You’d think that the formaldehyde in Sunsilk brouhaha would have abated by now but emotions still run high.
I had to turn off commenting in the Sunsilk-Formaldehyde entry because, for three straight days, the supporters of Unilever had been posting official statements in the comment box. I would have allowed it had Unilever included results from [...]
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Many people have asked me how I manage to write so much in one day. I have several blogs and I write for the print media too. You know, most times, the words just flow and my fingers just have to keep up with the pace at which my mind races. It might sound weird [...]
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If you ever need proof that extra-terrestrials live among us earthlings, here it is. I found them aliens in my kids’ school last Saturday and my husband took photos.
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We finally decided to let the house helper go rather than risk more broken appliances. The feeling of relief after she left was overwhelming. At the same time, it hasn’t been easy making adjustments.
My sleeping pattern was suddenly disrupted and I often feel like falling asleep in front of my laptop. When there was [...]
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If you’re a member of Club EOS, you probably received this invite too to the launching of Canon’s latest DSLR model — the EOS 40D.
When the EOS 350D was launched, I got an invite too after I participated in a Canon photo exhibit at the Megatrade Hall. I even won a flash drive in the [...]
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There are many ways to capture the motion of water in photography. If your camera’s aperture setting can be changed, falling water can be frozen in mid-air or it can appear as one fluid object (see related photo tip).
My daughter Sam spent a long time squatting in front of the faucet in the backyard waiting [...]
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Along a narrow street in the vicinity of the Antipolo Public Market is a stall called Ostrich Mart. It does not sell live ostrich nor ostrich meat though.
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
