Thai Food

Meeting an adventurous friend, can be a great time to explore new food. So we have agreed to have a dinner in a Thai resto in Trinoma out of gusto. I suppose it was a newly opened one considering the furniture and signage.

A classy interior you'll find there.

It took me minutes to choose my order since I'm not familiar with the foods' names so I had to look at the photos for something that is yummy. We ended up ordering these…

Looked like a fresh lumpia to me. But it isn't, the wrapper is different.

Now this is like the omelete with noodles inside.

The sauce. Quite Filipino ey?

Generally, South East Asian cuisine can be that similar to each other but every country still has their distinction. With Thai food, I don't find it hard to adjust with the taste. I'm just amaze by how they put lots of pepper on food. Regardless of that, I think I can live in Thailand. hahahaha

Random Gala in Manila

This is way back August when we happen to have a small gathering with my VSO-ICS peeps. I stayed overnight with one of them- which was a very nice sleep of course. And then my companion brought me to the newly built SM in Taguig. By the time I was in Manila this mall was still underconstruction. The Samsung Hall is also located there (too bad I wasn't able to watch Sungha Jung's concert). But that's not what I wanted to say. We had a small tour and she treated me with Magnum Ice Cream. This ice cream is famous in the Philippines for being expensive and yummy. And I assume that the first Magum resto is in SM Aura? Well, nevermind.

So, we first had to choose the ice ream whether vanilla or chocolate. And then, the coating - they offer the dark chocolate and white chocolate. My friend and I had to different orders so we can taste each other's ice cream. And for the toppings they had array of toppings to choose from. It was so varied that you will go gaga for choosing only three toppings for your ice cream (which is very much unfair).
Ok so this is the array of toppings, in blur.. hehehehehe

And tada our finished product ice cream, after going through all the stages.

But it is not just the ice cream that you will be fascinated to eat. If you love chocolates like I do you'll definitely appreciate these chocolate bars that they displayed over the place. How can they possibly be displaying it instead of eating it? grrr such a waste! It is sooo big.

The Magnum place is located at the top floor near samsung hall. It is represented by this large M made of ice cream sticks!

Ok lets move on to the other part of our gala. since travelling to Manila is what I seldom do. I met with one friend of mine who has been wanting to see me but failed due to my busy sched. hahahaha. He is actually been wanting to treat me to lunch so I contacted him that day to fulfill his promise. He took us to this cake resto and had small chit-chat.

and the cakes we had are so deliii..

But they didn't like it that much so I had to bring the left overs. We parted ways right after. and that ended my gala in Manila. Hope to see them again soon.!

Enthusiasm spoiled during Manila Trip

I could say that everything didn't went smoothly during my Manila trip. Though the free ticket back and forth gave an ecstatic feeling, it was then replaced by the dilemma of where to stay over due to some reasons (which I'm gonna state later).

I have not thought well where to stay, my mind was not too fixed on that as I thought it could be decided as I get there. I had a really hard time texting my friends so I can stay over, both of them gave a sly answer to my immediate request. If I had not begged to one of them, I probably ended up on the streets. So my lesson was, "friends are precious give them a helping hand when you can and without hesitation." Those friends that I contacted frustrate me a little bit but I tried to introspect myself if I happen to offend them before which made them do that. There might be a reason to all of it that I decided to let it pass. (But I was really thankful for letting me stay one night) :D..So that was the first spoiler……

Spoiler  2 was really disappointing and embarrassing. I could've stayed at our previous boarding house. Yet I was taken aback when my father did some serious lies to people we are living with. That is more embarrassing than telling the truth. He could've said it differently. I just couldn't imagine he has done that.

The last spoiler is…. The good news was, I got accepted. Which I am very grateful to share with my family. Cause for the first time, I'm taking a leap of faith to overcome my fears. However, it was not openly recognized by most of them. They probably don't understand. So this time "one notes" you are my buddy to help put myself into a relief.

I'll be posting pictures of my Manila Trip soon. As soon as I'm done with some of the requirements I need to prepare.