the moment you want to see when you have kids

yessssss!

or the moment i wish i had if i had an older brother.

badminton

I've always been the sporty kind. Too much inactivity makes my head (and heart) ache. And right now I miss badminton. Sure, we play with my family once in a while, but it's the REAL game that I miss.

I have a friend who used to actively invite us all to play then play with someone else on the court. I used to spite him for not playing with us. Now I understand. Everyone seeks to improve, to be better than they usually were. And one way to improve yourself is by pitting yourself against better adversaries to raise up your game. Unfortunately we were noobs at that time. I'd like to think I make a better opponent now.

Over here, the hard part is in seeking better adversaries. I guess we have to make the best of our situation :)

Badminton, I'll be back! I still have a master to defeat! Aja!

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a girl and her dog

a girl and her dog

throwback thursday 4/25

high school.

CAT officers are seniors. and during the army inspection they are expected to bring their dates to the event and the dinner afterwards. what's interesting is that it has been our school's tradition to pick a sponsor (female) or an escort (male) from the juniors.

and that's how, a week before their inspection, we heard she has been asked by him, or she is going to be this officer's date, and so on. well, most of my friends were already asked out so imagine my surprise when the battalion commander walked up to our poor excuse of a home room and asked "will you be my date?".

that was the only time in my life i was asked "will you be my date?". ever. technically, though, i was only filling in the place of his real girlfriend who was the adjutant hahaha. his family was there, of course, and in most pictures of us his younger brother made sure to include his adjutant girlfriend =))

after leading the dance during the dinner party he left me alone with my friends because he's got his real girlfriend to attend to anyway. yes na lang. overall, though, it was a good experience. getting asked out (in the most gentlemanly way! sir yabu always stressed out officers should be gentlemen..and women), going through how-to-act-like-a-lady coaching with our guidance councilor (how to sit, how to stand, how to walk, how to cross your legs, SMILE!), getting pampered on the day, getting excused from classes in the afternoon so we could take our beauty rest before the dinner party (haha, really!).

i had a hat. the same one that you usually see on stewardesses. unfortunately i was the only one with the hat because the others have lost theirs so i had to take it off for uniformity. it would have looked a lot cooler, though, with the hat. :)

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pork menudo

ahh, classic filipino dish yet it's the first time i've ever tried to make one, haha.

Ingredients

• 1/2 kilo pork (cut into small chunks)

• 1/4 kilo pork liver (cut into small cubes)

• 5 pieces chorizo Bilbao (also cut in small pieces)

• 4 potatoes (peeled, cut in small cubes, fried)

• 1 green and 1 red bell pepper (diced)

• 1 cup chickpeas

• 1/4 cup raisins

• 1/2 teaspoon paprika

• 1 cup pork or chicken stock (i used 1/2 pork cube dissolved in 1 cup water)

• 2 teaspoons of patis (fish sauce)

• 3 tablespoons oil

• 1 tablespoon atsuete oil (optional)

• 3 tomatoes (diced)

• 1 small head of garlic (minced)

• 1 medium size onion (diced)

Cooking Instructions

• In a pan or wok, heat cooking oil and atsuete oil.

• Saute garlic, onion. Then add the pork, liver, chorizo de Bilabo, tomatoes, bell pepper, paprika, patis and the stock.

• Cover and bring to a boil. Simmer for 20 minutes or until the pork is tender.

• Add the chickpeas, potatoes and raisins. Boil of another 2 minutes.

• Salt and pepper to taste.

• Serve hot with white rice