Week END food tripping again

I'm not that fond of Mexican food but whenever I get the chance to eat it I go with the safe ones... 

Nachos or the quesadillas

   

It's another night out with my friends...

And we started with Su Casa in this food strip compound in Parañaque...

 

It seems like a popular food resto since it has the stamp of "no. 1 Mexican joint in Metro Manila by When In Manila" outside (it's a website for travelers and tourists and such)... 

 And I would agree that their peri chicken and shrimp gambas is good

   

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 Since I am around the area and we're waiting for our ramen in the nearby resto... 

We passed by the community market first, which is open on weekends here in Salcedo in Makati 

City

 

 

 We really just killed time around the block and had dalandan juice...

   

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 No wonder most ramen bars have adequate seating space...

 

 

 When you're seated, they prepare your order so that it is served hot... 

 The best way to enjoy any shoyu ramen... 

With gyoza on the side... 

   

 Another first time experience in Mendokoro, a ramen bar in Makati. 

 Go ahead and try it... 

 It's worth the wait...

It has been a week since my socmed hiatus

Today is the 8th day of the month and technically it has been a week since I deactivated and logged off my social media accounts in Twitter and Facebook...

And by gawd!

I SO MISS IT!

I don't know how much more I can endure my quiet mobile phone at night after work... or even when I stop for a breather at work... it has been really quiet...
To be honest...

What I really miss so much is my fangirling... My fangirling over Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza or the phenomenal loveteam in the Philippines called ALDUB...

If you don't know much about them you can go and search for them online or on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook...
 
 
I still have LOTS of photos on my phone obviously but...

I don't want to get into much on what I have been fangirling over the past 2 years... I will just feel sadder that I don't get to be updated on whatever is happening in their careers and in their lives and I also miss the friends I met online because of these two...

I just really miss them... my stress relievers and my happy pill... Seeing them together oncam in their regular show, Eat Bulaga... And chatting with my peeps online - Aldub Nation is what the fandom is known as...

 

Well aside from my hiatus from social media, I also am not watching TV much anymore and so I redirect my time to watching online stuff and now this... blogging again...

One week...

A couple more weeks before I go back to Twitter... and Facebook... and the rest of the socmed platforms...

Haaaaay.... Is it April yet?!

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All photos credit to their original owners.

If you want to know more about Alden and Maine, ALDUB and the Aldub Nation just search the keywords online and on Twitter 

Or check out my other blog, I think I posted a few about them there http://tikisoka.blogspot.com 

Or wait until I go back to Twitter and see my profile http://twitter.com/tikisoka or my fangirl account on Instagram http://instagram.com/tikisoka_fg

What I do at work...

This morning, I just finished with another round of admissions testing for our primary grade school level...

I currently work in a school and I handle the admissions testing of new students...

Their requirements is to come bringing their pencil, snacks, together with their test permit of course, allowing them to take the entrance test...

I had 5 students earlier and they tested my patience in as much as they were quite talkative and wanted to share whatever is in their minds... Good thing they raised their hands first and waited to be called and then they are allowed to talk...

We finished the test earlier than I anticipated for a big group... I usually have just around 4 girls - yes I work in an exclusive girls school...

They were smart to begin with... it would just be challenging for their teachers to reign in their attention since they get to be distracted often...

I say... good luck to their future teachers! via Daily Prompt: Permit

Amateur writing at age 12

I remember that I had a short story, which I wrote way back in grade school, and which I have been wanting to post online.

Why?

Because the paper where I typed it using an old electric typewriter is yellowed with age...



Since the internet has been the online journal or haven of most writers nowadays, I just thought why not just put it online just for it to be "stored" in the big digital cloud out there 😁

And no... This is the only story I have ever written since I have discovered that I have no patience or creativity to come up with more so...

I would rather read, appreciate and critique others which for me is more fun I guess...

So I plan to retype the story here, verbatim - well with edits like the spelling and grammar of course since what does a 12 year old in the 1990s know back then - a chapter at a time...
Can you guess what's the title of the short story I made?

It's a popular song then of Color Me Badd hahaha and you look carefully at the photos above, you'll see it 😉

Coloring by numbers

Day 3 of my socmed hiatus and I am really trying to change my habits...

So yesterday after work, before watching my usual kdrama online,

I colored a page from my sister’s coloring book... I didn’t finish the whole page but it was enough for me...

This morning though when I woke up, I grabbed my phone to check and as usual it has been quiet...

So I opened the coloring by numbers game I have installed on my ipad and did a few...

I already did a few when I first installed the app

And I discovered something...

I can color using photos taken by my camera!

Hahahaha

I did a few of my face and gawd it is not easy!

It would really take time...

If they did not have to call me in for lunch I would not stop and take a break from it

So I wonder how long will I last with this one until I get bored again and look for some other game to kill time...

Perhaps going back to my pending reads...

Will get back to you on that...

It took me to do a socmed hiatus to blog again

As the title says...
I'm back to posting here because I promised myself
that I wouls let go of social media - particularly Twitter and Facebook
and even Instagram and just stay connected thru messenger apps,
email and text.
Gawd! When I first thought about it I thought I would literally cry...
I have been immersed in socmed esp because of my fangurling
for the past 2 years and yeah I fuess I would have to recalibrate
and change my habits so as not to be too dependent...
As you can see I haven't been blogging like I used to...
There are alot of other hobbies or habits I let go in lieu of my fangirling
and socmed...
But I guess this isn't counted as socmed...
I plan to chronicle my days off socmed...


Today is Day 2

I decided to start early instead of starting on Ash Wednesday because
something personal came up and I had ro immediately attend to it
So this prompted me to deactivated earlier than I first planned...
I said goodbye for now to a few of my contacts online so they would know
at least that I did not die haha

So this morning, instead of my usual habit of going online on Twitter to
be updated, I just checked Viber messages I missed during the night and then
What else to kill time? I installed a coloring by numbers app haha
I colored a few until I had to be picked up and go to school...

I downloaded a few news site app kn my phone, Twitter has been my
newspaper ever since so I need alternatives during this hiatus to be updated.

I also thought of blogging about this hiatus and so I downloaded the blogger
app too

And I am on the way to work now while I am writing this on my phone

Adding a screenshot for you to see what I am doing at the passenger seat haha

And so... In a few minutes I will be at work so I won't need to go online much except for work so I have a whole day to get my mind off my socmed hiatus...
Sort of like those withdrawal pangs people go through haha...

I can do this!
One day at