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Okay, okay… so in reality, it wasn’t really as grand as the title of this entry suggests. It was really just a friendly competition between amateurs, and I daresay, beginners even. It was organized as a pseudo-networking, pseudo-sporty event, and all-out fun among our colleagues and counterparts here in Phnom Penh. Our [...]

I posted this photo of Steamed Fish in Soy Sauce in one of my first entries (my second, actually):

But after washing the heavy wok and its cover, the nakakangilong steaming plate, not to mention all the mess in the kitchen (I especially hate cleaning the grills of the stove), I immediately forbade Honey to do [...]

Did you know that the plastic bags you bring home from the supermarket probably end up in a landfill. According to this Time Magazine article, more than 500 billion plastic bags are distributed every year, and only less than 3% of those bags are recycled. They are typically made of polyethylene and can take up [...]

Update:  Zarah Grace of School Librarian in Action posted a very enlightening post in reply to this question.  She says that children’s literature in the country is very young (my age… does that make me young?  ).  She gives an excellent assessment of the state of children’s literature as well as recommendations for [...]

Grilled herb marinated chicken with stuffed shitake mushrooms and broccoli with tomatoes in olive oil and lemon.
Don’t ask me about the recipe… I just set the table.
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If Santa were real, how would he do his job in the Philippines?
How could he wear his red furry suit and his red furry hat,
When Christmases in the Philippines are unbelievably scorching hot?
How could he climb down the chimney, when Filipinos don’t even know what’s a chimney?
If he climbs through a window plank, he might [...]

It’s September once again and time for thousands of law graduates to flock to De la Salle University on Taft Avenue to take the Philippine Bar Exams for four of the most grueling and unholiest Sundays of their lives. The Bar Exams are administered by the Supreme Court of the Philippines to ensure [...]

Sure, I still need my nitrate-fix, my transfat-ration, and my sugar-high from time to time. But I have been trying to eat healthier food lately. It’s not even about losing weight anymore. It’s about living a good quality of life. And with a ridiculous amount of longevity in my genes, I [...]

I wrote this recipe two years ago when we were living in a small one-bedroom apartment. We didn’t have a kitchen then and we would order our food everyday from the carinderia. Sometimes, when the tapsilog were already sticking out of our ears, we’d prepare different kinds of pasta we would get from [...]