Tips

Perfect Prom Dress

There’s only a little more than two weeks to go before my daughter’s prom night, and we are having a difficulty on where to find the perfect prom dress for her. If only the school administration decided earlier on whether or not they would be holding a prom this year, then we could have made […]

After noche buena dish

“Kinilaw na bangus” prepared by my husband to “erase” the lingering taste of meat dishes in the mouth. (Photography by my son Marco, using his Canon PowershotA710 - that most talked about camera of the time.)
One thing that we always experience after Christmas day is this “glutty” feeling that makes us nauseous it makes us […]

How to prepare a fast barbecue

Housewives are usually identified with the kitchen. With the mere mention of the word mother or wife - the picture of a kitchen instantly flashes in the mind.
Well, sorry to disappoint you, but I am not really much of a “kitchen mom”. In our household, the cooking is mostly delegated to the househelp (if there […]

To dye or not to dye

Oh dear, it is that age when strands of silvery hair start peeking out and you can’t hide them anymore. For some people, it comes earlier than usual. Take for instance musician/composer Ryan Cayabyab. His hair started to grey very early. It’s in the genes.
Greying hair is actually no longer a problem. Dyeing is the […]

Diaper-less tots

I was watching this feature on Fox Channel yesterday about the possibility of having kids going diaper-less at an earlier age.
The idea is to potty-train the babies so that they consumes less diapers, or none at all.
What caught my attention were the varied reactions of the mommies interviewed - as most of them were either skeptical or not […]

Nursing a sick child

Aypee, my younger son spent three days in the hospital and was just discharged the other day. His ailment: amoebiasis.
I’m pretty sure he did not get his sickness from home as we use only purified water from an accredited purifying station for drinking. And true indeed, from the doctor’s interview, we found out he went […]

Submission of UPCAT application deadline today

Today, my daughter, along with her classmates, is submitting her application for the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT). I am sure thousands others out there from Non-Metro Manila schools are doing so too now, the deadline date for submission. Deadline for submission of Metro Manila schools was last June 21. Examination dates […]

Home duties and tips

Umm… how time flies. I haven’t had the real feel of summer yet but look, days have flown by and now it’s the merry month of May. Before we know it, June breezes in and lo! half of 2006 is consumed. Oh no… June is my birth month! I am oldddd! Hahaha!
Anyway, because of these preparations for […]

Cosmetic or ‘Hollywood’ surgery

(contributed by Louie Tacker) WE jokingly call it ‘Hollywood Surgery’ here in the States only because it seems most average people like to emulate the stars in any way they can by undergoing plastic surgery and other procedures.
In the last year or so, I have been curious as to the many ads popping up in […]

Summer Safety

As summer heat escalates, so does the mercury reading.
Expectedly, this Holy Week, we will be experiencing days in their most humid state, enough to make us want to either ‘jail’ ourselves inside air conditioned rooms, lounge on the veranda, take a trip to the resort of our choice or go to cooler places in the […]