Month: January 2015

without a toilet shot.

So I dunno how to start this food blog thing. Anyhow, I wanted to do one because i could not find a “meaty” review of Beqaa. It’s a Lebanese restaurant by The Abaca Group. It’s above Tavolata. but they’re only open starting at 5pm up.

I’d been wanting to try this resto but I did not like to go thru the process of knowing their food. Finally, I felt like we have the time to go thru this complicated “getting to know” the food so Beqaa it is.

Here’s my survival tips for exotic restaurant:

1. Go to foursquare, google, ask your friends.

So 90% of the search results of Beqaa raved about Fafafel. It’s labelled appetizer but it felt like a main dish when i felt full after downing 2 pieces of it.

And, i felt tad disappointed why did i follow the google and foursquare results. I no longer have much room for the other foods.

Pita bread would have been fine because their dips / condiments are delish.

2. Be like Mark John, and order the same dish just like what he orders in other restaurants: Salmon!

 

And, I was like revolting! This is some Mediterannean or maybe Persian, or maybe Middle Eastern kind of restaurant, we’re supposed to eat sheep here not fish. And, besides salmon tastes the same in all restaurants. And who eats fish for a kebab. Oh well, it’s Mark John.

But it was not a wrong choice afterall. It was probably the tastiest salmon  that I came across in Cebu. Not that I have a lot of them.

3. Get the food that’s boxed in the menu. 

It was a toss between this lamb stew, as suggested by Paola, and shawarma. But i did not feel right about a sheep being served as a soup. I mean I cannot remember a goat as a soup dish… Beef can be, but sheep or goat in a soup?!? 

So I let the staff have the final say. And, it helps that The Abaca Group restos usually know their stuff so she said that boxed dish is their specialty. Like DUH, rose!

I think i prefer the gyro of cyma over this one. But nevertheless, it was worth it except that the serving was so hugeee! 🙂

4. Condiments are not for “take-away leftover.” How I wish I could also pack them togethet with the leftover…

So I just devour as many as I can that I got 3 refills of them. 🙂

5. Don’t forget to post about it in all of my social network site, and hashtag #vegan. 

The other day or week, I filled out the TEDxUSC registration form, and it has a question something like “how do you support local music?”

I felt cattski’s music are meant long joy rides, they have that feel. It makes me think if her music are inspired by long joy rides.

While, Missing Felimon feels like I want to go to my neighborhood tambayan. It makes me miss the old-school tambay sa eskina, which is probably replaced by facebook nowadays.

But that one song that first pops in my mind when talking about #bisrock or Cebu music is “Humba” from the Brown Underground music of Ka Pedro back in the days. I looked it up, and the name of the band behind it is Scrambled Egg. 

Cebu music is “humba” for me — NGILNGIG. You can interpret “ngilngig” as “bidli” or ngilngig as “great. For me, it’s bidli but demmit kalami sa tambok patunawon sa mais nga kan-on. 

I asked Meg if we can just give away his piggy stuffed toy because of Mateo’s asthma. But It’s heartbreaking to see her heart breaking to let go of her piggy Karla so we thought that putting her inside a plastic bag may help.

Next, what to do with Caramel and Snowy? 

I have not much choice but to pick up again the motherhood role seriously. After moving on from the active aktib phase, i’d been trying to avoid picking up the motherhood role. It’s not that it is hard. I have no problem doing hard work. It’s more of i chickened out on the thought that i’ll affect how 3 humans’ lives will turn out because of me.

Then, i went to Colon to yarn hunt. But it was disappointing. Maybe, i did not look hard enough.

I’m taking crochet “seriously” because it’s something i can do that i can stop right away when the littlest human screams for my name. Or it’s something i can do mindlessly while one of my ears is at the other little humans.

Then i attended techtalks.ph meetup. Please watch out for my blog post at http://techtalks.ph for the recent meetup.

Why did we ever have 3 babies?!? Because maybe i’m destined to crochet. 

I’m probably not at all that a naughty child because I got a GC from The Abaca Group. If there are restos that i have no doubt of recommending, it will be any or all restos of The Abaca Group.

At the end of this year, i started crocheting. From time to time, i find myself picking up a hook and stash of yarn, and printed beginner’s crochet pattern.

(A valentine-themed socks but looks like another dish-cloth.)

It’s not something i’m really hooked. It’s more of a thing to do to make me stay away from the computer. I’m not saying it’s better than internet, it’s just another thing to do if i’m not on “internet.” 

All my attempts at crocheting turned out to be i could not even pass as my kids’ project. But i still find myself picking up the hook and yarn from time to time, and think that maybe this is a good training for my coming retirement days (though my status can be considered as “retired”).

I mean we go to school for like 20 years to train for the “adult” phase. I guess it’s just right to also train for tje retirement/senior phase. And just like when we went to school earlier part of our life, we did not necessarily like it. So i guess crocheting will do — i don’t really like it but it’s not that bad. 🙂

Our neighbor, whose kids are carpooling with us, gives us calendars, umbrellas, and this 2015 planner. I’m glad i did not buy any planner yet. 

On top of my list for this year are some grown-up stuff that i don’t like to deal with but then they’re problems that i prefer over other things. I’m looking for:

* “bigger” home. I just want a ready-made cookie-cutter template kind of house, Mark prefers lot then build the home which i find too complicated. Maybe because i dwell in a boarding house for 10years of my life that i always find house as something temporary, and so investing money and most of all emotion on building it is unnecessary. For me, when you build a house from the groumd, the more you get attahced it as opposed to just picking a ready-made one randomly. 

* new school for the kids. Because, i could just no longer just wing it with mateo. He’s bored, and it’s not his existing school’s fault, and maybe a different style of teaching can save me the burden of “unboring” it for him. Homeschooling might be a better option, but i’m not that hippie level yet. 🙂

This post makes me cringe. 🙂

Janice, my classmate since kindergarten in Badian until college, had posted her messages on my fb statuse asking why i was not replying to her private messages. She was blackmailing me by doing that. 🙂

I got a lot of gifts today!

From janice

From Cebu Bionic Builders, and Soybitz Natural Farm

We ended our night at katkat place, which name i dunno how to pronounce.