User:GerryYabes
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| Name | Gerry Yabes |
|---|---|
| Born | October 18, 1983 |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Country | Philippines |
| Current location | Taguig, Metro Manila |
| Languages | Local: International: |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 |
| Current time | Current UTC is 10:44 Thursday, March 19, 2026 Current time for UTC+8 is 18:44 (Manila) () |
| Ethnicity | Ilocano |
| Handedness | Right |
| Blood type | A+ |
| Hobbies, interests, and beliefs | |
| Religion | MCGI |
| Interests | |
| Contact info | |
| Website | gerryyabes |
| Blog | gerryyabes |
| Account statistics | |
| Joined | November 2, 2005 |
| First edit | November 2, 2005 |
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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 English-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 Wikipedia
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.
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, Telus Digital, and iOpex Philippines, now working as an independent contractor.)
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:
- Bataan (Morong)
- Batangas (Lobo, Nasugbo)
- Benguet (Baguio, La Trinidad)
- Bulacan (Calumpit, San Rafael, San Jose del Monte)
- Cagayan (Tuguegarao, Baggao)
- Camarines Sur (Iriga)
- Cavite (Dasmariñas)
- Ifugao (Lamut)
- Ilocos Norte (Pagudpud)
- Ilocos Sur (Candon)
- La Union (San Fernando)
- Laguna (Santa Cruz)
- Nueva Ecija (Cabanatuan)
- Nueva Vizcaya (Solano, Bambang)
- Pangasinan (Rosales)
- Quezon (Tiaong, Pitogo)
- Quirino (Maddela)
- Rizal (Antipolo, Cainta, Taytay, Binangonan, Tanay)
- Tarlac (La Paz)
Things to consider
Projects
Newsfeed
Wikipedia newsfeed
- 18 March 2026 – Middle Eastern crisis
- 2026 Iran war
- 2026 South Pars field attack
- Israel strikes the South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf and its neighboring refineries in Iran. Iran announces it will retaliate against regional energy infrastructure. (The Guardian) (Oil Price)
- 2026 Iranian strikes on Israel
- A foreign worker is killed by a cluster bomb impact in Moshav Adanim, central Israel. (The Times of Israel)
- 2026 Iranian strikes on Qatar
- Iran launches a missile attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world's largest LNG export facility, causing "extensive damage" according to QatarEnergy. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel assassinates Iranian intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib in an overnight airstrike in Tehran. (AP) (Reuters)
- Four Palestinians are killed and six others are injured when falling Iranian missile fragments strike a beauty salon in Beit Awwa, West Bank, Palestine. (Wafa) (AFP via The Times of Israel)
- Saudi Arabia's air defenses intercept and destroy multiple drones targeting gas and energy facilities in the Eastern Province, with no damage reported. (Saudi Gazette)
- Hezbollah–Israel conflict
- 2026 Lebanon war
- At least 20 people are killed and dozens injured in an Israeli airstrike on a building in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- 18 March 2026 – Sudanese civil war
- Chad–Sudan relations
- A drone strike attributed to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces kills at least 16 people near the border town of Tine, Chad. (AFP via Arab News)
- In response to the drone strike, Chad President Mahamat Déby orders the military to retaliate against Sudanese belligerents including the RSF and SAF led by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. (Sudan Tribune)
- The Sudan Doctors Network says that 12 civilians were killed by the RSF in the Sudanese state of North Kordofan. (Sudan Tribune)
- 18 March 2026 – War in the Sahel
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Over 60 Boko Haram and Islamic State – West Africa Province insurgents are killed in an operation by the Nigerian Army in Abadam, Borno State, Nigeria. (The Punch)
- 18 March 2026 – MeToo movement
- Cesar Chavez Day celebrations are cancelled in many communities across the United States after late labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez was accused by dozens of women and girls, including labor leader Dolores Huerta, of child grooming, sexual assault, and rape. (NBC News)
- 18 March 2026 – Economic impact of the 2026 Iran war
- Aramco restarts operations at Ras Tanura oil refinery, the largest of Saudi Arabia, following a 16-day closure. (Oil Price)
- 18 March 2026 –
- Seven people are killed and three others are critically injured in an explosion and fire at a residential building in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. (NDTV)
- One person is killed when a cable car cabin crashes down a snowy mountainside in Engelberg, Obwalden, Switzerland. (CNN)
- 18 March 2026 – 2026 Kent meningitis outbreak
- Rollouts of the meningococcal vaccine begin at the University of Kent in England in the wake of a recent meningococcal outbreak that killed two people amidst a rise in cases. (The Standard)
- 18 March 2026 – Iran–Qatar relations
- 2026 Iranian strikes on Qatar
- Qatar declares Iran's military and security attachés and their staff persona non grata and orders them to leave the country within 24 hours following an attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City. (AFP via Vanguard News)
- 18 March 2026 – Capital punishment in Iran
- Swedish foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenergard says that Iran has executed a Swedish citizen who was arrested in Iran last June. (Reuters)
- 18 March 2026 –
- Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez appoints General Gustavo González López as Minister of Defense, replacing General Vladimir Padrino López who has served since 2014. (Reuters)
- Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard are awarded the 2025 Turing Award for their work in quantum information science. (BBC News)
- In basketball, the WNBA and its players' union reach a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement that, if ratified by the league and union, will increase average player salaries and the team salary cap more than fourfold. (ESPN)