From the monthly archives:
Sam sent me a text message asking if she could go with her classmates to the mall to see a movie. It’s the last day of their Trimestral Exams and I understand that they want to unwind.
But. BUT. I was just on the phone with Speedy. And a former classmate from the U.P. College of [...]
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Since yesterday morning, my broadband connection has been slow and spotty. And that’s the good news. The bad news is that between slow and spotty, my internet connection is dead. PLDT customer service (outsourced, of course) has put in a recording to explain the “browsing problem” with an assurance that their engineers are working to [...]
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When Sam took this self-portrait, the Canon EOS 350D was still mine.
As of 7.00 p.m. last night, she became the owner of the camera that had been an integral part of my blogging life for the past two and a half years.
Because Alex prefers a smaller camera, she got a Canon S3 IS.
Me? I am [...]
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Okay, time to answer a few e-mails. Most of them, I just reply to; others, I prefer to answer here to avoid repetitious queries and because, maybe, the Q&A will benefit others.
1. You design your blog?
Noooooo… There is an attribution link on the right sidebar. It says Whitespace theme by Brian Gardner. He’s the same [...]
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We have so many photo albums because we’ve always been a camera family. And you know how parents are especially when the kids are very young — films and processing were a necessary part of our monthly budget.
Well, photos fade. Even the negatives don’t last that long. For the past so many years — I [...]
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If you’re not a brave person, read no farther.
If you think that gore has no place in an ideal world — which probably means you are NOT a CSI fan — read no farther.
There is nothing artificial about this photo. It has not been digitally altered in any way. This is nature, albeit that part [...]
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Speedy comes from a family of artists. Two of his brothers have a fine arts degree; another is an architect. Speedy isn’t bad with drawing and painting either. So, when both our girls showed artistic inclinations early on, I had no doubts where the genes came from.
There’s this sketch done in pencil that had been [...]
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Speedy’s phones are company issued. Mine aren’t. I don’t have a company. I have ME. And all my business expenses, I have to pay for. As Speedy so pointedly pointed out recently (how’s that for alliteration), if I want a computer upgrade and a dSLR upgrade, I should pay for them because they are considered [...]
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Sam’s cat, Bebe, gave birth to two kittens. But we lost Pepper, Sam’s Persian cat.
She learned to scale the fence, went out last night and hasn’t come back. Stray cats don’t get second glances around here but a pure breed cat can be sold.
I feel so sorry for Sam. She refuses to go to [...]
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Overheard while waiting in line at the bank last week:
Woman 1: “Heto yung sketch nung gown ng flower girls. Violet na may gold trimmings.”
Woman 2: “Eh, bakit naman violet?”
Woman 1: “Violet ang motif kasi yun ang favorite color ko, eh.”
Woman 2: “Palitan mo motif mo. Hindi bagay sa anak ko ang violet.”
Wow, talk about a [...]
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