Ox tripe Callos Ver 0.01B

Time to use the remaining tripe from Ox tripe Callos Ver 0.01A.

Recipe from

http://www.myfilipinorecipes.com/meat/filipino-callos-beef-tripe-recipe.html

Ingredients

1 300ish g Hunt's Pork & Beans
4 cloves garlic
1 small onion
potato, diced
carrots, diced
5 tbsp soy sauce
Butter

Steps

1. Saute garlic and onions in butter.
2. Add the tripe. Stir fry to your heart's content. 3ish minutes.
3. Add the soy sauce. Add the potato and carrots.
4. Cover and let simmer until potato and carrots soften.
5. Add the can of beans. Simmer for 3ish minutes

Comments

Good but first recipe tasted better
Mas nalalasahan mo iyong pork and beans.
Mas madali/mabilis gawin.

For next time

Hmmm... actually ok na siya. Not much to expect since base sauce is from the canned beans.

Personal Rating: ★★★★
Yup, I have a personal star system now.


★             - not fit for human consumption
★★          - ang importante ay may nakukuha kang nutrition
★★★       - ok na sana kaso parang may kulang
★★★★    - pwede nang for regular rotation sa meal plan
★★★★★ - i should sell this 

Ox tripe Callos Ver 0.01A

I bought 1.89 kilos of ox tripe from snr. I intend to cook another dish with my slow cooker. And the internet advice I remember is that the cheapest meat cuts are best matched with slow cooking. Ox tripe at Php160/kilo.

I thought I bought too much so I decided to try two callos stew recipes. This is the first one.


Recipe source

http://panlasangpinoy.com/2010/02/24/ox-tripe-stew-callos-recipe/

Ingredients bought

For slow cooking:
1.89k Ox tripe
1 small onion
0.5 thumbsize ginger
1 beef broth cube, disolved in 2 cups of water

Rest of the cast:

1 225g Sevilla Garbanzos
1 250g Del Monte Original Style Tomato sauce 1 strip bacon
1 King Sue chorizo bilbao
1 potato, diced
3 small carrots, diced
0.5 of a red bell pepper, cut into strips

Procedure

1. Put the tripe, broth, ginger, onions, pepper into the slow cooker. 12-ish hours.
2. Sleep.
3. Wake up.
4. Remove tripe from pot. Drain. Set aside two cups of the liquid. Use half of the softend trip for this recipe. Set aside the other half.
5. Fry bacon. Cut, set aside.
6. Fry chorizo bilbao in bacon grease. Cut, set aside.
7. Pour in tomato sauce into the pan mixing with all the grease in the pan.
8. Low heat, let sauce boil.
9. Add tripe, bacon, chorizo, tripe broth and mix. Simmer for 10 minutes.
10. Add carrots and potatoes. Simmer for 3 minutes
11. Add garbanzos and bell pepper. Simmer until carrots/potatoes soften. 10ish minutes.
12. Salt and pepper to taste.

Comments

Tasted good.
Prep time over 1hr. Kapuy.
The tripe smelt like papaitan-ish.

For next time

Try more ginger.
I should take pictures.

Personal Rating: ★★★★
Yup, I have a personal star system now.


★             - not fit for human consumption
★★          - ang importante ay may nakukuha kang nutrition
★★★       - ok na sana kaso parang may kulang
★★★★    - pwede nang for regular rotation sa meal plan
★★★★★ - i should sell this

French (Old) Onions Soup ver 0.01

Simula ngayon, lagyan ko naman ng backstory kung bakit ito ang niluto ko...

Isang araw, nagutom ako dahil sa sobrang kakafacebook.

Tumingin ako sa ref at dahil sa nakita kong laman (or lack of thereof), naalala kong di pa pala ako nakapag-grocery.

Let see what we have here inside the ref's vegetable drawer; six old onions, two old sweet potatoes, a shriveled ginger. I have other things inside the ref of course, but for this story's sake , there is nothing else in there.

Google, what can I make with onions, sweet potatoes and a ginger?

"Sweet potato and ginger soup." google immediately replied.

Thank you google, and so french onion soup it is.

End backstory.

Ingredients

4 red onions (out of the 6, 2 looked a bit dehydrated so they had to be taken cared of)
2 tbsp butter
2 tsp McCormick minced garlic
1 Knorr beef broth cube
1 tbsp muscovado sugar

Procedure

1. Chop the onions. The internet recommends cutting the onions lengthwise from root to stem but I read this too late. I cut the onions in rings.

