Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

One of the most persistent (and personally unconvincing) remarks I have heard from many artists when asked about what they do or are trying to do is that “art mirrors life.” Whatever this might mean to artists, many of them expound that art is just an expression and a sentiment towards what is going on […]

I just narrowly escaped being photographed wearing Napoleon’s hat with yellow flowers! My caregiver’s camera went lowbatt before she could press the button, thank dog! So, while the batts are being fully discharged (before they can be fully charged, heh!), I had enough time surfing and bumped in to a website called […]

It was evening of October 25 when some kids started knocking on our door calling out “Trick or Treat!” Hmmm… isn’t that a bit too early? Trevor, who has been anticipating this much earlier, has been preparing since first week of October for these kids by saving up coins to give away. And […]

Although we didn’t need to be at Immigration until next week, we decided to go today just to make sure since there seem to be quite a number of non-working holidays coming up - the upcoming elections and All Soul’s Day.
It was the usual commute to Manila, for our 2-month’s worth dose of carbon monoxide. […]

In just a couple of days, my caregiver was able to finish this small purse and had just gone out to give it (together with Alwin’s finished crocheted dragon) to her sister who gave birth to a baby boy a week ago. Although I wasn’t there, my caregiver told me that Alwin […]

Obviously on the Inquirer website, advertising is much more important than newscasting.

An unbelievable barrage of commercial garbage accompanies news on the Inquirer website.
On the GMA website, they’ve done it better: newscasting is advertising.

A very insensitive clumping together of a highly sensationalized boxing event and a tragic explosion (currently being linked to the government) in Glorietta […]

Some time ago, I thought I’d write an article about why I don’t put advertising on my website. In the course of writing that article, I thought I’d search the web for other people who also didn’t like advertising on their own websites. So I went to Google, and entered the following keywords (in quotes […]