August 25, 2008

My grandmother is an excellent cook. Her dishes are literally to die for. I have decided to make her teach me how to cook everyday Pinoy dishes.

My cooking experiments have been quite successful and I think it’s time to take this cooking thing to the next level. My first lesson will be this Wednesday, she’s teaching me how to cook adobo. Here’s our schedule:

Week 1 – Adobo

Week 2 – Mechado

Week 3 – Beef Steak

Week 4 – Pochero

Week 5 – Nilaga (yes this seems simple but I’ve tasted too many nilagas which tasted like Water)

Week 6 – Lechon Kawali (Ruy’s crazy over this)

Week 7 – Escabecheng Tagalog

Week 8 – Frying 101

Week 9 – The Art of Using the Pressur Cooker

Week 10 – The Turbo Cooker

Week 11 – Sinigang

Week 12 – Morcon

I can’t wait!! By the way, she doesn’t know she’s going to be teaching me all of this, right now she just thinks she’s teaching me adobo this Wednesday. =)

Yes I admit I am a procrastinator. Can you believe that after all this time we still haven’t moved to our house? We’re just missing curtains and some storage stuff but we’re almost set. It’s not like moving with be difficult, we won’t even need to get the moving services of professional movers. We just need our own hands and feet to move, yet we still haven’t.

Why?

I honestly don’t know. I think the entire meaning of the move scares me. Or maybe I’m just lazy.

Jen never fails to surprise me. She always always always has something new up her sleeve. i never know which of her plans will push through and which ones will pop up. Dynamic doesn’t even begin to describe her. From her Las Vegas travels to her trip to Ohio. To her moving from one state to another. Next thing I know she’s asking me about Europe. WHAT? Where did that come from? Apparently she wants to move back to Manila but Eric is not sold on the idea so she wants to compromise by moving to Europe. Wow…hahaha.

Pardon the cheese:

So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

(chorus)

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That shes my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes
cause Ive lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where theres no second chance to tell her how I feel

I sometimes forget to do this. Let me correct that statement, I forget to do this often….yup more often than not.

I am so excited, Ruy and I have a project coming up. We’re going to be planning and researching and saving. I am not going to spill the beans but I can tell you that it would entail looking at cheap hotels and affordable flights.

I think it’s about time we did this. We haven’t done this since getting married and I think we deserve it. I could very easily plan the whole thing but I want it to be a joint project. Something we’ll do together from start to finish.

Wish us luck!

I was walking from National Bookstore back to work when I saw this guy wearing a shirt which says “Like what you see? Wait till you meet Mini Me” and then there’s an arrow pointing down there.

I was disgusted beyond belief. What was this guy thinking? I am a big fan of funny t shirts but theres a line that should be drawn between funny and disgusting. I guess what made that shirt bad is the wearer…that guy was gross. Hahaha