(1) Procrastinating (like now. Naduduling nako sa due dil ko. I think I’m entitled.)
(2) My bed
(3) My pillows
(4) My pambahay stuff
(5) The colors blood/ruby red, royal/deep purple, lavender, lilac, baby pink, pastel/royal/navy blue, the absence of color (white), the sum of all colors (black), beige, chocolate brown, forest/olive green, lemon yellow
(6) The beach (minus the glaring sun. gusto ko lang magtampisaw, magbonfire and maglakad sa beach.)
(7) Hiking
(8) Watching videos online at work when nobody’s looking
(9) Nabolister.com (it’s the best thing ever!)
(10) Youtube
(11) Piracy (hail to pirated dvd’s!!!)
(12) Jude Law in The Holiday (I’d run back to him too!)
(13) Chismis websites (perezhilton, thesuperficial, eonline, etc.)
(14) Interesting headlines
(15) Ateneo masses (Jesuits are usually excellent homilists)
(16) My college years in Ateneo
(17) Walking around Bel field when they turned the lights on
(18) Our “long walk to forever” – that’s what we used to call the Christmas lights they used to light up the walkway to the dorm
(19) my friends and my family. (Yihee! Hahaha!)
(20) Baguio City (I spent the best years of my childhood there.)
(21) Coney Island ice cream and cotton candy
(22) Tivoli ice cream
(23) Those ice cream bars shaped like clowns and bananas
(24) Gingerbread store (Lower Ferguson Road, Baguio City)’s cassava cake
(25) Sizzling Plate’s sans rival
(26) Bibingkinitan bibingka
(27) Tea House fruit pie and egg pie
(28) Picnicking at Camp John Hay
(29) The CJH playground (they had the best swings)
(30) CJH Clubhouse
(31) Chocolate de Batirol turon
(32) Eyrie chicken sisig and turon (yes, I love turon, obviously)
(33) Apartment 1B white toblerone cheesecake, seafood pasta
(34) Chocnut
(35) A good laugh
(36) Good Shepherd ube jam and lengua de gato
(37) Panotsa from Batangas (I love food. Obviously.)
(38) Estrel’s caramel cake
(39) Joey Pepperoni =)
(40) Z’s Deli sausage sandwiches, cheese tarts, Spanish sardines pasta
(41) Putannesca (extra capers and anchovies please)
(42) beating a deadline (and submitting something I'm not ashamed to admit is MY work)
(43) bumming around on Friday nights and the whole day Saturday
(44) road trips (particularly going to Baguio, under no time pressure whatsoever)
(45) pretty sunsets
(46) Ateneo on a Sunday
(47) sunny windy weather
(48) a clean and organized drawer/desk/room/house/basically anything
(49) a good conversation (preferably with a cutie =p hehe!)
(50) writing a particularly good literary piece
(51) airconditioning on a scorching hot day
(52) useless trivia
(53) movies (just not local teeny bopper flicks) e.g. The Holiday, Devil's Advocate, Chronicles of Narnia, Under the Tuscan Sun, Love Affair, Scent of a Woman, Phantom of the Opera, Dead Poets' Society, Fight Club, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, With Honors, Land Before Time, Beaches, Somewhere in Time, Casablanca, Reality Bites, Moulin Rouge, Clueless, Sabrina, The Exorcist, Firestarter, Braveheart, Love Actually, Life is Beautiful, Hotel Rwanda, Finding Neverland, Il Postino
(54) music (just not country music) - anything with good lyrics, big band music from the 40’s and 50’s (and good covers thereof), modern folk, indie, Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Eleni Mandell, Ani DiFranco, Maksim Mrvica, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, Big Mountain, Ben Jelen, Dashboard Confessional, Imogen Heap, Keane, Leslie Feist, Goldfrapp, Lily Allen, Jem, Alexi Murdoch, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Eat World, Ryan Adams, Michelle Featherstone, Snow Patrol, Jack Johnson, Death Cab, Gavin DeGraw, Glen Phillips, Sondre Lerche, Damien Rice, Joshua Radin, Raul Midon, Rod Stewart (The Great American Songbook 1-4), Maroon 5, Sting, Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Oasis, No Doubt, 3 Doors Down, Counting Crows, Duncan Sheik, Dave Matthews, Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra, Sade, Anika Paris, Cranberries, Vonda Shepard, Rockwell Church, Stephen Speaks, Harry Connick Jr., Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Pussycat Dolls, Alessio Benvenuti, Spice Girls, Frank Sinatra, Psapp, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald,
(55) food (Filipino, Italian, Thai, Chinese, JAPANESE!!!)
(56) shopping!!! =)
(57) my friends' (and other people's) lives
(58) sharks (I'm not kidding.)
(59) good books (e.g. Elie Wiesel, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, The Brothers Grimm, Griffin and Sabine Series, Chronicles of Narnia, A Grief Observed, Harry Potter, End of the Affair; The Godfather, J.D. Salinger, Tuesdays with Morrie, Love Story, The Class, The Notebook, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Little Prince, TINTIN!!!)
