Friday Dinner

I don't mean to brag, but can I just say that last friday I had the BEST Laksa noodle soup ever? Sorry I wasn't able to take any photos but it was just sooooo good. Too good for words. I may not understand eggs but laksa noodles and hainanese chicken rice? THAT I understand completely. 

Last weekend, Chef See and Chef Mark from Enderun came by the resort to dive. I don't know how my brother arranges it exactly, but when the Chefs come over, they always have a great dinner prepared for everyone. The resort had full bookings after it was released that Chef See and Chef Mark were coming to make dinner. 

I must say that this probably was one of the best dinners I had recently. Almost everyone stayed at the dining room for about 5 hours! talo ang claude tayag. We had very good friends there with us and a couple of new ones that we were more than happy to have shared the night with. It started with laptops here and Ipads there and ended with wine and lots of great stories to tell.

This was at sundown, when Oli was setting up his "mini" Dj area. I don't know what happened to his bigger toys. Where are they now?

Hainanese chicken rice is happiness. This one is love.  

Oh, and could I just share that before it was cooked, the chickens were brought to the resort literally alive and the dogs were biting their pwets? Kawawa chickens. They had to suffer doggie torture before they died.  Pero I guess ok lang, they did not die in vain. Yummy.

We had pannacotta for dessert. Cute ang picture so I'm posting.

After dessert, there was commotion on the Chef's table. Apparently, Chef Mark was not yet done harassing his "utusan" for the day, Nick. He's been yelling at Nick the whole day and it wasn't over.  It was announced that "chef" Nick was going to prepare a dessert, Iron Chef style, before he can be allowed to go home. There were a few green mangoes lying on the table and he was challenged--more like commanded-- to create something out of those green mangoes. So from green mango fruits, he created this:

I'm not really good with pictures. This was his mangoes, cooked in butter and honey and his choice of spices. It was topped with julienned green apples and cubes of sweet watermelons. Warm cream with cinnamon was poured and it was finished off with fried lumpia wrappers coated with icing sugar. "Chef" Nick had to choose one guest to try his dish and judge it accordingly. I swear, parang reality TV talaga. Nick had to present and explain his dish while everybody listened.

The dessert pleased his judged and poor Nick was sent back to the kitchen to make more of the dessert for everyone. Kawawa. This is Nick tormented my his mentors:

Chef Mark, "chef" Nick and Chef See

If I were Nick, siguro umiyak nalang ako.

I'm so excited for the next Chef See episode that I've already made calls to have king crabs and prawns shipped from Cotabato. yehey.

Thank you thank you to a wonderful wonderful Friday. Everything was perfect. 

Superstar Eggs and JEJEng Panlasa.

Oliver: Gusto mo eggs with truffle oil?

Iris: Ayaw.

Bea: Ako gusto ko.

Oliver: Ikaw magluto ng iyo.

I wasn't done sulking about the truffle eggs when THE chef came to our table in his full scuba diving outfit.

Chef: Good morning!

Bea: Good morning chef! Oliver doesn't want to cook me eggs.

Chef: (look of confusion) ok... Then I guess I'll do it myself.

And it was brought to everyone's attention that THE chef was preparing my eggs for breakfast. In his wetsuit. I'm kilig with great cooks okay?

I watched him as he expertly whisked my eggs. While at it, Oli and Chef were talking about how the truffle oil was "private stash" material and was of very good quality and blah blah blah. I really couldn't care less about the oil. My gosh basta top chef ka, pwede na! He was even talking to another chef in French. Sobra akong starstruck, nakakahiya. 

Unfortunately, I never got all the fuss about truffle oil. HINDI KO SYA MALASAHAN OKAY. I mean, I know it's there, pero it's just there!!! It doesn't do magic in my mouth like Jollibee double yum with cheese does. 

Everyone who had a taste loved it. Me? I liked it. But to choose between this and my regular plain, overcooked scrambled eggs with a little salt? I think I'd rather the latter. I'M SORRY OKAY!!! It's not the eggs!!! It's me. It really is me. 

