Baby Gion :))

Finally, I already laid my eyes on this cute creature. He's my friend's (Mea) adorable son. Birthday is March 2, 2008. I saw him a week after in Mea's house. I was with Jenn and Mon-mon, later Apple and her classmates paid a visit too. I just can't imagine how time flew so fast. We were just high school girls yesterday. Yayy. We're finished with college already, actually. More pics on http://myzing.multiply.com/ Here's a pic with Mea, Jenn, Apple, Mon-mon and me surrounding baby Gion in his crib.

SANINGS, finally!

If you happen to reside in Bacolod City, you might have heard of this infamous karenderia. Karenderia, carenderya, kalenderya or wahtever you want to call it. I do not exactly know what is the English equivalent for that. Let me just describe it. A karenderia is like a diner minus all the frills. It is often small in size. It usually got tables that are closely spaced with each other plus the chairs. The viands are in display for the people to choose what they want. It is always in a ala carte, if that helps. You aske for a serving of viand #1 and then a serving of viand #2. Everyday the viands are different except for a few favorites like Linagang baka (beef stew, maybe) and the adobo, perhaps. Some karenderia offers the meal package in where you it already includes a viand, rice, soup and maybe a soda. The rice are served by first shaping it in a tea cup and then the cup is turned upside down on a plate so the rice serving will transfer on you plate. Some cups are too small and some servers would loosely fit the rice inside the cup making you ask for an extra rice after you are done with your first. Karenderias are usually cheap. There are people who will never dare eat in one because they feel like it's dirty and unsanitized. (Are you people sure that restaurants are clean as you think they are supposed to?) I know some fairly clean karenderias. The thing is that they sould have clean water source (not those open buckets of water), food is served hot and so are the utensils. During my college days I can say that I ate to a fairly a lot of karenderias already. But, I never ate at Sanings. What is with Sanings?

I always hear it from friends, friends of friends and friends of friends of friends. They would say that the people there are flocking and that you sometimes have to wait so you can get a table. The famous menu is the linaga and also the parpilya. It's a secret dining place (no more), they say. You get to eat there with students, yuppies, oldies, "rich kids", mountaineers, emloyees and employers. It is located somewhere in Banago alongside other stalls of vegetables and eateries among others. It is almost hard to miss if you've never been there.

March 14. I finally got there. My bestfriend Jen, woke me up by scratching my sole and told me that we have lunch at Sanings with nong Gene. It was lunch time and so I hurriedly dress up.

It was my first time and it thrills me because first times should always thrill you, right? It was a Saturday and the it was almost full of peole but we managed to get a table quick. We were served with 3 smoking bowls of what appears to be linagang baka, it was greatly decoarted with green onions. The rice are se

Old Coffee Pictures

Pictures dated last 2006 with Jade and Geofrey. We had coffee at Erika's Cup, thanks Geoff. :)) I think beer followed but let's skip that. LOL. The cigarette pictures, I really want to delete it. I DO NOT like it. Help. :))

The Infinite

Today, March 14 I pretty well accomplished a lot of stuff. I woke up at about 9 which is too early for me. I tried to upload pictures but Multiply is the b*tch that will occasionally give me anUPLOADER FAILED message. This not-so-reliable PC is virtually low in memory so I have to delete gazillion of pictures before it will be completely dead. I went to my aunt's place for a late lunch because they just opened their grocery store and internet cafe which is named WALING-WALING. I find the name funny. I know it's an orchid variety which Davao is famous of. My aunt told me it was because the owner of the building, which is her older sister and brother-in-law, which is now my aunt and uncle or whatever, worked for many places with flowers associated to it. The couple are doctors in Hawaii and I think that explains. If you happen to go to the Pana-ad festival, the said store is located infront of those amusement park rides. I went to my ex-school (hehehe) to request for TOR, diploma and honorary dismissal. I was absent for my IELTS workshop (for the third time) because nong Gene treated me and nong Dino for pizza. I am most cheap. Bribe me with food. ULK. I bought a book. It's Jessica Zafra's Twisted 8. I bought it because the book look great with it's plastic cover, the book store lights did the trick, the infinite sign looks appealing and I really do read Jessica Zafra. I asked nong Gene if the infinite sign looks familiar to him too. He said yes, it's the ribbon people pin on their breast pocket every World AIDS day. He was helpful, really. Look here....

MAYBE there is a similarity but I learn about the infinite sign in algebra class and the AIDS ribbon from, oh, I never learned about it.
The publisher's note is the most interesting. Read this one:

"It is our contribution to the campaign to reduce the amount of stupidity in the world."

I never know there was a campaign. Maybe because I belong to the umbrella of the stupid.
I read the book when I reached home. I read it in between Mari Mar's final episode and commercials.The publisher said you can read it just like when you listen to your IPOD on shuffle mode. That is what I did even with the previous Twisted series. I was a bit disappointed because i expect it to be much like the other Twisted. I hate it when prejudices influence my readings. Dang. I feel like she's less angsty now, which is bad. Zafra is equals to angst. I think that sometimes I write the way she does. On many of my high school random journals they were either influenced by Zafra or Bob Ong. I was once noted to look like her! I used to wear weird shaped eyeglasses in my senior year. I was obese ('til now) and I kinda hate the world. I was like an old maid wanting all people to be equally miserable like me. I studied Zafra's face on one of her book cover. She has a flat nose just like mine (but mine is cute-ier), zits, large eyes and that's all I remember. I am the prettier version of Jessica Zafra. LOL. She's not that ugly, if you think I am trying to implythat she is. Let's say in a ladder she sits on the pretty step while I sit on both the prettier and the prettiest steps.
I like her entry about how she read the Holy Bible when she was a kid. I was exactly like her. I have my own book of Bible stories. I really want to share that experience I had but I have to make another blog entry for that. I don't want to eat much of your time so I have to do it on a separate one.

My Time

So, this is one of those lazy nights I always have and love. This is the reason of my lack of sleep and binging too much but it's ok. Staying up late is a learning time for me.

Minutes ago I was blog-hopping. I saw sites of Ala Paredes, Bianca Gonzalez, Patty Laurel, Carlo Ledesma and etc.. They are the famous people (atleast for me they are). I envy them for they traveled a lot. I want to travel into many, many places.

I want to meet people. I want to eat the food they eat. I want to greet them in their dialect. I want to take pictures. I want, I want, I want!!! I am young and my time to do that is yet to come.

I want to go to Japan next year. I do not know how but I want to go to Tokyo, Japan! Oh, I am so crazy. I am not a fan of Japanese cuisine except I eat sushi (which is so expensive!) but I still want to go there. I also want to go to España but not too soon.

I am a nurse now, by the way. REGISTERED NURSE!!!!! I thank God for that. :)

My father suggests I work in Singapore next year. I don't know yet because I have to serve my fellow men first for a year. I am also considering a masteral degree next year so plans are so ever-changing. :) I pray that God will guide me.

Back to those blogs... I envy it much. Don't worry because if I can see the whole world soon I'm going to post gazillion of pictures here, okay?

For the mean time I'm going to upload HAPPY PICTURES. FIREWORKSSSSS!!!! Fireworks make me happy even just for a fraction of a second.

Oooops, I am so sorry. I don't know how to post my pictures properly. :[[ I took the pictures from SM City December 2007.