I still have too much cocoa powder in the pantry so I recently made some.
Whoopie pies, as I have just read from wikipedia, were called whoopie pies coz:
When farmers would find these treats in their lunch, they would shout "Whoopie!"
April 10, 2010
Whoopie!
I still have too much cocoa powder in the pantry so I recently made some.
Whoopie pies, as I have just read from wikipedia, were called whoopie pies coz:
When farmers would find these treats in their lunch, they would shout "Whoopie!"
February 13, 2010
Coins
My sis and I went to see Dear John at the cinemas earlier this evening, and I think it's one of the few intelligent movies I have seen lately. Sensitive love story + special children & adults + men in uniform + beautiful leading lady + drop-your-panties-and-jaws leading man + beautiful countryside + writing letters = my sis was probably shocked to see I did not sleep through a movie for once.
I got something quite catchy, isn't it cool? Dad gave this to me for some reason and I wanted to use it as paperweight but changed my mind. I wonder what kind of purse the Japanese used for this stuff.
I do keep a few foreign currencies in my travel pouch, not really for the reason that I am an avid collector but these are like odds and ends from trips abroad...
Oh and then there's this M&M memorabilia I bought coz I thought an M&M store is sooo cool like super tiny Disneyland without the rides.
I have a few of these that I think will never serve a purpose anymore except for keeping.
January 04, 2010
How Things Went. Over There.
So, this is the entry where I post my pix and talk about them.
December 19th. Mom and I took two flights to reach Dubai.
Same day evening. Mom (who won a bingo game aboard the ship) and I embarked Costa Luminosa, along with eighty other Manila-based holiday travelers.
First couple of days we went seeing places around Oman & Fujairah. It was basically mosques, museums, and local marketplace aka "souq". Surprisingly, Oman is where you could find the largest Toyota service center. Ever. In the whole wide world.
Then we went to see Bahrain, photo above. Lovely place. I expected R2D2 to pop up in front of me any second, haha. Crazy. Obviously still the same stuff pretty much. Except for the newly-opened big-deal highway that connects Saudi Arabia & Bahrain. It is amazing to know that the Saudi Arabia locals would actually flee their homeland every weekend and enjoy Bahrain just for some beers. Really, really odd. Why don't they just flee permanently, hehe.
Loved the camel farm, but hated the flies. Here's a male camel playing dead. Oh you know how boys are sometimes.
Abu Dhabi was fun. Seeing an 8-star hotel Emirates Palace was fun. Staying outside the fences (cos we were not registered guests) hurt a little. But generally, quite relieved to see all the modernity after maybe three days of seeing too much historical sites. I felt really old for a moment. And the museums were pretty much little armalites museums, haha.
Dubai. Oh man. Before my first-ever dune-bashing, I have never EVER been into a very overly expensive automobile like a Toyota Land Cruiser. With a very handsome (I repeat, very handsome) Bulgarian dune-basher. But just like a great parking lot, too bad he is already taken.
And oh I caught some movie filming somewhere I dunno where it was. I dunno the actors/actress either. I went up to them during makeup break but the actress was frantically waving her hand "no pictures PLEASE." So no picture.
Little-known fact, Fujairah is known for underground spring water. Yup. So odd isn't it.
And then there was this holy-cow-whatta-mosque mosque. I donned a black veil & a black dress to enter. So did every single female visitor. World's single largest and most expensive carpet. My toes (and my socks) were practically screaming with Muslim ecstasy. It was the most glorious mosque ever.
The Filipino chefs aboard Costa Luminosa are the greatest. Never have I imagined it is actually possible to enjoy the following food aboard an Italian ship: adobo, goto, arroz caldo, lechon, lechon kawali, longganisa, bistek. The only thing I was ashamed to ask for was ginataan. You see, I do not know how to swim.
Trivia: my dream destinations list was the following- Xian, Terracotta Army. Amanpulo, the heated pool. Burj Al Arab, the helipad. This is inside Burj Al Arab's Junsui Asian cuisine buffet room's... bathroom where they serve... Hermes lotion. I do not have any helipad experience, as I am not a helicopter.