2. Into the cast iron pan, melt the butter over medium heat.

3. Cast the onions into the flames! I mean, over the melted butter inside the pan.

4. Stir them onions around for 25mins. I had to lower the heat when some of the onions looked burnt.

5. Add the muscovado. Stir some more, 5min-ish. (The internet recipe said white sugar but this is what I have right now. Muscovado sticks to the skillet so I had to scrape it off every now and then. The sugar supposedly helps the caramelization of the onions.)

6. Add the garlic. (Again, the internet recipe called for fresh chopped garlic but again this is what I get for not grocery-ing.)

7. Chop the broth cube and then put into the pan. (I could have used my rice cooker to prepare the broth but I have rice in it)

8. Add 4 cups water.

9. Mix. Add salt and pepper to taste.

10. Serve with roasted chicken. (Important step, makes the onion soup tastes so good!)

Comments

Tastes onion-ishly sweet.
I brought leftovers to work and people said it tasted good. Well, they are good friends so they had to say it tasted good or else fb-unfriending will commence (yes, I'm that sensitive and shallow).

For next time

Use fresh garlic. Less sugar perhaps?
Prepare the broth separately.

Personal Rating: ★★★ 
Yup, I have a personal star system now.


★             - not fit for human consumption
★★          - ang importante ay may nakukuha kang nutrition
★★★       - ok na sana kaso parang may kulang
★★★★    - pwede nang for regular rotation sa meal plan
★★★★★ - i should sell this

Slow cooked pulled pork v1.01

Input Parameters

1.3 kg Pork pigue
2 packs 50g Mama Sita's Barbecue Marinade Mix
278.37ml Coke
3 tbsp catsup
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp lea&perrins worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp sriracha sauce


Algorithm

1) Put pork in slow cooker. Use half pack marinade on the pork.
2) Massage the marinade into the pork. Leave for 1 hour.
3) Pour the coke in.
4) Slow cook on low. 10ish hours.
5) Drain liquid into bowl, shred the pork; using two forks would be ideal.
6) Mix the rest of the ingredients into a pot, add 5 ladleful of the liquid
7) Put pot over slow fire, stir.
8) Put shredded meat back into the slow cooker, pour the sauce over. Mix.
9) Additional 1hr on high

Output

Matabang, parang may kulang.
Di barbecue ang lasa, tastes more like asado.
Good as a sandwich filling.
Tastes good when eaten with a salad-ish side.
Salad of apple, carrot, cucumber, onion.

Comment

Try to use a liquid based sauce or maybe use more?

Lotto Fever

Last monday was the day the my life almost changed.

It's the day I almost won the 230M lotto draw! I was just like ... uhm... you know... five numbers off.

A little bit of reality rewind might be in order.

It was almost years ago since I bet on lotto. Last monday was more of an impulse. I was my way home and as I pass by the usually busy lotto outlet, the outlet was unusually unbusy and vacant even with a modest streamer saying "239M Draw Tonight."

Coincidentally, at that exact moment, I got my left hand holding on to my P140 change from the banana stand. The exact amount needed for the 7 number bet. (You pay P140 for 7 numbers of your choice and if the lotto draw hits any 6 of them, you still win the jackpot)

It may sound stupid right now, and it was back then, but I was thinking, is this the cosmos' way of saying, that this is it Ron, your time to win.

Pffft, probably not. But whatever, let's give this luck-one-in-a-billion-odds thing another try.

I went the sentimental route of choosing my numbers. (The other route would be the statistical way of choosing the 6 numbers that least came up during the previous draws.) The other route needs time and effort to compute, so sentimental route it is. Numbers that are important to me are, birth date, 12 and 1, check. Significant other's birth date, 11 and 25, check. Age I got circumcised, 21 ehrm.. I mean 7, check. Century I was born, 1900 = 19, check. Age right now, 24, check.

Well, you know how it ended. (See 2nd paragraph if you already forgot)

But, chance, there is still. None won and another draw is up tonight.

I already bought tickets in the am. This time I went the f*ck-this-i'll-let-the-system-choose-random-numbers-for-me route. Six squiggly lines later, 5 tickets, 6 random numbers each.

Well, this got me thinking, how could I increase my chances of winning the Lotto? After much sleeping, internetting and watching tv, I came up with this list.

