Odds and Ends

At Rustan’s Katipunan and Shoppersville, I’ve been calling about chicken neck. A few times I’ve been lucky but of late, no. What do I need the chicken neck for? Benjamin the beagle’s original owner told us to feed him raw chicken neck and wings. Yes, RAW. Anyway, I asked Rustan’s and Shoppers why necks were [...]

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Random Pickings

In the run up to son’s departure, so many things have demanded our attention. I feeling like a rolling spinning top or a rabbit drumming away powered by Eveready energizer batteries. Or Kilometrico pens by Papermate. But you get the drift. I don’t even know what day we did or had to do what. Just [...]

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Knock Knock Loving You

The title is awkward but then again, it’s just a translation.
The male lead is uber good-looking. As in really good-looking. I constantly wonder what planet he came from. So good-looking. But I repeat myself.
It is a bit dragging in turns because there seem to be characters like the youngest brother of the lead girl whose [...]

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Power Plant on Ninoy Aquino day 2009

A lot of ladies were in yellow. Sosy ladies.
Blind item:
Husband and I were on R1 in front of Lacoste when I nudged him and asked, “Kita mo yun?” He didn’t see but I did: Megan Young with a guy in a fedora. They were holding hands. Megan was unmade up. So I enlightened him: Starstruck [...]

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Why Obama is so lovable and why some others are so not

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By Roger L. Wollenberg, Getty Images

President Obama and Vice President Biden sit at a table with their cheeseburger lunch orders at Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington, Va.

By David Jackson and Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Maybe they just don’t make a decent burger at the White House.
Less than two weeks after [...]

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Canaries in a coal mine

I was on Facebook when husband asked me to google “canaries in a coal mine.” I found the following info in this site and I’d like to share it with you. Very enlightening and well written:

Life for an actual canary in a coal mine could be described in three words – short but meaningful. [...]

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Our Lady of the Assumption

PRAYER TO
OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION 
(from http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/english/p05500.htm)

Lovely Lady dressed in Blue,
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little Boy,
Tell me what to say!
Did you lift Him up, sometimes,
Gently, on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way Mother does to me?
Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of [...]

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Proposal on DVD DVD

Failing to watch it in theaters and streaming, I got a DVD of the movie in Tomas Morato, just outside Cafe Via Mare. Though I was assured the copy was clear (the guy said “palabas na nga yan sa sinehan eh”), I got it for P50. Whoa, after a few minutes I saw the silhouette [...]

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Paging Xocolat redux

Yesterday, after seeing the Salvador Bernal doing his groceries in Rustan’s Katipunan and excited to tell husband and son that the SB was doing his own groceries, we left the supermarket and as we turned the corner, the brother of a former maid who was riding a bike greeted us with the news that he’d [...]

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From my inbox: Joey de Leon’s poem on Willie Revillame vis Cory Aquino

I have no love lost for Willie Revillame, apparently, and for obvious reasons. Joey de Leon may sometimes offend people with his jokes, double entendres, etc. (Ces Quesada resigned from Eat Bulaga supposedly because of Joey’s jokes) but he is never disrespectful out of hubris. Naughty, yes, but not bastos. His poem:
Pres. Cory Aquino: My [...]

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