All Good Food Has A Story

Just like this post, here's a 'lil summary of the weeks that had passed. Most of the photos on this post are different types of food that I have eaten as of late with the special people in my life. Amazing how sharing food or bonding over it can be very intimate and have amusing stories behind it. Let's start, shall we?

Ever since I started dorming, Mark picks me up every Sunday at Orlando to hear mass together. I'd like to think that the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Makati has become our default church. This time though, we attended mass in Magallanes and went to Paseo de Magallanes for afternoon wine and tapas.

Our first Gnocchi dish together. I love everything potato btw so this was just pure love. Ordered it in our favorite sauce: al funghi e porcini. We have tasted this sauce in 3 different types of pasta now: risotto, penne, and gnocchi. I think we've had enough of it already. Haha!

His favorite prosciutto laid on thin slices of pizza at Mona Lisa in Alabang. Mark doesn't fully understand that I enjoy eating with him. I guess it's due to my lack of enthusiasm/poker face when eating that makes him think that way.

Buy 1-take-1 moist cakes at the newly opened Mezza Norte at Technohub in QC. Finally a mercato-ish food bazaar in the North! Went to the opening with my grade school friends one stormy night. :)

My favorite breakfast. Waffles, hungarian sausage and runny sunny side up! :)

Is there really such a thing as a katsu craze? Maybe we were just craving for breaded pork. Whatever. Tonkatsuya is one of those hole-in-the-walls that we tried out which offered delicious katsus in very affordable prices. It was also a plus that the place felt somehow authentic what with its simplistic Japanese-looking interiors (nothing too fancy really), mangas stacked up in shelves and real Japanese customers flocking said place. Haha!

A random Saturday with friends going around in Fairview at the back of my friend's pick up truck. Wind in our hair & Katy Perry songs. Feeling very bagets lang.

One of our favorite snacks, Tri Mo Shawarma Co's famous shawarma in Lagro! Even the name's cute and funny!

 Army Navy in Taft with my cousin Mariel, during one of her visits. 

Mark made me try his favorite dessert, Tony Roma's hot cookie skillet sundae. Quite pricey for dessert (400php) but I guess it's okay to indulge once in a while. But we vowed to go back there and try their steak entrees that are considerably cheap. 

Truffle fries at Charlie's Grill and Grind in Pasig! Lasang Gaas at first taste (according to Mark) but hey that's truffles for you! Haha!

Korean food for dinner with my college BFF Anna Banana over at University Mall! Bibimbap and Bulgogi Wrap. 

PS. I'm no food blogger. Hihi. This is just an attempt to summarize the weeks that had passed for me in food photos. :)

XO.

Oh So Random

Been away from the blogosphere for a while. Sorry for the unannounced hiatus and for not bringing you an outfit post today. Been reading like a maniac this past week, well re-reading the last 5 books in the Vampire Academy series in preparation for the final book: Last Sacrifice. And my god that week was great. See, my ideal day would be staying in and reading a book all day long. And I did just that starting last Saturday! School wasn't even a hindrance. (I may have skipped a class in order to finish a book in this series? Haha!)

So anyway, this post is just about some things that I took photos of this September and during the last week of August. Random post I know. I suppose you could think of this as an update of sorts? :) Photos above include my newly altered zebra print dress, snakeskin skirt, mom's resurrected super ancient beepers and cellphone (it looks more like a walkie-talkie if you ask me haha), new tassel necklace from Bubbles, sequined blazer and furry jacket from F-stop, my new fringe bags, my cousin Mariel's and Mama's cakes and more sweets! I'm especially proud of my homemade wicked oreos though I'm sure a lot of you can do it too. Oh well, I can dream that I'll make a good housewife, right? Haha!

But going back to my intro, (and you could skip this one if you're not interested in reading my review) I really enjoyed reading the VA series. It was sooo much better than Twilight. Then again, Twilight wasn't really good (for me at least so don't hate!) so no point in making that comparison. I know that it's a vampire-saturated market out there but what can you do? It's a classic. Back then Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and L.J. Smith's Vampire Diaries were the books that entranced readers (and they still do). So I'm not really ashamed to admit that I like reading stories like these. And trust me, the VA's plot's a bit different from other vamp stories. Vampires were shown in a different light, a bit of teen drama and intrigues were thrown in here and there, some politics and mystery to keep it refreshingly interesting and hallelujah the forbidden love aspect wasn't too cheesy. And the VA never disappointed me...well okay, some parts did but the plot and characters were written very well that I had to overlook the flaws and still give it to Richelle Mead. I especially loved it because of the characters. They all felt very real that reading this series had been such a cathartic experience for me. Rose was sassy, feisty, impulsive, reckless and rude yet all these flaws made her startlingly real. And even though I hated her for being such a whiny brat at times, for making selfish and rash decisions and ending up with Dimitri Belikov while abandoning charming and sexy Adrian Ivashkov (really, even his name oozes with sex appeal), I still think Rose was a badass heroine. Her POV was also very sarcastic, witty and funny which never failed to crack me up. Although the last 3 books didn't live up to my expectations (Rose just became increasingly annoying because she showed no character growth), I still recommend you give this saga a chance since parts 1, 2, and 3 were worth it. I stayed 'til the end due to my love of the side characters who developed really well (like Lissa, Christian, Adrian and Eddie) as the story progressed (and 'coz I didn't want an unfinished collection in my bookshelf). Character-driven plot FTW! Woohoo! Flaws aside, I do think the series was a step above other young adult vampire series out there. I even resorted to wearing my prescription glasses because I literally couldn't put the book down and my eyes started to sting, get blurry and puffy from crying so much. Yeah, it was that good. And now that I just finished reading all the books...I will patiently wait for the movie to come out. I do hope they push through with it. And now I'm moving on to The Hunger Games Trilogy! Can't wait!!! :)

PS. I hope you didn't feel like brushing your teeth after seeing all that sweet stuff above. Heh :))

XO.