How much of your life would you leave to fate and how much of it would you leave to fortune-tellers or self-proclaimed 'psychics'? I didn't realize how my close friends were drawn to these things until I told them about how my resident psychic M accurately predicted some things in my life and they would badger me: "So who is she? What's her telephone number and errr, how much?" My kids would kill me if they knew Mom would pay P600 to have her fortunes told when they could have two gallons of ice cream instead. But I do see Madame M every semester or once every ... Continue Reading...
One-day vacation in Bangus Country
Bangus etc. Originally uploaded by annalyn. I could say that one of the things that makes me a true-blue Filipino is my love for the milkfish, or bangus in local parlance. Go to any market (in the Luzon region, at least) and you will almost always find this gray-scaled fish in the stalls. What I like about bangus is that there are more ways to cook this than my other fresh-water favorite, tilapia. The health-conscious prefer the fat-free paksiw na bangus or the sinigang na bangus sa miso but I am also partial to the many imaginative ways our good ol' ... Continue Reading...
A Birthday Lunch at Mano’s Greek Taverna
Birthday Pics Originally uploaded by annalyn. With the twins out on their field trip and almost all of my close friends off on their long vacation, it didn't look like an eventful birthday for me. Good that Z, who contributes for the Inquirer, decided to tag me along to a food tasting trip to breezy Tagaytay. If there's something that gonna entice me to leave everything behind, that's the smell of food and especially if it's something I haven't tried... like Greek food! After what seemed like an effortless trip, we arrived at Mano's Greek Taverna by ... Continue Reading...
… & a lil boozing at Dusit’s Fiesta San Miguel
SaN Mig Originally uploaded by annalyn. Immediately after my Tagaytay food trip, I headed off to Dusit Hotel in Makati to meet my fellow Blogkadas led by Sachiko who planed in from Tokyo with her husband Michiyo. A few months ago, I met Sachi in Japan and so I was naturally excited to see her in town this time. First thing, she raved about how much she enjoyed her Bora vacation, the second honeymoon with hubby in their 20 years or so of marriage (whew!) And I was titillated to find out that during her Philippine homecoming, Sachi had chosen to stay in the ... Continue Reading...
Lasang Pinoy 3: Quiapo Street Food
Quiapo2 Originally uploaded by annalyn. The Pinoy food blogging event Lasang Pinoy focuses this month on "street food" and I thought what better way than to focus on one of my favorite public places in Manila: Quiapo. Although the nouveau riche would rather hang out in the sanitized confines of Greenbelt, I agree with Carlos Celdran when he said that "Quiapo shows you what Manila truly is ... dirty, noisy, colorful and full of soul." Maybe because the place is so rife with contradictions. As I've said before: where else can you find a Church where they ... Continue Reading...
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