Chariya’s Thai Kitchen @Reposo December 29, 2008
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One thing I like about where I live now is that the next block is JP Rizal and parallel is Reposo. There’s a Jollibee, Chow King and McDonald’s right there and a short walk takes you to 7-Eleven. Then there’s Reposo. I usually buy the pork barbeque of Sa Tabi, and sometimes even go there and eat. The only thing that turns me off is the cockroaches because you eat on the sidewalk. But you always see the place full of people in the evenings. Their pork bbq is P20 per stick. Beside Sa Tabi, what used to be Som’s (another favorite of mine) is now Chariya’s Thai Kitchen.
I first encountered Chariya’s at the food court of 168 Mall. I fell in love with their fried rice with crab meat and pad thai, and ever since, it’s the only place I eat from when I visit my sister. I didn’t remember the name of the place though. Then a few weeks ago I took my mom to the Saturday Market at Salcedo Park, there I saw their booth and bought their bagoong rice and pad thai. Definitely it wasn’t as good since it’s not newly cooked, but I took one of their brochures. That was when I realized they were the same store as the 168 place.
Last night I decided to take my mom, brother and Josephine out to dinner. Since we have no transpo I decided on Thai food. The place is now very open, the walls knocked down so with the current weather, it’s cool inside. What pleasantly surprised me was the service though. It was a refreshing change after my experience the other day at UCC Coffee Terrace. These guys were just wearing T-shirt and jeans, but they were very attentive and helpful. We enjoyed a happy dinner and I vowed I’ll go back. The price isn’t too cheap though… we had my favorite fried rice with crab meat for P150, the tom kha gai, pad thai with shrimp, green curry beef (careful this is spicy you gotta tell them you want mild or not spicy), chicken in pandan and stir fried squid with garlic and pepper. Yeah we were quite hungry coz I made them wait til I finish watching Singing Bee (8pm) hehehehe It’s definitely more expensive than eating at Sa Tabi, but the taste is good and they used good ingredients. Their shrimp is actually good sized prawns so it’s worth it. Add that to good service, I can eat there even though they don’t have aircon hehehe
I hope they stay long there, I for one am happy that there’s a nice Thai food place near home. I still love Som’s, although I’d only go there if I have the transpo. Chariya also delivers, I would order for pick up to make it faster since it’s so near hehehe
Bad Experience at UCC Cafe Terrace - Bonifacio Global City branch December 27, 2008
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I promised myself I’m going to blog about this, and here I am. UCC Cafe Terrace is supposed to be a nice place to dine, and we decided to have our meeting there today.
First problem I encountered was that there was a horde of fruit flies (little langaw) flying around us (this is inside the cafe not outside!). When the food arrived, they attacked our food before we even get to touch it. I immediately asked the lady server for a candle, but it didn’t work at all. Still lots of flies and my goodness, the food looked appetizing except that you get flies flying around and several landing and walking around the food even though we were all busy waving our hands in an attempt to shoo them away.
I asked again for assistance and the girl just LOOKED at us, then turned away and began wiping a table. My sister, our friends and I looked at each other in surprise, and one of us loudly said “oh my, dinedma tayo”, and I seconded the comment. The girl then disappeared and came back with another candle. By the way, the glass is deep and they use tea candles, I have no idea how that would help. Anyway, we decided just to keep waving our hands while eating our meal.
When the afternoon sun started shining on our backs, we decided to move to another table. My brother-in-law offered to carry our food but I said no need, we’ll just ask for the server to help. And I did. Everybody saw that I talked to the server asking her to move our food and drinks. We waited for several minutes and when I turned to look, I saw them WIPING our table and our food and drinks gone. I immediately called one of the servers and after TWO attempts, someone then went inside to look for it and guess what, they’re already somewhere where the food is to be thrown away, and this girl had the gall to put the remains of my cheesecake on a new plate. Who knows what happened to the plate already??? Why did she move it to another plate? And when I asked for my half consumed Hawaiian Blue Soda, she said it’s gone. They threw it away. Not to mention another cake we haven’t finished eating.
