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Archive for November, 2008
November 16, 2008 at 2:30 am · Filed under Uncategorized
This weekend has been a day of utter joy for the work force. Almost all have gotten each 13th-month pay, the money allotted by many for shopping sprees. I was initially grinning ear to ear until Yuletide traffic surely took that joy away.
Terrible traffic surprised me as I went home from Cavite to Bulacan yesterday. The South Expressway was not an impressive express at all. The whole stretch of this concrete road became more and more congested as I went nearer and nearer to Makati. Thus, I had to take Skyway and pay more to clear myself of vehicular tangles from Sucat to Bicutan.
I tinkered on the steering wheel as I lounged on my car seat. The traffic was so slow. The sight of patches of cars with dotted lights hypnotically lulled me to dizzying sleep. It was definitely a slow bore.
Traffic jams galore! It is Yuletide Season.
November 2, 2008 at 12:29 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I took a vacation leave last Friday and spent the entire morning roaming UP Diliman with my date. It was quiet there since sembreak has already started. My date and I took a brief driving halt at the Business Administration building and decided to walk going to the AS Canteen, a couple of hundred meters away from the BA building. We had initially planned to eat barbecue under the canopy of trees at the Beach House, but decided to go to the AS Canteen instead after knowing that the Beach House was closed for the break.
However, the AS Canteen was closed, too. We decided to simply go to the Shopping Center and eat lunch there. We walked going there but ended up eating at Lutong Bahay, a house located near the Shopping Center. My date was very much enjoying the meal we had. All the Garlic Porksteak, Pastel, and another pork dish [I think it was another porksteak with Calamansi; yes, we were porking our lunch] cost less than 200 bucks only but tasted so well.
After that value meal of sorts, we went to Banapple, a cozy place for sumptuous desserts along the lengthy Katipunan Avenue. We got a Banoffee pie and an Apple Pie [I can't remember, I initially thought it was American Pie; the experience was the same nontheless; hehe]. Both tasted great, fattenning and calorific but great!
It was a breath of fresh air to my busy work schedule. Feeling young is something I hardly feel nowadays–even more at work. And the experience was more than a massage or back therapy in a spa. That day made me remember what I did when I was still a student: Frolick at the park, walk along the sidewalk, and be my worry-free self again–with a special someone to boot . It made me young again.
November 1, 2008 at 2:05 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Cos2+Sin2=?–Taiwanese film Formula 17
Last Thursday was a completion of a formula, love potion at its sweetest: My date and I exchanged ‘I love you’s’ for the first time while watching my favorite Taiwanese film a day before the Halloween–and several days after abandoning our Cold War. We were supposed to watch a thriller, but decided to watch Formula 17 instead. From there the potion started to simmer.
This formula was not an easy concoction to make. It was a much harder drink to mix than a witch’s devilish brew. The ingredients were expensive to make and took time to find. Pints of passion intensified its taste and quarts of care made it smooth while lavishly topped with love.
It was not an abracadabra experiment or a hocus-pocus blah. The magic words ‘I love you’ were simply genuinely said. We hold words at high value and do not sprinkle those words here and there. It was my first time to say those, and so was my date’s.
Since I know this formula is completed with choicest portions, this is one potion I will cheerfully drink this Halloween.
