happiness under 100 pesos

when i was little, i used to enjoy those sugary treats that can be found at your friendly mom and pop stores or sari sari stores. their dizzying colors and the feel on my tastebuds equate to childhood nirvana.

we went to market yesterday and my brothers headed straight to those wholesale outlets, earnestly hoping to find the long-lost treats. we came home with big smiles plastered on our faces and a bag full of goodies.

chocnut - Php21 - a pack of about 48 individual candies
Haw haw milk candies - Ph16 - the packaging is mint green with a cowhead
Choko choko chocolates - Php46 - a pack of 50 chocolate sticks that ooze from a thin plastic tube
Cheap LALA milk chocolates that tasted like brownies - 4 * 4.50

total: Php96
i also saw those milky sweet powder that comes in colorful plastic mini feeding bottles that you "drink" with a straw.

what i didn't find was those candy sticks that we used to call as "tira-tira."

send me a message if you see some of this sticks somewhere, help me feed my craving. :-)

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or you can have lunch at dinner

Caterer to potential client: We serve breakfast all day. Even at night, if you wanted to have breakfast, it would still be possible.

Office cafeteria
Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila
22 March 2007 4:45pm

:-D :-D :-D

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teriyaki = chinese food (not!)

Last Saturday, I rode the an Ayala-C5 Tamaraw FX on my way to Play Underground, the wall climbing gym at the Powerplant Mall. I was seated beside the driver and there were two middle-aged ladies at the back. The radio was not playing, so I amused myself with the mindless chatter in the van.

Lady 1 (bewildered):

You mean to say that you go to the market everyday?

Lady 2:

Yes. I like roaming around the place. I eat alone most of the time. I particularly like eating at Teriyaki Boy* - yung Chinese food? Mahilig ako sa Chinese food.

(I like Chinese food.)


(Note to self: Order Kani salad and Chicken Teriyaki Don AND NOT wanton noodle soup at Teriyaki Boy.)

*Teriyaki Boy is a local resto serving JAPANESE food.

Currently feeling: amused

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