eye chocolate!!!

(hehe) i brought home a box of Royce Nama Chocolates from Hongkong during my last trip. it was supposed to be "pasalubong" for twinpopbro (and okay, mom, haha). well unfortunately, (or fortunately!), twinpopbro left for palawan for a few days, and came home to this....

hihihi. two pieces left. which means i kinda ate the whole box by myself (but in a span of a few days ha!). gross i know but i just LOVE Royce Nama! its like eating chocolate butter - its so light and it just melts in your mouth! zaza and i actually both got a box each from citysuper, and we opened her box of nama as soon as we got back to her flat. and we probably ate 4 squares each in one sitting, and just forced ourselves to stop. gross.

Royce' is actually made in Hokkaido, Japan; and still can't be bought here. so its a popular pasalubong from Hongkong and Singapore.


its probably my favorite chocolate.... that and GODIVA TRUFFLES!!!!

twinpopseattle's favorite pasalubong too! i just CANNOT stop eating them! each truffle is just too good, i can't even pick a favorite flavor. and when i saw godiva truffle cheesecakes at the cheesecake factory, i almost died!!! the white chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake was THE BEST! i don't think i ever ordered anything else after trying this: "Creamy Cheesecake with Chunks of White Chocolate and swirls of imported Seedless Raspberries throughout. Baked in a Chocolate Crust and finished with White Chocolate Shavings and Whipped Cream."


yummmmm.

eye candy around town

hi sis,

twinpopyale wanted to redeem herself from her wtf-email-forwarding binge.

and i quote...

"Ok, here's an "I love Manila" website for your blog (para hindi ako puro wtf).

http://inthephilippines.ph/2008/10/edsa-is-now-an-outdoor-art-gallery/

I was on my way home from Subic last Sunday night and I saw a giant billboard with one of MM Yu's photographs on it. (I remember it because it was exhibited here in the [ateneo art] gallery and it was one of my favorite pieces. It is both a page from one of her photo books in her collected - recollected exhibit and she blew it up for her exhibit here in the gallery.) I was so shocked to see it... mejo surreal to see artwork on a billboard.... but very very cool. Anyway, I asked MM about it and apparently its part of a bigger project. I love these people for coming up with this idea! Its so refreshing to art in public spaces. Its so heartening to see images that are just meant to make you think and react rather than buy.

The Manila Outdoor Gallery rocks!"

here's a glimpse of the other artworks that will pop up around our cities...

jojobama

are you kidding me?

"Philippine Daily Inquirer, INQUIRER.net  11/12/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Jejomar “Jojo” Binay is embarking on an audacious journey from the “Republic of Makati” to the Republic of the Philippines as the country’s very own “Jojo Bama”—much like US President-elect Barack Obama...

...More than 2,000 supporters, some trucked in from the provinces, carried streamers that read “Obama of the Philippines” and “Jojo Binay for President” as they gathered at the Makati City Hall for a 7 a.m. thanksgiving Mass on Binay’s 66th birthday...

...Clad in barong, the diminutive mayor likened to Obama for his dark skin said he accepted the people’s clamor “all over the Philippines” for him to continue serving the country...

...Reacting to jokes that Binay will be the first black Pinoy chief executive, much like the US president-elect, Estrada said laughing, “Already, we call him Jojo Bama...”

We just don't get it do we?

peter perfect

stumbled upon this new makeover show on lifestyle network... (i love makeover shows!!)... this one has a brit guy, peter ishkhans, "save" struggling businesses by doing a makeover of their stores (and the people in them, too) - saw an episode on a surf shop and a candy store and i liked it!

i know he kinda looks like a ben stiller character, and i think he was named after the obnoxious character on the wacky races (who he kind talks like ata), but i think his ideas were quite good. i like that he fixes up the interiors - not just the store's "look", but also considers merchandising, customer flow, etc.

eenteresting....

what a drag!

super thanks to twinpop-m's for putting up our tranny tree!!!  

in honor of those who oppose proposition 8...

yun lang :)

tidbits of absurdity

(1) twinpopyale has chosen to forward me what she called a 'wtf' email.

this girl, who came out on tyra, is auctioning off her virginity.  yup -- wtf.

read more about it here.

(2) twinpopyale also forwarded this article about how the philippines was found to be one of those not elated with obama's win.  other countries:  laos, cambodia.  talo pa tayo ng iran.

read more about it here.

(3) lastly, i had a short spat with a right-winged fundamentalist american on you tube.  i was watching a clip of the oprah show right after the win.

then i read this comment by a certain memama2:

this flim flam MAN! never told the truth, from day ONE! and this women is a promoter of a Satanic Driven new age religion...go to Stushie.wordpress to see the lies and partial verses, Eckhart Tolle trys to TWIST to promote a doctrine of dogma....that will NEVER replace Holy Scripture. Truth matters, and with the Internet, we have the ability to FIND the fibs and fairy tales of these lying gurus. Also the other YouTube: Marianne Williamson Movie One lets us see, the OTHER demon channeler OUTED

to which i replied:

memama2,

"judge not and you shall not be judged" - luke6:37

to which she replied:

this mis-quoted out of context verse comforts the new agers and makes them think they can believe anything....the Bible is FILLED with things we are to JUDGE: false doctrines....false teachers....false miracles....false christs.......false prophets.....and false Conduct.....this Oprah, Eckahrt and her other gurus , do NOT do! They can't TEACH anyone anything as they THEMSELVES do NOT know right from wrong! They think "unity" trumps "truth" TODAY. It does not. Judging is NEEDED and TRUTH MATTERS

to which i then replied:

"they THEMSELVES do NOT know right from wrong!" -memama2.... and perhaps neither do you.

to which she, a few hours later, replied:

kreeepeeee......"judge NOT, lest ye be judged!"....YOU WANT TO STOP ME FROM GIVING A WARNING?...Oprah has MISSED THE MARK:...so well discussed in the Scripture she now dismisses and mocks. YOU DO NOT WANT any warning? or a way to FIND the false lies of this evil cult? Its here.... on YouTubes: The Gospel According To Oprahs Friends and Marianne Williamson Movie One wish you would consider the truth in each one.....and see how the world is being deceived.......

that was it... didn't reply anymore.  there were so many other conversations going on that it was pointless. 

silly, silly, silly.

sunday at the cbd

spent sunday morning with twinpopgay around our pretty cbd.

here's where we parked... along a tree-lined street in legaspi village.

an impy pilapil sculpture peering out of a nice quiet part of the park.

nice retro buildings...

off to the legaspi sunday market...

this one's a lot more spacious than the saturday salcedo market.

a "healthy" drink i bought... tasted a bit too healthy for me!

live music...

turkish food from a turkish (?) guy...

then off to another tree-lined street, perea...

ate in mom & tina's...

such a cute store!  

just wished the food was as good as the store was cute.

yun lang :)