barrio Address (SOBA): One sweet thank you to all of you!

August 16, 2009

Marhay na aldaw tabi saindo gabos! Sa aldaw na ini-o, su Barrio mi, ay tolong bulan na! Huna lang nindo, na haloy na kami igdio. In three months, we have gone from one bukid to pro’lly, the only fastest growing rising Philippine blog ever! Look, nakakahiya tuloy sa Apolo. Este, Apollo, because our ranking was [...]

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2009 Influential Blog Awards, Cooking with Janet?!

August 10, 2009

Janette Toral chatted with me sometime this year. She asked for my support for her Influential Blog Awards. Given that up to this point, I am still hyper-critical of that other market-their-business-best friends/volunteers/kiss-ur-ass-and-will-continue-to-watch-them-2009-awards, I decided to support her. Why? I liked the idea of making known the small and upcoming talented bloggers. That’s the least [...]

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Unexpected media coverage of Barrio Siete during Cory Aquino's historic event

August 9, 2009

Nearing our 10-day mourning period in honor of Tita Cory, Barrio Siete Dot Com is very happy to have given full blog coverage to one historic event that just recently transpired, the passing of our one and only Tita Cory. It’s our small contribution in honor of President Cory Aquino and Senator Benigno Aquino. But [...]

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6th State of the Barrio Address (SOBA)

July 15, 2009

Tunggeros y tunggeras. Members of the drum and bugle corps, mga tambay, ladies and gentlemen, tigil muna ang habulan nang dos por dos, TAGAY!!! I address you today at a crucial moment in our Barrio Siete History. Officially, 2 months old na ang Barrio Siete. Oo mga ka-barrio, officially, we are 2 months old. Can [...]

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Barrio Siete: Are we doing it right?

July 4, 2009

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, [...]

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5th State of the Barrio Address (SOBA)

June 29, 2009

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 [...]

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Emerging Influential Blogs for 2009: What's in a blog nga ba?!

June 15, 2009

I believe in the idea of nurturing future Filipino bloggers. “Ang kabataan ang pag-asa nang bayan” or “Ang kabataan ang mga leche nang bayan“, basta, one of these is tama hahaha! Given all the name calling in Pinoy Blogosphere, I believe that it is not fair to these newcomers and newbies who are new into [...]

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Barrio Siete at its fastest ever!

June 12, 2009

Four scores and weeks ago, Barrio Siete started flat at 20 millionth Alexa rank. Just like anyone aspiring to be somebody, we must be somebody or at least people are noticing us. We should know. Readers spend an inordinate amount of time in our barrio and we’re glad to know. In such a very short [...]

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Why Barrio Siete deserves your nomination to Janette Toral's Emerging Influential Bloggers for 2009

June 9, 2009

A big thank you to all of those who nominated Barrio Siete. They’re on our sidebar. Ako po si La Kapitana and this is a blatant in your face 2009 Election Campaign and I admit, I have no shame and I will do anything for da sake of Barrio Siete hehehe! So, I am openly [...]

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My Barrio Siete folks! Wake up and smell the coffee!

May 30, 2009

My Barrio Siete folks! Wake up and smell the coffee! Ang gaganda naten! Hahaha! I woke up this morning with a really good morning delight. Why? Umabot nang 3,521,247 and ranking nang Barrio Siete sa Alexa. Sa aking tuwa, I emailed all the Barrio Councilors sa current performance nang Barrio Siete. Habang ginigiling ko ang [...]

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Barrio Siete is flying!

May 22, 2009

Parang kahapon la’ang! Like May 17, 2009? Like, not even a week? When we launched Barrio Siete! Our Alexa rankings at that time was zerowena. Our Barrio Siete was not in the mapa, feel bang hinarbat ang pondo naten nang mga kurap, for us to be on Wikimapia. Barrio talaga. But knowing how we Barrio [...]

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