Been daydreaming of my snack baons when I was in my early Montessori days. The usual package consists of either ham/cheese sandwich na lasang plastic, wafer biscuits na Gold ang wrapper, TUC salty crackers, Knickknacks, Jack N' Jill Pretzels, and other sorts na mukhang mura sa budget, then for drinks would be Hi-C Apple or Grape (ayoko ever ng mainit na Zesto ang sakit sa lalamunan, nakakasuka and super malas mo pag yun ang baon mo sa field trip), Zip orange, Yakult (I don't realize then na sobrang kulang ang 1 bottle at that time), or cold Coke with ice in the ever-uso thermos na Coleman. I remember that time when my filthy rich classmates would have Yan-Yan or Kitkat for snacks.


During lunch, Celso would have his yaya bring him the the circular 3-level container metal baunan, which would separate steaming hot rice, nilagang baka with overflowing sabaw and his printong tapa or porkchop. Super mukhang masarap but I was never sure though, I never asked for a portion, thinking I might contract something from Celso, who then was not so hygienic. My usual rice lunch consists of tapa or tocino, adobong pork or chicken, cold fried chicken with no breadings but instead marinated in soy sauce, hotdogs that turns my rice pink, since the dogs are put on top of the rice, wala kasing separator ang Tupperware ko. My ever favorite lunch treat was bacon or corned beef, but over-all-on-top-of-my-list fave is when mommy forgets to prepare baon for us so she comes by at school and brings hot carinderia food like menudo or igadu.


Eventually, my snacks evolved to kiosk food like flavor-varied soda, clover bits, cheezels, chickadees and all other chichirya of the late 8o's. There were times when I had ice-cold Coke in my Coleman when it's PE day.

What's the Story Morning Glory?

While I was looking for domestication items to use for my new residence in an apartment in Chautoco, it suddenly lit my mind that I need a keychain for my 3 new house keys. So the nearest I can reach while walking in the back avenues of Galleria was the Morning Glory store. I asked the sales assistant where I can find it, (actually on the first seconds I was inside the store, i was really irritated then cause she did the NO-NO habit of literally following my steps, serving as my kunsenshang twilight zone version as if I'm going to pickpocket), she pointed at a small purse that can serve as both a coin or key purse, what the heck! She then told me that they don't have keychains (considering that I am on a stationery and gift store!). So I trodded to the other side of the shelves, since I'm not convinced that they don't have keychains. Then I found the keychains, which are in Pucca and some other unknown Japanese cartoons. I got one, raised it in the air and announced to the sales pro that I found a keychain....then without batting an eyelash, she suddenly blurted, "Ay oo pwede rin lalagyan ng susi yan." Superb! ang galing talaga ng intellect ng mga tao today, that's why I'm not surprised that those politicians show TV campaigns that cater to the "hindi mo na kailangan mag-isip kung sino ang iboboto mo, kailangan mo lang maaliw" fanatics of wowowee or sexbomb (hindi ko kinakaya ang kabakyaan ng mga nilalang na ito). Obviously their agents see that the general TV audience are morons and will be thrilled by the big-budgeted dance numbers of the candidates.

The best ever LiveAids show I've seen last Sunday....my 3rd year of being a suki of this annual show by the supercilious yet supertalented MassCom household of UP. It was almost 4 hours of frigid facial muscles cause I can't control the kaaliwan and kasiyahan these monologists are bringing out. The mood was so infectious, I had laughter syndrome until I slept and when I woke up and stared even at a blurred mirror, Surprise! I have new friends! Wrinkles here and there, in magnified/parang sharp-imaged version pa. Time is taking its toll on my skin, if I can just be a raisinet na you can coat with chocolate. I realized it's okay na rin since the reason why tiny folds appear is yung all-day smiling.

My Warehouse Buys last Saturday: (all are 70% off)

1. Scarlet Letter
2. From Nobodies to Somebodies
3. A book for those who just turned 50 (forgot the title)
4. Eating Fire and Drinking Water

Also passed by National Pioneer that same day and they have better deals for classics...Tolstoy and Jack London coffeetable book sized, plus all other dead writers for 69.00. Enough of books I don't have time to read...I ended with super-thick chocolate milkshake and pepperoni pizza sa Shakey's.