Halo halo from heaven, burger from hell...

So, a new branch of Razon's opened in J.Y. square a couple of days ago.

Tonight, i went there to taste what they're all about (claims to be the pride of Pampanga)...

I had the halo halo with special langka, burger and fries.

THE GOOD: Razon's Halo halo is delicious. their strength lies in the powdery consistency of their finely ground ice which eliminates the chances of one chewing on large chunks of ice (which i hate when eating halo halo) and the creaminess of their milk (abundantly supplied with the halo halo) and topped with the delicious and aromatic candied langka (jackfruit; again, abundantly supplied). On this delicious mix you'll also get leche flan (creme caramel), shredded young coconuts, candied plantain (ripe saba bananas cooked in light syrup) and white sugar. 

THE BAD: Razon's cheeseburger sucks. The patty is very thin and very small (only about half of the circumference of the bun). It vaguely tastes of something that might remind one of a burger, sort of. The cheese are 2 very thin and very small slices of some ordinary grocery variety cheese that when you take a bite the taste of the bun with sesame seeds overpower the combined taste of the patty and cheese. With that, you get one thin slice of cucumber and a little bit of mayonnaise. The french fried potatoes tastes like something a 10-year old would make in their own kitchen. At P72/order (without drinks), the whole thing is NOT worth it. Angel's Burger's buy-1-take-1 burger is a whole lot tastier than Razon's cheeseburger. I advise my readers and imaginary friends to avoid it like the plague.

THE UGLY: They do not serve tomato ketchup which means you are forced to use the cheap-tasting banana ketchup. What they served seemed like the water-diluted version of UFC banana ketchup which, for me, didn't help the mediocre taste of their fries and burger. Also, i was the only one there at that time and the crew was just sitting around a table and talking BUT i had to follow up my request for water 3 times at 15 minutes interval. They keep on talking and laughing while forgetting the water that i requested.

I didn't see the need to leave a tip.

Relapse

it has been quite long since i last used this blog to serve as my personal shrink.

i feel the need again.

hello, old friend.

disappointed...

i also took a free web-based Rorschach Ink Blot Test and found out that (and i quote), "you are normal. there's nothing wrong with you psychologically."


how could this be?

i thought i was unique!

now, I AM depressed!

Colorgenics

one of those free web-based personality tests based on your color preference!

this is fun and more than 90% accurate for me!

if interested to take the test, click this: COLORGENICS personality test!

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Name: liu
Date: 5/2/2009
Colorgenics Number: 34126507

Utmost in your mind is success. You are constantly seeking stimulation and a life full of experience. You are trying to 'grow' and above all you need to develop freely and to shake off the shackles of self-doubt. You are an enthusiastic individual, full of life with the desire to live intensely. You like contact with others and are enthusiastic by nature. You are receptive to anything new, modern or intriguing. Your interests are many and you are likely to expand your fields of activities. You are optimistic about the future and you deserve every success because deep down you are a 'winner'.

You are very self-sufficient and methodical. You presume to know where you are going but need to find a person who will recognise the way you are, not be too demanding and who is, as they say in Italy, 'Simpatico'.

You give the impression that you are a self-sufficient individual, pretending that you are stoical - indifferent to pain or pleasure. But this is not so, for in truth you are an extremely emotional person, one that may make hasty decisions and perhaps repent at leisure. It is time now perhaps to break the bond of detachment and become the real 'you' - the you that you would like to be.

You are being unduly influenced by the situation that is all around you. You do not like the feeling of loneliness and whatever it is that seems to separate you from others. You know that life can be wonderful and you are anxious to experience life in all its aspects, to live it to the full. You therefore resent any restriction or limitations that are being imposed on you and you insist on going it alone.

You don't like authority and you rebel against all forms of limitation. You are your own person and you intend to stay that way and to get on in the world simply by your hard work and determination.

with my baby anjo (8/20/08)

CONGRATULATIONS! (june 2008 Nursing Board Exam. Passers)

CONGRATULATIONS TO CEBU NORMAL UNIVERSITY (CEBU STATE COLLEGE) for landing in the 2nd place for school performance nationwide (with more than 100 examinees)!

here's the list:

NUMBER 1 (ave: 99%)

Trinity University of Asia
University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Mem. Medical Center

NUMBER 2 (ave: 98%)

Cebu Normal University (Cebu State College)
University of Santo Tomas
Saint Louis University
Chinese General Hospital
College of Nursing and Liberal Arts
West Visayas State University - La Paz
Saint Paul University - Dumaguete

