i won’t eat you if i saw you alive

mama loves tinolang manok, and she only cooks this meal if it was a natural chicken. they taste better daw than those 45-day chickens. but natural chicken or not, i don’t eat tinola. why? one, tinola reminds me so much of the cat we’ve dissected in college and soaked in formalin. [...]

how to catch a dragonfly

lala told me that never, in her whole life, had she caught a dragonfly.  amazed, i looked at her.  it was something that every kid did back in our kindergarten and elementary years, and i swear that each kid has caught at least one.  never, she repeated.  i told her that she should’ve chased only [...]

it started with the parmigiano reggiano

when manay ting came home from italy, she brought us parmigiano reggiano. parmigiano reggiano…so italian…delicious-sounding cheese, right? wrong! however delectable the name sounds, it is salty, hard, flaky, and dry. it’s not the only thing that turned me off though to this cheese. mama, having tasted the cheese and [...]

palaka and tinola

pauli na kami na gords last night haling minalabac when i saw a lone frog by the side of the road. i thought gords saw the frog and iwasan nya to…but no because i heard a pop! gaaahhh! naligis nya!!! so tinapli ko sya saying na, “grabe ka man daw. nahiling mo naman na may [...]

waaahuuuuuu!!!!

oh, happy day!!! my cha-cha…

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my baby doing the treadmill….

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ooowwwwweeeeeee…..my beautiful baby!!!

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kiss ko yan!!! mwah!!!