Author: Kupitero

  • Transcending the Links

    This is a demo blog for the newly installed version of Movable Type. This is now version 3.121. Yeeehah! Thanks!!

  • Natural do Rio de Janeiro

    This is the CD that we will be featuring this weekend (hopefully) in my iRadio webcast. I purchased this personally from the popular CD store in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro and it was near the pub/restaurant (formerly known as Valhala) where the late maestros, Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, composed the bossa nova standard,…

  • The ‘Gentle Side’ of Reno

    We made an impromptu trip to Reno, NV last Saturday – after heavy rains lashed the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday and Friday – to pump up our sagging adrenaline levels and to try our luck in the numerous casinos there. The trip was smooth as silk and the weather was simply spectacular. In…

  • Tita’s Arrival

    Today, my Tita Yeyit and Tita Ising will arrive from Manila and they will stay with us for two months. I hope that I can show them around to places where they have not been to yet!

  • The Witching Hour at the PSE

    While the Philippine peso is falling down like a stack of cards (similar to the ones used in PAGCOR casinos), the PSE Composite Index (Phisix), amazingly – perhaps to show its resiliency – had held its ground and even rebounded on days when the currency was free-falling. This only demonstrated the fact that money men…