Cyma’s Loss was Tender Bob’s Gain…

… at least yesterday. Very hungry at close to 2 pm and wishing to have lunch after the 12 noon mass in our parish, we proceeded to Shang to have lunch at Cyma. But as usual, all the tables were taken and we were told we were fourth in line. This time around, our hungry [...]

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The Barn and Burgoo

While we were waiting for food to be served at Burgoo the other day, my son reminisced, “That’s why I liked The Barn before. Like Burgoo I can draw while waiting.” Why?
In lieu of tablecloths, these restos’ tables are lined with paper atop which is a receptacle with crayons so one can doodle, sketch, etc. [...]

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Pepper Lunch in Shang

Was at Pepper Lunch in Shang yesterday. My husband, son and I invited three friends, one of them a priest, his sister and a friend who was over for Christmas but leaving last night for Davao. I called PL to reserve a table because as usual, we were running late and I didn’t want the [...]

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Power Plant doings

R3 has a new addition: Royce chocolates store. It looks like an ice cream stall at first glance because one sees counters like one would see in Pazzo, Haagen Daz, etc. displaying various flavors of ice cream. But at PreviewRoyce, it’s chocolates galore. So far I like the Potechi Crunch chocolate best – described as [...]

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Christmas Presents

Just spoke to a best friend a few minutes ago and we were talking about Christmas presents. She gave me all sorts of different chocolates never before seen by my family and myself: sugar free for my husband, white for my son, and milk chocolate for myself. I can’t recall exactly how many different kinds [...]

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Koreanovelas

Finished watching Rosemary a few days ago. Wow, I cried. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Tender. The male lead is always so convincing whatever his role. First saw him in Hotelier and now here in Rosemary. And while the English text in the cover is lousy, not so the subtitles. Galing. It can be emotionally draining but it [...]

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Trinoma on a Sunday, a Christmas Sunday …

is nearly a suicidal decision. It’s a toxic experience at the very least. (or are toxic and suicidal equivalent conditions?) People here, there and everywhere. Noise levels of the highest decibels. Awful. And finding one’s way is messy. Plus the people around who work in the mall are as clueless. One is lucky if the [...]

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Pepper Lunch

Last Friday or Saturday, on a whim, husband and I went to Power Plant for no specific reason. As we were nearing the mall, he suddenly remembered that my best friend who had called Monday to ask if I was free (I was tutoring, she had flown in from Europe) might be in her condo [...]

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The Selecta Ice Cream Commercials, the Purefoods Hotdog Commercial

I have blogged about these some posts ago but each time I see said commercial, whether with Cassandra or Maverick as bida, I can only smile. Carmina assumes a role minor to her kids and Zoren but that she doesn’t mind and is enjoying the whole thing is palpable, apparent, disarming, charming. The twins are [...]

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DOH Secretary Francisco Duque

Hats off to you, sir.
Tonight in The Sweet Life, DOH Secretary Duque was a guest. Topic was malnutrition. Lucy said something to the effect that she hoped the project addressing malnutrition would be effective  by 2010. Duque said something “and beyond. The system has been institutionalized. etc.”
I don’t think he meant that his term would [...]

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