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I was watching the Tyra Banks show earlier tonight, it was about how people are judgemental about each other’s weights and how it would feel to walk in another person’s weight for a day. It was easy to comprehend how a skinny girl can wear a fat suit and some prosthetics to make herself look obese, but making an obese girl look skinny, that was a challenge. Read the rest of this entry »

My husband is getting a BlackBerry 7130g next week. I think it’s a great phone, except that it has no wifi. I can live with no 3g, but wifi is an absolute essential for me. Maybe because I’d rather surf on a free wifi connection than pay for 3G rates, haha. In any case, I have no plans of replacing my own pocket pc, my trusty xda atom. I was planning to buy a Linksys router so that I can set up a wireless network in our house, but other expenses had to come first. It’s definitely something I have in mind, though. It simply translates to: the ability to check my pop email from anywhere in the apartment as well as VOIP, surfing, FTP, instant messaging, etc. etc.

My friend Henry has been studying photography on his own for only 6 months, and now he’s not just good at it, he’s earning money on the side through it. Events photography is a business that requires you to go out, meet people, make sure people remember you (and refer you to other people), and a lot of budgeting and planning. I’m understanding now that you can’t just jump into the business without considering first the cost of maintaining it. There’s the maintenance of your gear, getting the right gear in the first place, considering how to show people your photos without breaking your budget by printing them, how much you’re going to sell photos to buyers, etc etc. Keeping track of how much money goes in and out is essential. Of course, you also need to have the passion for it. Hopefully I can figure out the kinks in my plan before I get my camera next month (yay!). Hopefully I do get it next month, without any further hitches. :D

For those of you interested in how the character of Joker got developed, read this and flip through the photos to read more about how his character was conceptualized. I didn’t know that the caricature for his character was based on one of Victor Hugo’s novels. Thanks to plurk buddy chercabula for the link.

Weird gift ideas, anyone? Read the rest of this entry »

Heath Ledger’s performance is the best I’ve seen of Joker in the animated series, comics, or movies. It’s really sad that he’s not around anymore. :( My favorite Joker scene (aside from nurse joker above) is Read the rest of this entry »

There are many air purifiers out there in the market and it makes you wonder if there is any truth to their claims of what the products are supposed to do and how it’s supposedly healthy for you. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re my age or older, I’m sure you’ll remember that old people used to say there’s no nutrients in eggplants because it’s just water and some fibers. Turns out that’s just some urban legend and totally untrue.Today I cooked tofu and eggplant stir-fry for lunch and thought that I’d do a little research about eggplants. Here’s a part of what I learned:

Eggplant is a nutrient dense food containing dietary fiber, manganese, potassium, vitamin b6, folate, niacin, copper and thiamine, as well as other phytonutrients. It’s very low in calories so it’s good for people who want to lose weight. Its skin contains a phytonutrient called nasunin which is a potent antioxidant and helps protect the lipids in our cells responsible for keeping out free radicals.

Read the complete blog entry here.

When I was a kid, we were often forced by our parents to take midday naps or siestas. Of course it was mighty unpleasant for all of us, except for the part where we wake up and the house smells like merienda. Sometimes it’s champorado, or burger, or turon, ginataang halo-halo. The house is just filled up with a delicious scent. Today I made my first ginataang halo-halo and it really just brought back happy childhood memories of my father making merienda for us. My favorite in ginataang halo-halo are the bilo-bilo, sago, and saging na saba. Of course, we all have different preferences about what goes into the ginataan, so papa had to accomodate what everyone wants. Therefore, 3 kinds of camote for mama, and some bananas, sago, and bilo-bilo for me and my brothers. Now that it’s all up to me, I can finally make the ginataan the way I want it. So I put extra bilo-bilo and banans in, and I picked only the camote that I like best (the yellow kind).

That’s one of the fun things about cooking. You can make adjustments to whatever you’re making so that it suits your taste more. Today I also made palitaw for merienda (since no stores sell palitaw in our area), thanks to that clip I watched in Batibot when I was a kid. Here are the instructions on how to cook Palitaw and Ginataang Halo-Halo.

I think my favorite character in How I Met Your Mother is Barney. He’s so comical, the way he portrays a worldly guy. Read the rest of this entry »