How To Get Through A Really Long Day

(The original images of the following steps are not mine. I just found them in an old email and edited them. Enjoy!)









Cheers! (This could work with bottled cocktails as well, I think)

Drunken Talks

As part of a website on design, I will be contributing videos on "Drunken Talks." The concept is just that, talks over a couple of beers. But basically focused on design. It was inspired by this video.



Check out www.drunkondesign.wordpress.com for more.

Xaymaca

April 25 -- With two girl friends, Twenty and Dawn, we went to Xaymaca in Quezon City. This was after the Earth Day Jam along Tomas Morato where I rekindled a feeling for pinoy bands like Moonstar 88.

You pay P150/head no matter which part of the band's performance is at already. This entitles you to a beer. It can get pretty crowded though so be careful not to bring a huge purse which will be inconvenient while you stand around waiting for a seat to be vacated. Additional bottles are at P40 each, i think.

Xaymaca is located along Timog Ave., Quezon City.

Mogwai

Mogwai was it for Friday night last week. Good friend from China came home to do pamamanhikan to his fiancee's parents in the province.



Onigiri


Before going to Cubao Shoe Expo, went to Kozui, a green tea place along Tomas Morato where I collected a pack of shelled pumpkin seeds and cheese hopia from Sonya's Garden. I was made to try Onigiri, a snack made of Japanese rice (yes, I was forced to eat rice with my Roast Green Tea Latte with soya milk) shaped into a triangle. It had bits of tuna and some salty japanese sprinkles and had a nori strip at the bottom. It will be part of the pastry display of the store soon. I imagine this to be effective in lining one's stomach before drinking. It will actually go well with beer, I imagine, because it is rice and fish (which you can conveniently bite into like a piece of bread--not that i eat bread with beer).




(Mogwai images by pro photographer Nicky Sering)

Anyway, Mogwai is a place (restaurant-bar with a theater or screening room on the second floor) owned by Erik Matti and Lyle Sacris. It's a cozy place and we always choose to meet here now that everyone has outgrown (or simply find it not sulit to go to) Sarah's and Molo's. Beer is affordable here. But what I do like are the lava cakes, both dark and white (P90 a piece), the Alamid cofffee, and a plate of spaghetti with fish fillet smothered with achovies.

It was packed that night. While waiting to be seated, I asked my friend what he was going to bring for the parents and if it was lechon? His answer, as usually, was funny that I am actually "all for it" for its novelty. He said he was bringing boxes of Krispy Kreme. Hahaha

Kafebaresto

Found along Kamuning. From EDSA, it's on your right. Wouldn't have had the chance to learn about this place had it not been for my cousin who also introduced the place to my brother. We went here early AM of Saturday. P30 SML.

Photographs on the wall. Digital art/short films are shown regularly as indicated on the schedules posted on the wall. Cozy place. Owned by celebrities Romnick Sarmenta and Harlene Baustista.

Penguin

Found myself here at around 2 AM of Saturday (I'm just guessing but it was definitely after 1 AM). Penguin is along Remedios, Malate, Manila City. I just had a glass of water here (had rhum and diet coke at a housewarming party in Katipunan already). But I think a bottle of SML is at P50.

There are bands who play here. Reminds me of Makati's Saguijo.