Archive for November, 2006

Life is full of surprises. :)

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Typhoon Queenie has picked up speed to 120kph. Landfall (northern Aurora) is expected tomorrow morning. Everyone in the area has been alerted - it could be another disaster.
I’m beginning to introspect for my presentation next week in GenSan. I suppose I will be speaking about experiences which have led to my articulation of “diwa” and […]

Telebabad

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Alwin has a new hobby - telebabad. The other afternoon, he was in my room with the telephone and his school annual and he started calling up all his friends listed in the annual. It was so funny, he was asking where his friends were, he got phone numbers to places where they […]

A busy day yesterday …

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Spent some time at the bank this morning to get a cheque for the visa application. It was nearly an hour waiting in the bank, good thing I had Edward with me. It was just amusing seeing him peering out of my bag. Anyway, before heading home, I got some Chicken Katsu and Shrimp Tempura […]

Small is beautiful!

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Just when I thought there won’t be any more surprises in the garden late in the afternoon, I saw this, the vaiegated mondo grass is flowering!

Such a tiny flower! SO I got my camera took this photo and started looking out for other tiny surprises, and found this, my mom’s tubatuba has a […]

Iron horses

Monday, November 6th, 2006

These are some 11 cast iron horses that my mom just brought out from the junk at the back of the house. She cleaned them and put them here to dry. My sister will be putting some of them in her family’s new house in Laguna.
These are all my father’s horses, decorative cast iron horses […]

Love language

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I saw Bo Sanchez talk about love language a few months ago. It was beautiful. He and his friend talked openly about what love languages they shared with their wives. They all had different love languages but what made speaking the languages most beautiful was the willignness to recognize and speak the other person’s […]

ABC 5’s Sunday cooking programs

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

What a pleasant surprise. I think it was around 9:30AM when Alwin and I turned on the TVto realx and there was this Island Flavors program where they featured Taal, Batangas. The host of the program was a kind and warm woman called Chef Gigi. Apart from a very good tour of the […]