Marikeño Shirts: Now Available

The Marikeño Shirts are now finally ready for pre-order and will be ready for pick up in a week. Price is at P300 each for all colors and all sizes. For PICK UP ONLY in Meralco area. You may choose from white, black, red, blue, green and yellow. Sizes are XS, S, M, L, XL and XXL only. Available in round neck. V neck shirts are not available at the moment. We will announce thru our blog and fan page once it is available. This will be the final design. Please Text 0918 338 7878 for your orders. You may also click here to fill out the order form.

To those who are living abroad and would like to purchase the shirt, you may give our mobile number (0918 338 7878) to your relatives and family in Marikina and have them contact us for your orders .  Shirts can be claimed 1-2 weeks from the day it was ordered. Payments are made during meet up. Schedule of Pick Up: Mon-Fri - 7am to 8am only | Sat-Sun - 7am to 11am only

Note: The proceeds of the shirts will be used to maintain our blog and fan page. Thank you for helping our blog.

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The New Marikeño Blog

This is going to be the layout of the new and revamped Marikeño Blog.  We are definitely back. This time, we are better and bolder. No more hiding of faces and we would like to be known. We hope that you like the colors and the whole new look. We have been a little too inactive for the past few years and now, we are reviving this humble blog. Please follow our posts.

Marikina City is a very nice city. A clean, peaceful city with simple people. It is small yet, very secretive. Let us all re-discover the wonder city of Marikina.  To those who would like to be featured in this blog, kindly email us at info.marikeno@gmail.com.

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Blogger's Choice Awards

We're so proud to say that our other blog, Biyaheng Pinoy is currently nominated in the  Bloggers' Choice Category at the 2010 Philippine Blog Awards.  We've worked so hard to get this far and it was all truly worth it.  Promoting filipino destinations, food, music, etc. has always been our main goal.  So far, we've been succeeding.  We just hope that you will support us by voting us.  You must have your own blog in order to vote.  Your blog must be established at least three (3) months from today with minimum of 10 posts.

To vote us, please go to this link and read the complete mechanics.  Please read it well.  You do not want your vote go to waste.  You must register at the Philippine Blog Awards website in order for you to leave a comment.  Deadline of voting will be until December 2010 at 11:59pm.  We hope that we will get your full support by encouraging your blogger friends to vote us, and hopefully, bring us to the finals.

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Meet Vena

Vena is a very good friend, a smart licensed architect, a perfect mom for her cute kid, and also a full-blooded Marikeño.

Vena would make a great correspondent for this travel blog because of her witty humor, strong-willed, and adventurous personality. A successful career woman in her own right, she is currently working in one of the best management companies in the country. We pretty much share the same things: she likes to eat a lot and would definitely eat anything as long as it's not icky looking. She's also good in mingling with people from all walks of life and has been awarded with hundreds of friends and associates everywhere.

So let's all welcome her as she will be the future face of Biyaheng Pinoy and Marikeno. Get ready to join her as she takes you on an unpredictable journey to the beautiful and joyful place she calls home. The photo posted above was taken during a photo-walk along the river bend on January 2010 with Vena and her kid, Van.

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Thou Shalt Not Steal

I was browsing the internet this afternoon when i saw the article "85% of Marikina Businesses Resume Operations" at the official Marikina Goverment Website. I thought it was a brief yet interesting post. Very good news indeed. But wait. Hmmm, something doesn't seem right. I moved my eyes closer to my monitor and I was devastatingly surprised to see this. What is my photo doing in this website???

I know I should be honored.  I should be jumping for joy to know that a goverment website like the official Marikina website would use a small-time blog's photo and post it on their page. I should be running and screaming inside my room for getting noticed.

NOT. I am not honored, I am not jumping for joy and I am not running and screaming inside my room for that. Because I felt I was robbed, disrespected, belittled and awfully betrayed by some big-time web developers that cannot come up with his own photos. Some of you might think that it was not really a big deal because they never took out my name on that photo, but it was. They never bothered to email me and ask for my consent. They never even bothered to mention the photographer's name or the blog where they took that photo from.

I already wrote to them right after seeing the photo. I just hope that the moderators of the said website would read this and write me an explanation on their take on this matter. This post is dedicated to all the photographers who have been robbed and disrespected.

