On Sunday evening, my daughter Alex sat down next to me in my study with Neil Gaiman’s “M Is For Magic” in her hands. Apparently, a lot of nursery rhymes were referenced in the short stories and, not being familiar with many of them, she decided it was more convenient to ask me rather than ... (more)
That day we went to see District 9 at Eastwood City, and Alex and I walked out halfway through the screening, we went to Cheesecake, etc. to while away the hour to let Speedy and Sam finish the movie. We each had a cake…
Define misanthropy
Posted on September 2, 2009 · 13 Comments
Alex is very much into non-fiction these days. Danielle Steel, to be more precise, whose novels I never read although I did see the film version of “The Promise” when I was very young. As it turns out, based at least on the questions that Alex asks, some of Steel’s novels are set in interesting ... (more)
Football game
Posted on August 31, 2009 · 8 Comments
A couple of years ago, I bought Alex a camera but she decided to sell it after a year or so because she wanted one with a higher resolution. She still hasn’t bought a new cam because the one she wants costs more than twice as much as the selling price of her old camera ... (more)
An attempt to bake Oreo cheese cupcakes
Posted on August 14, 2009 · 4 Comments
I saw this gorgeous and seemingly simple recipe for Oreo cheese cupcakes in Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes cookbook and decided I was going to make some. I was so sure it was going to be an enormous success that I took photos of every step of the procedure because I intended to post the recipe with the photos in my food blog. Well, that’s the only photo I’m going to show the Internet at this point. The cheese cupcakes were, well…
You know your kids are grown up when…
Posted on August 13, 2009 · 20 Comments
A year or so after we moved to the suburb, I remember how all of us got addicted to Scrabble on the computer. Of course, I had been playing the board game for years but the girls played against the computer (it was an offline game against the computer) before they learned to play with ... (more)
Postcard perfect Mayon Volcano
Posted on August 9, 2009 · 7 Comments
The time I wrote a column about our visit to the Blanco Family Art Museum in Angono, Rizal, I mentioned that one of the Blanco progenies is a classmate of Alex. Yesterday, Alex handed me a greeting card with a reproduction of an oil painting of Mayon Volcano and said it was from the museum. ... (more)
One question I’ve often been asked is where I get ideas for photography subjects. From anything and everything, actually. All things are interesting depending on how you see them and how you compose your photos around them. Babs and Black-Eye
Posted on July 24, 2009 · 2 Comments
Last week, Alex spent an afternoon and part of the evening with friends at Eastwood City. Movie, dinner… It was a despedida affair for a classmate whose family is migrating to Canada. She said they had fun — but the surprising thing was how she remembered her father and me through all that fun. She came home with a huge bag that contained two stuffed toys. The piglet is for Speedy and me; the dog is for herself.
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