teriyaki girl

last night, i was supposed to meet a friend who said he wanted to meet me before he leaves for a 3-month assignment to malaysia. minutes before our scheduled meeting time, he called me up and told me he needs to stay overtime and finish some work due the following day. so, upon learning about our canceled date, i immediately IM-ed one of my APC friends and invited her to go malling with me instead. she had a better idea and immediately called up a mutual friend and asked her if she could join us. what turned out to be a dinner date for two became an instant barkada gimik on a thursday night! im not sure who suggested it, pero we decided to have dinner at teriyaki boy in glorietta. i excitedly said yes sure because i not only love japanese food but i have very fond memories about my dining experiences at the said restaurant -- sarap kasi talaga ng food nila and not too pricey. definitely much better than tokyo, tokyo (although i love tokyo tokyo's pork tonkatsu and tonkatsu sauce). at teriyaki boy, kanin pa lang masarap na talaga! i particularly like their gyoza and syempre, their various teriyaki dishes. the best talaga! and what's even better, i get to have dinner with two of my good friends at APC that night :)

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weeks before that thursday, i attended a Japanese cooking class offered free by the company. in that class, i learned how to cook and prepare tempura and tempura sauce as well as kani salad. they're really easy to make, once you have all the ingredients you need. i can't wait to try them out on my own.

third eye

from a text message mavic forwarded me last night. salamat, ate! natawa ako sobra dito, haha!

Professor: If you'll be given a chance to have a 3rd eye, san mo ito ilalagay at bakit?
(dami sumagot pero isa lang ang nag-stand-out)
Girl: Sir, sa puso ko para 'di na mabulag sa pag-ibig.

yes, panalo!

blog-starved and anemic

it's 2.21am and i have been blogging for more than 7 or 8 hours now. nawili ako sa kakalagay ng feeds and ads. you see, i haven't blogged for quite a while so im actually blog-starved. not to mention, im also starving literally for having skipped dinner (ugh) and also feeling dizzy by now. i think i may be anemic already just like in high school when i would sleep at 3am for several straight weeks...

okay, so now everyone knows how addicted i can be at this :) im stopping now... all the irregular hours of sleep and sleeping past midnight is really bad for the health, and im beginning to get worried and even texted my friend earlier about getting my blood tested and getting a check-up. tomorrow (which is already today) im going to the doctor na talaga. please help me pray that nothing serious is happening. okay? olrayt, uwi na ako.

year-end party photos

here are a few photos from our year-end party held at the PICC last August 25. except for Hale and Mocha, most of the performers were participants from the various Manila Delivery Centre dance courses. the performances weren't that great dahil parang kulang sa practice... goes to show how we all are busy with work, hehe! but just the same we did have a lot of fun which is what's most important :)

i submitted some entries for the photo contest (sponsored by our club) that night and although i didn't win, 2 out of 3 were highly commended. sayang, no? it would have been nice if i had won :)

the dj and his operating table

tuning the guitars before the hale performance

upside down (highly commended)

hip-hop dance (highly commended)


champ of hale

ayun lang, folks. hope you enjoyed them!

of scooter rides and a TV commercial

when i was in the US, one of my favorite commercials was that of an internet or broadband service provider. i can't exactly remember the name of the provider (but maybe 'Comcast') but the commercial (which to me is pretty hilarious) features two old-looking turtles, a husband-turtle and a wife-turtle (called the Slowsky's), and goes something like this:

the husband-turtle and the wife-turtle are both facing in front, as if being interviewed by the camera man. they seem to be talking to a customer service representative and are complaining about their internet downloads being 'too fast' and that well, (turtles paused and then looked at each other for a brief moment), 'they felt rushed' :) poor turtles!

well, anyway... i am telling this story about the Slowsky's to describe how i recenlty felt while riding a scooter. this happened the same day as the isaw day (see previous post). We were inside a campus kaya malakas ang loob ko. one of our friends brought his scooter and we (the girls) thought it would be fun if we could try it out. doubting my balance skills and knowing that i could easily get nervous or skittish, i decided to just ride in the back and let my friend do the driving, thinking to myself how easy breezy it would be. after all, this is just a scoot, not a motorbike.... and from what i know, scoots are sort of girly -- but no, i was wrong in thinking this. that scoot is quite different. ang bilis nya talaga! my friend who owns that scoot, explained to me, that although it's only a scoot, it's still quite "powerful". as soon as we started moving, he made sure that we would run fast, and as soon as i realized how fast we were, nagtititili na ako! scandalous talaga!

i think we were only driving at 50-60kph, pero to me that was fast enough. my heart was really pounding and i was screaming the whole time lalo na nung may humps at lumiko kami papuntang UP Film Center. nahilo talaga ang mundo ko. i was really panicking, my hands started to feel cold and numb and just like the Slowsky's "i felt rushed", haha! true, i was excited but also very scared. while all this was happening, yung driver naman tuwang-tuwa pa! argh! i wasn't wearing a helmet then and i think that contributed to why i was panicking that much.

grabe no, i dont have any lessons learned here really, gusto ko lang i-share yung experience. although here's what i think: im starting to believe that the more we grow older, the more we become afraid to try new things. how sad! is it because we're too afraid of dealing with any hospital bills? :) i really don't know...pero from now on, no more scooters or motorbikes for me -- promise -- at least not without any helmets and drivers who seem to enjoy seeing me suffer or panic :p

we came, we saw, we isaw-ed

One Sunday afternoon last month, my friends and I decided to go on an "Isaw Trip" to UP. Being members of the same photography club, I thought we were also going to take photos around the campus after eating. To my surprise, I was the only one who brought an SLR -- they were also surprised to see me armored with my camera. Anyway, I ended up not taking any photos that day because I was more interested in eating than anything else :)

one fine isaw day

For those of you who may be too sosy to be aware, isaw is grilled chicken intestines that you normally eat on a stick with vinegar to complement its bitter taste which by the way according to this food article is "fecal matter" or in other words, chicken jebs, hehe! yummy? :)

anyway, if interested in trying isaw or any other street food for that matter (including betamax), go to UP Diliman and ask to be dropped off near the Coop and the post-office. It's usually available at around 4PM. It's good with a diet coke :)