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just because i wanted jollibee... me "1 piece chickenjoy with spaghetti" meal, please! for the drink, i'll have pineapple juice. {etc.} her sorry, we ran out of juice. {twss} me oh ok. iced tea, please. her would you rather go-large with a cola? me no, thanks. her you'll be entered in our one million peso raffle promo right now if you... me no but thanks. her we have a juice promo. let me check if it's still running. me ok. her oh, that ended. you don't really want coke, ma'am? me what i really want is juice. her ok, ma'am. {chuckles} your order is 1 piece chicken joy with spaghetti meal, drink is large iced tea {etc.}... would that be all, ma'am? me yes, thank you. {smiles}

what did i accomplish today {apart from the routine...}? i designed a title/header banner. it is simple, clean and classy {i like to think so}. what? that doesn't sound like much? well from concept to finished product, it sure did take a while to make. besides, time flies when you're having fun. and i can't wait when it's time to update.

i decided to cook tonight; to cook a simple, idiot-proof, super-easy giniling . heat a little bit of oil >> add chopped garlic + shallot {saute until it smells like... home}>> add ground beef {1/2 kilo probably; keep sauteing} >> shortly after, add a tablespoon of fish sauce {instead of salt; don't just dump it in, spoon it around. saute, saute...}, add water {slightly more than what's enough to cover the meat. boil, boil.} >> add small pack of tomato sauce and diced potato + carrot {stir well. boil, boil.} >> when the vegs are fork-tender, add green peas, a sprinkling of raisins and a small pack of magic sarap {haha, that magic sarap mix - i think they put it on almost everything here!}. let it boil again. taste. add more patis if you want to. This is good for four people na {or two grown men, depends on who's eating}. Y-U-M.

I did use you. You were free, and simple enough for the likes of me. Goodbye, Yahoo! Site Explorer.

i hope someone will stop watching a show that i like {i like it currently and i think i am close to getting tired of it, but not quite} while i am working.  it distracts me.  because it makes me want to watch it too.  then i want to be mean and later feel bad about wanting to be mean.  but its season is over; the last episode was tonight, so it should not be a problem any longer.  truth is, i really do not mind if the tv is on while i work as long as it is not loud {it is in the same room, so that we are clear}.  i can easily wear a headset and have music on to shut it out; i actually like doing that and i will sing along too {loudly} if no one is around.  but if it is on a show that i like, well, i cannot exactly shut my eyes.  cable company, you will not read this but please do not re-re-run it. if you do, kindly have it on after midnight when people are asleep in their beds... and snoring, preferably.  then again, i think i know myself eno...

having my hair cut this short is more trouble than i can handle. it gets all over my face when i straighten up after washing over the bathroom sink. i used a hair band and clip but they don't keep the hair back. aunt flo paid a visit and having hair fall on my face made stuff {on my face} worse. aunt flo brings baggage {as many girls will attest} and she usually brings me one present but now, there's more {on places where hair touch my face!}. and all i can do is wait it out, wait till it grows long enough to tie back. wait till the stuff on my face run their course and disappear. i am not cutting my hair this short again!

Yum... omelet. Oh, this was not overcooked. It just made me think about eggs. The title refers to this: I've been tempted to say, "The eggs are overcooked," in the past - when they actually were... overcooked... in the past. {I've only had overcooked eggs few and far between so I can't help but notice when it happens.} I've never said it out loud though - to anyone - not that I can remember. But if I have, then I'm a dimwit.

Someone knows how to make sweet ginataan in this house! It's purple because of the ube daw (taro). I did not know that taro does not taste much at all unless you do something with it like make ube halaya or maybe, fry slices of it with sugar. I don't think I've had it fried with sugar before and I don't know if that will work even work. Oh, and that root is not strikingly purple too {stupid, I know}. I prefer to eat this dessert cold. There you go. Now, I want some ube halaya and lengua de gato . As far as I can tell, Max's Corner Bakery sells lengua de gato . I will put that on my Max's "will try next" list, we'll see if our branch has it. What other food is on that list? The food list is in my head, you see... Ah, here it goes: Ube Creme Decadence, pancit luglug , Chicken Barbeque Combo Meal... nothing else is popping into my head right now. I think I'm going to stay away from their all-day breakfast menu because I think they serve i...

ahh, to take a picture in natural light is reinvigorating. if i move a little to the left, i could almost feel the sun hit me (though at the time, it was drizzling and the downpour had only passed). so... this is messy but the cupcakes have pretty colors naman , no? that's more than i could say about my nearing-redundant, plate-of-food shots. then again, i'm not into taking beautiful pictures. i just like looking at beautiful pictures, and if they're of food, the better.

i went to a nice church yesterday. i should have taken a picture of the ceiling because it was beautiful. it didn't rain while we were there but it was pouring after we left.

it's raining. i noticed that it typically rains this time of year, for the last few years at least. i'm wearing an unlikely combination of a short tube dress, and a scarf tied around my neck. it's been three years since i wore this dress last and this is only the second time that i have it on. i have a scarf around my neck because my nape is getting cold. i was told that, given a choice, many girls would rather keep their chest warm than their legs. there's truth to that, i believe. i noticed as much when i was somewhere out there, where it was cold, even when we were indoors. a group of local girls in short skirts walked past us in their small jackets and neck scarfs. a few wore high socks but others had only thin, see-through black stockings on. the rain is getting stronger now. i hear gusts. i have short hair, chopped it off a few days ago. one thing i should have considered before cutting it this way is that it will be hard to wash my face over the sink...

max's corner bakery polvoron - pinipig and cookies & cream - deelish! they did not crumble easily  = easy to eat and... deelish! oh i already said that. a pack is 47 pesos. it's 10 or 8 pieces per pack. i did not count. but their website says it's 8 so it must've been 8. oh gosh, these would have been gone in one sitting so i put them in the fridge to last me till tomorrow. just now, i have been told the pinipig polvoron is all gone though. that's fine. just leave me at least 2 of the cookies and cream, please! these were delivered as our local max's restaurant has its 'corner bakery' inside too. i am loving our local max's!

i have another appetizer that i will not order again (in addition to the sizzling sisig ), it's the veggie lumpia bites. why? nakakaumay. i think our local Max's restaurant will do better with a little less oil in their fried food. nakakaumay kasi ; it coats the tongue and ruins it for other dishes. this may be why i did not like the garlic fried rice i had three months ago too. but if the crab meat fried rice i had earlier is any indication, i know that they can hold back on the oil; i'm thankful it wasn't oily, otherwise, ugh. i can't think of an english word for nakakaumay ... "distasteful" maybe? maybe not? i don't know. don't get me wrong, i think Max's food is YUMMY - just not the dishes i mentioned previously. and our local Max's delivery service is GREAT, so far. and each time i had food delivered, orders were for dishes i haven't tried before. taste test kumbaga .