I Craved. I Cooked.

Had “mirienda” at Chowking this afternoon and saw a couple of the fastfood’s personnel having their late lunch. I believe they were having “tinola.” Having missed the taste of this Filipino soup dish, I’ve decided to have it for dinner. When I was done with my “mirienda”, I headed to the supermarket besides Chowking and bought the necessary ingredients: chicken drum sticks, ginger, sayote, chili leaves and a tinola flavoring.

It’s been a long time already since I last cooked a decent meal. I stopped due to the long and tiring preparation in cooking and the food just gets spoiled. I usually prepare a meal for me that is good for 2 days. There were times that I forgot that I have food in the ref. My food then gets spoiled. So, I instead settled for canned corned beef and tuna. These are faster to prepare and good for one serving only. This afternoon though, I just had to satisfy my craving for “tinola.” This is the first for me to prepare and cook it! Yipee! I think, cooking “tinola” is simple. I was able to observe how Auntie Neneng does it back in Davao.

What I’m looking for in this dish is not just the taste of the soup but also in the chicken. I have had several disappointing “tinola” before. Some people tend to cut the part in marinading the chicken with ginger and salt. In doing this, the chicken loses the ginger flavor and one will need “patis” (fish sauce) to compensate for this. And since I’m not a big fan of “patis” and I think even back in my parent’s house, there’s no “patis” there, I prefer to just marinade the chicken instead of using it.

When I was done cooking, I told my “guinea pig”… I mean, my housemate to help himself with the “tinola.” His verdict… it was salty. My quick solution, add water! When it was my turn to taste it, I’m not being biased here, but I find it A-OK! Just the way I want it. ^_^

Besides the comment earlier, the only thing that I wasn’t able to do right was how the “sayote” was sliced. I think I got the shape and size wrong. Anyway, I’ll just do a research about it.

So for this craving, it’s definitely a fulfilling *burp* SUCCESS!

Now, what would my next craving be?

SOLD: Canon Powershot Pro 70

FS: Canon Pro 70,
originally uploaded by webzer.

Finally sold this vintage cam to ZD5. However, I wasn’t able to meet with him personally. Instead, he got the cam from Elaine (the owner of the cam).

Just a background. Last month, Elaine kept mentioning about her husband’s camera. And that she wanted to get rid of it already since they no longer use it and it may probably be of used to others.

When she brought the cam in the office, I had double thoughts if it can be sold. And if it can be, what would the price be? So, Steve and I suggested that she sell it as a vintage digital cam. It’s vintage coz it was manufactured between 1998-1999.

I did a couple of research about the cam and it’s current price in the market. And on May 25, with the approval of Elaine, I posted an ad about it in PiPho’s forum with a thread entitled “FS: Canon Pro 70 (Vintage Digital Cam)”. Within a week, I got a few inquiries and one was from ZD5. He then made reservation of it and on the next day, he got the cam from Elaine.

So to ZD5, thanks. To Elaine and her husband, congrats!

Flickr – Test Blog

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Just tested this cool feature from Flickr. The first part of this blog was generated in my Flickr account.  With a few setup done and a click on a button, I managed to post this test blog in my WordPress account.

Now, I can start blogging about my Flickr photos and instantly they’ll get posted here.

Night Out w/ the Interns

The summer internship program for Badit, Angel and Aiza has ended last week and soon it’s going to be for Richard. As for Harley, he’s gonna be staying for another month. I was even joking with Harley to consider extending it for another five years. LOL

As a sign of gratitude for their help, we’ve treated them at Congo Grill, El Pueblo, Ortigas Center. It was nice that Badit and Harley were able to join us. Badit already started her class while Harley took a leave to do adjustment for his class this coming term.

Angel

Unaiza

Richard

Harley

Badit

Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/webzer/sets/72157600276501711/

MySpace Auto Registration?

Opened my email this morning and got a message from MySpace.com. It was thanking me for registering to their site. With the email is an info on how to login to their site.

This is kinda weird cause I don’t remember registering to MySpace.com. Is this a strategy of MySpace.com to add more people to their site? If it is then I see it as one of the convenient way for users to get an account in MySpace.com. But I just don’t like how they executed it by making users believe that they actually register to MySpace.com. In any case, this registration technique is something to watch out for.