between meals

Browsing online at the sample menu of Spring Moon restaurant...

W: Squid with bagoong? Chinese dish ba yan?
J: Siguro. Ano ba yan? Eggplant with minced pork, P280. Torta lang yan a.
W: Steamed snapper...baby pigeon...
J: Pigeon? Bad sila!
W: Oo. Magagalit si Bert. Baby pa lang, pinatay na nila.
J: Oo.
W: (Looks at her with bewilderment)Kilala mo ba si Bert?
J: Oo. Boyfriend ni Ernie.
W: That's not true!
J: Oo! Inamin na nila.
W: Hindi! Walang umaamin kasi walang aaminin. Si Elmo, boyfriend nya si Cookie Monster.

(FYI. J loves Elmo.)

J: Hindi a!
W: Oo. Kasi pedophile si Cookie Monster. O ano? Anong feeling mo?
J: Hindi ako naniniwala!
W: Ano? Masakit, no? Now you know the feeling.

(J keeps quiet, wonders about her feeling.)

W: Siguro taga-Electric Company ka, no?
J: Hahaha!

Just because one is yellow, lives with a guy and laughs like a goat, doesn't make one a puppet gay. Have you ever watched Friends?

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Over the weekend, with the help of my subordinates, I finally "invaded" the local joint frequented by almost everyone in the office. There were only 8 of us but the waiters thought it best that we occupy the "penthouse", which we had all for ourselves.

Crispy pata, calamares and tapsilog (they ran out of sisig) accompanied our alco bev.

Truthfully, it's the kind of joint that I would've frequented back in college. The place is a hole-in-the-wall, altho not totally because it has a "penthouse." It's located along a busy one-way avenue between P. Tuazon and Santolan. Not far from it is a small market.

In other words, it is so different from the invites of Alfred (one of our company directors) to chill out at Brazil Brazil in ATC (I didn't realize they already opened a branch there).

Ang tagal din namin dun a. Inabutan na kami ng sikat ng araw.

If that joint was in ATC, siguro alas-dos sarado na sila. Nakakabitin.

But I don't think I'll go back. Once is enough.

It's not the place. It's the menu that needs a lot of improvement. At some point after work, a tired boss deserves a better tasting tapa... yung di matigas na parang tsinelas. Pagod ka na nga, pakakainin ka pa ng Spartan.

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kids should know that...

The Electric Company was an educational American children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of six seasons, from 1971 to 1977. The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program to help children of elementary-school age develop their reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, Sesame Street. Appropriately enough, the humor was also that much more mature than what was seen there. (Wikipedia)