First meal of the trip: some sausage bacon supreme muffin thing from McDonald’s. Very exciting, I know. Our flight got in past 2am and the Swenson’s and Toastbox at Changi International Airport didn’t have the food we wanted so it’s not like we had much of a choice!

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I may have only spent a little over a day in Naga last weekend but boy, did it feel longer. I think it’s because I was up at 330am on a Saturday (my flight was at 635am). I am obviously back in the city and typing this from my office cubicle and there is nowhere else I’d rather NOT be.

Breakfast:

Two iced sugar-free lattes at Beanbag Coffee. Hardly a proper breakfast, I know. I arrived in Naga at around 8am to find the Starbucks along Magsaysay Avenue closed. It turned out to be a good thing because Beanbag Coffee was just down the road; cheaper coffee (no soy or skim milk, though) and free wifi! The grande (which is really just a tall) iced latte was only 60PHP. I also had the entire place to myself the two hours I was there.

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Coffee with unsweetened soy milk and a dash of cinnamon tastes like a bad Christmas morning.

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Green mangoes, papaya, grapefruit

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Some time last week, my friend Tin and I swore off rice (and pasta). I’m a bit ashamed to admit I haven’t worked out since mid-April so unsurprisingly, I’ve gotten a little bit pudgy. I figure that if I don’t have the time or the will to get my ass back in shape, the least I can do is watch what I eat. So I decided to ditch rice and get a friend on board while at it.

I know, I know— RICE-FREE ASIANS? WHAT KIND OF CRAZY IS THAT??? I bet my mom handed me a bowl of rice and a spoon the second I was out of her womb. So this rice-free nuttery thing we have going on? It’s torture.

The challenge lies in getting creative with my meals. To tell you the truth, I’ve been subsisting on bacon, tofu, omelets, and the odd can of tuna. I told myself I’d get my carbs from fruit but like a typical man named Burt, I’m not big on vegetables and fruit the healthy stuff. I go through bouts when I’m all “OMG HI VEGGIES COME HERE, I LOVE YOU” but these are temporary and short-lived (although I love snacking on steamed broccoli).

Right now, I’m on the lookout for simple, healthy, and delicious recipes. I’m also going to get out of this slump and give The 100 Workout a shot:

100 jumping jacks
90 crunches
80 squats
70 leg lifts
60 jumping jacks
50 crunches
40 squats
30 leg lifts
20 jumping jacks
10 minutes of running

It sounds brutal, doesn’t it? 120 squats, 140 crunches in ONE workout? Crazy talk! I’m just thankful I don’t have to do a single push-up (I hate push-ups as much as I hate crunches). Ideally, I would like to do this every night for the next five or six days and eventually ease myself into something even more… brutal. I came across BodyRock.TV through Say‘s blog and that 600 Reps Fat Burner Workout is looking pretty appealing.

I’ll let you know how it goes!

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Restaurant 101

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My friend, Charles, and I headed to Enderun Colleges at McKinley Hill for a cooking demo by Enderun’s French executive chef, Marc Chalopin.

The invite said we would learn how to make bouillabaisse, a traditional Provençal fish stew.

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The plan was to eat at the elusive Van Gogh is Bipolar. I say elusive because everytime I make plans to eat there, they happen to be closed! After meeting up at a Korean grocery in Kalayaan and driving around Maginhawa for a bit (our second option was Ted P’s but they were closed, too), we ended up at Pino nearby.

Sanya and Sam are vlogging.

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