FoodTrip: PINIKPIKAN

PINIKPIKAN.

Cordillera's specialty dish-- chicken soup with sayote that is similiar to Tinola.
But the chicken used in this recipe is beaten to death so that blood permeates its flesh to give the meat a smoky flavor.

Gay and Guilty

We make so much fuss about someone who just admitted that she's gay, even highlighting the "nakakairitang"/ eye-soring hairstyle.

And yet we tolerate someone who was ousted and impeached and later on, guilty of plunder. Not only that, we voted for him again!

Bond, Hollywood and Penelope Cruz

In the forthcoming Bond 24, actress Penelope Cruz would be the oldest Bond Girl, playing the part at 40.

In our society, particularly in that area known as Tinseltown, ageing is a big issue. Especially for the ladies.

Women past their prime, however artistic, talented or beautiful, are slowly pushed behind the curtains only to be frontlined (or even worse, substituted) by younger, usually twentysomething starlets because of their youthfulness.

We have been drugged by this age-obsessed industry bigheads into thinking--- "the younger, the more beautiful and sexy'. And since, as they say, "sex sells," they put them in movie after movie no matter how "inexperienced" these young girls are.  

Thus, among other things to consider, in Hollywood, younger eye-candies are served to satisfy the generation's cravings of what is said to be "more appealing/ exciting to the senses."

So for some, it's a rather risky move to cast a 40- year old, non-American actress to play the love interest of a suave, iconic superagent, in the famous and well-followed James Bond series.

Some blasted, "Why get 40, when you can play with 20?"

Well whadya know, the Hollywood landscape is gradually changing. Especially for women.

Kathy Griffin got it right when she said someday talent would transcend age.

Wanderlust 2013

So here's more of a photo blog before I sign out today.
Captions to be written... Soon, I Hope. :))

Overlooking Taal Volcano at Club Balai Isabel, Talisay, Batangas.

 

Taal Volcano Crater. Batangas

Picnic Grove Viewing Deck. Tagaytay.

 

Club Balai Isabel. Talisay, Batangas

18th International Hot Air Balloon Festival. Clark, Pampanga

Sana Di Na Lang and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Here's some randomw dabble on my Facebook wall a few minutes ago, time-lapse version.


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Alam mo yung Mapapa-"Sana Di Na Lang..." Phrase ka... Yung moments na "Maganda Na Sana Kaso..."

And you wish totoo yung in-attempt sa movie na Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... Na thru a magical procedure, mabubura na ang unwanted memories mo.

Wow, Just like that!

You wonder, what if di na lang nakilala, if di nangyari ang nangyari...would you be happier?

Well, admit it, at a point, you were happy. But things are not going to be the same. You will never be the same again. Would you?

But wait, if you had known, if you had seen the future, would you give it a go? Would you be willing to risk everything?

For what? For whom?

Don't we all wish we can avoid getting hurt? That we can, just as easily, unglue ourselves... But, there's a big BUT...

But feelings, emotions - their eccentricities and complexities- are there.

Yan hirap i-control. Tama ba?

Point is...

Eh yung movie... Parang gusto ko tuloy panoorin ulit yang movie na yan. Now na!! Hahahaha.

So ano na, Sana Di Na lang (???)
:p