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Someone caught a virus on June 13 - probably at the grocery store. We were both sick by the 14th. I had a fever for 2 days then cough and colds for a week.  All food tasted bitter or nothing at all, but I could taste sweet food after the fever broke...  White bread, plain rice and cold Milo were my meals. A few slices of pear, too. I was nauseated and weak. Gutom na pero walang gana.  Korean-style egg drop toast benta ng kapitbahay Napabili nako nito nung 19th. Yung with cheese pinili ko, 110 pesos. Maliit ba? Oks lang kahit di brioche. Matamis kaya nalasahan ko. Masarap pero half lang nakain dahil sa nausea. I thought I could eat more... di pa pala.  I started to feel normal 10 days later, on the 24th. Parang walang nangyari.  But my sense of taste is not back 100% yet as of today, the 28th.

  Scrambled eggs with kamatis and konting sibuyas. Dried fish from Guimaras, made by local fishermen using sea water - not salt. It did not smell while cooking (yes!). The correct way to fry this is in hot oil for a very short time... If fried too long, it gets tough. Pinutol-putol na namin ang uga para hindi kumalat.   Someone went to the grocery store last night and came back sneezing. They woke up sneezing and with a sore throat - I gave them Bioflu. They felt better.  I woke up with a sore throat and cloudy head. My nose started to clog up too. I took my temperature this afternoon: 38.2°C. This is the first time I remember being sick with fever in a long while. I will take medicine later. 

  April 16, 2025 It's that time of the year... Ang iniiiitttt na ng 34 C (feels like 37 C)!!! The heat at 6AM wakes us up. Noon time is somehow bearable because of the black-out blinds, but we have to turn on the A/C at 3PM already or our tech will be affected (esp. the laptop and electric wheelchair!) or worse, we suffer heat stroke.  Maynilad's annual "repairs and maintenance" around Holy Week doesn't help since they provide our condo's water supply. Speaking of which - our condo admin shut off water for many days citing Maynilad repairs from April 6-17 . They announced a water interruption schedule on the 8th (as they should though very late) to allow the community cistern to get full, but they neither followed their stated hours nor gave any more updates or explanations interim - it was awful since the areas around us had steady supply already by the 11th/12th albeit low pressure. Whatever arrangements they made to keep adequate supply were lacking - and k...

Filipino merienda Our community has a lot of residents who sell food for a living i.e. caterers, bilao, packed meals... even former restaurant cooks/chefs.  Sometimes they will post on our local FB group selling small or "solo" portions... What you see here is palabok with fat noodles and "cheezy" kutchinta in tubs from a bilao seller. They put the cheese in a separate container so the kutchinta wouldn't spoil.  The kutchinta looked too nice and glossy... I was apprehensive but it tasted authentic! So nice. I liked it. Palabok was yum but I just wanted to taste it. I think I prefer thin noodles over fat ones for palabok. 

Shakey's Salad Chicken N Pizza P279.00 Foodpanda rider did not want to go up. Nag-tip naman ako sa app at merong designated parking for delivery riders sa basement na malapit sa elevators... Oh well. Habol ko yung salad. Sana magkaroon sila ng option na separate ang dressing para hindi lumaspag ang greens. My share sa 9" plate: salad, 2 mojos and bigger half ng wing. Sakto lang, busog... Ate at 3 p.m. and hindi nako nag-dinner.

Boiled salmon head with tomatoes, onion and radish. We cooked "kinamatisan." I think they only used salt; the radish makes it refreshing; the tomatoes and onion make it sweet. Salmon head is (still) affordable here; the "panga" is meaty. 

Our Christmas lunch and dinner 2024... Clockwise: rellenong bangus, shrimp tempura, chicken estofado, maki rolls, lumpiang shanghai, more tempura. In the middle: sliced lechon belly and fried rice. My contribution: I brought plenty of soda 🎅 Most were home-made. My niece made the maki rolls which she also sells in platters like that. My cousin cooked chicken estofado that is boiled in pineapple juice. My other cousin fried the tempura. The others... I don't know who cooked which dish.  I know the lechon belly was ordered from Multinational Village because we picked it up. It was supposed to be delivered but the seller couldn't book a rider. We got lost finding Noel Street or something and the house numbers were confusing, but the guards at the gates inside were helpful.