Fridays are so chaka, especially if it coincides with payday. The laws of physics were once again defied during my MRT ride from Cubao to Buendia. I don’t get it. Why are people so gung-ho about spending their salaries immediately?
Surprisingly, the sweaty masses, the long lines, and the horrid Buendia traffic failed to sour my disposition. Or maybe it did but I’m not one to willingly put myself in a bad mood, so I just shrugged it off and creeped out people by staring at them with super wide eyes.
Anyway, in an effort to save the horridness that was Payday Friday (or Super Sweldo Friday), here’s a list of five random things that gives me the happies.
1. MA LING. So I don’t know when I started choosing processed luncheon meat over the healthy goodness that is Century Tuna Lite, but I was most likely to have been drunk and starving when that happened. Man, I’m addicted to that stuff. Whenever I’m at the supermarket and find myself in the canned goods aisle, I put my hands to my cheeks (Home Alone-style) and go “Maaaa-liiiiiiiiing!” And there are Ma Ling hotdogs now!
2. STUPID SHOPPING. Sure, nothing makes me happier than buying new stuff. But nothing makes me happiest than buying stupid stuff. It’s so bad, really. A scene from Friday morning:
Allah and Helga are crossing Aurora to get to Katipunan after breakfast at Tapsi ni Vivian.
Allah: blah blah blah blah blah
Helga, who is half-listening, sees a guy peddling plastic wares cross their path: Dude, let’s buy a basin.
Allah: blah blah blah blah
Allah, who sees guy peddling plastic wares: blah blah— oh look, let’s buy a pail.
3. INSIDE JOKES. The short version of it would be ‘crazy inside jokes that only crazy people understand.’ The long version would be ‘Johnny Walker. Jose Cuervo. Jack Daniels. Sheryl Cruz.’
4. CHEATING THE GROCERY LIST. I love a well-stocked fridge and well-stocked kitchen cabinets. Obviously, Allah and I did the groceries this morning. Armed with a grocery list each and the motto “Whoever deviates from her list is panget”, we found ourselves roaming the aisles of our neighborhood Rustan’s Fresh FOR A PEN. So we could add stuff to our lists. “I swear! ‘Lion bedroom slippers’ was in my list! I didn’t cheat!”
5. RICE. I’ve been eating a lot lately and if I’m going to stuff my face with food on a thrice-a-day daily basis, I might as well eat something I like. Right? And rice gives color to my world, almost the same way that alcohol does. Another scene from Friday morning, again, with Allah:
Allah and Helga are standing in front of the gelatin/jello shelf in Rustan’s.
Helga: I wanna buy jello. Should we buy jello?
Allah: Yeah, why not? Do you know how to make jello?
Helga: Yup. But jello’s not filling. Should we buy jello?
Allah: Jello’s not filling?!
Helga: Ah. You know what we should eat with jello to make it filling?
Allah: What?
Helga: Rice.
Allah: Putangina, Helga.
Okay, back to work!
Hi, my name's Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 23. My first socio-political scandal will happen at the age of 35 and will include men, sushi, an African country, and lots of money. My lover is the greatest. 
i love ma ling too. but i don’t think i’m that crazy over ma ling like you do. haha! besides i haven’t eaten it for the longest time.
this may sound weird but i’m glad to read this entry. but your absolutely-crazy-but-sounds-like-a-happy-life entries are back!
rice gives me the happies too and alcohol!! OMG! my friends call me ‘kanin-bal’ hahaha but i dont gain weight damn it i eat a lot nothing happens
Wait, jello is filling! That reminds me, I better start watching I eat. I’m starting to gain weight! Wahhhhh.
WTF, I cant find your other comment. IE is an idiot. My site looks awesome in FF.
i also love to eat but if you’ll look at me personally, you’ll never know.
my mom would usually say, “when will you get some fats anak?”
waaaaah. and to think I eat a LOT. it’s an unfair world.
anyway, have a nice day!
cheers,
airah
BAH. You have no idea how much that makes me jealous :( If I eat NORMALLY for a few days, I get fat.
The malings that are in stores right now does not taste the same as the malings that came out before. I like the salty-will-kill-you-with-cancer goodness of spam better.
And jello will taste good with cream. Baboy!! :D
For the love of god stay away from Tokyo Tokyo or Karate kid! THink about the famished, homeless multitudes.
Haha. Ma-ling, darnit! I love that stuff! But my dad hates it, and I don’t know why. I’m the only one who finishes off every canned goods in our cupboard anyway, so why does it matter what my dad says? BLah.
Hmpf. I eat a lot. Obviously.
Jello’s good! It enhances one’s sex life. LOL
O RLY?
rice is good. lately, i seem to never have enough of it. but why must carbs all stay stuck in the tummy????
Hello.
Well if you like maling, you might want to download the songs in this .zip file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/7612506/Easy_EP.zip
and listen to the track “Maling”
Will do so next weekend :)
mom told me that maling killed people years ago, the reason of its slight downfall. yet still famous.
i don’t even care if it poisons me! i’m a risk taker! wahahaha, and the fact that i’m more than willing to be poisoned just to eat maliiing. wahahaha!
maling hotdogs? … no comment. lol.
love rice, hate maling, and leave sheryl cruz out of this. :P
…was trolling the net when i chanced upon your blog — i so like your candy colors aaaaand your entries =)
will link you up, hope you don’t mind.
p.S. –> did you hear about the nasty news of Ma Ling being made of rats? the “pirated” ones daw, ‘yung galing taiwan ba ‘yun or china? sheesh umulan kaya ng ma ling noon dito sa bicol right after bagyong reming. horrors!
Boo, everytime I try to access your blog, it says ‘page not found’.
And yeah, I saw that on the news months ago. Luckily, there’s a huge diff in the packaging (the fake one’s oranger). :D
hala. page not found bakit??
http://chocomanik.blogspot.com/ — the blog’s “Blogspotting.” =)
yeaaa, the packaging’s different — but lots of the people who ate it last december didn’t know that, kamusta naman ‘yung ginawa nila ‘yun na “relief goods”. nyaaar.
It must be my proxy :hmph:
I used to be addicted to ma ling as well. Especially if you dip it in egg and fry. Ugh delicious!
ma ling is like spam right? im not so sure. but if it’s like spam, yeah, it must be good. =) i can NEVER resist spam! and also, random stuff makes me happy… and inside jokes too! yay! but uh… jello with rice? hmm..
ola HELGAAA I misss youu.
I got overdosed with Ma Ling when I was a kid so I’m not so fond of it na. But the rice, inside jokes and stupid shopping are also insta-happiness for me.
I also enjoy sneezing and looking at high floodlights while raining. :)
“creeped out people by staring at them with super wide eyes.”
If I were one of ‘em, I would have just stared down your shirt. I’Z WINNAR!