Moooooooooo

I went toTrinoma to buy a pair of pants that I will use for my best friend's wedding. I was really making the rounds of all the shops selling men's clothes in search of a pair of black pants at a very very low price. It took me almost 2 hours to find a pair that will fit my large waistline and my small budget. That's how difficult shopping for a simple pair of pants is when you are as poor as a rat. Anyway, I ended up buying a 65% Polyester and 35% Rayon pants from Arrow for two thousand bucks. The whole enterprise left me with an aching feet, grumbling tummy, and depleted wallet.

A couple of days ago I received an overseas call from my friend Tuding of Texas and she was excited about some blog/review of a restaurant in Trinoma. I do remember this restaurant because everytime I go to Trinoma somebody would hand me a flyer of this resto. The name of the restaurant is Five Cows (Resto and Ice Cream Bar) it is located at the same level where the cinemas are. Since I am already in the same neighborhood (so to speak) I decided to give it a try. The place is really nice....it has a quaint comfy country feel.... the walls are painted white... the lighting of the place makes it aglow.... warm and cozy.

I immediately placed my order and after a couple of minutes they dimmed the whole place and they started chanting/singing.... and then they set a cake on flame at the table of two ladies next to mine...whoaaaa... after the commotion... I asked the waiter the name of the white puffy cake they served flambe... it was Flaming Alaska.... now I tell myself I will definitely go back to this place even just for that :-)

For starters I decided to have their Five Cows' Asian Salad. It has a very generous strips of crab meat and they also included what appears to me as nori cut into strips... the lettuce were crispy..and the salad was sumptous... actually the salad alone immediately made me feel full.

Good thing I opted to have a Primavera Panini as my main course because I wont be able to have any room for my dessert if I had some pasta. They serve the panini with some chips and garlic mayo dip. Halfway with my panini I exerted effort to pace myself... I dont want to be too full and not be able to apreciate my dessert.

I had Blueberry Rumble ice cream for dessert...and it tasted great... I can't wait to try the other flavors...concoctions they have... there's even one named Monkey Business..now after the Flaming Alaska thing... can you blame me for wanting to try this one too.... They also have almost a dozen variations of ice cream cakes... I haven't tried ice cream cakes for decades... I'll definitely go back to Five Cows. Moooooooooooo

The Bourne Ultimatum

It is almost a record of some sort for me.... I have only seen one movie for almost a month! I usually average 3 movies a week... and this does not include movies I saw via DVD or cable. When I say movies I saw... I meant movies I saw at the theater. Anyways, I decided to squeeze in a time to watch The Bourne Ultimatum..... Matt Damon afterall is one of my all time favorite actors. I've been a big fan eversince Good Will Hunting. I went to the cinema and watched GWH 7 times during its run in the metropolis!

Anyways I love this movie.... the "chasing scenes" were unbelievable... may it be by foot... motorcycle... or car. The movie starts off where it ends from the last Bourne movie... Bourne is hot on trail to find out why he became an assassin. The exotic locations of Europe adds allure to the mersmerizing glimpse in the world of CIA. I'll stop here so as not to end up a spoiler to those who have not seen this flick yet.

Sing it like Yamin it!

Cachalot

cach-a-lot - [kash-uh-lot, -loh] n. Any of several large, toothed whales of the family Physeteridae, especially Physeter catodon or P. macrocephalus, of tropical and temperate oceans, whose massive head has a cavity containing sperm oil and spermaceti and whose long intestines often contain ambergris.

I stayed up late watching the replay of the 2007 Spelling Bee Competition shown at ESPN. Cachalot is one of the words that caught my fancy and caused one of the contestant to be eliminated. I cannot help but marvel at the abilities of these kids to spell. You see I am very terrible when it comes to spelling..... well actually I am not very good with languages. If you'll continue reading this entry you'll definitely realize that. As a nursing student I am having difficulty remembering the correct spelling of those pesky scientific and medical terminologies. In my examinations I usually struggle with spellings and more often than not my incorrect answers are because of incorrect spellings.... sometimes I protest and tell my professor... isn't it that the thought that counts? ;-)

I am not a smart or intelligent student or a person at that if you must insist. I knew about this early on in life..... that is probably one of the reason why I usually stay quiet in one corner most of the time....especially when I was a young kid. I learned to hang around smart people and keep quiet and just listen to what they have to say. I learned a lot of things by doing that ;-) Also, if you stay quiet you'll get to know the person better.... actually because of my being meek and silent I've learned to discern if the person is just a smart aleck or really intelligent.

In my previous job of 9 years in an IT company... I had the opportunity of working with so many people of various academic, social , and sometimes racial background. Some of my colleagues are really smart and there were also quite a number of pretentious pompous smart a**. My immediate boss is a magna cum laude Creative Writing graduate from UP...imagine how long it takes for me to reply from her e-mails...bwahahahahahaha. My best friends from this IT company were my former supervisor Cat who later on decided to teach English in China, my former HR manager jtt who is now a very successful HR practitioner and have worked in various multinational companies.... and yeah she is 2 years my junior and she now owns a 3.4 M house, 2 cars, have obtained 2 masters degree one from DLSU and one from UP, and 2 laptops...bwahahahaha and my other close friend there was Yul who finished his Economics degree in UP in 3 1/2 years and later on went to speak in front of statisticians from around the globe in Germany where his masters degree paper was chosen in this convention .

Close to home I have a niece who just recently graduated from UC Berkely with a degree in Biology and another niece who early on was handpicked by Che Che Lazaro to host the now defunct children show 5 and Up... graduated from Philippine Science High School and went back to UP to study Biology. Being around these people have made me realize my place under the sun.... where I stand in the general scheme of things.

I have always been good in drawing... in pre-school..... I remember that aside from coloring my coloring books I also take joy in drawing the pictures in the coloring book.... I dont trace...I draw the pictures. When I was in my pre-teens my dad would like me to be tutored by his painter/ fine arts professor friend. It never materialized because I already have my piano lessons to keep me busy then. I am also an above average student in math... I am pretty good in imagining things and I used it to understand mathematics :-) But I suck in memorization... I cannot even remember the names of people... and to make things worst... my mom is also extremely forgetful...My genes are working against me :-(

One of my problem as a student and a person is my complacency. I also do not have any sense of competitiveness. I just always wing it in school and work. I have simple dreams and very happy with my anonymous existence. I even find it extremely absurd with the amount of energy and emotional stress my former co-workers put into their work and upon themselves just to be noticed by the powers that be. I hope by now they have realized that it was not that worth it at all. Some relationships were even strained just because of the slightest typos or stupid words.

Next year hopefully I shall be graduating from Nursing School. This is why I am now a bit worried because with graduation includes the impending School Qualifying Exam, Local Board Exam, CGFNS, and NCLEX that I will have to take. I am not very good with memorizing hence my general plan is to start reading all my books beginning next month. I am hoping to read all my books at least 3 times. This mean that I will cut down or altogether stop reading non academic related books :-( Wish me luck ....

By the way, Evan O'Dorney, a 13-year-old California eighth grader, was the Spelling Bee winner. The winning word was....

serre·fine [sâr-fn, sr-] n. A small forceps for clamping blood vessel.