Lifesongs

Looks like everyone’s out on vacation.  Buti pa sila.

‘No one suffered like we suffered’ because 1.  we stayed home during holy week, and 2. our stove ran out of gas, just when all stores are closed.  We HAD to use the electric burner.  We seldom use that single electric burner that the first pot’s bottom that we cooked in this week was so greasy.  The grease got stuck to the burner from frying all these years on the other frequently used gas burners.  It’s that type of oven range (or is it range oven?? ok, I have to admit, I don’t know what I’m talking about here.  Husband’s the cook, not me) where we have one electric burner and the rest runs on gas.  We thought it was a wise buy but never really imagined using the electric burner.  We would rather use gas.

We usually spend Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday at home because it’s so peaceful and quiet in Metro Manila.  This year’s difference is that we didn’t go anywhere before the long break.  I had to work, we have to save money.  It’s that simple.

A couple of years ago we were in Makati on a Black Saturday.  Had lunch at Mexicali and counted six interracial couples there including us which makes it very interesting.  Are interracial couples not as religious as the others?  (ok, there’s an assumption here that being religious is being a Christian for the sake of Holy Week).  I don’t think so. We’re Christians but not Catholics maybe there’s the difference.  So why all the interracial couples?  Heck, dunno.  We’re probably the only ones that are not on vacation but DARED to go out on a Black Saturday and didn’t care what others say.

Anyway, back to the oven, I started making brownies Friday night and didn’t realized that we need gas for the oven to bake it (See, told you I’m not a cook!).  I had to put the baking pan, already with the batter, in the fridge and leave it there until we can get gas.  Black Saturday comes, stores are still closed (the stores that mattered to us anyway, the ones that sell gas).  We called our suki again Sunday morning, still no luck.  By noon, we decided to walk to the talipapa where we found this one store open and finally got to bake the brownies, which turned out to be too sweet for our taste.  Geez…