Love & Heartbreak

 I tried writing a poem in favor of my cousin's request and just maybe to ease some of my frustration in writing a poem, so here hope you appreciate it. haha ｡◕ ‿ ◕｡

Lutong Kapampangan: Burong Isda

Pampanga was named after the Indung Kapampangan river, the longest river in Central Luzon. It is a historical province and it is also the first province and the richest spoil created by the Spaniards in 1571. Because of the Kapampangan's revolt against the domination of Spaniards,the province is also honored as one of the 8 rays of the sun in the national flag. Pampanga is also known as the culinary capital of the Philippines, probably because most of the kapampangan's are excellent cooks, since the Spaniards have colonize Pampanga for a long time too, they have already adopted some of the culture causing them to ingeniously incorporate Spanish and Chinese elements into their cuisine that have made their food preparation and culinary arts both exotic and scrumptious; Bringhe, Bulanglang (pork ribs slowly cooked in guava), tidtad, adobong kamaro,betute tugak (fried stuffed frogs) and taba ng talangka, are just some of their exotic and scrumptious cuisines. 

One of the known food specialties of  Kapampangan's is the Burong Isda. Buro is a tagalog word which also means fermented or pickled. Burong Isda as the name itself says, is a fish fermented with rice for a week or two. The rice use in buro is actually a red yeast rice or angkak in Kapampangan language and the fish that's usually putted in it is Tilapia. It is serve as a side dish for fish and with vegetables like ampalaya,talong and okra; now, as I've told you buro is a fermented rice and fish and to tell you honestly it doesn't smell good but don't judge it by it's smell and look, because buro really taste good especially when you eat it with the okra. There are also other kinds of buro, there's the Burong Hipon (this taste good too) and burong taba ng talangka (fats of the little crab).

Burong isda with the vegetables (okra and eggplant)

Burong hipon serve as a side dish for the fish.

Buro that can be bought at the supermarker though of course it's taste is not the same as the homemade buro.

Buro was introduced to me by my grandma, she cooked this once and for the first time seeing that kind of food, I really don't want to eat it, because first it doesn't smell good second it do looks like a vomit >< but my grandma made me eat it, she actually said "Hindi mo pa nga natitikman,ayaw mo na agad." so I have no choice but to taste it. I remember that I was actually pinching my nose when I tasted it xD thinking that I won't actually have a sense of taste when I do that, but unfortunately it's no use. The taste isn't really bad though, a bit sour for the reason that it's fermented. I took another scoop and put it on my plate my grandma just laugh at me and after that I tried the burong hipon and burong talangka. (this happened when I was still a kid around 8 years old. ) 

I realized that my grandma have her point with what she said "Hindi mo pa nga natitikman,ayaw mo na agad." it's like judging the food with how it looks but there are foods that doesn't look like it taste good but when you've already try to taste it, you will know that it really doesn't taste bad at all.

Pampanga has a lot of exotic foods, I've tasted the stuffed frog, hahaha...since my grandma told me that phrase..I started to taste the food first before saying that I don't like it, but of course if the food really looks suspicious on the first place, I will immediately say that I don't like it or more like I don't want to eat it. xD hahaha! 

P.S. If you want to make your own burong isda, I found this helpful recipe.  just click the link below ^^

http://www.lutongkapampangan.com/2010/07/buro-kapampangan-specialty.html

Sources/References: 

http://www.clarkphilippines.com/facts-about-pampanga-philippines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampanga

http://blauearth.com/tag/burong-isda/

my grandma is my source too xD 

I HAS a fetish for vampires (modern vampires)

        

        Ahhhh! V-vampire! nuuu don't suck my blood! *runs while screaming*

        Okay, no! xD I would more likely hug a vampire than run away from it. I'm weird,right? My fetish for vampires -ah I talking about modern vampires here, because there's a lot of kinds of vampire- started around...I think year 2007, but then my fetish subsided for some reason. 

   

        Knowing vampires are one of the creatures of the night who sucks and drains the blood of a human and they can sire you too! pretty awesome, right? you won't need sleep,you won't get tired and your senses will be heightened. I want that! *^*. I don't know why I'm not scared of that, I'm actually quite amused to that, but as the title said "I HAS" meaning past, but that doesn't mean I'm scared of vampires now neither disliking such stuffs, to be honest I still like vampires but not the same as back then.
        

         Back then I watch every vampire movies and most of my books that time are vampire novels -well twilight saga is in my bookshelf too- I'm really amuse to the vampire stuffs and their

What's with 10080?