I do not know and cannot explain why I have this fixation with road signs, especially the STOP sign.
I never knew he could be this cool. The dad, I meant.
Snow in Dubai? Ski Dubai.
Rich people's playground and residence, The Palm Jumeirah. I cannot for the life of me cannot remember my reaction when the tour guide said something like "Problem of Dubai? Not much coastline. So? The Palm. Now increased coastline. Everywhere coastlines." It took me a while to overcome shock. Maybe I'm overreacting. Okay I was very impressed. Funny it made me think something like "Problem? No money. So. Counterfeit. Money everywhere."
The monorail ride was soooooo cool.
In my next entry I will post FOOD PIX. Grab a Coke.
December 19th. Mom and I took two flights to reach Dubai.
Same day evening. Mom (who won a bingo game aboard the ship) and I embarked Costa Luminosa, along with eighty other Manila-based holiday travelers.
First couple of days we went seeing places around Oman & Fujairah. It was basically mosques, museums, and local marketplace aka "souq". Surprisingly, Oman is where you could find the largest Toyota service center. Ever. In the whole wide world.
Then we went to see Bahrain, photo above. Lovely place. I expected R2D2 to pop up in front of me any second, haha. Crazy. Obviously still the same stuff pretty much. Except for the newly-opened big-deal highway that connects Saudi Arabia & Bahrain. It is amazing to know that the Saudi Arabia locals would actually flee their homeland every weekend and enjoy Bahrain just for some beers. Really, really odd. Why don't they just flee permanently, hehe.
Loved the camel farm, but hated the flies. Here's a male camel playing dead. Oh you know how boys are sometimes.
Abu Dhabi was fun. Seeing an 8-star hotel Emirates Palace was fun. Staying outside the fences (cos we were not registered guests) hurt a little. But generally, quite relieved to see all the modernity after maybe three days of seeing too much historical sites. I felt really old for a moment. And the museums were pretty much little armalites museums, haha.
Dubai. Oh man. Before my first-ever dune-bashing, I have never EVER been into a very overly expensive automobile like a Toyota Land Cruiser. With a very handsome (I repeat, very handsome) Bulgarian dune-basher. But just like a great parking lot, too bad he is already taken.
And oh I caught some movie filming somewhere I dunno where it was. I dunno the actors/actress either. I went up to them during makeup break but the actress was frantically waving her hand "no pictures PLEASE." So no picture.
Little-known fact, Fujairah is known for underground spring water. Yup. So odd isn't it.
And then there was this holy-cow-whatta-mosque mosque. I donned a black veil & a black dress to enter. So did every single female visitor. World's single largest and most expensive carpet. My toes (and my socks) were practically screaming with Muslim ecstasy. It was the most glorious mosque ever.
The Filipino chefs aboard Costa Luminosa are the greatest. Never have I imagined it is actually possible to enjoy the following food aboard an Italian ship: adobo, goto, arroz caldo, lechon, lechon kawali, longganisa, bistek. The only thing I was ashamed to ask for was ginataan. You see, I do not know how to swim.
Trivia: my dream destinations list was the following- Xian, Terracotta Army. Amanpulo, the heated pool. Burj Al Arab, the helipad. This is inside Burj Al Arab's Junsui Asian cuisine buffet room's... bathroom where they serve... Hermes lotion. I do not have any helipad experience, as I am not a helicopter.
I do not know and cannot explain why I have this fixation with road signs, especially the STOP sign.
I never knew he could be this cool. The dad, I meant.
Snow in Dubai? Ski Dubai.
Rich people's playground and residence, The Palm Jumeirah. I cannot for the life of me cannot remember my reaction when the tour guide said something like "Problem of Dubai? Not much coastline. So? The Palm. Now increased coastline. Everywhere coastlines." It took me a while to overcome shock. Maybe I'm overreacting. Okay I was very impressed. Funny it made me think something like "Problem? No money. So. Counterfeit. Money everywhere."
The monorail ride was soooooo cool.
In my next entry I will post FOOD PIX. Grab a Coke.
