I’m so fucking sick of Field Research.
But I still love my classmates to death.
I’m going to miss them.
I love these pictures. 
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.
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.
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:
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)
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.
Marielle is a 20-year-old Psychology student at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. She likes to sing, eat, shop and stay online for hours on end. She constantly tries to keep her personal life in check, so this blog of hers probably doesn't help. (Who is this Marielli person?)
