Reyna Elena

Nuffnang Featured Blogger for the month of April

Merci boucoup Nuffnang et bonjour les gens!

I was uberly-delighted when Roanna and Jing told me that I will be Nuffnang’s Miss April. “Huh?!” I know I’m pretty, but Playboy Magazine? Not ready. Roanna’s email poked me in my eyes and woke me up from hypnosis, “keep dreaming Reynz!” with a follow-up email from Jing, “Reynz, stop the fantasy, this is Nuffnang!“

(On a train from Prague, Czech Republic to Budapest, Hungary with students from Temple Univ Tokyo and Philadelphia.)

Madam barfly

Oui, c’est moi Reynz, eternal madame barfly. I am that cute blogger behind reyna elena dot com. You’d find that cuteness angle 69 degrees, east southwest slightly to the right of the greater meridian time zone. Differential calculus and global positioning required. Why Reyna Elena? I won’t tell you. The clue is in my blog. Hehehe!

Barrio Siete

I’m one Uragon. I grew up in Barrio Siete. Where is my barrio? We’re the 7,107th island in the Philippines. During low tide, we hunt for food. During high tide, we evacuate. Burn these bloody corrupt, evil Pinoy politicians in hell! They forgot us people from Barrio Siete!

Early social climbing

I was so damn tired of shit poverty. I puked many times eating so many kamote. So I worked my way up at some barrio university. I didn’t quite understand why I had Spanish and Theology. I was taking up Accountancy! So my first social climbing victims? Let’s just say, I passed those subjects. Look what happened. My life’s full of dysfunctionalities! Grrr!

My diploma

My parents were uberly-excited when I graduated, they laminated my diploma. Looking for work, can you imagine me walking along Ayala, on hand was my diploma, which looked more like one big lapida?! People were staring at me! I just pretended I was popular.

Makati years

I worked in Makati for years. People there mistook me like I mow the lawn and trim the trees. You see, I had so many provincial assignments. I fly to Cebu, Palawan, Davao and Iloilo. By the time I was back in Makati, I’d be this short dark, very, very dark but handsome half-uragon, half-bisaya, half-human.

Journey in America

In search for peace, freedom, liberty and equality plus more money, I paddled my boat to the United States. Philadelphia would become my home and would live there since 19-don’t ask me. Because I know you’ll start punching those darn calculators! Beee! I’m currently based and blogging live in 10 feet below sea-level New Orleans. No worries, I sleep with salbabida beside me.

Alone on graduation

I spent 2 years with Alliance Francaise, speak French, but brother says, “its Bikol not French!” Then I went to Temple University in Philadelphia and George Washington University in Washington, DC. It would have been nice if my parents saw me graduate. This time around, my diploma was never laminated. I was alone during my graduation. *hikbi*

Love of other culture

I love to travel, meeting people and winning friends. From North and South America, to West and Eastern Europe, East Asia, to the beautiful islands of the Philippines. I enjoy being immersed in different cultures for it enriches me and makes me a well-rounded and grounded person. Just slightly grounded. I’m not a beef, you know.

Blog content

I love to blog about my Barrio Siete life, my journey in America and anything under the “what is life” column plus love and my career. I’m not always successful, but for unknown reasons, my journey is sometimes hilarious. I also blog about money, the economy, politics and current events both local (Manila) and international to the consternation of some asshole bloggers in Manila. The more dysfunctional, the better as blog material. Hehehe!

People I’d like to thank

Allow me to thank some respected people in the broadcast and print media industry who I owe a lot of gratitude for giving me some media exposure. They are Salve Duplito of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Money Smarts, Ellen Tordesillas of Malaya, Anna Valmero of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Blog Addicts, Jove Francisco of TV5’s Sidetracked Ten The Evening News and Annalyn Jusay-Zoglman of the Manila Bulletin’s Blog-o-rama. Nuffnang?! You people are close to my heart. You know that.

Pushers & Pissers

reyna elena dot com still has long way from obscurity but I owe a lot to all my reyna fans because they’re the ones that inspires and gives me the push and the umpt to write and showers me with glitters. Reyna haters? They shower me with gravel and sand. In times of distress, reyna fans are quick to respond and rescue my site. The best part? They send me all sorts of gifts and monies too! I would then turn around and my boylets instantly become happy. Hehehe! So, to all my reyna fans, I adore you all! And to all my reyna haters? Beeee!!!

Journey

So, come! Social climb with me! I don’t know where I’m headed, but I am having one heck of a journey.

Life is beautiful. Blog it, till it hurts!