The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
He conducts those famous walking tours around Manila and, one of these days, when the weather is friendlier to my skin, I’ll sign up and join one. I would have walked up to Carlos Celdran to say hello but he was working and I didn’t want to bother him. It was great to see him in action though. A real live wire.
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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.
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He’s a great guide, person, and friend. He has his opinions, and he sticks to them. Plus he got so many of us to see Manila in a different light! That’s worth every penny spent for his tour!
He’s doing a better job than Lito Atienza ever did when he was mayor with that Saturday morning drama series. Yuck!