A Thoughtful Spot

Nature's Devastation

2013-11-10T12:31:00.000+08:00

Nature's wrath left an awful horrible horrible feeling of desolation, isolation, desperation, cries for help for the destruction left by power super typhoon Yolanda (Typhoon Haiyan). It's heart wrenching to see dead people along the streets, to see them flee storm surge trying not to drown, livelihood gone, houses destroyed, children crying . It's awful. The powerful storm hit across the whole of the Vizayas and death toll could rise ~~10,000~~ in Leyte alone..and that's just one province. It's really really grim.

In this time of calamity. Filipinos are pooling all their sources to help fellow countrymen. Aid Agencies from parts of the world helping..so thank you.

BRONUTS

2013-11-10T11:55:00.000+08:00

*edit: So this was 2 weeks ago.. did not get to eat the sweet! Waaah! Coughing and feeling bad with sore throat :(

I haven't eaten yet.. but looks yummeh! ☺☺☺

Oh Holidays chomp chomp chomp! Yum yum!

2013-11-02T23:43:00.001+08:00

Oh man, since the start of the 'ber' months last week all I've been doing is chomp chomp chomp. I'm bloated! Went to IHOP few days ago and ordered hearty ham omelette plus double pancake strawberry. So Good! Unlimited butter and cream. I don't have pics though. The week prior, was at UP Town Center for dinner and again prior to that, few ago, was at Bonchon. sis brought, Cronuts from Wildflour, Bronuts from bakers dozens, and Yema cake from quezon. Holidays seasons always gives me this good feeling of wanting eat and be merry. Heck, 'tis the season to be jolly! plus all the good food finds are everywhere sprouting. Cup cakes, and all kind of sweets. Eating lots of chocolates too. Oh Spiral..gonna visit you soon! ha ha

But wait... again. I wanna have deep dish pizza too! ☺☺☺

CASA VERDE...Verdict

2013-11-02T22:45:00.000+08:00

Last weekend 27 October to be exact, after our trick or treat at Rockwell Power Plant, we went to UP Town Center and ate dinner at Casa Verde. Sis ordered Brian's Ribs, I ordered best sampler, my nephew, the Tavern shrimps, and my bro in law, the tenderloin. We didn't order the huge burger.. but maybe we should have. So my verdict. I wasn't thrilled with the food! The price and the serving is good though. For big groups, this is the place to dine if you're on budget. Our bill cost around 1200 for all the food that we ordered and that's cheap. The serving is huge too. Thumbs up to that.

But wait... there's more. I didn't enjoy the food.:( Buffalo wings was just ok. the blue cheese didn't taste like blue cheese. which made it worse. The ribs.. the serving was huge, and that's about it. My sis liked it though. The tenderloin was alright too. Not my type. I only enjoyed the tavern shrimp my nephew ordered, the rest was like bland. There's just something lacking. must be the taste of each dish,. Maybe we should have ordered their huge burger instead. I wonder if it's good.. hmm. To each his own taste I suppose. Rubs is still way better! :)

Brian's Ribs

Best Sampler

Tavern Shrimps I like

Will go back here to taste the huge burgers. 3 out of 5 for Casa Verde for the taste. 5 for their huge servings.

It's better than cherry coke!

2013-10-13T22:44:00.001+08:00

Seriously, cherry coke tastes like syrup. I wanted A&W Cream Soda but this will do.

TWG Tea cake, Muffin and Scones....

2013-10-13T22:37:00.000+08:00

I only bought 4 of whats being offered. The scones I like and the tea cakes not chocolate muffin, not so much but it is good paired with tea Raspberry mint tea is what I like but didn't order any. Next time I'll have myself an afternoon tea delight to satisfy my craving. I'm gonna have macarons too.

Chocolate muffin, tea cake and scones

Tooth to be told.... toothache killing me!

2013-10-06T00:58:00.000+08:00

Argh!!!!! Midnight misery and painful shit. Will not eat toasted pastllias, will never drink Starbucks chocolate chip frappe! I spent 180 bucks for pain! Need a good dentist!

Had brunch yesterday with friends then ate green tea Japanese doughnut. I don't have pic though. :) but it's good.. What I want is Green Tea Kitkat. Need to go back to Cash N Carry. Didn't feel like doing 140 whine for now and so I'm glad this blog still exist :)

And now for a photo blog... brunch but this was two weeks ago not yesterday. No pics from that. Yummy!

Happy Tummy LOLA CAFE

2013-09-14T19:58:00.000+08:00

Lunch with Khrishka 2 weeks ago at Lola Cafe just walking distance where I live. We thought of Cercho (not sure how it's spelled) again it's near the house but it didn't feel right.. nobody was eating and we were sorta wearing house clothes :) so I mentioned Lola Cafe.. and I'm glad I did. we enjoyed the food and the homey feel of the restaurant. We'll comeback for second helpings. We didn't get to try Bottarga pasta aster all

I don't have the photos of the food we ordered :)

Only this Pistachio Pavlova :)

Slamdunk!

