Marikenya Reloaded. Experience It Better Now.
After some months of hoping for a makeover, the new Marikenya was finally developed — new title and tag, new theme and layout, more contents and announcements. It was more like planning and designing my new house but instead of shopping for teak furniture and consulting with an architect or an interior designer, I talk to “master” bloggers who are expert in html codes, programming languages, seo tactics, etc. Let me share with you the stages of development Marikenya’s blog has undergone…
—> The First Marikenya’s was simply a journal of my life’s experiences, learnings, triumphs and defeats which I hope to share with those who care enough to read. I called it My Freedom from Thirst. A good friend commented though that my theme’s color was dull.
—> After a while, I learned a little about designing headers and through the help of my friend neil, the site was improved with my very first customized header and with contents on Marikenya, my beloved hometown.
—> Since I was a certified kikay, I realized after some time that I wanted my blog’s design to be colorful and with a lot of widgets. I searched for the right theme, designed my new header and again seek neil’s help to upload it. I was very contented with the output and I have baptized the site “Marikenya in Full Color: Living the Different Shades of Life.”
—> Months after, I realized that my friend’s blog which was younger than mine immediately earned its page rank but my marikenya remained PR0 (page rank zero). A friend advised that I should find the niche of the site and focus only on several categories and subjects so I deleted and replaced the categories of marikenya and focused on these topics: Marikina, Education and Learning, Traveling and, Blogging. I then changed the title of the site to Journal on Places, Pieces and Praises.
—> Until finally, I leaned how to use Core FTP which is the program for uploading files like themes and images to my site (a lot of thanks to Neil and Glitch for their patience and time). At this point, I wanted a major marikenya makeover. I spent about a day looking for the perfect wordpress theme and some more hours designing the header and uploading it. Here comes the newest look of marikenya:
Marikenya.com is not just a personal blog now. It has become a way of life for me, continuously developing and updating it for the sake of the community who regularly reads it, mostly comprising of marikeños and those who experienced marikina in one way or another.
Although I’m already happy with the look of Marikenya today, I maybe changing some more attributes of the theme like colors etc. I would be very happy for suggestions and feedback on improving the layout or the contents.
To everyone, thank you again. 
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Marikenya’s One Great Love
“There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.”
Today, I left work to spend the whole afternoon with the love of my life. Me and my Marikenyo celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary roaming quezon city, marikina and cainta. After going to the Monasterio de Sta. Clara, we went mall hopping which we don’t normally do together (I love going to the mall, he doesn’t).
We were tired and spent, but happy. Mall is not the most romantic place for celebrating anniversaries but anywhere is romantic when you are with the one you love. But in my dream, our celebration is grander. I was thinking of a second honeymoon. And since dreaming is among the few free privileges we can still afford these days, I was thinking of a really luxurious trip to barcelona or london. We would be dining, roaming and painting the town red posing as love sick honeymooners in rome, a romantic country perfect for celebrating couples. In my dream, my husband and I would be able to finally try the easy to book hotels online. I am sure my first trip abroad would be truly memorable if my Marikenyo would be there with me.
Marikenya Gives Back Special…
I had such a wonderful time managing and writing for Marikenya. It wasn’t easy for me to learn new things about blogging but I was very lucky to have such a good support system — my friends in the virtual and real world who helped, tutored, and read and subscribed to Marikenya.
To everyone… Allow me to say my thanks through my son…
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Tintin Rios: Nice article mhel! As always, I am indeed enjoying all the stuff that you are doing. Very honest and very inspiring. Keep it up! :)
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Edelweiza: Hi der! I admire BF, too. I always see him during Cabinet events in the Palace as our office is the one in-charge of them. It’s his strong character and sincere efforts to “urbanize” the metropolis and us city dwellers that keeps me an avid fan. He belongs to a very rare breed of public officials that really walk the talk. I think he deserves all the support he can get from Filipinos. :D
Dennis: I was once a passerby, ngaun mukang magiging regular reader at “avid fan” na din! hahaha!
Ericc: Congrats to this wonderful website! it’s a good advocacy for responsible citizenship and good city governance! all the best to marikina!
Heidelyn A. Camaligan: We are so lucky living here at Marikina, werein lots of educational training are offered.
Islander: Wow! grabe na talaga ang marikina. beyond the legend na kayo. pano pa kami makakahabol nyan? hehe. Alamat!
Reign: I used to pass by Marikina since i’m just 40 minutes drive away from Antipolo but I never thought of these great facts about your lovely place. You’re a sure proud marikeña.
Lotus Flower: Happy Marikina Day to you. Aren’t you glad to be part of this quaint but definitely bustling and progressive city? I am :-)
Meeh: Maituturing na ang marikina ay nakilala sa paggawa ng mga dekalidad na sapatos na nagdala sa ating lugar upang makilala sa ibang panig ng pilipinas at sa ibang bansa…at ipinagmamalaki ko na ako ay isang marikenya…mabuhay!
Tapsiboy: Marikina is my happy and comfort place.
Spinning Lovely Days: I’m so glad there are so many interesting places to check out in our city now. with gas getting so expensive, i’m all for limiting our explorations within marikina. :D as always, thanks for all the wonderful tips.:)
Mera: Ang ganda naman ng lahat ng nakapost dito sa site mong marikenya Ms.Mhel…more of it were very inspirational.interesting and educational…just keep it and godbless u!
Abby: Hi. I'm glad i chanced upon this really interesting blog. i'm from marikina too. we’ve been living here for more than a year now. i'm super excited about your list. you see, hubby and i frequent eating spot in town. we are, still in search for the perfect crispy pata. a lot of my friends say you can find it here.
CallCenterGal: Thanks for the additional tips on improving one’s blog in simple, doable ways.
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