Feature Friday: Tuslob Buwa at The BBQ Station

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Tuslob buwa is a colloquial term for food dipping. It originates in Cebu City where it literally means "to dip in bubbles". In the streets of Carbon and Pasil, vendors offer tuslob buwa for free to passers-by and all they have to pay is the puso or hanging rice which costs for only P3 each. Market workers and laborers just drop by to any tuslob buwa nook around the market to ease their hunger for the day.  Now you might be wondering what's in this tuslob buwa?

Tuslob buwa is a concoction of sautéed pig brain, shrimp paste, spices, and broth.  Out from the simmering wok, eaters dip their puso into it thus taking the word buwa.  It's too far from being a viand but to the masses, it's already a complete meal that could get them through.  

But out of curiosity, other people also want to try this boy-scout-kind-of-eating-thingy apart from boodle fighting.  Sanitation-wise, it's unwise to eat at tuslob buwa nooks in Carbon.  Just imagine the plenty of hands dipping into the wok.  Just imagine the puso from a person's mouth to be dipped again into the wok. Tuslob buwa indeed is just for those with rigid stomachs.

However, it's a great thing there are carenderias and even restaurants that are now adapting the culture of tuslob buwa.  They are now offering tuslob buwa so we can also experience the fun dining that comes with it!  This time, we need not worry about sanitation for the wok is inclusive for our group only.  Additionally, you'll also get to enjoy cooking your own tuslob buwa version by yourself.

And another great thing, tuslob buwa is now here in Ozamiz!  Thanks to The BBQ Station for bringing this exotic Cebuano street food to our city!  Now let me share to you how to cook your tuslob buwa version.

Sauté onions.

Add in the liver.

Pour the broth.

Add the shrimp paste.

Season with soy sauce, pepper, and secret seasoning.

Dip the puso and start eating!

There you have a quick and easy tuslob buwa tutorial.  It's not a very hard thing to do so anyone can just do the honor in cooking it though he/she cannot actually cook.  Group work cooking is more fun with this like you just have to take turn in doing the first step then next and next.

It's not just fun cooking and dining at The BBQ Station but it is also affordable.  One set of tuslob buwa costs only P99!

Now, what are you waiting for?  Tag along your family and friends for this unique fun dining experience!  Visit The BBQ Station along Port Road, Ozamiz City and taste a Cebuano delicacy in an Ozamiz way!

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85 Years of Excellence and Service

Immaculate Conception College/ICC-La Salle/La Salle University-Ozamiz celebrates its 85th year founding anniversary.

The celebration started yesterday, September 16, 2014 with a very loooong parade literally aroooound the city of Ozamiz.  Now, here are my point and shoot photos so just bear with me, guys!  Hehe.....

La Salle Integrated School

Br. Martin Simpson Laboratory School, Night High School, and School for the Deaf

The Cheerleaders

Br. Martin Simpson Film Festival 2014

Mr. & Ms. Lasallian Icon 2014 Candidates

The Colleges and Student Organizations

College Faculty

And for the first time in forever in Ozamiz City, street cheerdance!!!!!  Sorry,I only got the chance to take CAS' photos for this.

Click here for more photos! :)

ANIMO LA SALLE!

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Lusting Over Valentinos

"Shopping for labels, shopping for love

Manolo and Louis, it's all I'm thinking of

Shopping for labels, shopping for love

1, 2

Manolo and Louis, it's all I'm thinking of

1, 2, 3 Turn the lights on!"

- Lyrics from Labels or Love by Fergie for Sex and the City, 2008

Girls just get so high on shoes!  Putting on high heels can make us look taller, thinner, and sexier.  It suddenly gives us confidence and enables us to walk through the limelight.  Just looking at them chases the blues away.

These Valentino Rockstud Collection is the latest craze for women all over the world!  It epitomizes the essence of a woman - soft yet tough inside.  Pointy shoes having ladylike style toughened with pyramid studs for that edgy look.  They are just to die for!!!!!  Now, which Valentino is for you?   

Girly, conservative, pretty - this Pink Valentino claims youth and innocence.  This is a perfect fit for Charlotte York, a prim and proper woman who prefers love over lust.  She's the type who believes in magic and has faith in destiny.  Oh, she just sees the world as a wish-granting factory!

Formal, elegant, sophisticated - this Black Valentino demurely keeps still but carries out a statement.  This is just like Miranda Hobbes, a career-driven woman who works hard not just for a living but also for self-fulfillment.  She doesn't react to matters instantly but weigh things out first before giving her opinion which makes her into a good lawyer.

Feisty, gutsy, vixenish - this Red Valentino boldly shouts power!  This one's right for Samantha Jones, a proud and sexually confident woman who speaks her mind about her "uncensored" wisdom on sex.  She's always in control of everything, the reason why she never believes in marriage. 

Versatile, nude, neutral - this Beige Valentino exclaims open-mindedness!  Now this is definitely for Carrie Bradshaw, a high-spirited woman who takes both sides of the coin.  As a writer, her opinions opened the minds of women to some radical issues on life, love, and sex.  With this, she's regarded as an icon! 