Five ways to win the Lotto

1.)  Get a statistics major friend compute the 6 least occurring number based on the previous lotto draws. Chances say that all the 49 lotto numbers should equally be drawn in time. (I don't really know if this is statistically sound but hey, no need for factual information on this blog)

2.) Pray to your god. Let your god know that you deserve this since you've been treated unfairly almost all your life. Say what you'll do in case you win. (In my case, theoretically, I would be willing to split the pot 200-30, 200 for me, 39 for you. I like round numbers.)
       2.1) Pray to all your gods. For polytheists, pray to all of them. Customize your plea to fit their moods. You don't pray for world peace to the war god do you?
       2.2) For monotheists, secretly get another monotheist god or two. How you keep this secret from an omniscient god is beyond me, but if you pull this off, let me know. (Remember the numerous they are, the numerous powers that be, the more chances of winning)

3.) Draft your resignation letter, ready to click send. You got to let the cosmos know your f*cking serious about this.

4.) ???!?
    4.1) This probably the most important step, missing this step would be catastrophic to your chances of winning. Until somebody figures this out, sigh, we can go on hoping.

5.) Buy a ticket.

P.S.

I just got on twitter as blognironald, (yeah, I'm such a late adopter). If you're on it, let me know and if I stalkerishly like you so much, I'd probably follow you!

-update- 2/30 1143h

No one one the jackpot: 01 - 22 - 35 - 36 - 41 - 42

the good: i still have a chance to win over 300M on sunday
the bad: i didn't win 288M last night
the ugly: i have already planned out what to do w/ 288M up 'til the last centavo. Sigh, i now have to redo it for 300M.

i should have still gone the sentimental route of choosing the numbers the 2nd time around. the winning numbers have very significant meaning in my life:
  1 - my birth day
  22 - pairs of socks i own
  35 - number of days in the month of december + 4
  36 - 6 times 6, 36. 6 times 6, 36 (there's even a song for this number!!)
  41 - my target life expectancy divided by 2
  42 - my target life expectancy divided by 2, then add 1

dammit!

Swimming and gymming

I got myself two new hobbies. Swimming, the act of moving from point A to point B in a medium in a state of liquidity and whose density is usually around 1 g/ml (more commonly known as water to the uninformed), and Gymming, the act of going to the gym. Hence the title of this entry.

My previous hobby was soccering but I had been soccering for almost a decade (my gadz, how time flies) and aside from thinking that it's high time to get a new sport activity, I've got this slight left foot pain/injury that's keeping me from effectively kick balls of any kind (soccer balls, biological balls, you name the ball, I can't kick it).

Why swim and gym? Why not sing and dance? Or skate and bake?

Well, swim and gym sounds nice (hey they rhyme!), and singing and dancing is really not my thing. My earliest attempts at singing and dancing was a traumatic experience. I vaguely remember people panic and scream "call for help! this kid's having an epileptic seizure!" Having a spoon shoved in your mouth (the rational being to keep you from biting your tongue off) and various strangers groping your young, fresh and innocent body in an attempt to "hold" and "keep" you still are not things you want to happen when you try to sing/dance. So no to the sing and dance combo. While skate and bake almost sounds nice (hey they almost rhyme!), the mental imagery of baking pastry while in skates doesn't strike me as cool or even sane. Swimming and gymming it is then.

The kicker here is that there's this gym with an indoor pool 297 steps away from the office (you can count the steps yourself to verify!). And the kicker to the kicker would be mike felps winning 8 golds in the last olympics and it inspired the dolphin in me to get out there and swim.

I've been swimming quite regularly for two months now. Before this regularity, the only swimming stroke I knew was freestyle (aka front crawl) and breast and back stroking.

The freestyle I learned in just a few years ago in a Red Cross sponsored summer clinic. As the only adult in this swimming class, my classmates being 5 to 7 year old brats, you can imagine the pressure to perform (must float and move forward, must not let 5 year old kid do this better).

The breaststroke and backstroke I deduced from the words used. My version of breaststroke goes like this: Stand on the pool's edge, swimming cap and goggles on. Look down at the water's surface in a 45 degree angle. Place right hand on top part of right breast ..err.. chest (hopefully yours) just above the right nipple. Do the same for the left side. You probably know how this is going to end but if you don't, then move your hands in a circular motion around the nipple. Tadaa! Breast stroke at it's primitivest. You can do the same for the backstroke. You may not have nipples on your back to guide you (well, you shouldn't really), just stroke your back in a circular motion the way you find most comfortable.

During the regularity of swimming, I've been practicing my freestyle, and learning the breaststroking and butterflying the way they should be done. How can I not learn when I've got the two best teachers in the internetz, google and youtube. Google to provide the information, and youtube to show how it's done.

