My finger-lickin' moments...

If there is anything I really live for, it is food. Good food. Exceptional flavours. Exotic ingredients. Blissful aromas. Funny when you realize that some of the best meals I have had were the ones I had at home. Funny, because one of the reasons why my wife and I travel is to sample regional cuisine in their own exotic locale. Funny also, because our home-cooked meals have often been gourmet delights in their own little way, but which just goes unnoticed mainly because for us it is just another private meal. And if i were to list some of the most memorable ones, this would probably land in the top ten. In terms of breakfasts, one of the best I have ever had was a home-cooked one with a couple of seriously exotic (and expensive) food items. I remember it was some time in december, about a week after i was invited by Avida Land to give a speech on the beauty of Manila, during a commemoration of their topping off activity at the San Lazaro towers, when i woke up to a blissful aroma of fried meat... Following the hugely inviting smell, I walked into the kitchen where my wife was just about to flash-sear foie gras as topping to a wagyu beef salisbury steak! So, how else do you ever top that for breakfast? (well, you top it with lots of fragrant steamed rice! hahaha)

The Impertinence of Youth

Yes, we all went through it. Yes, we were once young. And yes, I never, never remember ever behaving that way. No sense of courtesy. They don't even bother to return your messages or calls. even emails. No sense of time, other than their own. No sense of responsibility. They just ignore you. Filipinos have a colloquial term for this behavior. They call it "DeadMa". Who raised you to be that way anyway? I hope it comes back at you when you are at your weakest. Let's see how you grasp at straws. To hell with you.

December moonrise, San Juan.

Another Intermission.

Feel free to scroll through the details of this photograph i took in December 2007.

One of the chief causes of eye fatigue is a reduction in the number of blinks we take once we are on the computer.

Although I am sure you will be trying to figure out which buildings are featured, please try to count to five, and then blink once. then count again and blink. To help you out, the buildings are Tiffany, Jafer, LPL Goldland, Eisenhower, and Swire Elan. now, blink again.