Archive for April 2015

Drugstore makeup isn't always "cheap" here in the Philippines. Even if they were, who am I to say no to free stuff? Sometimes there's expensive makeup among the shiny things my mom receives from her friends. However, I'm more than happy to take even the cheapest things off your hands. Thank you very much!

Villa Escudero is a coconut plantation and resort located a few hours away from Manila. Employees are dressed in traditional Filipino clothing from the Spanish era and guests are driven around in carabao-drawn carriages while musicians serenade them with Filipino folk songs. The resort proper has three small pools, a few sports facilities, and a river where guests can ride native bamboo rafts.

Art in Island is a 3D art museum in Cubao, Quezon City where you can touch the art and pose with it as much as you like. There is no time limit except their 9:30pm closing time and you can take as many pictures as you can manage. On our last visit, we spent around three hours, took almost 300 photos, and ended up absolutely exhausted. Maybe we're just not athletic people (I'm a hermit, after all), but my mom and her friends definitely had fun anyway, if their pictures are anything to go by.

My brothers were the ones who introduced us to Banapple. I don't remember exactly what I ate the very first time we went there, but I definitely remember eating pancakes at some point and being absolutely floored at how fluffy they were.

Cooking is unfortunately not part of my skill set. I just don't have the patience required for it so the list of things I can "cook" is depressingly short. Since baking is relatively easier for me, when I learned about bacon egg cups, I knew I had to try making them.

There is nothing to say about Army Navy Burger + Burrito that its name doesn't already explain. It's literally a military themed restaurant specializing in burgers and burritos. Having a straightforward name is a good thing, I suppose. I like knowing exactly what to expect to find in the menu.

Admittedly, Classic Savory is the kind of place I often overlook when deciding where to dine. I don't know exactly why but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that at first glance, the restaurant looks like all it has is chicken. That's not a completely baseless assumption considering that their logo features, you know, a chicken.

The Philippines, being a tropical country, has only two "seasons": 1.) super wet rainy with a chance of typhoons and 2.) unbelievably hot, eyeball-melting dry spells. There's none of those fancy springs and winters for us Southeast Asians, so when April rolls around and the kids are let out of school for the summer, everyone starts scrambling for different ways to cool themselves.

Annipie is a local brand best known for their cinnamon rolls, although they offer more than just cakes and pastries. They also have smaller locations with a more limited menu in Abreeza and Gaisano Mall. My mother is inexplicably fond of this establishment so I find myself here more often than I would like.

The Peak sits atop Gaisano Mall of Davao and houses several dining places. The view from it is not what I would call breathtaking, but it's not like Davao's skyline has much to offer anyway. Though it's often far too hot out, the open space is a nice change of scenery.

Occasionally my mother takes me out of the house so that I would "see the sun" and occasionally I willingly go, because sometimes dressing up and putting makeup on helps me feel a tiny bit better.

Many people love Nutella. I, for one, like Nutella. When I bake dark chocolate cupcakes with Nutella frosting, I end up getting a little greedy, which is a sort of achievement considering how I don't usually eat what I bake. Nutella frosting is hard to resist, though. In fact, I like it better in cupcake frosting form than in its actual hazelnut chocolate spread form.

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