The TGI Friday’s Experience
Jan 31st
After a long day’s torture at school, two of my friends and I stayed in Ayala Center Cebu to have our dinner somewhere in one of the not-so-expensive restaurants in the Terraces. Stupidly, we ended up eating our meal at McDonald’s worth Php 50 each. That’s really hilarious. We spent around 45 minutes searching for a restaurant and ended up in the fastfood spending only such small amount. HAHA. But we have other things in mind. We’re supposed to spend more on the dessert portion. Unluckily, Dessert Factory was closed since they’re moving to the Terraces from the inside of the mall.
One of my companions really wanted to try TGI Friday’s. She’s been drooling over to that cake/brownie she saw one time. So after the funny little dinner, we gave TGI Friday’s a try.
What I like about TGI Friday’s is the location itself. The ambiance was great — overlooking the fountain area of the Terraces. It was dimly-lit though. Anyways, the waitresses were very attentive, friendly and most of all, sexy (with cat ears!). We were given the menu and shockingly, the prices were so HIGH. Sky high! We were laughing as we don’t have the capacity to individually buy ourselves a serving of dessert. We ended up ordering one serving for the three of us. What we ordered is called Double Chocolate Fudgy Brownie. It’s the hot brownie with a coffee-flavored ice cream on top. That one serving wasn’t all consumed. It was yummy but we just can’t take the over-sweetness. I myself am weak to super sweet foods.
We left TGI Friday’s with utter satisfaction. We charged it to experience. Now’s not the right time for us to dine in such expensive restos. When I get a job, I’ll order their main dishes for sure.
Before we left, there’s something new that I experienced too… the receipt being left a sweet note from somebody in TGI Friday’s. Here goes:
Ain’t that inspiring? Whoever Bianca is, she’s sweet. And don’t mind the ‘welcome’ with a smiley. Don’t mind my friend’s handwriting. I know it’s ugly. Haha, kidding!
Anyways, I look forward to my next TGI Friday’s meal! Yum yum!
Sitti’s Valentine Concert In Cebu
Jan 31st
The Philippines’ Queen of Bossa Nova, Sitti Navarro, will have a concert in Cebu on Valentines Day, February 14, 2009. The concert is entitled INTIMATE: A Valentine Evening with Sitti. The concert will be held at the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in Mandaue City, Cebu. Lloyd Zaragoza is the special guest of the night.
Bring your dates to this lovely concert and enjoy a romantic evening together. Please listen to the official radio plug below this. Details are presented after.
INTIMATE: A Valentine Evening with Sitti Radio Plug – Sitti
START: 07:00 PM
END: 10:30 PM
Tickets are available at:
- Platinum Php 1,000.00
- Gold Php 750.00
- Silver Php 500.00 (Free Seating)
For tickets, please see above poster. Thank You and Advanced Happy Valentines Day!
Three Ways To Start A New Life
Jan 28th
Note: This post lists things only for those who are stuck with their college or teen lives.
Like me.
The world is unfair. A teacher once forced us to believe in that. We were then young and we fought hard not to believe it. But alas, we would all still succumb to such saying. Oh well, at least I do.
Every year in my college life I get involved directly or indirectly with an issue that includes painful and heartbreaking words, lies, accusations and anything like that. Right now, I am a sad Mac being thrown up in the middle of electrifying others.
And so I have thought… fight or flee? I am tired of fighting these people all over again and again and again. Well, I do love fighting them, but I’m tired. I have so much to do right now. These asses are getting in my way. So, I have thought, what things would actually allow me to start a new life, away from the radars of these Baphomets? I thought of three well planned ideas. And though they sound easy, they are actually hard to implement.
Take note these are all FLEE tactics. So if you wanna go huff huff huff and kill your life’s antagonists, well I advise you to do so too. I will do my share of that act in the coming days anyways. No, I’m not doing these flee tactics. I’m just sharing it.
- Transfer to another university that is equal to or greater than the prestige of your current one. Better stay with your current school if you are just to transfer to a less prestigious school. As for my case, I’d have to transfer to UP Diliman if ever. My only choice. In this way, the people you hate in school would not be there anymore. The only problem is what if you would find meaner people there? Bad luck.
- Get a student visa to a country like Canada, Australia or the USA. This is very very tempting but when I looked up the average cost for a twelve month study in Canada, it amounts to around 300,000 plus Pesos. Talk about being poor. Well, if you have a million to spare, go for it. I myself dream of getting a student visa somewhere. Too bad some neighboring Asian countries aren’t clear about such issue.
