warm greetings from a cold country

I love my country!
This is what I always say under my breath whenever I’d have to get out in the cold and subject my body to the freezing temperature here in the birthplace of Mickey Mouse. I am not particularly fond of the cold. In fact, I can even survive some nights in my [...]

Say “Cheese!”

 

Gandhi: Can you believe it? Who would have thought I’d be standing next to these guys for a photo op!
Methinks it’s a shame that Billy Graham was standing on the other side of the room, with Bill Clinton on his side (the former is probably giving the latter spiritual advice). It could’ve been a totally [...]

Written on a paper napkin

12:33am. Continental Airlines just served us dinner and I was pleasantly surprised to be handed stainless steel cutlery instead of plastic ones. Just had a few forkfuls of the fish and rice before I gulped my meal down with a plastic cup of apple juice.
I’m off to the US again. My parents and my sisters [...]

Just Kid-ding

Here are some Q&A snippets from my storytelling session in a Chinese-Filipino school in Cebu today:
Beng: Anong favorite mong gulay?
Girl: Patatas.
Beng: Anong luto? French fries ba?
Girl: Hindi po.
Beng: Ano?
Girl: Sinigang.
[I kidded them that maybe Cebuanos have a version of Sinigang the rest of the country do not know of.]
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