     Early this morning when I log in on facebook I saw something a little bit off with the post I'm reading on my news feed, it's a binary codes in a quotation mark.I thought it was just nothing so I ignored it but I keep seeing the same post on my roleplaying account thus resulting, to me looking for an info about it. I checked the EXO spazz zone, they we're talking about it too but I'm still clueless so I keep scrolling down reading their post and comments, turns out it's from another fan fiction, a BaekYeol ( Baekhyun & Chanyeol ) fan fiction the title is 10080. It's like Anterograde Tommorow, an angst fan fiction. It's a boyxboy love story and it seems like everyone (with everyone I mean every EXO stans xD ) is hyped about it, I can see it on their post and it explains the binary codes I'm seeing on my news feed.

       For some reasons I don't always read a boyxboy love story  but yes I ship EXO members and other boy groups to each other but when it comes to reading a fan fiction of that ship, I don't know, I'm just not really a fan of a boyxboy fan fiction but if you are going to ask me if I've read one, yes I did, it's the Anterograde Tomorrow by Changdictator on livejournal,while reading the part on the near end of the story I'm already tearing up and then just when I'm nearly done reading I'm crying already. ;_; Since I got curious with 10080 I look it up in asianfanfics, after reading it's foreword I got hook up into it. Ah, the foreword is in binary codes too, so you need to translate it into text if you can read binary language then good for you but if you can't there's always a decoder available in the internet ;) 

Here's the foreword: 

Chanyeol wanted a divorce.

Baekhyun asked for a week.

1 0 0 8 0

~

"01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110111 01100101 01100101 01101011 "

                                                                                                             

      You decode it yourself ;) because if I put the translation too, where's the fun then? hahaha ^_^. Once again a story made me cry ;__; it is so sad but it is a story worth reading, just ready your tissue for the tears that will come, I have only read two boyxboy fan fiction but both of it made me cry. This is what I'm talking about, I don't always read a boyxboy fan fiction but when I do, I realized it's always angst and left me crying at the end ;__;  

7 months of dating,

2 years of making love,

1 year of fate changing.....

10080 minutes of pretending

         If you want to read it, just click the hyperlink of the title, ah anyway 10080's author is EXObubz, she have other stories too and it's quite good too~ 

XOXO~ Rhona

crying because of too much feels ><

     

First Trimester is officially over!

 Today is the distribution of class cards and those sleepless nights has paid off. :)) yaaayy! wait, I'll narrate it xD

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      Last week I barely sleep especially on it's last day ( Sept. 9) it's the last day that I'll turn into zombie mode/ no sleep mode  because of my final exams.I'm an art student so our exams are more on doing plates and designing, well I only have 4 subjects this term; two major and two minor. My major subjects are Typography and Web Design, the minor are English and PE(we just run here though ._. ) I have a hard time doing the finals in Typography and Web design TT__TT I really didn't get to sleep just to finish it, if only I didn't procrastinate the last few days, but I enjoyed doing it, I'm just cramming tho. ><  I should really get rid of that behavior. Procrastinating can be good and bad.

       In Web Design we need to make our personal website and it should have a live text, it can't be just all pictures. Half of the time I'm doing it, is fixing the live text and the links. I'd like to put more into its interface though, but like I've said I don't have enough time, despite of that everything still went well but I know it's lacking it's dynamic-ness(lol is that even a word xD ) 

My personal website, you can visit it if you want ^_^

P.S. The font in the banner and navigators are my handwriting :) 

         Typography final project. It's just a restaurant branding, we we're told to make our own restaurant brand, and make a logo, collateral (business card, envelope and letterhead) but the typeface that we're supposed to be using for the logo shouldn't be just what's available on the computer or downloaded from the internet. It is a typography subject so it's required that we create our own original typeface. I didn't have difficulties with my typeface, to be honest I just did it for 30 minutes. :) My prof. like it and once again, they called me "Candy Queen". I like candies and different class and types of sweets so most of what I did nowadays are inspired with sweets and what I did is a dessert house with ice creams as it's specialty, I named it Sugar Rush with the tag line. "Sugar Rush, it's what happy taste like."  This is the time where I thought I could sleep already but no, I still can't because there's still the final exam which is the booklet, that I posted earlier, if you want to see it you could just click the hyperlink ^_^.  

                    

                                                              Sugar Rush, Business card

                                                                         Sugar Rush Envelope

 
               Sugar Rush Letterhead        

                                                             

    Capital Letters typeface ( the typeface I created)

Small Letters typeface ( the typeface I created)

xoxo~ Rhona

Typography Booklet (typography class final exam)

Sooo here is it! the booklet I did~ The front cover titles and  in there are again my own typeface 

 

 front cover

back cover

The hard copy is not with me yet, it's still in our prof. ^_^

xoxo~Rhona