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Trip to the Sydney Fish Market

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: Journal Entry

Whenever Jeanne ask me if I want to go to the Sydney Fish Market - I look at her with puzzlement. Didn’t she know that I grew up in the Fish Market - why is she calling me like it’s an excursion to a fascinating place? In 15 years of residence in Oz - we [...]



The Last Lecture

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 27th, 2008 • Category: Media

I know it would not bother me if someone throw-up in my brand new car. It has happen already - but to deliberately pour soda on a pristine car to make a point to your nephew that it’s just a ‘thing’. To make him feel that he’s more important than keeping ‘things’ pristine - that’s [...]



Mum and Dad’s Wedding Photo

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Family

Contains a full-size image of the wedding photo of Ruben and Lourdes Pascual circa 1956. It was digitally restored by Jeanne Pascual.



Roots

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Family

Wedding photo of Domingo and Visitacion Talavera-Abigania as restored by Jeanne. If you have photos like this - we would love to have a scanned version. Jeanne is also avid in scrap booking, if photos of our ancestors are in your shoe box somewhere - you might want to send it to us, we would [...]



Jessica’s Smilebox

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 22nd, 2008 • Category: Family, Media

As seen in Jeanne’s Yahoo-360 Blogsite. Unbashfully copied to mine



Just Another Day … Or is it?

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Journal Entry

It started as a pleasant morning, it was neither too hot nor cold. Towards mid-day however, the temperature rose to mid to high 30s (celsius). At this temperature our house would feel like a furnace. It is the middle of the school summer break in Australia and so the 2 girls - Celine and Jessica are at home. It was a lazy day for them and was spent watching TV while folding a few clothes.



Forty-Five Today

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Journal Entry

Sometime today - I would have gone around the sun for 4 1/2 decades! Let me just take stock of it so far. Twenty-One years of this was spent growing up in the best city in the Philippines - Baguio City. There was always work in the fish market. I also attended Boys High [...]



Alone

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 6th, 2008 • Category: Family

I received news yesterday that the last surviving sibling of my dad has passed away. His name is Tito Narding. I was asked to inform everyone in the family about the news which I did so promptly. I got a few reply for the news and I have not realised how tragic this passing was [...]



Write Your Name Across the Sky

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 5th, 2008 • Category: Journal Entry

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Look mum they’re writing my name across the sky…
For more of the New Year’s Eve 2007 photos - see our Gallery2 site. This is our second year to watch the Sydney fireworks at the Garden Islands. The area is reserved for Thales employees and [...]



Smilebox Scrapbook

By Rommel Pascual • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Family, Media, Tech Talk

Sample blog on how to embed Smilebox presentations on a blog.



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