New Moon movie? The Book is better.

I just found out that the book is better than the movie. This is my first time to read the book first before watching it on the big screen. I am way behind friends but we watch it last night, me and my hubby. He is not into all these twilight thing. In fact, he hates it but so long as we get to sit together and cuddle, he will watch it with me.

I am a little disappointed with the story line of the movie. Of course they had to summarize the whole book which makes it somewhat less exciting. With the book, you go through page by page and feel like you are part of the story. You can almost feel what the character is feeling. Unlike the movie, it just feels like your ordinary day to day drama, so lacking in emotion and story.

I am looking forward to getting the next book. I think the movie will come out pretty soon. Yeah, I’ll still be watching it, not for the story but just to see the actors and actress. I really can’t resist the trailers.

Why Fy likes to cook?

Cooking has been my family’s passion. My Lola is from Leyte and my Lolo is from Pampanga. But from my generation, it has always been Manila. My mom got her skills in cooking from my Lola. Most of the people in my family (except for a few cousins) knows how to cook. We are food lovers, but you won’t find any that is overweight, most members of our family are skinny.

Being an only child and my mom not around most of the time, I grew up with my grandmama and uncles. My grandma would often say “paano ka makakapag-asawa nyan kung hindi ka marunong magluto?” while my mom would often say, “If you know how to cook, you will never go hungry”. I understand what my mom was trying to say. But nobody really taught me how to cook, I just simply watch my mom in the kitchen.

My hubby cooks very little. Sometimes I would tease him why he doesn’t cook for me anymore, unlike before when we were just living together. He would just simply say, “retired na ako noh”.

My mom is my biggest critic. I guess, you can’t really please your own mother. There will always be some comment like, too salty or need to put more of this or that. I don’t take it too seriously. My husband said, it’s typical. His mom is exactly the same.

Being miles away from home, I am missing a lot of my favorite food. Mostly the ones you can buy in streets; fishballs, tukneneng, isaw. And the Filipino pastries; bibingka, ensaimada, putobungbong, puto, pichi-pichi. *argh! Maybe, I am a little homesick. I wish I could have them FedEx to me or something, but these are part of the sacrifice of being away from your beloved land.  I don’t mind really, so long as I am with my family. That is all that matters.