Where do we eat?

“Where do we eat?”

That my friends, is the hardest question I ever encountered during my College years. Every day during lunch, I and my friends always ask this question. Trying to debate on where to go and where to eat, we usually do a toss coin or play rock, paper, scissors (bato, bato pick!) to decide on this matter, using 15 minutes of that precious one hour and weirdly ending up eating at the same place every day (more or less).

But this question is indeed a very deep, a very complicated, and a very serious topic. There is a lot of things to consider before you can really choose where to eat. The following are:

Purpose

Why do you need to eat? It might sound a stupid question, but really, why?

Your answer could be as plain as ‘coz I’m hungry or it may be that you just need to go outside the house, to study or think, not necessarily because you’re hungry. Knowing you’re purpose will help you decrease choices on where to go out to eat.

Location             

If you have a car with unlimited fuel, this criterion really doesn’t matter. But if you don’t, well you really might want to scour your place for good food finds. Be it a café (for studying), a restaurant (for socializing) or a simple carinderia or turo-turo (food stands) would be good just to have a list of where you could go when ever your munchies come by to haunt you.

Craving[krey-ving]

noun

great or eager desire 

It is indeed a great factor in eating. Following your cravings could really satisfy your day, change your mood from bad to best. You must know what exactly you crave for before deciding on where to eat. Do you crave pasta and pizza? a rice meal or two? Or just like me, a KFC original chicken? Eating something that is not what your craving desires usually makes you a.) Cranky, b.)Upset, c.)Still hungry d.) All of the above

Ambiance

Ambiance makes or breaks your purpose in going to the place where you want to eat. A quiet, earth colored, caffeine scented café usually is best for those who would just like to sit down, read a book and relax, while a loud, lively and beaty (not a word)place is usually perfect to hang out with friends for a drink or two. It can also, seriously, make or brake a relationship (especially when it’s a first date).

Make sure you take a look at the menu well,
there might be some extra charges you don't know

Budget

Well, you can only eat what you can pay for.  This is a priority concern for me ‘cause you wouldn’t even think of considering to go to a place that you cannot afford, even though all the other criteria checked out. You wouldn't like to end up washing dishes right?

Considering these criteria, you wouldn’t have any problem answering the question, but you really need to think quickly, because you don’t have the whole day to think where to eat. You actually need to go there and actually eat the food, which also takes time. Saying this, this question is indeed a very invigorating topic. Funny, they always say that Lunch time is the easiest subject in school…. Well it’s not!

Will make a blog on sites where you can get your list of restaurant that could satisfy your every craving and eating purposes. But that would be on my next day off J

I don't own any of the pictures by the way

Be ready to care, be ready to be a Red Cross First Aider!

The Philippine Red Cross Offers a wide variety of trainings that will help an individual to save people’s lives in time of need. And it is really a great help that they do not require you to be in the medical field to apply for a course because the certificate you get could help you land a job here and abroad. One of their training is First Aid management and Basic Life Support.

 

I had just experience one of the coolest training ever this first week of June. My company just sent me to Red Cross so I could train to be a first aider. It was cool First ‘cause I met a lot of people in different fields of healthcare (Geriatric, PT, and so on)  as well as non health related fields like engineering and construction.

DYING!!

Second, even though I studied nursing for four years, I was surprised that I could still learn a lot of things in terms of first aid management in different situation.

Third is I was shocked that all the instructors in Red Cross are VOLUNTEERS! Yes, meaning they are not paid for what they teach, they are not paid for who they help, and they are not paid for saving lives! It’s really a surprise, especially when they tell us how they manage night shifts daily and how they have stayed there for years, with the moral support of their family.

Epic Instructors!!

It’s really a fun experience! And I’m really thinking to volunteer also on my day offs; they said you could ride the ambulance with them once you get the beat of how to do it. (Adrenalin rush!!!)

The training lasts for 6 days

Monday- Saturday (done weekly) and it usually takes the whole day (8 am -5 pm)

Training cost and requirements differs per chapter, 

so you might want to call the nearest chapter of Red Cross in your place. 

You can check out the numbers of the different chapters on their website:

http://www.redcross.org.ph/

 As for me, I did my training in the Quezon City Chapter and it cost 1700. (Includes medical certificate and a bronze membership card for a year that entitles you for their insurance/ medical assistance)

It’s really fun, and meeting those people for a short period of time is like having friends that you had for a decade. Hope you have the same experience too.

After graduation

Remember the time when you were young and your parents used to tell you that you'll have a great life when you finished studying? Well that isn't completely true. The reality is you'll have the greatest struggles in life right after college. Being a college graduate doesn’t only means that you are out of your parents’ grasp, it also means you’re about to lose a lot of things also:

These are few things you’ll lose:

Allowance

First thing you will realize is that you won’t be given any allowance anymore for your outings and night outs. Meaning, you won’t have money, you won’t be able to shop, and you won’t be able to go out with friends (who are more or less broke either).

Things to do

Right, you will have lots of time to do everything on your bucket list once school is over. But once you graduate, it’s not that you have too many things to do in such a little time, but you have too much time at your hand you’ll end up doing nothing. You’ll spend your time watching, eating and scouring the net on what to watch and what to eat the next day.

A daily schedule

It means that you won’t have any schedule you could follow, no classes to expect, no assignments to accomplish. All the things you’re used to do since you were in grade school cease to exist. (Yes and it includes those relentless hours you spend trying to study but ending up watching TV anyways.)

P.S. And you also won’t be too excited when a storm comes in, you will not have that ecstatic feeling again when they say that classes are suspended. Seriously it takes the adrenalin rush out of you

Social Life

Yes, you and your friends will hang out once in a while like good old days. But as time passes, with no money to spend and with no same schedule to follow, the only way that you will be able to communicate is by SMS(assuming you have load to send a message) or thru  social media. Sad truth, but those daily hang outs at your own little Central Perk (or MacLaren’s For the outgoing type) would certainly go down a notch if not to zero.

Sanity

Well, if you can’t handle the fact that no. 1,2,3 & 4 is happening, this could certainly be also one thing you could lose

But, even though this happens after graduation, a bunch of effort, a ton of perseverance, and a pinch of luck, that promise of a great life would really not look so far away. So to all those who are looking for work, keep looking. And for those who just graduated, well, you’re adventure has just begun.

Where it all begins

Well, this is my first try to publicly make a blog.

Having to work all day, five times a week (sometimes even more) is really tiring. It burns your muscles; it shuts your mind off important things and keeps your spirit low. And when it’s time to take a day off, you end up sleeping the whole day, replenishing the energy utilized in a whole week work. But doing that only make you want to sleep more.

Even Batman cleans up while having his day off

This usually happens to a lot of people, including me.  You won’t have any fun, and you will not have the effort to go to work when Monday comes. You might even eventually live a pointless, lifeless life. (Zombie apocalypse just might really happen)

Well I am trying to make an effort not to make that happen. This blog is for those people who try to make their precious time matter. Making good decisions and doing great things. Doing work and having a blast of a moment while doing it.

Hope you enjoy the blog, ‘cause I’ll really try to enjoy it, because I’ve just decided to do this on one of my day off to take my mind off things. But I think this is where good and realistic adventure begins.