The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I got an email from a fellow U.P. Law alumnus asking if I would share this project with my readers. You know how allergic I am to people asking for free advertising but this is something I would have gladly and voluntarily advertised if I had come across it before anyone contacted me about it. ... (more)
Dreamworks’ Sinbad was on Cartoon Network last night and Alex was already watching it when I entered the family room. I had never seen it before and I didn’t know whether I was seeing a scene from the first half, the third quarter or the last five minutes of the movie. I didn’t recognize the ... (more)
In the age of mass media, and the internet, people have developed the “scoop” mentality. Everyone wants to be the first. Media outfits will pay good money to get the scoop on an event and internet publishers sometimes try to out-scoop media. The more serious movie goer and book reader do it to their peers ... (more)
On Sunday evening, my daughter Alex sat down next to me in my study with Neil Gaiman’s “M Is For Magic” in her hands. Apparently, a lot of nursery rhymes were referenced in the short stories and, not being familiar with many of them, she decided it was more convenient to ask me rather than ... (more)
Alex is very much into non-fiction these days. Danielle Steel, to be more precise, whose novels I never read although I did see the film version of “The Promise” when I was very young. As it turns out, based at least on the questions that Alex asks, some of Steel’s novels are set in interesting ... (more)
I found this copy of James Clavell’s Tai-Pan in a second hand bookstore, my signature on the flyleaf says I bought it in 1986 and the tag price on the front cover says I bought it for P36. It’s in terrible condition today after I’ve read it oh, so many times. I’ve also loaned it to a cousin (she still says to this day that I started her on the road to reading) who bought a copy of Noble House> afterward and loaned it to me after she had read it.
I don’t like memes and I don’t often do tagging that is nothing more than a thinly-disguised meme. Even in Facebook, I don’t respond to all the tags. There are, however, those that I like either because they fun, or they share information that are valuable or interesting, or both. Like this one. The rule: ... (more)
There are three bookstores we go to regularly — Powerbooks, Fully Booked and A Different Bookstore. What about National Bookstore? Oh, we go there for school, office and art supplies but when we want books, we go to real bookstores. Rarely do we go to Eastwood City without passing by A Different Bookstore although Sam ... (more)
(Today’s column) Some people collect shoes, others collect trinkets, I collect books. See, I have a bad habit. I can’t seem to pass by a bookstore without buying a book. And since I buy books faster than I can read them, and because I tend to read what seems to be the most interesting at ... (more)
Many people say it isn’t good to provide children with their own computers and internet access. More say it’s a mistake to let them go online unsupervised. I say that depends on how you teach your kids to use the computer and the internet. And it depends even more on what example you show. If ... (more)
I’m reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for the second time. The date on the flyleaf of the book says I bought it when I was 15 years old and I must have read it not too long after I bought it. When you buy books out of your school allowance, you tend to buy one ... (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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