Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

Early Monday morning, Trevor and I decided to apply for our visa to India.
And as it turns out, the Embassy wouldn’t process our visa application. They said that we were applying too early and added that we should apply 2-3 weeks before our scheduled flight to India.
My excuse was that we needed to […]

The main building of giant shopping mall SM City along North Ave-EDSA in Quezon City must be some 20 years old now, a building sporting that distinctive SM architectural design of the gray ridged facade found in old SM buildings in Cubao, Makati and Manila.
Recently, perhaps in celebration of its 50-year anniversary, SM City is […]

The fiesta went quite well this weekend - really noisy - and someone organized some parlor games for young people along our street. It was sunny all day and a group of gay performers visiting from Cavite entertained with their dances and fire-eating stunts. They came in via a jeepney hired for about 1,700 pesos […]

Strange how one reads more deeply upon the writings of someone who just passed away. It is like reading the letters of somebody you secretly love.
Over the past three months, Sid has been emailing me on a few topics: one was an invite to participate in an exhibition that he was organizing with Dopy for […]

I hardly check my Gmail account. And when I did today, I found an email from Kim telling me that his dad passed away February 1. Thirteen years ago I wrote something about Prof. Valino. I interviewed him, took some photos, and wrote the article below for a travel newspaper I worked with for a […]

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. […]