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That blackout last Saturday took me back to the dark ages in Manila (circa mid-1990s) when we were hit with regular daily power outages. Whenever the power went out we’d usually go to the nearby mall and watch a movie. This was when a movie was like P30-P40 and popcorn+soda was about P20. Unfortunately, that’s […]

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LA Lakers – Three-peat Champs (or how I lost $20) The Sacramento Kings, my pick to win the NBA championship this year, lost their series last night to the reigning champs, the LA Lakers. The Kings played a great game and had a chance to win it, but in the end didn’t have what it […]

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Trip.Com Glitch Yay, the deal I was talking about came through! Last week, Trip.Com had a glitch in their systems so that flights to Manila on Cathay Pacific between August and October were only $125 per person. That’s on BUSINESS CLASS! The last time we went home, which was from December last year to January […]

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Storms and Power Outages It’s a wonder how much of our lives center around the existence of electricity. When the huge “mini-storm” hit our area last Friday, and I found that we didn’t have electricity at home, my first reaction was “Aw shit!”. I had plans to watch the two NBA playoff games (Nets and […]

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Zoe knows her shapes! While eating at Eat N Park, Aileen starts drawing a circle on Zoe’s activity paper (the mat thingie that fastfood places give to kids), and Zoe blurts out excitedly “circle”. Aileen then makes a heart shape, and Zoe says “heart”. Then it was a triangle, then a square, then a star! […]

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Site Update: I uploaded some pictures from our visit to Heinz Field (home of the Pittsburgh Steelers) and the Pittsburgh Folk Festival in our gallery. You can check them out here. BTW, thanks to Eugene for the tip on what might be the best deal of the year! If this goes through, a lot of […]

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Just found a great site for online Lego-Lovers. Obviously, I can’t seem to get motivated to do any serious work today so I’m going around the net searching for inspiration. Here’s LegoDu –

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Other stuff that went on this weekend: We went to an estate sale on Sunday and bought some junk (literally). I got a nice vintage wood-cabinet Panasonic AM/FM radio (see above for a picture), circa late 1960s-early 1970s, for $3.00 and it still works well. The audio on this thing was what really surprised me […]

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Memorial Day Weekend 2002 It’s another start of the workweek for me after the nice, long and very restful weekend. It’s SO depressing to have to come back to work after having a lazy respite like that, but I’ve got bills to pay…. so I just need to suck it up! It was a very […]

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Oh My God…. have you ever seen anything freakier than this picture below? It’s from Liza Minelli’s wedding about a month ago. It looks like a modern-day version of the Adams family. This is not a Photoshop job, folks…. sadly, this is the real thing.

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