So, what type of shoe are you?  What type of woman are you?  For you are what you wear!

"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."  

- Marilyn Monroe

*All images above are grabbed from web.

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Shit People Tell You When You're Still Single at 30's

1.  You're beautiful, smart, and sexy!  You're such a good catch!

     - I know right.  That's why men are intimidated by me!

2.  You have a great job.  You're stable enough to get married.

     - But my job can't still afford me to have breakfast in Japan, lunch in America, and dinner in France!

3.  You're too picky!

     - So I would just pick some random guys who are not in my level?

4.  You're just too busy!

     - Well, I want to occupy all my time to let me forget that I'm still single.

5.  You should try online dating.  You have exotic beauty foreigners love.

     - It's never my thing to talk with real strangers!

6.  At a wedding:  "Hey, single lady!  Join the bouquet toss!"

     - And just be laughed over by a whole barrage of spectators?  Never mind!

7.  Aren't you worried you won't be able to have kids?

     - If only I can afford to lose my virginity to someone whom I truly love.....

8.  Don't you ever get lonely?

     - Of course!  Walking home from school every night at 7 PM all by myself, going to a party without a date when others are coupling, seeing the beauty of the world without someone to share it with, etcetera, etcetera!  Like, fuck!

Got the picture?

However, there are still truth people tell you when you're looking and feeling young in your 30's:

1.  Goodness gracious!  You're 31?!  You still look like god-damn 25!

2.  Guard at school:  "Sorry, Ma'am.  It's just that, you still look like a freshman."

Photo from Web

"Fake it 'till you make it!"

- Hazel's mom (The Fault in Our Stars, 2012)

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29/31 by Garfunkel and Oates

What a totally hilarious song!  But mind you, it speaks right to us ladies who are now in our thirties!  Be mad, be angry, be sad!  Shout out loud to release the fuckin' negativities inside!  For thirty-something ladies out there, this song is for you!

Video Grabbed from YouTube

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Girl Power Spells F-I-G-H-T-I-N-G for Sanity!

"It is hard to be a woman.  

You must think like a man,

Act like a lady,

Look like a young girl, 

And work like a horse."

- Anonymous

Then there are no other women who can portray these roles than the Sex and the City girls, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda!  I just oh-so miss these crazy girl friends!  You might be thinking that this is such a major throwback.  Well, hell yeah! Somebody had already told me that I am just so 90's.  I don't care!  I love them and I miss the series!  And to unwind from this crazy day, let me share to you the full trailers of their two movies from way, way back.

"Life doesn't always turn out to be your fantasy.  That's why you need friendships that are real to get you through it all!"

- Carrie

"We made a deal ages ago - man, babies, doesn't matter.  We're soulmates!"

- Samantha

Then, keeping in touch with my own girl friends is such a breather to everyday madness!  Friends do come and go but there are those who remain true to you no matter what.  From high school to infinity, we stay the same CHOGS for life!  

Now, be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh, crap.  She's up!"

-Anonymous

FIGHT FOR YOUR SANITY!!!

*Videos grabbed from YouTube.

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That September Feeling

It's indeed -ber month with all the balloon orders we've got this week!  When fourth quarter of the year strikes, it means that businesses are doubly hellish!  I'm getting excited with it and I wanna celebrate!  So what story can I write about this?  Should I make a statistics out from it?  That would be boring.....I'm not that business kind of person as you might be surprised knowing this.  Hehe....However, I still have that high energy to write tonight.  I must write something but I just couldn't think of a story.....

However, lonesome September gets into my nerve again!  I'm being reminded of these screen shots (that I've been keeping) of a probable story.  Here they are:

Anyari?!  Senti lang ang peg?  It's supposed to be a celebration but look at that!  I already promised not to write nega things here (reiterate lang po para klaro).  Oh, I should not post this!  However, I have to......

In this time that I don't have people to call true friends, I have no one to talk to.  In this time that I'm doubting who my true friends are, I have no one to rely on.  So I just have to write my heart out.  Wala namang bumabasa 'eh!  So here's the deal.  If you've come to stumble upon this post, patatawarin po.....

Anyway, this was just one heck of a life!  One heck of a story!  Years had passed and it's still him.  Now I'm starting to hate myself.  Why could I just not forget him?!  I thought I'm done writing about him here.  I thought I'm done letting go of him with a song.  I thought I'm done with him in this post.  There must be something wrong with me!  I must be sick!!!!!  I must be gaga!

Lines from Starting Over Again

But I can't help it.  Do I need professional help?  Do I need a shrink?  I think I'm dispersing down my wits.  I am just so pathetic!  He had already taken away my years with him.  I've been lost since I lost him.  I have not been living since he left.  Does loving only come once in our lives?  That once you break it, you can never make it again?  Then I'm reminded of the movie which put me into buckets of tears months ago.  I haven't written about it for months because I want my post on it to be something special.  It's none other than KathNiel's She's Dating the Gangster.  It's a movie of pure great love!  It's a movie which I can again relate with.  And now's the time to write about it because of this "special" September feeling I have.

