Not the way to do this
A couple of co-workers and I regularly eat at the Powerplant Mall basement foodcourt, not because we’re sosyal or anything like that, but because there’s no other place where you’re sure to get properly prepared food especially if you don’t have a cast iron stomach.
Contrary to popular belief you CAN get lunch at the Powerplant for less than seventy pesos. The burger McDo value meal for instance, costs less than sixty pesos, and there are meals at KFC and Jollibee that cost pretty much the same.
However, I’ve picked up a (bad) habit of dropping by the Dunkin Donuts shop for a sweet treat after having lunch. Yeah, I know this is not the way toward quick weight loss, so I make up for it by running up and down the stairs at the office.
Yeah, right. Just recently I saw a bunch of people whom I haven’t seen in at least three years and they all were so surprised about fat I’d become. So I’m looking at myself again in the mirror and wondering how am I going to get all this excess baggage off me?
If you are 39 years old and above…
If you happen to :
- be at least 39 years old at the time you are reading this
- have gone to school in the Philippines, whether in public or private school
- have worn white Spartan canvass rubber shoes when you were a kid
I would like you to play the video and then close your eyes. You don’t need to watch guitar icon Chet Atkins play the guitar as cleanly as only a virtuoso can. But I want you to close your eyes and try to remember when you heard this song for the first time.
That’s it … just close your eyes and think back. You remember now? Good.
I would like you to write what you remember as a comment to this post. Tell me everything you remember.
You’d be helping an old woman get through the first years of old age. There may be some entrecard credits for you too, if you’re an entrecarder.
Happy burp*day
Just when you think we have the franchise on downturned smiles we give you a snap like this 
This is Kuya Maui and me at our joint birthday lunch. Kuya’s birthday was on the 12th of July, mine will be on the 23rd. Maui had just turned 16, and I’m hitting the big 45. We decided on the weekend in the middle to celebrate. Just the family out to lunch at one of the best places to eat in town—Burgoo!
Actually lunch turned out to be a bit of a mess because Maia suddenly became claustrophobic and refused to stay inside the airconditioned area at the second floor of the Mall of Asia, so we ended up on the tables outside on the walkway. But even then that didn’t stop us from having a good meal and taking a few good pictures.
- Birthday Lunch at Burgoo, MOA
Make a fruit basket
Gifts of fresh fruit in a basket make wonderful surprises for a hostess, overworked friend or sick neighbor. Here’s how you can create your own fruit baskets and have quite a bit of fun doing so.
Find a pretty wicker basket, small wooden crate or wire container with plenty of surface room for displaying your fruit. Even a never-used picnic basket makes a superb container. Before you go to the craft store to buy a container, check around your house to see if you have one in good condition that you aren’t using. (Most of us do!)
Pad the bottom of your basket with crumpled newspaper to make it appear fuller and boost the contents to a more eye pleasing appearance. Cover the newspaper with a few sheets of festive tissue paper. (Yellow, orange, red, or green look great against fruit.) You’re preparing the landscape for your fruit baskets so be imaginative.
Assemble your fruit in the basket, placing the largest items in first, such as a pineapple, cantaloupe, or honeydew melon. Next, layer in medium and any odd-sized fruit, such as green tipped bananas (save yellow bananas for the top layer since they may bruise more easily), papayas, coconuts, and mangoes. Don’t feel you have to use the entire piece of fruit. A papaya sliced in half and covered in plastic wrap is much prettier than the whole fruit.
To fill out the fruit baskets, add in oranges, red and green apples, and pomegranates. This firm fruit will help prop up the bigger fruit and cushion the more fragile pieces.
Complete the basket with delicate fruit such as pears, plums, peaches, yellow bananas and kiwi—make sure nothing is over-ripe. For extra color, add in a few small boxes of seedless raisins or cans of pineapple juice.
Wrap your finished fruit baskets in decorative cellophane. For a super professional touch, wrap your basket in shrink-wrap, which you can purchase at your local craft store, following the packaging instructions. Top off your fruit basket with a big, beautiful bow.
* This How-To was inspired by Dole’s Make Your Own Fruit Basket
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