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The following are agencies mostly from the  government. I heard horror stories about some donations that are given to the government agencies are being hoarded or intentionally sent to the wrong recipients.

I advise you to give your donations to churches (Catholic or Protestants) if only you can. Although, some private relief agencies will still hand over your donations to the government for easy logistics.

Regardless of who are the recipients of your donations, your act of goodwill will return to you sooner or later many times over. The crooks who will unscrupulously steal it, will get an equally similar treatment of their own actions in the future.

In red bold texts are private agencies.

Rescue Operations
National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) (+632-9125668, +632-9111406, +632-9115061, +632-9122665) Help hotlines: (+65 734-2118, 734-2120) ndcchelpdesk@gmail.com

Philippine Coast Guard (+632-5276136)

Air Force (+63908-1126976, +632-8535023)

Metro Manila Development Authority (136)

Marikina City Rescue (+632-6462436, +632-6462423, +632920-9072902) Pasig Rescue Emergency Number (+632-6310099)

Quezon City Rescue (161)

San Juan City Hall Command Post (+632-4681697)

Bureau of Fire Protection Region III (Central Luzon) Hotline: (+63245-9634376)

Senator Dick Gordon (+639178997898, +63938-444BOYS, +632-9342118, +632-4338528)

Senator Manny Villar (+639174226800. +639172414864, +639276751981)

Philippine National Red Cross (143, +632-5270000)

Philippine National Red Cross Rizal Chapter operations center hotline: (+632-6350922, +632-6347824)

Rubber boat and chopper requests
NCRPO (+632-8383203, +632-8383354)

Private citizens who would like to lend their motor boats for rescue please call emergency nos: +632-9125668, +632-9111406, +632-9122665, +632-9115061)

You can also text (+632917-4226800 or +632927-6751981) for rescue dump trucks.

For those who are able to lend 4×4 trucks for rescue: Please send truck to Greenhills Shopping Center Unimart Grocery to await deployment, Tel No. (+632920-9072902).

Petron & San Miguel Corporation are lending choppers for rescue operations, call/text: (+632917-8140655) ask for Lydia Ragasa

Power supply concerns
Meralco (+63917-5592824, 16211, +63920-9292824) If you want service cut off to your area to prevent fires and electrocution.

Donations of heavy duty flashlights needed for rescue operations in Cainta, Rizal area. Contact Cielo at (+632918-8824356)

E-Donations
SMS: text RED to 2899 (Globe) and 4483 (Smart)

G-Cash: text DONATEAMOUNT4-digit M-PINREDCROSS to 2882

TXTPOWER.org: Paypal, Smart Money (5577-5144-1866-7103), G-Cash (0917-9751092)

Cellphone services

FINDERSERVICE. For Smart, text wis to 386.

FINDERSERVICE. For Globe, text find to 7000.

Maps
A group composed of Serge Gregorio and Franklin Naval has put up an interactive rescue map (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110868206150348750692.00047479b6400ee29bd89&ll=14.645791,121.107874&spn=0.107954,0.154324&source=embed) to locate victims in Marikina, one of the hardest hit areas by Ondoy.

To post a message for you on the map, use this web form: http://bit.ly/ondoymapresponse or email segregorio@gmail.com and franklin.naval@gmail.com.

Additional Ondoy Rescue Maps can be found at http://bit.ly/ondoylocator

Malls and commercial outlets
Aranaz Stores (Rockwell & Greenbelt) – accepting donations of any kind for Payatas communities

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (all branches) – canned goods, water, clothes, blankets, towels, medicine, and emergency supplies (no cash)

Luca stores (Rockwell, Shangri-la, Eastwood, or GA Towers) – Send your old clothes & donations (no cash pls)

Moonshine boutique (Rockwell) – accepting relief goods to help Ondoy victims in Marikina and Cainta.

Papemelroti stores (91 Roces Ave. / Ali Mall Cubao / SM City North EDSA / SM Fairview / SM Megamall / Glorietta 3 in Makati / SM Centerpoint / SM Southmall) – accepting relief goods (canned goods / milk / bottled water / clothes – NO CASH pls.)

Team Manila stores in Trinoma, Mall of Asia, Jupiter Bel-Air and Rockwell shall be accepting relief goods (Canned Goods, Ready-to-drink Milk, Bottled Water and Clothes) for distribution by Veritas.

