Foods in BCD: Fogo

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet and so is my place.

Life is sweeter in Bacolod and streets in Negros are covered with sugar.
The place where you can find the sweetest smile and the charming sing-song intonation.

Let me start my blogging about my province.
This is the Bini-brainy sharing you Negros Occidental.

FIRST stop is the Negros Food.
Aside from the very popular Bacolod chicken inasal, there are a hundred more places to go and fulfill your gastronomic needs when in Bacolod.

The other night, we tried a new restaurant called Fogo which means "fire" in Portuguese.
The flavors were a mix of South American dishes like burritos and quesadilla.

Here's what we ordered:

Clockwise:

1. Cheese Quesadilla
2. Beef Burrittos
3. Carnitas
4. Peri-peri Chicken

I'm really not quite well adept with the terms, ingredients and seasonings that they used but let me just describe the food.

Here we go.

The Cheese Quesadilla was good. Probably our favorite because it wasn't very moist and salty and the crust (is that how it's called?) is not too dry or soft.

The burrito was also a go-to food. It's somehow complete because it is like a rice with ulam in a foil. (Haha!)

The carnitas, it was a corned beef with a twist because it wasn't anything like a canned food.

The Peri-peri Chicken was I think an Argentinian dish. It's chicken in a peri-peri sauce, which I'm sorry not to know the ingredients. 

The owners were very accommodating and we appreciate them for taking time in introducing each cuisine. 

Then, as my tradition, I should check on the "powder room" or "comfort room" of the restaurants I visit. It says a lot about the practice especially the 'cleanliness' of a food house. And I'm glad, Fogo's is clean and colorful too. 

Iril in this very colorful toilet. #OC #clean #plus5

To sum it all, I'm gonna give Fogo a 3.5/5 score - for the new ambience, food and warmth. 

!Muito Gostosoi!

My thoughts on and on and on

It may come as a realization on my part that I may have lost the best love of my life (in so far).
It may be a jab on face to know that things slipped, and plans forgone.

So much that to consider it as a painful failure made things a little more difficult to surpass.
In my world of idealism, it should never happen.

But then, we live in the real world, and in our perception which is more or less influenced by the people around us, it's quite an arduous task.

Today, I heard a story about a person I look up to, Someone, I thought have everything. But then learning that she too is not spared from all the difficulties life can throw, even the most influential person can also be down and depressed, tried and tested.

Without comparing our own life's path I am just learning  a thing or two from her experience.

First, that is to keep the balance in everything that we do and everything that we are. May it be in love, career, relationships and goals.

Second, at this age and time, I still grateful that at least I am encountering difficulties. This is indeed life and everything is a part of growing up. I know that I will never be able to master it even until my deathbed but I will just have to be prepared.

I am glad of everything that I have now. And more importantly I am blessed to have everyone surround me.

I may have a lot of mistakes committed and errors more to make, but I will keep in mind and in my heart that   things happen for a reason. Our yes may sometimes need to be a no. Our time may not be now. Our days may not be always sunny.

Then again, this is still our life and we should live it.
With a happy heart!

Why hurt the heart?

Why do we keep hurting the people we proclaim to love and loves us?

This is question I want to find the answer the soonest time possible. 
It is very difficult to reconcile how love and anger can be compatible. 
This is explanable yes, arguably understandable but in thoughts, matters and beatings of our heart or in neurology, the parietal lobe, it is still unbearable. 

I'd like to know why this world though how much love we paint and understanding we deliver, we are still bound to commit one of the biggest and most fatal error - that is to hurt the people we loved the most. 

I don't want to sound so naive nor experienced but it can be observed that most of the time we are culprits of the most beautiful and the most hurtful love we can give to one another. I'm thinking whether that's just the normal cyclical dynamics of our existence or do we really have the best hand to rule over these circumstances. 

I have been in loved not long ago. It was not a perfect love but I know I gave ample amount of love and faith into it, but then in a lot of occasions I fell short, committed a mistake and hurt the person. This is sad definitely, I feel bad and I try to undo things by becoming better, but in another moment, I may have hurt the person all over again and yes, I felt sorry. However, I try to figure out now how is this related to our existence now? Is it really a part and parcel of our being or maybe we can shortcut the situation and proceed to loving? 

I still do not know the answer. All I know is that I am in the process of discovering how it should, would and could have been... a little bit less painful. 

I am sorry for all the heartaches I have brought and believe me, I am miserably sorry. 

Good morning!

Amidst all the bad vibes that are being thrown on my beloved people and me as well these days, I refuse to accept the negativeness and just move on with my happy life. I may be affected a lot of times as I am 'hyper-reactive' too... but I will still hold my ground in swaying things towards the opposite pole... 

There's this little mouse who keep on chugging on the happy relationships that we have in our place but sooner or later I tell you my dear, that you will end up in the sewage... 

There's this big cat too that has been out-furred a long time ago but still believes she's a tiger. Grow old girl, it's mating time for mammals and you're still dried fish!

They are just a few but again, I will be laughing and I will greet them with a big smile and say... Thank God, we're still alive!

Don'ts

I don't even know if you still love me or want me or need me or like me...

I don't honestly know how to begin and how to end...

I don't care what happens tomorrow, today or the previous year...

I don't know how it truly began.

But this one thing I know for certain - that I am loyal to you and the promise.

The pains may come as I love you.

The hurt may accompany the adoration I gave you.

The sorrows may be the peak of my surrender.

And most of all the tears will never run dry as I continue believing that what I have is worth.

I just hope you stop before I stop too.

In silence I bear the irresistible heart of loving.

April is my lucky month...

April's Fools Day. That's how this month always starts but in my case, it is different...

I have observed that each year, come April blessings abound. Thank you God!

I should actually be leaving for Oregon on the (last) 7th as part of the Rotary Bacolod Group Study Exchange Program for 6 weeks. BUT I withdrew.

Still, I am honored and grateful for the trust and confidence Rotary gave me but I just have to step back. Anyways, I can still comeback next year. 

Oregon 2013

L-R: Toni Ganado (Zamboanga), RJ Mission (Iloilo), Doc Jundad Legislador - Team Leader (Kabankalan),
 Laurence Soteo (Iloilo), Macky Dela Cruz (Aklan)

Filipiniana and Barong Tagalog

But I know God's promises and gifts are waaaayyyyyy BETTER!

And here I am now, wanting to extend my day because of the sudden gifts (unexpected) God sent OUR review center. Every month seems to be a little bit better than the previous with a thing or two mushroom-ing, whether it's personal or professional. 

I'm just glad I did the 'right' decision by staying and being the 'domesticated Joya' or my staff and my partner will have a head-lesser when I'm away. 

Either way I guess I am still blessed and God provides!
And He is awesome not only providing for tomorrow but the coming years. Now I remember the story of the 7 lean cows and 7 fat cows!

I think we'll soon have corned beef supply soon! (HAHA!)

I am just contented with the simplicity and errand-filled days of my life lately...

To my Team Oregon! AJA! Keribels! Bell's Palsy...


Photo Credits: Doc Jundad's Facebook

19,955

This number forever changed my life. Thank you for the opportunity Big Brother. 

To all those who watched, supported and journeyed with me and the rest of the housemates, thank you. 

What happened after this number were priceless. It has been exactly two years, April 4, 2011 when what was written in the stars happened. Remember what I have said

 Direk Laurenti (just in case you read this)?

Writing soon...

Easter egg

Source: www.womanaroundtown.com
HAPPY EASTER!!!

HAPPY EASTER!

May we all find our own life's promising Easter eggs!

They are just hidden somewhere, we'll just have to find them... 

Search for them!