On Drinks and Lesbians.
Ajay can attest to my forgetfulness, especially on water intake. I make it a point to drink when I can, but there are just times that I plainly forget to do so. Maski na may baon na akong tubig.
It’s not that I detest drinking. Not at all. Drinking happens to be one of my favorite things to do. Here’s a docu-commentary on my beverage picks:
Chilled/Iced
In grade school I remember the very first commercial stand I encountered in my school was that FROSTEE stand with the Arctic bear mascot. Around grade 6 nagsimula yung craze on fruit shakes, syempre all-time favorite and MANGO shake. Tapos nagkaro’n ng 711 franchise– 711 Slurpee! In malls I looked for Orange Julius and raved about their smoothies. (What is that powder they add-on?) When I learned to prowl the Makati commercial alone in freshman college year, I met The Big Chill, and the strawberry-mango combo or watermelon smoothies. In the recent past ZAGU came out, though I never quite had the penchant for their flavors. I prefer the Hongkong-based Quickly
——Never mind the straw coz I prefer my smoothies touching my lips… MMmmmm Mhhmm.
Caffeinated
Nasubukan mo bang magpapak ng kape powder nung bata ka? I acquired a habit from my dad to nibble on stuff when lounging around the house. A little powdered milk, sugar and milo… Cerelac or Nido… minsan lang nagkamali akong sumubok ng Nescafe. Anyhow, I never liked coffee as a child. Most of my cousins drank coffee during breakfast when we were together in summer vacations. I’m the youngest girl cousin at that time so I felt like it was a grown-up thing. Not ’til in 110.1 days did I give it a try… Si Ma’am Rica kasi, di pwede tulugan. Awful and horrid taste. In the past 5 years I learned to love caffeinated drinks in he guise of sweet and milky forms, for instance the classic cappuccino. Overrated naman ng mga coffee bars ngayon, pero ayus naman na tambayan para sa kwentuhan paminsan-minsan. Guilty din ako sa pag-indulge pag tinopak ako. Lalu na pag nagshshopping. As for tea, I prefer the minty sort like CBTL’s Moroccan.
——Iwas na nga lang dapat ako ngayon sa caffeine. Decaf na, maski sa tsaa.I used to think (coz I read it somewhere, and believed it since it seemed to work) that coffee+ibuprofen is the best painkiller. Siguro depende din sa tao? In the past year that I had to fight with pain, it only made it worse.
Carbonated
I was introduced to Coke very early in life. It’s not because I drank it as a baby. My cousins drank it by the liter, but my dad forbade me and my brother as much as he could. I didn’t acquire the taste of softdrinks until much later in life. In college though, I drank it almost everyday, ‘coz my dad scared me with horror stories about unsanitary water. That time seems to mark the beginning of my water deficiency.
Natural
Whenever we could, our family makes fresh fruit juices/shakes at home. For the longest time we had this Osterizer (which until recently I thought was a real english word) and my father would “osterize” anything… I did cheesecakes whilst he did carrot and tomato juice. The tastes from nature can be very interesting. Not always pleasant, but definitely interesting. Brings me to recall those plant beverages we drank in UP when Gerald met with… what’s her name?
Alcoholic
No beers please. No one in our immediate family drinks. Late in high school all of the boys I knew drank beer almost every week. Some of my girl friends did too. What’s so tasty about it? I had a lite one a couple of times, I still can’t learn to like it. Unlike coffee that I kinda grew into. As for vodka, I sneaked a bit of Stolichnaya and rhum from my dad’s nightcap a couple of times. Hard drinks are definitely for me. A little at a time, to feel warm all over. 
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Okay, what about lesbians…? I know I put that in the title but now I realize I have nothing to say. Just that today, I saw a couple of girls smooching and necking on my way home from school.
– Sorry I mistakenly typed you up on the 3rd Anthony. I always knew your birthday was the 4th. *crosses her heart and hopes to die*
) It is about 5 medical students who explore the afterlife by risking their own lives. How? They have this refrigerator blanket that probably makes them hypothermic… They take turns in staying braindead (while the medical monitor flashes a “flatline”, thus the title), outbidding each other in how long they stay that way, hungry for answers about whether there is something out there after death. (Director: Joel Schumacher, also did Phonebooth, A Time to Kill and the Lost Boys.)
