Yellow Bus, Husky Bus and Holiday Bus Lines will soon be providing "breastfeeding seats" in their buses.
This is in view of the Regional Development Council (RDC) 12 under Chairperson Darlene Antonino Custodio, City Mayor of General Santos City, passing a ... 
The coastal municipality of Maitum in Sarangani Province, one of the more popular pitstops of the Soccsksargen EXperience Tours, is promising more fun and excitment at their most famous annual celebration - the Bangsi Festival!
The festival which originated in 2008 ... 
I would like to share with you a video from Lourd de Veyra, part of a series which he dishes out regularly in his weekly program on TV 5, "Word of the Lourd".
It says a lot on what we Mindanaoans ... 
Today, January 12, 2011 the glam wife of eight-time World Boxing Champ and Sarangani Congressman Manny Pacquiao celebrates her birthday!
From being a former promo girl of a famous beauty brand to being the the better half of the richest Pinoy ... 
Bariles is so ecstatic today! He just found out that his labor of love, GenSantos.com is now ranked #43 in the 100 Most Popular Blogs of the Philippines 2010! The 100 Most Popular Blogs of the Philippines 2010 was compiled by PinoyMoneyTalk which the blog author releases annually. Check out the table below….. [...]
Read the first of this 3-part series of Bariles’ adventures in Singapore for the Google Geo User Summit by clicking this —> Google Geo User Summit Singapore, Day 0. DAY 1. The Fat and Fab Brothers Bariles and Orman (or Ganda Ever in the blogosphere) woke up early before 7am at their room at the [...]
Without so much fanfare, a new hotel calling itself the Richeva GenSan Suites opened very recently in General Santos City. Conveniently located along the quiet neighborhood of Sampaguita Street, near Laurel East Avenue, this new luxury hotel is just a few meters from the city’s two universities, NDDU and MSU; of walking distance from the [...]
For people in General Santos City who are very particular about the kind of spa they want to visit, preferring an establishment that should be special enough to transport them into nirvana-like state and offering services beyond the usual massage and foot rub, then they do not have to look far and wide anymore. The [...]
I would like to share with you a video from Lourd de Veyra, part of a series which he dishes out regularly in his weekly program on TV 5, “Word of the Lourd”. It says a lot on what we Mindanaoans have been complaining about for ages – the bad rap we have been getting [...]
Congratulations to Aunt Ludi Bakeshoppe for being the first bakery in General Santos City and Sarangani Province to be given a Halal Certification by the Mindanao Halal Authority! According to Wikipedia, Halal ( ”lawful”) is a term “designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law”. The term is [...]
Last week, yours truly, Bariles celebrated my 50th Birthday! Yes, you read it right – 50! Fifty! Singkwenta! Limampu! I bet most of you readers didn’t know that but yes, I am already half a century old! Today, Monday in honor of the Chinese New Year being celebrated around the world, I am sharing with [...]
The coastal municipality of Maitum in Sarangani Province, one of the more popular pitstops of the Soccsksargen EXperience Tours, is promising more fun and excitment at their most famous annual celebration – the Bangsi Festival! The festival which originated in 2008 to put into focus their top OTOP commodity, the Bangsi or Flying Fish has [...]
Just a few more months before their reportedly final opening in June 2012 (read report here), SM City General Santos is still on the lookout for applicants to fill up major major positions in their Admin Department. From the blog of Michael Andrew Carbon, we found out that SM City GenSan still needs the following: [...]
If you have been wanting to go to Iloilo City this weekend and participate in their Dinagyang Festival but could not due to various reasons, then fret not! GenSan Sports Center is bringing Iloilo’s grandest festival to town by way of their DINAGYANG SA GENSAN FOOD FESTIVAL on January 22, 2012, Sunday! GenSan Sports Center, [...]
Yellow Bus, Husky Bus and Holiday Bus Lines will soon be providing “breastfeeding seats” in their buses. This is in view of the Regional Development Council (RDC) 12 under Chairperson Darlene Antonino Custodio, City Mayor of General Santos City, passing a resolution last year “urging the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) 12 to issue [...]
Today, January 12, 2011 the glam wife of eight-time World Boxing Champ and Sarangani Congressman Manny Pacquiao celebrates her birthday! From being a former promo girl of a famous beauty brand to being the the better half of the richest Pinoy athlete in the world, Maria Geraldine Pacquiao or Jinkee to most of us, has [...]
I luckily got hold of a copy of the 2012 calendar given by a large tobacco multinational firm to its dealers and was very pleased with what I found inside its pages. The calendar highlights twelve famous Philippine Festivals including General Santos City‘s TUNA FESTIVAL! Two festivals are featured in each page and the Tuna [...]
General Santos City showed the most significant increase in membership figures of Pag-IBIG compared to three other cities in Southern Mindanao. According to Pag-IBIG Fund’s Vice-President for Southern Mindanao, Jose W. Banzon, this figure is directly related to the number of business enterprises existing in any specific area. A PIA report says, “General Santos City [...]
Bariles is a Filipino word for “Tuna”, the primary source of income of the people of General Santos City which hosts 6 of the Philippines’ 8 tuna canneries and more than 80% of its tuna processing plants.
The city boasts of the only “Tuna Festival” in the world celebrated every September 5 in commemoration of its charterhood anniversary.
Bariles is also the alias of this blog\'s author who would like nothing than to write about his beloved city by the bay and share it with his kababayans from all over.
He has worked throughout Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. Currently, he devotes his time, beauty, and talent in the fields of Communications, Marketing and Media.
He is also the unofficial leader of the Soccsksargen Bloggers, a motley group of online writers who share a common goal to write what\'s true, good, progressive and beautiful about South Central Mindanao and her people.
