My Rocking Cradle

    Firstborn: Mommy, you look pretty in your dress today. Me: Wow, thank you! Firstborn: But actually, Mommy, you look fat in your dress.     Is my son too entitled to his honest opinion? LOL.

I had been living here in Seoul for more than five years already but I only got to taste Ganjang Gejang or Raw Crab marinated in soy sauce last Sunday. We went to this restaurant in Jongro-gu, Gugi-dong called: I know how to read Korean but I refuse to write my English translation (of the [...]

Indonesia is home to The Prambanan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in Yogyakarta. It was just apt that hubby chose this “Prambanan” souvenir in lieu of the souvenir plates (he didn’t see any souvenir plates in Indonesia) that he usually takes home from his travels. He brought this “Prambanan” souvenir years ago. Several trips [...]

These are not the cart vendors that we commonly see in jam-packed shopping areas where you just buy the street food that you want and walk away munching them. These cart vendors have stools or benches around them where people could actually eat and drink until the wee hours of the morning. These cart vendors [...]

Got this signage on the wall of the video arcade in Times Square in Yeoungdeongpo, Seoul. Korean English never fails to be entertaining:-).

I love pizza. And I love Pizza School. When hubby first brought home a Pizza School pizza he was so excited to tell me how inexpensive it was. The best part was, it tasted quite alright. How’s that for a 5,000-won pizza? These days, Pizza School is thriving. It is getting more and more walk-in [...]

plucked this one from a Facebook post: How do you expect kids to listen to their parents when Tarzan lives half naked, Cinderella comes home at midnight, Pinocchio lies all the time, Aladdin is the king of thieves, Batman drives at 200 mph, Sleeping Beauty is lazy, and Snow White lives with 7 guys. We [...]

They are little only once Lord. Grant us the wisdom and patience to teach them to follow in your footsteps And prepare them for what is to come. They are little only once Lord. Make us take time to play, pretend, to read or tell a story; to laugh and cuddle. Don’t let us for [...]

Since Seoul has not seen bright days for almost a month now, going out was always not an easy thing to do. I needed to send some items and while the Mapo Post office is just a few buildings away, going there with a toddler was always a big consideration especially when drizzles would just [...]

My law school classmates have gone a long way already. Most of them have graduated and are preparing for the bar. Others have already passed and are practicing. The best news I got during our get-together last week was three of them have books to their names. Atty. Sheila Emata recently co-authored Human Resource Forms, [...]