The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I’ve taken so many photos of this statue during both visits to Balay Indang but not until I was thinking of a good title did the significance of its location in the garden strike me. It’s Buddha meditating under the tree. And the symbol on the Buddha-statue’s chest has nothing to do with Hitler’s Nazi. The swastika has been a positive symbol in many cultures until Hitler decided to use a tilted version for his Nazi army.
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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