NUMBER 3 (ave: 96%)

De La Salle University - Dasmarinas Health Science Campus

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likewise, i would like to congratulate those who belong to the TOP 10 spots in the june 2008 nursing board exams (cebu examinees only):

TOP 4

Dalfon Silvio Balbular Navaja (Cebu Institute of Technology)

TOP 6

Regina Kris Villaflor Cabanilla (Cebu Normal University)
Elaine Esther Saldua Fontanar (Cebu Normal University)

TOP 7

Jennifer Baguio Gait (Velez College)
Ariane Castanares Llevares (Cebu Normal University)

TOP 8

Lorraine Yu Embay (University of the Visayas)

TOP 9

Blake Warren Coloma Ang (Cebu Doctor's University)
Maria Wella Balbona Pichon (University of the Visayas)
Meludee Joy Madrigal Roche (Cebu Normal University)
Angela Solayao Tiu (Velez College)

TOP 10

Jeriel Bayhonan Besagas (Cebu Normal University)
Marienne Sungcad Bravo (Systems Technology Institute - Cebu)
Bridgel Avila Galorio (Cebu Normal University)

UG CONGRATULATIONS SA TANAN NAKA-PASAR SA JUNE 2008 NURSING BOARD EXAM!!!

confessions of a pain addict

(this is an entry from my friendster blog that i didn't edit)

some people (yep, plural) asked why i only post painful blog entries and not happy ones and i know a lot of my blog readers are asking the same question (even if they are not as articulate as the others) along with when is this guy going to slash his wrist? (LOL) doesn't he have happy times?

well to answer your questions, my dear rabid avid fans (all the 3 of you... or maybe less), read on:

1. i do have happy times and i do have journal entries and write ups about them but the reason why you, my faithful minions, haven't read about them here is because I DON'T FEEL like posting them here yet... maybe you'll read them here, then again, maybe NOT!

2. speaking of journal entries, i do keep a journal called I'M A SEX MANIAC "TODO SOBRE MI VIDA LOCA" and i primarily write my thoughts there... those that i find interesting (according to me anyway) i post here or in my other blog PAZUZU690 over at blogspot which has more entries than what i have here at friendster. this also means that a lot of my thoughts/musings/rantings with "happy" or "contented" undertones/content which aren't posted here are actually contained there in my journal.

3. i basically don't do drama in real life. this is my outlet. sort of like a poor man's therapy session. i get to vent out and unload all my stress/angst/frustrations/etc at all of you my unsuspecting victims , ummm, ahhh, friends.

in real life, i absorb all my friends' dramas. because of this outlet here, i don't feel the need to be overly dramatic in real life anymore. in fact, i get to be cerebral and mental (as opposed to sentimental) when dealing with the outside world. this means that you could not expect to see me in the real world crying while tearing my clothes, kneeling on the street with outstretched hands to the sky and asking some mythical creature (such as a god or unicorn or something) why THIS has happened to me!

4. ironically (is this a word?), i re-read my painful thoughts here and try and absorb the lessons contained in all these dramas. these entries catalyze some of my amazing learnings in life. sure they are very painful and they make me want to kill people sometimes seem hopeless but they also remind me that my existence is real and i am, at my very best and worst, human.... whatever that means!

5. lastly, i feel that my mind is in its most chaotic state when i'm in emotional pain (my most painful physical experience, the one where it caused me to collapse on the side of the street, can not compare to my mildly painful emotional experience) and by writing these entries i, at least in my own way, have implemented order in mind, arranged things into perspective and re-packaged my disorder/insanity into something that people can understand and relate to.

I FEEL THAT I HAVE THE MOST EVIL ENTITY INSIDE MY ABYSS AND WHEN IT STARES AT ME FROM THE CHASM I IMMEDIATELY GIVE IT A PERSONALITY MAKING IT EASIER FOR ME TO DEPERSONALIZE IT!

isn't that crazy nice?

my baby AnJo

you left me just when i needed you most...

Window to Window

There you are again. Passing by your window.
Where you look out and see me standing here.
Here I am again. Standing at my window.
Where we play the same old game. So far, so near.

The accidental glance where we discover one another.
Then we'll make up an excuse to look again.
And finally we fix our gaze from behind our window sill.
Where we silently agree we both like what we see.

And here we are again. Slowly rising passions.
Will this be the night you beckon me to come to you?

