Remember the Day 7 photo of the fruit? Well, the banana is now ripe. :)
Food
Day 10: Childhood memory
I chose these subjects because they bring me back to the early 1990s, when these things were my ultimate comfort foods.
Chocolate Crinkles
I loved these things because of the powdered sugar. I love that the outside is tough but the inside is moist and soft. I get to lick my sweet fingers as a finisher. They don’t make them as good anymore.
Dunkin Donuts Choco Honey Dipped
What I am most thankful for the last year is the invention of Big Dunk here in the Philippines. This snack never changed its taste. I still love this, though I have to admit I haven’t eaten this as much. I guess when you grow older, you can’t help but keep track at the amount of sugar you consume in a day.
Lala Chocolate Snack
I remember the old lady that sells this thing for 25c a piece. The wrapper has changed and now, it has an ube (purple yam) variant. That one doesn’t taste as good; it’s predominantly artificial flavoring. But this…. still the same after all these years.
KitKat Snack Bar
I remember this the most because while Pringles Cheese has lesser flavoring and M&Ms had oilier shell coating, this is just the same. Have a break, have a KitKat. Still the same. I remember my lola getting me this after work, with a heavy heart of course. She’d much rather get me the banana cue from the hamlet. She gets me both. :)
For some reason, I remember my lolo. And I miss him so much. I never stopped.
Day 7: Fruit
My dad brought home the fruits of his banana tree at work. I know it’s weird to have a tree in the office; he manages an emission testing center in Cavite. They have a hut there since most days, the heat is too much for the staff to take, so for lunch that’s where they take a break. They decided to install some shade so they started planting trees and maintaining the ones that were already there. This is the banana they got from one of those trees.
I know right. It’s humongous. Can’t wait for it to turn yellow. :)
The Grad Party and then some
So on Sunday night, my youngest brother Daniel and my dad celebrated their graduation and birthday respectively. It has been a while since we hosted quite a shebang and my mother didn’t seem to have shown any intention of holding back.
A few weeks ago, my dad had a heart scare so the party was almost devoid of pork. My dad cooked laing for the first time and it was a hit. My lola couldn’t stop eating it. There was morcon, stir fried vegetables, buttered shrimp and mushroom, kilawin tanigue, green mango salad with shrimp paste and spaghetti. I know the last dish is out of the loop but it’s Daniel’s favorite. It’s impossible for that to not be included in the menu.
- The spaghetti came much later. :)
So everything was swanky and nice and coordinated… until the booze came out.
Now to be honest, I really didn’t know that we’re not supposed to fund our youngest brother’s drinking binge, so I gave him a couple of hundred to kick things off. Well it sure did kick things off alright.
This is Justin before:
And the after…. is just way too gross for a photo. Let’s just say it resembled something like this:
- Imagine this to be a half naked guy. No kidding.
Then he thought my room was the bathroom and sat down on my floor pillow… and took a dump. Again, I say, I am not kidding.
Then he was on the floor, his eyes just looking sooo stricken. When they carried him to the room, they had to put an old shirt by this side because he was throwing up SIDEWAYS. Do not underestimate the fact that it is not a joke!
Anyway, in the end, we still had to go to work the next morning, with Brother 3 completely hungover. Justin is yet to hear what he did, but I’m pretty sure as of posting this, he won’t be drinking for a while.
Kanin Club etc.
I seldom forgive friends. For most people, that alone is incomprehensible. But I am proud to say that I almost never fail to understand. When I do, I hide it; I say that I don’t understand and I need help to digest whatever. So when a friend wrongs me and there are no reasons or explanations for doing so, I hit ‘unfriend’.
But I guess things change when Kanin Club is in the picture.
Sinigang rice, crispy liempo, tilapia with gata and seafood salpicao.
So I guess you can say all is forgiven.
the salt of your skin 