Family Photoshoot

During Christmas! My weird family. :)

Family
25 December 2011

Ants in Tali Beach (October 2011)

Antlers—you’ll be seeing a lot of this. Don’t ask why; some things in life just is.

What’s a better way to spend sem break than having an adventure with good friends? Tumblr, meet Ants, my crazy barkada. And this our day trip to Tali Beach on the 28th of October, 2011.

Skyping with (left-to-right) Tisha, Kim and Patring before our 3AM meet-up. Don’t mind the awkward mouse on Patring’s mouth—think of it as those gold teeth gang leaders put to look richer; I just manually put one on Patring because I was bored.

At the SLEX pit-stop, 6AM.

Certified j3j3m0ns, Luis and Tisha. No jokes.

Our house in Tali, after weeks of hunting. Not bad for 3,500PHP.

It’ll be so fun to caption this photo, but I’ll leave you to it.

Kim, star ng Maalaala Mo Kaya.

I can’t explain this photo. Nor can I explain why Luis is afraid.

Taken by Stef Sandoval, featuring Ryan Sio. Drama~

Taken by either Stef Sandoval or Ryan Sio—the rest of us are in the photo, cliff-diving. (Yes, cliff diving! WHOO!)

The cliff, with some of the divers. :) (Kim and I were recovering from our “battle wounds” ahem ahem)

Tisha, Luis and I during lunch time. Kim, Tisha, Stef and I prepared lunch, while Luis didn’t. :D Hihihi.

Kim and I, about to leave for the beach in Luis’ car.

And hello, Tisha!

Ryan Sio, your unexpected model. He didn’t even know I was taking this photo. I guess it’s natural.

Kim, bathing his feet in the sea. I don’t know why he needs goggles for this.

Mara and Tisha, wading too.

Here is Mara, wondering if strutting on water is harder than on land. Kim is her only audience. And Stef and Patring are talking about the weather.

Mara again, this time she’s leisurely posing by the aqueous sea.

Eating croquettes with mozarella in Buon Giorno with Patring. This probably tasted better than our main course but we’d still come back again, as we have several times.

Last group shot of the trip, after buying Mochi ice cream. Did you notice the change of skin tones?

To conclude this, here is a random .gif of our weird faces! :D

<3 Ah, I live for days like this. Good friends, great day.

Cooking: Shrimp Carbonara

So once in a while, I try cooking. I’m not good, I just follow the recipe.

 My friend, Tisha, and I wanted to cook, but neither of us had any way of getting to our own houses without too much hassle. So instead, at a slightly-early-morning-haze, we decided to cook in our separate houses and post pictures of what we made online. (No, this is not lame, this is awesome!)

I tried making shrimp carbonara (with mozzarella as garnish). It’s my first time making pasta (can I just say I keep typing “paste” when I say pasta) and I think it turned out well. I bought ingredients to make chicken mozzarella by Chef Ramsay (see YouTube), but this took too long. Next time!

Can I just say, THIRTY-MINUTE COOKBOOKS DO NOT EXIST. Well, they do, but I don’t believe it only takes 30 minutes to took something from scratch. :| There mere preparation of ingredients takes up half of your energy, and before you know it, you’re spending the rest of your effort throwing everything into a bowl or pan. Why does TV make everything look so much easier?

You’d think that I just needed to cook the sauce, shrimp and linguine, right? Huhu, wrong. Had to marinate the shrimp, then cook it, cook the linguine, and make the sauce, and make the separate garnish. D: The recipe said it took 30-45 minutes, but it took 2 hours with help. Slight stab to the pride—but who cares? I kinda like how it turned out.

My first taste-testers: Dad and Josh, who should be looking more enthusiastic. Haha.

Wahahaha, they don’t know that they ate 2tbs of bacon dripping.

My lola was a big help to me today. Spent the day with her. She’s awesome.

Hello!

So through this, I learned: (1) how to roast red peppers [I had to YouTube], (2) broil using my oven [I didn’t notice that option, seriously], (3) the meaning of julienne, and (4) what Panko crumbs are […I just have plain crumbs in my grocery].

So, uhm, yeah. Haha. :D

Gen. Biology Lab Practicum
Ark Avilon Zoo, Tiendesitas
27 February 2011