The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
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.
The streets of Metro Manila are one big marketplace for vendors. From the sidewalks where pedestrians have been effectively ejected to the intersections where peddlers race one another to the middle of busy streets where traffic bottlenecks are rampant. In a country where cell phone chargers to hand puppets to pot holders are sold in ... (more)
These photos of a garbage truck were taken late one afternoon along North Avenue in Quezon City on our way to TriNoMa Mall to attend a birthday dinner. I was trying to capture the contrast of the silhouettes of the garbage collectors and the truck against the setting sun. The inclusion of the Philippine flag ... (more)
The 66-foot memorial monument to the President of the Commonwealth Republic, Manuel Luis Quezon, stands on an expanse of 27-hectare circular lot (numbers from WOW Philippines) that had been developed during the last two decades as a park complete with restaurants and flea market. Made from Carrara marble, the three pylons represent the three main ... (more)
TriNoMa is a mall owned and developed by Ayala Land, the same company behind Glorietta and Greenbelt in Makati. As to why it is a triangle, Wikipedia has the details including a physical description of its location. A mall is a mall, shops are shops and the restaurants at TriNoMa aren’t that different from restaurants ... (more)
I don’t remember the last time I went to a shopping mall where there was an ongoing mall-wide sale and bought nothing. I don’t think it ever happened before. Well, until last Sunday. We only had time to eat, have coffee and watch Transformers. My daughter Sam enjoyed herself immensely though. Taking photos.
The Sunken Garden of the U.P. Diliman campus is located within the academic oval. It is surrounded by the Main Library building, the College of Law (Malcolm Hall), the Student Activity Center (Vinzon’s Hall) and the College of Education (Benitez Hall). I have a lot of happy memories of the Sunken Garden — putting up ... (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 … »»
In the aftermath of typhoon Ondoy, shortage of toilet facilities, uncollected garbage and bacteria in flood waters now threaten the lives and health of flood-stricken Metro Manila and suburbs. For people in areas on Pepeng’s path, they problems are only just beginning.
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