Sam is turning 16 on August 20 but we gave her the birthday gift of her choice last Sunday.
His name is Twix (after the breakfast cereal chocolate bar, according to Sam) and he’s a pomspitz — a crossbreed of a pomeranian and a Japanese spitz. And, yes, we keep him as far away as [...]
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Sam was a shy child. A very shy child. She was chatty enough with people she felt comfortable with but around strangers, she was the Ice Queen until she was ready to thaw. It was something I discussed with the administrator of the pre-school she attended a long time ago. Teacher Gladys, her name was, [...]
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We put up the window blinds today. Okay, that’s not accurate. Speedy installed the window blinds. In the living room, in the dining room, my office… He had the electric drill in his hand before 8.00 a.m. and that was before I had a chance to fix breakfast.
By 10.00 a.m., he had finished ONLY ONE [...]
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(Today’s column)
We had our occasional red meat last Sunday. We really wanted steaks and mashed potatoes but S&R ran out of rib eye steaks so my husband bought pork loin instead. Then, he cooked tequila porkloin, a beloved dish from Tucker Shaw’s “Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens: Killer Recipes for Guys”.
Sunday in our house is Dad’s [...]
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At 10.30 a.m. today, one of the house helpers came up to my study to tell me that we had no more rice to cook for lunch. Wow, and I was hoping for a leisurely day. We had a huge bowl of leftover stir fried beef and vegetables that I cooked for the kids’ packed [...]
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My current desk editor (she’s my third) in Manila Standard Today also writes an op-ed column. In her column published a month ago, she wrote her thoughts after seeing The Other Boleyn Girl. As to what led me to that particular column, well, I was digging through the archives looking for Emil Jurado’s column lambasting [...]
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Today’s column.
If you have been following the developments on the Manila Electric Co. saga, three very substantial questions are worth pondering over. First, what really is the agenda of Government Service Insurance System in its seeming attempt to wrestle control of Meralco? Second, is Meralco trying to evade answering the “syndicated estafa” charges by resorting [...]
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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.
