Friday

Went out with Jinggs after work and had dinner at trinoma.

We tried Sizzling Pepper Steak. He had a regular rib eye steak and i had my sizzling beef. His was so-so, Snackaroo’s is way better and cheaper. Mine was good. Sizzling beef teriyaki. mmmm! Too bad, this resto didn’t satisfy our taste buds.

For dessert, we had ice cream at cold rock. I had a Ferrero ice cream mixed with Cadbury Flake and Nutella (mmm!). Jinggs had… well, bubblegum with cookie dough and raspberries. Weird noh?

We both love bubblegum ice cream but this one was just different.

… continue reading this entry.

well, my saturday wasn’t done when I posted this previous post.

After the movie “Wanted”, I went home to work. After work, met up with my hon, Bong and Ria, our doubledatemates. We had our usual steaks at Snackaroo.

Then we all met up with Oliver and Haidee. Triple date, I guess. Hung out at Starbucks Corinthian Gardens. Quite far just to have coffee, but it feels good just to relax and chat with them.

Bong and Ria fooling around

Oliver and Haidee had to part ways with us and the doubledatemates just played pool. We all had become rusty in playing pool (especially me, the kulelat). We all had fun though. It was a long day for us, but definitely, very SULIT!

maya and jinggoy

Got tagged by Kat with this meme

One Word Meme
All you do is answer the question with one word, and tag four people.

1. Where is your cell phone? table
2. Your significant other? sleeping
3. Your hair? curly
4. Your mother? cooking
5. Your father? outside
6. Your favorite thing? bed
7. Your dream last night? None
8 Your favorite drink? Water
9. Your dream/goal? family
10. The room you’re in? sala
11. Your hobby? cooking
12. Your fear? infertility
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
14. What you’re not? slim
15. Muffins? strawberry!
16. One of your wish list items? HOUSE
17. Where you grew up? Alejos
18. The last thing you did? eat
19. What are you wearing? Clothes
20. Favorite gadget? phone
21. Your pets? Bart
22. Your computer? upstairs
23. Your mood? Sleepy
24. Missing someone? Hon
25. Your car? TaBY
26. Something you’re not wearing? Shoes
27. Favorite store? Gourdo’s
28. Like someone? Yes
29. Your favorite color? Red
30. When is the last time you laughed? Today
31. Last time you cried? Kanina

#31 – I cried after reading a touching message in an egroup.

tagging no one. hehehe you should tag 4 people but i know not much people read my blog.

8 years ago.. http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14635

nakaka-miss yung ibang tao dito. those were the days.

it’s supposed to be a holiday but it’s no rest day for me, as always.

worked at home early. no pay. no social life. was supposed to go to the grocery with mom, canceled because of this.

supposed to celebrate lunar with hon, i don’t know if we’re to push through with it.

wasn’t able to do my sunday chores because of the storm and i’m planning to do them today… well, i’m not quite sure. maybe i can.

this sucks.

It’s probably carelessness of some human beings why floods happen. When I was a kid, our streets don’t get flooded. Now, it’s like mother nature thinks our area is invisible.

It’s just a disaster day for me. First, the typhoon had hit Metro Manila a bit hard, flood water even entered the house.

Then, all of a sudden, there goes my room… a big leak on the roof. sudden dripping of brownish water near my tv and computer. i had to transfer my tv to a safer place and place buckets to catch the dripping water.

Jinggs called for an emergency with his niece and I had to rush to the hospital to meet up with them. I waded through the flooded street with plastic bags wrapped to my feet! hahah! i looked stupid!

We met up but we had to transfer to a different hospital. thus, we had no choice but to travel the flooded streets of Manila using TaBY.

sudden power outage, sudden floods, sudden emergencies, sudden expenses… Oh well. Everything’s fine now, except for our website at work which doesn’t load. :S

Thanks for those who remembered me on my birthday. *besos* y *abrazos* to you!

Had a nice lunch here with the family at home to celebrate Father’s Day. Cooked lasagna and had leftover cakes from yesterday’s celebration.

Had to stay home until 7 for work… which was useless because the page ain’t loadin! (i tried again 9:30pm, it hasn’t loaded since!)

Oh well. Went to Gateway with Jinggoy hoping we could watch a movie. Unfortunately, it was too late, we didn’t get to catch the 8:10 showing. We couldn’t watch the last full show anymore, he has to sleep and go to work tonight. oh well, another day ruined.

Happy father’s day to your dads and all the dads reading this!

Tea
Got a good find yesterday.

I’m a big fan or caramel and it thought of picking this up from the supermarket shelf when i bought stuff for my sick hon.

Just add sugar and milk (or creamer) for a latté taste. I always like my tea strong, so I prefer soaking the teabag in hot water instead of just dunking it a couple of times or for a few seconds.

Taste: It truly has a caramel taste with a nutty essence to it. Since it’s black, it still has a malty after taste. However, there were a few times the caramel scent was somewhat like coconut (which I didn’t like), especially if it’s just in the packet.

Pastry

Thought of baking some carrot cakes last Saturday. I’ve been craving for one with cream cheese frosting, so I got this nice recipe from the ever-reliable Epicurious.com.

I didn’t really use up the whole recipe but instead, used half of it. I used only 1 pan but half of the recipe has a lot of frosting, so mom made another one the next day. No nuts for us because we just didn’t like nuts.

The result: Very easy to make. Tasty and moist cake with a very rich and sweet frosting.

I’ll probably lessen the sugar in the frosting next time. Some recommended incorporation of apple sauce, but I couldn’t find it here in the local market.  All-in-all, it was really a good one. 4 out of 5 spoons for this.

Click here for the Epicurious recipe on the Triple-layer Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

don’t ask why. if you know, just keep quiet.  you know i’m in a bad mood and havin’ a bad day.

I am not perfect. i cannot read your mind. don’t expect me to know everything. i have a life of my own too.