Food overdose

Some of my recent food consumption at Yabu, Orchard Road (both at SM Megamall) and Blenz Coffee (in Makati). :) Food should be the best stress reliever ever, don't you agree?  

Have a great week, everyone! :)

PS. I finally sold my camera to buy a new one thus, the sucky phone resolution. 

I'm considering a Canon D550 or D600, though. Thoughts? 

Your highness

Guess who's back from an unannounced hiatus! I can finally smell the summer breeze and internship interviews have already been lined up. Of course, it's Him up there who I should be thanking to for everything. I hope I could get an internship position, though, before the Holy Week.

Speaking of internship interviews, I had one just this morning at an IT company in Makati. While I was passing time eating an apple cinnamon cupcake at Blenz Coffee near the building, I saw this amazing blog which left me undoubtedly wanting for more thus, endless backreads of the said blog. Thank God, I had my laptop with me! I guess what makes this different from other blogs that I have followed for sometime was that the pieces he wore were really unique. You wouldn't actually imagine a normal guy --- yes, he's a "he"! --- wearing something as striking as this: (I just have to commend him for having the guts to wear this!)

Introducing. THE Paul Jatayna.

Necklace from OS Accessories in which he's one of the owners:

During the time that I was strolling through his blog, I kept thinking on how strong his fashion statement was, at least to me. I could see in the Tokyo-like fashion which seldom people could barely look good with. Well, except if you're actually from Tokyo. 

Check out his Lookbook and blogs (1, 2) to be amazed as I am! 

Better late than never

Among two things, school has probably taken most of my time right now. Projects here, papers there, everyone's been too much preoccupied. Anyhow, I'm still extremely grateful for everything that has passed :) 

And I know it's LATE but here's how we celebrated the eve of the Chinese New Year and my mother's birthday at Claire De La Fuente's Grill and Restaurant. Yep, you read that right! It's basically one of the infamous singer's restaurants and it's located at Diosdado Macapagal Avenue near Seaside Boulevard in Pasay City.

While being so eager to fulfill my stomach's desires (MEHGANON), I waited first for the my relatives to look for our viands-in-mind's ingredients and after, made the people there at the restaurant cook for us. The food they prepared were somewhat salty but they were really good! :)

Imagine to our surprise when, while waiting, they had this dragon dance presentation! I was quite fascinated 'cos, despite my father being half-Chinese and all, it was my first time to watch one live! Well, maybe, that dragon dance at school was first but their dance was too far for me. Haha. 

That traditional Filipino birthday dish --- pancit! Pampahaba ng buhay!  

Buttered shrimps 

Sinabawang halaan. Para sosyal, seashells! Charot!

Steamed Lapu-Lapu with Oyster Sauce 

Tuna Belly!! Forever favorite :)

Inihaw na pusit

We had a really great time at the restaurant and the waitress who served us was so friendly, she even took photos of my family :D You guys should try this "dampa" experience over at Claire de la Fuente's Grill and Restaurant! Plus, I thought that it was really a nice sight to see other people coming together at the place. 

PS: I think I might go for a semi-hiatus and focus more on my very thrilled school life for now. T_T

With this I shall draw.... maybe, not.

keep drawing from studio shelter on Vimeo.

I'll say it: I can't draw and this is just downright frustrating. I've attended once a sketching class when I was around 8 or 9 years old, those with sketching, shading, nigahigawhatnots, but, sad to say, I never was able to bring anything after it. In short, it never entered my innocent mind to do it else to develop it... if I did have any of "that" talent. I suck at drawings or anything related to that. 

So if you can draw, I TRULY COMMEND YOU. No pun intended. 

Found this at Jonver David's blog, by the way.

Oh boy, Teriyaki Boy!

Just as was expected, various social networking websites were bombarded with posts about three words: "Friday the Thirteenth". This significantly reminded me of our recent lesson in PhilSoc about folk Catholicism, of how Filipinos can believe Roman Catholicism and of how we can manage to bring attention to these superstitions at the same time.