To date, I still have no idea if I'm doing things right. What I know is that I'm able to move from from point A to point B in a medium in a state of liquidity and whose density is usually around 1 g/ml (more commonly known as water to the recently informed but forgetful) in strokes called freestyle, boobstroke and butterfly. I'm not even sure if I'm doing it the way youtube showed me how. But it does feel I'm doing it right. Oh well, until someone tells me otherwise I'll just listen to the dolphin in me.

Mild mannered ex-programmer

[8-30-2008]
 
My resume shows that it's been a while since I've been a legally employed programmer. (While it sounds so crazy exciting rebellious cool to be tagged as an illegally employed programmer, images of late night hacking fueled by caffeine, nicotine and porn fills your mind but in reality, being an illegally employed programmer means that even with your meager salary, your employer has not been paying taxes, social security benefits in your behalf. Godamn that's illegal!)
 
A year and five months. 
 
Not that I never thought I'd miss programming. I still do every day programming stuff. Just a few hours ago, I programmed my alarm clock to 'alarm' at 7:00 am US eastern daylight savings time to remind me of my 'job' at 9:00 am US eastern daylight savings time. Just a few minutes ago, I programmed my wrist watch to 'wrist' at 8:00 am EDT to remind me that a bath has to be made (Only in this page does 'alarm' == 'wrist'). And just sometime ago I programmed the radio to receive free music at a specific frequency (also called turning the radio on and listening to a certain radio station).
 
Now anyone who read the last paragraph could say, hey I could do that. That makes me a programmer too!
 
No shit. Maybe you are, but I don't care. What I missed was software programming. Software, may sound almost the same with tupperware and somewhere but take my word, there's a whole world of difference.
 
For a year and month now, I've been a legally employed technical support professional, also more popularly known as a call cenner agent (Note the silent 't' in center). I can't tell you the specific cenner I work for but I could let you know in hard to decipher word puzzle. The company cenner name starts and ends with 's', and has 'yke' between them. Oh they have a website at www.sykes.com. For those high IQ readers who solved the puzzle after intense calculation, keep it to yourselves ok?
 
This was suppose to be a short stint, but a year and month and two promotions later, here I am still.
 
Well a few good things happened. I use to envy those annoyingly pretty call cenner guys and girls with their enviously annoying american accent and seemingly good verbal grasp of english. Don't you just hate those call cenner people with their fit, sexy frames with fashionable clothes, cigarettes on the right hand, expensive foreign iced coffee on the left, yap away at volume that anyone within 2 meters away would hear them say and use fake american accented words when a normal conversational tagalog/bisaya word would do.
 
Now I'm part of that demographic, I still hate and get annoyed when I see/hear those people. The good thing I was talking about earlier is that I now know that my verbal english skills have improved. I may still be unfit (unfit leaning towards malnutrition not obesity ever since forever) and unfashionable (a wedding you say? could I go wearing my spartan flipflops?), but damn it, english, me speak better.
 
It's always been an area of improvement for me. While I've always been satisfied on how I write in english, speaking the language is another story. I've been to the isteyts for a short vacation twice during my software programmer days and for some reason my version (I'll call this version 1.0) of english back then would only warrant blank stares and/or puzzled looks from native speakers.
 
It's the accent and pronunciation and choice of the words. With english version 1.0 apple would sound like 'apol' instead of 'epol,' pizza would be said like 'picha' instead of 'peetza.' And the choice of words, man, I had a tendency to speak the way I write right now. Which to me would sound weird, saying words that are only meant to written down. (I racked my brains for examples but I couldn't think of any for now. I guess once verbal english version 1.0 was replaced with english version 2.1, there's no turning back)
 
And so presenting version 2.1! Who wouldn't improve after regularly speaking to americans every working day for a year?!?
 
It's not that I now sound like a native speaker, but I could say with certainty that the large area of improvement was decreased by two square meters. Though, I've noticed improvement a few weeks into the program. QAs who monitored my calls would ask, "Your grasp of english is pretty good, were you working in call cenner before?" To which I would raise my chin a bit, hands on waist, smugly smile then say "Oh, you know, this is actually my first call cenner job" and then this would continue in my head, "Did you only ask that question since I sound like I've been speaking english my whole life? Oh you flatterer. *blushes* (For some reason, I blush quite a lot in my mind)."
 

