Thursday, October 14, 2010

Loko Over Krazy Garlik





I had very high expectations as i stepped into Krazy Garlik in Greenbelt yesterday for lunch with my lawyer friend having read so many good reviews about the place. And we stepped out smiling with garlic breaths [kidding!] with expectations met and surpassed. haha. T'was Makati-Thursday-Lunchtime and the place was super packed like Makati-Friday-Lunchtime-Impossible. Save for the smiling crew, the ambience was not much to savor compared to other restos in the area, amidst the chaos of a hungry crowd. A few minutes after we were given our table i had smiles bigger than the servers as we were super enjoying already the Snowflake Pizza [shrimp with flakes of fried garlics] that the server suggested to us. For pasta, i ordered my usual Bolognese after spending minutes of choosing from its list of great sounding pastas with garlik sauces; I just seem to have this love-hate thing with non-red pasta sauces that i can never get over with. Not to miss out are Krazy Garlik's fruit and vegie fusion drinks at P180 to 220 a glass can be quite pricey but well worth it. The drinks are wittingly named such as the Pink Slush and Skin Deep that we had, having the vegie and fruit concoctions that feeds the skin. It was a delightful experience that we stayed far beyond lunchtime and were the last to leave the resto with "bounce back" cards from the pleasing resto manager who made sure my friend and i enjoyed the krazy experience with garliks! I'm sure to go back and try their Garlik Crabs and Garlik Bread and Garlik Chicken and Garlik Pork Adobo and Garlik Rice and.....:) Oh, if are on a date, an Ora Care mouthwash might come in handy after. haha. Later then.... 

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Yellow Cab Delivers It Best!



Pizza and pasta are my first top of mind for food deliveries. When the craving is rumbling and i really really wanna make sure to get more than i expect, i dare not take chances with the others. Time and again, Yellow Cab proves it delivers the best tasting pizza and pasta among deliverylandia. And whenever i forget the delivery number, i just try to recall their memorable trivia: Why is 7 afraid of 9? Because 7-"ate"-9-9999. Forget that and you might as well forget your appetite. Later then! 

Eat. Pray. Love. Drink.




After enjoying a long and fulfilling movie of Julia Roberts' Eat Pray Love, my friends and i heartily whisked ourselves to Barcino in Greenbelt 2 to lose ourselves in the experience of European goodness showcased in the most interesting part of the movie. It became a night of reminiscings, prosciuttos, tapas and glasses of sparkling wine that brought back vivid memories to Barcelona and Madrid a few years back and hopeful plans of soon basking in the beautiful rawness of Milan. Eating, loving, praying--Cheers! Later then.. 

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Big Secrets at Fely J's



My trips to my most favorite vacation destination, Bangkok, is never without a daily treat of its famous Sticky Rice with Mango. A very interesting twist of a flavor, the sweet and sourness of the mango blends oh so beautifully with the chewy sticky rice smoothened by the creaminess of the coconut milk. But wait! Fely J's Kitchen in Greenbelt 5 has a huge ice cream surprise that i swear is so much better than the Thai dessert treat i was always craving about. No wonder it's called the Secreto ni Maria. People could be flocking at Fely J's or Manila Peninsula's Bistro Remedios for this secret craving. It's one secret that should not be left in the dark. Two servings was not even enough!  And while we're at it, their sinful Chicharon Bulaklak aptly partnered with a healthy and  very refreshing  Pipino shake were also the night's surprise runner ups that left me spilling the secrets to friends! Later then....

Monday, October 11, 2010

NOW!


Now is God’s greatest gift to you. To waste it is throwing away the biggest opportunity to ever come your way—your NOW! But for some of us, it can vanish as soon as it comes. So while you still can, now is the time to…

      1.     Sing like no one is criticizing

      2.     Eat like no one is judging

      3.     Shout like no one is listening

   4  4.     Love like you have never felt pain

       5.     Smile like everyone is smiling back

6.     Shop like you will never be poor

7.     Work the job that doesn’t feel like one

8.     Cook like you can never go wrong

9.     Laugh until tears flow from your eyes

10. Dance like you're Michael Jackson

11. Sky jump like you have the greatest wings

12. Kiss like it’s your first

13. Fart like no one’s around

14. Run like somebody’s after you

15. Play like a first grader

16. Share like you have everything

17. Paint with your heart

18. Feel the wind like you’re on the edge of a cliff

19. Travel like you know every road

20. Jump like you’ve won the lottery

21. Smell the flowers like you’re in a poem

22. Write like you have a million readers

23. Look at the world like the first time you saw it

24. Hug like there’s no letting go

25. Grin like you know everything

While you still can, live life without holding back. There’s so much you can do wherever you are at right now to celebrate the life that you have now.


