December 30th, 2007 at 6:34pm |
Portrait House is now sporting a new look and a new name, “Travel Light“. This website will carry the usual lifestyle-chopsuey theme written in a fun, light-hearted manner. I have recently added “travel” in the list of categories because I think I will travel some more in the future. I want to see the world.
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I have been tagged by Connie 
1. Do you have plans to change… continue reading here.
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December 30th, 2007 at 3:43am |

Pyrotechnics lit up the whole of United Kingdom’s skyline every 5th of November. It is not an advanced New Year’s Day celebration. The British used to call it the Gunpowder Plot until it became popularly known as the Bonfire Night.
This rather quaint British celebration commemorates the time in 1605 when a man named Guy Fawkes, together with four Catholic dissenters, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder… continue reading here.
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December 21st, 2007 at 10:46pm |

Summer in the United Kingdom falls on July and lasts until September. And when you talk about summer in this part of Europe, it is not the usual 38-degree tropical heat that could burn a fiery hole on your tin roof. The weather is still cold at 18 degrees during noontime and people are out on the streets bathing on cold sunshine, some wearing… continue reading here.
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June 16th, 2007 at 8:45pm |
It’s June 17, 4:47AM (Manila time).
Let me share this poem for people who were fortunate to have kind and loving fathers. For those who were stranger to the warm and fuzzy feeling brought about by today’s celebration, may you all become good dads and moms in the future.
WHAT MAKES A DAD
God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet… continue reading here.
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May 10th, 2007 at 12:28pm |
While everyone in the North Pole would consider us tropical fishes blessed for having all-year sunny weather, I admit to sometimes hating this humid climate we have during summer. It’s sticky, greasy, hot and irritating that no matter how much Chowking, Razon’s or Aristocrat halo-halo variety you ingest during the day, you’re a dried prune by night.
But here’s a piece of good news. Rainy season begins on the third
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