I'm set to vacation in the estates again late this year. Let see if this self-proclaimed improvement's not all in my mind. Well if ever it's all in my mind, I could always look forward to improving to english version 3.4 (It goes all the way to Version 99.0 by the way).

and after a lifetime of not blogging...

i've decided to clean up my web space. at least add more color or pogifying widgets or interesting links, better color combination, remove all old entries and compile it as an ebook.

lots of things to do, as always, so little time and bandwidth. but i'm pretty confident i'll be done with these in at least 2 years so by then i could continue to update friends, lovers, countrymen of my current status. (currently alive, in a relationship, poor)

sigh. see you soon

Tamad

November must have been my busiest and exciting-est month of 2006. I wanted to write about those events but I'm so slothy for the past days.

I'll just post the things I did so that they would serve as a reminder that I need to write the details when I find the time/inspiration/motivation.

• La Union Surving Break
• Mt Cristobal Climb
• Alaska Cup 06
• Mt Pulag Climb
• Dental appointment with pretty dentist

P.S. If you are the 'pretty' dentist or my significant other, the last item on the list is just a figment of my imagination. OR. She wasn't really pretty, I wasn't even sure if she's really a dentist.

la union surfing break

5 days vacation at urbiztondo beach, la union. 4 days of sun and beach, 1 typhoon, 3 days of surfing, blah blah blah

mt pico de loro (aug06)

mt apo (apr05)

day 3

ronald's food column #1 - beta

According to what I've read somewhere, professional bloggers or at least serious bloggers identified as people who blogs regularly, blog in hopes of getting an offer to write a column for a published media. Writing for a publication may be enticing, but according to TFA (the f*cking article), blogging are for opinionated people. People who needs to share their thoughts to other people. While this may sound like a typical definition for a person with attention-deficit disorder, KSP in the local dialect, I have no idea why I mentioned this thought...

BUT!!, even though I'm no serious blogger (I'm more of a non-serious one), if ever I'll be snatched from the blogosphere to write in a weekly column for a magazine, I would like to write about my newly acquired self proclaimed imagined cooking skills which was necessitated by poverty. In short, in order to save money, I've been cooking my meals for sometime now.

A bit of background: I've been living away from home (home being Davao) for almost a year now. This means that my Yaya and/or Mom has not been cooking for me for that long, sad but true...

So here is my first easy-to-prepare, geared-towards-the-lazy-person, relatively affordable recipe for this 'column.'

Tantatanan!!

Ronald's version of a Tuna Spread. (Bows).

Ingredients:

1 Can (optional) Cheapest Tuna Flakes in Brine/Oil you can find ~P14
1 380ml (optional) Flavored Mayonnaise in Foil (a.k.a. mayo-based sandwich spread) ~P35
1 480g (optional) Wheat Bread Fortified with Fiber ~P50

Notes:
Every ingredient is optional - What I'm trying to say here is that you have an option of not making this tuna spread. (You have been warned.)

Bread with Fiber. Let's fight the battle against constipation!

Instructions:

1.) Drain oil/brine into bowl. (Keep this as I might change my mind and have to let you know that this _might_ still be useful)
2.) Put tuna flakes in the container you want your tuna spread to be in.
3.) Get Fork.
4.) Locate container that contains tuna flakes devoid of oil.
5.) Using the fork you hold on your right hand, lightly mash tuna flakes so that they would be exactly how you want them to be, lightly mashed and separated.
6.) Afterwards, let go of fork. Be sure to put it in an easily accessible location. (hint: beside the bowl of tuna flakes)
7.) Carefully add the sandwich spread. I usually add just enough to cover every strand of tuna flake with precisely 0.0011mm of mayo. I do not want a very soggy tuna spread. You may have a different preference.
8.) Grab the fork you let go of on #6. Mix.
9.) Buy Soda. (Important!)
10.) Spread the spread on Bread. (Hey, that ryhmes!)
11.) ???
12.) Enjoy while occasionally sipping your soda.

There you go. Enjoy the ridiculously easy to prepare Ronald's version of tuna spread.

Instruction #11 was intentionally left out as this is the most imporant step to get to #12:Enjoying your newly created spread. Non-enjoyment of you tuna spread is due to your not following the 11th instruction.

For lack of a better thing to post

I remember at one time, promising to thyself to blog regularly at least once a week. Obviously, it didn't happen. But I am again pondering the thought of regularly writing again. As soon as I find the free time to write (as all of my time are spent lying on the bed staring at the ceiling willing the lizard to move).

