Life in Autumn06 Nov 2007 05:58 am

A recent article in Time Magazine entitled “You Eat What You Are” talked about a book called My Last Supper by photographer Melanie Dunea. Dunea asked 50 of the world’s top chefs what they’d eat for their last meal. Well, not surprisingly, most of their answers were simple everyday food as well as comfort foods like fried chicken, cheeseburgers, bread, pasta, etc. The thing is that these chefs have really sophisticated tastebuds. I mean, try watching the Food Network. You’d never see a simple dish being prepared there. Even frying a freakin’ whole chicken requires a lot of work like preparing the stuffing and the side dishes and all that. Rachael Ray makes 30-minute meals look like a breeze when it would actually take you a whole day just looking for the right ingredients for her recipes. I mean let’s get real. I could never be able to do those home-made, healthy three course meals with work and other important stuff like this blog, right? But I’m digressing here.

Sugar fix!


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Et cetera01 Nov 2007 11:59 pm

So, I’ve been spending my free time, before school starts, catching up on my current favorite shows–Heroes, Prison Break, Private Practice and Grey’s Anatomy.  A colleague introduced me to Gossip Girl, one of the new shows in the U.S.  If you enjoyed The O.C., I think you’re gonna get the hang of this new show.  After all, it came from the same creator of the defunct t.v. show.

Anyhoo, the characters in Gossip Girl kinda reminds me of my high school, all the painful, awkward stuff in it.  Not that I lived in the same high-class environment.  But you get my drift.

Someday I’m gonna write something about my own high school life and it’s going to be painful, heartbreaking, funny, awkward and hopeful. 

As Frank McCourt described in his brilliant book Angela’s Ashes:

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all.  It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while.”

Poetry25 Oct 2007 08:39 am

I was cleaning some stuff when I found this one I wrote back in May of 2005. I don’t actually write a lot in Filipino. This one’s untitled.

Minsan, sinusubukan ng panulat kong
magtae ng mga salita.
Pilit hinahasa ang bolpen,
sinasaid ang tinta.

Karaniwan, gusto kong ubusin
ang mga pahina ng aking notbuk.
Kayurin nang husto ang manipis
ngunit pinong papel.

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Life in Autumn23 Oct 2007 06:43 am

BFFs

Hanging out with my favorite girls back home.
Crazee!

It’s getting crazy in front of the photo booth.
Fugly

Can we look more fugly?
Find Nemo!
Find Nemo!

Et cetera14 Oct 2007 11:21 pm

My four-year-old nephew Miguel has a video blogE set this one up some time ago so we can share some videos and photos we have of him.

Here are some quick facts about Migmig:

  • He was born on January 19, 2003 in Angeles City.
  • He loves to eat vegetables.
  • He has long, curly hair so people often mistake him for a girl.
  • He loves to watch Heroes.  His current favorite is Hiro Nakamura. 
  • He claims to have a girlfriend in pre-school named Genevieve.
  • He’s a lolo and lola’s boy and a tita’s boy too. :)

Know more about him here.

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