The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I was there 25 years ago with a contingent of UP Law students that manned the barricades. We were in the night shift. I was with a paralegal quick reaction team that was directed to go to Malacañang when news filtered in that people were looting the palace. What we were supposed to do as ... (more)
First of all, an amnesty is not a pardon. You have to be be convicted first before getting pardoned. Erap was pardoned. But this isn’t about Erap. This is about Antonio Trillanes IV and the other soldiers on trial for the Oakwood incident in 2003. For those unfamiliar with the incident, a group of armed ... (more)
Never judge a movie by the scandalous reputation of its director. Roman Polanski may have been in the news more often for his legal skirmishes and his involvement with underaged girls but his personal life does not in any way dampen his prowess as a movie director. His latest work, The Ghost Writer, is magnificent. ... (more)
If you haven’t yet, please go read Daniel Wagner’s article on The Huffington Post. I’ve read it, it hurt reading it but I have to concede that many of his observations are true — in part. Mr. Wagner asks: Politically, the Philippines has descended into an ongoing competition between political dynasties: Marcos, Arroyo, and yes, ... (more)
President Noynoy Aquino has ordered the Secretary of Justice to review the coup case against incarcerated senator Antonio Trillanes IV because he believes that whatever it was that Trillanes committed, it wasn’t coup d’etat: “Trillanes was first incarcerated by virtue of the charge of participating in a coup. However, if you review the Revised Penal ... (more)
First, a disclosure: I don’t like Jejomar Binay. I don’t like how he has always treated Makati City as his private little fiefdom. I don’t like how his family members have “succeeded” him as mayor. I don’t like how he insists that the number coding traffic scheme be observed without exception in Makati even though ... (more)
First of all, a person who has been elected President but who has not taken his oath and whose term has not started cannot be impeached. So, will the wanna-be legal experts please shut up already? Second, please stop rewriting the news reports just as I wish reporters would acquaint themselves with the Constitution to ... (more)
It’s two days after election day. While the final result of the vice presidential race is still a question mark, it’s quite safe to assume that Noynoy Aquino will be the next President of the Philippines. Those who voted for him and those who supported him are already in a celebratory mood. Those who voted ... (more)
I was planning on following the news coverage of the elections but Alex is very sick and, well, to hell with the elections — I have a sick child to attend to. She’s here in my study, watching the DVD of Rent over and over. It keeps her relaxed so the TV is hers. I ... (more)
Every spouse knows that mutual support is a huge factor in any successful marriage. And I’m not just talking about financial support — I’m talking about emotional, mental, professional and even spiritual support, in whatever context you want to put it. But when a husband loses his chance — again — to fulfill a long-standing ... (more)
Search Google with the key string “smear campaign Philippine elections” and you’ll get a list, about four pages long, of the same Agence France Presse (AFP) report by Maynardo Macaraig entitled “Internet fuels Philippine election smear campaigns.” It reads in part: Philippine politics has plunged to ugly lows ahead of next month’s presidential election as ... (more)
Ask a political candidate why he seeks public office and, chances are, he’ll say he wants to serve the people. The exact words may vary but the substance hardly changes. And that’s not the only common denominator among political candidates. They also unanimously believe that it is worth spending millions, or even billions, of pesos ... (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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