The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Several days ago, a local TV show aired an episode about beauty pageants hot on the heels of the Janina San Miguel phenomenon blockbuster. The segment mentioned former Miss Universe Gloria Diaz and a famous question she once asked when she was a beauty pageant judge: “What would you choose — be smart or be ... (more)
A 17-year-old mass com student bungled her Q&A then went on to win the Bb. Pilipinas World title. See the video of Janina San Miguel’s question and answer interview here and Ruffa’s reaction here. Ruffa was a runner-up in the Miss World pageant a generation ago. Her title was “second princess”, a glamorized synonym for ... (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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