Nov 23 2009
Long long ago, there was a young man named Sabino Francisco. At a time when Marcelo H. del Pilar, Graciano Lopez-Jaena and Jose Rizal were writing by hand to develop the Propaganda Movement, Sabino and his family were linotypists.
In 1880, he married a beautiful young lady named Bernarda Vito. They bore 11 children, 8 [...]
Nov 22 2009
Continued from Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day, 4/5/6.
Day 7, Thursday.
10:30 am. In my van and on my way to Dusit (where the main meeting is to be held) to report to one of the bosses. I was running late and I don’t know why the driver didn’t take the ASEAN lane which as [...]
Nov 18 2009
A one year old baby boy and, by a twist of fate, his two year old (yes two!) aunt!
a 76-year old man and a 75-year old woman who just had a mastectomy a few weeks ago…
These aren’t exactly the people you want in your team when you’re in a 5-K race. But hey, during the [...]
Nov 17 2009
Continued from Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.
The thing about these monthly meetings is that this present one was supposed to be our last (after 17 meetings no less) and we’re supposed to submit our drafts to the ministers. But you know lawyers… put ten lawyers in one room, add all their assistants, and they’re [...]
Nov 10 2009
Continued from Day 1, Day 2…
Day 3, Sunday.
Instead of going to the gym like yesterday morning, I decided to hit the beach. Hey, although my purpose for going to Hua Hin was to attend a bloody meeting, I WAS at a beach resort. There’s a bloody 5 miles of beach in this resort. I had [...]
Nov 05 2009
Continued from My Hua Hin Diary (Day 1).
Day 2, Saturday.
The next day, I literally woke up with the sun. As in.. I actually saw the sun gloriously rising up from the sea when I opened my eyes while in bed.
I’ve been complaining before that although I go to all these exotic beach resorts, I never [...]
Nov 03 2009
Day 1, Friday.
Is Day 1 the day you arrive at a place or the day after Night 1? As the teen-agers say… whatevuh! Â For this post, Day 1 is the day I arrived in Hua Hin.
So after that eventful plane ride, Boss and I arrived in Bangkok where this really big van arranged [...]
Nov 02 2009
It’s been a long time since I posted a food blog on Honey’s cooking. First, since we arrived in Manila from Cambodia last year, we were living back with my parents in Kamuning until March this year where the kitchen is practically off-limits to the spoiled rotten baby of the family who’s not allowed to [...]
"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter."
Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones
