I was just going through our family pictures. I mean all the pictures we have I want to separate them individually. One of the photos in my file was taken during my baptism. I am pretty sure that this photo was taken in the late 1968. As you know in the old days the parents […]
How to make Binignit/Ginataan
Hey guys I will share with you all the recipe on how to make binignit (in Bisaya) or ginataan (in Tagalog) in our own recipe. It’s just really simple and quick. Here’s the list of ingredients that we use. I hope that it will be easy for you to get it. Ingredients: 6 cups coconut […]
Communication better then or now?
I am really so amazed now at how easy it is to communicate somebody from the other side of the world. Can you believe it, just 2 decades ago it was hard for me just to make a phone call to Bob in the States. I had to go to the phone service office and […]
Criticism, justified or not?
It’s been in the entertainment news here in the Philippines lately that a veteran and an activist singer/song writer, Freddie Aguilar, made a comment that Charice Pempengco and Arnel Pineda were just like a monkey that they’re imitating the singers abroad when they perform. He further stated that it was Mariah Carey who said that […]
Merienda in the Philippines
Today, I am writing about the different kinds of merienda, kakanin (snacks) here in the Philippines. I think that we can make a lot of different kinds of snacks here in the Philippines that are unheard of elsewhere. The names of our marienda alone are not common. Oh well, the thing is that it tastes […]
Old times… and new
I’ve grow up with a few coffee plants in our farm just for our consumption. Our house sits on 5 acres land. On a third of that my dad planted coffee and cacao (cocoa) plants. Well of course at that time I never really appreciate the coffee. I tried to help my parents harvest the […]