From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Kitchen knives with a jagged edge

by Connie Veneracion on October 17, 2007

The last time we were at the mall, we checked out some kitchen knives at the Henckels (corrected link and spelling) shop. There were some knives on sale, I don’t remember if they were Victorinox, but I do remember that they were going for 50% off.
In the kitchen, I don’t use too many knives. I [...]

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Street sale

by Connie Veneracion on October 17, 2007

The streets of Metro Manila are one big marketplace for vendors. From the sidewalks where pedestrians have been effectively ejected to the intersections where peddlers race one another to the middle of busy streets where traffic bottlenecks are rampant.

In a country where cell phone chargers to hand puppets to pot holders are sold in the [...]

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Do your own laundry from now on

by Connie Veneracion on October 13, 2007

It doesn’t make me happy that I can’t blog as much as I used to. Sucks but, without a live-in house helper, I have to do a lot of the chores around here.
Like, when I woke up this morning, and raring to write while the kids still slept, I was greeted with cat poop [...]

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What Sam wants (a.k.a. A daughter’s love note for mommy)

by Connie Veneracion on October 5, 2007

Sam posted this on my desk last night.

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Cancer, optical mouse and Knorr liquid seasoning

by Connie Veneracion on October 1, 2007

I am subscribed to Small Potato’s site (I like his work tremendously) and I was surprised to find a very pink entry earlier today. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and some web designers are offering free pink Wordpress themes.
No pink templates for me, thank you, but I do have a new pink optical mouse. [...]

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