Rough Groove

Enicka’s photo

I printed out Enicka’s pic (binary silver and flickr) and bought a frame in SM Cebu. When she saw it, she pointed at it and laughingly said, “Enicka, Enicka.”

Happy 2nd birthday!

Cebu last week…, 1

I’m already back in Makati and looking back at some of my activities at Cebu last week:

Dodong, Gerard, Jerome, Rodney, Louie (I’m above him), Popoy, Johnny and Poking.

Matias a.k.a. Johnny Tabasa, III birthday
It was a reunion of sorts, albeit, few, but it has been quite sometime that my classmates, close friends in highschool batch ‘91 in Don Bosco Technical High School (now Don Bosco Technology Center) in Punta Princesa met during Johnny’s birthday, Saturday, 29 October. Over bottles of beer, pulutan (bar chow) of kaldereta (goat stew), lechon (roast pig), balbacua (pork knuckles stew?) and chocolate cake, we talked about the fun times, asking the whereabouts of our classmates, and just reminiscing old times. But in the company of married men, talk just drifted to their family problems and wives. Well, maybe its always like that?

Anet chat
Last Wednesday, when I arrived at home from SM, my brothers and cousins were congregating at the computer. Apparently, my cousin Janet (her nick’s Anet) who is a nurse in Kent, UK, was online and they were chatting via Yahoo messenger via webcam. She’s infanticipating her second child.

Food, food, food
Friday and I requested my mother for crabs, shells and sinugbang baboy (grilled pork) as I really missed this. So, just before I left home for the airport, I was voraciously consuming these homecooked meals.

Blue crabs are my favorite compared to the alimango (mud crabs). Their tastier but can only be found in deeper waters compared to their coastline cousins. While these are not too fat and quite small in size, their still delicious.

Aninikad (its a kind of shell), to eat this one, a skewer is used to get at the flesh. Another yummy dish.

Sinugbang baboy, when properly marinated, and grilled over hotcoals, it just fills the stomach and senses.

Fresh lumpia, except for this one, I ate this during the 1st of November. Cooked vegetables, heart of palm and meat wrapped with a soft tortilla and then doused with garlic sauce. I especially like the lumpia of Cebu since it uses this kind of sauce compared to those in Manila where peanut sauce is used instead.

Family and cousins dinner out at the Big Mao

My cousins and siblings had dinner at Big Mao in Ayala Center, Cebu earlier tonight and, god, we were very full! The food was delicious especially the lemon chicken and the ostritch was so tender. So was the spicy sweet tenderloin tips, salted duck egg crusted chicken, the restaurant’s specialty, was quite good, and the fish in garlic and soy sauce that just melts in your mouth. Yummy!

At Friday’s with my parents

My parents took the 0700H flight from Cebu and arrived this morning. They’re here for my father’s physical checkup before he’ll go back to work in Dubai next week. Well, I treated them at TGIF’s at the Glorietta Mall at Ayala Center. The food was good but a bit pricey.

The Jack Daniel’s baby back ribs, half slab topped with an itsy bitsy slice of pineapple and french fries at the side. But frankly, I prefer the baby back ribs at Casa Verde in Cebu, cheap and delicious.

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Casa Verde baby back ribs

My mother

Ma, nagdagkut jud ko sa Quiapo para sa imong adlaw nga natawhan.

Happy birthday Ma!