October 13, 2009
April 13, 2009
HK: Live It, Luv It!
what it's like peeking into the Business Class
Turning Japanese
not my cup of tea
mushroom crowd
snack!
makeshift tripod
purple reigns
internet stations at the MTR stations
my Maxim's breakfast!
my sister's Maxim's breakfast!
were too much in a hurry to even try this, tsk
one of my favorite eating places ever
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
eggs
March 04, 2009
It's Php995 vs US$58
I've always admired people who manage to get a more affordable version of the original piece they like.
I just never knew it could happen to me too.
I got one for Php995 at SM The Block's Freeway retail shop.
(Does not look much on a hanger, though!)
Pretty much resembles the one I really like over at UrbanOutfitters.com!
Now I am deciding on which pair of pumps to wear... *wonders...
I just never knew it could happen to me too.
I got one for Php995 at SM The Block's Freeway retail shop.
(Does not look much on a hanger, though!)
Pretty much resembles the one I really like over at UrbanOutfitters.com!
Now I am deciding on which pair of pumps to wear... *wonders...
February 22, 2009
Woman of Substance... Abuse
Oh.
The pain, suffering, and agony of getting sick!
I must've caught pneumonia during the recent medical mission I joined. And it got worse during my recent trip to HK. And even worse when I came home.
Everyday I wished I had taken the flu shot earlier on. Lesson learned, only just the hard way this time.
I am still currently on Levofloxacin and Fluimucil, among other things like herbal medicine and vitamins, and LOTS of water.
Feeling much better, hopefully to recover 100% very soon.
It's my first time to get under the weather like this, so imagine my anxiety. I thought what I got was allergy, so I took Clarytine. When nothing better was happening, I took Difflam. It's quite powerful, really. My entire throat went numb in an instant. If it got better I was to take Cepacol. I suddenly developed phlegm and so I tool Robitussin Maximum Strength. And after that I tried expectorants and all other stuff I thought would help. If it was flu I'd have fever and body aches but I just had cough... weird! After about 10 liters of water and many other kinds of medications I just confined my body to the bed for two days. I was thinking of going on antibiotics but am always hesitant on popping those pills. See, I also recently heard about a person who took antibiotics unnecessarily thus killing even the good bacteria, developed fungus, and after a short while passed away. Imagine that, eh? So... later on I went to see a Chinese medicinal herb doctor and when that didn't work out, I got a little bit more worried.
Anyways, I went to the hospital recently and had a checkup, turns out I got infection in one of my lungs. So hopefully I just really have to rid of the unwanted elements off my chest. And the mucolytic's working, happy to say that.
So now I wanna fully recover so I can get that flu shot I've been thinking about.
The pain, suffering, and agony of getting sick!
I must've caught pneumonia during the recent medical mission I joined. And it got worse during my recent trip to HK. And even worse when I came home.
Everyday I wished I had taken the flu shot earlier on. Lesson learned, only just the hard way this time.
I am still currently on Levofloxacin and Fluimucil, among other things like herbal medicine and vitamins, and LOTS of water.
Feeling much better, hopefully to recover 100% very soon.
It's my first time to get under the weather like this, so imagine my anxiety. I thought what I got was allergy, so I took Clarytine. When nothing better was happening, I took Difflam. It's quite powerful, really. My entire throat went numb in an instant. If it got better I was to take Cepacol. I suddenly developed phlegm and so I tool Robitussin Maximum Strength. And after that I tried expectorants and all other stuff I thought would help. If it was flu I'd have fever and body aches but I just had cough... weird! After about 10 liters of water and many other kinds of medications I just confined my body to the bed for two days. I was thinking of going on antibiotics but am always hesitant on popping those pills. See, I also recently heard about a person who took antibiotics unnecessarily thus killing even the good bacteria, developed fungus, and after a short while passed away. Imagine that, eh? So... later on I went to see a Chinese medicinal herb doctor and when that didn't work out, I got a little bit more worried.
Anyways, I went to the hospital recently and had a checkup, turns out I got infection in one of my lungs. So hopefully I just really have to rid of the unwanted elements off my chest. And the mucolytic's working, happy to say that.
So now I wanna fully recover so I can get that flu shot I've been thinking about.
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