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Morning at the MOA
Saturday, November 15th, 2008The thousand words bit.
My Christmas season todo list
Monday, November 3rd, 2008I can only make a list such as this when December comes near, as it is the only time when I have the wherewithal to fulfill them, and then again, usually not all of them get fulfilled for one reason or another.
Nevertheless this is this year’s list:
1. Fix the faucet over the washbasin in the [...]
Heavyweight contender
Saturday, October 11th, 2008I’ve gone through my experimentation with diet pills several months ago, and just for the record I did lose a bit of weight. But now I’ve gained it all back and with interest. I know this is because I’ve been going through the whole weight loss thing the wrong way around.
The Mayo Clinic says [...]
Uncertain times
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008In these days of sudden rain when outdoor furniture covers don’t seem to be a very good idea; when you can wake up to a sunny day but be doused by the time you have your morning coffee; when you read in the papers that world commodities prices have gone down but you see that [...]
Stuff to line one’s bookshelf
Saturday, October 4th, 2008My bookshelves haven’t had much attention from me, whether in traffic or population growth. I’m actually more inclined to give books as presents rather than buy them for myself. I’ve felt like this ever since late last year when I bought the December Issue of the Reader’s Digest and fell asleep while reading it. Up [...]
Weeeknd movies from the net
Friday, September 26th, 2008A solidly old-fashioned courtroom drama such as ”The Verdict” could have gotten by with a serious, measured performance from its leading man, or it could have worked well with a dazzling movie-star turn. The fact that Paul Newman delivers both makes a clever, suspenseful, entertaining movie even better.
This is as good a role as Mr. [...]
The House on Roxas Avenue
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008There is a house on Roxas Avenue that has held my fascination ever since I was a little girl. At the time we still called it Dewey Boulevard, but that house had always been there since I could remember. It looked like, to my child’s eyes, a castle, and everytime we would pass by that [...]
Busy Weekend
Sunday, August 24th, 2008I maintain a few websites for friends sometimes for small gratuities (money for snacks) and once a year as they renew their domain registrations and hosting services I sit down and jazz them up with new templates and layouts.
This weekend I did my sister-in-law Dr. Faith Mesa-Gaerlan’s org site Philippine Society of Emergency Care Physicians [...]
But once a year
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Had all my babies in one room again this weekend. This happens only once a year, and not even on Christmas. Happened on my birthday three years ago, though. There had been years when it didn’t happen at all.
But this weekend Athelstan Emil was playing in the Magic: The Gathering Open Tournament, so in the [...]
A Thousand Words on Gaerlan St.
Monday, August 4th, 2008Sam and I bought the domain gaerlanstreet.com just for the heck of it, and at the time we bought it we really didn’t have an idea of what to put in it.
Well now we do.
I’ve been a point and shoot camera buff ever since I got an old Minolta from my aunt a decade or [...]
Once a month, maybe less
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Starbucks coffee is a luxury I cannot afford to have everyday. But maybe once or twice a month I do treat myself to one, on payday or some similar occasion. And I enjoy their website almost as much as I enjoy the coffee, in fact perhaps even more. Starbucks has one of those really nifty [...]
Fashion Failure
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008My dad’s elder sister, the one who raised me in my pre-puberty years, is a bona fide fashion plate. In her GSIS days (between the late 60’s to the early 80’s) she had a new dress for every party, and most of the time I had a miniature version of what she had. She was [...]
Tan. I mean, really.
Saturday, July 26th, 2008My co-worker Cel has an enviable tan. It’s her natural skin color. My husband Sam had commented once that Cel reminds him of a young Tetchie Agbayani. I agree.
We were having lunch once, Cel and I, and she mentioned that one of her older sisters gave her some whitening lotion that she couldn’t wait to [...]
Not a very good bday postscript
Saturday, July 26th, 2008I must have caught a virus somewhere on the way to Diliman last Wednesday. I started to feel it an hour or so after lunch, when I started yawning almost uncontrollably while waiting for the coffee at Khaz. Sam had stood up to greet his friend Rasti who was a couple of tables away with [...]
Not the way to do this
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008A couple of co-workers and I regularly eat at the Powerplant Mall basement foodcourt, not because we’re sosyal or anything like that, but because there’s no other place where you’re sure to get properly prepared food especially if you don’t have a cast iron stomach.
Contrary to popular belief you CAN get lunch at the Powerplant [...]
Happy burp*day
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Just when you think we have the franchise on downturned smiles we give you a snap like this
This is Kuya Maui and me at our joint birthday lunch. Kuya’s birthday was on the 12th of July, mine will be on the 23rd. Maui had just turned 16, and I’m hitting the big 45. [...]
