The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Much as I’d like to write about something — anything — else, I can’t seem to do it. I had a birthday party over the weekend and we talked about the plagiarism in the Supreme Court scandal. I go to Facebook and we talk about the same thing. Online and offline, the topic stays the ... (more)
In the legal profession, colleagues protect their own and those who don’t play the game should stay out. I learned that the hard way when I was a practicing lawyer. I refused to manufacture evidence to save the ass of a colleague and, in the end, I had to resign. Not because I was in ... (more)
If you haven’t heard yet, a Supreme Court justice is in hot waters for publishing a decision where portions were lifted verbatim from three different sources. From the column of former Supreme Court Justice Artemio Panganiban. Short backgrounder. On April 28, 2010, the Supreme Court en banc, in “Vinuya vs Romulo,” dismissed the petition of ... (more)
If you haven’t heard yet, the Malacañang-MILF MOA was declared unconstitutional. In terms of merit, there should be nothing surprising about the Supreme Court’s decision. It is the only logical conclusion. In terms of political reality, however, the Supreme Court justices being appointees of the President per provisions of the Constitution, the decision surprised me ... (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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