Chef Fritz’s Appetizer Recipe Uno: Oven Roast Rosemary Garlic Potatoes
This simple appetizer recipe got rave reviews the last time I served it to friends. Cheap and easy to prepare, too! And by cheap, I mean dirt cheap. You only need button potatoes if you have all the other spices and ingredients on hand. Plus you will need an oven or an oven-toaster. Surprise you family and friends because, yes, this one definitely tastes gourmet without much of the hassle. Ready?
It’s also about accountability
Cross-posted from my weblog.
THE ISSUE OF accountability, I think, is one of key important ingredients missing in the renewed debate on the state of education in the country.
This three-part series of the Inquirer here, here and here laid down all the numbers, capped by today’s editorial that takes to task the DepEd bureaucracy for not getting the basics right. In the same breath, it called for a return to the basics, addressing the usual shortages in classrooms and teachers among them.
Sen. Edgardo Angara and the Inquirer editorial however failed to explore a crucial question: 15 years after the Angara-chaired EdCom released its findings, why can’t the bureaucracy get its basics right? Or to borrow Angara’s language, what prevents us from extracting “more efficiency and more productivity from both our education budget and our education department”?
Accountability, or the lack of it, I will submit is one of the answer.
Come to think of it, to whom is DepEd really accountable for its continuing failure to deliver the minimum education outcomes? The easy answer, of course, is the Filipino people. But HOW? Let us examine the options:
Street basketball
It is the lamentable lack of sports facilities in a community that pushes our youth to use the streets as their playground. Barangays which are privileged to have proper basketball courts do not worry about the youth using the streets for playing. The fact remains that majority of our youth does not have access to these sports facilities
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The Philippines’ 1st Cyber Counterculture Movement: Malu Fernandez, Hala Lagot Ka!
Counterculture means literally going against the dominant culture in a society. Do we still think being matapobre is in? Do we still think privilege without responsibility is in? Are we going to let a “divalicious” lifestyle columnist ridicule our breadwinners? Read here.
HULA SCOOP 08/23/07
HULA: Huwag magsukat o magbilang ng kabutihang naitulong mo sa kapwa bagkus gawin mong isang pasasalamat ang mga ginawa mo sa kanila. Sandamakmak man ang naitulong mo sa iyong kapwa kung ang turing sayo ay kalaban ituring mo na lang na natalo ka sa sugal, pero kung gusto mong makapitik man lang e magsolian na lang kayo ng kandila? At least may kandila ka pa, pampabango rin ng bahay yan.
SCOOP: Nabanggit ko ang salitang sandamakmak, isa ito sa slang words ng Pinoy kung ang unit of measurements ang pag-uusapan at hindi ko maubos maisip kung may translation ito sa ingles. Narito pa ang ilan:
Konti- iilan
Kapiranggot- konti
Katiting- konti rin
Gahibla- kasing nipis ng hibla (ng nylon, ng buhok)
Gabuhok- kasing nipis ng buhok
Gabutil- kasing laki ng butil ng palay, asin, bigas, mais depende sa gusto mo
Gadaliri- kasing laki ng daliri, ewan anong daliri, mamili na kayo
Sandamukal- madami
Sankaterba- madami rin
Sankatutak- madami pa rin
Sandamakmak- madaming madami
Sandakma- isang dakma ng kamay, kung paano ka dumakma ng …ibon ganun
Himaymay- isang bahagi (fraction)
Dingding lang ang pagitan- yun na rin ang meaning
Isang dangkal- sukat ng inunat na kamay mula dulo ng hinlalaki (thumb) at dulo ng hinlalato (middle finger)
Isang dipa-sukat mula dulo ng 2 hinlalato pag inunat mo ang dalawa mong braso; pag di mo magets kung alam mo ang UP oblation ganun magsukat ng isang dipa…ang braso ang susukatin at hindi yun nakatiwangwang sa gitna ha.
PANUTO: Dagdagan nyo na lang kung meron pa kayong alam wala na akong maisip. Gabutil ng asin lang kasi ang utak ko e hehehe…
Why Do We Overanalyze Things?
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered the ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300C.
The Russians used a pencil.
