Showing posts with label Nutella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nutella. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Beautiful Sunday: Church, The French Baker, Supermarket, Desserts, Salon

May 29, 2011 (Sunday) Today is probably one of the best Sundays I have ever had. I woke up at 9:10AM and hurriedly made myself a cup of hot cereal drink, chugged it down, and headed to the shower for a quick 10-minute bath. I was able to put on a decent face for church in about 15 minutes (usual thing, foundation, concealer, black winged liner, no lipstick, mascara, blush and brows). I wore a lazy outfit of jeans, slippers, and a loose 3/4 black top from Forever 21. It did not flatter my shape at all! Have I mentioned how much I love fitted clothes nowadays? We left home at 10:00AM. We arrived just in time for the Gospel. My favorite priest was a guest priest today—Fr. Lino Nicasio (Linus) And our parish priest Fr. Aquino led the mass. One thing struck me most during his homily:

“Love should never be a burden.”

IMG_0759After hearing mass, we went to the usual places. We had brunch @ The French Baker as usual. I ordered something new. I loved our meal today, contrary to what happened last night. I just found out today that The French Baker has a restroom! And take note: a CLEAN restroom. This makes me love this restaurant 10x more! Here I am inside… Spacious and clean! Don’t you just love the paintings on their walls? I do!IMG_0757-horzWhile waiting for the food, I managed to take photos with my beautiful Mama. Unlike me, my mom never put makeup on her face (well, except on picture days during her high school and college days) I love my Mama! She’s really the best. Have I mentioned how much she supports and loves what I do (blogging, YouTube, freelancing as a HMUA) 100%?IMG_0761-horzIMG_0775-horzNow let’s get on with the food! The first thing I asked was the availability of the Hot Chocolate in a Pot—I’ve been craving for two days for this already. Sadly, it wasn’t available. I wanted something new to eat, and I ended up having Quiche Lorraine, Soup and Salad (Freshly Baked Quiche Lorraine with soup of the day and honey balsamic greens)IMG_0739-horzIMG_0770IMG_0785-horzThe Quiche (pronounced as “keesh”) Lorraine had ham and egg in it. It tasted so good! Not burnt, whatsoever. The soup for the day was Bacon and Potato (our favorite) and each spoonful was “Mmmmmm…” all the way!IMG_0767My sister lady had the STEAK SANDWICH (Tender beef sirloin marinated in fine herbs served on crusty steak roll)IMG_0771My sister Luzelle had the CHICKEN ALA KING (French classical voul-au-vent flaky shell stuffed with chunks of chicken in creamy “a la king” sauce and sided with buttered corn and carrots)IMG_0782My Mama had the CHICKEN SALAD CROISSANT (Chunky chicken salad with lettuce, tomato and cucumber on freshly baked croissant and sided with our own potato chips)IMG_0787My sister Iza had the BEEF LASAGNA (Layers of mozzarella cheese stuffed with Italian beef Ragu sauce and topped with creamy melted cheese)IMG_0772-horzAnd why would we forget to order the SOUP ON A BREAD BOWL? (Creamy soup of the day stuffed in French bread bowl. Enjoy the soup and eat the bread.) The soup for today “Bacon and Potato” is our absolute favorite!IMG_0792The salad on my dish had no dressing on, so I asked for it to be returned and to be added with the dressing. It came back to me, I tasted it, and I honestly did not like it. I think it tasted better without the Honey Balsamic dressing. Nevertheless, I loved the little cut up cheese squares and the mango cubes on it! Iwas stuffed the moment we left the restaurant.IMG_0793IMG_0795Here’s the chef whipping up something delicious! You can actually see them cook through the glass window. And if you want to see their menu before entering, they have this huge ass menu board right outside.IMG_0818My sister Luzelle is scheduled to leave for GenSan tomorrow for work, so we went to the supermarket to do a little grocery shopping. If there’s a second favorite place I love whenever I’m in the mall, it would have to be the supermarket. Don’t you just love the clean smell? And the endless varieties of EVERYTHING? I can spend 10 hours by myself in the supermarket…really. It’s just too fun to be in there pour moi.IMG_0799-horzIMG_0803Look at these little mangoes and grapefruit! These are the kind of fruits I can eat my whole life. The whole Fruits and Vegetable section looked so healthy and colorful! I can’t wait to be a mom/wife working woman and buy food for myself. Just imagine!IMG_0806This Lady’s Choice lady was giving out taste samples of eggs with mayonnaise. Did you know that mayo makes the eggs more fluffier? Try it! It really works. My sister Lady introduced me to it about a month ago. She read it from the newspaper.IMG_0808-horzWho here loves Nutella? It’s the most evil thing in our house. It’s a controlled guilty pleasure of mine. Operative word: controlled. Who knew hazelnut and cocoa would taste so damn good?

