Food articles posted in Apr 2008

I never thought I’d get a Multiply account

Sam has a Multiply account. So does Alex. But I never had any reason to get one. I like having my own domain and I don’t like putting up stuff on the web just so others can make money out of them. And that’s how it is with most free sites out there. Well, except [...]

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A new twist to the fake diploma culture

You’d think you’ve heard it all after learning about how fake college diplomas can be bought along C.M. Recto Avenue in Manila. You’d think nothing could be more shocking than people who hired themselves out as ghost thesis writers.
Well, the fake education culture has gone a step farther. Thesis-writers-for-hire are actively advertising themselves on the [...]

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The wily cousins

Once upon a time, my father had this dream of building two houses side by side for my brother and I. My father thought it would be great if he could spend his old age watching his grandchildren play, pampering them (I bet) and just, you know, enjoy them. That was how he grew up, [...]

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Ethics and product endorsements

So you’ve seen Aga Muhlach downing all that Jollibee Chicken Joy. So you’ve seen Sharon Cuneta eating all those McDonald’s burgers. And watching them do it makes you want to run to the nearest Jollibee and McDonald’s outlets to get a bite of what they’re having on the screen of the idiot box.
Now try this [...]

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The Only 5 Kitchen Tools You Really Need… Or Not

There’s an article in Wired about the only five kitchen tools you really need. Surprisingly, the list included a thermometer and a cheese grater. My eyebrow shot up and… cheese grater? Really? Perhaps, the guy meant a multi-purpose grater?
After the initial shock, I had to concede that what is essential depends on the cooking culture [...]

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Now every criminal wants to be pardoned

You must have read or heard about it. The convicted military officers who staged some kind of uprising in 2003 dubbed the Oakwood Mutiny are seeking pardon. It’s been all over the news but we were furniture hunting and that was more important than writing about these… these…
People… you stage a coup and announce [...]

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You know that song from Miss Saigon…???

I forget the title but there’s a line that goes, “You don’t know, you can’t know what I’ve done to be here.” That’s exactly how I feel after dealing with server overload for the past week or two.
For all you bloggers dying to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5, you might learn a thing or two. [...]

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Panay Church on Good Friday

Mention Panay Island and the story of the golden salakot comes to mind. The Maragtas Chronicles tell the story of the ten datus who escaped from Borneo and arrived in Panay. Story has it that in exchange for a golden salakot (a wide brimmed native hat), the Bornean datus bought the island from the Aetas [...]

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Nostalgia

A couple of nights ago, Speedy was cleaning out his closet and he took out a stack of playing records. Alex stared and said, “What’s that?” Kinda hard to explain to a kid whose earliest memories of music storage are audio CDs. The exchange inspired me to take photos of the playing records with Sam’s old Girst Generation iPod Nano which was handed down to Alex a few weeks ago.

For those too young to know, those large cardboard containers house playing records… which were played on things called turntables like these. Playing records are the iPods of the 1880s through the mid-1980s when audio CDs first hit the market. Their content were non-changeable unlike the iPods that you kids have today.

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Inside Jojo’s Christmas Cottage

Inside Sampaguita Garden’s Resort in Aklan is Jojo’s Christmas Cottage. If the structure looks interesting by day with its unique colors and accents, it is doubly pretty at night when the directional lights are on. Stuff straight out of the pages of a storybook.
   
But what’s even more interesting is what’s inside. Hundreds, if not thousands, [...]

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