Tags: Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Daniel Radcliffe, SM Mall of Asia, Imax

Image from Click the City

According to Click The City (which is one of my favorite websites), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be shown on SM Mall of Asia’s Imax 3D Theater on July 11. Read the article here.

Cool.

Okay, I know it’s childish, but I still do like the Harry Potter series. I abhor the movies, though. Daniel Radcliffe is the worst actor in the world. Actually most of the young actors in Harry Potter cannot act, but Daniel Radcliffe is stand-out. Gahd.

But still, I can’t help myself. I have to watch this movie. Probably not in Imax though. I’m not that much of a fan, anyways. Besides, I bet tickets are sold out by now.

Interestingly, Harry Potter 6 will be shown in the Philippines two days before it is released worldwide, on July 13. I bet it’s because they want the Filipinos to watch it before we can purchase the movie on a pirated DVD.

I look forward to the seventh book more, though. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Wow, the last book. Remind me not to go online on the weekend of its release. I bet some ass out there will spoil the book for you and me. I remember when the sixth book was released, I rushed finishing it in two days because I just knew someone in school would spoil it for more. True enough, a classmate of mine wrote on the blackboard who died, and who the Half-Blood Prince was.

Okay, I’m an idiot for being excited. Shoot me.

Tags: adobo, adobo rice, Filipino food, Yummy Magazine

Okay, so I broke m pseudo-diet and made some adobo rice last night. I can’t help it! I love rice.

Here’s a delicious way to add zing to your usual bowl of white rice using leftover adobo (nothing goes to waste! yay!). I got this nifty tip for Yummy Magazine’s May 2007 issue (yeah, Yummy is my bible). First, I sauteed some garlic and onions, until the garlic turned golden brown and the onions became transparent. Then I added in some cooked white rice and some adobo sauce from the chicken adobo we had for lunch. After making sure that all the rice grains were covered in adobo sauce, I placed the rice in a nice plate and garnished it with green mangoes and garlic.

My mom suggested I place adobo flakes, but I was too lazy and I didn’t know how. But our help fried the leftover chicken adobo until it became crunchy, so we added that in, too.

Too bad I did not see Marketman’s Fried Adobo Flakes recipe right away. So if you ever want to make adobo rice, top it off with some adobo flakes using that recipe. Another tip: the sourer the green mangoes, the better. I think the ones I used were almost ripe, so they tasted a bit sweet.

But it was good. Screw that diet. I love rice.

People are like Google - we all like fresh content.

Ha, weak analogy, I know. Blame my mom, she was the one who told me that fun fact.

But seriously. It’s human nature to be fascinated by new things. We like things better when they’re fresh off their packaging, all sparkle-y and shiny.

But when the novelty is gone, we lose interest. Then we start taking the old things for granted. Because once the dust settles, we tire of the same old things.

And the same old people.

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Tags: Showtime, The Tudors, King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Natalie Dormer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

This is another The Tudors post. What can I say? This show owns me.

Thanks to a late night call from Tiffany last night, I was able to watch Episode 6 on Daily Motion without having to wait for the torrent to download. Here’s a brief rant and rave on two characters, with some screencaps. I’ll try to keep it as spoiler-free as possible, but they cannot be fully avoided, so proceed with caution if you haven’t seen this episode yet.

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Tags: summer classes, Chocolate Kiss, French toast, Ifex International Food Exhibition

Today I treated myself to a Chocolate Kiss breakfast to celebrate the final stretch of Summer Classes and the start of Hell Week. That, and because they offer free coffee refills for their House Blend coffee (for 40 bucks!). Eating in cafes like Chocolate Kiss is a big splurge for most UP students. It was 9:00 AM, my favorite, less expensive cafes in campus weren’t open yet. There is only so much I can do to keep myself amused on my two-hour break, so I decided to be generous to myself today. Besides, I needed at least four cups of coffee to keep me awake during the next (boring) class.

The French toast is delicious! According to the menu, they coated the whole wheat bread in eggs, milk and cinnamon, and grilled it. And it was filling too, thanks to the fiber-rich bread (props for using the “healthy” kind of carbs!). So filling, in fact, that I only at 2 1/2 out of the 3 slices of bread. My bill totaled to P150. Steep, I know. But it was well worth it. Chocolate Kiss can be a bit overpriced but I think you get what you pay for, especially with their pastas and cakes. It’s nice to go there once in a while, when you’re loaded at the start of the week. Ha ha. I stayed there for about an hour or so, sipping my four cups of coffee (which didn’t work. I was still sleepy and bored to death) and reviewing some of my Chemistry readings

I should make French toast for breakfast tomorrow. Whee. I love food. Can’t you tell?

Oh, and I really want to go to the Ifex International Food Exhibition at the World Trade Center on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I’ve been to food expos before; they’re the ultimate food trip. I hope I can drag someone along with me (ahem, Tiff, I know you like to eat as much as I do. Or maybe even more. He he). Tell me if any of you are going too!