You know how I clean the room everyday of my life. And I only need these things to do it the Lindsay Way:

  1. a feather duster
  2. a broom
  3. a dustpan
  4. a rag
  5. alcohol
  6. disinfectantIMG_0813

Give me these things and I’ll be happily cleaning all the way. #6 is very particular to me. Whenever I clean, I imagine the germs. And what do I do to get rid of them? It’s either spray alcohol all over, or spray Lysol like a madman (on knobs, handles, anything that touches the skin, tables, keyboards…etc) My favorite among all the scents is Crisp Linen!IMG_0821We stopped by BookSale and I searched for books that are worthy of purchase. I wanted to get this one from George Mair entitled “A Life with Purpose”, but I didn’t get it just yet. Maybe I’ll come back for it. If only I had all the time in the world, I’d buy a ton of books to read! The last book I finished reading was “Royally Jacked” and I was like 15 years old then. Hahahaha. It’s alright, you can laugh.

IMG_0831-horzMy sister Lady wanted to get dessert so I went to Krispy Kreme with her. She ordered a Double Chocolate Kruffin! This baby tastes sooooo good! Well, at PHP 65.00 a piece they totally should!

IMG_0833-horzIMG_0836-horzCaffe Ti Amo was just beside Krispy Kreme so we decided to get gelato, too! We taste-tested before ordering out usual Regolare cup. We ended up like Straciatella (Italian-style Chocolate Chip Ice Cream) and ordered it along with Cookies and Cream. Dichi (Lady) and I had fun pronouncing the word Straciatella with an Italian accent! We went like, “StRRaciateLLa!” Try it! IMG_0841-horzThe last stop today was Simple Life Salon. My sister and I decided to treat Mama to a haircut since she wanted one. We waited for a good 30 minutes for Mama. I was able to take photos of the nail salon that I’ll be using the services of for my 20th birthday giveaway. I’ll be posting about it soon.IMG_0899-horzThis day is not yet over! Dinner tonight will be in a separate blog entry. Keep your eyes peeled!

Arrivederci!

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Gelato and Waffles, Booben, Player HateHer, Nutella

