Rodrigo Roa Duterte was born on March 28, 1945 at Maasin, Southern Leyte to Vicente G. Duterte, who served as Governor of Davao and Soledad Roa, a school teacher and a civic leader.He spent his elementary days at the Sta. Ana Elementary School in Davao City, where he graduated in 1956. He finished his secondary education at the Holy Cross of Digos. For his tertiary education, he took up a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Lyceum of the Philippines University, where he graduated in 1968. He also obtained a law degree from San Beda College in 1972. In the same year, he passed the bar exam.

  from a post of getrealphilippines: In case you can’t read the note below, here it is. “WOW. Do the numbers. 5 years is 260 weeks. Divide that into 180,000 and you get 3000 classrooms a week. Using a 5 day work week, 600 a day. This much activity would attract a lot of attention. In my travels, i have not observed any. Has any one of you got any pictures of all this work happening that they can share> Because if it is true, it is quite an engineering achievement.” Go ahead and vote for someone who claims this as true.

  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...