It just shows that people overanalyze almost everything — from the easy where to eat for lunch, to the trickier what a man thinks of a woman he’s looking at. The solution can be right there before their eyes, but they go through a more complicated process of solving things. Why spend billions of dollars for a pen when you can always use a pencil to write? Why spend hours just deciding where to eat when you can always go to the nearest and cheapest cafeteria or fast food joint? Why do people assume that men and women are from different planets just because they think differently?
Guess Watch? I Half a New Blogged Pose: It’s in Title, “At Her Own Expensive”
This is so funny. I received this in the email today from my Sociolinguistics professor:
At her own expensive
I thought Jay’s ex-girlfriend was really out of our lives. But heaven only goes that I was wrong. Kakakasal pa lang namin nun when Jay received a uninamous text. “Meet me at the clinic.”
I had a stinking feeling in my butt. I told him not to go. It might in danger him. Pero sabi niya, ok lang daw because life is what we make. Tumahimik lang ako. Sabi niya, “Penny for you talks.” But I didn’t know what to say.
Beggars can’t be losers. Isa pa, worried talaga ako na baka yung girl yun. Jay said, “Can’t got your tongue?” I tried to smile at him. Kahit di ako nagsalita, actions speak louder than works, di ba?
tinig.com & Malu Fernandez
Support “tinig.com”: a Malu Fernandez project. I thought that the word speaks for itself as a true blue Pilipino which aim is founded in a long line of tradition that keeps alive our sense of nationalism, which might have been true. I do not know Malu personally nor read her columns. Hence, I went over blogrolls and look at other pages like what I did before joining blogsites like the ones developed by Señor Eric, the authors of pinoyblogosphere and other sites where Pilipinos expresses their views, sentiments and advocacies. I usually go over related pages in reference to the authors of the site as it is reflective the kind of format we shall expect. I was, however, dismayed by the negative feedbacks I gathered from tinig.com about Malu Fernandez, who, I realized was actually the subject of the project.
My attention was caught by the negative comments about her as I came across Marko’s site. The comment of this innocent, young, talented Cebuano writer, like his father who hails from Cebu where Secretary Serge Remonde started his career in the media and where my Great Grandfather fought his greatest war against foreign dominations, deserves to be noticed. Malu and her publishers should have looked into the matter and addressed the issue presented by Marko and Tingog.com. I adhere to Marko’s view that the attention of the editors which published the article mentioned in his site should be called. Malu’s article, if the information given were true (which I believe was factual), is a direct affront to a class of Pilipinos, the OFWs, who are considered unsung heroes by this nation that keeps our economy afloat through all these years.
Typecasting vs Versatility
When we watched A Love Story, one of the questions that entered my mind was– Is Karyn’s character a good role for Angelica Panganiban or is she a good actress for the role?
What’s the difference? In my review I wrote that Angelica is perfect for the character. But now I’m thinking: did I write that because she was a good actress or because her image fits the role of a young, sexy woman? Although Karyn’s character has more depth, it seems that the actress’ current roles fall into one type: the young, sexy woman.
Typecasting is the process by which an actor is strongly identified with a specific character, one or more particular roles, or characters with the same traits.
Titans of Hate
From Inquirer:
“I have a country to run. I have terrorists to fight. I have peace to win and a bright future to secure for these children. I embrace work and will just leave to the titans of hate to have a monopoly on the politics of destruction.”
In the first place, she shouldn’t have a country to run because she cheated; she doesn’t have the slightest right to head the State so I implore her to stop calling her presidency legitimate because it isn’t. Besides, what work is she talking about: our economy, the boost in foreign investments and the decrease in unemployment numbers? Whenever I watch ANC or news in general about our economy, I pay so much attention to what analysts say. Like, for example, the majority of what these people say is that the economy or the peso isn’t really rebounding because of the government’s efforts; it’s because of the remmittances that the OFWs give to the country. The uneployment rates? They say that the government isn’t giving the exact figures. Besides, if unemployment is down and if our peso is truly soaring up, then why is our country still impoverished?
Oh well, this is just another ploy to distract us from noticing her misgivings on the 2004 polls. Can’t they tell the people are sick and tired of seeing that midget act as if she truly deserves the people’s mandate?! Is she insane?!
