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• Band of Drunk Brothers

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 01:42 in philippine culture

  My husband just got a drinking table for our new apartment. This simply means that either hell has to freeze over or heaven has to go up in flames before he changes his stripes and gives up the artificial source of his spirited self. The old snob in ...

• Rumor Has Bitten the Tiger

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 01:41 in society in general

  Because I live in the Philippines, I have never met or known of anyone who has a prenuptial agreement. When there are more poor people than ants, a prenup is a word encountered only in the dictionary. Which is why for me, the current development to t...

• The Fallen

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 01:41 in philippine politics

  There is a monument for press freedom in Cagayan de Oro with names of fallen journalists on one side. There are empty spaces around the names that are already there. My father-in-law thinks the structure is a horrible idea. Nobody wants to have his n...

• Professional Translation that Makes Sense

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 01:22 in Other Stuff

  My major sources of headaches with my online work are sites that don’t make sense. They make perfect sense in another language but having them translated by non-human translators just seems to make the Tower of Babel seem taller. The good news is t...

• Stitches

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 23:28 in philippine culture

  I delivered both my babies through CS and both times I received the same pieces of advice from the elders. In true Pinoy tradition, I was told not to take a bath and to avoid all manner of work, including reading, for at least two weeks.Being a produ...

• The Undergarment Prophecy

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 23:24 in philippine society

  A couple of females I know have gotten married just because they got pregnant. That’s why nearly everybody believed I was pregnant when I decided to marry a guy I knew for only a little over a year.When our parents found out I wasn’t pregnant, th...

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