tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37442732024-03-24T02:31:29.337+08:00Patintera - Filipino blog, Philippines, commentary, travel, food, lifestyle, history - Since 2002 Patintera is busy navigating the corporate world at the moment. patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-74162383973644073202015-11-04T14:19:00.000+08:002015-11-04T22:30:48.418+08:00Christmas Shopping 2.0Christmas is here and all too quickly at that. Seems only yesterday that we were taking down our outdoor Christmas lights and now we're putting them up again.I love Christmas more than the average person. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year for me. But I must admit, I've grown to hate the massively frustrating traffic that has become as much a marker of the season as puto bumbong. Thepatinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-2327338408857982062015-10-18T14:41:00.000+08:002015-10-18T14:41:32.026+08:00Long live this PatinteraOK, for the nth time, I'm resurrecting this blog.
What can I say? You get to a certain age when you don't want to hop from one platform to another anymore and you just want to stay with one that's been there for you the longest, has all your good memories, and can still keep up with your present state of mind. Cue weird looks from the reader.
Ang totoo nito, gusto ko nang ibalik yung dahilan patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-84257920283068787182011-07-16T20:07:00.005+08:002015-11-04T12:26:37.679+08:00Treading Lupang HinirangOur national anthem has become a controversial matter because of Pacquiao's chosen singers. Yet, I haven't heard anything from the NHCP about the "Lupang Hinirang" music videos of the two giant TV networks. So I've decided to pick on them myself.
ABS-CBN
GMA 7
If I'm not mistaken, GMA Network came out with it's own LH video first. I thought that was a great and thoughtful thing patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-68428509670247273412011-02-28T17:33:00.002+08:002015-11-04T12:26:50.065+08:00Burritos ApartI love a good burrito and I'm not particular with any place that serves it either. I've probably eaten most of my burritos from Miggy's Super Tacos, when they still had a branch close to our house. (By the way, I just looked at their Facebook page and it seems they only have one branch left and that's somewhere deep in Parañaque. Heaven knows I won't be lingering that vicinity anytime soon so I patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-90192835955256549982010-10-29T16:28:00.001+08:002014-12-28T23:10:48.872+08:00A Lesson in Privilege
Last Monday, October 25th, was the barangay elections and if you know anything about Pinoy culture, you'll know that we're a clannish bunch. So in essence, whether you get along with each other or not, around election time you best be sure to get on your relatives' good side. But even of you don't, they will surely vote for you anyway so you'd owe them something in return. What? It's true.
patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-67990812847242925462010-07-26T00:35:00.006+08:002015-10-21T09:54:21.946+08:00A Great Ube Snack is Never Pricey
Bread Room's ube bars are a rich heavenly surprise!
Every sweet tooth needs just a little hit according to one U2 song and we all know they speak the truth.
Someone told me before that Singapore is a "bread-eating country". I like breads, too, so when I was living there I was always stopping by the bakeries--more commonly referred to by the locals as "confectionery shop"--just to patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-35052311821364210662010-06-23T00:44:00.012+08:002014-12-28T23:11:32.489+08:00The 5 Good Things About Manila (Before Lim Resurfaced and Destroyed It All)
I was really hoping the old geezer would be shut out of the mayoralty race last month but it seems Manileños are blind to progress. They want someone with no real plan other than to run an urban zone--the nation's capital for Pete's sake--like a post-civilization tribe. Now, we have a once-thriving city with more shabby reeking corners than ever. Forget commercial areas, that patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-77267201794104390452010-04-06T20:04:00.007+08:002015-10-20T14:38:38.733+08:00Mercury
Last Sunday evening, I walked into the 7-Eleven near my house to get myself a cold drink...because it's been insufferably hot in hurr. I was immediately reminded how this particular outlet is unapologetically substandard: both the juice and soft drink dispensers weren't running--in April! I was a lost sale until on my way out I caught sight of the ice cream display freezer to so I thought, "Oh,patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-28181949255754233542010-04-02T11:11:00.009+08:002010-04-02T12:20:51.746+08:00BLACKLIGHTING ::: Decorous LinesWha? I'm posting chords now? Sup widdat?
Oh make no mistake about it, I CAN play...two or three guitar chords. And when a song's progression is easy enough (read: three fingers max) then I try to learn to play it. Here's one I've loved since hearing it on a San Diego radio station via iTunes awhile back. Great song about truth and beauty in surrendering to Christ's incomparable love and His powerpatinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-30671511577496281372010-03-04T22:15:00.006+08:002014-12-28T23:13:49.816+08:00BACK BITES ::: Cold Treatment
When we were kids, our mother would bring the three of us to the palengke and buy us halo-halo. You couldn't really call it that at all though since we'd request to have just ube in there. Whenever we came around Javier's Canteen they made us that. I can only imagine the kind of balancing act they this did to their inventory.
Why am I even writing about this? Well, the heat's driving me patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-14461143452384542732010-02-09T06:32:00.011+08:002015-10-20T15:05:43.266+08:00REEL TALK ::: A Postmortem on Sherlock Holmes
Few actors can successfully straddle two well-loved action hero franchise movies within a relatively short period of each film’s release. Even fewer come up with performances that leave both critics and general public raving. Robert Downey, Jr. might as well be the guy to take such chances given a career that has lived through asymmetrical haircuts, goatees and flannel. (We’ll leave the patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-14362417368093039902010-01-22T01:01:00.004+08:002014-12-28T23:10:21.788+08:00U2 ::: Product Red, Get It? Ha!
