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Monday, October 30th, 2006

So, I can imagine that she experiences my remarks as being very “negative” and damaging…. I suspect that this is made worse because this “negativity” resonates with damaging negative remarks made by others -and so she emotionally explodes -as part of a healthy defense mechanism. Unfortunately, she still cannot see that my reactions, which upset […]

Lethok: Burmese salad mixed by hand

Monday, October 30th, 2006

One of my favorites in Burma is the lethok or the raw salad mixed by hand. The first time I tried it I thought that it was vegetable sautee and thus I was eating it with rice. When I learned that it was actually “salad” (which is a term used to refer to what is […]

Good-morning, Paeng

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Paeng’s the name of the new typhoon that made itself felt yesterday morning. Until now, Monday morning, it’s been raining and the wind could get pretty strong. Thinking about the name Paeng, previously, local typhoon names were women’s names but now they are no longer limited to women. Some gender advocates supposely didn’t like the […]

A fermented breakfast ;)

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Prepared myself a good breakfast this morning - mostly leftover from last night (which means not much cooking but only heating up! ) but not bad at all: rellenong bangus, burong hipon, bagoong rice with egg, chopped stringbeans and fresh onions.
Rellenong bangus is milkfish that had all its flesh and bones taken out, then […]

Edward’s second bath

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

By the way, Edward got his second bath yesterday and now is still hanging to dry.
My mom woke me up yesterday morning to take Edward to Nery to wash. Edward was soaked in soap the whole morning and by noon was hanging by the ears outside to dry.
When Alwin woke up late morning […]