tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26690604628957197302011-04-21T20:41:28.729-07:00Things happen in the kitchen. No, almost everything happens in the kitchen. This goes beyond culture and age--the kitchen, whether grand or modest, is a place where life unfolds. People create, fight, make up, make love, share stories of triumph and pain, read, and well, eat in the kitchen. Ursula's Kitchen is not a space confined to ladylike employments, which unfortunately I’m not gifted with, but is a comfortable venue for your coffee break where you may find bits and pieces about life.Ursula's Kitchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12240276774724066013noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669060462895719730.post-65578294758905680582008-11-28T00:36:00.000-08:002008-11-28T00:38:15.368-08:00

Karim and I are slowly rebuilding the library we lost during our exodus here in Manila. It was nothing grand and nothing well-arranged like the books in my virtual bookshelf in Shelfari. We had piles of books in one area and a lot more scattered in different parts of our then tiny house. So recently, we have been frequenting bookstores to re-collect the stuff we had and to find new ones that

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Karim and I were chatting as we were exiting the National Bookstore Tuesday night when suddenly we were accosted by the guard. Karim was asked to open my bag, which he was carrying, and so obediently, we went back inside to blindly obey the surprisal of the uniformed man. The man in white then pointed at something inside my bag so Karim took it out, looked at it, looked at me, looked at the guard

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The problem with blogging is having a million interesting things to blog about in one day and not having enough time to blog about everything. Blogging only has to come second to a paying job. Blog has become a super word, serving millions of people who love to write what they think as I do. I find it a bit too self-involved to be writing about what is in my bag but it’s the nth year that

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Work-shy on Sundays, our house is quiet until about noon when my husband and our six-year old would stretch, talk and finally leave bed. My circadian rhythm has programmed me to wake up not later than 9 a.m. so I wake up ahead of the boys, grab whatever book there is on my bedside and work hard on falling back to sleep and failing. Sometimes I go out to have a cup of coffee and get a little

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Karim and I brisk walk from the MRT station to our offices every morning (a good 50-minute slow walk for me on some days when my butt feels heavy). I “drop off” hubby at the corner of his building since mine is around ten more minutes down Ayala Avenue. I run up to the sixth floor when I get to my building. “If I do what you do, I’d probably be dead on the third day of work,” so I was told.“I

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I was happy anticipating some really good movies during the first quarter of this year. But Scully and Mulder in a new x-Files offering? I think I may have just gotten my early Christmas gift. Finally, and after a decade, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder are around to keep x-Files fans up on their toes. To say that "x-Files is back" may be too much of a preemtion and I don't want to be heartbroken. "I

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Achilles (and I'm not kidding you, that's really my editor's name), sent me this joshing message as soon as I got in this morning: "You're alone". I replied with: I know. Rub it in! And do you know what kids do when they are home alone? The art director is on paternity leave, the sales managers are in places where the bosses can't reach them, my editor is banging (no other meaning intended)

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