And if free time do finds me (despite my frantic hiding), my next problem would be what to write. I was never keen on writing personal stuffs (or is stuve?) online like feelings, emotions, definition of love, what I did, what I'm doing, what I'll be doing. I feel that blogging such things are gayish which I'm pretending not to be ... err... which truth I try to elude.. err.. Shit.

Oh, I just remembered my number one reason for blogging. I blog to be able to update my stalkers and would-be-stalkers of what I been up to lately. So if ever a beautiful stranger comes up to me and asks "Hi gorgeous, so what have you been up to?" I would immediately but nonchalantly reply "Oh.. Not much blognironald.multiply.com. See you." (I would have written I blog to update friends but most of my real friends can't read (they're all imaginary)).

Oh well.. here's another non-post to you imaginary readers.

END

Just so that reading this would not be a total waste of your time, I'm translating a list of jokes forwarded to me. The list was originally forwarded in Bisaya.

KONSEHAL: Emcee, paki-acknowledge si Mayor na nalate. Ayun, kararaan lang.
EMCEE: We would like to acknowledge the late Mayor who just passed away.
--
CORRECT PRONUNCIATION
ANAK: Tay, bilhan mo naman ako ng jucyfruwet
TATAY: anak, ayusin mo naman pagbigkas mo. Di yan jucyfruwet.
ANAK: e ano pala tawag dun?
TATAY: BAGOLBAM...
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APO UG LOLO

APO: Lo, bakit kung maglakad ka ay parang pilay?
LOLO: ay naku, huwag mo na pansinin apo.
APO: e bakit po ba?
LOLO: sabi kasi ng doktor ko iwasan ang itlog at ito ay nakakacholesterol.
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EMPLEYADO: boss, pwede pa ako pumalit sa namatay nating manager?
BOSS: pwede naman,........di lang ako sigurado kung papayang ang funeraria.
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MOTHER: Anak! dumudugo daliri mo! Bilis at sisipin ko. tsup, tsup. O ayan, wala na. San ka ba nasugatan?
ANAK: Di naman ako nasugatan e. Tiniris ko lang itong polgas ng aso natin.
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ANAK: Nay, pinatumbling2x kami sa school kanina
NANAY: Di ba sabi ko huwag sumali sa ganun at baka makita ang panty mo?
ANAK: Oo, kaya ko nga pinasok sa bag muna e.
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Tatlong kumare nagkekwentuhan
Mare1: Sus, ako mare sobra nang makakalimutin. Pati ba naman pustiso naiwan ko sa ref.
Mare2: Ay wala ka sa akin, pag nasa hagdanan ako nakakalimutan ko kung pababa ba ako o paakyat.
Mare3: Sus buti na lang (sabay tuktok sa kahoy na dingding para 'knock-on-wood' effect) na ako walang problema! (Biglang talikod) Teka mare, baba muna ako at mukhang may kumakatok.
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Anak: nay buntis ako.. nahihilo ako
Nay: di ka buntis!
Anak: nasusuka ako...
Nay: di ka nga buntis!
Anak: gus2 ko ng maasim
Nay: lintek na bading to!
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Laki: Para sayo, kunin ko pati mga tala sa kalangintan...
Babae: May patala-tala ka pa, e iyong kulangot sa ilong mo kanina pa nakabitay.
Laki: Ay sorry, di ko alam gusto mo rin pala ito...
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BABAE: Ang gwapo ng pari, ano kaya pwede kong gawin para mapansin ako? Ahhh, ilalagay ko panty ko dito sa lamesa.
PARI: kaninong panty itong nasa lamesa?
BABAE: sa akin po padre.
PARI: may konting tae e....
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Isang pirata, ininterview
Reporter: Bakit kahoy ang kaliwa mong paa?
Pirata: Ah, natamaan ng bala at kailangang putulin.
Reporter: Bakit may hook ang kanan mong kamay?
Pirata: Ah, naputol habang sa espadahan laban sa kaaway.
Reporter: Bakit ang isa mong mata may takip? (eye patch).
Pirata: Ah, naipotan ng ibon.
Reporter: Ha? Nakakabulag pala ang ipot ng ibon?
Pirata: Pinangkamot ko kasi kanang kamay ko e.
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If you got here and you still think this is a total waste of time.. Well... it's too late for anything else. Sorry... >:-)

sikad sa mt manalmon (Apr06)

I'm moving

Yep, I'm changing blog service provider (if ever there is such term). New and more interesting entries will be posted on http://blognironald.multiply.com.

