Double Date with Kenny and Bill

When Kenny Rogers announced this promo, I was excited to try it out since I love Kenny Rogers' (probably) healthy selections. My mom and I decided to have an afternoon date at the Matalino St. branch. My concern with this is that the food that you could buy one get one free are the types of food that are not Kenny's specialties and probably won't be that good. Nobody (that I know) goes to Kenny for their pastas or sandwiches. *Spoiler alert: I was right* 

Meatball Spaghetti

We ordered the Meatball Spaghetti because I love meatball spaghetti and I've been craving some recently. You could actually choose a different snack variant as your freebie as long as it is of equal or lesser value. Mom chose the same because she wants pasta and the Meatball Spaghetti seemed to be the lightest option. Overall it was so-so. It wasn't offensive but it's not something I'd crave. The sauce was okay with the right amount of sourness I want in my spaghetti sauce. The pasta was perfectly al dente. The problem was the meatballs. The meatballs were supposed to be the star but it failed miserably. It was tough which I find weird for a meatball. This meatball would make Chef Ramsay weep, methinks.

Ranch Pork Quesadilla

We ordered the Ranch Pork Quesadilla because we wee curious about it and it looks good. At first bite, it was a punch of flavor and the salsa goes well with it. After a few more bites the garlic became so overpoering that I couldn't finish it all. This is not something I can eat all on my own and must be shared with others. Would I eat this again? Only if I didn't have better options.

Sea Salt Caramel Javakula

Since SBC is just beside Kenny, I decided to get my drinks there. I ordered the Sea Salt Caramel Javakula because Salt and Caramel are keywords that prompt the order immediately reflex in my brain. I usually think SBC drinks are too sweet but this one was just right. I didn't get to try the version of Starbucks so I can't compare but it was good and the balance of salty and sweet was done just right. All flaws this drink might have were forgiven and forgotten because of the adorable candy starfish on it.

I decided to keep him and name him Bill.

Overall, the food we had was so-so. I don't see myself craving any of the food we ordered. I sorta expected that it wouldn't be that good because the items on promo aren't specialties of Kenny Rogers. Couldn't say I didn't hope either. It was a good experience still because of the savings we had. 4 dishes all in all plus one Javakula were all under 500 pesos. And Bill made everything better so it's all good :)

Sophie Bitchslapped Me Into an Existential Crisis

SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN'T READ SOPHIE'S WORLD YET.

Wrapping myself up in bubble wrap to ward off existential depression.

I am currently enrolled in a subject called Philosophy of Man and we were required to write a min. 3 page reflection paper on Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. At first, it seemed like a boring novel telling us about the philosophers but it is not. IT IS NOT. If you haven't read it yet, read it. Or not. I seriously don't know if I should recommend it or not. If you do decide to read it, make sure you have adult supervision. It is educational, fun, and enlightening at times. However, there are times that are unnerving and unsettling not unlike the queasiness one feels while watching a gory movie because it leads you on to think and question some things you consider to be truth. One of these moments was the revelation that Sophie is only a creation of Albert Knag's imagination. She was a character of a book in the book! Bookception! After I read this scene, I instantly felt panic. The book was written so well that the philosophy lessons woven into the plot led up to the intense panic one should feel. Before the reveal, I was introduced to Hume who questioned the unbreakability of our natural laws. He said that maybe things fall to the ground not because of the natural law but because we expect it to. Since we always see things fall to the ground, we believe it to be always the case. The things we hold to be true might be true because of us imposing our minds on it. With this knowledge followed by the reveal, made me feel bad for Sophie for a split second until I started thinking about my own existence. What if like Sophie, I am just a creation of someone's imagination? What if I'm still in the matrix? It might seem like an absurd premise but there's no way to prove otherwise. I desperately racked my brains for some philosophical assertion to affirm my existence and I remembered Descartes. He proved he exists by the mere fact that he doubted and it calmed me down a bit. Then I remembered that Sophie was thinking too, she was doubting too. What if I am only thinking and doubting because my creator wanted me to? And then at this point I started to cry. I know, I'm that weird girl (well, technically more drunk as I had 2 1/2 bottles of beer at this point already). I calmed down when my mom threatened to take my alcohol away and when I realized that it doesn't matter. I'm better off not knowing anyway because what if what I fear was true, what now? I do not want to take that gamble. It will be like one of those presents you see early during the year with the label "Do no open until Christmas". Whatever is the truth, I can not know for sure but the fact remains that I can think, I can feel, and I can experience things. Because I can do those things, I see no reason for me not to continue the way I live regardless on whether I truly exist or not.

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish." - Steve Jobs

Ermahgerd! : The Jean Padilla Braces Story

Creepy Psycho Smile: One of the hallmark signs of a braces noob

I got my braces last June 12 and I am only blogging about it now because well, I'm lazy. First off, many people are wondering why I got braces since I am usually categorized under "People with Good Dentition". 

Go ahead, bask in the glory of my good dentition.

Apparently like most fat kids' pictures on facebook (mine included), my good dentition was only an effect of angular deception. If viewed from a socially acceptable angle, my teeth look perfectly aligned and cute as fuck but if you look at my teeth from an angle medical professionals are only allowed to look, you'd see that my teeth aren't really that cute as fuck.

I have an overbite and the alignment of my teeth has a mild case of can't be tamed.

Since my dentist is also my aunt, she can't have it on her honor as a DMD that her niece has not-so-perfect dentition so I let her put some torture corrective contraption on my teeth. The process wasn't as long as I thought it would be which was just shy of 3hours. Afterwards, I felt like a cyborg and the OS for my mouth hasn't been installed yet. Everything about my mouth was suddenly awkward. What are teeth and how do they function? And my tongue suddenly became such an intrusive presence that I can't help wondering what was it doing pre-braces. After sometime, sores dominated my oral mucosa. As in singaw, singaw, singaw everywhere. The pain was initially so distracting that I had to be fed painkillers regularly to tone down my irritability to not-murder-everyone level. I wasn't able to eat anything solid for the first week because of the mutiny my oral area was having because of the annoying metal thing I forced on them. My diet consisted of only soup, tea, ice cream, and ortho wax. At first it was all good since I love the first three and ortho wax doesn't really taste like anything so meh but it got tiring to eat only soup after a while so I tried eating apple mash with honey which my brother called baby food.

I'd punch a baby for this heavenly baby food.

It was good though and my mom was really supportive of my temporary disability and made food that are easy to chew and digest. After the first week, I was able to chew a bit and I moved on to more solid food for my nutrition. Ice cream never went away though because well, ice cream.

Triple Threat: Delicious, Dulls the pain of mouth sores, and Leads you to the path of Type II Diabetes

Now, I can already eat most of my previous diet. I still can't bite hard food and I avoid leafy veggies because they enjoy hanging out within the nooks and crannies of my braces. I just had my first McSpicy last Thursday so I'm happy with my progress to regain control of my teeth. However, I ate my McSpicy in a way that cannot be described as poised or elegant so I still have work to do.

BTW Protip: Use Tea Tree Oil to treat your sores. Just dab some using a cotton swab on the sore. It hurts a lot upon application but it will be painless afterwards and the sore will heal in no time. And no matter what they say about good girls, DO NOT SWALLOW. Just spit the accumulating saliva that might have tea tree oil. It just takes 2-3mins before it is safe to swallow or ingest anything so it's not that hassle. Reapply when sore starts to hurt again. You're welcome.