User:GerryYabes

Gerry Yabes
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	Yabes in Apalit, Pampanga in 2010
Name	Gerry Yabes
Born	October 18, 1983; Ilagan, Isabela
Nationality	Filipino
Country	Philippines
Current location	Taguig, Metro Manila
Languages	Local: Hiligaynon; Ibanag; Ilocano; Tagalog; International: English; Spanish;
Time zone	UTC+08:00
Current time	Current UTC is 18:45; Wednesday, December 25, 2024; Current time for UTC+8 is 02:45 (Manila) (refresh)
Ethnicity	Ilocano
Handedness	Right
Blood type	A+
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Religion	MCGI
Interests
	Business; Companies; Entertainment; Geography; History; Movies; Music; Politics; Radio; Religion; Science; Television; Theater; Travel;
Contact info
Website	gerryyabes.com
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Joined	November 2, 2005
First edit	November 2, 2005
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	This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 1 month and 23 days.
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About me

I am passionate about contributing to Wikipedia by creating and editing articles, particularly those related to the Philippines. My goal is to enrich the platform with accurate and comprehensive information about Filipino culture, history, and notable places, ensuring that both English and Spanish-speaking audiences have access to this knowledge. I believe in the power of collaboration and strive to maintain the highest standards of accuracy and neutrality in every article I contribute to.

Contributions

You may take a look on the list of articles I have contributed since November 2005. I am passionate to contribute to Wikipedia to publish true facts specially about articles related to the Philippines and keeps to improve articles. Also, I am reaching out to local government units in the Philippines to collaborate with available public information that may be use for the improvement of Filipino-related articles. Feel free to reach me via email or through may talk page here.

English

I contribute in the English Wikipedia majority in Philippine-related articles since November 2, 2005. I do a lot of things on Wikipedia by adding information on articles, creating articles, detecting spelling errors, enriching editing, including trivia, fighting vandalism, making lists, nominating deletions, providing sources, removing plagiarism, uploading logos and photos, and verifying citations. List of articles contributed.

Spanish

I also contributed to editing Spanish Wikipedia for Philippine-related articles since August 9, 2018. My contributions can be found here here.

Places

These are the places where I visited, lived, including my hometowns and current location.

Current

The current place where I am living, including my voting rights:

West Rembo, Taguig City, Metro Manila (Since 2021, (formely part of Makati City), worked for Sutherland and Telus International)

Hometowns

These places where I consider as my hometowns as I spent significant amount of years completing my education from elementary to college:

San Enrique, Negros Occidental (where I started my elementary education)
Ilagan, Isabela (my place of birth, where I completed my education from elementary to college)
Apalit, Pampanga (where I studied AB Broadcasting as an scholar)

Lived

Places below where I spent few months and years of stay as my place of work were based on these locations:

Cauayan, Isabela (Talavera Meganorth Holdings)
Ilagan, Isabela (STI, Fashionista Boutique, MMOJ Enterprises)
Makati, Metro Manila (West Contact Services)
Pasig, Metro Manila (HKT Teleservices)
Quezon, Metro Manila (IBM)
San Fernando, Pampanga (Riders W.Shop)

Visited

Probably I spent approximately 1–2 days of stay in the following provinces:

Things to consider

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Wikipedia newsfeed

25 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war: Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip; Siege of North Gaza, Gaza famine; The United States-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network takes down a report estimating that food insecurity conditions in northern Gaza have surpassed the highest IPC famine thresholds, after the United States envoy to Israel criticized the report as "irresponsible" for overinflating the civilization population of Gaza by several tens-of-thousands. (FEWS NET)
25 December 2024 – Somali Civil War: Constitutional crisis in Somalia; Jubaland crisis; The federal government of Somalia imposes a flight ban on Jubaland State of Somalia, including all flights to and from Jubaland, particularly affecting cities Kismayo and Doolow. The flight ban was initiated after ongoing political tensions and military engagements since Jubaland forces reportedly defeated Somali Armed Forces in several locations, including Ras Kamboni, Kulbiyow, and Dolow. (Garowe Online) (The Somali Digest) (Eastleigh Voice)
25 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Ukrainian energy crisis; A series of Russian ballistic missile and drone strikes target critical energy infrastructure in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kherson, and Kremenchuk in Ukraine, killing at least two people, injuring 20 others, and forcing widespread emergency blackouts. (The Kyiv Independent) (The Guardian); Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin for the “inhumane” attacks on the infrastructure. (RTE)
25 December 2024 – Sudanese civil war: 2024 famine in Sudan; The IPC Famine Review Committee determines the presence of famine in five areas in Darfur and South Kordofan, Sudan, and estimates that five more areas will face famine by May 2025 due to ongoing conflict and blocked aid distribution. (BBC News Hausa)
25 December 2024 – Ethiopian civil conflict: Ethiopian military forces close the border between Ethiopia–Somalia following ongoing heavy fighting in the rural area of Dacawaley under Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes. (Hiiraan Online) (Somali Guardian)
25 December 2024 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243: An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 flight carrying 67 passengers onboard from Baku to Grozny crashes in Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 people and wounding 29 more. (Al Jazeera) (NPR)
25 December 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict: Lebanon files a new complaint to the UN Security Council over Israel's ceasefire violations. (Bastille Post)

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