Just like young Athena's line,

"Thank you for the 2 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 10 hours, 57 minutes na pagmamahal." 

it was brief but timeless.

Also young Athena's line,

"Gusto ko nang itigil ito kasi nagiging totoo na..... Totoong nagugustohan na kita."

it was shallow but meaningful.

And Kelay's line,

"Ang love story daw nila ay isang malaking kaso ng bad timing."

it was wrong but worth it all.

Finally as the movie ends with adult Athena's line,

"After years of waiting, seeing what you've become now - .....  It was all worth it."

Would he still be worth it?  Can I still do this?

Is he the only one?  Is he the only one great love?  Can I still have him beside me on my last breath?

Surely, that can't be answered yet.  With all this weirdness, I think I must just sleep!  As if I can sleep!

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Feature Friday: High Five at 85!

Feature Friday highlights businesses, people, fashion, and basically anything under the sun!

La Salle University-Ozamiz will be celebrating its 85th year of excellence and service this coming September 16 - 19, 2014!  With this, all Immaculate Conception College, ICC-La Salle, and La Salle University-Ozamiz alumni are encouraged to join the parade this September 16 at 1 PM.  High Five at 85 shirts are now available for sale at La Librairie de la Salle, situated right at Valconcha gate.  LIKE La Salle University-Ozamiz on Facebook here to keep you posted!

Join us in the celebration because in La Salle, we're happy!!! :) 

Video Grabbed from La Salle University-Ozamiz' YouTube Channel

Hope you checked out my MTV stint!  Hehe....

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DIY Christmas Deco

Though September 1st came to be bad, I'd like to have a counterattack to that bad luck!  So here's a post of happy, happy, happy, joy, joy, joy!  :)

It is now the 3rd of September and it's already starting to get chilly.  Christmas is fast approaching!!!!!  So this post is dedicated to all things Christmasy!

In today's stressful world, we find ways to release that tension from our body.  There are a lot of destressing methods like sports, yoga, food tripping, listening to good music, and learning arts and crafts.  And what's in the fad today is the do-it-yourself thingy.  DIY's are really "in" these days which I'm already getting fond of.

So for this upcoming holiday season, there's no harm in getting your hands on some DIY-ing.  It's so fulfilling to do things on our own.  Now here are some photos I grabbed from Pinterest to guide you in making your very own Christmas deco!

Now, gather up your peers and have fun DIY-ing together!  'Tis the season to be jolly and 'tis the season of sharing some quality time with the ones you love!

P.S.  In making your DIY Christmas deco, also take into consideration to REUSE, REDUCE, and RECYCLE.  Remember, there's money in the garbage and you'll also be saving Mother Earth in that account!  :)

*All images above are grabbed from Pinterest.

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Monday Matters: Beware of Phishing Websites!

Monday Matters is dedicated to all things that matter.

It's September 1 and what a sad news to start the -BER months!  I got a call from a bank around 9 o'clock this morning asking me when did I have my last transaction with them.  I answered last April only to find out that I have withdrawals from June to September 1, today which I never did and have knowledge of.  I immediately went to their branch here in Ozamiz and got a hard copy of my bank statement.  Indeed, I had withdrawals using this VISA card from Hong Kong, Mexico, London, etc.!  As if I had gone to those places except Hong Kong.

I was so disheartened knowing about this because that was hard-earned money! Though it may seem a little amount for some people, it is big enough for me.  Like, hello!  I was working my butt off to earn that!  Anyway, I would like to warn you about these phishing websites which are fishing private account information from innocent victims like me.

What is phishing?

Phishing refers to the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company. (Google Dictionary) Phishing websites mimic authentic websites of a bank, using a bank's name and logo to trick clients into entering their user ID's, passwords, and other confidential information.  Once these are captured, syndicates can then use an individual's bank account for their own benefit.

How to identify phishing websites?

Phishing websites are cleverly constructed to really look like a company's real site.  To be safe, check the web address by looking in your browser's URL bar.  Phishing sites change a company's name by subtly misspelling the address.  For example, www.paypal.com.  For a phishing site, it would be www.paypa1.com.  See?  The l is being replaced with 1 that would come unnoticeable.  

How to do away with phishing websites?

Use a browser that has anti-phishing detection like the latest version of Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers.  The free add-ons (or plug-ins) can help you detect phishing sites.  

Surely, technology today makes our life easier.  Online banking, online shopping, online transfer of money, etc. are just so convenient but this online thingy also comes with big disadvantage.  Since we could not trace these hackers, scammers, and syndicates, we ourselves have to be vigilant.  Just like me, I am a victim out of my ignorance.  But it takes an experience to give a person a lesson, right?  So, I'm sharing this post to all of you, my readers so this will not also happen to you.  Just be safe in all your online dealings.

   

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