From the monthly archives:
No, these photos weren’t taken in the Mountain Province. They were taken in Antipolo, a mere 15 minutes from our house. The family of a photographer-friend “imported” an Ifugao family and resettled them in a two-hectare lot in Antipolo to test the viability of mountain-style rice farming in the hilly town of Antipolo. A photo [...]
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The Philippine weblog awards night will be on Saturday. It’s another reason for the slow blogging — I’m one of the judges.
One of the organizers, Gail, called me up last week and asked, “Connie, ano gusto mong corsage, yung sa collar o sa wrist (Connie, which corsage do you prefer, the one on the [...]
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I promised her we’d replace her four-year-old desktop with a laptop and that was what we did. Yesterday, I bought her a new MSI S425. We already decided that with all computer upgrades in the house in the coming months, we would gradually phase out Windows and shift to Open Source — Ubuntu, in particular.
Downloading [...]
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My husband and I were in the kids’ school fair in mid-February. I was talking to a friend (and batchmate at the U.P. College of Law and a co-parent in the kids’ school) about the web and he mentioned that the school ought to have its own web site. I agreed. In fact, I told [...]
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We haven’t been to the mall in months. I can’t remember the last movie we saw. Because Speedy will be out of town for five days for his company’s annual conference, when Sam suggested seeing “300” yesterday, I didn’t give Speedy the chance to say no even though the past two weeks had been very [...]
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For the longest time, the head coach of the varsity football team has been recruiting Sam to join. Just for as long, she has been saying no. In one sense, her decision is a complete surprise to me. In another sense, I completely understand. Confusing? It’s like this.
Since childhood, Sam has been the more athletic [...]
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In the comment thread of The Family Bed, Christianne referred to a link to a New York Times article about ways to solve the problem of children wanting to sleep in their parents’ bed. I just read the three-page article and I am aghast.
1) Child sleep specialists and consultants, and sleep centers?
2) And these professionals [...]
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I was reading an article about holistic parenting and wondered if Speedy and I had been observing a philosophy we didn’t even know there was a term for. I guess we have. There’s the family bed, for instance.
It is a modern practice to let a baby sleep in his own bed (crib) and, in some [...]
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