if you can see this bumper sticker you're too close!

used to amuse myself taking pictures of other cars on the way to work (don't worry, this was when traffic was at a standstill).

holy cow that one huge sticker almost takes over 1/3 of the rear windshield


"keep your distance" na lang p're. nobody cares about your load.


is this supposed to be a coded message to other visayan drivers?


o-kay, so how are tiny metal pellets supposed to run the car? you mean the driver pimps himself out for gas money? yikes.

Hmmm...

found at National Bookstore near the house [the sprout claimed he had run out of reading material and was itching to read the next installment of the 39 Clues, which confirms my belief that Scholastic is not really in the education business...more like rip off the book-buying public because c'mon, paying over Php1000 for the new Harry Potter book in these times is nuts, so is paying almost Php500 for a book that barely has a story in it (c'mon, I can buy several local comic books with better art and stories for Php500, new editions with the author/artists signature pa)...mas lamang pa yung Eoin Colfer/Artemis Fowl]

you would have thought that a best selling series of books should have the budget for its own cover art?

summer fruit

this almost-ripe santol specimen is sitting on my desk. unfortunately it's only twice the size of a pingpong ball, while the rest of its green siblings are still in the tree...am hoping to harvest a lot without interference from the construction workers (lord knows, they could've helped themselves already). hopefully the rains in the past couple of days will help plump up the fruit.

here's a belated RIP to the balimbing tree...the kaimito trees are also gone (no more thumping fruit on the roof...anything heavy landing on that roof will have to be avian or mammalian, unless the nutty neighbors decide to hurl a coconut or something)

*burp*

something pointed out to me today: seems that the places i enjoy eating out at involve puttanesca on the menu (for the sprout) and a nearby bookshop. makes me wish pasto had a little bookshop next to it (silly idea but that's what wishes are for!)


cheap eats and cheap books preferred, but if we have to splurge, the eats and books had better be worth it. strangely, i've never had any pasta at that cafe at fully booked rockwell (starbucks at the high street branch doesn't seem to have pasta) or at powerbooks megamall (or greenbelt). now i'm wishing there was a really good bookshop right next to any galileo enoteca (unfortunately a bookshop next to the mandaluyong enoteca may be a bad idea, while the hypothetical bookshop next to the pasong tamo enoteca may thrive if it stocked on interior design, art and photography books)


i miss going to national bookstore cubao...and hey, there's a cibo nearby or even cafe bola :)
makes me wonder what would happen if miz gaita fores focused her taste and talent on having a bookshop...which might end up being stocked full of interior design, food and/or floral related books, hahaha
too hot nowadays to walk to the italian resto at cubao x :P

too much drama for a little toe

stumbled down the last two steps of a small set of stairs early yesterday morning and bashed the little toe (which look very crumpled/dislocated...and i popped it back into place figuring no harm done right?)

i had plenty of people telling me to go have it checked, so off i went for an x-ray and checkup at a lab, when the doc tells me she's worried about a teeny little hairline crack that showed up. so she sends me off to the national orthopedic hospital (15 minutes away by car)...and the sprout gets his first encounter of being in a government-run hospital: Php20 consultation fee, Php105 x-ray fee, a waiting room full of people coming in from different parts of the city with serious injuries ranging from the kids who get hit by cars, fall out of trees, play superman (jump off a roof) spiderman (hang onto a washling line) or adults with work-related injuries. the occasional cat that would walk through (personally i think they're a nice touch since they're calm and not feral).

kids were wailing in pain, someone was being drilled into (no curtains in the cramped ER) so they could put in pins,

compared to them, i was just a fluff case.

had to buy my own supplies and wait for some guys to do a "slipper mold" for me at this room. nope no casting couch here (bah dum dum!)


the "slipper" looks more like an unfashionable open-toed boot. am currently hobbling around with an aluminum cane after taping on one of those cheapy giveaway hotel slippers so i don't dirty up the elastic bandages. definitely have to improve my improvised footwear.

one. effing. month (?!!!) and i can take this off. meanwhile the leg (yes, the leg) has to be elevated as much as possible.

all for a little fracture on a little toe.
doesn't help that it's a bloody hot summer. haaaayyyyy.

snippets

Pinoy donut math: ang apat nito ay halos katumbas ng isang Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut, and dalawa naman ay katumbas naman ng isang Dunkin Donuts jr. donut :D


MU nina Spongegirl at GrayBob :)


ang pinipili na pamputi ng mga binibini na taga Balete Drive :P

set the fake furbies free!

just kidding...had a very surreal sunday last weekend accompanying the sprout to his assignment for the paper: a whole fun-filled afternoon frolicking in an amusement park. in sweltering heat. whee. the mini furbies in the picture (above) were from a crane game in the arcade.


and to the highlight of the evening: amusement park entertainers performing bits of "Jesus Christ Superstar" (if Andrew Lloyd Webber had a peso for every performance done in the Philippines, he'd be richer than the Marcoses :D) --suffice it to say that the person singing King Herod played it straight (i hear gasps of "blasphemy!" from the theater aficionados), the guy who played the Son of God was more like Buddy Christ (Kevin Smith, look this guy up when you decide to try for a "Dogma" prequel ;P) and the chorus had enunciation issues (took me a few minutes to realize they were singing "what's the fuss...tell me what's happening...what's the buzz?" --for a moment i thought they were lost and looking for a bus 8D)

thankfully the sprout was still able to declare the previous afternoon's performance of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" as the superior production...whew...but he says he wants the role of William Barfee (oh yikes...but mom-in-law says that's a pretty good role, hahaha)...the actor doing a cameo as Jesus was cool as a cucumber :D joskopo the sightings of the Son of God one week before Eostre! at least those were more pleasant than the crucifixions in Porac, Pampanga (a performance which proves that people still want their share of live blood and gore because c'mon, who constructs a VIP section for people to sit and watch some dudes get nailed to a cross...but hey, by this time, they could be selling tickets because last time i heard admission was for free :P)