Cook-Then-Shoot: Ginisang Sayote
Ginisang Sayote
Since I’m lacking any motivation to do photography these days, and I’m going serious on this dieting bit, I’m going back to the first sort of subject I took photos of: food. Food I cook.
Nothing special inside the ref these days, but we do have lots of pork, and some vegetables we need to cook soon. So I did the type of dish I’ve been cooking since I learned how to cook: ginisang gulay.
I had sayote, so that was my base ingredient. However, anyone can do this with ampalaya, spinach, sitaw, and pretty much any green leafy vegetable or bean variety.
INGREDIENTS:
chopped garlic, onion, and tomatoes
hibe or dried shrimp
toyo or part of chicken bullion cube (not the whole block) + water
fried pork
fried tokwa
PakbetPodkasts Presents: The Mega-Pakbet Podcast – Episode 1
Introducing the PakbetPodkasts’s initial episode of The Mega-Pakbet Podcast, where Sonny and J (Gilbz wasn’t around) with our special guests Karen and Joiz.
Where we talk about:
Earth Hour
Plurk, and the Plurk Life
IE8
http://everyone.islone.ly/
HK Racist Writer Disses On Filipinos, Ownership of Spratlys (http://hk-magazine.com/feature/war-home)
NIN in Manila, the August concert
UP Fair violence
UPDATE: PakbetPodkasts haz website now! Here: http://raincontreras.com/pakbetpodkasts/
Dieting and Podcasting
I’m on my second week of dieting, and I haven’t had a dieting regimen that lasted this long. I tried a no-rice diet for the first 8 days, but eventually figured out that no exercise and no rice makes me ultimately miserable. So no, its a cup of rice every meal, and two meals, with healthy snacks like fruit in between. As for exercise, I bought my own bike helmet that fits my large-ish head, as motivation, and I actually did go out once, before work, and ran along with 18 wheelers that just exited out of the Sta. Rita exit at NLEX.
Like I really have a choice. There are no bike tracks where I live.
There’s also a gym nearby, but it doesn’t appear to be an enticing place to flex muscle or do the treadmill at all. The gym attendant sits in a corner, mending her sari-sari store snack items, since the local office of the NBI is a few steps away. You’d only notice the huge containers of muscle-building powders on the top shelf. And since I went there around noontime, the heat was suffocating, since there was no airconditioning. I’m just going to look for a better jumprope, so I can do cardio at home, thank you.
Oh, and podcasting, how I missed you.
Gadget Review: SanDisk Sansa Clip
Sansa Clip from Sandisk
The last mp3 player I had -and still have with me- was a 1GB Creative Zen Stone. Cheap, of reasonable quality, and perfect for my daily commutes. I had a 40GB iPod 4th gen previous to that, the drastic drop in storage needed adjustment, but all I had to think about was how my first portable media player was: a TAPE Walkman.
Presently, my Nokia E63 was my all-in-one gadget, but I know how the sound jack it has was pretty off when I listen to music, radio, or an audio book, even with good earphones. The phone wasn’t meant for that purpose, so its not at fault.
My initial choices consisted of the usual devices that pretty much derive its features from the evolved iPod Nano concept: same storage capacity (4GB-8GB), same candybar phone-sized screen, video capability. I didn’t allot a generous budget for this purchase, so there’s also that to consider, which also does easily cancel out what would be the most obvious choice for me: a 160GB iPod Classic.
I saw the Sansa Clip device being sold over at TipidPC before, but didn’t really put it up as a candidate. That is, until the day I realized I didn’t need one common feature that comes standard now with media players: VIDEO. My phone has video capabilities already, and even with that, I don’t use the feature as much.
Oh Today I Might As Well Blog
Hello folks who swing by this online space I pay for. I just updated the software running it, so that does mean I still care, in a way.
Its a Friday afternoon, and I’m at home, having awoken an hour or so shy of noontime, and I haven’t really left the computer except when I was cooking rice and reheating days-old adobong sitaw. We currently have an abundance of uwi food at home, so there really is no need to do the groceries this week.
I haven’t been around the rock clubs, too, and its apparent by just looking at my Flickr photostream.I haven’t manhandled my camera/s like I used to. There is a reason for that, but I’m not telling yet. Definitely, its not a super secret project, cult, mission, or what-have-you. Before or after work, you would just find me commuting to places, dining alone, or walking semi-aimlessly in malls.
Duster
As far as music goes, I already got Duster’s Sweetheart Snackbar cd (ooh chance for old photo insert to blog entry), but haven’t listened much to it. On an audio-related note, I’m done with Neil Gaiman’s Coraline audiobook, and I’m prep’d for Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach. Everything’s done on a non-dedicated portable music player, and thats my almost 3 month old phone (Nokia E63). That also includes my re-listening of radio, and radio talkshows.