2013-09-14T19:43:00.000+08:00

Flashback 20001 -2002 I couldn't wait to go home after school to watch Slamdunk 5:00 then 5:30 it's Winter Sonata! I still have the shirt plus I still watch Tagalog episodes of WS! Addict :)

Rukawa!

GoodFella's

2013-04-01T23:46:00.000+08:00

Not so good! Ordered the four dishes below and my tastebud was protesting.

But maybe should have ordered their steak specialty instead

Bicol's Toasted Siopao

2013-04-01T23:32:00.000+08:00

I buy them from nearby bakery store from time to time. 1 piece is enough to make my tummy full :)

MRT really sucks!

2013-03-10T01:53:00.001+08:00

Well whaddaya know. I was just ranting about MRT few days back and guess what??? I was late last Friday all because of MRT! I swear it's the worst train station ever! ever! (well, I've never been to India, or Sri Lanka, or Bangladesh.... but still ) Argh! 45 mins queuing from the side of EDSA q.ave to the stairs...then 15 to 20 mins queuing up inside the platform.. Was there at 7:30, was able to ride 8: 50.. that fcking long! And as if it couldn't get any worse than that that, rush hour 6 pm, Friday, after work, going home. STOP ENTRT in effect. I had to queue again for 15 mins just to go to the platform, then I took the round trip and by the time we get to to the last station which is TAFT, instead of sitting comfortably, was told to get out because the the shitty train had problems! WTF! Long story short, I ended up standing the whole train ride! got stuck with morons!

Well, with all the rant, I still prefer riding the train, than get stuck in EDSA.traffic.

Napster Documentary

2013-03-10T01:22:00.000+08:00

Cool Documentary is from Alex Winter - who starred in Bill and Teds movies with Keanu Reeves

But Bill and Ted never saw anything as cool as Winter's documentary Downloaded: The Digital Revolution, which receives its world premiere March 10 at the interactive/music/film South by Southwest Festival in Austin. It tells how two teenagers, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, reinvented the music industry, got crushed and still managed to get rich with such game-changers as Facebook and Spotify.

Downloaded is about the epochal file-sharing service Napster, dreamed up in 1999, when Fanning was a college dropout living in the closet of his uncle's office.

Winter's film might remind people of the forgotten fact that it was Napster that inspired the first social networking giant Friendster, which Facebook supplanted. "Napster wasn't really about music," says Winter. "To me, Napster was a global community where there had never been one." Read Full article via Hollywood Reporter

I wanna see this film.

Boyfriend pushes Girlfriend off cliff - Insane Rope Swing

2013-03-06T00:20:00.001+08:00

Viral video.. "I'm breaking up with you" echoed through the canyons. Yikes!!!

Solution sucks!

2013-03-05T22:01:00.000+08:00

Two wrongs don't make it right but folks at MRT doesn't see that way! If you don't the ride MRT everyday rush hour morning and evening, and get stuck with (mostly) morons everyday, you wouldn't understand the rant! The point of riding shitty MRT is to avoid EDSA traffic, so why offer chartered bus (only for single journey tickets, mind you!) that will ply the EDSA route knowing it's traffic during rush hour? Solution sucks! That's all they can offer to the commuters queuing for 30 mins everyday just to get inside the MRT platform and another 20 mins to get inside the train. How about skipping train the minute they see that platform packed with commuters. Ugh!

So view me baby

2012-07-07T00:03:00.000+08:00

Yes! A new dress for my blog to bring in for advert money, hopefully! Oh yeah, I'm back as you can see. I'll probably have more of random reviews of restaurants and lean towards food blog. I'm into food trips. I wanna check out the restaurants at Maginhawa Street. In the meantime. One that I'll recommend is 77 resto/bar in Kamuning.. It's good place to unwind. I'll blog more when I have the photos, it's still my sister camera.

ctrl-alt-del

2011-03-13T01:12:00.003+08:00

I removed about 170 posts mostly the old omf!- I-actually blog-that? Ha ha.

I'm not gonna bury this blog yet....a part of my life online/offline posted here.. but.. I've had this since 2002. But I tweet more and post entries (on my other blog) using Word Press and Codexed.

Egypt Uprising! The end of Mubarak?

2011-02-02T23:20:00.003+08:00

Breaking news! Egypt burning! Watching the telly right now and it's so chaotic as pro and anti Mubarak are clashing. Of course the anti out number the pro. Maybe something will happen later... and Hosni Mubarak's hours, days may be numbered!

Social Media and Television.. news

2010-12-11T07:26:00.005+08:00

I saw this via Mashable How Social Media is Changing the Business of Television. That is so true.

