November 2011
5 posts
Finally some dream fulfilling. I’ll get to watch one of my favorite bands!
I’m not a super fan of any band now. There was a time when I was crazy for The Moffatts and maybe Incubus. But that was a long, long time ago and I can’t say why I liked them.
Some songs I want to hear live:
Wonderwall-Oasis
Everlong-Foo Fighters
Blister in the Sun-Violent Femmes
Don’t Speak-No...
October 2011
5 posts
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“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as...”
– Steve Jobs (via blua)
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September 2011
3 posts
top chef
I’ve never gotten around to watching Top Chef before (hmm maybe just a few episodes here and there) because I thought it would affirm my greatest fears about being a chef. I’m watching the recently concluded All Stars series. DON’T TELL ME WHO WON OR I’LL BE FURIOUS. That’s anger right there. That’s just something I learned from the show hehe.
The guy who...
My absence from tumblr can only mean one thing: an absence of things to report. Well, there was my birthday…
Although it was nice because I got to spend it with friends and family, I’d rather not dwell on turning a quarter of a century old. There, I said it…let’s just get over it :)
So…I left the restaurant to attend to my studies. My boss and I had a lot of talks...
FRAGRANT SMOKE// →
August 2011
3 posts
Squid Curry
“what’s for lunch?” is a commonly asked question early morning in the kitchen. Not the lunch on our menu but our staff lunch meal that we eat between shifts at 5 pm. Sometimes it’s pasta with dried up and brown herbs, sometimes it’s braised Asian cabbage, a lot of times it’s vegetarian curry. Our meal depends on what we need to get rid off in the cool room...
profiles
I can’t believe my head chef has a kid, a cute blonde baby whom he brought to the restaurant last week. He’s so…human.
I can’t imagine him coming home to a family. I always thought he just passed out on the couch with his chin to his chest and a scotch in his hand. The following questions come to mind: does he stand over his wife instructing her to open a carton of milk?...
July 2011
3 posts
I wrote this a week ago
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To my friends,
I have about a week and a half of school holidays to go before classes resume. I don’t know what my schedule will look like next sem because I have 3 days of school and I’ve got two new rakets (Pang tennis). But busy is good and I am so happy! I’ll just switch on the scheduling/planning side of my brain and put it to...
June 2011
23 posts
game of thrones character map
my next knife?
Massugu Lite series - 180mm santoku
This “Lite” series of knives from Massugu feature a very special bevel that is flat on the left side and perfectly tapered on the right. The right hand side is then finished with a highly polished 1mm bevel. This is a modern incarnation of the edge found on wa gyuto or wa santoku and is usually only found on far more expensive...
I’m an oyster eater now. That’s one of the biggest changes I’ve seen in me (palette wise) since I’ve lived here. I wouldn’t go near those slimy suckers before but now I eat enough in class to essentially replace medical stimulants (lol). I also eat raw fish now. Oh the possibilities when the food is fresh!
what I like now:
1. Chai tea over instant coffee
2. hot...
Watchwinterwalking:
thelostslytherin:
tealeafs:
criss-colfer:
jellyfilledcondoms:
aubreyli:
threepwillow:
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The Warbler number that never was, but totally should have been.
Ok, so I never thought I’d make a sugary Klaine video because 1) you know I can’t take anything seriously for that long, and 2) the only thing I hardcore ship...
I want to conquer today by way of Ferris Bueller but the rain is an enemy of mine. It picks days when I don’t have to go to school to hole me up in my room.
It didn’t win last Saturday night though because I still managed to go to that Blues and Jazz Festival. It was a sad site though because not everyone was as vigilant as me and there were only a few people grooving under clear...
we’ve been doing the methods of cooking in school like steaming,stewing,braising, baking, grilling. May food na talaga! hindi na ako napipilitang kainin yung carrot and orange slices na ginagayat ko :)) It’s been a hard two weeks though because the chef asks us to do 7 dishes a night and you have to work out the work flow yourself sometimes. My older classmate who was a primary...
Majority of my classmates are below 20. They used to work as apprentices when they got out of highschool. Some of these kids are Australian and some are Asian who speak a little English. Yung maingay siyempre yung Aussie kids. The kids are nice pero dun ako sa older ones sumasama kasi hindi naman ako pwede magpakabagets! hahaha Then three of my classmates are from prison. Yes, jail. Malapit...
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(to Bea and the gang)
…It’s just that I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around doing my course. I love cooking no doubt but I’ve been thinking WILL I DO THIS EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE? Will I make a career out of this? I try to stop myself from thinking I’m good with the theory part,I’m analytical and I’m book smart because I’m here to do...
kitchen diaries
Becoming/being a chef is hard.
I purposefully didn’t allow myself to watch Top Chef, Masterchef or read Kitchen Confidential because I knew I’d freak out. I thought the lessons would be fun and relaxed but sometimes it would get so hard that I’d fall into old career relapse. Ang tawag ko dun “when coeds join America’s Next Top Model”
“Nevermind if I...
May 2011
10 posts
Miles from the middle of nowhere: The best day of... →
everywhereweshoot:
I met garovs in 2003 and it changed my life. It’s very RARE that you meet someone na makakasundo mo in anyway. As in literally sa lahat, Art, Work, even sa smallest detail like the drink she’s drinking, the food she’s eating. lahat eh! and yung taong-grasa na nakita ko…
cute
