Lifted from my new Food Blog (the old is officially retired). Go Visit KAININ MO! and let’s have fun sa kainan!

Days after the Century Corned Tuna Bloggers’Cook Off, I was still thinking about our winning pasta. I was replaying in my mind and air-tasting the delectable Asian-inspired dish. So when I went to SM Makati, I bought the ingredients that I didn’t have and headed home excitedly.

I went online to check the recipe, then starting measuring – approximating and assuming the correct measurements for each ingredient. Or so I thought.

All the ingredients were ready, the pasta almost cooked, and I – excited to start cooking the pasta sauce. The first few steps were fine. Until I got to the liquids. Apparently, I over-estimated the measurements and put in too much white wine and soy sauce, which made the whole thing taste sour and salty. Too sour and too salty. I immediately

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Bakla will be away for the weekend (to go on a hiking Trip to Mt. Daguldul, courtesy of Columbia Sportswear) and in our tradition of short blog breaks, I’m leaving you all with another Math Problem!

Open This: Bob the Builder Math Problem

When you open the spreadsheet file, it will prompt you for a password.  The password is the answer to the math problem below. After solving the puzzle, enter the password, add your name to the list, and send it to your friends (or post it on your blog)! Have fun!

Bob the Builder  goes to work very early but he encountered a problem.

He forgot the five digit access code to his high-tech workshop.  However, he remembered the five clues to get the right five digit access code.  

Hereunder are the clues:

 1.  The fifth number plus the third number of the access code equals fourteen.

2.  The fourth number is one more than the second number.

3.  The first number is one less than twice the second number.

4.  The second plus the third number equals ten.

5.  The total of all the five numbers is thirty.

For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can’t get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can’t cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don’t want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it’s everything. -Alex Karev, Grey’s Anatomy

Do you remember your first kiss?

We’re on a short blogging break (yet again, if you haven’t noticed). And while we’re on a break, we’d like to share with you this Excel Spreadsheet Riddle that we got from our email (Thanks Nick!)

Bakla will be back real soon. Promise!

(Click here to download file!)

 ****Only skilled people can open this file…….once you succeed to open this file, you will find names of the people who have managed to open this…… Now it is your move!

How to open attached file ?
There is a bus with 7 girls .

Each girl has 7 bags .

In each bag, there are 7 big cats

Each big cat has 7 little cats.

Each cat has 4 legs .

Question: How many legs are present in the bus?

Number of legs is password to open attached file.

If you will open the file, write your name on the list inside, and send this as an email to your friends or cross-post this puzzle on your blog to let them solve this riddle.

(Click here to download file!)

so “vacation” mode iz ova 4 bakla n post-vacation depression iz beginnin 2 kik in as he resumez hiz life in makati. 1 thin that bakla lookz forward 2 on vacationz iz plane ride. if u been on plane wit bakla before… u would know why.

he lovez imitatin safetee demonstration “exercisez” bein conductd by flite attendant. u know those seatbelt n life ves operatin instructionz??! that why he wuz disappointd when on hiz last trip… he did not witness those n instead viewed instructionz on screen. not 2 fancy n enjoyable anymore… iz it??! good thin male flite attendant wuz goodlookin enough 2 make hiz ride fun 1 (no… he didn’t ride them).

NO! You’re not lost and I’m not going crazy.  At least not just yet!  What you read above are excerpts from an old blog entry here on Bakla Ako, May Reklamo.  Only thing different about it is it has been LOLinated!  Yes, you know those cat thingies making it big online lately? Yeah those.  There’s the mandatory cat photo and the language and those other bling-blings characteristic of this cat thingie phenomenon. Tried this with various blog entries from Bakla Ako Dot Com as well as from some of YOUR blogs! hahaha.  I’m crazy!Try it yourself!  Lolinate your blog! 

I don’t normally respond to blog memes here on bakla ako dot com as I reserve those kinds of posts for my personal blog. But since I’m currently under the influence of the UP @ 100 spirit, I might as well respond to this meme challenge from Juned.

I have answered this survey several times but I think most of my answers have changed over the years, thanks to newfound wisdom that comes with aging. In short, habang tumatanda, ah eh… yun lang. Habang tumatanda…

(I’m tagging all UP students who have not answered this previously!)

UP Survey

Maligayang ika-100 taon, mga Iskolar ng Bayan!

1. Student number?

98-05599. Oo, kahit nasa malayong UP Mindanao ako, sa zero nagsisimula ang aking student number. Ang dahilan ay sa Diliman ako nagsubmit ng application. As in pumila ako sa may registrar’s office. Ganun ako ka die-hard maging UP student.

2. College?

College of Science and Mathematics (CSM)
Nakapasa ako sa first choice ko na campus at kurso: UP Mindanao at BS Applied Mathematics. Oo, first choice ko ang Mindanao dahil nung panahong akoy mag UPCAT ay bagong bago pa lang ang UP sa Mindanao. Ninais kong maging kasapi sa mga pioneer. Kaya masaya ako dahil naroon ako at nakita ko ang simulain ng isang kampus. Minamaliit ng karamihan ang UP Mindanao, pero alam kong hindi kami patatalo sa kung anumang labanan.

At oo rin, BS Applied Mathematics ang first choice ko na kurso kase nung grade school and high school, naturingan akong dalubhasa sa larangan ng matematika. Pero napuno rin ako sa math at ninais kong i-explore ang aking creative side kaya nag-shift ako nung nalaman kong i-ooffer ang Communication Arts sa pangalawang taon ko sa unibersidad.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS)
Kaya nung nalaman kong pwedeng mag-shift to Comm Arts ay nag-shift ako. Third year na ako nun, at ang kundisyon ay willing akong magtapos ng late kase hindi sila mag-ooffer ng advanced courses para sa mga upperclass na shifters.

3. Ano ang course mo?

See above. BS Applied Math tapos BA Communcation Arts major in Speech Communication and minor in Orgs.4. Nag-shift ka ba o na-kickout?

See number 2.

5. Saan ka kumuha ng UPCAT?

Sa Malcolm Hall sa UP Diliman. 6:30AM on a Sunday yun.

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Feeling Surfer Dude!

photo by Markku of Rebel Pixel Productions

more photos here

Special thanks to Aloha Boardsports, Onboard Philippines, Asian Spirit, Municipal Government of Lanuza and GeiserMaclang

Uhm okay, this is quite unusual for us to post, but yeah, you read that right! You can earn money through Facebook.   We’ll tell you how.  There are many pay-per-click thingamajigs out there and we don’t are not experts on this subject, but hey, why not give it a try.

It doesn’t really give you that much, but since you’re on Facebook, why not just take a little time (roughly 10 minutes) away from all your Warbooks, Human Pets, Scrabulous, etc., and use it to earn a little extra cash? Right?

We’re talking about Cash Clique! It’s a click-on-ads-and-get-paid thingie. And as the owners claim, they want to pay Facebook users for what they’re really worth!

 So why not give it a try?