Monday, March 28, 2011
Cognitive dissonance
Cognitive dissonance: When you can't decide which takes precedence - your work obligations or your family needs? The latter almost always wins the end, of course. But the mere process of having to make a choice leaves one exhausted!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Flit by
Sometimes one becomes reluctant to give in to sleep for fear that once you close your eyes, something that you have been desperately waiting for will flit by and think that you were never even there.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
kurokuroatbp
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Written by "TOE," someone I used to know at SHP as a teen-ager. Now, a diplomat posted abroad.
Written by "TOE," someone I used to know at SHP as a teen-ager. Now, a diplomat posted abroad.
Lifeless leaf
Have you ever felt your happiness ebbing away, teardrop by teardrop? I wonder how much of tears we can shed before our souls are blown away, like a dry and lifeless leaf?
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Going bananas over bananas
Last February 28, I had lakatan banana in fresh fruit salad for breakfast. For morning snacks, I had one boiled saging na saba. Before lunch, I had a little latundan banana in our room ( I don't know why. Maybe I just felt guilty about the growing stash of uneaten bananas in our room!) For merienda, I had 2 pieces of bananacue and followed later by one leftover boiled saba. That would be roughly 6 pieces for someone who isn't even crazy about bananasI Dessert for dinner was... you guessed it, bananas! Suko na ako!!!But whatever the nuns serve, no matter what or how much, you seem compelled to eat them. Like I was transported back to the days I was a half-intern in St.Joseph's College in my elementary years. Then, you risked getting an invitation to visit Purgatory if you as much left a crumb on your plate!
So after a a few days of (forced) banana bingeing, I realized that there were so many variety of banana that were available to us and that I actually liked some of them. The saba would probably be first in line, considering the many ways I have enjoyed them: pritong saging (sliced horizontally & fried), bananacue (fried whole with brown sugar & then skewered like a barbeque), turon (sliced, put inside spring roll wrappers and then fried with brown sugar, sometimes with jackfruit slivers), maruya (sliced like coins, put in batter and then fried and then when done, sprinkled with white sugar) , boiled or steamed, baked with panocha (block of raw sugar) in an earthenware pot , minatamis na saging (cooked in brown sugar syrup), inihaw (grilled over charcoal, with or without the banana skin), and my all-time childhood favorite, nilupak (semi-ripe banana combined with fresh, shredded coconut, margarine and brown sugar and then pound together into a yummy mass using a big mortar and pestle). Whew, I've never felt so blessed!
To my dear friends and high school classmates who live abroad and shared in my FB account that they long for Philippine bananas, I have only one thing to say .... Eat your puso ng saging (banana heart) out, guys! Hehehehe!
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