Sunday, January 22, 2012

Trace College

I was invited to Trace College Los BaƱos by some old guys to take some photos...
Of course I wasn't interested in their brainstorming meeting or business meeting... whatever you call it.
The school's pretty much like Lyceum of the Philippines University Cavite campus.
So... here are some of the photos.

The college building

Aquatic Sports Complex

Diving board and an Olympic size pool (mewants the pool)

And they have a wall

A pretty neat school if you ask me.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Consecutive birthday parties = food

I got a birthday party invite last January 5... time... ASAP. I mean WTF?! XD So since there's a very high chance of people not showing up because of such short notice, Ed, the celebrant, moved the occasion on the following day... which I gladly accepted.

 Alv, Ed, Ren, Kinta

That's Alv about leave 

That's Cass, Franz, and Tin 

It's Ed's sister! 

Thought this pic was awesome, so I uploadsded it 

Ed's OZM mom!


...Is sending an invite hours before a party really the TREND?!
Got home from Ed's party at about 6am. Slept and woke up at around 2pm. Checked phone and TONI INVITED ME OVER to cook the meat! MAI GAHD!
Got there at around 7pm... First one there... obviously.

Asked Des to come over to help with the cooking

Toni(Rev), Marge, Tin (?did I get that right?), and Zhara

Here's Don and Heart

just awesome Bob

Spicy Korean bbq pork strips with tofu... and that's Fried Rice right thurr.

Went home at around 7am... woke up in the afternoon. -__-"

Friday, January 6, 2012

The not-so-very-Yangzhuo Chao Fan

SHEESH!
I've been VERY busy lately... wasn't able to post shit here. My days were taken away from me... But meh, Christmas break was fun.
I forgot... HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And as a new year post, I'd post my favorite dish! It's my favorite dish because you only need to use a spoon to eat it! (I'm a really lazy person... ... ... I hate fish. It takes sooo much effort eating them.)

Beyond here lies my recipe for my fried rice.

Ingredients and/or materials (and why you should use it):
[I don't really care how much of something you use. Just be random!]
 1. Iodized Salt (It makes your food salty. Your main source of iodine. I prefer it over rock salt because I dislike chewing on pebbles.)
 2. Pepper (It makes food pepper-y. It's a very good source of vitamin C - Capsaicin lol... K. not funny. But srsly, it has more VitC than an orange.)
 3. Garlic (It makes le food garlic-y. Use it because it has GAR in it. No, but it helps fight atherosclerosis and high blood pressure. Funny how you'll be cooking it in OIL.)
 4. Oil or Margarine (Aside from being a good source of cholesterol, it helps you in cleaning the frying pan because it doesn't let the food you cook stick to le pan.)
 5. RICE (Just try making fried rice without this... I prefer rice from 5 hours ago or more. The one they left in the fridge because I wake up in the afternoon. It's easier to mix because it already lost its SQUISHYness.)
 6. Whatever MEAT (Left-overs from last night's drinking session. You can use hotdogs or anything.)
 7. SOY SAUCE! (It's just sauce made from soy beans...)
 8. THE WOK (Life's so much easier because the Chinese created this amazing contraption. Oh did I say that it's bulletproof? ...against a handgun. It's practically the most ideal weapon in a zombie apocalypse.)
 9. Your favorite spatula (But if you're CHUCK-effin'-NORRIS, you can cook this with your eyebrows!)

Optional Ingredients and materials.
 1. Eggs (You might want to use this if you're after a very loose consistency. I warn you though that eggs are high in protein and when mixed with food, they make your food's shelf life MUCH SHORTER. Eat it immediately after cooking.)
 2. Pet dog or cat (No you wouldn't be throwing them in the mix. I use them to clean my counter-top. They're very good cleaners. You leave them, and they eat everything edible... though they don't eat garlic and a bunch of other stuffs.)
 3. The Golden Spatula (Doesn't really change anything.)
 4. Veggies (diced: may be carrots, peas, onions, shallots, whatever.)
that's GARlic... and salt 'n peps

LE STEPS!
1. Loosen the rice using your hands. Don't be too blonde about this. You can wash your hands afterwards.
 
 This was in the fridge for about an hour or so...

2. Chop the garlic.
3. Heat the wok.
 
4. Put oil or margarine in it. (a teaspoon of oil will do as long as you spread it in the pan.)
 

 5. Throw in the garlic.

6. After the garlic turns brown, put it aside.

 7. Remove the bones from your whatever MEAT because we don't really chew bones do we?
 I think these are patties and a porkchop...


 8. Dispose of the bone...

...using your optional cleaning tool number 2: pets

9. Chop the meat into little pieces.

10. Put some more oil or margarine.

11. Send in the kraken meat. And heat it until it suites your taste. (We're actually letting the taste of the meat go into the oil so that the oil may coat the rice grains afterwards.) If you have veggies, add them now.

 12. Rice (If you choose to add eggs, do it NAO! Set the meat aside first before you mix the eggs with the rice.)
 13. Mix thoroughly

14. Add in the soy sauce, garlic, salt, and pepper. (How much you put in depends on you.)

15. Mix it again.
(The quality of fried rice actually depends on how you mix the rice. The goal of frying rice is to evenly distribute the taste of the oil and the other ingredients to each grain of rice. So the more you mix it, the better... It'll strain your arms though.)

16. ~Serve!

I usually put it in a small Lock&Lock and bring it wherever I go because I often go hungry. And... yes, I always have a spoon in my bag.

Note that if you add eggs, you'll turn this into a Yangzhuo chao fan [Fried Rice of Yangzhuo] (you pronounce Yangzhuo as yeung-chiao... -__-" I hated Mandarin because of translations...)

You can add vegetables as long as they're diced into small pieces.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

High School Reunion XMas Party

Well, plans are made not to be followed but will only serve as guidelines.
Day starts with me getting a message from my best friend (who happens to be a girl) asking me if I could meet up with her at around 6pm.
Thinking that the party I started was to start at around 8pm, I went out of my way to see her.
Spent some minutes with her and her boyfriend and had a shot of alcohol before going to the venue of the xmas party.
I dropped by at a friend's house (she who happens to be a kindergarten teacher) and fetched her. (Because she was invited.)
And as we were going to LE VENUE, we chanced upon another participant named MJ.
So we walked towards le venue only to find that the host is not there yet.
So we decided to go to another supposedly-participant who just lost a grandmother yesterday (Dec 23) and her wake was situated at her house.
There we went, the three of us, not sure where the exact location of her house was.
Once we were in the area, we contacted her: the lady who lost someone dear.
We spent some time there talking, chit chat, chips, and drinks.
At around 11, we decided to buy us some pancit! (le favorite)
And there at the store the host of the event and another participant asked us to wait.
They came as soon as the pancit was given to us.
They bought roasted chiken! yey!
And off we went to le venue.
But teacher has a curfew... 11pm.
So she decided to go home and leave us be to our vices XD

[Long story short: MJ and I decided to go home at 5:20am leaving March behind at the venue. We also haven't the luxury to wake up the host to say our farewells. We cleaned up and locked the gates as we left.]

And here I am, home at around 6 am, thinking about all the information I've absorbed just now and writing them all down on the notebook a dear person gave me.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas party with the students.

Came a little past 4 at teacher Malen's house and help with some things.
Made last minute preparations for the 6pm party.
...I don't really talk much so here are the photos...