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GenSan News Online Mag

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This morning, at exactly 1:00 AM, and after more than six hours of fixing, tweaking ...
It's great to be back! As the fishman has promised before his week-long break to transfer ...
Watch out GenSan and the whole of Soccsksargen for two exciting visitors next month! On April ...
The 10th Tuna Festival is still months away on September 5, 2008 but the organizers ...
Finally, a forum which could answer queries from a lot of entrepreneurs and businessmen in ...
Good news to all coffee lovers!!! In celebration of the first 100 days of Manny Pacquiao's ...
Good news to all PBA player-wannabees and parents/relatives of PBA player-wannabees!! Former UP and PBA player ...
The controversial building of WBC World Flyweight Champion Manny Pacquaio along Osmena South Avenue, which ...
Do you know that General Alexander B. Yano, the current Chief of Staff of the ...
With almost all the restaurants and hotels in General Santos City offering Valentine's Day promos, ...
Just in time for the opening of School Year 2008-2009, Notre Dame of Dadiangas University ...
As Bariles' homage to the man who was intrumental for his love of music, and ...

Dolores Farm Resort, Polomolok’s weekend retreat

Bariles has never been to Dolores Garden Resort before and so after bringing Davao bloggers Lyle and Brendel to hear Sunday mass at the Trappistine's Monastery at the foot of Mt. Matutum in Barangay Landan, Polomolok,  they,  together with his ...
Dolores Farm Resort, Polomolok’s weekend retreat

Ranchero Grill Steak and Seafood Resto’s lavish feasts for royalty

Even before the wave of new specialty-restos blossomed in General Santos City, one has already been dominating the lunch scene and is the fave of local businessmen who need to show off the Tuna Capital's kind of cuisine to their ...
Ranchero Grill Steak and Seafood Resto’s lavish feasts for royalty

Orange Bistro, Asian and Western fusion food at its best in GenSan City

Ever since the GenSan News Online Magazine was set up, it has featured events held at the Orange Bistro like their Bossa Nova Valentine Buffet Treat, and their Kalilangan 2008 Minutemen Concert.   It was also the venue for the ...
Orange Bistro, Asian and Western fusion food at its best in GenSan City

Davao’s Ram’s Lechon Manok and Seafood Resto, proudly GenSan-owned

Ram's Lechon Manok and Seafood Restaurant, located at Quimpo Avenue, Davao City has been around for sometime now but it was only during the Davao Food Appreciation Tour 2009 that the GenSan Bloggers Group found out about it when it ...
Davao’s Ram’s Lechon Manok and Seafood Resto, proudly GenSan-owned

Rediscovering the new Giacomino’s Pizza Resto

Plurk Fiestas conducted by Bariles' close-knit group of blogger friends have already become a regular staple.  These were instances for them to catch up on the latest on the blog world and also to try out the services and offerings ...
Rediscovering the new Giacomino’s Pizza Resto

(more pics) GenSan’s Queen of Tuna Cuisine

First-time visitors to General Santos City, wanting to be treated to its famed tuna, will surely be ushered off to a restaurant called Jam’s Resto Bar, a few kilometers away from the barangay wet market area along Nunez Street in ...
(more pics) GenSan’s Queen of Tuna Cuisine

GenSan’s twinbill diners: Grab A Crab and Coffee Club 101

Fueled by a maverick owner, a new fine-casual dining restaurant in General Santos City pulsates and invigorates the budding urban sprawl's day and night life.  Soulful sounds, soothing lighting and   sleek leather couches spell modern glam. This is not your typical fine-casual ...
GenSan’s twinbill diners: Grab A Crab and Coffee Club 101

Barangay Katangawan is National Awardee for Best Lupong Tagapamayapa

The local government of General Santos City has once again added a feather to its cap with another achievement, this time by one of its 26 barangays. In a faxed message from the National HQ of the Department of Interior and ...
3 July 2009 I Read the full story

Katrina Halili fires up Tierra Montana’s July Fever

Yaman GenSan 2009 is turning out to be the most event-filled festival of the Tuna Capital this year with concerts and gigs being churned out one after the other during its four-week period, aside from the conduct of more than ...
3 July 2009 I Read the full story

More and more Pacquiao Funny Pictures by popular request!

Due to millions and millions of requests from the readers of Bariles Republic's GenSan News Online Mag, I am featuring another set of Manny Pacquiao's funny pictures which I found on the Internet. This time, most of the photoshopped ...
27 May 2009 I Read the full story

Old NDDFG/NDGSC Campus, now the Mindanao Polytechnic College Annex

Bariles was surprised to find out last week, when passing through Beatiles Street beside the OLPGV Parish Center in downtown GenSan, to see saw many young men with crew cuts walking out of the gates of the former campus of ...
30 June 2009 I Read the full story

“Side A All Hits Live in GenSan” SEO Contest for Bloggers

June - 24 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 20 Responses - Viewed 776 times, 14 so far today

It’s great to be back!
As the fishman has promised before his week-long break to transfer to a new Web Host and Domain Name Server; and, to all who have written asking for this, Bariles is proud to announce a contest among bloggers for the upcoming and much-anticipated “Side A” Concert in General Santos City [...]

