my mom could be a rapper if she wanted to be

so i'm eating lunch at ongpin with my auntie and my mom, and just for conversation's sake, i ask about my tocino, "this stuff is expensive back home, huh?"

and they my auntie goes, "yea, all meat is expensive... i remember when we were little and we used to have rice and coconut milk for breakfast... and for dinner we would have rice and a raw egg."

and then my mom goes, "oh yea... i forgot about that" and she has this look of realization on her face, like she just remembered what is used to be like growing up back home in the philippines.

as usual, the servings at ongpin are tremendous, so when i finish all my rice, even though i had a piece of tocino with every spoonful of rice, i still have a fair amount of meat left on my plate. my auntie then looks at my plate and laughs, "that meat you have left on your plate would feed our whole family"

hot = halo halo time

my mouth prefers to eat tropical flavors.

- young coconut flesh and coconut water
- pineapples
- cherimoyas
- mangoes
- ube ice cream


that's what she said.

happy (grand)mother's day

i think i've talked a lot about my mom on this blog. and it's not like she doesn't deserve to still be talked about, especially on mother's day.. but i'mma talk about my grandma right now.

my grandma (we call her apu) cannot really see anymore. all she can really tell is whether it's light or dark. she also has a good amount of grandchildren, and most of us don't really see her more than once a week, usually at church.

anyways, something we all like to do is go up to her to greet her and hold her hand and say "Hi Apu, who am I?" to see if she can tell us apart.

something i'm proud of is that my grandma never forgets my voice. never. she's mistaken most of my other cousins for each other and even my sister for one of them too, but she always remembers my voice.

happy apu's day.

no forreal

with respect to owen and his defense of les stroud and survivorman, wouldn't bear grylls and man vs. wild make the best video game?!?

each episode is already perfectly set-up like a video game level with a defined goal and several challenges. the possibilities are endless!

shower wisdom: motivational lines that wouldn't work on kids #1

"do you wanna work at McDonald's for the rest of your life?"