WHEN there’s a brownout in this particular corner of Pinas, the solar-powered house would message me to ask, Nag-brownout? Because they couldn’t relate with that anymore.
There was a brownout on Tuesday morning and I was expecting them to message me again. But the lights came back a few minutes later, they never got the chance to notice the brownout. Until some hours later, after they saw the messages posted in the village’s group chat. By then, the lights already came back, so I replied with, “When I left the house ganiha, nibalik na ang light.”
Pinas can make use of all that sun by solar-powering the whole country as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Yes, if the sun rises there, that’s the east. If it sets there, that’s the west. If the sunrise is on your right and the sunset is on your left, then you’re facing north and your butt is facing south. Simple, eh?
Better yet, go to SM City CDO Uptown and stand outside SM Store’s Las Ramblas entrance while facing SM Northwing which is right across the main mall. Now you know where north is.
But this is still confusing to some people, a phenomenon that I can relate with since I don’t know where Nia Ra Jud! is. After a friend tried to give me details about its location—“Duol sa Prawn House”—I said, “Naa ra diay diha.” And we laughed.
She said Nia Ra Jud! has yummy halo-halo in its menu. But added that Fat Chef’s halo-halo is still the best. I then told her that another friend said Sol’s halo-halo is the best in Cagayan de Oro.
But why this much ado about halo-halo? Because she knows it has become my favorite dessert. Used to be, anyway. Until my body began to react, no thanks to the high-carb goodies that I managed to insert into my low-carb diet.
After consulting two low-carb doctors, I’m now finally convinced that carbs are not for me. Besides, the injured left knee always complains once the “low” in the low-carb diet flees to Siberia.
There was that day when I had Spanish latte after lunch, and that knee began complaining the moment I got up from the table. The reaction was as instant as instant coffee, instant noodles, and instant oatmeal.
Dr. Anthony Chaffee, who’s a carnivore, has stopped drinking coffee for the same reason. But I gotta feeling the reason for my knee pain that day was the condensed milk in the Spanish latte.
Friends are amazed when they see me leaving bread and veggies on my plate, and eating only the palaman: burger patties, ham and cheese, chicken. Some friends have learned to ask for the pizza crust after I’ve scraped the toppings off of it.
I’ve learned to avoid sweet nothings because they’re nothing, they’re useless, they’re not a necessity.
Alzheimer’s is now known as type III diabetes. That’s how bad sugar is. It’s time to put warning labels on sugar, much like those for cigarettes. But that will not stop people from adding sugar to anything.