My first entry there tells the intriguing and significant story of my changing web space.

See you there imaginary readers.

sikad sa capones, zambales (May06)

Alpha entry on multiply

I've been blogging, or attempting to blog, nonsense for some time now. But this, being my firsty entry on multiply's blogging service, is still a special moment. Posting your first entry is like the first time of getting a dog for pet, or giving your new pet its first bath, or feeding your new pet its first meal of leftovers, or the first time you see a very pained look on a dog's face, or digging your first hole for your first dead pet's corpse. What makes them the same is that they were firsts.

Yep, like I said. Nonsense.

Anyhoo, if you're the type of person who fancies nonsensical blog entries, do visit where it all began -> http://blognironald.blogspot.com. If you noticed posts older than this, those posts came from blogspot. I tried using multipy's import blog from blogger feature, but for some reason unbeknownst to my physical being which I label me, some of the older-er posts weren't imported. Which is such a loss for multiply because those were my most intelligent, life-altering, profound posts. Ever.

I rant. I was just suppose to explain why I joined multiply but it's too late for just that. But let me explain still:

1st: The only reason was, I wanted to share my Capones-adventure pictures.
2nd: And since multiply blogs support tagging, I just _might_ continue blogging here.
3rd: Did you notice multiply's tag line? ..

"Want to show your profile to millions of people you don't know? Use Friendster.



Share your photos, video, music, blogs and more with the people you already know and love: Join Multiply"

Aww.. I did want to share my photos with people I already know and love. Thank you multiply. I heart multiply.com

Let's go Sikad, let's go!

I've been here in Manila since September of 2005. I've been playing football/soccer since that time. And since then, I realized that I've never been on a team that won a tournament, or even just a single friggin match. After several restless nights of thinking and analysis, I finally came to the most logical reason why the team I played on never won a match yet. It's due to the balat on my pwet.

If you read my last post, in able to ensure that my team gets to win at least a match, I'll have to have this balat dermatologically removed and chopped into teensy-weensy pieces. But due to the programmer's hectic schedule of eating, sleeping, tv-watching, bath-taking, eating again, the supposedly scheduled operation wasn't even scheduled.

And last sunday, a tournament was on. I'm playing for Sikad FC this time. Football tournament + Ronald + balat on pwet = ???.

Surprisingly, we won the first match versus some team whose name I forgot at the score of 3-0. You could say I was mildly surprised. I didn't score any goal, but almost did with a diving header. Click the link for the diving header should bring you to page showing a football player performing the said move (this is for football illiterate readers). Notice the player's face. To be able to correctly perform the diving header move, one's expression should be exacltly the same as the one found on the image. The expression of bewilderment, confusion, surprise and the need to defacate should be on one's face. With the face in place, one must dive to the approaching soccer ball's trajectory and let it bounce off the forehead and into the goal without the face changing expression the entire time. The reason the ball didn't go in with my diving header is due to my expression lacking the emotion of surprise.

After winning the match, doubts filled my mind. Could my perfectly logical reason for losing prior matches (balat on pwet), wrong? I was tempted to make a quick restroom break to check on the status of the balat in question, but due to the volume of people utilizing the room of rest, I decided to check on it later after the tournament.

Our 2nd match against Sta. Rosa FC was a draw 1-1. Nathan scored the first goal but due to our poor defending in the dying minutes, the opponents managed to steal one goal to draw.

We won the 3rd match against the Villamor Team 2-0. This time I had a between-the-legs kick-flip for a goal from an excellent pass from Rod. No pictures for this one. This must be executed in person for one to understand.

We, again, won our 4th match against Naija FC 1-0 courtesy of Roan. Playing Niaja was a tricky one. The Niaja team was mostly composed of colored people which I presume has their roots in Africa. Most of the players of Naija were taller and physically bulkier we are. They were more odorous too.

And with that we finished first place in our bracket. We unfortunately lost to Sta. Rosa in our Semis matchup. Despite that, Sikad FC definitely played a hell of game that day. Top team in bracket A? Wow. Take that you balat.

The Sikad's ladies team played even better finishing as the tournament's 1st runner up in the ladies division. It was the first time I saw Sikad's ladies played and I was totally in awe of how they handled, passed and moved the ball. Wow. The ladies lost the last match against a team of seasoned, ex-varsity, national players. First runner up is definitely not bad for a team of recreational female football players.

Oh, and when I got home and checked on my balat, it wasn't there anymore ! The I realized, "Oh my gosh, it was just libag!" (spoken in the coño-est tone possible).

