the first revolution

Before the clock strikes 12, I would like to acknowledge that the iamkr blogsite is celebrating its first year of existence in the world wide web today. Yay! It’s amazing to think that the earth has completed one complete revolution around the sun and still my blogsite is alive and kicking! As my cousin Seth puts it, “unbelievable!”.  I [...]

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The Foggy Highway

I started the first day of the week, which to some was Sunday but to me was Monday, by waking up at 3:30 am. For someone who had been living on less than five hours of sleep during the weekend, waking up at 3:30am on a Monday morning is less than ideal. My Dad [...]

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the Malaysian-inspired breakfast house

Whenever I ask myself what’s good for breakfast these days, one of the first things that come to mind is Kopi Roti. I’d describe it as a Malaysian-inspired breakfast house. Although they are open during normal food establishment operating hours, their products are limited to kopi bun, kopi, tea tarik, kaya toast, French toast and [...]

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the old-looking house that serves spaghetti

For me, The Old Spaghetti House is one of the best-named restaurants. If I were to put up my own restaurant that serves pasta as the specialty, I would pick that name myself. It sounds homey and charmingly vintage. I have always had nice, warm memories of “old spaghetti houses”. Long dinners (or [...]

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The Darjeeling Limited

Last Saturday, my sister and I were going to watch The Kite Runner but missed the last screening. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise though, as we ended up raiding the nearby DVD store. One of the movies we picked was The Darjeeling Limited, my favorite movie for the week J. I [...]

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how to shrink a head

Last night, I made myself a macaroni soup with lots of jalapeno for dinner. It was spicy hot! It must be the reason why, at 2am, I still could not summon myself to sleep.  Fortunately, my sister was online and helped me kill time by showing photos from her recent trip to the American Museum [...]

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Loving Persia

Whenever I crave for a good meal these days, Persia Grill along Valero Street is the first thing that comes to mind.  I got so charmed by this restaurant that the first time I went there, that I came back to dine three more times in the succeeding week. So far, I have been coming [...]

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Hot Air Balloon Sunday

I wish I could say I rode a hot air balloon but nope I didn’t. Why? First of all, the hot air balloon trip cost P6k per head. That a weekend in some Visayan island already! Including airfare.  Secondly, you have to be at the Clark Freeport at 5:30 am if you want to try [...]

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transamerica: rise and shine!

 
My favorite film for the week so far is Transamerica (2005). I finally got to watch it on DVD (which I borrowed from Jub ages ago) last Sunday.  
Transamerica stars Felicity Huffman as Bree, a highly educated and ultra-conservative pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who passes as a G.G. (genuine girl). She lives in Los Angels working as [...]

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what’s in a number

A brief SMS conversation with my friend Varbs led me to write this post.  
A few days back, I got a new mobile phone number. My second mobile phone number ever.  I have been using my old number since 1999, when I was still a college student. It was my first ever mobile phone number. I [...]

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