splendid moonlight

is gift-wrapping! I remember one christmas when I started buying gifts during September. By December I had so many gifts to wrap I fell asleep from exhaustion in the midst of wrappers. But it was fun!

This was a gift I prepared for my manita.



The initial wrapping was done at the store for free but they had no ribbons for sale and I did not know where to buy one. So I figured I should just ...

My first try at humba.



I had to recook this because the meat wasn't yet tender.

My second try was almost a disaster. I was using another approach which did not work for me so I had to redo the whole process. It didn't prove too easy, though; the damage has already been done and either it was too salty, or too sour, or too sweet. Only thing that I think saved it were the potatoes (even though ...

I used to think Filipinos living and working out of the country are being a tad bit OA and incredibly fussy and noisy everytime I heard them talk about how they miss Snowbear, utap, bulad, masaryal, hipon, ginamos, and you get the idea. It did not occur to me that if I had cravings for any particular local dish when I'm in my home country, why couldn't my countrymen outside of my country? So of course now I know I was dead wrong.

Anyway, I had a craving for real Filipino dish a couple ...

I watched my second Bollywood film today with one of my officemates. The movie wasn't that great but the leading lady was gorgeous. One of the guys was Aishwarya Rai's real husband who I've always thought looks scary in the pictures I've seen of him on the internet. His character wasn't scary at all, though - just the opposite - so it was fun seeing him in a different light. The other guy looked like a young Albert Martinez; he had too many 'wet' scenes - some with him on the beach and the others ...