Feeding Frenzy

Today's theme was "food," because my entire day was punctuated by it. Funnily enough, considering that yesterday I was just so happily involved in doing what needed to be done that I had my first meal of that day at almost 5:00 pm (and only because I almost passed out).

This morning, I went to our Prism office in Greenhills after what seemed like a very long hiatus (I almost forgot what floor we were on, haha!) - especially since my partner John and I were both sick over the last week. After just a few minutes of conversation, John pulled out his lunch ("You can have half my scrambled egg sandwich, it will make you very happy!"). Speaking of which, you just gotta ADORE this guy: he would have been my absolute-st favorite-st classmate in elementary school if we had in fact gone to school together...but instead he was my favorite classmate in the Landmark Advanced Course, who eventually became my favorite matchmaker and relationship guru, and is now my favorite business partner (sorry guys, I love all of you, but John takes the cake). And, speaking of cake, our beloved Tita Calay whipped out slices of banana cake for John and myself, while offering her own very interesting lunch of pesto rolls. At the end of the hour, John still had half his sandwich (I didn't have the heart) and I'd had about half a slice of Tita C's cake, on the excuse that Gaile had lunch ready and waiting for me at the law office.

Fast forward a few minutes, and I found myself at nearby Santi's to break a PhP500 bill - my parking fee was short of PhP5 and I didn't want to shortchange the attendant. In the process, I spent almost PhP200 to make good on a PhP20 parking fee, as I got tempted by a few grams of Gruyere cheese and a beer sausage.

And that wasn't even lunch, since Gaile had gotten me some beef tapa and batchoy at the new tapa restaurant near the Wack-Wack law office. I ate that while exchanging anecdotes with my law partner Kenneth, and then settled down to review a contract and do some studying, while texting Lianne in Cebu that I remembered the name of my favorite puchero restaurant over there (Abuhan!). After which...

I headed over to the Landmark Education workspace near Rockwell in the pouring rain, toting my cheese, sausage, and crackers. Inside was a hungry posse who demolished the offerings in a few minutes (always a good thing to bring food to the Center, just like a week ago when Luch went through two bags of barquillos a street vendor sweettalked me into buying). Because that was just a snack, I ordered an early catfish salad dinner from Som's next door to tide me over while working...which I was in the process of consuming when Susan came in with bags of food, food, and more food: Kenny Roger's chicken and sidings plus BreadTalk goodies. Yummers.

After what seemed like just a few minutes, Arvy walked into the Center with boxes of revel, fudge, and oatmeal bars (dessert!!), what would have been the perfect cap to the evening...except that Ging appeared next with bags of potato chips, chocolates, and soda! What the heck was going on in here!! (And just in time too, as I had the craving for munchies...duh). Not only that, she ordered even more food from Som's for her own dinner, enough to go around, so I had a bowl of really delish Tom Yum Goong as well.

I was surprised to look at my watch to see I'd spent almost six hours working at the Center (so the food "deliveries" were pretty well-spaced after all), so at around 11 pm, when I got home, you'd think I'd be pretty much full...but there was bistek Tagalog on the table, too good to resist...

And as I started to write this, my Santi's sausage seemed to be a little sad from the neglect, so I'm doing it a favor and putting it out of its misery.

Darn it, I've been gunning for the Lena Headey body, and this is what my day turned out to be. Oh well, Cebu tomorrow is another day...in Abuhan, barbecue at Larcian, crispy danggit...