Previous: Every Exhibit Has A Story
After the Ayala Museum, we all proceeded to Max Brenner in Greenbelt 3 for pastry and some special hot chocolate. How special? Roland and Ma’am Odette had the Venezuela Dark, I had the Trinidad White, while Ricky and Ma’am Letty had this utterly luxurious and exotic Ecuador chocolate with [...]
Archive for August, 2008
COMO MAX BRENNER PARA CHOCOLATE
Posted in Food, Friends, tagged Chocolate, Food on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
EVERY EXHIBIT HAS A STORY
Posted in Arts & Culture, tagged Arts & Culture, Ayala Museum on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We were all quite excited to see the Gold of Ancestors exhibit at the Ayala Museum, but there were other interesting exhibits on the other floors I hadn’t even gotten around to blogging about yet.
Southeast Asian Ceramics
On the fourth floor, along with the gold, was a fantastic collection of Southeast Asian trade ceramics from the [...]
RECHERCHEZ LES TEMPS HANOI
Posted in Food, Friends, tagged Food, Friends, Hanoi on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Sunday Ricky and Almond organized a museum date-cum-reunion for all of us whom Ricky first met in Hanoi in 2006. Ricky had read my review of the Ayala Museum Gold of Ancestors exhibit, and suggested it would be a good reason to meet up.
Two years ago, Almond, Ma’am Odette and Ma’am Letty were all [...]
LIFE IN A PAIR OF BABY SOCKS
Posted in Crafts & Supplies, tagged baby socks, Knittipina on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This sock and its twin make the first successful pair of baby socks I’ve made since my informal apprenticeship to Ines J. of the Dreams Tuesday/Saturday Knitting Group. It’s made of locally available gradient colorway crochet cotton thread, using 2.75mm circular knitting needles in the Magic Loop Method. The pattern is from Tita Ting, a [...]
PHILIPPINE PRE-COLONIAL GOLD
Posted in Arts & Culture, tagged Arts & Culture, History on August 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Photo: “Kinnari” (mystical half-bird, half-woman) gold vessel, Gold of Ancestors exhibit, Ayala Museum.
This is the reason why Spaniards went out to expand the limits of the known world in the 16th century. We all know the story from school, but it’s a totally different experience when the gold is literally in your face. This [...]
YET ANOTHER TXT SCAM
Posted in Tech & Gadgets, tagged Consumer Concerns, DTI, Fraud, PDI on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to warn you all about this scam text I received from +639278173011 with the ff. message:
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CONGRTLTIONS!!! You Have Won 300th\HONDA JAZZ Last May 27,2008 ur Cell # as Home Partner Winner. Call ds # for details ds is Jobert Lapuz of Phil,Com,Center….
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Kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan? (evil Korina Sanchez laughter)
Marami pa sana [...]
SAMSUNG 19″ LCD MONITOR
Posted in Tech & Gadgets, tagged Tech & Gadgets on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Would you believe, I’ve never changed my Sampo 17″ CRT monitor ever since I got back from Australia in 2000? Initially I wanted to wait till it actually died before replacing it with an lcd monitor. However, given my green concerns, limited personal living space plus the sudden rise in the cost of living, I [...]
