
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
My server overloaded six times today and I had to reboot each and every time. I was wondering what was causing the spike in traffic until my editor sent a text message regarding the controversial pronouncements of Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales on gay santacruzans. See, if you Google “gay santacruzan”, this blog lands on the ... (more)
What the heck tasteful nudity means, I have no idea. Nudes as art I can understand. But how can anyone talk about tasteful nudity in reference to a commercial magazine that markets nudity? To be more precise, nudity can be as artful as it can be but place the art in a girlie magazine and it jumps from artistry to tacky.
…it would be far simpler to stop sugarcoating the nudity and the very essence of Playboy magazine.
From the Financial Times: The Philippines’ poverty rate has risen for the first time since the Asian financial crisis, according to a new government report that deals a blow to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s plans to halve the ranks of the country’s poor. At the rate that the poor reproduce, and I’m talking about non-stop child ... (more)
Executive officials are no longer barred from testifying in legislative inquiries. Opposition Sen. Jamby Madrigal said President Arroyo abolished the controversial order for her “political survival.” For his part, administration Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri said the President’s decision “shows her sincerity to let the truth come out.” Personally, I think it’s simply kowtowing to the ... (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.
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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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