The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Until today, it was the Department of Education (DepEd) that issued suspension of classes in the wake of a storm or typhoon. Not anymore. “Beginning today and in succeeding typhoons, the DepEd will not anymore officially suspend classes,” Luistro told a National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council command conference Monday morning. “As soon as typhoon ... (more)
Last week, I came across a news report where U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying, “It is biblical, the tragedy that continues to stalk Haiti and the Haitian people” (from “Clinton scraps South Pacific trip after Haiti quake,” Reuters, January 14, 2010). I posted it on Twitter and commented that I ... (more)
Through the dark nights and waterless days, one thing and one thing only kept from bitching – we had it good compared to what a lot of other people went through. Even during the heaviest downpour, we remained untouched by floods. We suffered no injury nor illness nor property damage. And we live in Antipolo, one of the areas hardest hit by typhoon Ondoy.
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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