Anyway, my earlier part of the day consisted of me being able to enjoy reading Dante's "Inferno". Dorky and nerdy, yes, but the fact that I'm enjoying it surprised me as well! Maybe it's that thought that you gotta learn to love what you're doing. Meanwhile, I went to school for only one class for the latter part of the day, my PE class was a freecut. Fortunately, when I was dying of boredom at home, my parents agreed to dine out for dinner at Teriyaki Boy, SM Megamall.

Despite the "need" to eat sushi yesterday, I couldn't because of my asthma attacks :( So I ordered a beef dish instead, Sukiyaki Beef Teppan Don! And, thanks Teriyaki Boy, for having the healthy Asupara Bacon Maki to somehow substitute my sushi craving. Here are photos, I hope you'll be hungry by the end of this post. Hahaha!

That fetish for taking photos of cartoons found at a number of restaurants.

Asupara Bacon Maki

Gyoza 

Dynamite Roll (which I ate, btw, even though I was not allowed to)

My order: Sukiyaki Beef Teppan Don

Mother only order the maki for herself. Diet, 'te? While my father ordered a ramen which I couldn't remember what was the name. I wasn't able to take a photo of it, though. Then again, all of what we ordered were really tasty and was worth it. Even the waitress who served us throughout our meal made sure that we ate heartily by prioritizing our demands. Naks, mehganon? Miss, can you make kuha me some tissue? (Ugh, the effect of those conyo tweets!)

That's how I spent the so-called Friday the 13th! Oh, there's two more coming our way this year... after 13 weeks. So, watch out! Hahaha, I'm kidding. Have a great weekend, everyone! :)

The last pieces

I've been meaning to post something like this for the past week but guess what, I might've lost the momentum to do so but here it is... a post-Christmas season syndrome! :) 

That surprise gift from Love Diva Philippines! 
Imagine my surprise when Bloggers United sent me a tweet about this. 

Kimono-ish cover-up from Celine! My mother was hesitant to buy this at first and then when she saw me wearing this, nag-iba ang ihip ng hangin. Haha!

Haven't tried this on yet but this was from my friend, Kristine. However cracking nail polishes are magical! I've used The Face Shop's and I didn't feel anything but to be mind-blown.

One of the pieces I managed to hoard in my mother's age-old closet. 

Staedtler pens I got from Dani from our high school Christmas party! 

Aside from two cute notebooks, Nixie gave me this tomato pen!

Now one of my abused bags which I use in both going to school or casual walks. 

From one of my uncles.

And to add, I finally have a copy of Haruki Murakami's "1Q84" from DJ during our block Christmas party. Too bad I wasn't able to have a photo of it but who knows if I'll post it one of these days when I start to read it!

That's probably it for today 'cause I can't manage to tire myself too much because of asthma attacks :( I hope I'll get better really soon, though :)

Have a great day, everyone! :)

Have a happy Yabu new year!!

Just in time before the year ended, I won this amazing giveaway at Keigh Jalbuena's blog to dine with her (and the boyfrind) at my favorite Japanese restaurant, Yabu! For the record, I swore to myself that I would eat there again after my parents and I did before Christmas. Fortunately, I've been always active in Twitter and tada!

But I forgot to bring my trusty camera :( Thank God, Ms. Keigh had one with her!

Mandatory solo shot? Haha!

What I ordered was the Fish Katsu Set (90g).

Trying out to mix this awesome sauce... literally.

More of the katsu craze!! 

Red/pink ba color of the day? Hahaha!

I was surprisingly in the mood for the entire day 'cause I was feeling annoyingly groggy with the lack of sleep. Oh, and I really enjoyed the hearty meal! :) Thanks again, Ms. Keigh! Don't forget to check out her blog [keighjalbuena.blogspot.com], okay? :)

Have a great Tuesday, everyone!