Updates:

February 18, 2010: I visited the Office of the Mayor to present my complaint letter. I also presented a copy of the same letter to Councilor Donn Favis, the head of the Marikina Management Information Systems. I will continue my fight no matter what.

March 23, 2010: Finally, I've received a formal apology letter from a Mr. Ramil Nafarrette, claiming to be one of the web developers of the said website. Although, i still didn't feel comfortable reading about his opinion on fair use of copyrighted materials, which i thought was PURE CRAP because this was all about disrespect, I thought that his words were somehow sincere and apologetic.  May this occurrence serve as a lesson to every artist out there to be vigilant and protective with your creations.  Don't let anyone step on you and always put up a good fight when they try to break you.

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Apo Hiking Society

Apo Hiking Society will be this year's featured artist at the Marikina Year-Ender Concert, that will be held at the Riverbank Amphitheater, on December 30th. It is a yearly free concert sponsored by the Marikina Goverment headed by the Hon. Mayor Lourdes Fernando.

Program starts at 7pm and the feature show starts at around 9pm. It is rumored that at least 25,000 people will attend this event the free concert which will be concluded with a grand fireworks display. Thanks to Mr. Sammy Samaniego for all these info.

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Rehiyon Rehiyon Festival: Update

Rehiyon Rehiyon Festival is an annual celebration held on the 8th of December. This year would be a bigger and better celebration as Marikina is now on its 11th Cityhood Year. Everyone is invited to join in this festive occasion.

City Mayor Maria Lourdes Carlos Fernando describes Rehiyon Rehiyon as a reflection of our oneness and belief. Different cultures, different regions, all united in Marikina City.

Parade will start from different parts of Brgy. Barangka and Riverbanks Mall at 7am and will proceed to Bonifacio Avenue. It will pass through Sumulong Highway, Brgy. Sto. Nino and will be heading straight to the Marikina Sports Coplex for the program proper.

Important: The street dancing / parade will be moved from 3pm-6pm, to 7am-10am. Then followed by the program proper / competition from 6pm-9pm, to 10am-1pm. For more information, please call phone number 647-3123.

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Transformers of Marikina City

Transformers is the theme for this year's Marikina Christmas Festival. It launched on November 23rd. Marikina's seven-week Christmas Festival celebrates the transformation of the once-backwater community into one of the most competitive and multi-awarded cities in the Philippines. On December 1st, the Christmas display entries of the city's 16 barangays will be unveiled along the stretch of the Riverpark. at stake are cash prizes.

Above, is a picture of the actual transformer guys. they visit all the barangays in the city and they give out flyers to the Marikenos to inform them about the city's future events. In addition, “Tiangge sa Ilog” is now open at the Marikina Riverpark. About 700 tiangge stalls offer a wide range of products, including the city’s signature goods: shoes and other footwear.

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Marikina Christmas Festival 2007

This is a copy of the Marikina Christmas Festival flyer handed out both to the locals and the visitors. Schedules may change without prior notice. For more information, please call the Public Information Office at telephone number 646-6451.

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Cinemalaya Festival 2007

Click on the image above or click here to get more infomation on film schedules. Cinemalaya starts from September 24 to October 16, 2007 and will be shown at the Teatro Marikina along Shoe Avenue.

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Welcome to the Marikeno Blog

Welcome to Marikeno Blog. This blog is based on the Marikina Citizens' Factbook, released in 2007. Inspired by its photographs and informative content, the owner of this blog decided to make an adaptation of the book and turn it into a blog. Photos and videos used in this blog were taken by himself, and some of the articles written were from that book.

If you know someone from Marikina that is interesting or if you know a beautiful house or a nice garden within the city, or maybe if you think you should be featured in this blog, please let us know. Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions by clicking on the "comment" link located under this post.

If you are into photography, videography, writing, poetry, painting, anything artistic, that you think will contribute to this blog, you can become a Marikeno Correspondent in your own barangay. You can take pictures, shoot videos and create a painting about Marikina and have them featured here. Email us a letter explaining why you want to join us and please also send us your resume at info@marikeno.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Please support the Marikeno blog.

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