Foot and Fire

 After the Tinagong Dagat trek, 2009 This is how I looked after traversing the Bacolod to Talisay route using the trail via Tinagong Dagat.  No hiking experience, fresh from 8-5 desk job, no gears (not even a raincoat), I ended up like a Vietnamese finding refuge anywhere in the Mekong River paddies. If you can picture that, you know what I meant. Meanwhile, the expert hikers have raincoats, as pictured below. In short, my first travel tip is: Be prepared to look ridiculous!

  Here are the videos and representative photos of the two university friends whom I thought rared to taste my cooking last December 2018 that they traveled from faraway but only to end up cooking heavily FOR ME, making 2018 as my year with the longest running birthday celebration. Ohlalalala! Thank you my friends. The Gal came all the way from Malaysia while The Guy came from China. All had their interests set on the table. The Tapalan (Chopping Board) Wars began. The Tasters are my mom, two university friends and my sister plus my two Demi-Korean friends in the evening. Dreams do come true for us for being able to convene and cook and heartily eat!!!