Yes, I've been slacking but you can't fault me, I've been denied the chance to see them live yet again. *grumble* But, hey, what can you do? Keep praying it happens one day before I die. Anyhow, here's another one of those incidentals, something I don't quite know what to think of yet. I guess it could work!
RedOne attributed his success to his upbringing in Morocco, where he had access topatinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-75908544752293492542010-01-20T10:43:00.006+08:002014-12-28T23:26:34.621+08:00BLACKLIGHTING ::: Misled and Abandoned
You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.
- 2 Co. 11:4
patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-24745611414694464702010-01-04T14:46:00.010+08:002014-12-29T00:07:34.478+08:00BLACKLIGHTING ::: Go Crawl Into A Hole
I'm excited about next week's corporate fast. It really is appropriate to begin the year with a period set apart for prayer and fasting to let go of things that weigh down my spiritual walk. The Bible says "seek first His kingdom" before everything else because that's the only way we'll ever gain any kind of success in this life.
It doesn't take a genius to decide that my spiritual life is patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-90589863355869009092009-12-31T20:38:00.002+08:002009-12-31T20:51:44.020+08:00Full Speed AheadThis is my last post for a very flimsy 2009 as far as this blog's concerned. See you all in 2010!Happy New Year!patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-28093423191055961972009-12-22T13:56:00.007+08:002010-11-02T14:20:50.018+08:00BACK BITES ::: Annual HeadcountToday is my Lola Delang's birthday and she would've been 100-something years old. Sorry, I forget. :D I fondly remember the celebrations to be early Christmas gatherings where aunts, uncles, cousins, and neighbors would gather on the property the day before to help in preparations. The grown-ups would be busy chopping, chatting, and cooking till late in the evening while the kids run around, up patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-67783254877906900192009-06-26T14:42:00.002+08:002009-12-23T19:05:31.041+08:00Never Can Say Goodbyepatinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-76494518312116220062009-01-26T06:01:00.000+08:002009-01-26T11:44:57.290+08:00BLACKLIGHTING ::: Nothing But TimeHallelujahParamoreSomehow everything's gonna fall right into place, If we only had a way to make it all fall faster everyday. If only time flew like a dove, Will god make it fly faster than I'm falling in love. This time we're not giving up, Let's make it last forever, Screaming "Hallelujah". We'll make it last forever. Holding onto patience, wearing thin, I can't force these eyes to see patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-56104247263649938812008-12-23T04:20:00.003+08:002014-12-28T23:36:29.797+08:00U2 ::: Closer Than You Think
Q Magazine, again, has first dibs on press for the new U2 album due out March 2009. *aherm* In this video, Adam Clayton (the guy I share a birthday with) fills us in on their "first proper photo session" for the next album titled No Line On The Horizon and explains their singer's pro-active approach to the said activity. After all, Bono is the figurehead and people look at photos of him patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-59315348417328016992008-12-04T08:49:00.000+08:002008-12-05T14:33:08.707+08:00U2 ::: Thanks For Your ConsistencyIf there's only one thing I can say to anyone who asks why I love this band, it's this: never has there been anyone (or anything) in music who can move me towards God more powerfully than U2, or to be specific, Bono's spirituality. Just take this clip as a classic example. Bono quoting one of the often-repeated truths in scripture yet everyone can claim it as the message at ANY moment in her lifepatinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-31799331615862838342008-10-30T03:56:00.002+08:002008-10-30T10:09:52.697+08:00RIGHT BRAIN ::: Silence in Waiting October 29, 2008 The Media Equation Mourning Old Media’s Decline By DAVID CARR The news that Google settled two longstanding suits with book authors and publishers over its plans to digitize the world’s great libraries suggests that some level of détente could be reached between old media and new. If true, it can’t come soon enough for the news business. It’s been an especially patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-55862037627904488792008-10-19T19:56:00.002+08:002008-10-20T01:24:02.002+08:00BLACKLIGHTING ::: Radar's Clean1 Co. 13:12-13 (The Message)12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-36236280641785107722008-10-13T20:54:00.002+08:002008-10-13T20:56:07.346+08:00RIGHT BRAIN ::: Days in ExhaleThis one's a bit overdue (like most things I handle), I know but... So, as mentioned in a previous post, I hauled ass to KL some weeks ago. It was out of necessity more than anything but I knew that I'd find the trip interesting somehow.After Sunday service, I went down to Lavender to look for and get a ticket from the Transnasional counter. (By the way, for this trip, I'm joining Diane on her patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-3310062637907418482008-10-13T12:33:00.000+08:002008-10-13T16:35:43.245+08:00BLACKLIGHTING ::: Ehm...This is Personal.Psalm 119:9-16 (The Message) The Message (MSG)Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson 9-16 How can a young person live a clean life? By carefully reading the map of your Word. I'm single-minded in pursuit of you; don't let me miss the road signs you've posted. I've banked your promises in the vault of my heart so I won't sin myself patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744273.post-34676930526463346382008-09-27T13:47:00.005+08:002008-09-27T13:55:25.311+08:00Number 1, Baby!Well this was certainly a pleasant surprise. Spread the word, tell your friends, add a link to your blog, post a Friendster bulletin, anything! Let's make this happen. Yes, we can. ;-)patinterahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15501534470667937553noreply@blogger.com0