Government and relief agencies
Akbayan – taking donations, call 433-69-33/433-68-31 to donate or volunteer.

Move for Chiz – asking for volunteers at Bay Park Tent, along Roxas Blvd., beside Max Restaurant and Diamond Hotel in Manila, or at Gilas Minipark at Unang Hakbang St., Gilas Q.C.

Worldvision Foundation – accepting donations/volunteers to pack relief goods in QC. For $ donations, BPI:USD acct #4254-0050-08

Philippine National Red Cross – visit their site HERE for various ways to donate.

Senator Francis Pangilinan is accepting donations @ AGS Bldg Annex, 446 EDSA Guadalupe Viejo. Contact Vina Vargas at (+632917-8081247)

WITHIN METRO MANILA
Mandaluyong/San Juan

La Salle Greenhills – drop off your donations (clothes, food, etc) at Gate 2 on Monday, September 28, or volunteer from 9am to receive, sort, repack the donations.

Xavier School – canned goods, bread, noodles. Please bring to Multipurpose Center (MPC). Accepted till Monday, Sept. 28.

Manila

Caritas Manila Office (Jesus St., Pandacan Manila near Nagtahan Bridge) – call +632-5639298, +632-5639308

Ministop Ibarra (Espana cor. Blumentritt, Sampaloc Manila) – Food (non-perishable goods only) Clothing, Medicines, Beds, Pillows, Blankets, Emergency Supplies

Muntinlupa

Hillsborough Village Chapel – Water, blankets, shoes, and clothes. These will go to families whose houses were washed out in the nearby sitios.

Parañaque

Operation Rainbow (Zac Faelnar Camara) at Ayala Alabang Village – needs Canned Goods, Ready-To-Eat Food, Bottled Water, Ready-To-Drink Milk/ Juice, Clothing, Blankets, contact (+632-4687991)

Playschool International (47 Ghana St., Better Living Subd., Paranaque) – open to receive donations (NO CASH, PLS) for relief goods. Please feel free to send your donations there. Teachers/staff will coordinate sending these to the centers.

Pasig

Miriam Quiambao – drop off point: One Orchard Road Building in Eastwood, or message http://www.twitter.com/miriamq for more details.

Relief Efforts for Pasig at Valle Verde 1 Village Park – contact +632916-4945000, +632917-5273616

Renaissance Fitness Center (2nd Floor, Bramante Building, Renaissance Towers Ortigas, Meralco Avenue) – Donations can be brought starting Monday, September 28/9am – 7pm. Contact Person: Warren Habaluyas (+632929-8713488) or email at luzonrelief@gmail.com

Quezon City

Alabang New Life – Alabang Hills, Muntinlupa City. Contacts: Tel. 809-1533 Website: http://www.alabangnewlife.org

ABS-CBN through Banco de Oro account number 56300-20111; account name: ABS-CBN Foundation Incorporation (NOTE: This account # needs verification because on the ABS-CBN Foundation website, the account # is 5630060113)

Ateneo de Manila University – cooked or ready-to-eat food, clothes, medicine, blankets, water. Donations may be dropped off at the MVP, University Dorm, or Cervini lobbies. Also needed: volunteers for relief operations today, Sept. 27. Bring boots, shovels, large vehicles or small watercraft. For donations/inquiries, please contact (0908) 887-7166.

Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health is accepting donations of medicines. A center in Pasig has more than 1,000 evacuees, mostly kids suffering from colds and fever. Call Louie Montalbo: (0918) 936-2095.

Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC) – Relief goods for typhoon victims being accepted at 72-A Times St., West Triangle, QC. Tel (+632-9299820/22)

Erica Paredes (Katipunan), +63917-4741930 – they need bread, packed juice, sandwich filling (tuna, chicken, anything) You can help her make them, deliver the sandwiches to her house, or help her distribute! Call for more details.

Manor Superclub (Eastwood City) – will accept goods and other emergency items starting Sunday, September 27, at 10 am.

NoyMar Relief Operations – contact Clare Amador (+63928 520 5508) or Jana Vicente (+63928 520 5499). Drop-off for relief donations is at Balay Expo Center across Farmers Market Cubao.

Our Lady of Pentecost Parish (12 F. Dela Rosa corner C. Salvador Sts., Loyola Heights, Quezon City) – call +632-4342397, +632-9290665

Philippine Army Gym (inside Fort Bonifacio) or GHQ Gym (Camp Aguinaldo) – now distributing donations for Ondoy Victims.

