Archive for January, 2005
A computer on every desktop
It’s finally happened, one of our Gatesian dreams of long-ago to have a computer on every desktop in our home, workgrouped, and with Internet access.
We hadn’t realized it until now. We have our old computer, which we had lugged all the way from Manila when we moved here to Iligan, a battered AMD Duron K6 [...]
Ang Lagalag
Hardly anything is on the internet about Samuel Bilibit, the man who was cursed to wander the earth until judgement day. That is about to change. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome to the blogging world …
Samuel Bilibit!
In One Basket
Once upon a time, in a house on an island far far away, there lived a young mom with her 9-year old son. He was watching t.v. and she was washing the dishes with her back to him, just a few feet away. It was a very small house.
It was a time when Aga and [...]
Takuza
Yesterday I asked my husband what exactly was a Takuza*. A Filipino pun on what is commonly known as the Japanese mafia, it is what tagalog males say in reference to their drinking buddies who go home promptly before dinnertime, or immediately after an irate phone call from the missus.
My husband then enumerated his drinking [...]
Firefox Rules! … and a template from NOIPO
Just installed Firefox 1.0 and I am in heaven. I had the preview version a couple of months ago but didn’t know what the fuss was all about. In addition some of the sites I frequented weren’t showing up the way I was used to seeing them on IE, so I got rid of that. [...]
Best for Babies
…perhaps yes, even up to after two years. I have three kids, all of whom I breast fed (am still at it with the youngest, that little girl you see on the side panel). All the wonderful things that are said of children who are breastfed are true. They’re bright, confident, eager learners, so aware [...]
Googling Bambit
More than 40 years ago my mom and dad nicknamed their second kid “Bambit”. Why they did that, I had no idea, as my real name as it appears on my birth certificate is “Maria Marina Victoria”. Recently, out of plain curiosity and because I had nothing better to do, I entered my nickname on [...]
Murphy’s Primer
Nothing is as easy as it looks.Murphy’s First Law
Everything takes longer than you think.Murphy’s Second Law
Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.Murphy’s Third Law
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.Murphy’s Fourth Law
If anything just cannot go wrong, [...]
The Movie in My Mind
At the back of my mind I have often yearned for the spotless american home that I see in the movies and t.v. sitcoms. This home, vacuumed and tumble dried to perfection, run by a homemaker who has time to cook meals for a husband and five kids, do their laundry, drive them to school, [...]
Pasalubong
The Pinoy pasalubong means something which a traveler brings from a place on the way home as a gift to the welcomers. It could either be a long-standing memento, a consumable gustatory delight, or a keepsake for eternity. Pasalubong comes from the word salubong, which means to meet. While the practice goes beyond cultural boundaries, [...]
Bambit
Sam
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Panaderos
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