After a Month or so

It's been a month or so since I've last posted here. I was inspired to put in a new entry when a from-davao-but-now-in-singapore friend shared her new blog. This is aside from the fact that I'm doing nothing today. And I'm bored. And I only write when I'm super bored. I'm actually only psuedo-bored but I feel writing anyway. Since I'm only psuedo-bored, I'm just gonna psuedo-write. A psuedo-blog entry.

This being a psuedo-entry, I'm just let you know what I've been doing for the past month or so.

1. 5 on 5 Futsal Tournament at Club650 with the Korsaaven.

• Korsaaven was my main football club (fc) back during my UP student days. I was pretty glad to know that the team is still playing and is slowly rebuilding. (Lots of players stopped playing after graduation and were never heard from ever again). We lost the tournament (This being my first futsal tournament here in Manila, which is totally not the reason we lost but I still feel like mentioning).

2. 7 on 7 Tournament with Sikad FC

• I played with Sikad FC way back when the team was still named ArchLegion. Never knew the reason for the change but still, playing with these guys still is fun. Again, we lost the tournament but I have an uber-cool moment during one match. I did this super-bicycle kick which awed the audiences even if the ball didn't went in. Thanks to my kick's landing, I have a mild sprain on my left wrist and right foreknuckle til now.
  

3. Bisita Iglesia with Sikad FC

• Since I was doing nothing during the holy week, I tagged along with Sikad FC's bisita iglesia. I was told that this activity was some kind of tradition with club. It was an experience (for lack of a better word). Ironically, we ended the day playing texas hold'em poker. I guess we just wanted to play the roles of the soldiers who gambled for Jesus' clothes. Hmmm.. could those soldiers have been playing poker? Aside from that, we took extreme care of not wounding ourselves. We all know the consequences of wounding oneself on the days Jesus was dead, it would never heal, forever.

4. Trip to Tagaytay

• I've never been to Tagaytay. So even if I only had 3 hours of sleep due to last night's poker game after bisita iglesia, I went and even volunteered to drive. After piercing my eyes with toothpicks to keep me awake for the drive, we got there safe and sound. Visited some popular tourist spots, took some pictures like tourists and even ate like tourists. 'Twas suppose to be a day trip, but for some reason we decided to return the next day. We found a cozy hotel/resort to sleep over for the night. The price was quite steep but the place was real nice. So nice that I forgot its name. After buying the obligatory I love *insert place where you are now which is currently->* Tagaytay shirt, we went home back to smogful Manila.

5. Mt Manalmon

• A fun climb with Sikad FC friends. What I like best about the people in Sikad is that they share the same interests I have from prOn to football to mountain climbing. A really easy climb. You'll reach the peak in 1.5 hours.
  
• Related to this climb is my purchase of a pioneer 2 coleman good-for-two tent which costs around 3K (Ouch). Prior to the climb, I had my eyes set on a good for four tent at Isetann for 850. But on the day of purchase, images from my raining first night on Mt Apo reminded me that cheap tents meant no sleep, wet clothes and group hugs the entire night.

6. Campana Farm

• Another Sikad FC activity, gawd I like this club. Fished for tilapia in the pond, videoked the entire night. Wow.

7. Tennis and Polats

• My friend Pol has new hobby, tennis. For some reason, I am in possession of a tennis racket. Pol with new hobby + Me with tennis racket = Me and Pol playing tennis. It was suppose to be a one on one tennisfest with Pol but due to our ...uhm... lack of training, we had to avail the services of Manong to help us with our strokes. I'm getting to like tennis and I might be making this are regular tuesday activity at the UP courts.

8. Mizuno 5 on 5 Futsal Tournament with Korsaaven

• Lost the tournament again. For the 6 months I've been playing football here in Manila, I've never played for a winning team. I may have to check my puwet for a balat to make sure I'm not the reason for this occurence.
• Bought a wicked new pair of Mizuno shoes. Not budgeted but since: 30% discount on Mizuno Shoes + Ronald with no Futsal shoes = Ronald with Futsal shoes - 2K. (Ouch)

Shit. This is a long one even for a psuedo post.

If I find time, or rather if time finds me, I'll blog in the details to the bulleted list here on this psuedo posts.

I'm quite contented with what is happening right now with the activities lined up for me:

• Capones, Zambales Trip - yahoo! surfing here i come
  
• Globe Football Super Cup - must have that balat dermatologically removed by this time

I just hope I didn't just imagine all these things.