May 11, 2011 The Afternoon in the Cafe
I was ready to head out by 9:10AM but I went back to lie down on the bed since my sister was still sleeping so I continued watching Julie and Julia on Blue Ray. True enough, I fell fast asleep after a few minutes—felt kind of sleepy, you know. Woke up at 11:30AM, just in time for me and my sister to head to the mall.
First thing I did was buy the gel soles. Spent PHP 374.50 all in all—it’s an allowable purchase anyway. I’m going to need it tomorrow till Saturday. After that quick stop @ Watsons, I headed to Caffe Ti Amo to start all my work online.
I published four entries one after the other for my personal blog, put up one review in my YouTube channel, and blogged about two reviews in my beauty blog; I was also able to publish the entry for AllAunthenticItems in our online store. I could’ve done more, but the connection seems to have gone haywire—and YouTube went whacko. Audio and video wasn’t matching in my second review upload. It was 100% and already viewable, but I just had to delete since who the fuck would want to watch a video that seems to be kind of a pirated DVD from Quiapo?
It was lovely being able to chat with April, and Joanne—you know the usual updating. I’m soooo excited for April’s arrival this July. Soooo excited. Pearl (of Dollface Cosmetics) and I have also already set up a date for dinner when she comes to Manila; Ralph will be there, as well—so that’s another thing to look forward to! Booben was also online—well thank goodness he was. I always get a good laugh because of him. Was telling him about this dude sitting on the table across mine, how he looked hot on the side, but not up front and how he looks gay and whatever. Hahaha. You should’ve seen Booben roll his eyes. This guy is totally funny. Actually, the first thing he told me when we chatted was, “I was reading your blog…=p” Hahaha! Well, it’s cool to have readers—like people are actually interested in my personal life. He said he’d actually read this blog instead of my beauty blog. Well of course, he’s a guy with 0% interest in makeup. Just airplanes. We’d hopefully be meeting, too this year! I’m actually scheduled to meet a lot of people this year. Angie is coming to town in June—and I am sooooo excited to see her. I won’t make any formal introduction on who these people I’m talking about are because they deserve a full entry, you know? An entry just for them alone.
What I had in Caffe Ti Amo: Caramelized Fig and Yogurt Flavored Yogurt- “caramelized fig” sounded totally weird to me, but this totally tasted so freaking yummy. DSC01217Four Cheese Savory Waffle- imagine, a waffle for one, filled with cheese. Mmmm….mm! That’s butter on the side.DSC01218DSC01219I stayed in Caffe Ti Amo for 4 freaking hours, and I had to order another waffle just to extend my stay a little longer…so I ordered another Four Cheese Savory Waffle. Pfoe* like Booben says it, never really understood what it meant but I’m pretty sure it’s something like “Hoo boy!” or something.
Had to walk out of the cafĂ© to walk around, Booben came along; and the second review was still uploading so I couldn’t close the lid of the laptop. But the internet got cut when I got in the supermarket, so I went to McDonald’s to have a freaking burger just to resume everything.
Well Youtube stopped working alright, and I was there eating a burger in front of my laptop. That was the first time I ever felt so conscious eating a burger. Ruub even told me how slow I was at eating it. I bet he can eat it all in 5 seconds. Hahaha and I bet he’ll be reading this as well! Hi Ruub! You told me how you can handle being blogged about, so there you go.
Since it was almost 5:00PM, I wanted to go home. The mall was too packed to enjoy walking in… Too many nosy people, too. Yeah, nosy and noisy.
When I got home, I watched Glee and The Tyra Banks Show! Tyra had an interesting topic! It’s about friends hating on each other. There’s actually a book about it, and these women are called PLAYER HATEHERS. Get it? Hate-her’s. Hahah it was too enjoyable to watch. Made me remember about a few stuff.playerhateher3Are YOU a player hateher? Find out in here.
Took a nap again and I woke up at around 8PM.
Nutella on bread is the most evil thing in the world. I seriously think I have a bad case of indigestion…as I am writing this it is 9:23PM. My tummy is aching sooo sooo bad. Must be the gelato, the waffles, the burger…and Nutella on bread. Pfoe*! Hahahaha.
I am drinking hot milk right now. But the pain’s not going away…
I just checked my planner, and all my eating is explainable. I’m on my PMS week! This is why I frigging hate being a woman sometimes. Good thing I always workout every single day…makes it more forgivable for me to snack on junk—but not too much of course.
I’m not saying I’m fat, (and be flipped off by Ruub, again, for saying so) but somehow, when you’ve experienced being 170 pounds—somehow it never gets off of you, you know? I don’t know, maybe it’s just the way it is. I’ve shed all the excess weight already, but I still feel fat. It’s a feeling!
So… I have to go workout now. Almost 9:30PM. And work starts tomorrow! I’ll be doing my hair tonight ‘coz there is absolutely no way I’ll be able to finish doing it tomorrow morning. It has to be done tonight.
I hope I meet wonderful people tomorrow at the first day of the IFEX. And I’m praying my feet holds up.
Arrivederci!