(60) the remote control
(61) new stuff
(62) meeting new people
(63) stuff
(64) people =p
(65) highlighters (neon yellow faber castell)
(66) power staplers and other gadgets
(67) people-watching
(68) talking
(69) taking long walks (preferably in the rain)
(70) Coffee Bean Double Vanilla Tea Latte addict. =)
(71) Watching tv!!! - Brothers and Sisters, Euromaxx, Journal News, Arts 21, Tomorrow Today, Heroes, Boston Legal, The O.C., Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, House MD, Prison Break, Judging Amy, American Idol, Alias, CSI (the first one, I HATE CSI Miami.), The Practice, Ally McBeal, Friends, That 70's Show, Will and Grace, Frasier, Justice League, X Men/Evolution, the news, Charmed, Just Shoot Me, Spongebob, Sex & the City ,Boston Public, Oprah, Seinfeld, Ed, Shark Week, Anything on Discovery or National Geographic
(72) Free cuts (well, we don’t get any of those anymore…)
(73) Holidays
(74) Free meals
(75) Okay, anything good that’s free. =p
(76) Nice shoes (lately, I’ve been buying a lot of VNC.)
(77) Nice bags (I love Kathy Van Zeeland and Etienne Aigner and Nine West and Coach and…well, everything…)
(78) Snoozing my morning alarm
(79) Long showers
(80) Mp3 ringtones
(81) Dresses
(82) Post-its
(83) Renoir paintings
(84) Vanilla-scented candles
(85) My office chair (it’s so comfy!!!)
(86) Darjeeling tea
(87) Having a frosty cold beer with friends on Friday nights
(88) Arny-heart-Dading’s peachy peachy
(89) Razon’s halo-halo
(90) Puto Calasiao
(91) Water fountains
(92) Intramuros (most of it’s so quaint and old world pretty.)
(93) Rustic elegance (Hehe!)
(94) Arce Dairy Ice Cream (mantecado, corn, ube)
(95) Cable tv!!!
(96) My cell phone
(97) The Body Shop’s White Musk / Moonflower, Estee Lauder Pleasures, Elizabeth Arden’s Green Tea, Clinique Happy, Davidoff Cool Water
(98) Singing out loud when no one’s around
(99) Looking at old pictures
(100) Google
(101) Making lists. (to-do lists, stuff I like, stuff I DON’T like, things I want, my goals in life…)
(102) Ticking items off or crossing items out of my lists
(103) Organizing stuff
(104) Onomatopoeia
(105) Learning new words for common things
(106) The crime suspense channel
(107) Fox crime
(108) Chismis shows
(109) NOT commuting
(110) My tita’s house in Baguio
(111) pissing people off on purpose
(112) secretly getting even
(113) breaking the rules
(114) doing things because i can
(115) red wine
(116) milk chocolate
(117) good deals (gadgets, clothes, bags, food, anything)
(118) discovering secret shopping places and secret dining places
(119) tinkering with gadgets, my laptop, my phone
(120) down comforters
(121) walking around ateneo
(122) anchovy pizza
(123) cheese---cheddar, mozzarella, brie, feta, parmesan, smoked
(124) christmas and everything about it: family, presents, food, no work/class, watching people my presents for them
(125) financial independence, aka being employed and getting paid
(126) the smell (and taste) of butter in all its salty cholesterol-ridden goodness
(126) the sound of birds chirping in the morning
(127) the smell of breakfast in the morning
(128) having someone else prepare my meals
(129) cooking shows
(130) making pancakes
(131) Eastwood
(132) dinosaurs
(133) Sesame Street (before Elmo became the next big thing)
(134) Bugs Bunny (by Mel Blanc)
(135) My Little Pony
(136) mediterranean-style houses
(137) roman blinds
(138) the muffled sound that doors of uber expensive cars make when they're closed
(139) German cars
(140) funny tvc's
(141) Transformers
(142) He-Man
(143) She-Ra
(144) The Carebears
Thursday, March 06, 2008
My opposite-of-pet-peeves list
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Hello Grace. Very good list. Re item 27 (egg-pie) are you referring to Tea House in Baguio? If yes, mind if ask for the exact location/direction. I've been wanting to visit and sample their menu specially the famous egg-pie and bihon. Thank you and all the best.
ReplyDeleteHi Aldo. Sorry for the delayed reply. Yes, I was referring to Tea House in Baguio. It's along lower to mid-Session Road in the heart of Baguio City. If you're facing the Maharlika Livelihood Center / City Market, it will be on the right side of the road. Anyway, it's a city landmark (sort of). People where it is, so you can always ask for directions. They also put up a branch at SM Baguio, I just can't remember what floor. From experience though, if you're buying whole pies, you're better off going straight to the Session Road branch. Happy hunting!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, while you're there, try the Gingerbread Store cassava cake. It's along Lower Ferguson Road, right side, if you're going down the road. Go early though. They're usually sold out by lunch.
Dear Grace,
ReplyDeleteThis question is like the pie question. Your 86th favorite is Darjeeling Tea. Amen!
So where in Manila can one buy Darjeeling Tea? We live in Cainta. I would be willing to order a delivery. Does Serenitea deliver loose tea, or only tea already brewed?
I would be very grateful if, in addition to posting your reply, you could copy it to:
mccunes@gmail.com
Thanks so much for any help you can give,
Keith McCune
Dear Keith,
ReplyDeleteIf you're looking for Darjeeling Tea in Manila, your best bets are the more high-end grocery stores like Rustans, or at least the bigger and better-stocked grocery stores like SM or Robinson's Supermarkets. I used to get mine from my friend who worked at Cravings (a restaurant along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City). The brand escapes me, but i remember it came in a green and white box, and it was really good. I've recently discovered that some of the smaller stores that carry imported goods (like Kang's along Leviste Street in Salcedo Village, Makati City) also sell certain brands of Darjeeling Tea.
I'm not familiar with Serenitea though... Maybe you can Google it?
Anyway, I hope this helps. =)
Grace