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CATEGORY: ‘Rant & Rave’

“Ay, Brownout!”

19 Mar, 2014

A brownout is an intentional or unintentional drop in voltage in an electrical power supply system.

Here we go again with “OFFENSIVE” PR offers…

05 Mar, 2014

I opened my marketmanila.com email this evening and got the message below. I am posting the email here verbatim (except that I have masked the sender’s full name to save her any embarrassment though I would have been justified in putting the full name since she did send the email) and respond to…

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Sometimes, the Customer is Just Wrong…

27 Feb, 2014

The customer is always right.

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Phat Pho Opens February 12, 2014 at Serendra!

10 Feb, 2014

I don’t normally do “press announcements” for new restaurants, nor do I attend pre-opening bashes with lots of free food, but I make the exception on announcements for Phat Pho because I am a huge fan of their original Cebu restaurant and I eat there at least once every trip I make to Cebu…

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Whatever Happened to that PIPC Scam in 2007 ???

22 Jan, 2014

Good grief, it’s been almost seven years since the Performance Investment Products Corp (PIPC) Scam blew up in mid-2007, and shortly thereafter I wrote this initial post on the topic.

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An Interesting Article By Ruth Reichl…

14 Jan, 2014

A balikbayan box arrived with an assortment of goodies from New York, amongst them, old issues of food and other magazines that Sister throws in for us to pore through.

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