Cause if you send for me I will touch you and caress you.
And if you send for me I will tell you all the things I dream.
And how everything with you feels so right.
And make sweet love until the morning light.

Here we go again. Taking off our shirts.
And teasing with the way we slide our pants down.
And in our underwear how we stop and stare.
The things that we go through to let our guard down.
The connection that was made from window to window.
There's magic in that alone.

A moment by itself that can't be taken lightly.
At last someone to call my own.

And if you send for me I will feel and kiss and hold you.
And if you send for me I will share my beating heart.
Doing everything with you will be alright.
And make sweet love until the morning light.

I see the way you want me. It's the way that I want you.
I want you. I want you. I want you.
Please won't you send for me.
We could start a lifetime of caring.
Come on send for me. Take a risk. Be daring.
I know everything for us will turn out right.

No don't pull down the shades. And don't turn out your light.
Let's end this silly game. Don't lose sight.
Please just one last peek. I'm the one you seek.
Well then. Until tomorrow night

december 2007

older but not wiser!!!

LOL

poster boy for vanity/narcissism...

lesson learned today...

awwoooo....

still me.

what are we looking for, really?

we have ideas of what we like but most of the times (and i'm speaking from experienece) the people who can really give us what we need aren't those listed on who we like.

we search.

we journey.

i have discovered that the journey itself is the happiness.

there are roadblocks, sidestreets and uncharted courses but i have experienced that if you can appreciate the scenery in every detour and live by the many detours along the way - you will be happy!

i have been burned a lot of times and i have been left on my naked ass on a hard, cold concrete searching for redemption that doesn't come one too many times.

i'm tired but i'm still breathing.

still hoping.

still fighting.

still living.

feeling.

loving?

make me!

Swansong

There was a point in my life when no one could be happier than I. At that time, it seemed that nothing mattered anymore. No one mattered anymore. It was when time and space mingled into an inconceivable blur. The chaos of the outside world blended in the background. It lost its weight, its impact. It was as if all I ever wished since childhood came true. Everything I ever needed materialized into one absolute happy package and I had it all. Everything was perfect. Everything was too good to be true. It probably was. Now, I can’t think of anything besides farewell. I didn’t regret it though. In fact, If I have to relive my life again, I would relive that moment. No ifs, no buts. That time was a definite all time high in my “so called life”. But no matter how much I try so hard to rekindle the passion, the flame is just isn’t there anymore. Maybe it was the countless realizations along the way. Right now, I think of a lot of things. I think of joy, of sorrow, of passion, of lessons learned and everything in between. And yet no matter how many adjectives I try to apply to everything that happened before, I still am unable to utter a word. Because how do you say what you feel and not get hurt when nothing you could ever say is more appropriate than “goodbye?”

repost.

eleven minutes

passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. a lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

no one wants their life thrown into chaos. that is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. they are the engineers of the superseded.

other people think exactly the opposite: they surreneder themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. they make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. they are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

i don't know.

(paulo coelho)

Facing the Wall...

waiting for something...

miracle, redemption, anything...

nothing, nothing, nothing...

just facing the wall...

HISSY FIT

I'm five years old again...

I'm standing in front of a toy i know i couldn't have...

I'm screaming my head off...

I'm tearing my hair and scattering them all over...

I'm banging my head on the concrete floor... blood gushes...

I'm kicking furiously at everything...

I'm keening, I'm wailing...

I'm five years old again but this time, nobody hears or sees me...

Nobody's there!

i'm sorry, but...

i'm sorry, but....
it has been almost a week...

but who's counting?


wasn't it you who said that you love me? that your feelings for me won't change? and that nothing will ever make you leave?


i'm sorry but i'm confused right now... because you left no trace and i am having trouble making your words and my reality coincide.


wasn't it that the last time we communicated we were happy? didn't we plan for our lives to be together for always?


i'm sorry but you promised me eternity and yet, right now, you are making me feel that my forever has ended and our future has become a thing of the past.


haven't we agreed, as fated halves of each other, that we will always talk things out? didn't we say that most of our miscommunications will be remedied with being open?


i'm sorry but for a week now i was the only one talking and you seem like a mute witness to my anguish... enjoying my turmoil, basking in the dark light of my despair and feeding on my weakness, insecurities and nearly extinguished joy.


haven't we made enough promises to each other to never hurt one another?


i'm sorry but i can only remember your words and they do no good to the pain you have subjected me now.


it has been almost a week.

days, hours, minutes, seconds...

and i am still waiting, waiting...

i'm sorry but i am counting.