Archive for December, 2005
Signs that make you go “hmmm…”
Saw this sign in front of a night spot on Sucat Road coming home from the supermarket. Hmmm. Makes you wonder if they’re looking for someone to model wraps on the ramp or something like that.
Hello 2006! Here’s to more interesting signs. Happy Hogmanay!
Sharing is Bad?
You may have seen the signs elsewhere, but I’m not concerned as much with the one on the right (ubiquitously posted in all places public) as with the one on the left. No Sharing, No Take-out, No Leftover.
I’m not even going to harp on correct grammar here. We all know or at least have noticed [...]
Jesus Saves
I once gave a mini-lecture to an office-full of computer newbies about the benefits of saving their work, telling them of the various yet quite simple ways of preventing the primeval scream that may be heard from a user whose work has disappeared because his computer has crashed. I enumerated everything from “clicking on the [...]
Xmas Family Pic
In lieu of the traditional family picture by the Christmas Tree, let me offer you this whimsical rendition.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Mahalipayong Pasko!
The People I Work With . . .
. . . are hard working, fun loving, and beautiful. Just look at us!
This “family picture” was taken during our Christmas Party last Dec. 16 at the Grilla Bar on Kalayaan Avenue, Makati, just a short brisk walk from our office. Other photos are too wild or weird to post.
Seated from left: Ms. [...]
Tank Updates
Amazing how so much has happened since Edna Mata and company walked into our house to setup the sea water aquarium. This is how it looks like now. A huge difference, you will agree, to the unfinished setup in front of which you can see Sam having coffee in the previous post below.
What contributed to [...]
The Sea in Our Home
It started with a foray into Cartimar searching for the ideal Christmas project, which Sam wrote about in his blog. What started as a dream just last weekend is now a reality. We now have a miniature coral reef and its inhabitants right in our living room.
An investigative walk twice around the aquarium fish section of Cartimar led us to Edna’s Pet Shop on the far edge, where the displays aren’t as flashy as the ones in the middle lanes, and where the owners themselves man the stores (as opposed to the middle lane shops with watchers who don’t know the difference between a 10-gallon tank and a 20 gallon tank). This is where we met Lonie, who gave us our first lesson in putting up a sea water aquarium.
Confessions of an Old T.V. Addict
Picking up from wats0n’s post, I started listing my favorite 80s tv shows, and then I realized they were from the 70s!
Wild Wild West - Will Smith himself said he wanted to wear the tight leather pants like the ones Robert Conrad wore on the old series. I was too young to notice back then, [...]
Plugging Ü
Two poems and a short story I wrote have been featured in the December 2005 issue of OUR OWN VOICE LITERARY EZINE: FILIPINOS IN THE DIASPORA. My thanks to editors Aileen Ibardaloza and Remé-Antonia Grefalda for considering my work.
Awit sa Mandaragat, Panamilit and Moon Over Mantawihan all appear in my eBook Other Endings, which [...]
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