Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 303

Adopted words: Pamphagous Arroyos, jussulent deals?

On a recent visit to Save The Words, a site which promotes the use of words threatened with extinction, we adopted the first two that leapt out at us: which means "eating or consuming everything" and which means "full of broth or soup". By adopting these words we commit to using them as often as [...]

Project EDSA: Everyone Deserves Safe Air

The second of the Boysen KNOxOUT Project: EDSA (Everyone Deserves Safe Air) artworks rendered in air-cleaning paint can now be seen at the Edsa Ortigas flyover. Baby Imperial and Coco Anne composed the work, a mathematical/abstract "description" of the Edsa Revolution of 1986. Boysen KNOxOUT Project: EDSA is the world's first large-scale public art project [...]

Maybe the world has ended and we just haven't noticed.

It's disconcerting to see photos and videos of the London riots, first of all because it's London. How could it happen there? Books and movies have conditioned us to believe that Londoners are polite, reserved and well-behaved. These are the people who were so calm and brave while Hitler bombed their city every day in [...]

The well-dressed (overdressed) cat (Updated)

is by Takako Iwasa of Cat Prin: The Tailor of A Cat, and now there's a book on her feline fashion. While our cats approve of cats as monarchs, they themselves refuse to wear clothes (unless it is very cold). Meanwhile, one of our favorite web celebrities has a book out. It's Maru! In New [...]

The world's finest cat couture

is by Takako Iwasa of Cat Prin: The Tailor of A Cat, and now there's a book on her feline fashion. While our cats approve of cats as monarchs, they themselves refuse to wear clothes (unless it is very cold). Meanwhile, one of our favorite web celebrities has a book out. It's Maru!

Best 3 hours we've ever wasted

Looking at pictures of Marat Safin on the internet. From Roland Garros, Marat with a book. This is how Marat looks these days, in retirement. He should be required to carry a defibrillator because spectators can only take so much. The name of the cat in the previous Marat post is Fenya (nickname Fenusya), she [...]

Auntie Janey's Old-Fashioned Agony Column # 23: How jealousy is like wasabe

Dear Auntie Janey, Recently the girlfriend of my ex started befriending me in all the social networking sites. Even in chats and emails too. I did not think of it as harmful because this girl and I have been acquainted since college and her family knows my family as well. I can say that she [...]

Comfort

Crispy Tawilis at Wild Ginger in Power Plant Rockwell. Monggo't Malunggay at Wild Ginger. Champorado't Dilis at C2. Junot Diaz: Who you calling a sisig?

Caption this

Madre Mia by rosauroq Uro sent this photo in response to Tw*tter, our recent post on Lee Paje's exhibit (and apropos of the flak over the "blasphemous" CCP exhibit). This was taken at an exhibit of Eastern European art at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila in 1989. What are they thinking?

Marat with a cat

From Dinara Safina's twitter account. Thanks to blinkblankbloom for the alert. Saffy Safina: Who is that cat? I am jealous.