- Shut up and wait for the psychopaths to get tired of admiring themselves. I’d like to thank blanne for researching on the proper term to call a certain person. Yes, if you have no choice but to stay and continue your boring, hard and stranger-meddled life, you have to just shut up so the psychopaths will get tired and start thinking of why they are such than attack you. We all probably end up on this since we are still dependents and we can’t afford 1 and 2.
Those three are really good recommendations. But I think with the wrong moves, your life gets worse. So No. 3 is the option actually.
When someone actually bugs you out of the blue, don’t start thinking about those three. Instead think Elimination. Isn’t it fun? Just kidding. Life’s unfair, but what can we do? We can’t run away from life. But there’s always a way to live a happy and peaceful life. You only become a victim when you allow yourself to be victimized.
Photo by Pixel_Fantasy
Phir Milenge (2004)
Jan 26th
Our professor in Philosophy, Prof. Espiritu, showed us a very beautiful Bollywood movie entitled Phir Milenge. This is actually my second Bollywood movie as he also showed us Lagaan when we took Asian History with him. I like what he told us before we finished the movie that “good luck” shouldn’t only mean luck in money but in every other aspect of life. He actually just said that because it is Chinese New Year today. Anyways, Phir Milenge is great — simply great. There are a lot of lessons to be learned. I made my own summary of the movie. Here it is:
Phir Milenge started off with the very successful Tamanna Sahni (Shilpa Shetty) who is the best employee of a top advertising company which she herself have helped to become a successful company. In the middle of a successful career, a college reunion came in and she learned that her college crush Rohit (Salman Khan) is coming from the United States. They fell in love with each other and had intimate moments. But after the reunion, they returned to their normal lives; no contact. Tamanna’s younger sister Tania got into a driving accident and had to be donated some blood in which Tamanna offered. But the doctor announced a very bad news to Tamanna — that she is HIV positive. Tamanna’s world broke down. She sought for Rohit but couldn’t find him. She became depressed. When she returned to work, she got fired immediately for grounds of negligence. Tamanna knew that the real reason why her boss fired her is because of her being HIV positive. Tamanna sought for many lawyers to fight her case. Nobody accepted in fear of the disease she bring until the last one who rejected pitied her and got amazed of her determination that he decided to fight for the case. Tarun Anand (Abhishek Bachchan), Tamanna’s lawyer did his best to fight the case even going against the top lawyer in India. Eventually, they won. But the sad part is Rohit died. He apologized for spreading the virus to Tamanna. He didn’t know and he said Tamanna shouldn’t die with him. Rohit is still Tamanna’s love even after he died. Three years later, Tamanna became the top businesswoman in India even she has HIV. End.
The movie was great. The issue is real. I just knew that Indians don’t have any solid law (maybe at that time or up to now, I don’t know) against discrimination of HIV positive persons. Tamanna did a good fight against discrimination and she won. The movie’s issues are sensitive yet they are mind-awakening and educational.
I recommend the movie to all Bollywood enthusiasts. There’s really a big difference between Hollywood and Bollywood. The music is also great. The song I embedded below is entitled Jeene Ke Ishare Mil Gaye, the song’s theme song.
Bioinformatics, Spare Me From Doom
Jan 25th
I have a very bad feeling. A very, very bad and negative feeling.
All I want to do now is to survive Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is our elective. I failed in the first long exam. And this has been the first time I became severely affected of a failed first long exam. I know why — because up to now I haven’t wholly understood the lessons. But that’s not what worries me most. It’s what I heard from a classmate telling me about her past experience.
I heard this the first time before the long exam — that our teacher sort of holds grudges on students. Well, not really the most evil grudge type but those that will make the teacher give you a 5.0 instead of a 3.0 come marking time. And I think I’m a target. There’s a small percentage in me telling that I’m sure. I have been extremely talkative and restless in class since day 1. Well, either talkative or drowsy. And I’m insensitive. I maybe haven’t noticed that I’m already being too noisy and obvious. But don’t get me wrong; I’m not like this in any other subject. In our Database class, I interact and listen to the teacher, not to my seatmate.
I paid the initial consequences. I don’t want to pay it full! God forbid I fail in this subject. God forbid I fail in any subject. I’m helping myself now. I’m trying to change starting today. I hope the teacher sees that change — that I lowered down my naughtiness and became a good student. There’s two months for me to prove that. I hope I survive this two-month test.
I am still worried. Or am I paranoid?
Photo by Raúl Valladolid