Tags: diet, culinary endeavors, recipes, grilled chicken sandwich

My friend and I are on a pseudo-diet, in hopes of losing the 10 or so pounds we gained since high school. The rules: no beef, pork and rice. Just chicken, pork, and healthy carbohydrates (whole grain and fruits). I used the word “pseudo-diet” because for all the saturated fat I won’t eat from from four-legged animal meat, I make up for my huge fat, sugar and carbohydrate intake from oils, fruits and dairy products. Still, it’s worth a shot. Besides, it’s about time for us to get “healthy”. Our clothes don’t fit us right anymore.

Today is Day 3 of my diet. So far, so good. For breakfast I had a slice of bread with cheese, and two small chicken pieces from last night’s dinner. In school, I ate chicken barbecue and a four seasons fruit shake (no milk, less sugar). Then, for lunch, I decided to make a sandwich with grilled… chicken.

Actually it wasn’t even grilled. I was supposed to use the grill in our stove but my Mom did not know how to use it and I didn’t feel like figuring it out. So I pan-fried it instead (with olive oil, healthy oil at least!).

So here’s what I did: First, I marinated some chicken breast in olive oil, garlic, rosemary, ionized salt, and pepper for about 30 minutes. Then I pan-fried it with a Teflon pan (since there was oil already in the chicken we didn’t need to add anymore), until the chicken was golden brown. While that was going on, I got honey mustard sauce with mayonnaise, mustard, all-purpose cream, salt and pepper. Then I placed some of that, as well as ketchup, lettuce and tomatoes, on two slices of whole wheat bread (cut diagonally).

Ladies and gentlemen, the final results:

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Tags: The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Showtime, King Henry VIII, The Tudors screencaps

photo from the Internet Movie Database

While everybody else is blogging about the latest episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes, here I am writing about a lesser known, but equally superb (if not better) television series - Showtime’s The Tudors.

No words can express how much I love this show. It’s absofuckinglutely brilliant television right there. Maybe I’m just biased because I’m a sucker for historical fiction. But what’s marvelous about this show is its portrayal of King Henry VIII - as a desirable, sexy young king in his prime years as the 25 year old overlord of England and Ireland.

I remember when I was a child, there was a scroll hanging in my parents’ bedroom, with the portraits of a grotesquely obese Henry VIII and his six wives embroidered on it. My mom had bought it from one of her trips to England and she told me the story of a fat king who married six times, divorced two of his wives and executed two others. And I remember thinking, “What an asshole” (okay, I didn’t exactly think the word “asshole”). For many years, that’s all I knew about him. I bet it’s the same for a lot of people. The opening credits of the show is right - what do we know about King Henry VIII before he became an overweight, womanizing, syphilis-infested wreck?

Well, apparently, he was like a fricking rock star.

(spoilers below the cut)

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Tags: Psychology, Psychology Today, Psychology of Blogging, Jessica Cutler

Psychology Today is less academic than journal articles, but they’re basically the same- minus the citations and the formal jargon. They’re far more reliable than popular magazines, who cite psychologists and their research on their articles (written solely for entertainment purposes) to make them look credible. In PT’s current issue, an article entitled called “The Decline and Fall of The Private Self” by Carlin Flora talks about tell-all blogging, and what psychological research says about its effects on our psyche.

It features Jessica Cutler, a former congressional staff assistant who blogged about her raunchy sex life, got linked to a heavy traffic blog, was fired from her job in the Senate and ultimately posed nude of Playboy. Another blogger, Eric Schaeffer of icantbelieveimstillsingle.com, writes unabashedly about his dating mishaps and his preferences for younger women. Which reminds me of a professor I had who gives excruciatingly detailed accounts about his sex life in his blog. Ha.

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Tags: Baguio, Camp John Hay, Philippines, summer, friends

I haven’t been feeling very bright and cheerful lately. That’s not to say I’m a bright and cheerful person to begin with, but you get the point. I’ve had happier days. Partly because all this free time doing absolutely nothing but school work is getting to me, partly because I was snubbed by my crush (see entry below), partly because it’s so hot and my air conditioner doesn’t condition the air properly, and mostly because I can’t find a torrent of The Tudors Episode 5. Okay, maybe I exaggerated on the last one a bit.

So until I can blog about something with more substance, allow me to incriminate myself by showing you an animated GIF of me and my friends playing with our friend’s camera’s multi-burst function.

Kat, Chesca, Me and Meg
Taken in Camp John Hay, Baguio City
April 2007

We’re not always like this. Honest!

EDIT: Oh, and I have a video podcast in the works.

I said hi to my crush today.  But he ignored me. Hmm.  I wouldn’t feel half this bad if we weren’t friends, but we are.  Maybe he’s just having a bad day?

Haha. So much for not blogging anything overtly personal.