September 17, 2016 at 6:32 pm (Family, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Bacolod, England, memories, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, The Philippines, websites, Wordpress
Edge of Family’s Fields: Negros Occidental, the Philippines
Path cleared for a tractor.
And one more:
Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental
Check out a few more WordPress bloggers who posted on EDGE:
- Yamanashi Kei’s blog, for the picture of Oklahoma City skyscrapers and foliage
- ilargia64, for the pictures of Antelope Canyon in Monument Valley, Arizona
- Chris Brebart’s What’s (In) the Picture?, for the shot of the Norfolk dunes
- NIVS24, for her shot of a beach in Virginia
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 7, 2016 at 5:17 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Food and Drink, Links, Niece, Places, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, fast food, Florence, nonfiction
Anyone with a little bit of money can buy a Louis Vuitton handbag, of which thousands are manufactured each year. Very few people can buy the new Jeff Koons, even if they do have the tens of millions of dollars required.
— Brazillionaires, p. 29
Self’s question is: Why would anyone want to buy a Jeff Koons? A Koons was in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence when self was there with her niece, Irene, last November. It was placed right next to a Michelangelo and it was ugly. Hope it was only a temporary installation.
(Side note: In Florence, on the road to the Santa Maria del Fiori, you will pass a McDonald’s. Which was always packed. Self just could not understand it. When all around were great, really great local restaurants. It must be the convenience.)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 7, 2016 at 12:56 am (Books, Conversations, Places, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: memories, New York, nonfiction
Last year, in New York, self made it a point to visit Carnegie Hall, where Dearest Mum gave a piano concert when she was only 14. She had won a New York Times piano competition.
Because self wanted to be as close to Carnegie Hall as possible, she stayed in a hotel only a block away. She arrived with two suitcases filled with books and kept apologizing to the bell hop. She vividly remembers how, when she was in London, a bus driver who was attempting to help her with her bags said, after hefting one: “I tell ya, it must be nice leaving home knowing you’ve brought all your books with you!”
The New York bellhop said: “Madame, this is nothing. A few days ago, I helped a Brazilian couple, and they had 17 suitcases.”
17 suitcases! Unbelievable!
But now that self is reading Brazillionaires, she believes it.
Because Brazillionaires is all about how Brazil’s richest people (what we in America might refer to as “the 1%) live.
And self now belatedly recalls that one time, when she was visiting a class in Skyline College, she just blurted out, completely unprompted: “I hate rich people.”
And unfortunately, she’ll be reading this book all week.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 26, 2016 at 3:46 pm (Family, Holidays, Links, Lists, Niece, postaday, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Calgary, Calgary Stampede, California, Canada, Events, memories, parades, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is about:
The cherry on top.
The icing on the cake
“a desirable feature perceived as the finishing touch to something that is already very good.” (Oxford English Dictionary)
Here are three “cherry on top” pictures.
- Karina (The cherry on top is that she is so sweet. And likes wearing baseball caps. She lives in Calgary)
Karina is self’s guide to all things YA. Her latest book recommendation: Sarah J. Maas’s THRONE OF GLASS (Exciting read!)
- The Calgary Stampede is fabulous. The “cherry on top” is that everywhere you look, you see people wearing cowboy hats:
Don’t ask self what “Beaver Balls” are. She has no idea.
Self took this picture during the Annual Redwood City Fourth of July Parade. Look at the man’s fantastic sombrero! Definitely the “cherry on top.”
2016 Annual Redwood City Fourth of July Parade
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 23, 2016 at 4:44 am (destinations, Family, Food and Drink, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Calgary, Canada, Events, Fridays, humor, indulgences, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is: CHERRY ON TOP.
This week, share a photo of a detail that makes a good thing even better.
— Michelle W., The Daily Post
Self goes searching back over her photos. She takes her time about it because she has thousands.
She decides to post more from the 2016 Calgary Stampede.
That event is great fun. From the carnival prizes to the everyone-in-cowboy-boots-and-hats affect to the way-too-many food booths selling everything from Colossal Onions to Deep-Fried Cheesecake (Please, do not ever go to Calgary if you are attempting to lose weight). The weather cooperated, too: it was slightly overcast. Sometimes it rained. Nice walking weather.
Prizes, Calgary Stampede, July 2016: Aren’t these adorable?
Self loves shortcake. But Deep Fried Shortcake? BLISS!