Radio Veritas (Veritas Tower West Ave. cor EDSA) – call +632-9257931 to 40

Tulong Bayan, Cubao – needs clothes, salt and cooking oil in sachets: 0908-6579998, 0939-3633436, 9137122

Within the Philippines

Red Cross Load Donations – Right now the easiest way to make donations from the seat of your chair is via mobile phone load. The Red Cross Rescue and Relief Operations. To donate, text RED and send to 2899 (Globe) or 4483 (Smart). You can donate 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 300 pesos.

TxtPower – now accepts donations via SmartMoney 5577514418667103, GCash 09179751092 and Paypal.

Outside the Philippines

Worldvision Foundation – For $ donations, BPI:USD acct #4254-0050-08

These photos were taken four (4) days after the Ondoy (Ketsana) storm. Location is still in Barangay Sto. Tomas, Pasig City.

The girl on the makeshift boat covered her face when she saw me point my camera at them.

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The following photos were taken on September 28, 2009 in the aftermath of Ondoy, it is called Ketsana internationally. I rode a cart while taking the photos, paid the driver 30 pesos for the one-way ride.

These were all taken in Sto. Tomas, Pasig City.

If you like to donate to the victims of Ondoy, just click on this link.

Note: The photos are a free to use. Anybody can use it freely in prints or be posted on your website. But the people with visible faces needs permission from the people themselves if you have plans of using them on prints. Commercial use is allowed. Crediting Manilablog.com is highly appreciated, but not required.

Taken just where i live in the second floor.

Looks like he enjoyed it, swimming on these dirty, very dirty murky waters.

It’s nice to be a kid again!

This one is cute too. Not the floating slipper.

Kids oblivious of the dirty water.

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These photos were taken just from above where i live in Sto. Tomas, Pasig City. Taken during when Ondoy visited Manila on September 28, 2009.

Photos about the aftermath would be posted later or tomorrow.

See more photos:
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After a tiring, but fun shooting day with the Imbestigador team of GMA 7, we headed to Soupremo Pares Kitchen located in Jamboree St. in Barangay Sacred Heart in Quezon City.

I like their food, though not that super spectacular, but decent enough for another visit.

Click here for the price list
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MANGATYANAN will have a one-week run at Robinson’s Galleria in EDSA Blvd, Metro Manila on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 to September 22, 2009. Show starts every 12:00 noon.

This movie was created by Jerrold Tarog, the same guy who did the Confessional. Confessional was really good, i hope this one has the same quality, although it got good reviews from those who already watched it, especially from the movie critics.

Manilablog.com has been under attacked by hackers and spammers. I panicked. I thought i had it properly backed up. I should have been slow in reacting about the situation.

Although nothing obvious can be seen from the front. The spammers/hackers injected something that they are able to sign up a thousands of users in the blog. Although, this site does not accept “back end users,” except in the forums.

I deleted about 30 articles that i wont be able to retrieve them. But i will try to contact my webhost for a backup, i hope they have one. The latest backup i’ve had was February, 2009.

Update: My site is now back, thank God for my host!

If you are a Wordpress user, you should read this important message: http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack/

Intercon as popularly called, is believed to be Makati’s first hotel. They serve French and Asian cuisine, with Jeepney coffee shop, bar and disco.

They also hold parties and wedding receptions. For those interested you may contact them.

Hotel Intercon Manila contact informaiton:
One Ayala Avenue, Makati City
Telephone number: 815-9711
Fax: 817-1330
Website: www.intercontinental.com

Official name is Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene, but is more popular with its name Quiapo Church after its location in Quiapo.

Okay, here are the new and old exterior photos of Quiapo Church.

First, the recent Quiapo Church photos:

Shot inside a car with windows closed. Taken August 2009.
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Search Engine Marketing Conference (SemCon 2009) is going to be held this October 1 & 2, 2009 at the Grand Ballroom of Intercontinental Hotel in Makati City, Philippines. I got this information from Yuga’s website.

This conference is perfect for me since i’m eager to know more about SEO and SEM, i myself own a lot of websites and blogs, thus desperate for more traffic and of course earnings as a result. I have experience in SEM a few times, like the Google’s Adwords, but i what i got was few returns if none at all. I hope this conference would help enlighten me more about SEM.

To know more about this conference visit this website: www.imvsolutions.com. You can follow SEMCon on Twitter.