Adventures of the Happy Tummy

Typhoon week, I must dub this to be. What with typhoon Falcon + the emotional stress at work, the week had been a tiring wave of walks & rides wading through puddles & floods. Wishing we were all students with the announcements of class suspensions; one thing we learn from college from being exempted from these "no classes" is that LIFE MUST GO ON even if there's a storm. Stranded like hundred of others in the reclaimed area called Bay City, we took refuge in the mall and allowed ourselves a hearty dinner at Burgoo - good American restaurant always with generous promos from different credit card companies: Citibank offers free pasta & HSBC offers a seafood jambalaya. We chose the latter. I needed to fill the hungry tummies of my dad & brother who drove through the flooded & traffic-jammed stretch from Makati to Pasay. ONION SOUP topped with a square of BAGUETTE & grated PARMESAN savory LAMBCHOPS with POTATO WEDGES & CORN ON THE COB + the...

Sad way to end the day, I thought. Coming home on a weekday way into the night when everyone in the family are all sound asleep. Aching body from all that physical activity during Fashion Week. I raided our makeshift pantry & found instant noodles calling out to me: "Cook me, cook me, quick!" And so my eyes, not satisfied with just noodles, dunked a few frozen crab sticks into the hot hot water together with the noodle pack.  The result is a satisfying late-night meal of hot (instant) seafood broth, (instant) noodles & defrosted crabsticks... & my tummy was happy =)