Of Revenge, Suits and Scandal

My friend Reg has been bugging us for the longest time to watch Revenge but you know me, I have so many unimportant stuff going on I don't make the time to watch TV series anymore. So when I finally did, boy I was hooked. As in literally I would stay up late into the night (or morning) watching a few episodes. I even missed to download episode 21 so I streamed it online before watching the season finale episode lol. So thank you, Reg!!

Whaddya say? In Manila, we have all sorts of telenovelas similar to Revenge but you know, without the Hamptons and all that richie-rich stuff. I love Nolan Ross. Poor Jack Porter. Meh Emily Thorne. Even Meh-er Daniel Grayson. Ick Amanda Clarke (not the real one). Ugh Conrad. Ugh-er Charlotte Grayson. Poorer Declan Porter. Vavavavoom Victoria Grayson. Haha. I know she's annoying but I really like how Madeleine Stowe's playing the Victoria character. You know what, Nolan Ross and Victoria Grayson are the only characters who make Revenge interesting and worth watching :)

So what do you think of the season finale? I don't know about you but Victoria Grayson is sure as hell not dead. Yun lang pohw!

Oh Suits. Oh Harvey Specter. Oh Mike Ross. Are all lawyers in New York these hot? Harvey will definitely get into your nerves but you'll love him and you can't go back (Sorry Donna!) hee. 

And don't get me started with Harvey and Donna ship. OMG best tandem/couple ever! Not that a romantic relationship has already been established between these two but I'm betting my ass they had a thing years ago!! Setting aside emotional competence, do you think Harvey sees himself with Mike? I mean relationship-wise and intelligence-wise? 

Oh man. The agony of waiting for new episodes each week. Give us moooore!!

Olivia Pope and Associates. Gladiator in Suits. I see a trend (or it's normal. yeah it could be) that lawyers talk really, really fast and have really, really long speeches when they're threatening someone or if they want that person to have a change of heart. 

Like Suits, Scandal is a very smart show. You think you know but you really don't know. I really want Olivia to be happy and fine, President Fitz too, but Cyrus Beene summed it up with “Some men aren’t meant to be happy. They’re meant to be great.” Ano pang laban mo dun di ba!? Kaya please Olivia, kayo na lang ni David hihihi.

Frankly, this show has the best season cliffhanger ever. Who the heck are you Quinn Perkins?!? Not even a clue. Will have to wait for season 2 for answers, bummer.

Right now Homeland marathon is still ongoing so I'll give my (unnecessary) thoughts about the show when I'm done watching it.

Happy Friday!

Pandas Playing On The Slide

There is nothing more adorable than pandas having fun on the slide! I tell you, these furry animals make this planet so much better by their mere existence. 

Mariela is Now LEGIT!

I finally hauled my lazy ass off to my alma mater to claim that long overdue university diploma but first, a lunch in Beach House.

It was such a rainy Wednesday I almost doubted if Beach House was even open. I didn't see any smoke when the jeepney I was riding passed by the area. I lingered around SC first while waiting for JC (we were only meeting for a lunch date and then I'll meet a friend afterwards). Change of plan - he ended up coming with me to claim my diploma hahaha.

Anyway, Beach House's bbqs = walang kupas.

The famous Beach House pork bbq

With that classic sawsawan of course! I swear, it's not just some ordinary soy sauce :)

Dahil ubos na ang talong, itlog na maalat at kamatis combo, I opted for the adobong togue with tofu instead. It was delicious!

And so, after five years out of the university, I finally got my diploma. I am now legit! Thank you Lord :)

Chewy Junior Mini Puffs

This is my second time to claim a box of Chewy Junior that I purchased online via Ensogo. When I claimed my first box, I was sort of disappointed because the sizes of the puffs are indeed junior haha. So I'm not really sure if I had a great deal or what but for 100 pesos, okay na rin. :)

My box of 15.

It's addicting, I swear I can finish all of these in one seating. But I didn't.

Oh nothing to worry it was consumed immediately.

Chef's Quarter

As a payday tradition, we went to eat somewhere nice. We were supposed to eat at Yabu but dios mio, we're #13 on their waiting list. Wag na.

We ended up in this quiet restaurant on the 3rd floor of Atrium, Chef's Quarter.

The menu.

We ordered their Caprese with Mushroom. It was good! I had fun rolling them but most especially, munching them.

My friend Romy ordered this Seafood Paella which actually taste good.

Ten, on the other hand, ordered Peppered Steak French-Style in light cognac sauce with salad and mashed potato on the side.

While I had the Lamb Spareribs Provencale with potato confit, grilled tomato and lemon wedge. This is where my problem started.

We were about to pay and for some reason can't seem to get the total straight despite numerous computations. When I finally found the reason for this, I was dismayed. It said on the menu that a solo order costs PhP195 but I seemed to have missed the "per 100 grams" on the side. And I was fairly sure that it didn't say on the menu that the minimum gram is 200 but there it was. I wished they could have just written down that on the menu so it won't misled people like us who thought that a 195-peso lamb spareribs was a really good deal. But like anything else in this world, it was too good to be true.