The Construct

Kung Hei Fat Choi, everyone!

I don’t have Chinese blood but I love Chinese food. And since it’s Chinese New Year, everyone’s got an extra stock of tikoy or nian gao. Yum!

Anyway, here are some tasty tikoy recipes to get some variety out of your everyday tikoy.

Ang tikoy masarap!

I’m too tied up with work recently that I can’t seem to write something at length, so following would be my two cents worth regarding a few topics.

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Aaah. Sweet October nearly gone. Oktoberfest dusk is nigh. The kegs of San Miguel downed and boxes of paracetamol and ibuprofen chewed the mornings-after. And perhaps the occasional shrieks of horror from waking up in some other person’s bedroom. Or some toilet cubicle.

I never get to enjoy Oktoberfests. For one, I never was a big fan of beer or liquor in general. While friends were chugging fermented malt and hops and gin blossoms, and whatnot down their throats, I was the one sipping iced tea. I always have volunteered to be the designated driver mainly because I knew I’d rather have tea in my bladder than some 90 proof vodka eat my liver out.

Well, not to be hypocritical I got drunk twice or so but at least I only got to be piss-headed with friends not in public. I just don’t get the point of throwing up mixes of alcohol and digestive fluids for everyone to see. And hurled puke (pronounced “pyook” not the Tagalog for…) is not a pretty sight.

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Short post, just before hitting the sack.

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Let us all face it. Coffee must be the most prized commodity in the Philippines. Forget about Great Taste or (my favorite coffee for the grassroots) Blend 45. I am talking about those Php 45 (US$0.90) per wee cup of capuccino.

I know that it might cost more in first-world countries in terms of the US dollar but Php 45 here in the Philippines is half a fortune (even though technically, it doesn’t cost much but given the salary rates here, it’s a fifth of the minimum wage).

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