About

• What is PKL 4017?

PKL 4017 is practically a love letter to Pakil. It's an art and history based online bi-monthly blog/magazine created by Pakileños for Pakileños . It acts as a time-travelling guide on everything you need to know about our little town which written, photographed, illustrated and designed by Pakil New Media.

• What is Pakil New Media?

Pakil New Media is a newly formed creative army of talented individuals  generous enough to share their time to pay homage to our town. Their tools of trade and knowledge contribute greatly to this little project. 

• Why create PKL 4017?

PKL 4017 is created in the pre-tense that there has been a lot of lost history in Pakil - some forgotten, some completely gone and some nearing extinction because traditions are just passed down to generations by word of mouth and only a few written ones. So this is why we made 4017, to by the least gather memories that would comprise our collective history as Pakilenos, a definite call to arms.


1. Archiving - the magazine is first and foremost a shared history. We must, at this point, give merit to our past, to honor, respect and practice them. Photos, videos, illustrations, news - everything that happened or is happening in Pakil, will be archived accordingly through this magazine or on our blog.
2. Home - the battle cry "A new home for the digital Pakileños" isn't just for nothing. For recent years, Pakileños, especially young computer savvy individuals are now migrating to cyberspace to spend their free time. But even though their thoughts are somewhere in the digital cloud, they keep coming up with groups. People want a sense of belongingness and identity even in cyberspace. So this site could be one of them, a little space for Pakilenos to interact.  Also, for the Global Pakilenos, 4017 could be their portal on what's currently happening in Pakil.
3. Identity - Having done the former 2 objective would result on this one.  It is through dealing with our past could we begin to have sense of who we are as a community. We want each of us to be proud of where we came from, no matter how humble our story is, it is part of our history and it is now a part of our identity.

• Technicalities

We are currently powered by Blogger.com. Hopefully soon, we could take out the '.blogspot.com' and have our own domain - only if this goes far. We are also fully integrated with Facebook (PKL 4017), Twitter (@PKL4017) and Instagram (@pkl4017). For the magazine, we are currently powered by Issuu, an awesome online publishing provider.

• The Roster

                  Our current team is a mixture of old and new souls each seeing our hometown 

                  differently. Dynamic individuals chosen according to their field and skills in               

                  contributing to this, hopefully, long-running love letter to our beloved Pakil.