What To Do With The Sniffles
With the summer comes the heat, intense sunshine and air soaked with humidity. And with this comes the constant use of the air-conditioner which means marathon sneezefest for me! Do I react to the...
View ArticleA Day In My (Digital) Life
It works when I pick up my phone first thing in the morning to check the time. But other parts of the day, I wonder why the TV volume won’t work only to realize that I’m holding the cable control. …...
View ArticleAll-Natural Cotton Candy
Nice, thick and puffy cumulus clouds hovering outside over the waters. Seeing the extraordinary out of the ordinary means the same window but everyday a different view. Filed under: LIVING, PLACES,...
View ArticleSunset After The Rain
The best sunsets I have in my photos are those that are right after a heavy downpour. On a dry, warm day, I get a huge ball of fire sinking in the horizon. But on rainy days, I get soft, … Continue...
View ArticleOf Big, Bright Moons and A Moonlit Room
This is what my living room looked like at 2 a.m. (Yes, what am I doing awake at 2am? Taking photos, apparently.) There was a real bright, and large moon splashing light through our windows, so...
View ArticleWhat Half A Storm Looks Like
Almost everyone I know in Manila had posted status messages on Facebook about the storm that was lashing at the city shortly before bedtime. Many also worried about the inevitable: power blackout...
View ArticleToday’s iPhone Sunset
The weather has been dry and clear this side of the world for months. Today, a downpour. And then the glorious sunset. Filed under: ART, SINGAPORE Tagged: Art, Culture, Design, Environment, People,...
View ArticleOur New Home | Working With Nature In A Concrete Jungle
The other night, it was candle light dinner on the balcony as the city celebrates Diwali (Festival Of Lights). Today, I’m THANKFULLY sipping my first cup of tea outdoors, one week after moving in,...
View ArticleHave Some Sunset With Tea
No two photos ever the same, even on the same day. That is how I feel about taking pictures of colorful sunsets. Within seconds, the subject would have changed from what it was a moment ago. It’s...
View ArticleCleaning A Stained Copper Pot The Natural Way
Today’s kitchen experiment was inspired by the people downstairs in Downton Abbey. I noticed that the maids are perpetually polishing the copper pots in the kitchen. So I wondered what people...
View ArticleHot vs. Hotter
That’s 79F, 84F and 91F. At 10:00 in the morning. I just had to check and compare hot places. Out of curiosity. Meanwhile, friends who recently visited Japan posted sakura (cherry blossom) photos...
View ArticleJolted
Is it possible to wake up early dawn due to lightning? Apparently so. It’s happened so many times this year already that I wake up to blasts of bright light while morning is still very dark....
View ArticlePress Ctrl+Alt+Del For New Career
I’ve talked about my surgery across several posts this year. Thankfully just something purely procedural, but it was painful enough to make me rethink my life after two months of limited movement....
View ArticleSeen | By Foot And By Bus
Yesterday was quite the busy day as I progress through Pilates practice teaching on my friends. So far, they’re still my friends the last time I checked. In between sessions and to kill time, I...
View ArticleHow Does Your Garden Grow?
For months now, I’ve been promising myself to revive the idea of a balcony garden. Latter part of 2012, all my mini-herb plants perished simply because I was too lazy to re-pot them. I shelved it and...
View ArticleRefrigerator Gardening: Sweet Potato
Okay, so I’m making the term up. But you know what I mean, right? I’m pretty sure that at some point you open the fridge’s veggie chiller and you see life growing there: from mouldy tomatoes to...
View ArticleRefrigerator Gardening: Grow Green Onions From Bulbs
Okay. So I failed miserably in my attempt to sprout sweet potatoes in water. Let me clarify that I may have done a major a boo-boo which is why it stopped growing (it grew roots, though). The...
View ArticleDoes Your Osim uAlpine Have A Malfunctioning Light Sensor?
Due to the smell from the recent bout of haze (please, no more!), I was compelled to buy an air purifier. In the shop, I was told I was the last one to procure the remaining stock for Osim’s uAlpine...
View ArticleAnyone On Instagram?
For three years, I’ve had an account set on private with zero friends (sad), and used Instagram only to edit photos. Heheh. Today, I decided to be more social and invite people to spend more time on...
View ArticleOf Big, Bright Moons and A Moonlit Room
This is what my living room looked like at 2 a.m. (Yes, what am I doing awake at 2am? Taking photos, apparently.) There was a real bright, and large moon splashing light through our windows, […]
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