Friday, October 8, 2010

Some Thirty Five Things That I Don't Get


When God created the world in seven days and it was perfect, did it ever occur to Him that in centuries hence…

      1 .     Man will have to buy clean, pure water that comes in bottles. No money would mean no clean drinking water.

       2.     Man will need an adequate, expensive health insurance to afford the best hospital care that is tremendously priced.

      3.     Some of us will be creating and buying bags and watches worth atleast a million pesos while others will be surviving on a peso a day.

      4.     Some of us will have to work six days a week, fourteen hours a day to earn a decent living.

5.     5. Some of us have to spend maybe a fourth or a third of our lifetimes working day and night to afford a good shelter in a convenient location. And they are just some of the lucky few. Most of men would not even be able to afford to buy a piece of land they can call their own in a lifetime.

6.     You would need to take a lot of vitamins and supplements to fight off the many bacteria that are sprouting around. Man’s natural innate immune system alone would not be enough.

7.     Brothers and sisters will be killing or suing each other.

8.     A handful of trusted leaders are powerful enough to take the future away of a hundred million followers.

9.     All of us will have to learn a million things first in school to have a bright future. No read, no write, no voice in society, no future.

10. Man will need hundreds of products to meet his endless needs and wants.

11. Cash is king, a good credit is queen and political power dictates how  the world will turn; Contentment and achievement to most men lies on the wealth and political connections accumulated.

12. A thousand laws would be needed to keep order in society. Even so, a man can still find a way to go around the law by having the best lawyer in the country to keep on abusing the rights of other men.

13. Man will have to pay taxes upon taxes to keep his government running. In almost every move he makes and everything he does, a certain tax is in the way to keep up and support the super complex structure that governments have become.

14. Man will end up at constant odds with nature, the very environment that He created with a perfect system to be in harmony with man.

15. Man will have to spend so much money on technological gadgets to keep abreast of the fast paced world that he lives in today. No access to technology, no success.

16. Man can be sociable without having to leave his home. That no man is an island holds water by having a thousand virtual friends alone.

17. That kids today would rather play with their computer games than enjoy the outdoors playing real games with real friends.

18. Walking alone along the streets at night these days is like walking in the dungeons with lions in the darkness.  

19. Man can kill another man for parking space.

20. Man has to get so many expensive vaccinations to protect himself from deadly viruses or cancers.

21. Man can be born black yet die white.

22. Countries will be spending billions on military weapons for national security but they can bear to ignore the billions who are dying of hunger and sickness.

23.  Slavery in the form of underpaid and overworked “maids” would still be rampant today in what is supposed to be a civilized society.

24. Man will have to put on an effective sunblock to protect himself from the rays of the sun that has become harmful due to the thinning of the ozone layer as result of man’s own irresponsible doings to his very environment.

25. That the privileged man can live on so much convenience that everything he wants can be had by just the push of a button, a few turns of the faucet, a few clicks on his keyboards and a few calls to his networks yet complain about his slow paced internet service.

26. He will have to beg for an hour a week of man’s hectic schedule to share His words to his sons and daughters.

27. Man will be building the tallest of buildings, the biggest of ships and the fastest of jet planes which can become the very coffins of hundreds and even thousands of men in a second during accidents and terrorist attacks.

28. That some men will have to spend hours on the road to get to work and even longer hours on the road, stuck in traffic, to get home after work leaving no quality time left to spend with their families.

29. That some men in their twenties or thirties will be suffering from strokes and heart attacks due to stress.

30. A handful of rich families are influential and powerful enough to change and dictate the ways of life of the rest of the populations.

31. Man cannot just hold hands freely or share a kiss without the fear of getting or passing on germs or viruses.

32. A soda can come in a hundred forms and fresh fruits will come in cans.

33. Some parents will be spending their entire lives working in another country, leaving their children behind, to provide them a “brighter” future.

34. Technology is the new gold.

35. Some men grow old without ever seeing a real, flying butterfly.

There are a lot of good things in the world today but I think some things are just not right. In my close to thirty five years here on earth, i really think some thirty five things are just not how God may have intended the world to be.

I believe God thinks so too…do you?





 

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Woman Who Would Have Been One Of Our Greatest Presidents


Allow me to take a respite from food by giving tribute to the great Prof. Monsod who i believe would have made a great Philippine leader had the people given her the chance. I had a very brief one year stint in UP Diliman back in '93 though unfortunately i didn't get the chance to sit in her class. However and by God's grace, I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to have a brief chat with this amazing Filipina on a Japan-Manila flight when i was flying for Northwest Airlines flight almost a decade ago and my goodness, the woman makes a lot of sense and she has the guts to make things happen. I came across this video  posted maybe by one of her students in UP Diliman and it really is worth sharing and watching by all Filipinos, especially our Filipino leaders. Prof. Monsod, you would have been a great great President of this country. Later then...