The nightly new shows here have something new to offer the viewing public. See, every time I watch, I noticed that anchors have now been equip with iPads. Before they will just read the new paper and teleprompter. Now, they will will blah blah with the top headlines news and then flip their iPads, they instantly read reactions of views via twitter or FB thereby engaging the viewing public to participate. Socializing with everyone real time, we get to know the pulse and opinion. Pretty soon will probably have SNN... Social News Network. Heh.

Prince William and Kate Middleton Engaged! Royal Wedding Next Year!

2010-11-16T21:38:00.006+08:00

OMG! Engagement announced! I just have to blog that! I don't know why I'm excited. He he. Watching BBC right now and they are showing news clips about the Kate who is the become the future QUEEN of England! And because I can barely remember Charles and Diana's royal wedding, (Hey I was kid!), and I like fairy tales, prince and princess, this royal wedding summer of 2011 must be watched soon!

A wedding on the internet age! Great!

Still on the topic of Boxing and Paquiao's win...

2010-11-15T03:24:00.009+08:00

Oh I like Dan Wetzel's report! why Mayweather should keep dodging Pacquiao. Ha ha!

Quoting Manny Pacquiao on Mayweather... “He needs me,” Pacquiao said. “I don’t need him.”

And because boxing is an brutal entertaining sports.. I was LOL so much with this comment re: Justin Bieber vs Mayweather battle! Epic! Ha ha ha!

Manny Pacquiao still the champ!

2010-11-14T14:29:00.005+08:00

Woohoo! Manny wins over Antonio Margarito! As usual, we know the results even before the fight could start. Delayed free t.v showing here. It is live but.. super delayed and add to that, the commercials dominated the fight! Ha ha ha.

*edit.oh and Pacquiao may not need Mayweather anymore. Read comments from that yahoo link, one said of Mayweather, "he is irrelevant and he should retire!" Ha ha. Right on!

Now showing on US politics, John Boehner!

2010-11-08T06:13:00.003+08:00

I'm still for Mitt Romney for 2012!

Just for the record I'm hardly a pundit. I'm not American nor do I live in the US. However I'm more fascinated with whats happening there more than what's going here. Politics sucks, and politicians gobble it all up.

Anyway, this post is about the recent victory of Republicans in Midterm elections. With the victory, the GOP regained control of congress. John Boehner, will be the incoming speaker of the House.

From NY Daily:

It was a scene straight out of "Mad Men" - chain-smoking Don Draper denouncing "addictive" cigarettes after his ad agency lost a big tobacco account.

Except it was Rep. John Boehner - speaker of the House-in-waiting - on Election Night, enthusiastically ripping into the city that made him what he is.

"For too long, Washington has been doing what's best for Washington, not what's best for the American people," said the man who would be third in line to the presidency.

The sounds of jaws dropping filled the air. Here was a man who epitomized Washington denying he ever had anything to do with the place. The fictional Don Draper would have been proud.

In many ways, Boehner is the Don Draper of D.C. - a chain-smoking, unapologetic Midwesterner in a sharp suit straight out of America, circa 1962. Read more

CNN:

Who is John Boehner? Among friends, he's just one of the guys.
During Boehner's time in Congress, he's also earned a reputation among reporters and colleagues as having a laid-back demeanor and a penchant for wisecracks. On Thursday, when questioned by ABC's Diane Sawyer about the possibility of a "Slurpee summit" with President Obama, Boehner responded, "I don't know about a Slurpee. How about a glass of merlot?" Read all

Well, suddenly 2012 seems fast approaching. No Palin, please!

OMH! (Oh My Hamm!)

2010-11-01T03:38:00.002+08:00

Jon Hamm what the hell are you doing? I like that you take risks and appear (the very first time) ON SNL. And as much as I like the show, I wish that you just stick to Mad Men and be Don Draper! Suave and elegant and classy, gritty, smart, and powerful ad man!

I betcha' Don Draper would never appear on SNL!

News links: NYmag, WSJ blog

White is purity, empty is bare

2010-10-06T04:24:00.004+08:00

Good morning. Why the hell am I still awake? I've been trying to do some html geeky coding with the other test page. I took a break and browsed the web, read some articles and blogs. Now I'm set to rest my sleepy eyes.

I've had this blog since 2002 and but for the last 6 years the layout has been bare of any clutter save for links, blog archives and the about blah blah. I wanted a new template for this blog without having too much crap. I'll dress you dear blog.. soon.

In the meantime, after 3 years I'm no longer a monkey slave to time and pressure. It's been about a month and half since I tendered the paper to the higher ups. After that, I've been looking and I've been lucky but had to decline two and the other one, I didn't continue. In hindsight, I probably should have accepted the offer.

Anyway, I have a lot of time to spare now hence tinkering with the bare site. Heh. I feel empty just like this blog post.