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Ano-anong branches sa Metro Manila ang may car drive-in garage? Thanks..

i felt like i was watching the sleeper movie of the year with Let Me In. it's just the right palate cleanser after all that gooey teenage Twilight hoo-hah. though the mood is a bit depressing, it's necessary, and used effectively.

 

Let Me In is a remake of the swedish film Let the Right One In, but this version was fresh to me. the vampire here is nothing like anne rice's, bram stoker's, or (thankfully) stephenie meyer's vampires. there are many unexplored allusions to what kind of creature this is - "you smell funny," owen the young protagonist, says to it and its tummy rumbles grotesquely because we know it hasn't fed in a while. this isn't a perfumed cullen we're talking about here. there is no gloss on this vampire, except for a certain luminosity in her 12-year old face when she is fed, content, and defending her outcast friend.

 

definitely worth watching.

SPOILER ALERT!!!

I read the book after I've watched the movie. Though the movie seemed to have stayed loyal to the book, the few tweaks actually profoundly changed the nature of the Abby, and most specially her relationship with Owen.

In the book, the guardian is purely a hired-hand. He's a pedophile and so harbors his own interests with his employer, Eli, the vampire girl. But in the movie, it was shown that the guardian was a former 12-year-old friend/boyfriend turned old. So with the guardian presently burdened with middle age, the movie now implied that the girl sought out a new 12-year-old boy to replace what the function was of the guardian in her life.

So from the supposedly innocent yet pure relationship between Abby and Owen in the book, it was turned 180 degrees in the movie, for one based on function and for the other an escape from loneliness.

But at least in the movie, Abby simply said she's not a girl, so further fanning the mystery of these creatures. But in the book, she/he is indeed really a boy, whose real name is Elias, making their relationship, hmm.. icky!

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two hotdog sandwiches with lots of catsup.

lunch - chicken tinola, pork adobo

dinner - chicken tinola, sausage, fruits

Pringle's potato chips

peanut sauce

steak!

Kse po, payat o mataba, kailangan kumain. 

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pero di naman kailangang chickenjoy o quarter pounder ang lamunin.

Eto pinost na dati: Bakit naman nagta-thrive ang mga slimming business kung mas okey maging mataba? 

Bakit naman mas lalong nagta-thrive ang mga fastfood joints?

Wharton Business School in UPenn.

Arnold's Diner sa Makati Ave. Sayang at wala na siya ngayon. It's located where North Park is situated right now. It was an american diner and used to be open 24 hours, and medyo american talaga yung ambiance. Masarap mag-stopover dito in the wee hours of the morning after a whole night gimik in makati.

lunch - sinigang na pork ribs, chicken adobo

dinner - spaghetti, cheese burger, tamago sushi, siomai

chocolate mousse of red ribbon.

when i was in college, i was dubbed the "hirit king" because uttering funny banters and one-liners anytime, anywhere was my specialty. But I seemed to have lost that ability now, probably because i now face real-world responsiblities, as against just frolicking through life with a carefree attitude back then.

current favorite is white by emporio armani. it's an aftershave cologne actually but the scent lasts long and it smells good!

Taking psyllium husks can help. A number of local brands of psyllium husks are now available, the more popular one is C-lium Fiber.

Psyllium husks contains loads of fiber, so it helps food taken with it to be pushed out instead of being absorbed by the body. So less fat, carbo, and even nutrients wil be absorbed by the body. What's more, psyllium husks can be very filling, thus one will be inclined to take less food.

I try not to take it with every single meal i have as my body might be deprived of vital nutrients. so what i do is i only take it just before lunch and supper. i don't take it on breakfast since i don't eat a lot anyway on mornings, and then i also take my vitamins and other herbal supplements with my breakfast for better absorbtion.

lunch - soy chicken, noodles

dinner - buffet at circles

i also like mongkok in rockwell

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Hello fortune cookie! Funny how we could have the same handle.

We don't have the same tastes though, as i'm not a mongkok fan. I do love the taste of fortune cookies though.

i think my mom used to buy machang from a certain mrs. lim. i hope she's not the susan of eng shun foods.

Wala bang fan ng ma chang dito?

Pale Pilsen for me.

lunch -- pork chop, brocolli, camaron

dinner -- beef noodles, steamed dumplings

John Montague (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, He became First Lord of the Admiralty and was patron to Capt. James Cook (who explored New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and Polynesia.). Capt. Cook named the Hawaiian Islands after him, calling them the Sandwich Island. Montague was a hardened gambler and usually gambled for hours at a time at this restaurant, sometimes refusing to get up even for meals. It is said that ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread. Because Montague also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" The original sandwich was, in fact, a piece of salt beef between two slices of toasted bread.

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Whoa! Whoa!!!

Thanks for this bit of history. That was interesting...

So make mine same as Sandwich then!

spicy dishes belong to the domain of szechuan house in roxas blvd.  try their hot and sour soup and the stir fry noodles, which is sweet and spicy.  the spicy long beans is also very good there.

 

beef sate noodles is known to be a specialty of quick snack in carvajal street binondo.

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Thanks, i'll definitely try Szechuan House then.

I've been a Quick Snack fan for i think more than a decade now. their ku chay a is also quite good.

though i still like the beef sate noodles, i think they did change the recipe sometime before. i think the soup is peanut-based now, and is no longer the more usual beef soup base that they used a long time ago.