YM Message

My officemates and I were discussing something with our PM suddenly a ym popped up his screen with this message:

love you...

To save face, our PM laughed it off and commented:

Wala kayo nakita ahh! Wala lang iyon.

Hehe.

Ice Cream-aholic

Since Tuesday we have had ice cream breaks at around 3-4 in the afternoon. No no no... this practice even started LAST week! I do not know if the summer heat is the cause of this craving or what but we always end up having ice cream breaks.

Even if the Jollibee branch at the ground floor of our office has sucky service, we always end up there for their.. Mango Caramel!!! I am a mango fanatic so this dessert suits my taste buds. In fairness, even if they have a sub-par crew my sundae is always overflowing with syrup! Mango Caramel is <3!

The Ube Keso Ice Craze is also a must try. It not just ube and keso in there but macapuno bits as well! Do not worry, they are not thrifty with the toppings. It is enough to give taste to the crush ice.

We made our way to Mini Stop for this popsicle stick called Big Stick. It is this huge popsicle stick which consists of watermelon and melon flavors. I tried it out of curiousity to find out why my officemate is so addicted to it. It was sweet... rather a lil bit to sweet for my taste. I do not agree with her comment... "Basta sa akin masarap.. e alam yo naman yung definition ko na masarap.. masarap para sa lahat". Hmm, I guess I am not a popsie fan. I find it rather stressful to eat it.

This ain't good for my body... as well as my wallet!

Better stop soon!

Noong Una

Cheap young thrills

First posted 02:14am (Mla time)

Jan 25, 2006 By Marla Miniano

Inquirer Editor's Note: Published on Page C4 of the January 25, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

BEFORE Lay’s and Hershey’s invaded the Philippine junk-food industry, children of the ’90s happily munched away on their friendly neighborhood sari-sari store’s treasures: candies and chocolate bars, crackers and chips, biscuits and bubble gum. There were corn snacks with little trinkets inside, cookies with colorful icing, and popsicles you had to share with a friend. And the best part of experiencing the junk food rush was this: for P20 or less, you were guaranteed to have a feast between your sticky fingertips.

Texas, Bazooka and Big Boy bubble gum. We loved Texas because it was softer than the other brands, and it stayed sweet for a long time, and we loved Bazooka for the comic strips inside the wrapper. But we loved Big Boy the best because, really, who can ever forget that commercial? All together now, “Big big gum, for big big bubbles!”

may contest pa sa e@t bul@g@... yung palakihan ng bubble... nakompleto ko ata yung buong comic strip e.

Cheezels and Chickadees. They didn’t really taste any different from the usual corn snacks, but they won our hearts because they had toys inside: temporary tattoos and those icky things that would grow when you submerged them in water. They also had the Hop ‘n’ Pop, which, according to one of my friends “was a disaster waiting to happen because it looked like something grownups use; something little kids should know absolutely nothing about.”

oo! bumibili ako nito dahil sa libre! hehehe!

Pritos Ring. The fun was in putting one ring on each finger before eating them up. The fun stopped when you accidentally bit yourself and ended up bawling your lungs out.

uhuh! i felt like a princess with those rings!

White Rabbit and Joy, aka the whistle candy. Simply because the idea of edible paper and candy that creates noise appeals to children of all ages.

minsan nga binibigay ko kay lola yung white paper kasi un malambot di tulad nung kendi mismo... baket ngayon puro un matigas na brown nalang nakikita ko? nakakainis din minsan yung joy kung nawawasak.. hindi na ako maka-whistle!

Iced Gem Biscuits. The cookie part tastes like Marie biscuits, and the icing part tastes like the candy flowers in our birthday cakes. The different colors of the icing were a definite plus.

kinder food! hehehe

Tivoli and Coney Island ice cream. Tivoli’s Funwich gave us sticky fingers and chocolate stains on our white uniforms, but since it was incredibly yummy, we didn’t care about the mess (or, at least, not until our mothers started scolding us). We miss Coney Island’s pistachio and bubble gum-flavored ice cream.

bakit wala na nito?!? sobrang nakaka-miss! tsaka yung eskimo roll!

Nips. Smarties were “cooler” than Nips because they came in tubes, but we loved the latter because they made a rainbow (chocolate Nips), a choco rainbow—and they colored all the flowers, and painted the trees, too. These tiny candy-covered chocolates were such a big part of our life that they even became an acronym for something else: Not In Proper Seat.

maka-nips ako! we make a rainbow!!

Snacku. We were such good little boys and girls back then. See? We ate our veggies without putting up a fight.

hindi ko ito masyadong nagustuhan. haha... kahit nung bata pa ako ayaw ko na ng gulay!

Haw Flakes. Because we were still too young to take Communion, we got someone to play the priest and lined up in front of him so we could stick out our tongues and receive our Haw Flakes. And, surprise surprise, they actually tasted like bread and wine!
body of Christ....

Brown Cow and Horlicks. Before Hershey’s, there was Brown Cow. Before Ovaltine and Ovalteenies, there were Horlicks and Horlicks Malties. We miss getting our chocolate fix from these oldies-but-goodies.
brown cooooooow! horliiiiiicks!!!

Fanta softdrinks. We insisted on drinking nothing else but these, refusing to acknowledge that the orange one tasted exactly like Royal Tru-Orange and the lemon one tasted exactly like Mountain Dew.Nano-Nano. The jingle says it all.
let's fantasize! nano nano....

So. Paging all junk-food manufacturers! Spare us from overpriced potato chips and overrated ice cream, please. If we plan to adapt an unhealthy lifestyle by bingeing on food with zero nutritional value, we don’t want to splurge. The way we see it, we want neither our stomachs nor our wallets to be empty. In our world, these cheap thrills will always rule. Always.

Tristan & Isolde

On Mondays and Tuesdays you only need to pay 99 bucks to watch a movie in Shang. That's cheap already considering the prices at other theaters plus the ambiance. Yesterday I had a slow day at work so I decided to browse at some movies thinking it's a Tuesday.. why not invite someone or whatever. Then I came upon this movie:



I was not sure what it was about. All I knew that it was something like Romeo & Juliet... like what the tagline of the movie stated and based from what I read online earlier yesterday. It caught my attention being the hopeless romantic that I am. It was a coincedence that we watched this since we originally did not have plans of watching at all.

I liked the movie even if it had this old-ish setting. It showed how women can ruin a kingdom. Haha. Kidding. It was a sad movie. Then again, it's a tragedy so what should I expect, right? It depicted this:You were right. Life is greater than death. And love is greater than either.

Awww.

Whoops

I wanted to pee so I stood up and went to the nearest bathroom from my station which was the solo bathroom. I twisted the doorknob, pushed the door, took a step forward and then somebody shreiked "OMG!" I almost bumped into someone who was on her way out! She got so stunned that she stepped backwards and kept saying "OMG!"

What are the chances that two people will enter and exit the same bathroom the same time? I didn't notice there was someone inside since apparently we turned the knob at exactly the same time. I do not know if other people noticed what occured for no one came near us or whatever. I wanted to laugh but I contained myself since she looked super shocked.

Whoops.