Archive for December, 2007

Big problem for health care

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Just booked a trip to Bangkok for Trevor and myself. Although I’ve been there three times before (went to roughly the same places and booked the same hotel), I’ve always liked it there. This is probably also going to be our first non-work related trip outside the country, which is very nice because that means […]

Mandy

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Finally, after two months in a boat from Vancouver, Edward’s mail-order-bride has arrived, a gift from my cousin Grace! Her name is Mandy, and she was wearing a Tommy Hilfiger pink dress when she arrived. Here is a photo of Mandy, now wearing a diaper.

And here is a photo of Edward […]

Christmas countdown

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I can’t believe we actually managed to buy gifts for the family. I was ready to give up when for the past 2 days there wasn’t any cash in the ATMs and we barely had enough money to buy vegetables in the market for our meals. Anyway, I speculated that the banks probably allowed the […]

Birds, signos

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I miss the cool winds from the Himalayas - that was probably early last month or late mid-October. The winds brought in the birds too - those thousands of migratory birds that take their places on the ridged walls of SM City mall in North EDSA. I took photos of them earlier this year, around […]

Weddings and carols

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Trevor and I just got married the other day!
Our wedding photos are now on-line - these were taken by kuya Ramon. There are more photos taken by the City hall-accredited photographer and we pick them up on Monday - so by then there should be more photos on-line.
It was a lovely simple […]

The Culture and Computing project, in retrospect

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Some three years ago, I wrote a short paper for a Unesco DigiArts workshop on art, technology and education, held in Linz, Austria. Although I was already in Denmark for a different but related event just a few days before the workshop, and my intention was to stay with Trevor in Amsterdam between Denmark […]

The crocodile farm

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filing papers, paying registration fees and other such things for marriage, I thought about why so many Filipino couples now prefer to “live-in” together without all the bother of getting married.
We also had to pay various amounts, 20 pesos, 30 pesos, 50 pesos, 100 pesos and combinations thereof, for various things such as, signatures, notary, […]