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Taste Buds: Tomato Dinner

Fall may have started, but this past summer, the cooking club gathered again for our quarterly meet-up. To shake things up from the way we did things before, which was to pick a specific cuisine, this time, we picked a secret ingredient. And what’s the most summery ingredient out there?! Tomatoes!! We welcomed a new [...]

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Celebrations: Happy Birthday, @vera_ftw!!!

I opened my now-dormant Friendster today to read this testimonial that Ms V wrote for me some few years ago…when the testimonial field was used for an actual testimony rather than a message board for personal messages. And it went: …in retrospect, one of the best summers of my life was when i met her. although [...]

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Celebrations: Happy Birthday, @strangebyday!

Your special day has come and gone in your time zone, but I still have a couple of hours to celebrate your coming to life! Strangebyday and I go way back. Not as far back as she and Hazehung go, though. We were college blockmates and we instantly became members of the same barkada. We [...]

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Blinks: Cafe on the Foothills of Mt. Tibidabo

photo: Ms B taken: May 2009, Barcelona, Spain In the past two days, two people I know who do not know each other posted a famous line from FRIENDS that Joey Tribbiani aka Ken Adams, uses to seduce the ladies. He taught Ross about it, and apparently also Rachel. And because of it, who came [...]

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Blinks: Frozen Milk + Cream + Sugar

photo: Ms C taken: December 2008, Manila, Philippines It’s a tradition we, strangebyday and I, have: to shop for Christmas gifts together before all the holiday party, lunch/dinner or whatever invitations come pouring. In the process, we try out new restaurants in the mall. Five Cows is a semi hole-in-the-wall kind of dining place located [...]

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Early Stages of Friendship

It’s been a while since I formed a new friendship – not the type that’s a friend of your husband’s, a new coworker forced upon you to get to know, or a new neighbor. Those are too easy. It’s almost like you have no choice. I am talking about something more raw. One that you [...]

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Blinks: Good Company

photo: Ms C taken: circa 2008, Manila, Philippines post processing: moremono iphone app What I really, really, reeeeaaaaalllllllyyyyy miss is the random catching up with friends over lunch, dinner or margaritas. I miss going out for a drink for no reason. Hours of conversations about life, art, music, culture’s glory and disappointments, the inane and [...]

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The Weekend with Family – The Real Post

Okay…so, I wasn’t focused on my last post. The weekend was still in progress at Chef and Ms B’s new home with Chef’s family, when Ms B egged me on coming up with a blog post for the day and joining them downstairs in the span of 2 minutes. Tall order, right? So, here’s a [...]

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Loyalty

This may be a tad bit serious than my normal post, because now, I’m writing about my beliefs. This week’s theme for me has been quite centered around loyalty. I believe loyalty is one of those big words that come in small packages. I have tweeted that I am a Virgo, and I am extremely [...]

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Homesick

There is so much about moving to a different country than just getting yourself familiar with your surroundings and getting homesick. There is a lot more about it when the sudden change of scenario shows no resemblance at all of the things that you are used to. I grew up in one of the metro [...]

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Making Friends

Unemployment. Customer service woes. Desperate nanny-hunting. Business problems. Broken PlayStations. Computer Issues. Long distance relationships. Bad hair day. Infidelity. Earthquake in China! The subjects above are just some of the things people started ranting about yesterday. So, the onset of the ever-despicable Mercury retrograde took a toll on almost everybody I know. Twitter and Facebook [...]