Calgary Stampede: Sheer Bliss For Anyone Who Likes Deep Fried Anything
Calgary, what a fabulous city. The Cherry on Top is:
Do you really think self wouldn’t post a picture of herself during the 2016 Calgary Stampede? This was taken towards the end of a very exciting day! Cherry on Top was the wearing of a cowboy hat! YEEEES YEEEEES YEEEEES !!! (Pixie, boo, where’s YOUR cowboy hat???)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 18, 2016 at 12:01 am (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Bletchley Park, England, exhibits, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
Discover the intimate details of something unexpected.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
Self’s go-to summer sandal: low heel, super-comfy, and bright orange. Summer’s all about comfort and freedom: her feet are happy.
This is New York City, May 2016, during an unexpected lull in a frantic week:
Park Avenue Nocturne: Self only just noticed the little squares of lighted windows from the buildings across the street. The view is from her brother-in-law’s apartment in Manhattan.
Finally, self was able to visit Bletchley Park, just outside London, in early June. It was an overcast day, self got to the park early, before the crowds arrived. In fact, self was the only person walking from the train station that morning.
She hasn’t seen The Imitation Game, the movie about the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, but there’s an exhibit of costumes used during the filming, and Benedict Cumberbatch is on the audio guide.
Whatever self expected when she visited Bletchley Park in June, she never expected the grounds to be so lovely. There was a lake full of ducks and very approachable swans.
Highly recommend a visit to Bletchley Park. The exhibits include an actual Enigma machine. The history is just palpable.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 14, 2016 at 4:27 pm (destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bacolod, Calgary, Canada, Filipino food, memories, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
Really love The Daily Post Photo Challenge this week: LOOK UP.
It’s all about “taking a moment to check out what’s above you.”
Last night, self’s cousins took her to a restaurant called Nando’s, in NE Calgary. It’s famous for its chicken inasal (barbecue). And she has to say: this is the best chicken inasal she’s ever tasted outside of Bacolod City in Negros Occidental, Dear Departed Dad’s hometown.
The owner is, interestingly enough, not Filipino. She thinks her cousins said the owner is from Australia.
One wall is entirely covered with little squares, each one telling a kind of story. She wouldn’t have bothered focusing on the squares if she hadn’t been thinking of LOOK UP:
Nando’s, in Northeast Calgary: Barbecue Chicken Almost as Good as Bacolod’s Inasal.
Those tiles do tell a fascinating story. Wouldn’t you agree, dear blog readers?
Stay tuned.
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July 13, 2016 at 4:17 am (Books, Conversations, Family, Fan Fiction, Niece, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, Canada, Everlark, fantasy, indulgences, mysteries, novel, shopping
Here she is, in Calgary, and she doesn’t know what she should read next: Her niece Karina’s next book recommendation (She tore through Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas, like white on rice!), Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart (The title is pure nonsense; the book is much much better than that. There is NO girl waiting with a gun. Don’t hold your breath), or The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Of course, she is also drinking in Everlark fan fiction like crazy. A lot of stories that languished for months and months (even, years) finally updated in the last week: it’s been a veritable bonanza of good Everlark! (Take your pick: Pride and Prejudice Everlark; ballet world Everlark; Great Expectations Everlark; or vlogging Everlark)
Today, self went to Market Mall with her niece and of course we stopped by Sephora. And there was a brand self had never seen before: Tarte. And when her niece found out self’s current mascara was over three years old, her niece told her, in no uncertain terms: Throw it out, Tita. Honestly, you should be replacing your mascara every six months. (Oh. So that’s why self’s eyes were itching like crazy yesterday)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 10, 2016 at 5:38 am (destinations, Family, Links, plans, postaday, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Canada, Events, festivals, humor, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, Wordpress
Self wasn’t kidding when she vowed last year to return to Calgary for the Calgary Stampede.
As it turns out, this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge — LOOK UP — gave her many opportunities to get a little more creative with her shots as she walked around with her cousins Mike and Pixie.
Gotta love those emoji pillows!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 9, 2016 at 4:28 pm (Books, Niece, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Canada, fantasy, novel, Saturdays, YA
Karina reads! She introduced self to The Infernal Devices, by Cassandra Clare, Spring 2015.
Niece’s latest book recommendation is Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass. It’s about a female assassin who, as the book opens, is stuck working as a slave in a salt mine.
If you’d like to know how she ended up there, read the book. She gets a surprise when, one day, she is taken to meet the Crown Prince.
Assasin’s name is Calaena. She refuses to bow, naturally. Which means someone grabs her by the back of the neck and forces her face down to the floor (Don’t worry, she’s not an egg; she won’t crack)
. . . she’d been trained to be an assassin since the age of eight, since the day the King of the Assassins found her half-dead on the banks of a frozen river and brought her to his keep. She wouldn’t be humiliated by anything, least of all being dirty.
— Throne of Glass, p. 8
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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