The closest I got to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when she dropped in at the Gen. Santos City International Airport….
…and flew out immediately after in a matter of 20 minutes back to her home beside the Pasig River. Good-bye Madame President!
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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.
(updated with video) Nanay Dionisia steals the thunder at Pacquiao birthday party | Bariles Republic's GenSantos.Com Says:
[...] Manny blew his birthday candles, he walked right out to the main door to fetch his number one fan, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. It took her the whole of 20 minutes to get to the boxing ring from the entrance because a lot of [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 PM