I finally got the final notice that the court of appeals has denied the plea of Araneta center inc. to reverse the decision that their case with the IPO is unfounded. I get to keep my domain name and continue my website. I feel that it was all an attempt to take my legitimately owned domain. Tsk tsk. Bad bad company and owners. I hope karma treats you as you deserve. In any case, this blog will continue to feature things in Araneta center, the place not the company. I hope that more people will see the other parts of the place i call home. This will particularly include those that are not the property of the big bad company. This blog is a personal website about a place in cubao. It is a non-profit endeavor by someone who grew up and works in the area.

I apologize for the long hiatus. My lawyers advised me to keep the site down even after the TRO expired while the case was ongoing. What happened was that years ago, someone from Araneta Center Inc. sent me a letter demanding that i give them my domain. I ignored it. I was using it and it wasn’t for sale. Then a few years later, someone from their company approached my dad with a request to get my domain name for the company. The guy was offering me 3000 dollars for my fledgling website but i found out that he was asking his company for 2 million pesos. Funny right. Anyway, i just kept my blog with my domain name. I didn’t really want to sell it anyway. All of a sudden, a few years later, some rude employee wrote to me to surrender my domain to them or else! I said no. It was my domain, paid for legitimately, and used legitimately. Specially since the words ‘araneta’ and ‘center’ are common names. Also, i live and work in araneta center so i had a legitimate reason to blog about the pl...