My dad just told Machu that during his time, there were no computers at all. Machu went wide-eyed with disbelief and started giggling.
"What? You do not have any computer? That's funny! Heeheehee."
"Yeah, we had typewriters."
"Typewriters!" Giggle giggle. "What's that?"

Tsk tsk. Kids nowadays.

Freaky Cats

A family of nearly eyeless cats have taken-up residence near our house. Two or three of the cats are one-eyed, while one cat's completely eyeless. The freaky thing is that you can see through their empty eyesockets. The sockets don't have skin growth covering them. So at first glance, you'd think that they had unusually fleshy, pink ( Read more... )

Beware of fake P200 Bills

The other day, a girl who looked like a med-student or nursing-student had to be let-off the bus by the skyway tollbooths for handing the bus conductor a fake P200 bill. The skyway patrol was about to confiscate the driver's license, so afraid of the hassles of bureaucracy, not to mention the possibility of some serious ( Read more... )

Seared Tuna, Ebi Fry, Sushi, Dark Chocolate Fondue Fountain, 3-layered Heavenly Goodness
Thanks, Asia and Ken, for inviting us to your fabulous wedding. Our stomaches were extremely happy that night. And bravo, my dear comrades, for the successful attack on the buffet. Our sneaky strategy worked-out swimmingly. And props to Raymz for demonstrating ( Read more... )

Liar

Machu likes to lie to avoid getting in trouble. He's not allowed to drink Coke, but I caught him once sipping a tiny bit of it in the kitchen. When I confronted him about it in the family room, he gave me an innocent look and told me that he didn't drink the Coke. The other day, he was balancing himself precariously on the big, yellow office ( Read more... )

Baby bro Machu loves hospitals and getting stuck with needles. I visited him yesterday at the hospital (Bronchial Pneumonia. He's fine now) and asked him if he cried when they put dextrose on him. He gave a big smile and cheerfully declared "No! It was fun!". Oy vey. And he's only three years-old!

Well, the Fish survived chalk poisoning. I was all set this Monday to determine if the Fish deserved the name Rasputin, the name suggested by the_hierophant, by seeing if it could process food colouring, when terrible news greeted me once I came through the front door. The Fish was dead! Seems that Baby Matthew had conducted his own brand of experimentation.

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Well, he's still alive. I thought he'd be dead a long time ago, for sure. "He" is a fish. A small grey, torpedo shaped fish that Baby Matthew bought a couple of weeks ago when his class went to BioResearch for a field trip ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, while dropping Baby Matthew off to school, I saw something strange: bright red cars and SUV's of all types parked in one unbroken line along Alabang Hills Road in front of The Cupboard, just before the road leading to Hillsborough and Southridge. I was looking for some sort-of sign that this was a car show or some part of an ( Read more... )

Because I'm bored, I'm going to list down some winner events, posts, comments, and things that I happen to remember as of the moment. In no particular order:

1. Kara calling Hoobastank "Scuba Tank"
2. Ida's phonetic spelling of the theme of The Twighlight Zone
3. The Cockroach-Up-The-Ass Incident
4. Mike's pirate speak
5. Kacy ( Read more... )