The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
In a previous post about aperture value, my friend Ting asked about ISO settings in the comment thread. Okay, so last night I was standing on the sidewalk of a narrow street behind Sam’s dorm (Alex threw me out of the car because I was smoking) waiting for Sam to collect her stuff (dirty clothes, ... (more)
A reader e-mailed me asking how I blur some parts of the photos in my food blog. I responded by saying, “By setting the aperture value between f/1.8 to f/2.2, depending on how blurry I want the background.” Actually, when I have the luxury of time (which is rare), I take more than one photo ... (more)
Power went out at around 2.30 p.m. I saw my computer monitor flicker then I heard an explosion from a distance. Of course, it must have happened in reverse order — the explosion came first before the monitor died. If I need evidence that sound travels, that’s it. Because the explosion took place from a ... (more)
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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