The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
(Today’s column) Our Lenten trip started with an early morning flight on Holy Wednesday. I’ve been to a lot of airports but it was the first time I spent such a long time perspiring inside one. Passengers on our flight were assigned to Gate 116 and it was an oven in there. I would have ... (more)
It was over four years ago when we first held a birthday party at the Cattleya Farm Resort. We’ve rented the place many times since and we’ve always had a great time (see older photos). There were only two pools then, pools number 1 and 2, and the package came with the use of the ... (more)
*Note: This entry was originally published in my old photo blog in May 15, 2005. I have updated the links but the text and photos are reproduced here as originally published. I’m really not a spa person. My friends go all the time and I always say no, thanks, I’d rather surf and blog. The ... (more)
On the last Sunday of May, we hosted a small swimming party for our daughters, their classmates and some friends. We rented St. Moritz at the Vieux Chalet for the day. Vieux Chalet is a Swiss restaurant in Antipolo. St. Moritz is a pool and a guest cottage adjacent to the restaurant but which is ... (more)
Since my family moved to the suburb, we had taken a liking to private resorts–swimming pools with guesthouses that can be rented for the day or for overnight stay. It isn’t that expensive if you go with a group of, say, four families and you split the bill equally. The following photos were taken on ... (more)
Located in Angono, Rizal, the Fiesta Casino and Resort sits in the middle of nowhere. The rate is US$ 69.00 (twin-sharing with breakfast), an additional US$ 15.00 for every child 12 years old and above. The swimming pool overlooks Laguna de Bay. Adjacent to the Fiesta Resort is the Eastridge Golf Club. The golf course ... (more)
When we first went to the Boso-boso resort and convention center early last year, it was not yet operational. As we neared the entrance gate, I was in such a hurry to get out of the car to start taking photos. The sunlight filtering through the dark clouds was such a breathtaking scene and I ... (more)
The Sierra Madre resort and convention center is right along the National Highway in Tanay. We spent a few hours there last year as part of a day-long road trip to celebrate my younger daughter’s birthday. We brought our own picnic lunch and rented some tables and chairs on the veranda overlooking the mini golf ... (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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