The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Unless you’re wearing 3D glasses right now, you really shouldn’t think that that flying object is something that properly belongs inside the TV screen. Alex is turning 16 on Tuesday and Speedy came home last night with the remote-controlled helicopter for her. For her birthday. And, perhaps, to congratulate her too. She was “Miss Best ... (more)
Everyone said you start feeling old after your 20s but I felt nothing like that when I turned 30. I was enjoying raising two young girls and having a ball. Everyone said that at the onset of midlife, you start asking yourself what you have done with your life and really start feeling old. Not ... (more)
(Today’s column) “The Bucket List” is a film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I saw it several months ago and it just seems like the most relevant idea to me today. Edward Cole (Nicholson) and Carter Chambers (Freeman) are terminal cancer patients with six months to live. They meet when they become roommates in ... (more)
Have to go and blow the candles on my birthday cake. P.S. My Tastebook is out. The link is on the sidebar. P.P.S. I made a bucket list. You know, like you’ve lived half your life and you think about what else you want to do before the second half is over. It’s coming out ... (more)
Sam is turning 16 on August 20 but we gave her the birthday gift of her choice last Sunday. His name is Twix (after the breakfast cereal chocolate bar, according to Sam) and he’s a pomspitz — a crossbreed of a pomeranian and a Japanese spitz. And, yes, we keep him as far away as ... (more)
Tito Rolly forwarded a very inspiring anecdote about a speech delivered by an 87-year-old professor. In part, it says: We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young… being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor ... (more)
It’s going to be a busy weekend. But I feel energized. Actually, I feel great. For the first time in so many months, I’m writing the way I always wanted to. I finally acknowledged what had been staring at me in the face for a long time. Not following the political news — not paying ... (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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