Cris is now Handy Manny

Four months ago, I wouldn’t be here at home on a Saturday. At some point I feel like as if I was gifted by the almighty with 8 days a week. So far I’ve been ‘trying’ to cope up with the slack by doing house maintenance jobs which I actually started doing right after [...]

How many homes in Bacolod have a fireplace?

It’s been about 3-4 years since I’ve been fascinated every time I arrive at home and see this fireplace greet us right after we enter our front door. My father had it built in memory of my late aunt and as a remembrance of his first visit in the cold Canada. And if you wonder if it does [...]

Our first ever Christmas tree

Believe it or not, this is our first Christmas tree since we got married. And if not for our kid, I wouldn’t have even tried making one, more so buy one. I don’t know but I really find it a total waste to acquire one and have it decorated just to be kept right [...]

Let there be light…

Last week, our old analog kilowatt-hour meter was replaced by a couple of guys, whom I thought were from MERALCO, with a digital model. Their arrival came as a surprise for me because it has been months already since I called up their Manila office to report that our meter is already accumulating water and [...]

A refrigerator and a frame

Today our electric bill was delivered and after seeing that our consumption surged significantly compared to last month’s, my wife and I had a brief but interesting discussion about it during another hearty lunch. She said that it must be our refrigerator that is contributing a lot to the increase. And so I asked [...]

House jump

Bacolod. Black Saturday. Everyone’s out but us. And there’s not much to do after my morning jog, some house hold chores (inc. fixing the pig pen) and having breakfast. Marcus felt bored. Wifey was playing with the camera. I’m online – and wondering if I have to blog once more about Bacolod’s garbage problem. Not [...]

Of writers,national pride, and the environment

Sorry if I’ll write one more on this but I really can’t get enough of the Chip Tsao issue or at least relate some things to it. So out of curiosity yesterday I asked my wife to get me a copy of the Philippine Star on her way home from work. My main purpose? [...]

Twitter: doing what?

My abundance of nothing but time has made me a sucker for social networking sites. And when I saw this morning the article 10 Ways to Build Your Blog Community with Twitter my mouse led me to it as if it was an Ouija board pointer. I was in Twitter.com in seconds. Soon enough I was [...]

The small wooden house

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. – John Ed Pearce Imagine you have a very small wooden house. And other than its cramp space, you notice that it has seen better days. Then one day, after several days of careful consideration and discussion [...]

The anatomy of our monthly savings

Tonight I’m happy…somehow. I have just finished listing and computing our monthly expenses since it is already the last week of February. I’m not expecting anymore regular expenses as we have already bought our groceries and baby stuffs which usually share the largest slice of our expenses pie. I have actually made a conscious [...]

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