4/05/2005
.:. clear and bright day .:.
clear and bright day
that is the holiday celebrated by the chinese/taiwanese today. first two days into work and we already get a holiday.lol.
but anyways, since the canteen was closed for the day, the group decided to take on the invitation that one of the resident staff offered since the day we arrive- that we can abuse her kitchen.lol.
well, mia and i are the only ones who really know how to cook among the six. So we did. for breakfast, i offered my very own dish..."corn beef ala cheese"..hehehehe. but i think i put to much cheese but, anyhow, the boys did enjoyed.
after breakfast, kuya jed, one of the filipino interns, toured us downtown where we were able to go to the public market and govt supermarket (it was 15 minutes by bike, you could imagine that all 7 of us were biking along the highway...good thing they what exists as a "bicycle lane") Goodness, you should have seen the local produce...ang LAKI LAKI! promise and considering the prices. large "RADISH", large and long "TALONG".
haay...it sucks that all we could do was compare taiwan and the Phil...sna atleast something could have been said which comparison made philippine better, sadly from everything we saw: personality of the people to cleanliness to the agricultural produce - taiwan is way better. :(
at the supermarket, every commercial item: detergents, shampoos, what ever, where bought by bulk. And not only are they bought by bulk but they were HUGE too...
like the shampoos for example, you wont find those miniture or the average size ones that filipinos buy back home but rather XXLARGE. i bet filipinos are the only ones that invented SATCHETS.
well, we bought things by bulk so the group decided to buy as a group. first thing on the list, tissue paper,,than coffee, than LAYS (w/c just cost around 25 pesos, the medium large ones..cheap noh>?) than HERSHEYS (w/c four bars just cost 60 pesos)...lol...later when we decided to eat one of them bars, we discovered it was actually an imitation...lol...KERSHEYS.
so for lunch
we had tilapia and sinigan. and to think, i recieved complements for my cooking. lol..
oh dear...its six pm.
i just dropped by the computer room to print my research outline for edition.
my friends are nagging me to start cooking..
hahaay...jasper, the ACRDC trainee and COOK.lol..
losing my grip. [5:24 PM]
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