I’ve been craving for Buco Pie for months now… I don’t know why… I haven’t had one since God knows when… I’m ok with Colettes but my friends told me that we can easily buy one in Visayas Avenue and should’ve tried something else.

Last Saturday, my friend Nanie told me about this Apple Tart that her brother brought home from Tagaytay. She actually forgot the store name and told me that she’ll just text me as soon as she received the reply from her brother. When I got the confirmation from Nanie, the store that she was telling me happens to be the same store that our boss was told about. A special friend Someone told him to try the Sylvannas at this store.

Still not yet recovered from our strenuous activity at Calaruega (yes even after having lunch at Leslie’s), we decided to drop by at Rowena’s to buy something to go home with.

The store was painted with white and pink stripes outside and not that big. As soon as you enter the store, you’ll see freezers on the right and food racks on the left. The freezers are crowded with their frozen items while the racks are filled with some dry foods and snacks that they offer. (more…)

Did you feel the freakin’ heat of the sun yesterday?

Report shows that Metro Manila sizzles the hottest day of the year by hitting a temperature of 37.3 degree Celsius yesterday at around 3:00 PM. I remember yesterday when I feel the need of something to drink, as soon as I opened my room it felt like I’m inside the oven!

In this times of El Niño Phenomenon, the least we can have is something to freshen our day up. Something refreshing to drink like freshly squeezed lemonade, our very own halo-halo or a $0.31 of Baskin Robins Ice Cream Night.

You read it right! Just when everyone is hitting the weighting scales and trying to be conscious with their calorie intake. Baskin Robins just had a 31 Cent Scoop of Ice Cream night a while ago (April 28 5PM – 10PM) for some participating stores. They are offering a yummy scoop of Butter Pecan or Rocky Road for that amount with cone comes with and no coupon needed!

This event is to honor the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) National Junior Firefighter Program with a $100,000 donation for their emergency service workers.

I love Butter Pecan! Why don’t we have something like this in Manila!? Even if it’s just dirty ice cream, I’ll be the first one to fall in line… Call me “Masa” but it’s so hot!

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Tonight will be a very busy night for our account. We have a new program that will be launching and I was asked to be in GY shift to assist. I haven’t taken my rest day yet for the week and tonight will be my 8th work shift for the week.

These past few months has been very good to me as I’ve been able to get enough sleep compare to 2 to 3 hours sleep (sometimes none) I’ve been getting before. But today’s not any other day! It seems that I’ve been going back to my old habits wherein I don’t get enough sleep at all!

Anyway, it’ll just for tonight and tomorrow will be my rest day. Quin Venti Americano will help my brain to work and Venti Espresso Java Chip Frap (and a muffin) to freshen my night up! I’m thinking of having pancakes too after my shift for break fast.

One more hour to go and I’m off to shower! See you in the office… and I’m on Eastern Time Zone Tonight…

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First shift of the week is normally tiring and boring day for me. You have to hire someone to pull me out of bed just to start prepping up for work. Working in BPO is very stressful that you’ll look wasted even if you’ve just arrived at work. But to my surprise last night is just not any other night.

It was already 10PM when I reached for my phone to check if there are any messages or calls that I missed when I was sleeping. I haven’t checked my phone the entire day so I shouldn’t be surprised if I’ve got 6 messages that I wasn’t able to read.

Two messages were forwarded by Orville, One from Japoks reminding me about his iPod, two from Globe and one from Cathy. When I read the last message from Cathy, it just made me jump out of the bed and head straight to take a shower.

I remember the last time I did that is when I was still in highschool wherein I end up with severe joint pain after hurriedly running down the stairs with a pair of roller skates on my feet. That made my arm dislocated for a while. However, this time I made sure that I won’t get into any accident and move as fast and careful as I can just to be in the office right away.

As soon as I’ve reached my workstation, my Top Pot Doughnuts are already waiting for me! Monday is Manic for Starbucks this month as they’ve brought those hand forged doughnut from Seattle here in the Philippines!

Got Old Fashioned Original Glaze and Chocolate Old Fashioned cake.

For others, Motivation is the key to success. For me, Americano is the key to sleepless years!

And since I’ve got a coupon to be the lucky person to taste the new Espresso Java Chip Frap… I surrender my stub and claim my first trip to heaven! YUM-Oh! I tell you! Those whipped cream is to die for!

Starbucks is campaigning for Clean and Green Philippines… I, on the other hand is campaigning for more transfers with my money tree (courtesy of sir rex)!

And speaking of green… here’s Starbucks model for Clean and Green Philippines.. click click click (more…)

Well at least in Germany…

Just imagine if our McDonald’s would come of something like this, which area in Metro Manila would they focus on?

Would it be Makati – Ayala, Rockwell, Salcedo and Legazpi
For Manila – Quiapo, Tondo, Recto and Divisoria
In Quezon City – Eastwood, Araneta, Timog and Circle

“Tip and central park? Throughout New York hangs out here. My tip: Just get yourself a cup strawberry-cake, sit down at any bank and enjoy your very personal Central Park Moment.”

“Chelsea was once terribly hip, sometimes not, and then again. Was that too fast? Well, that’s New York. My tip: just relax on the harbor or simply sit by the lake and a chocolate cup-cake with your personal feeling happy period Chelsea.”

“Here come from the most famous artists in New York. And here in dozens of tourists looking for new art galleries. I now play Andy Warhol once and tell everything what I like to art. This cappuccino cup cake = for example: all great art.”

“Sightseeing? Everything here is worth seeing: catch at the Houston Street, and work your way slowly through the south. Or get just a bit of Soho in your home country: After a spree breath through your town a bit and draw the view once again small. At Vanilla cup-cake, perhaps. But only briefly, because he is sooo yummy.”

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