Welcome to the new GenSan News Online Mag!

June - 7 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 31 Responses - Viewed 1112 times, 5 so far today

This morning, at exactly 1:00 AM, and after more than six hours of fixing, tweaking and fiddling it , Bariles is proud to present the NEW LOOK of his blog to the public, now simply called GenSan News Online Magazine!
This time, General Santos City’s #1 Blog  is sporting the Tribune Theme, a magazine theme developed [...]

Katrina Halili fires up Tierra Montana’s July Fever

July - 3 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 2 Responses - Viewed 249 times, 55 so far today

Yaman GenSan 2009 is turning out to be the most event-filled festival of the Tuna Capital this year with concerts and gigs being churned out one after the other during its four-week period, aside from the conduct of more than the usual number of conferences, fora and trainings intended for business-minded generals.
A day prior to [...]

Barangay Katangawan is National Awardee for Best Lupong Tagapamayapa

July - 3 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 7 Responses - Viewed 165 times, 25 so far today

The local government of General Santos City has once again added a feather to its cap with another achievement, this time by one of its 26 barangays.
In a faxed message from the National HQ of the Department of Interior and Local Government to the city hall, it was announced that Barangay Katangawan has just been [...]

Dolores Farm Resort, Polomolok’s weekend retreat

July - 1 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 10 Responses - Viewed 358 times, 23 so far today

Bariles has never been to Dolores Garden Resort before and so after bringing Davao bloggers Lyle and Brendel to hear Sunday mass at the Trappistine’s Monastery at the foot of Mt. Matutum in Barangay Landan, Polomolok,  they,  together with his small bro Orman, proceeded to the place.

Dolores Farm Resort Signage

It was not difficult to locate [...]

Old NDDFG/NDGSC Campus, now the Mindanao Polytechnic College Annex

June - 30 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 11 Responses - Viewed 498 times, 19 so far today

Bariles was surprised to find out last week, when passing through Beatiles Street beside the OLPGV Parish Center in downtown GenSan, to see saw many young men with crew cuts walking out of the gates of the former campus of the Notre Dame of Dadiangas for Girls (NDDFG), renamed the Notre Dame of General Santos [...]

6Cyclemind Band rocks GenSan this weekend

June - 28 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 5 Responses - Viewed 447 times, 9 so far today

Two weeks after Parokya ni Edgar’s jampacked performance at the KCC Mall of GenSan Rooftop, courtesy of Touch Mobile, it is the turn of another Manila-based band to rock the Tuna Capital once again this weekend.
Exactly on the 4th of July, Saturday,the group which popularized such songs as Princesa, I, Aaminin, Upside Down and many [...]

Cebu Inmates stage Michael Jackson Dance Tribute

June - 27 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 9 Responses - Viewed 659 times, 10 so far today

As Bariles’ homage to the man who was intrumental for his love of music, and surely for the rest of theworld, too, he has embedded a music video of Michael Jackson’s “Ben”, from the 1971 movie of the same title at this blog’s main page.  “Ben” was one of the first songs Bariles learned by [...]

Catch YG Car and Motor Mania 2 at Gaisano

June - 26 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 1 Response - Viewed 364 times, 6 so far today

Together with the ongoing 4th Mindanao Franchise Expo at the Gaisano Mall of GenSan atrium, another exhibit is on display at the same venue, as part of the Yaman GenSan celebration.  This the the Yaman GenSan Car and Motor Mania Take 2.

Just like its title suggests, it features the latest car models on display from [...]

Phase One of P60million CED Uptown Square to open soon!

June - 25 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 14 Responses - Viewed 963 times, 17 so far today

If you happen to travel along the National Highway these days and pass by the two-wing CED Buildings beside the NCCC Compound that hosts the Six Blings Ostrich Restaurant Complex, you will notice that the right wing has already been totally demolished.
This then gives you a good view of something that’s been brewing behind the [...]

Parokya ni Edgar topbills TM Astigfest Concert @ KCC Mall of GenSan

June - 18 - 2009 Reporter: bariles 6 Responses - Viewed 625 times, 8 so far today

Good news for Parokya ni Edgar fans from all over Soccsksargen!
Touch Mobile or TM will be featuring them in a concert tomorrow, Saturday, June 20, 2009 at the KCC Mall of GenSan Rooftop.  This concert of the Pambansang Banda ng Pilipinas is part of their nationwide promo tour billed as ASTIGFEST and GenSan is lucky [...]

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Bariles is Tagalog 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.