The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
In the late 1980s, I suffered from undiagnosed bleeding that four gynecologists concluded was caused by hormonal imbalance. One of those four doctors prescribed Premarin, a Wyeth manufactured hormone pill that has been in use since the 1940s. I took Premarin three times a day. Within a few months of regularly taking the medication, I ... (more)
I’ve often been asked why I don’t use the sassylawyer.com and sassylawyer.net domains for blogging. The answer is simple and it’s related to why my main website is now called House On A Hill instead of A Sassy Lawyer in Philippine Suburbia which was its title for many years. See, any website with the word ... (more)
So much has been said about the professional ethics of the doctors of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital who allowed a video taken of a procedure where a spray can was removed from the anus of a homosexual. The video landed in YouTube and it showed the medical staff laughing and giggling throughout the operation. ... (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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