10.20.05
Lunch report
A few of us from work went out for lunch yesterday to try out this stand selling Bratwurst and also to buy pumpkins for carving. Well, the BratMobile (nice, Larry), was nowhere to be found, and neither were the pumpkins.
We ended up going to Armadillos, the Southwestern Rodent place (nice one again, Larry). It was okay, better than Margaritas at least, but it’s no El Pelone. Man, I miss that place.
Anyway, I don’t know why I even started with that. I guess I wanted to note that our two guests (James and Paul) from the UK make for very interesting company, and I also wanted to give a shout out to Larry, who’s discovered my blog. Sweet. Hey Larry!
Before heading back to work, we stopped by one of the local coffee shops. While in line, there was this sweet old gentleman, who did one of those take-off-the-hat hellos. And then, he stopped, and said, “I have 2 questions for you”.
Gentleman: Do you live in my apartment complex?
Me: No
Gentleman: Down by center-blah-blah (I don’t remember where his apartment complex is)
Me: Uhm… no
Gentleman: Well, you can still answer my 2nd question. Do you speak Cantonese?
Me: Nope
Gentleman: Mandarin?
Me: Nope
Gentleman: Where are you from?
Me: The Philippines
Gentleman: Oh! (He’s getting all excited now)
Gentleman: Magandang umaga (Good morning)
Gentleman: Salamat (Thank you)
Gentleman: Mabuhay (~greeting like Aloha)
Gentleman: Maganda ka (You’re beautiful)
Oh, did he made my day. I’ll be visiting that coffee shop more often now. 
ariane said,
October 20, 2005 at 10:57 am
so is he a filipino too?
hihi ..
miss you!!
but i’ll see you soon right? *hugs*
lyds said,
October 20, 2005 at 11:47 am
aww, cute! you ARE beautiful!
D said,
October 20, 2005 at 1:56 pm
Aww, thanks Lyds! I dont’ think he knew what he was saying though. So, no, Ariane, he was not Filipino. He was just proud to say whatever Tagalog phrases he knew. He was funny. I just think it’s nice to be able to be in a place and chat with the locals. It’s neat.
kf. said,
October 20, 2005 at 10:43 pm
Um, is that the side of your head in the page that your “test” link goes to? If so, that old man is right cause that’s the most gorgeous side-of-head I’ve ever seen in my life!
TB said,
October 21, 2005 at 12:38 am
I hope that senile old man is doing alright.
D said,
October 22, 2005 at 12:45 am
kf, that’s awesome! Yeah, my friend Larry was trying to figure out how to set up a blog and put links to documents up, so we were playing around with my WordPress. We got off to talking about our most recent common interest = proof of why the moon landing probably didn’t really happen. By the time he left and I got back to work, I had totally forgotten about erasing those pages/links.
But yeah, that’s my side-of-head, but they did massive photoshopping on that one. I look like I’m just laughing at Bill – the guy actually facing the camera, who’s supposed to be doing a demo of our product. Fun times.