I Want My Brown Rice

Asians love rice! As you can probably imagine, China consumes the most rice per year. But lo, and behold! The Philippines is not far behind. Even being a teeny-weeny country, it was number 8 in the world from statistics I found for 2003-2004, after China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand,...

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BPInoy in Dumaguete

My parents got invited to an event  in Dumaguete hosted by the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) for clients receiving remittances from expatriates overseas, as part of their BPInoy program. Since my dad is not yet here, I accompanied my mom to the event which was held last Friday at the Spanish...

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Online (In)Security

Facebook. Twitter. MySpace. Blogger. Plurk. Friendster. Wordpress. Et cetera, et cetera. All over the web, and on our cellphones, Blackberries and iPhones, sharing is in. We share pictures, videos, all types of files, and we tell people--strangers--about minute details in our daily lives. I, personally,...

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A Beginning

Whoopee! I gave the last of the final exams to my students today. That only means one thing. The semester is finally over! School will officially end tomorrow and the graduating students will don their togas and march to Pomp and Circumstance on Sunday. It gives a bittersweet feeling, the end of...

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Fated to Love You

I thought I'd never ever get hooked on Taiwanese dramas. I was wrong. I was following Fated to Love You on GMA 7, a local network. However, I got impatient and decided to watch the entire series online over the weekend. And by God, I loved it! Fated to Love You is a romantic comedy that tells the...

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Lipsticks, Black Cats, and Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th has never been a big deal to me and I never paid any attention to it until moments ago, when I saw this post at ShimmerMeBlue, with a spooky image of a black cat included. Then I realized that while having dinner at a restaurant earlier tonight, I had seen a fat and cuddly black...

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The Personification of the Sea

The title above is the Greek meaning of Thalatta, the name of the resort I visited today together with my mom and a couple of family friends for lunch. The quaint city where I am located in the Philippines, Dumaguete, is surrounded by a number of beach resorts within its 30-minute vicinity. Thalatta...

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The Vagina Monologues

The other night, I watched a staging of The Vagina Monologues at the Luce Auditorium in Silliman University. It was my third time to watch the show. I first saw it a few years ago when I was in college and was required by one of my teachers to do so. I did not know anything about the show at that time,...

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