How much of the Philippines have I visited?
Not much, as evidenced by this this Lakbayan map. 🙁 Papa used to travel a lot for work. When my sisters and I were very young, he was away for weeks on end and he would call us up every night to say hi. He...
Drowning in spam (not the edible kind)
After Papa died, I stopped blogging for a couple of months. I just lost interest in everything when I lost him. Now I am slowly getting back to some of the things I loved, writing included. And this is what’s keeping me busy: I can’t...
Blast from the past: My old website
Found my old website! I just remembered that before I had my own URL, I used www.lahijadelsol.tk, which housed my Angelfire account. That time, I was so into learning HTML and designing my own website so I painstakingly coded parts of the website week after...
Top 3 things I want to learn in 2013
1. French – I recently enrolled in basic French classes with Arol at Alliance Francais. This course marks my “return to the classroom” after many years, although now I get to be a student again. (I miss teaching terribly but that’s another story for another...
Congratulations to the new officers of Laong Laan Lodge 185
If Papa were alive, I am sure he’s be in this list again: IMBITADO ng mga bagong upong opisyal na Laong – Laan Lodge 185 ngayon araw ang lahat ng mga brethren ng iba’t ibang Masonic Lodges para sa kanilang ika – 48 installation today....
I finally made a sakura kanzashi (and launched my online store too) ^_^
Took me more than an hour to complete my first sakura kanzashi, but I finally finished it! For weeks, I have been trying to figure out how to do the notches to make a pronounced sakura petal. Yesterday, I managed to make an entire flower,...
Christmas 2012 wishlist
Took me some serious contemplation before I finally decided on my top 15 presents for Christmas 2012. I could not come up with only 10 items so I have 15, haha. In no particular order: 1. Living Language Premium Italian – advanced present for myself...
Living Language Platinum – Italian
This is NOT an impulse purchase. Well, sort of. For weeks, I’ve been visiting Fully Booked because I saw that they have new Living Language stuff. I was seriouly thinking of studying Italian since I got that Godfather bug. Unfortunately, Italian laguage learning is not...
Japinoy.com POW: Otera – Temple
Here is my submission for this week’s installment of the Japinoy.com POW (Photo of the Week). Otera (“tera” meaning “temple”, with the honorific “o” at the beginning) is written in Japanese as お寺。 This is a picture of the Marble Temple in Bangkok. I had...
The UAAP Final Four cast is complete!
The DLSU Green Archers do a UST with a 69-66 come-from-behind win over the FEU Tamaraws today. Yeah, Archers!!! 😀 UAAP Final Four Schedule 29-Sep (Saturday), Araneta Coliseum 12:00 noon: UST – NU 4:00 pm: ADMU – DLSU 3-Oct (Wednesday), SM MOA Arena – if...
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