Could 5 be my number for 2009?..My hometown friends are in Manila, so that means no going out for even a cup of coffee here in the City of Smiles. I'm partying with my parents' friends, yep, fun oldies who laugh like there's no tomorrow. I want to grow old like that. Mom hosted a mahjong party here on her birthday, so I decided to make something for dessert - a recipe stolen from my friend Fe. She shared us this dessert during our christmas party. It was so promising at the start, i grated the mangoes and I used wheat graham crackers in an attempt to be healthy, and this is probably the point where things started to go wrong: I chose the wrong container. Mom insisted the box was too big but stubborn that I was, I said, it's perfect! It's rectangle and it has cover, perfection! Perfection my foot, the result was - my mix was too little that I ended up with graham crackers showing up beside my mango toppings. Imagine that, graham crackers showing up at the surface. What's worse, everything was just floating around because I only froze it for one hour (based on instructions) but I think it was on the assumption that you have a fit-right container.
I still served it during the party, but I served it last. Tita asked me, "Anong name ni?" I said, "It's Mango Ice Box Failure, Tita". Sigh. I guess more practice?
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I'll be cryptic and say that I love late night phone calls that drag for hours. Some people said that internet just takes communication to another level - are we sure it did not drag it down?
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I'm afraid I will go bored holed up here in the province for two weeks, so I planned out for us family to try out new restos that serve good food for the whole two weeks, based on recommendations from Bacolodnons who love good food (which is basically again my parents and my parents' friends reco). Bacolod is not known for resorts or whatever touristy places, it just serves the best food, especially desserts, yummy. With three free passes at Grand Royal Spa (quaint best spa in town), courtesy of my mother as her christmas gift to me (mom knows me best!), I plan to be the freak na tumatambay duon sa spa.
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With nothing better to do, expect ridiculous post the coming days. I've been bleeding network traffic by torrenting Gossip Girl Season 2 and I'm so addicted to it, I intend to review it. First of all, I love Blair. She's the heart of the show (Melissa my teammate might beg to disagree, she's into S) and in Episode 5 when she started railing to Dorota (their help) about how high school girls are so spoiled, stupid and ungrateful yadayada, oh man I would root for this bitch. At its core, although she selfishly puts herself first before anyone, Blair's super insecure, she can find one confidante that she can trust and that's Dorota. No one's really looking after her except her maid, so I guess that's where the selfishness comes in and her need to be loved. She's loyal (as said, my favorite ingredient when it comes to friendship) to her friends, and one thing that makes me think she has the best character in this show -- she makes things happen. So fun to watch. Conniving bitch disguised in appropriateness, ah elements of great TV not seen since, um, Melrose Place (haha!) - go Blair! Second of all, Blair has the best lines like so: I thought you were just a callow social-climbing former swimsuit
model who married above her station and was enslaved by her own
insecurities. Said with her upper east side smirk.
Third of all, wala, watch the show, the clothes are so hip it hurts.