Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

Around 3-4 in the morning I was still pounding soya beans, the neighbor downstairs came over because of the noise … The sound of the marble mortar and pestle at the quiet of night must’ve resonated, amplified … Luckily, when the neighbor came, I’ve already finished the last batch.
Of course, the following day, it was […]

The long wait at the National Statistics Office yesterday allowed me to complete two rows of crochet - this is just the long screening queue (we got number 5,796 and number 4,000 was being served when we arrived). There was, of course another long queue for payment but it wasn’t possible to do any crochet […]

Spam today, spam yesterday, spam tomorrow. Spam is now an inevitable part of our email life. My spamtrap captures over 50 spam messages a day. Trevor’s email system filters out probably even more. Sometimes a few manage to pass through, and provide some entertaining reading.
A more recent one in circulation is an offer from a […]

When we arrived in Thailand Friday, we noticed that many of the people were dressed in black and airport personnel wore black ribbons on their sleeves. Just two days earlier, Princess Galyani, the only sister of Thailand’s revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, died of abdominal cancer at the age of 84.
The government declared a 15-day mourning, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]