From the category archives:
Many people say it isn’t good to provide children with their own computers and internet access. More say it’s a mistake to let them go online unsupervised. I say that depends on how you teach your kids to use the computer and the internet. And it depends even more on what example you show. If [...]
Continue reading 'I have a lot to thank manga for' →
{ 5 comments }
While I’ve been spending days poring over the wallpaper swatches I’ve collected prior to the dining area project, Speedy had been obsessing over a different kind of wallpaper relative to a project of his own.
He is so into his project that he actually found the time to update his blog after neglecting it for over [...]
Continue reading 'A different kind of wallpaper' →
{ 2 comments }
For the past two years, we have been making personalized gift tags for Christmas. Two years ago, the gift tags were simple computer printed affairs but especially designed by the girls. Last year, it was something more. We cut figures from colored paper and glued glitters on the gift tags. I love doing projects like [...]
Continue reading 'Holiday paper crafts' →
{ 17 comments }
With both girls a few sniffs away from going to college (okay, one for Sam; two for Alex), the issue of transportation has inevitably been discussed for the nth time. Will Daddy bring them to school and pick them up after classes? Will they have to commute? Or will they have their own car(s)?
The [...]
Continue reading 'Dorm or driving school?' →
{ 29 comments }
I’m reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for the second time. The date on the flyleaf of the book says I bought it when I was 15 years old and I must have read it not too long after I bought it. When you buy books out of your school allowance, you tend to buy one [...]
Continue reading 'Revisiting Manderley' →
{ 4 comments }
There was a time when domestic economic woes did not bother the chunk of the population that relies on dollar remittances from family members and relatives working abroad. Their only woes revolved around exchange rates, expired contracts and not much else. With the global financial crisis, relatives of overseas Filipino workers can no longer be [...]
Continue reading 'So, how are you coping with the global financial crisis?' →
{ 23 comments }
If we could shop for everything we need without driving to Metro Manila, we would. But the few malls there are within a few kilometers of Antipolo leave much to be desired. When we had to go out last Saturday to buy new school school shoes for Alex, the first stop was Sta. Lucia East [...]
Continue reading 'The day we went shopping' →
{ 18 comments }
It was not an extraordinarily long weekend but it felt that way because Speedy was home on a Saturday. He never is unless it’s a holiday. Where he works, Saturday is a working day. I wish it weren’t so, it has so ruined our old habit of driving north or south of Metro Manila during [...]
Continue reading 'So, how did you spend the Halloween weekend?' →
{ 15 comments }
There was nothing about the film Primal Fear that I didn’t like when I first saw it. There is nothing about the film that I don’t like every time I see it. I like the story (love it, actually), the actors are great (it was where I first saw Edward Norton) and I adore the [...]
Continue reading 'The difference between a compromise and a negotiation' →
{ 4 comments }
Some asshole hacked my server last weekend. Perhaps, earlier than that although I didn’t discover it until Sunday morning. I was told I wasn’t the only one and it’s probably not a Wordpress vulnerability because even web sites with static pages got hit. If you’re a web site owner, here’s what to look for:
1. ALL [...]
Continue reading 'Wordpress users, check your footer.php files' →
{ 13 comments }
