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Geeesh.... I just checked my corporate e-mail today and there it is, another junk e-mail from one of my colleagues. I hate spammers! Anyway, I opened it since the title reads "TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1950's, 60' s, 70's and early 80's!!". I read it til the last sentence and what can I say, "tinood jud da!". I don't know if you've received or read it before but for the others who haven't, below was the e-mail (contains "Tagalog"). Just want to share it ...

is gift-wrapping! I remember one christmas when I started buying gifts during September. By December I had so many gifts to wrap I fell asleep from exhaustion in the midst of wrappers. But it was fun!

This was a gift I prepared for my manita.



The initial wrapping was done at the store for free but they had no ribbons for sale and I did not know where to buy one. So I figured I should just ...

My first try at humba.



I had to recook this because the meat wasn't yet tender.

My second try was almost a disaster. I was using another approach which did not work for me so I had to redo the whole process. It didn't prove too easy, though; the damage has already been done and either it was too salty, or too sour, or too sweet. Only thing that I think saved it were the potatoes (even though ...

As usual, I've been so busy lately with some very important works that needed some of my attention to date. Apparently, I haven't really experienced the euphoria of having a nice Christmas break beside a warm fireplace taking a long sip of gourmet coffee with a good book taken from a pile near the big old grandfather clock everyone's thinking about. LOL.

In the realm of stories, books do provide an adequate amount of surreal entertainment while making sure that the environment you are ...

I'm going on a week-long vacation around various places Mindanao, to area that has suffered bombings, mortar and artillery attacks, IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices) planted under bridges, and even an earthquake recently. Sure feels good to get back home again.

-RODION

2009 will be the International Year of Astronomy.



In 1608, Dutch spectacle makers Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar crafted a device to enable "far seeing". A year later, in 1609, Galileo pointed it to the night sky, and telescope-based observation (and the word "telescope") was born.

Now, 400 years after Galileo first saw the wonders of ...

6pm...got to go home now. It has been a stressful day for me. I packed some things to be done at home since it would be a long vacation. Finally, I would have the much needed vacation that I need.
Christmas has always been my favorite holiday ever since I was a kid. I look forward to it every single time. As I rode the jeepney on my way home, I can't help but notice some kids who are busy caroling even inside the jeepney, These few days, I have been busy finishing for the dreaded deadlines ...