In a few weeks, the Philippines will be holding its national elections. We have a very important decision to make. We will be choosing the next president of the Republic. It will also be my first time to vote. Last year I wrote about voter’s registration at the Comelec offices at the Quezon City Hall. This year, I will be voting.
And I still haven’t decided who to vote for.
It’s not an easy decision to make. It’s harder than choosing what to wear to work each night, or where to eat, or whether to invest in a term life insurance or not. I only have one vote, and it may not make or break a candidate, but it is still a vote. Sure I think I know who I’m voting for, but I’m not 100% about my choice just yet.
You see, the results of the elections will have a direct impact on everyone’s life in the next six years. It’s not much different from the other decisions we make everyday. Whether to eat healthy or not, to save money or to splurge. They are all seemingly small choices we make today, but we’ll eventually find that our future depends on these choices. Ayoko lang na after a few months, I’ll realize that my vote was wasted on the wrong president. Kasi naman, if I voted in the 2004 elections, I probably would have voted for Gloria. Tsk.
I know that the rest of the BC Bloggers probably had their posts up as early as 9AM this morning, but it’s better late than never. 🙂 Here’s a shoutout to the woman behind the BC Bloggers, Joanna Paula. Happy birthday girl! 🙂 Let me know if BC Bloggers are chipping in to rent out one of those events places, you know those big metal buildings, or an unused warehouse, to throw you a birthday bash. I’ll be there!
Sunday after work, we headed to Greenhills for a movie date. Upon learning that the next showing of Clash of the Titans was about an hour away, we decided to grab some lunch first. When we’re there we normally eat at the usual places: Max’s, Burgoo, House of Mini. On Sunday though, Alfred wasn’t hungry because he had lunch at home before picking me up in the office (his mom prepared early lunch for him). He was okay anywhere I wanted to go as long as he can have something to cool down.
Delifrance was the choice.
Whenever I dine at Delifrance, I eat something different. They don’t have a huge menu selection, but there are so many dishes that I enjoyed in the past and a lot I would still like to try. I featured Delifrance once before, a year earlier in fact, when I had my Spirometry test. Choosing a dish wasn’t easier this time around. I went with a set lunch, Tray Couture I think they called it. I forgot the name of the set I chose, but it had shrimp linguine and french dip roast beef sandwich. It also came with chocolate for dessert, bread sticks and a shot of some soup. It came with a free drink too, and I chose Iced Tea.
The boyfriend just ordered a tall glass of Strawberry frappe, it was very refreshing.
We were thinking of ordering more nga eh, but decided against it. These drinks aren’t exactly what you’d call cheap.
I was super hungry already but I still managed to snap a few shots of my tray before eating everything on it:
We actually thought that the bread sticks had a sweet dip, that was until I tried it. It was soup in a shot glass! I think it was a simple mushroom soup, but it was tasty and I liked it.
I dipped the bread sticks in the soup, but when I finished up all the sticks, I drank all the soup that was left. I was trying to go for it in one shot, but it proved too much for me. Hehe. I finished it off in two swigs.
Of course, I didn’t just concentrate on my food the entire time. The boyfriend and I did talk about stuff. Like his get-together dinner with grade school classmates the night before. I didn’t actually know he was going anywhere until after the fact, but that’s okay. He mentioned feeling like he didn’t really know them anymore. They were strangers. That got me thinking about reunions and seeing old acquaintances. I’m not big on those things either. I guess there are just a few people who I know things would be like time was not a factor. I’d rather meet with them in small groups and not in big get-togethers. I know of some people who keep tabs on their old batchmates. Networking. It comes in handy too for others, who use their contacts to find a job, or to get referrals for projects and such. That’s not such a bad thing too.
Next up, the main course.
I loved the shrimp and tomato linguine! Okay, I’m not sure if that’s exactly how it’s called, but that’s what I remember 🙂
I think though that this is just half a serving, so it wasn’t that filling. I figured I had to eat the sandwich too before I’d get full. I saved it for last because I love roast beef sandwiches and I had high expectations for this one.
Sadly, my expectations were not met. It was a little too bland for me, even with the dip. 🙁 Of course that didn’t stop me from finish it all off. Last on the plate was dessert, a small piece of chocolate. Nothing special about it, but it was a nice touch to complete the meal.
Finally, I got chocolate madelines to go. Something sweet to munch on in the cinema.
What’s your favorite meal from Delifrance? 🙂
Oh, but you know what? This wasn’t the last meal for the day. I’d reserve another blog post for where we had dinner after the movie and some shopping. 😉
So a colleague at work sells original branded perfumes at discounted prices. We got one for the boyfriend and thought that the price was very reasonable. Specially since we’d checked out at the malls and saw that it was being sold at around 4.5k. Then a former agent of mine mentioned that he sells branded perfumes, original and still boxed, for only 1.8k, regardless of the brand. Hmmm.
Today, while walking around Greenhills, we saw at least two perfume shops that were selling the brand (CK Man) that the boyfriend just go for 2k – lower than what we got it for. The shop also carried lotions, a few make up, and even acne pills. All at very low discount prices. I just wonder how they can manage it. Even if they were able to bring in those goods tax-free, the prices in which they were being sold just makes it hard for me to imagine how they profit from it all.
I don’t need another bottle right now, but maybe in a few weeks I’ll contact my former agent and find out if I can get my favorite fragrance from him…
Because I already have Ginger, I took Maxine with me to work earlier. Good thing because I ended up having to lend it so we could take photos of the recognition program we had for one of our LOBs. Clients were there so it was the perfect opportunity to recognize performing agents.
I didn’t personally take the photos though, I had one of our agents handle it. He took a closeup of me too but I don’t like the photo! I tried to hide my face but you could still see my oily T zone. Ugh.
I’m not complaining, as Jo mentioned a few weeks back, at least I don’t really have an acne problem. I feel though as if I’m wasting money with my facial cream or the facial wash I’m currently using. It isn’t for me to switch though because my skin is quite sensitive and would dry out easily with just one use of the wrong acne face wash. That could really be nasty.