Baby showers now and then
Friday, July 18th, 2008News of anyone having a baby always brings a smile to my face. So when our tech guys Beng announced a baby shower for his first born due in October we all happily pitched in. Beng had a list to help us along, so it wasn’t very difficult to think about what to get for [...]
:((
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008After weeks and weeks—months actually—of tearing my hair out about why the Yahoo bot doesn’t like my domain anymore I’m just about to stock up on wrinkle creams and give up.
Here’s the complete story. Sometime in March I realized that my domain kusangpalo.com was no longer indexed in Yahoo. I’d do a manual search on [...]
The lesser evil?
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I had earlier confessed to having taken sibutramine (past tense), but I stopped because there were other more important things on the budget, like food. I’m not kidding. I am at a point in my life when exercise is a luxury I cannot indulge in and that making myself look good takes the back end [...]
Happy Birthday Kuya Maui!
Saturday, July 12th, 200816 years ago today he was the one in the bassinet. Today he dotes on his little sister, and lets her turn his bed into a trampoline when she wants to. He willingly shares his beloved chicken nuggets and fries with no one but her.
He prefers to stay at home and sit in front of [...]
No Warranty
Saturday, July 12th, 2008This was one of the writings on the wall at Kape Tasyo where Bunso and Eva’s wedding was held. We’re still putting together an online album for that, but I thought this was appropriate for any similar occasion. Love may think that marriage is the warranty certificate that assures the buyers that should anything go [...]
Behind the camera
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Off from work again tomorrow, to attend brother-in-law Rowley’s wedding. That’s two 4-day work weeks for me in a row (was out Friday last week too for something less auspicious but required time away from the office nevertheless). That is something that should appeal to a few House Representatives who are pushing for a 4-day [...]
Down Spott, down boy!
Monday, June 30th, 2008As a last check before I made this post, spott.com was down for maintenance and was serving a pacman game on its homepage instead. For the past two days it had been displaying its own ad instead of a member site’s and although the pink puppies were cute, I was wondering if I had miscalculated [...]
And the winners are …
Monday, June 23rd, 20081. Strawberrygurl.com - Tin, since this seems to be the only site you have with the EntreCard on it, I linked to this. You’re first because you have the cutest under 2-year-old little girl in the world. Hehe, that’s the kicker.
2. Blogcebuworld.com - Laz, because you’ve always been supportive of my blog ever since we [...]
The accidental geek redux
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008I’ve lost track on how many times I’ve tried to make something out of our TLD kusangpalo.com. Once it had been a Joomla site offering services for something that Sam and I do as a homegrown business. We offered services for domain name registration and web design and hosting, including creating presentations burnt on mini-cd’s [...]
Growing up online
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008It never ceases to amaze me how the Internet and the digital age has enabled us to chronicle the lives of our loved ones online.
Here is our little girl Maia, growing up.
The first photo on top left was taken at Panagatan Seaside Restaurant in Cagayan de Oro City. The second photo is by the front [...]
The Big 501!
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Quite a few things to be happy about today. I managed to go on a quick shopping trip with my both my babies, something that happens very rarely these days. It was a short uneventful trip to SM Sucat to pick up Kuya Maui’s school supplies, a few groceries, and take-away lunch for the father [...]
In search of the best digital camera
Saturday, June 14th, 2008The family owns a simple Kodak EasyShare CX7330, bought in Manila in 2004 when Maia was not quite a year old. Not exactly the best digital camera, but for the purpose of documenting a little girl’s growth and the family’s exodus to Mindanao, 3.1 megapixels wasn’t bad at all. It’s got several settings, action, night, [...]
The house at the back
Sunday, June 8th, 2008A smaller structure stands at the back our house, which in the late 50’s was commonly known as the servants’ quarters. I remember this small room, roughly six metres square and with its own toilet and bath, because this is where we stayed most of the day when my siblings and I were kids. We [...]
Busting my chops
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008My fascination for chopsticks goes all the way back to the first time I entered a dimsum restaurant in Cebu City. Ding How Dimsum Restaurant at the Ludo and Luym Bldg in downtown Cebu was the best Chinese Restaurant at the time. On special Sundays our family went there for lunch after mass.
Of course there [...]
Arguing Elton John
Friday, May 30th, 2008I was waiting for my turn on the microphone. One of my cousins, who was sitting beside me, was hogging the mike. Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane, I can see the led tail lights heading for Spain, Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye, God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my…
Waterworld Revisited
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Late in 2005 Sam and I took a leisurely walk around Cartimar. We were thinking of getting an aquarium again, like we did a few years back. Back then we had a 20-gallon tank that housed freshwater fish, which required minimal care, and took up little but quite attractive space in our small living room. [...]