That’s it! I got really mad, and I decided to just get the bill and asked everyone to bear with me and move to another place. I also asked to talk to the manager and guess what, they made me wait a long time before someone showed up. At first she just listened and we felt like we were talking to a blank wall. I also heard someone banging something and I went red with anger. I told the manager what happened and it felt useless. I told her that with the price they are charging for that place we don’t deserve such service, and she better check the quality of her people because they’re giving UCC a bad name. I just wanted to get out of that place.
By the way, the service button you use to call the servers isn’t even working. Geez. And they tend to ignore us when we raise our hand to call their attention. What a place. I am SO NOT GOING BACK THERE!! SERVICE SUCKS!!! Usually I am the patient one but my gosh they threw away my food when I wasn’t done? Grrrrr!!!
My 40th… December 11, 2008
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Before starting this blog, I read last year’s birthday entry. I felt kind of sad because I remembered Sam, Fluffy’s mom, was sleeping on my bed at that time. This year she’s passed on and Belle, my Jack Russell, took her place.
I woke up in a bad mood on my 40th birthday, I really hate the thought of leaving the 30’s. I guess I still have this fear that I won’t live past 45. But what the heck. There are things that I can control and there are things I can’t.
My birthday started at midnight when I got text messages from friends and family. The whole day was full of birthday greetings in my Blackberry, my other cellphones (yeah I can’t believe I carry 5 of them around LOL) , Yahoo Messenger, Friendster, Facebook… this is the 2nd year that I couldn’t afford to throw a party but I got 2 in the evening. My sister G kidnapped me for dinner, and let me choose where I want to eat. I went for another bout with Red Crab’s buffet, I’m so in love with Crab Maritess, even though Clawdaddy’s even better (but it’s not eat-all-you-can hehehe). Then I found out that while I was gone, my friends from Novare went to my house to throw me a surprise party! I got a panicked text message from Josephine saying there are a lot of people at my place. My sister took me home and I was surprised to see so many of them! I won’t name you guys na ha, but I’m so happy that you took the time to come. I realized then that the reason I was in such a bad mood all day was that I was sad I couldn’t invite my friends over, and I miss being with them. It was a short party because there’s work the next day, but seeing them made my heart full. For the past months I haven’t had much contact with my friends from Wolfpac and Novare, them being as busy as I was. I had this thought that maybe this year, they’ve moved on and won’t really remember.
Again, I have no reason to complain about my birthday. I may not be rich in cash but my golly, if it’s friends we talk about, I’m a millionaire. As for the much feared big FOUR-OH, well, I don’t feel much different. I guess everybody’s right, 40 is just a number. I do hate that I gained back all the 38 lbs I lost last year, but I will have to lose them again. It’s just that I wish I’d stop aging and just keep enjoying life. Calling Carlisle! nyehehhehe
To all my friends and family who greeted me on my birthday, thank you so much! You are my source of happiness in my life, and if there’s anything I can be proud of, it’s you who care for me this much.
Every day is a blessing. We never know how long or how many December 9’s I can blog about my birthday. But what’s important is, looking back, every one of them was happy, especially these last few years. And mostly because of all the people in my heart and my life. I kept asking why I am here, why I exist. I guess they’re the answer.
Twilight… December 7, 2008
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I had to wait til today to watch Twilight. We went to Greenbelt 3 early, and I was glad we did because we caught the last 3 rounds of Manny Pacquiao’s fight with Oscar de la Hoya… my heart was pounding throughout and everybody was shouting with joy when he won. I immediately sent text messages to my family to let them know the good news. After that we had lunch at Red Crab, then it was time to go into the movie house.
I LOVE the movie! I finished all 4 books in a week, inspite of my hectic schedule. I loved the story and the movie stayed loyal to the details in most of the scenes. The awkwardness of Bella was very much shown as well as the way Edward and Bella acted around each other. I wasn’t expecting too much considering how much detail of the book was changed when I watch the Harry Potter movies. I hope they show the next one next year! I loved it so much I wouldn’t mind getting bitten by Edward hahahaha!
I won’t do spoilers here, all I will say is that it was worth every peso I paid and I hope to watch it again soon.
