Tuesday, February 21, 2006

What do you get when you google yourself?

World Trade Center Memorial Competition

I googled my name and one of the top entries was this... from 3 years ago. I'm surprised it's still online. It was a group effort, from when I was still working with Ismael Leyva Architects, in New York. And no, we didn't win the competition.

My online store, tenderware.com, is on top of the google list, and my online portfolio, branded.as is also there. Good to know that if someone wants to find me, all he gotta do is google me.

Anyway, I googled you, and was pleasantly surprised to find a picture of you in Trafalgar Square.


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Saturday, February 18, 2006

Chocolate with Wasabi, anyone?

chocolate and wasabi from wagamama - photo by joey m briones
© Joselito Briones


Not a very good combination. I tried this dessert at "Wagamama". The chocolate part of it was good and heavy, but the after-taste of wasabi in every bite was just too weird.


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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Whatever happened to Barbra Streisand's moustache?

Barbra Streisand's moustache - an artist's impression

Stephen Fry, of "Wilde" fame, asked this question last night in his tv show "QI". First thing I thought of was, "Ok, what DID happen to Barbra Streisand's moustache?". It didn't occur to me to question, "what moustache?". No, she didn't sport a moustache in "Yentl".

The answer was, btw, that she ate it and then excreted it. And she's not alone. Turns out everybody's done it. A week before a child is born, it eats up a lot of its body hair, including moustache, together with other things (bits of intestines!) and becomes the baby's poo first time outside the womb. Bet you didn't know that. The image on the left is an artist's impression of what she would've looked like had she not done the eating and excreting thing to it.

So, you might ask, why Barbra Streisand? Later on in the show, Stephen Fry also mentioned the myth that gay guys can't whistle. Then he attempted to whistle a tune. Needless to say, no sound came out.


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