The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
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)
Because I so hate doing the Christmas shopping in malls and ending up buying the same old things, I considered whether it would be more practical to shop at eBay. It’ll save me a lot of grief, physical punishment and Speedy would be happy with what we can save in gasoline. I actually started buying ... (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)
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)
The first time I heard about the bonsai garden in the U.P. Diliman campus was during a Christmas party. Our friend, PJ Juinio, a true blue bonsai afficionado asked if we had heard of the place. Sounded alien to me and I told him so. Apparently, he was so intrigued that the week after 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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