26 Oct, 2009
The slow but steady swell of a proverbial tidal wave of holiday activity has started in earnest at the Marketman & Family household. We have traditionally made a big deal out of Halloween, what with a kid in the house for these past 13+ years… Her first costume was the cutest ever…
16 Oct, 2009
I must say a huge thank you to readers and friends of marketmanila.com, for doing such an incredible job of letting their friends and even the press know about Zubuchon, the retail lechon experiment of the crew in Cebu. Apparently, one of marketmanila’s regular readers has sent several kilos of the lechon to…
05 Jan, 2007
I have several items in silver that many folks would categorize as unnecessary. I would wholeheartedly agree with them. But this isn’t a post on one of life’s necessities, period. If that bothers you, or if you are of the same ilk as Mylai Dimaculangan, my by now infamous fishpan detractor, or if…
25 Jan, 2006
This spectacular pair of sterling silver grape scissors was a gift from Santa last Christmas. It is now a treasured possession and if I hadn’t left instructions that I should be cremated when I keel over, it would be one of those things that I would want buried with me for some grave…