Trattoria Friuli

79-A Maginhawa St., UP Village, Quezon City

Italian cuisine 

I am a fan of this place. We discovered Friuli around 2007 and we keep coming back ever since. It has become our to-go place whenever we ran out of ideas of food to eat or whenever we'd crave for something Italian. The place also has become a source of comfort food for us. Ok, we do not really frequent the place on a weekly basis but we do try to eat there whenever we are in the area, especially now that I have started taking graduate studies.


Before Friuli, establishments (where Friuli is) would change every now and then, lasting only a year. It is not surprising to still see Friuli in Maginhawa because of the good and cheap food they offer.

Since there is only BF and I, we don't really get to order a lot whenever we go there. It is just usually a pasta and a pizza combination. BF likes angel hair pasta puttanesca so we almost always end up having that every time we go there. I like their spicy-tuna carbonara. It has a kick in its creaminess. They also have anti-pasto like the Ravioli. The raviolis were biiig. It was like mini calzone. Their mozarella bites are also very good.

For the pizza, I really like their Buono Verde and the Tres Formaggio. Their seafood pizza is comparable to the anchovies pizza of Aveneto. 

I'm back

... after an extremely long hiatus.

I don't know why I stopped writing.. But I feel like writing again.

And so much happened since my last blog post.

1. I finished my master's degree, three years after starting it.

2. Gained lifelong friends. One evening, while having lunch with my grad school friends, Tatay Gonz asked me what I think I gained from grad school. I answered back, "I gained friends." Then he rephrased it, "No, I mean, professionally.". And I answered, "I gained professional friends."

3. Then-BF is now a lawyer. After four years of law school and roughly six months of bar exams preparation, he is now a lawyer! He joked that his official title is AtEng. Get it?

4. Got engaged and got married! Yehey.

5. Did some local and international travels, both work and leisure.

And this means, I have so much backlog.

So what bit me to start writing again? Hmm... to vent out my kitchen bloopers! Seriously, I made so many already that it's such a pity not to share.

MTM - 1st year, 2nd sem

Yay! I'm almost 1/3 done with my Masters. Why, almost 1/3? Because I still have to wait a week or two before they release the grades. I don't think I did bad this semester.

For this particular semester, I enrolled in TM 241 (Technology Acquisition and Assimilation) and TM 205 (Financial Analysis for Technology Managers).  I thought of not taking a Saturday class because I missed having a regular weekend. The only downside was that I have to be at the office early, twice a week. And the bigger downside was I committed myself to two consecutive night classes! I think my school load would have been better if I noticed right away the class schedule I enlisted in.

TM 241 was handled by Dr. Posadas and provided a more in-depth knowledge on a section discussed in TM 201. The class was pretty much the same with TM 201, except that instead of submitting a single paper, we were required to do a presentation and two major papers. Extracting the necessary data for the presentation was a bit difficult because we do not have the capacity to interview the company we chose.

TM 205, was more math-y. I'd like to think of this subject as the "panghatak ng grade" kind of subject. The midterm was easy (I got a really good score. hehe). We hardly had classes so you have to really study by yourself. The topics were easy, in my opinion. At least, the topics covered for the midterms. It is like a repetition of CE22. After midterms, I think we had just one class meeting to discuss CAPM and that's pretty much it. I'm not really sure if I learned anything new with the subject. It was really just how the class was handled by the professor. He was really busy and tired. The course was a bit frustrating because the speaker assigned to our group did not come. And we only had a week to prepare because we really had no idea on how to proceed with the presentation/paper requirement. He did offer to have another week to work on the presentation but we just wanted the subject to be done and be over with.

Here's to the remaining 2/3 of my graduate school! Cheers!

今日の言葉・4月9日2011年

明け方
     あけかた
     dawn
     daybreak

期限

     きげん

     period (of time); a term

     a time limit; deadline

きっかけ

     a chance; an opportunity

     a start; a beginning

     a cue

     taking advantage of

     with (this) as a start

     seize an opportunity

盛り

     さかり

     the height; the peak; the zenith

     the prime of life; (in) one's prime

周期

     しゅうき

     a period; a cycle

     daybreak

終日

    しゅうじつ

     all day (long)

     the whole day

     all through the day

     throughout the day

     from morning till (to) night

生涯

     しょうがい

     a life; a lifetime

     a career

     all one's life

スケジュール

     schedule

途上

     とじょう

    en route; halfway; on the road; on the street

日程

     にってい

     the day's program (schedule)

     the day's agenday; the order of the day

日付

     ひづけ

     a date

     dating

普段

     ふだん

     at ordinary (other) times; usually; ordinarily

夕暮れ

     ゆうぐれ

     evening; twilight

     

状態

物事がある状態になった訳や原因。また、その結果、物事が今どのような状態にあるかということ。事の次第。事の状態。

今日の単語 (2/19/20)

要因
     よういん
    main cause; primary factor
    n


傾向
     けいこう
    tendency; trend; iclination
    n


気配
     けはい
    indication; sign; hint; presence; trend; indication
    n


事情
     じじょう
    circumstances; considerations; conditions; situation; reasons
    n


事態
     じたい
    situation; present state of affairs; circumstances
    n


状況
     じょうきょう
    state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstance
    n, adj-na
    
真相
     しんそう
    truth; real situation;
    n
  
特徴
     とくちょう
    feature; trait; characteristic; pecularity
    n


内容
     ないよう
    subject; contents; matter; substance; detail; import
    n


ニュアンス
    nuance
    n


品
     ひん
    thing; article; goods; dignity; class; quality; counter for meal courses; flirtatiousness; coquetry
    n


雰囲気
     ふんいき
    atmosphere (e.g. musical); mood; ambience;
    n

Japanese Vocabs Day 3

今日の単語は。。。

条件
    conditions; terms; requirements; qualifications
    n

    会員になるための条件
    membership requirement

    条件をつける
    make (set) conditions
    impose conditions (on)
    attach conditions (to)

    条件を満たす
    meet somebody's conditions (requirements)

    ...という条件で(の下に)
    on condition that...
    provided that...
    under the condition that...

    無条件で。。。
    unconditional

    条件付の
    conditional
    subject to conditions
    qualified (consent)

    条件節
    conditional clause

    条件闘争
    limited struggle
    negotiation of conditions

    序受け反射
    (develop) a conditional reflex

    条件反応
    a conditioned response

    条件文
    a conditional sentence

    結びつき
    connection; relation
    n

    目標
    mark; sign; landmark (n)
     mark; objective; target (n)

    a mark; a sign
    a target

    目標に向ける
    put (the spacecraft) on target

    好目標になる
    present a fine target (for)

    a goal; an aim; an objective

    目標を高い所に置く
    aim high
    set one's sights high

    ...を目標にする
    aim at something (to do)
    set one's sights on something
    set oneself the task (goal) of doing
    have something as an object

    長期目標
    a (one's) long-range objective
    long-term aim

    今日の売上目標
    our sales target for this month

    目標額に達する
    hit the target

    目標時間
    target time

    目標地点に正確に着陸する
    land (right) on target
    make an accurate (on-target) landing
    make a bull's eye landing