Thank you to a wonderful chef for the most amazing breakfast eggs I've ever experienced.

But, i don't think my palette is educated enough. I think I may even have jejemon taste buds. 

Please don't judge me.

It's On the Bucket List

Remember that scene from that Ana Paquin movie?

Fly Away Home

When I first saw this movie back when i was a kid, it failed to make me fancy my Amah's geese in our farm.  I was scared of ducks and geese back then. 

I think I still am. 

Yikes. 

Anyway, the reason why I'm thinking about that movie is because i stumbled upon this site while cyberstalking someone this afternoon while at work. ajeje.

Remember those scenes in the movie where Ana was taught how to fly her plane? I pretty much wasted a couple of childhood hours playing those scenes in my head, only with my face pasted on Ana Paquin's body. So imagine my delight when I discovered this flying school that's just around 30 minutes away from me. 

Apparently, that little airplane is called Ultralight Plane. I know, I know.  I am NOT for ultralight material. Baka ULTRAheavy pwede pa. ajejeje. But God is good. He made these tiny aircrafts carry heavier people all the way up to 100kgs. So thank you Lord, pwede ako.

My heart reached the nanginginig sa excitement phase while checking out their site. So yes, while waiting for my 5 month horseback riding break, I plan to take myself for a ride, and maybe consider taking lessons too. That of course depends if I could afford it since I've already busted my recreational funds for advanced travel bookings. 

So there. Another empty checkbox on my bucket list. It may not seem so, but my heart is really nanginginig with excitement.

And I Said This Wouldn't Be Personal

B: hey hey hey im blogging again

B: and it wont be emo i promise

M: kung blogspot yan... banned dito sa china hahahahaha

M: pero i can read it

M: gagawan ko ng paraan para sayo

B: no need for effort wala pa naman laman

B: i just thought of writing again

M: thats good ahhaha ako i write in my journal nalang

B: write as in write?

M: yes.. i always write.. haha ive been writing ever since grade 3 HAHAHA

B: ooooh M i miss you. 

M: imagine the useless things i used to write before!!! hahahaha

B: and you know

B: even back in college we wrote about the gross stuff

B: about m-- and k-- and g--

B: i cant believe we spent that much time and emotion on just those topics

B:BLECH

M: yuck. hahaha YUCKKKK kainis.

M: pero totoo yan. haha

M: how sad.

***And after this we went on for about a full hour talking about that "gross stuff" with much emotion as we did back in college. Some things will never change. BLECH. 

This is NOT a Sad Story

I would like to make it clear that i'm starting this blog not for purposes of vanity or self promotion of any sort.

You see, i just had my heart broken really bad a few days back. It was the kind of heart break that makes walk out of a delicious korean dinner to go home and cry. It's that kind that makes you want to sleep in your mom's bed so that when you wake up in the middle of the night crying, it would not be as bad. Its the heart break that ALMOST makes you ditch a beautiful day with people who you love dearly.
Anyway, this is not a sad story.
Because this is the kind of heart break that dies after a few days and leaves no trace of sadness, only a sense of self worth that nobody else can provide. After a while sadness will seem to be the boring option and GREATNESS will start to sound very achievable.

So this blog---this blog is made not to be a diary of my heart's struggle but a place where I can write about the things that were left unnoticed during the time when my life was so-called "better". Allow me to indulge on adventures that I can claim to be just mine . There are so many things to look forward to and so much happiness that's out there. It's now all up to me to realize them.

This is it!!!

P.S.
Hopefully I will be able to stop myself from writing about personal stuff such as this. But I doubt it. I'm a drama queen.

P.P.S.
I swear I'm not emo. I'll prove it in my next entries.

CHEERS!

So here it is.

My brand new blog.

They say life is about passion. 25 years in this life and I'm not so sure if i have found mine. So until then, allow me to write about nothing in particular. Just everyday things that amuse me, sights that move me and feelings that  make me feel alive. 

I am excited. 

p.s.

I'm not emo. ;)