Mimi on June 16th, 2008

I found this little gem on Businessweek’s website that really got me thinking:
Risa Wexler, Media Director/Team Leader of Pfizer, working mom, wrote:
I was racing around like a lunatic trying to get out of the house one morning saying, “I have to make the bus! I have to make the bus!” And my son said to […]

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Mimi on May 30th, 2008

I was pleasantly surprised to unearth find recently a poem that I wrote when I was 16 years old, way back when I was a freshman at the Ateneo de Manila University. At that time, we were discussing a poem in English class that had something to do with how people can be classified into […]

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Mimi on May 21st, 2008

Here is one car accident photo that I forgot to post in my previous entry “When It Rains, It Pours“.

I shot this with my Sony Ericsson W710i camera phone on the morning of our flight to Geneva. This one’s pretty scary, as you can see how badly mangled up the car is. Notice the broken […]

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I am recording this for posterity.
At 2 years and 3 months, the twins can:

identify the major colours;
identify common animals and some of the not-so-common ones, like the flamingo;
identify fruits;
identify shapes and state the shape of objects;
understand the concept of numbers and counting;
count up to 10 in English, Malay, Spanish and Arabic;
count objects;
have a vocabulary that […]

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Mimi on May 11th, 2008

You see it everywhere these days — that ubiquitous “PayPal Donation” button. It’s scattered throughout various sites all over the Internet, some tiny and discreet, some more conspicuous than others.

Is it tantamount to begging? Or is it akin to payment for services rendered? After all, maintaining a website is time-consuming — coming up […]

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