10 Aug, 2009
Lawyers, I KNOW you are out there. I know folks previously or currently at the Office of The Solicitor General read this blog on occasion, associates and partners at some of the top law firms read this blog, and other lawyer friends of many varied backgrounds and current occupations read this blog on…
10 Aug, 2009
It wasn’t until after I finished our lunch of homemade chicken inasal with sinamak that I settled down to read today’s newspapers. When I got to Manolo Quezon III’s column entitled “Detached From Reality” and noticed that Marketmanila was mentioned in passing, I figured out why I was getting some rather strange visitor…
08 Aug, 2009
Actually, the nearly PHP1 million peso dinner bothers me JUST slightly less than the fact that GMA’s party all sat down to the meal (most probably) after the news that President Corazon Aquino had passed away had shocked the nation and already reverberated to Filipinos around the globe.
Yes, I have personally indulged in some…
31 Jul, 2009
I had a huge grin at breakfast this morning when I read an article on the front page of the International Herald Tribune about a passenger who complained about United Airlines breaking his guitar which he checked-in as baggage. He tried the traditional paths of complaint for up to a year, then finally…
23 Jul, 2009
My post on “Bed Bugs at The Marco Polo Gateway” that I wrote on July 9, 2009 resulted in a lot of reader response, both in the form of comments and in page views, an indicator that the topic is something that interests/offends/attracts/repels folks. It is also a post that seems to have…
09 Jul, 2009
I know this is predominantly a food blog, and perhaps 97+% of all posts fall into that broad category. But it has also increasingly become a travel blog, chronicling the various trips MM and family have taken over the years for business and pleasure. It has also covered several issues with respect…
31 May, 2009
They say most humans only use 1-2% of their brain capacity. In a nasty moment, I would go further and cut that by another 90%. But in a good mood, I actually wonder what happened to the 98% of the supposed unused capacity in my own brain. In recent years, my memory…
17 May, 2009
I know it’s a Sunday. I should have more patience for stupidity. Or should I? There should be a special category in the after-life for folks who knowingly insist on creating stupid rules. And worse, forcing their subordinates to apply them regardless of the consequences. Worse, when they are…