The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
When a fellow lawyer sent me the New York Post page with the article about President Gloria Arroyo’s Le Cirque dinner in New York, my mouth fell open. After the initial shock, however, I started checking and cross checking media reports against facts. The full text of the New York Post article: The economic downturn ... (more)
On Sunday evening, I thought about asking my editor if I could submit my column later on Monday afternoon so I could watch the President’s state of the nation address first and write a column about it. By Monday morning, as I looked at the cats’ litter box, the dirty breakfast plates, the dusty floors, ... (more)
One of the house helpers left for her hometown this morning for a week long vacation. And she woke me up at around 8.00 a.m. to say she was going. I tried to go back to sleep but, a few minutes later, there was the sound of a tricycle. Our house helper’s ride. Then, high ... (more)
Let’s start with Sarah Palin. Not that I care about the U.S. elections. I just needed a laugh on a Monday morning. Here’s a video of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS. And it really is Sarah Palin, not Tina Fey. I got the link from Dooce and if you’re going to click ... (more)
From A twist to the usual tale of street protests in The Economist, an article that analyzes why the Senate with its 2010 “presidentiables” is lukewarm over another People Power. ON FEBRUARY 29th several thousand anti-government demonstrators gathered in Manila to demand the resignation of President Gloria Arroyo. So far, so usual… But this was ... (more)
An editorial that draws a parallel between the Philippines’ People Power phenomenon and the dismantling of the communist states in Eastern Europe. While the countries of the former Soviet bloc have settled down to democracy, the mass protest has become dangerously embedded in Philippine politics… The editorial’s conclusion is that ending a corrupt government should ... (more)
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.
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 … »»
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